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Garrison Keillor to Retire
WCQS.org ^ | July 24, 2015 | Michelle Keenan

Posted on 11/18/2015 1:24:20 PM PST by Cecily

In an recent interview with the Associated Press Garrison Keillor says he plans to step down as host of A Prairie Home Companion (APHC) after the 2015-2016 season. The 72 year old said, "I have a lot of other things that I want to do. I mean, nobody retires anymore. Writers never retire. But this is my last season. This tour this summer is the farewell tour."

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TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: garrisonkeillor; minnesota; npr; pbs
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To: Cecily

This will be sad news to the dozen or so little old ladies and stoned old hippies who still listen to his drivel.

He was a pimple on the ass of time from the start; he just didn’t know or understand his level of insignificance.


41 posted on 11/18/2015 2:49:40 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: taildragger

[Perfect, Castro’s workers paradise is now open, let him retire in Cuba...]

He is the most egotistical bastard on the radio. The program is only on to let him hear the sound of his voice. NPR here in Hawaii carries him for just a few minutes every morning and it is either turn the dial or barf for me. An ex Cessna 142 dragger.


42 posted on 11/18/2015 3:10:07 PM PST by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
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To: EternalVigilance
...He's really not any uglier than any other Leftist.

Yes he is.

43 posted on 11/18/2015 3:19:52 PM PST by abishai
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To: Cecily
When we lost Paul Harvey, we lost more than his velvet voice.

If I Were the Devil: How to Destroy America.

I miss Mr. Harvey. The Rest of the Story. One of his very best...

PAUL HARVEY FREEDOM TO CHAINS 1965 (BEST VERSION)

44 posted on 11/18/2015 3:31:19 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: trisham
"Good grief. The man is 72. What do you expect him to look like?"



Well, here's Reagan at 80, and Raquel Welch at 74.






Do you think everyone who hits 72 looks like a dessicated centenarian with terminal dementia?



45 posted on 11/18/2015 4:12:21 PM PST by Heart-Rest ( "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Heart-Rest

Please. Reagan and Welch were/are exceptional physical specimens. Mere mortals can only pray to look that good.


46 posted on 11/18/2015 4:22:41 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Fai Mao
He is retiring because he really looks like this and not the stories photo.
ping
47 posted on 11/18/2015 4:26:06 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Twinkie

It’s ‘Guy Noir’, as in the ‘film-noir’ genre.

I used to like the show. I even attended a live broadcast back in 1999 when the show came to my city.

I stopped listening when he suggested that Republicans, when facing life-threatening injuries or illness, be “given an aspirin and told to go home and die” because we were against universal health care.

He can go (bleep) himself.


48 posted on 11/18/2015 4:33:14 PM PST by hoagy62 (Timid Men prefer the 'Calm of Despotism' to the 'Tempestuous Sea of Liberty'. ~ T. Jefferson)
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To: Cecily

Personal experience of a friend performer— regionally famous one now passed. A master showman, tried to get on Keillor’s show (Keillor was, at one time the midwest editor of New Yorker mag, so he is a liberal snot nose)- and real musician. Keillor would have none of it, because this person’s humour was not puerile like Keillor’s nor was it condescending to farming and rural people, or anti- religious or counter culture. Keillor is an anti-semite (like all lefty libs) and a nasty, nasty piece of work, with a pumped up opinion of his “creativity” and talent. Sound familiar? a white obamaumao, who was created in the squarehead German liberal leftist Farm Labor Midwest by the NPR joke of a network. Would never have made it in real media. Good riddance, you sh#$eating SOB.


49 posted on 11/18/2015 4:34:05 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Daffynition
Thanks. That Freedom to Chains clip is the best 12 minutes, 34 seconds I have spent had in a while, and I say that knowing I have heard it before, many times.

Another favorite of mine, made popular by the Ram Truck Superbowl commercial a few years ago, which was an edited version of a convention speech he gave for the Future Farmers of America in 1978, is So God Made a Farmer.

It's difficult to not feel something spiritual in listening to the speech.

50 posted on 11/18/2015 4:50:53 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: John S Mosby

So this droning gasbag is retiring to his Manhattan penthouse? He looks like a dessicated lesbian so he should blend right in.


51 posted on 11/18/2015 5:41:11 PM PST by Rockpile
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To: trisham
"Please. Reagan and Welch were/are exceptional physical specimens. Mere mortals can only pray to look that good."


Well, I know many people in their 70's, and 80's and even some in their 90's, and thank God they are each and every one of them blessed with a far less hideously disturbing visage than that poor, misguided leftist presents to the world.

52 posted on 11/18/2015 6:00:02 PM PST by Heart-Rest ( "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Cecily

It was kind of fun with him, and EXTREME NUTCASE, but times do change...


53 posted on 11/18/2015 6:02:43 PM PST by BobL ( (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He used to write a regular column for one of the Chicago newspapers. I saw a couple of them and was startled, even from a hopeless old sack of red crap like him, at how sneering and vicious and really poorly done they were.

Nasty angry personal attacks. An attitude and a style much like his hero the half-man-—oh sorry-—the half-black man Obama.


54 posted on 11/18/2015 6:13:14 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: abishai

It was a joke.


55 posted on 11/18/2015 6:13:15 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Cecily

He was a good story teller. The perfect liberal.


56 posted on 11/18/2015 6:13:45 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Rodamala; Inge_CAV
Thank you THANK YOU for the memory of that wonderful talk.

When it was played, often I would be in the car commuting....and be balling like a child, as I headed home.

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to await lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon, and mean it."[Note 1] —~ Paul Harvey

[In memory of Inge_CAV. A farmer.]

57 posted on 11/18/2015 6:26:54 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Rodamala; Inge_CAV
Thank you THANK YOU for the memory of that wonderful talk.

When it was played, often I would be in the car commuting....and be balling like a child, as I headed home.

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to await lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon, and mean it."[Note 1] —~ Paul Harvey

[In memory of Inge_CAV. A farmer.]


58 posted on 11/18/2015 6:37:46 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: EternalVigilance

Sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude. It’s just that Keillor is an ugly man with ugly ideas and an ugly soul.


59 posted on 11/18/2015 6:47:42 PM PST by abishai
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To: abishai

I don’t disagree.


60 posted on 11/18/2015 6:54:26 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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