As a 25-year resident of Crocus Hill, a neighborhood next near his Summit Hill residence, I can tell you on good authority that Keillor is not well liked in the place he calls home. He is regarded as dour and condescending. He has refused to talk to the local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, because they have the audacity to report on his personal life. Grand Avenue restaurateurs and shopkeepers consider him arrogant and standoffish in the extreme. He is apparently a member of an elevated social class to which
you do not belong.
His bitter, sarcastic, highly personal attacks directed at Norm Coleman are completely in keeping with his character. Keillor is a world-class jerk who has spent thirty years of his life making condescending inferences about Minnesotans in front of a microphone. Maybe he fancies himself a latter-day Sinclair Lewis, but his view of Minnesota people and institutions is contemptuous and unloving. I hope he re-exiles himself to New York.