Whatever topics were originally scheduled for today’s edition of The Kojo Nnamdi Show, they were washed away with the criminal charges against and resignation of former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown.

In discussing the case against Brown, host Kojo Nnamdi was joined by his WAMU colleague Patrick Madden, NBC4’s Tom Sherwood and Randall Eliason, the former head of the public corruption division at the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia. It was as if The Politics Hour came a day early.

And then this happened: David Simon, creator of The Wire and a chronicler of civic corruption if there ever was one, was apparently listening to the show in his car and decided to dial in and offer his own opinion.

Put simply, Simon is not impressed with U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen’s case against Brown, which led with a felony charge of bank fraud. In his comment, Simon said it seemed that the composition of the government’s case suggests that despite a yearlong investigation into Brown’s campaign, the most devastating thing uncovered was a matter of personal finance. Simon called it a “really dishonest move” and even compared Brown to Clay Davis, the notoriously corrupt state senator on the show. The full audio is below:

Brown was also charged today with a campaign finance misdemeanor allegedly committed during his 2008 campaign for an at-large Council seat.

But Eliason defended the government’s argument, saying that it’s in the public’s best interest to not have elected leaders who have committed acts of fraud. Sherwood, too, disagreed that the bank fraud charge—Brown allegedly overvalued his home by about $500,000 on a 2006 credit card application—is a minor one.

Still, David Simon calling in to argue D.C. politics! Was this a great Kojo Nnamdi Show, or the GREATEST Kojo Nnamdi Show?