Star of Stage Screen and Radio, Enters Political Arena

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | June 10, 2006 | Garrison Keillor

[wita]

People who live in mud huts should not throw mud, especially if it comes from their own roofs. As Scripture says, don't point to the speck in your neighbor's eye when you have a piece of kindling in your own. I see by the papers that the Republicans want to make an issue of Nancy Pelosi in the congressional races this fall: Would you want a San Francisco woman to be speaker of the House? Will the podium be repainted in lavender stripes with a disco ball overhead? Will she be borne into the chamber by male dancers with glistening torsos and wearing pink tutus? After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record of government lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November. Running against Nancy Pelosi, a woman who comes from a district where there are known gay persons, is a nice trick, but it does draw attention to the large shambling galoot who is speaker now, Tom DeLay's enabler for years, a man who, judging by his public mutterances, is about as smart as most high school wrestling coaches. For the past year, Dennis Hastert has been two heartbeats from the presidency. He is a man who seems content just to have a car and driver and three square meals a day. He has no apparent vision beyond the urge to hang onto power. He has succeeded in turning Congress into a branch of the executive branch. If Mr. Hastert becomes the poster boy for the Republican Party, this does not speak well for them as the Party of Ideas.

[weegee]

Ah, you see through political correctness. The left's way to criminalize conservative thought.

All dissent is "hate speech".

[AppyPappy]

Keilor is getting rave reviews for his new movie after going into full Democrat mode.

He and the Dixie Chicks are the local paper's favorite.

[umbagi]

Well, let's tally...

This paragon of folksy liberal tolerance deliberately attacks, in his spit-and-vitriol coming-out bid for election-year attention: high school wrestling coaches, Baptists, the city of Waco, Texas, "lite jazz," and the elderly.

The commercial endorsement of Apple's iPod over the products of Creative, its primary competitor, doesn't look accidental to me (Disclaimer: I much prefer Creative's products).

And what's with all the "auto-Godwining" statements this week by liberals? Everywhere I read -- prepared releases from Democratic "leaders," the Dixie Chicks' suicidal spewings, sound bites from the moonbat conventions in Las Vegas and D.C., and now fake-folker Keillor's vomitus -- I find the spector of Nazi revival paraded as though the next steps must surely be a fire in the Reichstag and suspension of the Constitution!

Note to self: Shut up and give them more air time and column inches! As the "woman who comes from a district where there are known gay persons" says, let's give them time and space to define themselves, saving us the trouble!