Not because I'm intolerant of other views, but for the same reasons I have no interest in hearing what Charles Manson, Michael Moore or Parris Hilton have to say.
I'm familiar enough with all of them that I'm certain I have more productive ways to spend my time.
Like taking out today's garbage.
Does anyone honestly believe that if we segregated the country in half by political views, and let it function as two nations, that in 5 years one would approach third world status, the other prospering beyond American dreams, and that in 10 years one would be militarily bailing out the other from its own tyrannical decay?
If he sticks to Noel, the detective character, it's
okay, but otherwise his politics are built on the
same fatuous, fake "down home" stuff as Fresh Air &
the like on PBS. - And he talks about the protecting
the weak against the strong, does he mean the unborn
child against the abortionist? No, probably not.
Guess he swings and sways with the "we shall overcome
crowd" while holding hands with Whoopi and Cybill.
Garrison Keillor = Scum Sucking Commie Socialist Slug. I would enjoy saying it to his butt-ugly face.
This guy's been scamming America for decades. He shucks his folksy small town jive and the urban elite gloats in superiority. He panders to the NPR intelligencia by relating cracker barrel stories. The ridicule of flyover country is cleverly disguised as praise.
Keillor actually wants America to become the Soviet Union or Cuba, and he's got millions of well-intentioned American dopes thinking he stands for old time American Values. Scam artiste, indeed.
ping
You know eventually that a Lib's complaint is going to get around to being about God. They just can't stand Christianity and Jesus. Like Anne Coulter says (paraphrase), Libs don't believe in a god; they think that they are gods.
He's not usually referred to as "humorist" is he? I thought his gig was "folksy storyteller"...
"Liberals stand for tolerance,
Down at the first gate. He and his charming friends aren't tolerant of conservatives, nor politically incorrect speech.
magnanimity,
Rubbish. It turns my blood cold to see the things that liberals say about George W. Bush. A few have gone so far as to say he should be killed.
community spirit,
Meaning, you should give up more in taxes, but God forbid there should be any public expression of religious faith.
the defense of the weak against the powerful,
Actually the Republicans are doing that by trying to make sure you and your fine friends don't get their hands on them to steal their earnings and to sap initiative.
love of learning,
About ebonics, Queer literature, and other bits of frippery as well as making it so no student ever gets an "F", so a cadre of idiots can be graduated.
all American values worth conserving.
The Americans I'm acquainted with certainly disagree with your interpretation of them, sir.
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 ..."
Oversimplication and sophistry. The point, Mr. Keillor, is LIBERTY.
Allow me to re-emphasise -
Taxation goes to the very heart of what sparked the American Revolution. Why? Because taxation by a powerful state impinges on liberty. If you believe all the fine talk about being endowed with unalienable rights, you have the liberty to say, think and do as you will...and also to own property. Tax cuts are part and parcel of the restoration of liberty. Liberals would throw all this away.
To conclude, Mr. Keillor, to quote one of your characters from "Lake Woebegon Days" - you're so dumb you deserve to be a Democrat.
Regards, Ivan
Keillor is by no means the heart of America, given that most of his publicity photos have been taken through a proctoscope....
Yes. Democrats have done such a marvelous job of running schools in the best interest of children and educational excellence. They've wandered not at all into self enrichment political machine building.
How frightening it would be if Republicans ran your child's school. Wait! If your child attends private school, chances are Republicans do run it. Care to explain the performance discrepancy Mr. Keillor?
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 RepublicanvilleI will name my ugliest, stinkiest, meanest, and least house-broken dog, Garrison. If he ever snarls or snaps at me I will shoot him repeatedly with the glock I bought with my tax refund.
Remember when this clown left the country because he hated America so much, then came back because he missed the adulation? Typical NPR product.
LOL!
No, defending the persons, property, and liberty of citizens against agressors who would infringe on them (without regard for which is the more "powerful") is the basic task of government.
Keillor's best material is in my estimation excellent, and if he, like Barbara Streisand and Bruce Springsteen had wisely stuck to what they knew, he like them would have avoided making utter asses of themselves. Had they stuck to the occupation of entertaining an audience, instead of pompously pronouncing inanities in a field they were totally ignorant of and unprepared for- politics, they would certainly have a much higher standing in the eyes of millions of real, middle class Americans.
But, driven by the nature of leftist ideology and ignoring the hypocrisy of their elitism, they feel the need to abuse their fame, and so spread lies and the most pedestrian propaganda we are likely to hear during this campaign for President. The stale and uninspired observations Keillor offers us in his recent monologues and writings aren't worth the time it takes to click off the radio. Shame, really. When he tries, and sticks to what he knows, he can be quite clever and very funny. But he is awkwardly juvenile and obtusely outside reality when it comes to his distorted view of political and social issues. He would be no opponent in an honest factual debate, going by the lame and pointless tenor of his latests political-hate based rants.
\ I was shocked and very offended when he insisted on floating idiotic conspiracy nonsense regarding the air crash death of Wellstone and his family, finding libelous and insane reasons to like that tragedy to George Bush and the Republicans. I suggest he read the book "Ron Brown's Body" and realize how very off-base and how wrong a side he has chosen to stand on.
I've always said, "...there are two kinds of Liberals, the deceivers and the deceived." Keillor writes his own talking points, like a classic leftist deceiver, but his understanding of the issues, and of America, is that of a pathetically deceived and disoriented mind. Shame, is all I can say.