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Garrison Keillor gets cheers for passing of Ronald Reagan
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor ^ | 06-08-2004 | Tank-FL

Posted on 06/08/2004 10:55:37 AM PDT by Tank-FL

Feeling sad and having just heard the news that President Ronald Reagan had just passed this past Saturday June 5, 2004 at 5:00 PM I switched my car radio from my local news radio to my local NPR, PRI affiliate to get my fill of the left by listening to A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.

I can normally make it through the live shows but this last show I had to turn off. The show began with ridicule and cheers from the audience when the Host (Mr. Garrison Keillor) announced that the former President had past away within the last hour. Yes folks, there were cheers in the audience. I waited for the host to ask the audience to refrain from cheers and to show respect, but this never happened. I was so shocked, then I began to understand – it is hate, how the left hates us.

I am posting a link so you can hear this yourself.

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2004/06/05/

Segment 1 at 3:17 into show.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; antiamericanism; defundnpr; garrisonkeeler; garrisonkeillor; hate; inbredgoober; leftwinghateradio; liberalhate; npr; publicradio; reagan; ronaldreagan; unamerican; youpayforthis
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Tijeras_Slim wrote:


First time I saw him he looked like a very angry man.





I was SURPIRSED the first time I saw him. I was in St Paul when i first heard him, undergoing some very nasty surgey that took months. One of the nurses in the hospital told me I should listen, so I gave it a whirl.

I used to listen to "News From Lake Wobegon" and imagine myself out of the hospital, in this idyllic little town.

I imagined Keillor as bing tall and thin, sort of like a young Jimmy Stewert. In my mind's eye, he sat at a desk on the stage and talked into one of those old-style microphons. He always wore a striped shirt and suspeneders, and I found him VERY comforting to listen to.

It was a REAL shock to see this short, pudgy little guy.

And you are right. He DOES look angry.

It shows more if you have ever read his books.



21 posted on 06/08/2004 11:10:18 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: Tank-FL

What the he** were you doing listening to NPR? Other than Car Talk that network is a waste of radio bandwidth.


22 posted on 06/08/2004 11:10:47 AM PDT by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: Tank-FL

Unfortunately I was in the car Sunday and caught Harry Shearer's first 5 minutes and that was disgusting.


23 posted on 06/08/2004 11:10:47 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Tank-FL
Oh for goodness sake, one or two idiots, no more, let out a whoop, a whoop. Then he sang a lovely song of tribute to Reagan's passing, including finishing off with a grand New Orleans funeral procession song.

I loathe misleading threads, But thanks for the link, and allowing me to hear a self-professed liberal give a very fine tribute to our dear President Reagan.

24 posted on 06/08/2004 11:10:57 AM PDT by YaYa123 (@God Blessed America With Ronald Reagan.com)
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To: BibChr

LOL!

I've agreed with you before!

;-)


25 posted on 06/08/2004 11:11:38 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: Tank-FL
A little perspective here, people.

Had it been Clinton who bought it, we would kill the fatted calf, tap a keg and put the Dixieland music on the victrola.

26 posted on 06/08/2004 11:12:02 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: YaYa123

Well that wasn't the case in SF, where signs should read in the future..."All you have to know about this scum is that they cheered when a U.S. President died."


27 posted on 06/08/2004 11:14:05 AM PDT by at bay
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To: HIDEK6

Had it been Clinton we would have a tad more decorum in public.


28 posted on 06/08/2004 11:18:37 AM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid)
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To: Tank-FL

I was listening to the Michael Medved (?) show yesterday where some stupid California woman said she wanted to go view the body to make sure the old man was really dead.

The Democratic Party (Liberals) and the DNC are made up of hateful, viscious, malescious looney people.


29 posted on 06/08/2004 11:19:02 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: HIDEK6
Had it been Clinton who bought it, we would kill the fatted calf, tap a keg and put the Dixieland music on the victrola.

Speak for yourself. I know there are alot of real haters here on FR, but I am not one of them. In fact, I'll bet MOST freepers are not "haters". At most, I would be indifferent. "Hate" for me, is reserved for guys like Saddam, Bin Laden, Castro, et al. Or who knows, maybe I am in the minority here...

30 posted on 06/08/2004 11:20:11 AM PDT by Paradox (Occam was probably right.)
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To: All

For the record, the same show ended with him singing "America the Beautiful", and an audience 'message' saying hello to a son in the military was greeted with wild cheering and applause.

I missed the beginning of the show, so I didn't hear the announcement, but for the general tone of what I heard I couldn't believe I was listening to PHC.

PS: The missus always insists we listen if we're in the car at that hour.


31 posted on 06/08/2004 11:20:17 AM PDT by parcel_of_rogues
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To: Tank-FL

Let's be fair here. I thought Keillor (who is a hypocritical left-wing bum IMHO) was very gracious, and it's not even clear to me that the two cheers were intended to "dis" Reagan. The cheers could be interpreted as a cheer for Reagan, although I admit that's debatable.


32 posted on 06/08/2004 11:20:25 AM PDT by Ironclad
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To: Tank-FL
I don't even know what frequency the local NPR station uses and I kinda like it that way...
33 posted on 06/08/2004 11:20:46 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: kenth

Well, our 'one person' cheering section just got zotted it seems. He evidently started a thread making a (not-so) subtle attempt at implying why Christians shouldn't vote for President Bush.

Even in light of recordings, these people still will lie right to your face. I guess they are so far above us in intelligence that we should fall for anything they say. Why doesn't that work?


34 posted on 06/08/2004 11:24:30 AM PDT by kenth
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To: Tank-FL

GK is merely a typical liberal elitist, filled with hate and bile, being consumed from the inside out by his bitterness that his leftist demigods are not controlling America's decline.


35 posted on 06/08/2004 11:25:17 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Tank-FL

Somehow I doubt this report. I used to live downtown St.Paul and the crowd that would stand in front of the Fitzgerald weren't your rabid libs.

Could have been people cheering the man and not his death or maybe Keillor had the applause sign go on at that point, he loves to play Minnesotans for fools.


36 posted on 06/08/2004 11:25:29 AM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: Tank-FL

My husband was listening. He said Keillor said very nice things about the President, called him a "great man" who "befuddled liberals" and there were only a couple "bozos" who let out a whoop at the announcement of his death.


37 posted on 06/08/2004 11:25:41 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: BibChr

Another John Henry Faulk.


39 posted on 06/08/2004 11:26:45 AM PDT by oyez (¡Desea vivo el revolutuin de Reagan!)
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To: Your Nightmare

I have to agree with this one. I think GK's response to the two to three jeers was appropriate--for whatever other faults he has, he ignored the ignorant!


40 posted on 06/08/2004 11:30:06 AM PDT by kljohnson77
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