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John's commentary started my day with a smile. Earlier two comments posted here? Not so much.

Signed,
Female/older Baby Boomer/Independent

Imagine if instead of a Democratic fundaraiser, this had been a Republican fundraiser.

And imagine further, if instead of this event having been hosted at the home of George Clooney, it had been at the home of David Koch. Substituting conservatives and corporate leaders for movie producers and actors.

And yet all of the same numbers, the same amounts, and the same transactional donations had been involved.

Does anyone suppose that John Hockenberry would be doing gentle sendup parodies? Or would it have been treated as hard news, with an NPR campaign finance reporter, and Todd Zwillich on site, reporting very seriously about the grave threat to American democracy?

Personally, I actually don't mind Hockenberry's coverage; although it wasn't very illuminating. What I do mind is the double standard in tone and intent. John, if you are going to make jokes about being a reporter from liberal public radio, you need to work harder at making it a lot less ironic.

Cute and coy- Mr. Hock is shocked at the huge donations hollywood makes at these fund raisers..he would only donate $10. Of course NPR donates the equivalent of thousands of dollars in tax-payer supported campaign support to Obama but thats another story.
My gripe is that this kind of radio theater makes no sense in today's entertainment environment. Where should Mr. Hockenberry be located on the line that spans the comedians who want to be taken seriously as journalists to the journalists who want to be seen as really really funny? Put another way, when Jon Stewart does a piece that is -as most humor must be- unfair to the facts we still laugh because he is a funny. Still, he is also taken seriously (for some reason) by liberals as a source of news. When Mr. Hockenberry produces one of his patented pieces it too may take humor's license with facts or abandon them altogether. But the thing is, they may at best rise to the level of chortle once amusing (on rare occasion) but they really aren't funny . Jon Stewart doesn't need tax payer subsidies to do his thing but who would go out of their way to actually listen to one of JH's mordant 'takes'? I guess the answer would be a very small number but they might be catered to by means of a personal (unsubsidized) blog not an actual network whose charter has something to do with serving a presumably unmet public good......