Garrison Keillor... Still a Colossal Asshat

The Virginian ^ | 6/2/2008 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

Garrison Keillor tries to enjoy Memorial Day at the National Gallery, honoring our fallen heroes by going to an art exhibit ...

...on we went to show our patriotism by looking at exhibits at the Smithsonian or, in my case, hiking around the National Gallery, which, after you've watched a few thousand Harleys pass, seems like an outpost of civilization.

There stood Renoir's ballerina in pale blue chiffon and Monet's children in the garden of sunflowers. And Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party, which I stood and stared at for a long time. A lady in a white bonnet sits in a green sailboat, holding a contented baby in pink, as a man rows the boat toward a distant shore. The man wears a navy blue shirt, he is preoccupied with his rowing, and the lady looks wan and mildly anxious, as well a mother should be. The baby is looking dreamily over the gunwales. Is the man a hired hand or is he the husband and father?

It seems his deep devotion to the troops was interrupted by the bikers of Rolling Thunder.

[moneyrunner]

The group ...organizes to help veterans through its “Help on the Homefront” program. “That’s for people who have come back [from military service] and need something,” says Cullen. “It might help to get a [wheelchair] ramp on their house or financial assistance because their benefits are hung up somewhere or something like that. We take all the money we take in donations and all of it goes to helping these soldiers and veterans.”

[LibFreeOrDie]

Garrison cares more about the long-dead people in the paintings than he does about the living, breathing souls around him.

[hosepipe]

Garrison Keillor rivals Henry Waxman as uglyist MooNbat in AMerica..

[tet68]

The fact that most of those riders ARE veterans just doesn’t penetrate Mr. Keilor’s brain, while he’s gazing at Monet to honor veterans, they are doing something to help and making sure that veterans GET the honor they so deserve.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Does it occur to this doofus that those paintings are available for him to view DUE TO the blood of American soldiers?

Think of all the looted art from WWII. Gee, Mr. K. Who RETURNED a lot of that art to The FREE People of this world?

This piece has a totally apt title. Between his stupid show and his writings, I have never seen anyone so self-absorbed in my entire life.

[OKSooner]

I listened to this goober's show once to see what it was that attracted people to him.

He proceeded to spin a yarn about a young woman who had been chosen to be a featured pretty young woman in a homecoming parade, only to have the occasion spoiled by her doofus dad who by his bungling drove his sewer maintenance truck into the middle of the parade, making himself and his daughter into laughingstocks of the community.

And he thought it was funny.

Garrison Keillor is a gay asshat.

[hinckley buzzard]

Garrison Keillor is a gay asshat.

No argument here, but there was a time when he was good. Maybe 25 years ago, when he started with "Prairie Home Companion" and the chronicles of the foibles of Lake Woebegone, he was sensitive, poignant, and adept at capturing the spirit of the Heartland. I believe he was based in Minneapolis at the time.

Then, he went to NYCity to cash in on the bigtime. Bad idea. No creativity there without the blight of leftwing cynicism, and Keillor bought the whole schmear.

The sad fact is, Keillor is the archetype of the artistic sell-out. He could'a' been somebody. Could a' been the next Will Rogers. Now, he's just another piece of east-coast squat.

[Brucifer]

I bet that Monet himself would have thought that Garrison Keillor is an ass. Monet, a real artist, would have enjoyed the men and women on motorcycles more than the poser looking at the paintings.