"Keelihor's program on NPR, Prairie Home Companion, is often clever and amusing."
No, he is always smug and boring.
He has written pieces about Bush lately that make Michael Moore sound like a freeper...
A girl I used to date roped me in to seeing him live. He's not funny. Clever, sometimes but I was bored 20 minutes in. Plus his nose hairs whistle when he breathes which drives me batty. Go back to your fake town Garrison.
This is sad. I used to love this guy. I have not heard him in years. When did he become a hack?
I don't care if they take my side on issues, I don't like tax dollars going for stupid things, and the entire Public TV/Radion is just plain stupid. It never made sense and now that we can get a trillion channels via satellite or cable it makes even less sense.
They don't get much funding anymore, but it still annoys me. When Garrison Keiler sticks to poking fun at modern pretensions, he can be very funny. I still remember a great sketch making fun of "artists" who are media personalities or flatterers of rich donors, but actually produce next to nothing - and still get press coverage.
But when he gets into politics, he stinks (and talk about modern pretensions...they're coming out of his ears when he does this stuff).
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He became a lost cause when he moved to New York. He has always been condescending and scornful of his roots. At first, his humor seemed to be based upon love, now it's just scorn.
We, too, are often Garrison fans for the music, but we are also getting sick of NPR politics. It seems so much worse after 11/2, probably because they are just so bitter and clueless. But I do like the range of NPR's non-political stories.
Why can't we have a conservative news show like NPR? I like talk shows, but news is good too (especially when one is commuting).
I would either like to see such liberal funding cut or support funding for a conservative show. (Then, again, the tax-cut side of me needs no new funding.) NPR just had a huge windfall from some rich person's will...millions...they shouldn't need government funding.
Do you thing private donors would support a conservative news program? Rush did it for talk shows; who will do it for conservative news shows?
It wouldn't be the first time people were falsely accused of witchcraft. I have looked into the Salem thing. Those who were accused tended to be devout Christians- and with property. The accusers were involved with the occult. And guess who ended up with the property?
Agreed. Funny how people refer to Saturday morning cartoons as "half-hour long commercials," but don't mention the toy store shelves filled with Barney and Sesame Street toys.
Keillor's a highly overrated one-trick pony whose welcome has been overstayed at least a decade, and hasn't bothered to leaven his heavy-handed politics with humor for a long time. I make a point of not listening to him. (Besides, I feel sorry for all the performers he inflicts himself on by making them sing with him.)
Auction off their TV and Radio spectrum. Make them pay market value for the radio frequencies they use versus commercial ventures. Then do not increase funding. Let the market decide.
To John Taylor
Philadelphia, June 4, 1798
[excerpt]
"Seeing, therefore, that an association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry, seeing that we must have somebody to quarrel with, I had rather keep our New England associates for that purpose than to see our bickerings transferred to others. They are circumscribed within such narrow limits, & their population so full, that their numbers will ever be the minority, and they are marked, like the Jews, with such a peculiarity of character as to constitute from that circumstance the natural division of our parties. A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it's true principles."
Agreed. Funny how people refer to Saturday morning cartoons as "half-hour long commercials," but don't mention the toy store shelves filled with Barney and Sesame Street toys.
Keillor's a highly overrated one-trick pony whose welcome has been overstayed at least a decade, and hasn't bothered to leaven his heavy-handed politics with humor for a long time. I make a point of not listening to him. (Besides, I feel sorry for all the performers he inflicts himself on by making them sing with him.)
I listened a bit to Prarie Home Companion this evening, my wife likes to listen. It seems this is a real Bush/ Republican bashing night. Garrison has become very political in his show. He would have a much better show if he'd leave out the politics.
DORK