I am going to see Garrison Keillor live!

[fonpr]

Man, you guys are so easy to offend.

You are not a Jewish/Unitarian.
Obviously.

[dave from knoxville]

I am a cracker, Fredericks. You, of all people, should know the pain I have suffered at the hands of ignorant sophisticates.

[fonpr]

I am a cracker, Fredericks. You, of all people, should know the pain I have suffered at the hands of ignorant sophisticates.

Media Squat?

[cutout]

I kinda hate Keillor for all the obvious reasons. But I read the article and it seems like satire, no? Isn't he apeing the "war on christmas" argument? Like a Colbert Report kind of thing?

[buffcoat]

No opinion piece, however awful, could ever, ever, EVER amount to even one percent of the damage done by his horrible voice.  Clear your throat, you repulsive loser.

[fonpr]

No opinion piece, however awful, could ever, ever, EVER amount to even one percent of the damage done by his horrible voice.  Clear your throat, you repulsive loser.

UaaaaAAaaaHHH HUUUrphhT

[JonFromMaplewood]

You know, in the end, I did not even feel like the comment was anti-semitic or anti-Unitarian, even though I am Jewish.  I just felt it was seriously unpleasant without any comedy to justify its existence.  A less-appaling Michael Richards event.

We were going with our tongues planted in our cheeks a little bit, with the hope that maybe we'd be won over by it.  But it was no longer worth that effort after reading that.

And by the way, who alerted me to Keillor's rant?  None other than Tom Scharpling when I tweeted that I was going.  My wife and I have him to thank for seeing Avatar last night instead.  My thinking was: What is the most opposite thing we can see from Prairie Home Companion.

Someone please find unobtanium under Lake Wobegon...

[Christina]

You know, in the end, I did not even feel like the comment was anti-semitic or anti-Unitarian, even though I am Jewish.  I just felt it was seriously unpleasant without any comedy to justify its existence.  A less-appaling Michael Richards event.

I think you've summed it up well, yeah... his twee "reportage" wasn't quite my thing, but he was harmless enough. Somewhere along the way though it's like he went deep into Andy Rooney territory (Rooney's had his fair share of verbal gaffes too).

[dave from knoxville]

I kinda hate Keillor for all the obvious reasons. But I read the article and it seems like satire, no? Isn't he apeing the "war on christmas" argument? Like a Colbert Report kind of thing?

This was what I thought, but gave up on trying to make the case without people thinking I am racist. I too thought it was Swiftian in intent, if not execution. It's sort of like if I got outraged during my early calls when Tom suggested I, and everyone in my region, was in the KKK. And of course, only 60% of us are.

[Christina]

I kinda hate Keillor for all the obvious reasons. But I read the article and it seems like satire, no? Isn't he apeing the "war on christmas" argument? Like a Colbert Report kind of thing?

if this were so, it's hard to tell since this isn't his MO usually, if ever. Colbert's whole thing is one long piss take on the lunkheaded conservative pundit.

[crumbum]

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[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I LOL'ed at this part!

"If you are the World's Leading Authority on the mating habits of the jabberwock beetle of the Lesser Jujube Archipelago, you can take comfort in knowing that the pinch-faced drone next to you at Starbucks may be the W.L.A. on 17th-century Huguenot hymnody or a niche of quantum physics that is understood by nobody but himself."

Wait, what does LOL stand for again?

[scratchbomb]

I LOL'ed at this part!

"If you are the World's Leading Authority on the mating habits of the jabberwock beetle of the Lesser Jujube Archipelago, you can take comfort in knowing that the pinch-faced drone next to you at Starbucks may be the W.L.A. on 17th-century Huguenot hymnody or a niche of quantum physics that is understood by nobody but himself."

Wait, what does LOL stand for again?

Which is ironic, since he hosts a live radio variety show that frequently features musicians who specialize in forms just as obscure as the disciplines he names here.

[Steve of Bloomington]

People need to lay off the Huegenots.

I'm in the 'Swiftian' camp. However, like Dave, I come from a place where everybody is in the Klan (which is actually just a vicious rumor based on the fact that the Klan ran the state in the 20s. Barely anybody from then is even alive now. Come on.)

[fonpr]

People need to lay off the Huegenots.

I'm in the 'Swiftian' camp. However, like Dave, I come from a place where everybody is in the Klan (which is actually just a vicious rumor based on the fact that the Klan ran the state in the 20s. Barely anybody from then is even alive now. Come on.)

I've done the research:  He really dislikes Unitarians.