Garrison Keillor
and Dwight Schrute from "The Office"
Posted on 10/05/2006 8:13:59 AM PDT by altura
Garrison Keillor must have come to Dallas itching for a fight.
He must have come here expecting – even intending – to have his worst expectations confirmed.
There's no other explanation for the deeply insulting remarks he directs in a syndicated opinion column at the fans who went to Highland Park United Methodist Church last week to hear him speak. An adoring crowd could not have been rewarded with more contempt if they had gone to see the Sex Pistols.
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Especially the sanctimonious ones like Garrison Keillor and Bill Moyers.
The liberals who invited this buffoon to address them got paid in kind. Too bad. There is a reason it's called "Lake Woebegone."
For the same reason they are liberals: they are full of self-hatred.
Just another lying lib.
They lie so casually and get away with it so frequently that they feel that they can lie about anything or anybody with impunity.
I think I'll burn my one and only Garrison Keillor book. (for you DU lurkers, this will be an exercise in private property rights, not censorship......but I don't expect you to understand it)
Like most Leftists, Keillor seems to see what he expects to see, not what is there.
Dallas is surely not a Conservative city, at least by Texas standards. Mr K perhaps thinks Dallas should be more like the rest of the state and has done his bit, now, to bring that about. I hope he was successfull in that.
I sure hope they didn't pay him very much. What a bottom feeder.
What an arse. And a coward.
They do not think they are lying because reality is a point of view. If he says it he believes it because he has said it. That mindset tends to simplify things for a liberal.It helps people to be intellectuals who are not truly equipped for it.
Garrison Keillor is the Will Rogers of our time!
"Like most Leftists, Keillor seems to see what he expects to see, not what is there."
This pompous, arrogant buffoon is a typical lefty. Other than his voice, the man has no talent. Can't imagine why anybody would invite him anywhere.
When I was in highschool our local paper ran a feature which was a reprint of Roger's column for that day 30 years previous. I was amazed how insipid, obvious, and plain stupid it was.
The people who invited him are not liberals, at least not most of them. Supposedly, they wanted to hear various opinions (always a mistake).
It is absolutely pointless to be nice to liberals. They always repay you with venom.
Oh, and not the least bit funny.
I can be kinda hate-filled at times myself about some things, but nothing like them.
Burning is a respectful way to get rid of something. I'd toss it in the dumpster.
Your book, your choice.
He was incredibly phony. He told them what he thought they wanted to hear and then went home to his safe spot and trashed them.
Dallas is pretty conservative if one includes the many suburban adjuncts. Even Dallas city limits went for Bush.
Surely you jest!
Garrison is a rambling old fool and needs to step into Lake Woebegone carrying a cement block.
"But I don't know if it's self-hatred."
Maybe you are right.
I think liberals know they are frauds, physical cowards, and immoral. And they hate that. I mean, who wouldn't hate being a fraud, physical coward, and immoral?
When confronted with competence, bravery, and morals, liberals react with hatred --- because the reflection makes them realize, all the more, how pathetic they are.
And hence liberals' vitriolic hatred for competence, bravery, and morality.
Keillor is one very nasty piece of work. That his sort of humor has been described as "home-spun" is simply one more indication of how out of touch the libs in the media really are.
Not a book. It's symbolic of erasing the words forever.
However, there may be a more productive way of disposing of this book. It will go the way of my Dixie Chicks CD; target practice.
The core if it is arrogance: Obviously, their POV is superior to everyone else's, and that should translate to them being in complete and total power because everyone should vote them in. And yet, they can't get back to power, and they feel the only one standing in their way is (they perceive) a complete idiot, who at the same time is so smart that the outwitts them every time. Since a majority of the electorate won't vote for them, then most people must be stupid. They can't win at the ballot box because of the stupid masses, and if they could just get back in power they could go ahead with their obviously perfect plan to make this country a (socialist) heaven on earth! While usully paying lip-service to the nobility of the "common man", they actually despise them, because they apparently won't vote the dems back into power where they should be!
Lake Woebogone Days is the most deadly tiresome, boring novel I, who have read War and Peace and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, have never been able to finish. Keillor is a horrible writer.
It is ironic that the very party that would spit on the idea of Manifest Destiny view themselves as destined to rule, if only the pesky voters would get with the program!
I find him annoying, condescending and dull...just like all the other pointy-headed PBS/NPR dweebs.
It boggles the mind that this doofus and others like him have a platform to speak on the taxpayers' dime.
Defund government broadcasting now!
The article makes it clear that Keillor is a liar. Which means he is a perfect Democrat.
I compared it with Texas in general. Of course it is not like Austin which is its own little place. Yes Dallas is a conservative place in most comparisons. I am amused that Mr. K decided to do his hit on the probably 2nd least incompatible (to him) town in Texas. If he had actually thought to have some political influence he would have held up that audience as the shining example of reason that Texans in general should emulate. I never gave K much credit for thinking, though.
Garrison Keillor
and Dwight Schrute from "The Office"
Google for an Australian newspaper article from 1995 called "The US race war of black against white" for a backgrounder on this subject. Tens of thousands of whites have been murdered and possibly millions raped since the 60s "revolution" while the Garrison Keillers of this world did more than just look blithely away, they CONSCIOUSLY did everything they could to set up the atmosphere that made it happen. Keiller and all his ilk aren't mere sympathizers, they are full blown neo-Nazis, and the fact that these war criminals can get away with publicly accusing their victims without being attacked along the line above shows just how deeply institutionalized white-hating racism has become in this society.
The main antagonist in the book is a knock off of Keillor.
The book, by the way, is a hilarious read and takes a lot of direct jabs at the jerk.
Garrison Keillor seems a poor sport.
Never misses a good chance to shutup.
I speak this as a fan...Garrison Keillor is the Will Rogers of ten to fifteen years ago. Life left Will a bitter old husk, and the many divorces, political losses, and, well, Liberalism have finished the job on Garrison.
For the past five years, I have faithfully tuned into him on Saturday night, and enjoyed the first few minutes, knowing that lurking out there in the darkness, like a jackel, is that first "Bush is an idiot" joke; that first backhanded jab at Republicans; that first condesending snipe at all I hold dear. Usually, I can't get more than a few minutes into the show before the fangs are out, and Garrison's "Mr. Hyde" personality comes out and I have to turn it off. (Recently, he actually used diary entries of from Teddy Roosevelt--the Rough Rider, the bully soldier, the adventurer to whom America was a unique and glorious experiment after ages of the world's tyranny--and painted him as an "outsider" who would supposedly be a Democrat today, rejecting the massed power of the GOP.)
Ever see "Back to the Future 2" where something has gone wrong with history, and the once beautiful, clean, grand old town of Hill Valley has become a bitter, dangerous, evil place, a shattered and twisted reflection of the world we all love? Garrison has done a "Biff Tannen" on Lake Woebegon. It is no longer the place I went on Saturday night to feel warm, fuzzy, and homespun. It is mocking, sneering homeland fit only for those who can't become cured of Bush Hate Syndrome. Mark Twain is just another bitter old Lefty. You can't go home again, I guess.
It's the money, stupid.
Seriously, Garrison Keillor has been a big disappointment to me. In the early eighties, I listened to Prarie Home Companion regularly, read his shorter fiction, and found him amusing in an undemanding sort of way. It wasn't until I read his first novel, Lake Wobegon, that I began to suspect that his "home-spun" quality masked a kind of contempt and nastiness that, I suppose, had gone right over my head. When in the latter eighties, he fell in love with his Danish sweetheart, quit the radio show and moved to Copenhagen to start his new life as a European, I had more or less quit listening. When he returned a couple of years later (because learning to speak Danish was so hard!)and started up his clone of Prarie Home Companion in New York, I couldn't be bothered.
Don't know what it is about a lot of modern humorists, but the older they get, the more bitter they get.
"Somehow I have never found Garrison Keillor to be the least bit funny."
You and me both.
You pegged it, 5D.
I totally agree. He's playing that old geezer card and is about as relevant and interesting as Andy Rooney, another pathetic loser.
I never liked his stuff and I really resent paying for it.
Even my liberal friend was absolutely bored out of her skull by the Woe-ful movie.
Garrison Keillor is no longer funny. Just a pompous snob who looks down his nose at the rest of us from his ivory tower.
At the core of every liberal is a totalitarian.
That's hysterical! and incredible.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Bitterness is death to humor. The same thing happened to Art Buchwald, if you remember him.
He used to be really funny, but his hatred for Nixon poisoned his work and he could not get past it to be able to take a detached, humorous look at anything.
It eventually happens to all liberals.
I'm sorry you lost someone you once enjoyed. I did not know him in those days, just never got into those essays he used to do. They may have been good at one time.
Keilor's show is funny and quite entertaining. Why does he need to inject himself--and so clumsily too--into political debates? Shut up and write, Garrison.
Oh! Yes, I loved the old Heinlein. I could not believe some of his later books. He lost everything that made his early works so fine.
That was a sad loss. I remember a new Heinlein coming out which I took to the hospital (when I went in for minor surgery). The sight of that book just waiting to be devoured made me feel good.
And then I read it. Totally disillusioned. It hurts.
I guess I'm just too intolerant to find him funny.
But I'll admit one thing. Sean Penn was funny in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
He should have retired shortly thereafter.
From a literary standpoint, "Number of the Beast" was the worst. It started out as a old-time, slam bang Heinlein adventure...Who are the aliens bent on destroying mankind? Time travellers? Red Lectoids from a parallel dimension? And then, halfway through the book, at the apex of a plotline that connected not only dozens of interesting worlds, but some nods at Oz and some fictional ones, suddenly suspended disbelief goes out the window, and it all becomes a SciFi con with everyone of his characters from fifty years of writing, plus every author ever born, plus the homocidal aliens, and then...it just ends. One of the saddest moments of my literary life. On par with the classic chestnut, "And he fell out of bed, and it was all a dream!" Oh, the humanity!
And "J.O.B"? Having endured the last failing embers of RAH's writing career, I got my faith in God spit on. "Thanks for buying my books all your life, you're an idiot for believing in Christianity, because God is insane and even His older brother, Odin, thinks so."
Did you read "For Us, The Living"?
It was his first novel and wasn't published until a few years ago. It was pretty bad, as novels go, but what was fascinating about it was the many things described in one or two paragraphs that later became the basis of short stories. He documented much of what was to become his "future history" in that first novel. For a Heinlein fan, it's worth reading.
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