But I'm beginning to believe all these lib celebs who get to write screeds are mostly petty, small people. I remember reading an interview of Garrulous Squealer er Garrison Keillor, who now is allowed to write political columns for a number of media outlets, many years ago done by some Twin Cities interviewer. Up to that time, I never thought much about Keillor's political views, and he never seemed to express any in his books or on his show, Prairie Home Companion. But the interview revealed a bitter, twisted person who expressed his loathing for Republicans and conservatives in stark terms.
At the time, I was still voting Democrat but thinking about swapping parties. The Dems had been going too far left, and I liked the Republican position on most issues. Keillor may have helped push me over the edge. With little prompting from the interviewer, Keillor launched into a diatribe with insane descriptions of conservatives as crazy, greedy people. From reading his books or listening to his radio program talking about the fictional residents of Lake Woebegone many of whom must have been conservatives, you'd think Keillor might have been liberal, but he seemed to be a calmer, more reasonable sort. Instead, in the interview he revealed himself as a nasty person with deep psychological problems.
Garrison Keillor is the worst. Unbearable.
Bruni was never a tv person. He was the Time’s restaurant critic. How that translates into knowing anything at all about politics is beyond me.