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It's gotten to the point that whenever one of these self-absorbed, high-profile leftists farts, there's a book publisher drooling to give them a few million to buy the smell. |
Posted on 07/04/2004 3:40:28 PM PDT by rhema
Garrison Keillor doesn't beat about the Bush when he explains why he wrote "Homegrown Democrat.''
"I want to strengthen and encourage my fellow Democrats because I think they have been so extensively beaten up on, especially on radio, with Rush Limbaugh and 10,000 imitators,'' Keillor said in an interview before he left town for season-ending performances of his "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show.
"There are people in this country who cannot comprehend why anyone would vote for a candidate other than George W. Bush. My book is addressed to that. This is an intuitive book, not a closely reasoned book. It's a sort of stream-of-consciousness political autobiography.''
Keillor, who has written 10 novels as well as opinion pieces for newspapers and magazines, has never hidden his liberal political beliefs.
He lit a firestorm when he wrote two denunciations of Norm Coleman for Salon.com after Coleman won the late Sen. Paul Wellstone's seat in the U.S. Senate. The Guardian, a liberal British publication widely read in Europe, calls Keillor, Garry Trudeau, Al Franken and Michael Moore "the high command of the American satiric opposition'' to the Bush administration.
With publication this week of "Homegrown Democrat,'' Keillor puts in book form his thoughts on why Democrats are the party of compassion and what scares him about "Pithecanthropus Republicanii.''
He says he wrote the book "in a big hurry'' when he had some free time this spring.
"I did it because I wanted to put my oar in the water. I had been expressing myself in the most elliptical way on the radio show, which drew volleys — that's a word I learned in my newspaper days — volleys of angry letters from Republicans.
"So, I thought that rather than snipe by way of fictional characters in the show, Guy Noir or somebody in Lake Wobegon walking into the Sidetrack Tap and unloading on the president, I would simply write a book. I mentioned this to my publisher, and their first reaction was 'Please don't.' I was so emboldened by that I put down 25,000 words and sent them in.''
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
More dyspeptic dishonesty from His Prairie Home Highness.
"I did it because I wanted to put my oar in the water."
Sounds to me like he's "asea" without ANY oars.
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It's gotten to the point that whenever one of these self-absorbed, high-profile leftists farts, there's a book publisher drooling to give them a few million to buy the smell. |
Intuitive? Not closely reasoned? I think I see his problem right there. His creative mind can dream up all sorts of poignant amusing characters and scenarios, but his rational mind has not been used.
Somehow a small community that cares about its people, such as his fictional Lake Woebegone, becomes a socialist utopia in his Democrat mind.
If he were a Republican, he'd be called racist for preferring St. Paul to Chicago. At any rate, he acts as if nobody is out there championing the Democrats. What nonsense.
He honestly thinks that liberalism is the answer, yet he admits that his thinking is not closely reasoned. This problem, this fatal flaw, seems to be intrinsic to the liberal mentality. Yet he asserts that the rest of us simply have not considered what he sees as viable, legitimate alternatives. We have seen, and we have found his beloved 'alternatives' to be sorely lacking and potentially dangerous for our future.
So, Mister Keillor, go munch prairie oysters! Why don't YOU and your fellow liberals re-consider the alternatives for a change!
So why Mr. Keillor do you want the government to do what our ancestors did for each other. Are not the people of today equally capable of caring for their fellow man?
Liberals make no sense.
I find his radio show very entertaining. Yesterday he had some clown on who was (was suppose to be?) a poet who wrote for the Nation magazine. There was some amusing exchanges between the "poet" and Mr. Keillor.. I thought it was an act. But the poet proceeded to read his "poems" ridiculing the President and others in the administration. The audience loved it. Laughing and squealing with delight at his message that Bush, et al. were stupid bigots. Though there were no poems about eating children raw that I remember.
Squeals of delight remind me of the day former president Reagan died. Mr. Keillor announced it a the beginning of his show. There was an immediate outburst of squeals of delight and applause, but from only a few in the audience. Mr. Keillor went on to give a very fine tribute to the former president.
No use trying to contrast his shows and his "Democrats are the party of compassion" feeeeeeeeeeeeelings. You'd have better luck having a heart-to-heart talk with your dog to get him to understand that drinking out of the toilet is not good.
Another performance like the Nation Magazine's "poet" and I'll pass up his shows until after the election. I can't handle that much "compassion."
Overrated, overblown old fart.
Unlike the Irish, Italians, English, Armenians, Scottish, Jooos, Polish, Russian, Kenyan, Rwandian, Mexican, Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish (until 3/11), French (until WW II)...
Standard arrogant liberal racism and xenophobia.
That's gotta be one of Garrison's most outrageous jokes.
His house was in Traditional Home magazine a couple of years ago...it's GORGEOUS....but he said he was afraid to buy it because it was the nicest house in town!! He thought his readers wouldn't see him as a man of the people! geesh.
As usual, it's all a facade, with liberals.
That's pretty much a given.
Keillor can be very clever. It's a shame he's not clever enough to understand this:
Government is a necessary evil--necessary, of course, but also evil. It enforces its authority through violence or threat of violence.
To prevent its abuse of the people under its control, government must be controlled by the people. When it becomes sufficiently powerful and large, the people can no longer control it, and the government becomes their master.
The U.S. federal government passed this point long ago. The state governments have now reached this point.
When an intelligent person reflects on the evil done by governments throughout history, he can only tremble in astonishment that anyone would want to strengthen and empower government beyond that critical point.
If Garrison were a little more clever, he might understand this.
You got that right!
Wake up Garrison--the good folks in Lake Woebegon as well as in the rest of Minnesota voted in the last election for Republican for Senate and Governor as well as most of the House seats. Do you seriously think the majority of Minnesota voters were stupid, mezmerized by Rush Limbaugh or just too ignorant to see the shining light of liberalism or was it they were sick and tired of high taxes and liberals like you telling them what to think?
Garrison Keillor is the most boring person in the world. Listening to him prattle on would cure insomnia.
"Garry Trudeau"
The infomercial guy?
In other words, I have no facts to back up my feelings.
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