Oh, yeah, BIG TIME! Check out some of his Salon rants:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/garrison_keillor/
Sigh. Pity, he's so talented. Had a hot Swedish wife too, I think. Well, a Swedish one, anyway. Or Norwegian. Assumed she was hot, as most Swedish women are.
I just caught Prairie Home Companion last night (and again today, as it turned out).
Paraphrase from his mono: "....he's a republican. He's for personal responsibility; he's not for the free lunch; doesn't believe in big government with all its regulations...doesn't want just throw away the tried-and-true, you don't just do that; she's a democrat...she's for the free lunch...
Can't detect a bit of sarcasm in his bit. He goes on... "...he's not an angry republican; he believe republicans are doers, not whiners. Some of the guys he hunts with are angry republicans...he doesn't like to hunt anymore..."
And a cutesy thing about the ghost of Ronald Reagan being around this Halloween.
And his entire show sounds like a sermon from a Lutheran church -- has for years.
In fact that's one of two beefs I have with him: he's a Protestant and he seasons a lot his stuff with dopey sexual innuendoes of the sort that old men do.
I grant you that I only presume the show is current, I don't know if these are reruns or not. And I haven't checked out the salon rants.