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Snob Alert: NPR Star Keillor's 'Surprisingly Vicious' Trump Attack
NewsBusters ^ | September 5, 2016 | 8:26 AM EDT | Tim Graham

Posted on 09/06/2016 9:45:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Longtime National Public Radio star Garrison Keillor just finished four decades on state-subsidized radio on A Prairie Home Companion. For almost that long, he’s been an easy example of a pretentious liberal snob, precisely the kind who seriously loathes a Donald Trump.

If NPR ever wanted to wonder why they haven’t been granted a Trump interview, it’s because he knows NPR is an elite liberal sandbox for people who congratulate themselves on their marvelous taste and mental acuity.

So when Keillor penned an acidulous character assassination of Trump for the Chicago Tribune, the liberals were very pleased. At Vox.com, they raved:

“Most pundits who attack Trump denounce him as racist, dangerous, and authoritarian. But Keillor does something that is probably much more likely to get under the billionaire’s skin: He makes him look pathetic.”
Keillor’s conceit is that Trump is going to lose, and lose badly. …

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; garrisonkeillor; keillor; minnesota; npr; pbs; trump
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To: Olog-hai

Keillor stopping being entertaining about 25 years ago.


21 posted on 09/06/2016 10:39:57 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: kaehurowing

The best piece he wrote was the American flag scene, with the baseball caps. I laughed until I cried.


22 posted on 09/06/2016 10:42:33 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: bigbob

Almost everyone in Lake Wobegone is above average because Garrison Keillor brought down the curve.


23 posted on 09/06/2016 10:52:47 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: TexasCruzin

Cockroaches can survive a nuclear attack


24 posted on 09/06/2016 11:40:11 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Olog-hai
National Public Radio star

No such thing. By the very definition, if you're on NPR then you're not a star in any way whatsoever. Not even close.

In fact, most people have never heard of you and never will, if your show is on NPR. That's the opposite of being a 'star'.

25 posted on 09/06/2016 11:57:45 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: reg45
Hey Garri! Will you move to Denmark after Trump is elected?

I would guess that Keillor would move to Cuba to take advantage of that socialized medicine they have that all of the effete Liberals in this country rave about.

He is getting up there in years and will be needing lots of socialized healthcare.

26 posted on 09/07/2016 1:04:06 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Olog-hai

I thought he was dead. Even the few libs I allow on my FB feed seem to think he is.


27 posted on 09/07/2016 1:35:54 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: Olog-hai
that ugly arrogant narcissist has quit the program and rejoined it seems like a dozen times....

keep wondering when he'll finally give up the ghost....

anyway, I'd expect nothing less of him....he's a creep.

28 posted on 09/07/2016 1:38:09 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Henchster

he does look light in the loafers in that pic....is he really one of “those”????


29 posted on 09/07/2016 1:40:07 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Henchster

Mellor has suffered from depression for years. If I had to look at that face in the mirror every day, I’d be depressed too.


30 posted on 09/07/2016 2:47:37 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS !!!)
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To: flaglady47

Keillor, not Mellor above. Doggone spell correct on tablet changed it on me.


31 posted on 09/07/2016 2:52:02 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS !!!)
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To: Olog-hai

I have listened to Keillor a few times and he can be funny. He tried to apply his comedic stream of consciousness gimmick to Trump and it just did not work. It is fairly obvious that Trump has no hang ups about Jews, which seemed to be the main fiction Keillor chose to use as the foundational device for his psychoanalysis of Trump.

“You walk out in the white cap and you rant for an hour about stuff that means nothing...”

Is it really possible that Keillor has his head that far up his ass?


32 posted on 09/07/2016 3:05:22 AM PDT by odawg
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To: cherry

thrice married


33 posted on 09/07/2016 3:50:43 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Olog-hai

Old Garrison is as down home and folksy as an outhouse and stinks just as much.


34 posted on 09/07/2016 5:06:26 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Robwin
One of the things I have admired about Trump is that he doesn’t seemed particularly concerned about such personal attacks as done here by such second rate radio personalities as Keillor.

Trump has launched Twitter wars for less. And against lesser known individuals.

35 posted on 09/07/2016 5:14:36 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: kaehurowing

+1.


36 posted on 09/07/2016 5:17:12 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Poo poo the polls at Trump's peril.)
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To: Henchster

He reminds my of Andy Roony from CBS 60 minutes. That goofy vacant stare combined with a self-satisfied grimace. Absurdly thin lips that would look gorgeous on a snake. The nose looks like it was flattened at a young age and never repaired. The wild unkempt hair reminds me of those crazy old men with white hair roaming city parks in tattered filthy clothes in New York and screaming at imaginary enemies, and the hair styling would make Everett Dirksen looked groomed. And the glasses — they look like something left over from the Civil War. We are spared any details about his eyebrows because the glasses are so oversized they cover them up, but I suspect that they would make Leonid Brezhnev’s forested eyebrows look trim.


37 posted on 09/07/2016 5:32:31 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: WashingtonSource; All

Garrison and public tv made fun of on The Simpsons.Voice by Harry Shearer

https://youtu.be/tmkq7yylRkU


38 posted on 09/07/2016 6:02:47 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Henchster

Would it kill him to run a comb through that nest?


39 posted on 09/07/2016 6:56:47 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Olog-hai

So the constipated old liberal fart does not like Trump.. Let me see if I care...hmmmmm...ummmp... No, not really. If he is on npr he is a welfare parasite.. so ... no really do NOT care..


40 posted on 09/07/2016 7:02:48 AM PDT by contrarian ( I am Garrison Keiler and my bowels won't move I am CRANKY !!!)
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