Empty victory for a hollow man How Norm Coleman sold his soul for a Senate seat.

Salon.com ^ | Nov. 7, 2002 | By Garrison Keillor

[mj1234]

Yes,Garrisson is hard to take --but I read an article in the
Pioneer press 2+ years ago--when Hillary won a radio award
for reading on air to children--He nailed her and all the
demos at the time. Insinuated her going to prison! saying she
was fat! and the charm bracelets on her wrists looked like
handcuffs! priceless..will try and dig up article (might have
been a reprint from the Times?)

[ventana]

You forgot Headstart.

[ventana]

You mean you live up on Moscow on the Hudson, too? You poor thing.

[BibChr]

Mr. Keillor had his own "interesting family life," you may or may not recall.

He's a disturbing spectacle. Looks like he had a decent upbringing (which he fiercely resets), is quite creative and able, and has a wonderful, whimsical, dry sense of humor -- over a seething caldron of bitterness, resentment, guilt, ignorance, hostiliyt, and what we'll charitably call "personal weaknesses."

Dan

[ArrogantBustard]

brilliantly talented when he is talking about, or writing about, ordinary people in ordinary circumstances.

I suppose it's a matter of taste. I've always (going back to early 1980s) found his comments on APHC, not to mention his more recent written columns, to be smarmy, saccharine, superficial, and nauseating. And his voice grates. When he first came on, my parents called me up raving about him. "He's so funny", etc. I tuned. I listened. I puked. Barf Alert before the term was invented. He may have once lived amongst folk in "ordinary" circumstances but I think he never understood them.

[tictoc]

Welcome to our virtual little pillory Free Republic!

[KC Burke]

...prodigious hollow judgment...

That feature was best shown in the bitter attack screed by GK that this thread is discussing.

Is the standard of discussion in MN Democrat circles to beat them in the scandle-blogs if you can't beat them at the polls?

I considered the article bitter, vile and intemperate and what consideration I had for GK's performance ability is now over shadowed by this demonstation of his Streisand-like "progressivism".

[Johnny Gage]

SALON.COM is still operating?

Here, I've got 5 Lbs of Cheese for your WHINE you crying bunch of socialist ba$tids.

Norm Coleman will be a great Senator, and I look forward to having him represent Minnesota.

Now, if we can get Mark "wellstone worshipper" Dayton out we'll be doing great.

[Cooter]

He backpedalled in the one debate...

Garrison, there were two debates. For the first one, Fritz backpedalled so much that he didn't even show up.

[muddyboots]

Oh my, it looks like some air got by Garrison's cork. He's turned to vinegar.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

And that's the news from Lake DemoSwamp!
Where all the losers are whining,
And all the winners are (still) gloating!

God bless Norm Coleman!

[autumnal]

Damn, and Norm tried soooo hard to get the vote of the 60's radical, now limosine liberal, ivory tower-elitest posing as common man-o-the-people, bitter white and old, peter-pan socialist, government-subsidized performing artist demographic. Oh well, maybe next time!

[Tribune7]

It just occurred to me. Nobody would listen to Keillor any more if we, the taxpayer, weren't paying them to. He's b*tching because he's worried about his job. :-)

[autumnal]

I hope is job is in danger. But, You give him far too much credit. He'd actually have to be able to read the writing on the wall for that little insight. He so insulated and out of touch with Americans, Minnesotans, his own listeners, what have you, that he it would not occur to him that his oh so important job would ever be in jeopardy!;)

[Tribune7]

You're probably right.

[ladyinred]

least of all the religious people in the Republican Party. They made their peace with hypocrisy long ago.

They had to dear, you guys told them a public servants sex life doesn't matter, remember? Make up your mind, does it or doesn't it?

[algop.com]

A popular myth - Churchill never said anything like that, and in fact his political journey was in the opposite direction.

[rhema]

As a Coleman-Pawlenty supporter, I have to admit I'm heartened by the spate of recent entries in the Peter Jennings: "Voters Had a Temper Tantrum" Whine Contest. In their supercilious rationalizations for defeat at the hands of an unwashed electorate, Garrison Keillor and a host of dyspeptic letter writers to the Twin Cities dailies are telling me the Democrats would rather keep plodding the road to political perdition than repair their retrograde ideology.

Happy trails to you, unhappy warriors