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'I think I have to leave the country': Garrison Keillor says he wants to 'move east' to escape…
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 17:13 EST, 30 November 2017 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 11/30/2017 5:54:28 PM PST by Olog-hai

Humorist and long-time radio host Garrison Keillor, of A Prairie Home Companion fame, says he might have to move out of the country after being ousted from the Minnesota Public Radio for inappropriate behavior.

Keillor, the 75-year-old veteran broadcaster who is married, confirmed his firing on Wednesday, claiming that it stemmed from an incident from years earlier in which he says he accidentally touched an acquaintance’s bare back while attempting to console her.

Keillor later took to Facebook, bemoaning his downfall after five decades of ‘hard work’ and lamenting that he was feeling ostracized everywhere he went. The post has since been deleted, but the Minneapolis Star-Tribune got a screenshot of it. […]

In an email to MPR on Wednesday referring to the recent spate of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men in politics, entertainment and the news media, Keillor argued that the country was ‘in the grips of a mania.’

The comment was made in the context of the sexual misconduct allegations that multiple women have made against Senator Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota whom Keillor defended in a newspaper column a day earlier. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: franken; garrisonkeillor; keillor; liberalagenda; minnesota; mpr; publicradio; realwaronwomen; sexualharassment; waronwomen
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To: onona

Thank you very much! ;)

There are so many people to thank, I don’t know where to begin....


41 posted on 11/30/2017 6:32:40 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Olog-hai

40 years too late....


42 posted on 11/30/2017 6:33:40 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: Olog-hai

When I heard that this libtard POS was found to be a stinking pervert, I laughed almost as hard as I’m still laughing at Hitlery Rodass’s election loss. This has been such a great “get your popcorn” month to watch the libtard ba$tards, Franken the election thief, NBC’s swamp drainage, etc., etc., go down like tin ducks at a carnival shooting gallery.


43 posted on 11/30/2017 6:34:01 PM PST by laweeks
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To: Olog-hai

can anyone find a reference to the date, maybe the year, this incident happened?


44 posted on 11/30/2017 6:35:08 PM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: Olog-hai

I hear Thailand is very tolerant of such behavior, Mr. Keillor.


45 posted on 11/30/2017 6:35:09 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Mercat

These guys go to work for what is essentially a college radio/TV station operated with government money and become millionaires. Congress should make it so anything created at PBS facilities belongs to PBS and not to individuals. If people don’t like it they don’t have to work there.


46 posted on 11/30/2017 6:36:44 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: SES1066

Then the right course for Keillor is to fight back à la Roy Moore. But I see no fight coming; the urge to flee on Keillor’s part carries a heavy implication of guilt, mania or no. That seems to tell me that it may be less of a mania and more of poetic justice unfurling.


47 posted on 11/30/2017 6:36:49 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

He can always go to North Korea, The Pyongyang Home Companion...


48 posted on 11/30/2017 6:38:11 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: Olog-hai

Well GITMO is kinda east!..... you can join Obama, Hillary, Franken, Lauer, ......etc


49 posted on 11/30/2017 6:38:12 PM PST by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: Olog-hai
the country was ‘in the grips of a mania.’

More like a womania...

50 posted on 11/30/2017 6:38:51 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Olog-hai

‘I think I have to leave the country’

We’ve heard this from every lefty loon in the country.
He’s dug in like a tick and not going anywhere.


51 posted on 11/30/2017 6:39:09 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: Olog-hai

Go! Begone!


52 posted on 11/30/2017 6:39:19 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Olog-hai

I’m not sure what Garrison Keiller did with each of those two women, but I’m sure it was monotonous and went on for far too long.


53 posted on 11/30/2017 6:39:40 PM PST by Garden Island
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To: Olog-hai
"...I think I have to leave the country..."

He says that like it's a bad thing.

54 posted on 11/30/2017 6:40:06 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: SaveFerris
Ferris! Have you been looking at MrEdd's paper again??

Post #5 11:30 a.m.

55 posted on 11/30/2017 6:40:07 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: The people have spoken
Probably not a faggot-—he’s married to a woman.

They call the wife of a gay man a "beard."

My uncle was married and has two grown daughters. He got a divorce and a boyfriend. He buried one bf of aids and then got another boyfriend.

My mother told us all later own that my uncle had issues and episodes all his life.

Just to instill confidence in our national defense, my uncle was also one of those underground missile fire control officers with one hand on a key in the 1960's.

56 posted on 11/30/2017 6:40:20 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Olog-hai

He won’t leave; all talk.


57 posted on 11/30/2017 6:41:38 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Olog-hai
I'm gonna get thrashed for this ... but ... whether or not he's telling the truth, he could be telling the truth.

Hold your horses in your happiness about how what's happening to him is happening if not what's happening itself ... yes I can't stand him either.

But a woman could do the same thing to you and be full of sh*t.

It's good riddance, but if this accusation is all there is to it, and a man denies it, then it's wrong for any man or woman to have this happen over a mere accusation. IF this is all there is to it.

Maybe there are facts beyond what I've read ... but if this is it for the facts ... I'd get a lawyer and start fighting back. Mind you, I can't stand this guy.

58 posted on 11/30/2017 6:45:51 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Fightin Whitey; MrEdd

LOL GMTA!!!


59 posted on 11/30/2017 6:47:35 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Garden Island

Ahhhh ha hahahahahahahahaha!

That was a brilliant post! Made me laugh, it did...:)

It seemed to encapsulate liberal men and liberalism all in one single sentence!


60 posted on 11/30/2017 6:48:14 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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