Posted on 07/13/2004 8:08:26 AM PDT by jdege
Bob Von Sternberg, Star Tribune
July 13, 2004
Radio humorist Garrison Keillor has never shied away from the dreaded "liberal" label, placing his progressive politics front-and-center in many of his monologues and writings.
But he's now aggressively embraced a complementary label: partisan Democrat, appearing at DFL functions and, now, publishing his newest book, "Homegrown Democrat; A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America."
The book, to be published by Viking on Thursday, is a combination of personal reminiscence, an attempt to define Minnesota culture, interlaced with political screeds that are at once tendentious, fed-up and funny.
Among them:
• "Republicans have perfectly nice manners, normal hair, pleasant smiles, good deodorants, but when it comes right down to it, you do not want them to be monitoring your oxygen tube or running your child's school. Like the hall of mirrors at the carnival, they are all about perceptions, the party of Personal Responsibility, which conceals enormous glittering malice and is led by brilliant bandits who are dividing and conquering the sweet land I grew up in. I don't accept this."
• "Liberals stand for tolerance, magnanimity, community spirit, the defense of the weak against the powerful, love of learning, all American values worth conserving. The people who call themselves conservatives stand for tax cuts, and further tax cuts, annual tax cuts, the only policy they know. Cut taxes. Use the money you save to buy a gun and an attack dog to take with you when you drive the Hummer out of the security gate of Republicanville ..."
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Maybe he meant to say "communist spirit" instead of "community spirit".
Love of "learning"? Where might we find that among liberals in postmodern America? I guess he has an ironic sense of humor and self-satire.
Or...just another liberal dork offering a godless sermon.
Conservatives should nail the socialists to the wall with rusty iron spikes every time they dare say that they're in favour of "community spirit" - conservatives believe in a moral society, and that charity should begin at home. Socialists believe you should be forced to do so, since they're more moral people they have the right to force you to do it and they'll administer it, thank you very much.
Regards, Ivan
I sort of doubt that. I doubt modern American liberals even know what "magnanimity" means. You have to read the ethical writings of Aristotle, Cicero, and Thomas Aquinas to understand that intelligently. These are banned writers in institutions controlled by liberals (i.e., they are Dead White Western Males - "conservatives").
This has to be the stupidest statement ever from a liberal.
Answer: Yes! Liberals want doctor assisted suicide, conservatives believe in life. Please have a conservative monitoring my oxygen tube!
Liberals believe it is better for a student to feel good about himself. Conservatives want students to read and write well. Please have a conservative teaching my kids... oh wait, one is. I home school (an other thing liberals don't believe in, can't instill their Marxist propaganda in my kids).
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Looks like mommy left him in the E-Z bake oven too long.
Or maybe some of those eeevil Republicans did some stick-time on his noggin.
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