A TRULY UGLY AMERICAN
I used to enjoy his "Lake Woebegone" on NPR, but after this past election, I can't even stand the sound of his voice anymore. He's a liberal-demokkkRAT-socialist-commie-nazi-fascist-America-hating, traitor, as are Franken and Moore.
Garrison Keillor: prototypical gaseous windbag.
He's grown alright. Just like all Liberals. Grown in a vat I swear.
Keilor is a welfare recipient. He's made a fortune because of public subsidies of the so-called public broadcasting.
NPR should go, too.
I saw him on O'Rilley or H&C maybe 2 months ago, and he seemed bewildered, lost, and unable to put a coherent sentence together.
Not a very impressive guy - maybe he should have hung it up.
Can you provide a link to the article you posted? Thanks. The URL you listed goes to another article.
It's amazing how the same human mind can be simultaneously clever, brilliant, and stupid.
On NPR on Sat. morning they have some programs like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me... USED to be funny. They use news from the week before and make it into game shows. Last week ALL the jokes about Democrats were fine, but ALL the jokes about Republicans were CRUEL and MEAN SPIRITED> Like which president threw up in the lap of a Japanese leader? Etc. The lines about the Democrats were all innocent and nice. THe lines about the Republicans were made to make us look mean and stupid. I was so angry I turned it off.
It surely isn't pretty. A fairly blatant example is this one:
NPR Reporter Says Christians Should Burn
And, of course, there's more about Garrison:
Garrison Keillor: Homegrown Idiot -- Keillor is stuck in this time warp, when liberal did mean 'nice to black folk' but before the horrors of true leftism (Stalinism, FDRism, Maoism, Ho Chi Minhism) were revealed to the world.
And this:
When it's OK to hate -- This may become a landmark article and really singes and exposes the liberal thought.
...but us folks on the right are the "intolerant" ones...
Your link didn't open to the story. Here's where the entire column is.
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16198
Prairie
Sorry, you must have meant to say: 'Down there with Al Franken.'
As a Minnesotan, I apologize to the rest of the thinking world. Keillor is an egotistical gas bag well beyond his 15 minutes of fame. His persona on TPHC has nothing to do with his true nature anymore than crisp, smoky bacon is the equivalent of a barnyard of ankle-deep pig sh*t.
The only redeeming value Keillor has today, is that he provides entertainment in an unintended format. He is periodically locked in a vicious feud with another local leftist columnist (Nick Coleman) over whose head is truly the biggest and whose gaseous anecdotes and phony wit ought to dominate the local Left cotillions and the endless pink fund-raisers to buy cat litter for the poor.
If Keillor didn’t have a cushy stage at MPR/NPR (your tax dollars at work, BTW), he’d been a goner back when he pulled up stakes from Minnesota for the big lights of New York. Nowadays, it’s only the talent of the booked musicians is worth a listen.
Humor is a weapon for Keillor, as it is for so many professional jokesters, but beneath the smiles, his battles are deadly serious. Garrison threw off his very strict Plymouth Brethren upbringing decades ago, but he retains a lot of the tensions and strains of a puritanical outlook that he's come to hate and despise. Keillor's is a still very sectarian and "fundamentalist" mentality: for him, the Democratic party is the raft and all else is a raging sea of iniquity.
In recent years the NPR cocoon has hurt his work. Mark Twain was as bitter a man as Garrison Keillor -- probably more so and, by the end of his life, with far more reason to be angry. But Twain had to handle and hold a large and diverse audience, so he had to conceal his disappointment and resentment and hide his bitterness beneath the surface of his work, rather than simply rely on partisan jabs. It improved his work and made him a unifying and at times uplifting force in the country.
Keillor has subsidies so he doesn't have to worry about losing listeners whatever he does. Consequently he plays to a small niche audience -- or sometimes, no audience at all. He avoids the danger of being swallowed up by a mass audience, but he doesn't grow as a writer or performer. It's a pity, but past humorists, like Twain or Will Rogers were able to bridge the gap between North and South, East and West, city and country, in a way that Keillor, a very talented man, doesn't and can't.
umm, the dirty little secret of the "elite" regions north of the Mason-Dixon is that there's as much inbreeding going on there as their is in Appalachia.
I listen to NPR rarely--maybe Whad Ya Know?, and even then the liberal "humor" can be a bit much. (Maureen Loud
was on there recently--yuck.) Speaking of NPR stations
(or similar ones):
--on a folk show on an NPR station (locally produced):
"some music to brighten you up, perhaps, on this sad
day for our country"--the DJ, referring to the fact
the Clinton had been impeached earlier that day.
On another folk show on a non-commercial station, a folk
group was live in the studio and they prefaced one of their songs by telling of how "we wrote this after someone was nice enough to give us a copy of 'Dude, Where's my
Country?' by Michael Moore, for Christmas." They go on
to sing a song about "thieves" in "the House that
was White". Gag me!
Harry Shearer's "Le Show" airs on many NPR stations. It can be funny at times (he'll probably soon do another
media satire with "Brother Rather" and "Brother
Wallace") but he is definitely a big lefty. (Frequently
bites that hand that feeds him, too, savaging his
employer ("Simpsons") Rupert Murdoch.)