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Posted on 09/09/2009 2:30:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Garrison Keillor, author and host of the folksy radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," was being treated Wednesday for a minor stroke he suffered over the weekend, a hospital spokesman said.
Keillor, who turned 67 last month, was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sunday night, spokesman Karl Oestreich said in a news release.
"He is up and moving around, speaking sensibly, working at a laptop, and it's expected he'll be released on Friday," Oestreich said.
"He plans to resume a normal schedule next week."
The live variety show "A Prairie Home Companion" is aired on Minnesota Public Radio.
Keillor launched the program on July 6, 1974, in a St. Paul, Minnesota, college theater before an audience of 12 people.
According to a "Backstage Chat" on the show, Keillor got the idea for it from watching the Grand Ole Opry.
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I wonder if he wished he was in Canada, the UK or Cuba on his way to the hospital.
Speaking sensibly?
He’s become a conservative?
“I wonder if he wished he was in Canada, the UK or Cuba on his way to the hospital.”
Be nice.
I don’t agree with his politics but I listen regularly. His show is something that I could share with my kids, that is funny using clean humor, and has music I can’t find anywhere else.
Might God speed his recovery.
I don’t care for his politics, but I love his show.
Radical, left-wing liberal retard... what a shame. sarc/
It was rousing, dignified and inspiring.
It's a pity he's become so bitter and vitriolic over the years. He has not aged gracefully, but wish him well with his stroke.
Can’t help it, love that man.
God Love ya, Garrison.
I wish him a speedy recovery, but I will not waste my time exposing myself to his work.
Gee. Now he can speak even more slowly.
Lutheran’s fault.
I don’t love that man.
He is a tool, and a snob to boot! Hope he heads immediately to Cuba for the best medical treatment in the world.
Let us light a candle at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility...
I don’t find anything bitter or vitriolic about him. Liberal, sure, he’s from Minnesota, what do you expect. But Hubert Humper style liberal, old school.
It's not just his politics, it's the man behind them. Read some of his writing. He's a truly vile person that seems to hate liberty and and all lovers of liberty.
I agree.
Wow. That’s unkind. On Saturday evenings there’s literally nothing else to listen to besides snake oil infomercials and college football. PHC always entertains me. The music is heart and soul, and the skits are funny, and
I’ve thought the same. I think the man hates people something fierce. My wife likes listening to him, but I’d rather leave the room than listen to his condescension
Benefiting from care that his President would deny to the rest of us.
Sorry to hear this. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for Garrison Keillor.
We all know there’s only one cure ...
But one little thing can revive a guy,
And that is home-made rhubarb pie.
Serve it up, nice and hot.
Maybe things aren’t as futile as you thought.
Mama’s little baby loves rhubarb, rhubarb,
Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie.
Mama’s little baby loves rhubarb, rhubarb,
Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie.
Not on his show, but off-mike he's pretty bitter. Here's an example from Wikipedia, hardly a conservative source...
"In May 2008, Keillor wrote a controversial article entitled "The Roar of Hollow Patriotism," criticizing the "Rolling Thunder" parade in Washington, D.C. on Memorial Day.[34] The “Rolling Thunder” parade is an event that honors and commemorates all United States veterans, and is sponsored by Rolling Thunder, Inc. - a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization that participates in veterans charities and legislation lobbying for military veterans and personnel.[35] The article depicts the biker subculture with negative imagery. He describes the participating bikers as "fat men with ponytails on Harleys" and further depicts them as "grown men playing soldier, making a great hullaballoo without exposing themselves to danger, other than getting drunk and falling off a bike."[34]"
And let's face it, you can't really be "in the arts" as deeply as he without lib creds.
Agree 100 percent. Well said.
Mrs jimfree was a big fan and I listened along until about 6 or 8 years ago when GK in a column or speech trashed the Christian Right. She couldn’t tolerate him any longer and we haven’t listened since.
I don’t care for his politics, or his off-mike attitude, but as I recall, he does his whole monologue on PHC from memory, having composed it himself just before the show. He is, if nothing else, a consummate storyteller, which is a rare skill and should be respected. Few have that talent anymore.
Too many Martha White biscuits:-)
I’ve been loving that show since the ‘80s. They have great old music, radio dramas and Garrison’s patter.
Too bad his head is up his butt politically.
Well, that just goes to show you shouldn’t mix kool-aid with powdermilk biscuits.
Let’s pray he doesn’t fall into Lake Woebegone.
He’s added much happiness to the world. My prayers are with him...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4vh3UuThg&feature=channel
A Prairie Home Companion: “Guy Noir” script; February 7, 2009
Well, that's an improvement. Best wishes to the leftist jerk.
How can anyone tell?
Minor brain, minor stroke
prolly caused by a ketchup deficiency...
Wasn’t he the guy who planted the seed for No Child Left Behind?
Woebegone, “all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average,”
The shortest people can sometimes look the farthest down.
He looks like he grew up under a Bonzai tree.
Feeling comfortable in the company of his fellow leftists mediawhores, his "humor" that night was nasty, anti-American, bitingly treacherous and subtly socialist.
President and Mrs. Bush were in attendance and, of course, GWB was the target of Keillor's goatish "wit".
Actually, he wasn't even funny.....at all.
For a liberal, he lives like a commissar....with millions in real estate holdings including his 7-bedroom mansion in a toney part of Minnesota and his million-dollar-plus properties in Manhattan.
Off-radio, he spouts odd but pointed mixes of socialist theorizing but, of course, indulges in capitalist merchandising in connection with hokey products spinning off from his show. His sermonizing on family values while ploughing through three marriages and carrying-on numerous extramarital affairs might make those in his limousine-liberal circle consider him a hypocrite. But, they don't.
The middle-western rubes who enrich him by buying his merchandise plus those who buy his folksy Potemkin Village facade on his radio show don't seem to think he is, either.
Like Teddy Kennedy, he is a pretend Prince-of-the-People and therefore entitled to live and act without scorn like much of the the monied, leftist nobility caste lives...... arrogant, snobbish and loutish in personal life.
I consider Keillor as ugly inside as much as he is ugly outside. Talent is wasted on this Orwellian Animal Farm porker
Leni
Don’t like his politics, but I grew up listening to A Prairie Home Companion, so I’ll always have a soft spot for him. He’s a very gifted storyteller. I hope he gets better soon.
I love Robin and Linda Williams. Great harmonies and original tunes.
..I think he inflects his stories with his 'leanings'.
Contrast that with Rush. Rush has 15 hours per week of unscripted stuff for 40, or so weeks per year. Yet Rush rarely repeats things and virtually never carries over items from years back (except as purposeful "oldies"). I give Keillor a D-.
On the other hand, if a stroke has finally made him "speak sensibly" maybe there is hope after all.
They're at thier best when they do bluegrass Broadway and Top 40.
Agreed. I have loved PHC for many, many years. As the children and grandchildren of Lutherans with Minnesota roots it all just hits home. He’s a master storyteller indeed. I couldn’t care less about his politics. His opinion on world affairs is simply not important to me. The News from Lake Wobegon however... is another matter.
:-)
I wouldn’t wish a stroke on anyone. Prayers offered for a full recovery.
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