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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: Your Nightmare
Maybe people should listen to the recording before making a judgment of Keillor. He had kind words for Reagan and there were only two lone cheers in an otherwise respectfully quite audience.

Glad you said this. Hope it's true. I'd like to believe well of Keillor, because his humor seems to exude affection, not animosity, toward middle America and old-fashioned values. It's hard for me to see how the wry, gentle celebrant of Lake Wobegon's steady, sturdy values could be a hater -- and I want to believe he isn't.

41 posted on 06/08/2004 11:31:38 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: BibChr
He is VERY talented, and (like the little girl with the little curl) when he's good, he's very, very good. But a majorly guiltridden, hateful, spiteful man.

I agree. I regard Keillor in a love/hate kind of way.

42 posted on 06/08/2004 11:32:56 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: BenLurkin

Well...you're helping to write his paycheck.


43 posted on 06/08/2004 11:36:53 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (STAGMIRE !)
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To: MHGinTN
Maybe people should listen to the recording before making a judgment of Keillor. He had kind words for Reagan and there were only two lone cheers in an otherwise respectfully quite audience.

Maybe he is, but you sure don't get that from listening to his weekly "Letter from Lake Wobegon," which I consider a quiet, brilliant, affectionate, funny homage to middle America.

44 posted on 06/08/2004 11:37:51 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Tank-FL
Maybe people should listen to the recording before making a judgment of Keillor. He had kind words for Reagan and there were only two lone cheers in an otherwise respectfully quite audience.

I kinda thought it sounded like one person cheering and another yelling at her to "shut up" or something like that. I thougth GK was very classy in his remarks about Reagan. I won't fault him for what happened. It's just the nature of our society these days. It was probably one of those same punks that refuses to stand or take off their hats for the national anthem.

45 posted on 06/08/2004 11:38:39 AM PDT by RightFighter
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To: MHGinTN
a typical liberal elitist, filled with hate

Maybe he is, but you sure don't get that from listening to his weekly "Letter from Lake Wobegon," which I consider a quiet, brilliant, affectionate, funny homage to middle America.

46 posted on 06/08/2004 11:39:01 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: HIDEK6

Assuming the Arkansas Sh#$heel will live a normal lifespan, and FR is still around, which could be 30 years or so, I don;t think many folks will give a .....


47 posted on 06/08/2004 11:40:22 AM PDT by muleskinner
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To: Tank-FL

I wonder if those who applauded know how minute a minority they are. I hope so.


48 posted on 06/08/2004 11:40:37 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: New Perspective; Mavis
If you want to see hate at a level that makes bin Laden seem like a kindly grandpa, check out the DU thread in GD titled 'Repugs hijacking Reagan's funeral: NO DEMOCRATIC SPEAKERS DURING CEREMONY.'

There are posters in that thread that should get a visit from the Secret Service. Which is nothing new for DU.

49 posted on 06/08/2004 11:41:32 AM PDT by Sender (BURROW this is SNOWBALL NET. Our fearless leader has passed to the other side.)
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To: BadAndy
Car Talk is no different than the rest of the leftist tripe on NPR.
50 posted on 06/08/2004 11:42:03 AM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Ha ha . . . wait a minute . . .that's not funny.


51 posted on 06/08/2004 11:44:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Tank-FL

Let's remember this when Ted Kennedy goes. We need to show more class. We don't need to do something like send booze bottles. Or replicas of Oldsmobiles. Or scuba gear. Or a voucher for a liver transplant. Let's stay above that.


52 posted on 06/08/2004 11:45:27 AM PDT by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: AngieGOP
Had it been Clinton we would have a tad more decorum in public.

No way. I'm saving up bile for when that POS croaks of syphilis.

I'll be downright rude, disrespectful and obnoxious - partying the entire time.

53 posted on 06/08/2004 11:47:53 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Refuse to let anyone who could only get a government job tell you how to run your life.)
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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.

I despise what Clinton did to the presidency and I certainly do not hold him in any kind of regard, however I can guarantee that I would never cheer his death. (The only person whose death I might actually cheer in a public forum is Osama Bin Laden.)

54 posted on 06/08/2004 11:48:26 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: brewcrew; Tank-FL

I agree he handled it well. There were two or three cheers, which quickly subsided. He kept the show rolling, IMO the right thing to do. After all, he was about to launch into praise for Reagan's graciousness. If the cheering had appreciably continued it then would have demanded a response.


55 posted on 06/08/2004 11:49:34 AM PDT by Paul_B
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To: Sender
I am not surprised. These people care more about murders, rapist, criminals, than hard working people. Don't you understand, they are compassionate, caring, visionaries of a wonderful utopia. All they need is dialog with our enemies,and we will all be ok.

These people make me sick. They have such hate. I am so happy I am not part of that crowd.

56 posted on 06/08/2004 11:50:11 AM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a 6 month old son with Down Syndrome)
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To: churchillbuff

Letter from Lake Wobegon are brillaint, and quite entertaining. I've been looking for 'Powder Milk' for years. But GK is in fact a liberal elitists who has not hesitated to make political commentary from his entertainment podium when his favored democrats are in trouble or the current President is under assault from GK's fellow leftists. Having watched one of his programs in progress, he is quite capable of making a sentence while displaying a ridiculing look to contrast. He seems to have become more coarse since his return from Scandia.


57 posted on 06/08/2004 11:50:59 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: doug from upland
Probably won't be able to get near Teddy's plot, as there will be too many empty Scotch bottles laying about.
I would happily donate a case.
58 posted on 06/08/2004 11:52:23 AM PDT by muleskinner
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To: doug from upland
Probably won't be able to get near Teddy's plot, as there will be too many empty Scotch bottles laying about.
I would happily donate a case.
59 posted on 06/08/2004 11:52:32 AM PDT by muleskinner
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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."

Clinton was a traitor who sold out his own country to the red chinese and disgraced the office of the Presidency.

Reagan was a true patriot and a great leader who honored the office of the Presidency.

And all the relativistic "perspective" in the world won't change this.

60 posted on 06/08/2004 11:52:48 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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