Garrison Keillor
and Dwight Schrute from "The Office"
Posted on 10/05/2006 8:13:59 AM PDT by altura
"But I don't know if it's self-hatred."
Maybe you are right.
I think liberals know they are frauds, physical cowards, and immoral. And they hate that. I mean, who wouldn't hate being a fraud, physical coward, and immoral?
When confronted with competence, bravery, and morals, liberals react with hatred --- because the reflection makes them realize, all the more, how pathetic they are.
And hence liberals' vitriolic hatred for competence, bravery, and morality.
Keillor is one very nasty piece of work. That his sort of humor has been described as "home-spun" is simply one more indication of how out of touch the libs in the media really are.
Not a book. It's symbolic of erasing the words forever.
However, there may be a more productive way of disposing of this book. It will go the way of my Dixie Chicks CD; target practice.
The core if it is arrogance: Obviously, their POV is superior to everyone else's, and that should translate to them being in complete and total power because everyone should vote them in. And yet, they can't get back to power, and they feel the only one standing in their way is (they perceive) a complete idiot, who at the same time is so smart that the outwitts them every time. Since a majority of the electorate won't vote for them, then most people must be stupid. They can't win at the ballot box because of the stupid masses, and if they could just get back in power they could go ahead with their obviously perfect plan to make this country a (socialist) heaven on earth! While usully paying lip-service to the nobility of the "common man", they actually despise them, because they apparently won't vote the dems back into power where they should be!
Lake Woebogone Days is the most deadly tiresome, boring novel I, who have read War and Peace and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, have never been able to finish. Keillor is a horrible writer.
It is ironic that the very party that would spit on the idea of Manifest Destiny view themselves as destined to rule, if only the pesky voters would get with the program!
The article makes it clear that Keillor is a liar. Which means he is a perfect Democrat.
I compared it with Texas in general. Of course it is not like Austin which is its own little place. Yes Dallas is a conservative place in most comparisons. I am amused that Mr. K decided to do his hit on the probably 2nd least incompatible (to him) town in Texas. If he had actually thought to have some political influence he would have held up that audience as the shining example of reason that Texans in general should emulate. I never gave K much credit for thinking, though.
Garrison Keillor
and Dwight Schrute from "The Office"
Google for an Australian newspaper article from 1995 called "The US race war of black against white" for a backgrounder on this subject. Tens of thousands of whites have been murdered and possibly millions raped since the 60s "revolution" while the Garrison Keillers of this world did more than just look blithely away, they CONSCIOUSLY did everything they could to set up the atmosphere that made it happen. Keiller and all his ilk aren't mere sympathizers, they are full blown neo-Nazis, and the fact that these war criminals can get away with publicly accusing their victims without being attacked along the line above shows just how deeply institutionalized white-hating racism has become in this society.
The main antagonist in the book is a knock off of Keillor.
The book, by the way, is a hilarious read and takes a lot of direct jabs at the jerk.
Garrison Keillor seems a poor sport.
Never misses a good chance to shutup.
I speak this as a fan...Garrison Keillor is the Will Rogers of ten to fifteen years ago. Life left Will a bitter old husk, and the many divorces, political losses, and, well, Liberalism have finished the job on Garrison.
For the past five years, I have faithfully tuned into him on Saturday night, and enjoyed the first few minutes, knowing that lurking out there in the darkness, like a jackel, is that first "Bush is an idiot" joke; that first backhanded jab at Republicans; that first condesending snipe at all I hold dear. Usually, I can't get more than a few minutes into the show before the fangs are out, and Garrison's "Mr. Hyde" personality comes out and I have to turn it off. (Recently, he actually used diary entries of from Teddy Roosevelt--the Rough Rider, the bully soldier, the adventurer to whom America was a unique and glorious experiment after ages of the world's tyranny--and painted him as an "outsider" who would supposedly be a Democrat today, rejecting the massed power of the GOP.)
Ever see "Back to the Future 2" where something has gone wrong with history, and the once beautiful, clean, grand old town of Hill Valley has become a bitter, dangerous, evil place, a shattered and twisted reflection of the world we all love? Garrison has done a "Biff Tannen" on Lake Woebegon. It is no longer the place I went on Saturday night to feel warm, fuzzy, and homespun. It is mocking, sneering homeland fit only for those who can't become cured of Bush Hate Syndrome. Mark Twain is just another bitter old Lefty. You can't go home again, I guess.
It's the money, stupid.
Seriously, Garrison Keillor has been a big disappointment to me. In the early eighties, I listened to Prarie Home Companion regularly, read his shorter fiction, and found him amusing in an undemanding sort of way. It wasn't until I read his first novel, Lake Wobegon, that I began to suspect that his "home-spun" quality masked a kind of contempt and nastiness that, I suppose, had gone right over my head. When in the latter eighties, he fell in love with his Danish sweetheart, quit the radio show and moved to Copenhagen to start his new life as a European, I had more or less quit listening. When he returned a couple of years later (because learning to speak Danish was so hard!)and started up his clone of Prarie Home Companion in New York, I couldn't be bothered.
Don't know what it is about a lot of modern humorists, but the older they get, the more bitter they get.
"Somehow I have never found Garrison Keillor to be the least bit funny."
You and me both.
You pegged it, 5D.
I totally agree. He's playing that old geezer card and is about as relevant and interesting as Andy Rooney, another pathetic loser.
I never liked his stuff and I really resent paying for it.
Even my liberal friend was absolutely bored out of her skull by the Woe-ful movie.
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