Posted on 11/29/2017 7:57:21 PM PST by Candor7
“I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”
Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”
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You know what, Garrison? I don’t care! All I care about is that you leftists are finally getting some of what you have been attacking conservatives with. And you know what, it don’t have to be true as long as I decide that the woman is believable.
Enjoy your unemployment benefits . . . oh, wait - you were fired - no benefits!
I’m still trying to figure out how his hand started on her bare back and then her shirt was open.
The same way men fall in the shower and accidentally get a gerbil in their sphincter; or the same way a women is lying down on the bed kissing a man and "before she knew it" her panties were mysteriously off.
It just ...happened. By magic, or something.
The guy made millions from his book and show. I doubt he needs unemployment benefits.
Can’t stand the guy, but he won’t suffer monetarily from this.
Had to be more to it than this.
Sometimes the ‘richest’ people are only so on paper. No telling what is bills are. He will certainly have to forestall the life to which he has become accustomed.
” .. her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She was so startled she jumped a foot and her buttocks began squeezing my hand.”
She told him she was unhappy. He should have shrugged and walked away. Zero compassion.
I liked his reaction to the incident. Rather humorous. The whole thing seems to be blown out of proportion and he was taking in stride. He is basically retired and not much they can do to him.
Lol
Lake Woebegon - true to its name re Garrison Keillor.
He is, like the name of the lake, “Woe, he Be Gone”.
Fudge Fingers!
She was wearing a shirt slit open in the back. You know... “business casual”.
I shudder to think of the "business."
This guy has always been a phony. Liberal crum from the word go. Married three times, the second time to a high school foreign exchange student from Denmark. Made millions being an arrogant ass on a taxpayer subsidized radio program. Prairie Home Companion was full of itself, and essentially an elitist program I referred to in the presence of my liberal “friends” as Yankee Hee-Haw, but not as funny. At least Hee-Haw was popular for years and made its way on its on with true commercial sponsors. Buck Owens, Roy Clark and Minnie Pearl all had class that Keillor never did.
Yankee Hee-Haw
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Perfect.
"They weren't fired; they decided they want to spend more time with their family"
Maybe they hired a focus group and discovered nobody's believed that lie in years.
A week ago, Garrison Keillor wrote an article (for the New Yorker, I think) that it would be “absurd” for Al Franken to resign based on “participating in low comedy”. Garrison is a very liberal entertainer who made a fortune “gently chiding” we boring people in the Midwest, but he has discovered that Liberals have no real friends. To hear him tell this, it was one accidental incident that he apologized for, was forgiven for, and disappeared...until the lawyers called him years later. But giving a pass to Bill Clinton won’t save you these days, GK.
This may be a shakedown. Or this may be true. If this is the only incident...it just put his media empire in shambles. The reruns are now dropped by NPR, the “new” PHC show will be renamed (not that it had much in common with the real Prairie Home Companion but the abbreviated name) and just TRY unloading all the memorabilia now.
It would be hard to imagine who benefits from this. You would think if he were guilty, legal extortion would have come long before this. But who would lie about this old coot? Only months ago, the press giggled about Vice-President Pence’s stern rule about never eating a meal with a female unless his wife was present. “Ho, Ho!” the pundits cried, “what a foolish old prude!” Well, based on the rate with which entertainment icons are falling these days...looks like being both innocent and cautious is a pretty good defense.
I imagine this is a bitter lesson for Garrison, after all the low punches at Trump locker room talk, that when the Vox Populi speak...the mob can cut you off at the knees, no matter if you are America’s Beloved Storyteller.
Another mystery for Guy Noir, Private Eye to unravel. He'll get to the bottom of it, no doubt.
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