The CBC continues its swirling and twirling turns down the drain of irrelevancy as it tries mightily to attract an audience with a continuing performance of Dumb and Dumber.

This week the one-time intelligent arm of CBC, the radio service, hurtled headlong into the story of the governor and the hooker. While there was a time when the CBC might examine what this story says about power, hypocrisy or morality, not so today.

No, the Winnipeg afternoon radio program asked people to call in and comment on the fact that the governor’s wife was at his side when he apologized for his actions and finally resigned.

Just what information, or opinion based on any facts, the average Winnipeg might have about Eliott Spitzer’s relationship with his wife is a mystery that was certainly not solved by listening. People might just as well have called in and commented on the host’s relationships.

Granted, everyone has opinions on the various aspects of this story and are quite content to discuss them among friends. But this is the CBC. To provide megaphones to barstool sages is not part of its mandate.

We can get programming that enlightening, free, and usually more entertaining, at any deadbeat saloon on a Saturday night.