Garrison Keillor is the Will Rogers of our time!
When I was in highschool our local paper ran a feature which was a reprint of Roger's column for that day 30 years previous. I was amazed how insipid, obvious, and plain stupid it was.
Surely you jest!
Garrison is a rambling old fool and needs to step into Lake Woebegone carrying a cement block.
The article makes it clear that Keillor is a liar. Which means he is a perfect Democrat.
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.