Garrison Keillor: Homegrown Idiot

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 12/03/04 | George Shadroui

[nickcarraway]

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[Bandaneira]

How do you get rid of the species known as "Homegrown Idiots" from one's garden ?

What sort of weed-killer should be used ?

This horticultural conundrum has me wondering...

[Lancey Howard]

Keillor is jusr another bitter, has-been scumbag.
I thought he retired tears ago?

[Californiajones]

Keillor's venom is masked by his soft, mellifluous voice on those dreadfully unfunny audio shows. He's perpetually stuck in some sort of reverse-o-world a liberal's view of a pre WWII America. (He's that old fashioned.)

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.

He's angry that his metaphors no longer hold; angry that he's run out of material after skewering Christians for decades and ultimately, he knows we are right. Keillor's social posturing as a critic of the right is a boring thing of the past. We no longer have a tolerance for a mean-spirited, if soft spoken Leftist putting down Christians for praying, for seeking better things for mankind. Over time, he's painted himself into a corner with his books and radio shows and now all he can do is lash out like an insane animal at a fictitious foe made up of his own family ghosts.

This is what Leftists do -- they project their own darkness onto their "enemies" because they are not reconciled to the fact of their own sin. Keillor's descriptions of "Republicans" are really psychological portraits of none other than the author himself.

[eagle11]

In Republican America, you will not enjoy public life period. (then he'll be able to empathize with Christians who can't sing religious Christmas carols in public spaces or send their child to school with a Bible). The public library, that great democratic temple (replaced by a larger online library available 24/7 in every home), will become a waiting room for desperate and broken people, the alkies, the whacked-out, the unemployables, and the public schools will become holding tanks for children whose parents were too unresourceful to find good schools for them (thanks to the NEA lobby and liberal judges who oppose vouchers for parents to make those choices), and politics will be so ugly and rancid (check out moveon.org) that decent people will avoid expressing an opinion for fear of being screeched at and hectored and spat on...or having their GOP campaign HQs trashed and set on fire by ignorant juveniles, products of the public ed you defend). (p. 7)

(Parenthesis are mine)

[kattracks]

How do you get rid of the species known as "Homegrown Idiots" from one's garden ?

It's really hard to do, as they create their own fertilizer, constantly.

[dc-zoo]

I'm waiting to read "Garrison Keilor Keiled over".

[Bandaneira]

Super Strength Weed Killer may be necessary in such cases.

[leadpenny]

Keillor would make a great party official.

A Communist Party official.

[leadhead]

I thought he retired tears ago?

Freudian?

[Keith in Iowa]

Headline opportunity missed: Garrison Keillor: The Loon of Lake Wobegone

[river rat]

There is nothing wrong with Garrison, that pulling him away from the PBS teat and kicking his ass wouldn't cure..

He's always been a arrogant bigot and unrepentant leftist his entire life...

He recently appeared on cable television news, where he truly came across as a confused babbling idiot...

Garrison is so damned pre 9/11 it's painful to hear him.

Semper Fi

[L.N. Smithee]

It's amusing to see the hardcore liberals beginning to vomit their condescension all over themselves, not being able to stomach the idea that the rest of the country doesn't believe they are as smart as they think they are.

I don't know if anyone commented on what Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff said on the Ron Insana show last weekend, but suffice to say that Keillor speaks for him too. They think Red Staters are too dumb to trust with public policy, and they deserve condescension if only to relieve the psyches of the elites.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Does anyone actually listen to or read this fool any more?

[.45MAN]

What do you expect from soneome that spends a lot of time on NPR.

[Revelation 911]

What sort of weed-killer should be used ?

This horticultural conundrum has me wondering...

a good freeping is what he needs

[Miss Marple]

OMG. I just realized why I don't like my long-time friend's new gentleman friend. He looks just like Garrison Keillor (and is also a liberal).

[Chieftain]

My dad and many old democrat libs love him. Not me.