Slamming NPR’s political commentary

Cokie Roberts takes a drubbing today in the pages of Slate.

If you’re vaguely conversant with current events, you’re already cruising at Roberts’ velocity.

Roberts doesn’t just voice the conventional wisdom; she is the conventional wisdom.

Jack Shafer, Slate’s editor-at-large, offers plenty of examples of Roberts’ puffery and vamping. He suggests that it’s time for the NPR veteran to hang up her punditry cap for good.

What do you think? Do you find Cokie more enlightening than Jack?

And more broadly, what’s your take on the political analysis that NPR (and NCPR) bring to the airwaves?

Juan Williams? Daniel Schorr? David Brookes and EJ Dionne? Ken Rudin? Whose finger do you trust on the pulse of your democracy?

(Remember: thoughtful analysis and criticism are welcome; ad hominem nastiness will be met with gentle remonstrances.)