Posted on 06/08/2004 10:55:37 AM PDT by Tank-FL
Feeling sad and having just heard the news that President Ronald Reagan had just passed this past Saturday June 5, 2004 at 5:00 PM I switched my car radio from my local news radio to my local NPR, PRI affiliate to get my fill of the left by listening to A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.
I can normally make it through the live shows but this last show I had to turn off. The show began with ridicule and cheers from the audience when the Host (Mr. Garrison Keillor) announced that the former President had past away within the last hour. Yes folks, there were cheers in the audience. I waited for the host to ask the audience to refrain from cheers and to show respect, but this never happened. I was so shocked, then I began to understand – it is hate, how the left hates us.
I am posting a link so you can hear this yourself.
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2004/06/05/
Segment 1 at 3:17 into show.
In a lot of the cases, it's the parents doing the cheering.
When I was young and foolish ( as opposed to old and foolish like I am now!) I did not understand how truly mean-spirited Keillor really was.
Haven't listened to him for years.
First time I saw him he looked like a very angry man.
The left’s visceral hatred never fails to shock and horrify me.
Is Keilor still around? Haven't heard of him for years.
Gosh, we agree about something.
He is VERY talented, and (like the little girl with the little curl) when he's good, he's very, very good.
But a majorly guiltridden, hateful, spiteful man.
Dan
I heard a report on this while reading National Review.
Again,
How incredibly crass and tacky.
GK should be ashamed (and if he ain't, I will be happy to help him).
Seems a bit much.
er...quiet audience
I listened to it, and I think GK actually handled it pretty well. He kept going, not acknowledging those who couldn't keep it in their pants for two seconds. He called him a great man, too.
To listen at home....(so I can hate liberalism even more...hehe)
I heard that too, almost the same way. I was braced for Keillor himself to say something hateful, knowing how he loathed Reagan. But he himself was classy. I was appalled at the catcalls and cheers and, like you, waited to see whether he'd slap them down.
Nope.
Now, that would be an odd step-aside from the format. But he could have said SOMETHING. My most charitable thought is that he's kicking himself for not doing so.
Dan
I listened to the clip, and it seemed as if only 1 or 2 people actually screamed. I did not hear much applause at all. I think we all need to listen to it. However, I agree with many here, the democrats are vile and full of hate.
The part of the book where a young man returns with some kind of hateful resentful letter to his parents struck me as a classic liberal tome - blaming everyone for his problems but his own sorry self. Perhaps there was more GK in that letter than fictional character.
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