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Wait wait *is* political by ndtnguy
It's always been a politically tinged, frequently unfunny, news-cum-entertainment bit.
Hell, your chances of making it through The Splendid Table (now far less splendid without Lynne Rossetto Kasper) these days without a weird progressive sidebar is way lower than it should be for a cooking show.
Car Talk was reduced to reruns at most years ago: Tom Magliozzi died in 2014.
The great weekend shows of yesterday are all gone: My Word (and its shorter-lived younger sibling, My Music), its far-less-funny American imitator Says You, and Prairie Home Companion (which became awkwardly, bitterly political in its later years as well). The NPR affiliate here even dropped the Metropolitan Opera matinee. They don't even carry it on the digital-only band.