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Garrison Keillor: Homegrown Idiot
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 12/03/04 | George Shadroui

Posted on 12/03/2004 1:03:13 AM PST by kattracks

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To: .45MAN

Good Lord. The years have not been kind to a face that could have only been made for radio (or birth control).


21 posted on 12/03/2004 3:41:33 AM PST by glock rocks (even candycanes start out as just a puddle of sugar and water.)
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To: glock rocks

BTTT.


22 posted on 12/03/2004 3:49:29 AM PST by JusPasenThru (If you want to get it movin' you must learn to doof da bouven.)
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To: kattracks
does the right to bear arms mean that each of us should own our own nuclear weapon?

Rtkba does not distinguish. Expense and utility rather limit the possession of ICBMs among individual citizens.

23 posted on 12/03/2004 3:54:49 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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To: Pookyhead

Yhere is no hypocrisy on the left. Liberals have no principles and thus cannot do anything in spite of their principles.


24 posted on 12/03/2004 3:56:59 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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To: kattracks
the social compact is still intact here

GGGGRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Note to all you socialist @$$holes. There is not, nor was there ever, ANY social compact. I never signed one, and refuse to ever sign one. This statement makes my blood boil, and I've heard so many "progressives" talk about the "social compact" that it almost provokes me to violence.

YOU PUT THAT CONTRACT ON US, THE UNWILLING, AIDED AND ABETTED BY 40 YEARS OF PROPAGANDA FROM A WILLING MEDIA.

It is what is called in business law and unconscionable contract, essentially enforced at the point of a gun, and thus null and void. /rant off

25 posted on 12/03/2004 4:00:23 AM PST by Hardastarboard
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To: kattracks

i can't stand npr, national propaganda radio.

the nasal tone of the correspondents and their european manners remind me of trader joe's ads.

one thing american universities have excelled at is linking high brow tastes in food, clothes, + autos with liberal biases.


26 posted on 12/03/2004 4:17:46 AM PST by ken21 (against the democrat plantation.)
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To: kattracks
... they create their own fertilizer, constantly.

He certainly missed the bus on this bit of crap:

"The descendants of the narcissist New Agers are the narcissist Republicans. People with too much money and too little character, all sensibility and no sense, all nostalgia and no history."

As a lifelong liberal, and city person, my disgust with the Democratic Party started before Bill Clinton destroyed it, while at some civilian gatherings I would have to endure the BS from some stoned out social x-ray holding a rock telling me to get out of Vietnam...they destroyed the Democratic Party and if Keillor thinks they are Republicans then he needs to get out of Southern Canada asap and find the real United States.

27 posted on 12/03/2004 4:23:10 AM PST by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: kattracks
Hey Garrison, I have written before about your drift from lovable, folksy old Uncle Gary into embittered, losing Democrat. Recently I read a line from your most recent book. You remind me of Conan Doyle, who having moved beyond Sherlock Holmes, sought to kill him off because his readers no longer lived up to what he expected of them. I have to note in "Homegrown Democrat", you are doing your level best to kill off Old Uncle Gary... I am a liberal and liberalism is the politics of kindness. Liberals stand for tolerance...

as in, "We will tolerate Chirstians, but they should not be allowed to vote, and the Ten Commandments must be removed from sight, and "Merry Christmas" will not be allowed in public".

...magnanimity...

as in, "We will tell you how much to contribute to the United Way, which discriminates against God-believing boy scouts, or you will lose your job, because we know what is best for you."

...community spirit...

As in, "The Glorious Democratic Party knows what is best for your community, so you'd better stop making waves about how you see right and wrong and accept who we sanction as being acceptable, and we don't care if 52% of the nation wants nothing to do with our ideas, they are just bigoted, Christian morons whom we should rule for their own good, because Goddess-knows, they are small-minded idiots."

...the defense of the weak against the powerful...

As in, Democratic congress people and Party Members defended Bill Clinton, a rich, powerful white guy, while he groped and abused women, (a minority,) ignoring possible rape charges that would have gotten a Republican thrown in jail without a trial.

...love of learning...

As in, "All mention of God must be driven out of the public schools, but we will have all mention of Scientology, Wicca, homosexual student groups, and other Democratic-sanctioned ideas, while gutting history texts of any mentions of the superiority of Western Culture, the Pilgrims real motives in coming to America, the Founders almost universal belief in America as a shining example of God's love and beacon for the world."

...freedom of belief...

If you are gay, or lesbian, or liberal, or Democrat, or anti-war, or Aztec, or Socialist, or hate George Bush. If you believe in Christ, shut up. If you think that a sin is a sin, shut up. If you want mention of why we were founded, shut up. If you think that sometimes we must stand up and stop dictators, shut up. If you think that sometimes right and wrong are clearly defined and real men must stand up and say no to evil, shut up.

...art and poetry.

Funded not by having to debase itself by paying for itself (Ugh! How common!) but by financing from the public till. Funded not by a patron, or the Church so that it will have to be pleasing, or attractive, or useful. Funded by my tax dollars, without my consent, without my approval, designed solely to titillate the Left, and to entertain people who realize that hey, people from Red States are morons.

I stand for [blue state] city life, the very things that make America worth dying for. (p. 20)

Not my city, mister. You could once peddle New York to New York, and say another thing to those rubes in the Midwest, but we have the Internet, and radio, and TV out here now. We know the narrow-minded, anti-tolerance, elitist Demcratic party for what they are. It is a good thing FDR isn't alive...people lie you would kill him. There hasn't been a living, breathing Democrat like the one you idolize in your book for thirty years. And your Party is too zombied to know that they are dead.

28 posted on 12/03/2004 4:43:18 AM PST by 50sDad ( ST3d - Star Trek Tri-D Chess! http://my.oh.voyager.net/~abartmes)
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To: kattracks

Ann fired him after his recent hateful monologue. She was a long-time fan.


29 posted on 12/03/2004 5:00:46 AM PST by jimfree (I'm sure becoming more political after 50.)
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To: Californiajones

Well said. If only mr buttermilk biscuit had a clue. Methinks he is too busy feathering his nest.


30 posted on 12/03/2004 5:09:55 AM PST by wita
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To: kattracks

He states, "You see welfare parents with their children and sometimes you want to grab the parents and shake them, they are so clueless and foul-mouthed and cruel, but you can’t, so you hope that the social workers in Child Protection have enough funding to keep up with their caseload. (p. 186)"

Problem #1 with welfare is that children become something people create to bring in an income and not because they want to love and care for them. Welfare creates child abuse, it doesn't solve it!



31 posted on 12/03/2004 5:10:53 AM PST by onevoter
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To: kattracks
I am a liberal and liberalism is the politics of kindness. Liberals stand for tolerance, magnanimity, community spirit, the defense of the weak against the powerful, love of learning, freedom of belief, art and poetry, city life, the very things that make America worth dying for. (p. 20)

This doesn't describe any liberal I know. Except the part about "city life", whatever he means by that (I seem to recall a TV show from the '60s that mentioned that in it's theme song, something about Green Acres). Look at any liberal politician or political operative today and you'll see the antithesis of kindness, tolerance, magnanimity, etc. What you do see is hatred, intolerance, and bitterness. I don't know what hole in the plenum Keillor has been living in, but it isn't anywhere around here.

32 posted on 12/03/2004 5:13:33 AM PST by chimera
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To: ken21
...the nasal tone of the correspondents...

Funny choice of words since I find Keillor's whistling nose so annoying that I just can't listen to him because of it.

Which is a good thing, BTW.

33 posted on 12/03/2004 5:14:43 AM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: kattracks

One wonders the following things about Mr Keillor:
1) What's his net worth? 2)how much does he send,over and
above what he's *required* to send,to the US Treasury? (for
it *is* possible,and legal,to "donate" $ to the US Gov't)
and 3)is his level of chartiable giving more in line
with the typical denizen of Massachusetts (MA being the
stingiest state in the nation) or more in line with
Mississippi (the most "generous" state)?


34 posted on 12/03/2004 5:48:43 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: kattracks

Garrison about had a coronary when Jesse V. was elected governor and threated to cut off funding for NPR. No love lost between those two.


35 posted on 12/03/2004 6:02:03 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, AIr Force, Pray for all our military in hostile territory.)
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To: Californiajones

Great post Cal. I can't add to that. Well done.


36 posted on 12/03/2004 6:10:06 AM PST by subterfuge (Haven't you heard, I don't refrain...)
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To: kattracks
I once made the huge mistake of not returning "Lake
Woebegone Days" to the BOMC. Reading ten pages of that interminable, boring drivel was vastly more work and less pleasure than reading all of "War and Peace" and all of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," both of which I have read in their entirety. BTW, I never finished "Lake Woebegone Days." In the days before toilet paper I would have put it to a better use.
37 posted on 12/03/2004 6:14:58 AM PST by libstripper
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To: kattracks

What really infuriates me is that my tax dollars pay this guy's salary. That and the fact that, not to toot my own horn, I give money to my church and pretty much every cause that comes around with their hand out and devote countless hours doing charity work, etc. This blow hard really does need to spend some time with the real Republicans.


38 posted on 12/03/2004 6:22:07 AM PST by Elephino
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To: Recovering Hermit

"we're better than you" is the message of college-educated liberals.


39 posted on 12/03/2004 6:24:51 AM PST by ken21 (against the democrat plantation.)
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To: kattracks

I have an idea, pull the tax supported NPR rug out from under him and see how long he lasts. The unmitigated gall of this man to ridicule the people who pay the taxes which keeps his mind numbing show on the air is outrageous. Let's put him on Pay Per View and see how many people actually are willing to pay 20 bucks to watch his program. I have no interest in his Prairie Home Companion and it bugs me to no end to have to pay so other people can watch it. But to have him attack my views is the straw that breaks the camels back.


40 posted on 12/03/2004 6:26:31 AM PST by Casloy
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