Empty victory for a hollow man How Norm Coleman sold his soul for a Senate seat.

Salon.com ^ | Nov. 7, 2002 | By Garrison Keillor

[nathanbedford]

I think you are right, he needed to slime Coleman. This is nothing but liberal neo-McCarthism. The interesting question is what process of rationalization permits a man who is obviously intelligent and very savvy in public relations sense to indulge in this sort of slime? What are his assumptions about us? About liberals? About independents of whom there are a lot in Minn?

[gusopol3]

Sounds like a Viking

[andreak]

I think the word "evil" is used way to much, and it is losing much of its meaning. Those who truly feel compassion, and were hurting after the death of Senator Wellstone are not "evil." I don't believe the Clintons, flawed though they are, (aren't we all) are evil either. I think the world would be so much better if we stick to issues and stop throwing epithets around. Let's save the word "evil" for truly evil people such as Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler.

[Taliesan]

So Coleman is glib and polished and adulterous and has no core beliefs.

And Bill Clinton is one of the good guys.

Uh-huh.

[Ditter]

Hey Gal come tell us how much of this dirt on Norm Coleman is just so much barbara striesand.

[hope]

Salon's editorials have about as much worth is it's stock.

[hope]

Bwahaa, You still think it's about sex don't you? You dims are all still stuck in 1st gear.

[js1138]

Keillor's "home life" is also "interesting".

[Bernard Marx]

Don't know,but,I'm sure Garrison has claimed "its his private life" about others with "family situations".

I don't know either, but I'm curious about Keillor's own "family situation."

[OMParty]

Don't forget--we also blamed Ross Perot. Incidentally, on last Saturday's PHC, (the last one I'll ever listen to) Garrison gave the rats credit for the Civil Rights Act, even though the Republicans pushed it through over the objections of southern dems, including old man Gore.

[Gruffbear]

As a 25-year resident of Crocus Hill, a neighborhood next near his Summit Hill residence, I can tell you on good authority that Keillor is not well liked in the place he calls home. He is regarded as dour and condescending. He has refused to talk to the local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, because they have the audacity to report on his personal life. Grand Avenue restaurateurs and shopkeepers consider him arrogant and standoffish in the extreme. He is apparently a member of an elevated social class to which you do not belong.

His bitter, sarcastic, highly personal attacks directed at Norm Coleman are completely in keeping with his character. Keillor is a world-class jerk who has spent thirty years of his life making condescending inferences about Minnesotans in front of a microphone. Maybe he fancies himself a latter-day Sinclair Lewis, but his view of Minnesota people and institutions is contemptuous and unloving. I hope he re-exiles himself to New York.

[HardStarboard]

These guys really are concerned about "soul"!!

Witness their behavior during the celebration of Paul Wellstone's soul!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bump!

[a keillor neighbor]

You people are remarkably precious...and in possession of prodigious hollow judgment. So this be republicanism, this little virtual pillory I've stumbled upon.

I'll witness: Norm actually is as smarmy and chameleon as a reasonably well-meaning person can get. You all can vote for him when he makes his inevitable run for the white house. He's no evil-doer, but he's not that real either. He is his own strawman.

[nowotny]

For all his faux-folksiness, Garrison Keillor has long been known - or should I say infamous - for being one of the angriest liberals on planet Earth. He rarely leaves the Upper West Side of Manhattan, except to do his radio show, because to him it's the only place populated by people as intelligent as Garrison Keillor.

No kidding. Libs pride themselves on thinking they are more intelligent and superior than the rest of the proletariat. Their charade is a delusion, and a failing one at that.

[GoMonster]

yeah he was nine points down in zogby poll. same poll that had strickland down by 11. same poll that had coleman up by six three weeks before. Salon Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[K Cabron]

Garrison Keillor has displayed a very niggardly use of common sense. And that comment about Norm's family situation being, "...shall we say very interesting", what is he trying to say, that he is married in name only? Did he commit rape, perjury, did he lie to his constituents, was he impeached, was he caught fornicating with his underlings? Oops! Sorry that must have been someone else that Mr. Keillor holds in high esteem.
What a sanctamonious prig!

[reagan-won-ww3]

almost makes you miss jimmy carter... almost.

[samtheman]

I got bored with this tuneless crooner a long time ago. His stuff is stale, repititious, predictable and boring. And now he adds an unhealthy measure of hate to his dull-witted repetoire. How pedestrian.