Garrison Keillor says a mouthful...

[babylonsister]

[northoftheborder]

1. Luuuuuuv Garrison!!!

[jonthebru]

14. Is that the Bruce Tartan?

[BlueStreak]

2. There, see. If Garrison can say something nice to Republicans, so can we.

[freshwest]

19. He's wrong about leaving 'cat stranglers' out. Check AR and IL. Yeah, they do.

[MADem]

48. I'm betting that was in reference to Bill "vivisection" Frist. nt

[freshwest]

53. Oh, yes, Frist's remote viewer method of diagnosis! And catgut sutures... ugh..

[ProSense]

3. .

[Timbuk3]

4. Testosterone Junkies seems excessive to me

The GOP and their supporters only vote for wars. They don't actually fight them.

[Timbuk3]

5. Forgive me, I should clarify

The GOP are cowards who can't handle it unless they're telling EVERYONE what they can and can't do.

[Timbuk3]

6. Good Lord, I really can't manage to say what I MEAN to say tonight...

...so let me try to sum it up.

The GOP has gone so far beyond "crazier than a shit-house rat" that I don't have words for how much I fear them, how quickly I lose respect for anyone who says "I'm voting Republican this year", or why I'm so puzzled by the fact that our parents knew the Birchers were off-the-charts bug-fuck nuts, while seemingly rational "liberals" embrace things like "investigate the fed" or "the gold standard".

I think that the good ol' US of A is doomed.

http://blog.duchessstrollins.com/2012/08/22/yes-im-an-angry-foul-mouthed-rude-bitch-so-fucking-what/

[freshwest]

18. We're in agreement until that last statement, but I know how it feels. Not over till we say it is.

There is no way out of here. What is going on here, will be everywhere in a few decades. It's up to us to stop it here, that's the task that has been set upon us.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

35. We ARE doomed.

Unless something (natural disaster, plague, epidemic, etc) comes along and wipes out the mouth breathers, they're going to continue to fuck shit up until something comes along, shuts them the hell up and puts them back under the rock from under which they crawled.

[calikid]

40. I think it will be everywhere in a couple of years, not decades. n/t

[freshwest]

52. Oh, it is here already. I'm talking world wide idiocy. We're a fricking science experiment!

[freedom fighter jh]

36. What's wrong with investigating the Fed?

Or at least auditing it?

The Fed has an enormous amount of power over our economy and as I understand it they are largely protected from public scrutiny because they are in part private. As citizens we have a right to know what they're doing?

But yeah, I agree that the GOP has gone beyond crazier than . . . just about anything you can name.

[sendero]

41. There is nothing wrong .

.... with auditing the Fed but some people live in the mentality that says "anything my enemy is for, I'm against".

Even Libertarians, who I consider to be worse than Republicans, have some good ideas.

[freedom fighter jh]

42. My point exactly nt

[eridani]

28. Hey--we tell people those things as well

Frinstance, we're always telling people that they aren't allowed to shit in the reservoir.

[unblock]

7. wait what's wrong with selling cheese?

[Aerows]

9. Yeah, cheese merchants

seems okay - almost a little too kind, to me, because it's useful. I like cheese. The rest, though, I'm pretty much on board with.

[MADem]

20. I don't think he meant "cheese" cheese--he meant the kind of cheese one sees in film and TV.

Schlock. Dreck. Cheaply crafted garbage!

[unblock]

44. ahh, ok, that makes more sense. not the word i would have chosen, but then again

my word choices don't make me famous....

[MADem]

45. Well, his Lutheran faith influences his choice of words.

I would probably go with "fucking assholes" but that's a bit too strong a wedge of "cheese" for his program, I think!

[Fozzledick]

54. Yeah, that looks like a polite Minnesota euphemism.

It reminds me of Frank Zappa's statement that the U.S. is the only society in human history to deliberately choose cheese.

As you will recall, folks, nobody ever had as much going for them in the beginning as we did. Let's face it... we were fantastic. Today, unfortunately, we are merely WEIRD. This is a shocking thing to say, since no Red-Blooded American likes to think of his or herself as being WEIRD, but when there are other options and a whole nation CHOOSES CHEESE, that is WEIRD.

http://hogranch.com/cheese.html

[awoke_in_2003]

65. blessed are the cheesemakers...

[dgauss]

8. The Mark Twain of the Midwest. And a gentle, understated brilliance that occasionally cuts loose.

[Bette Noir]

24. Wasn't Mark Twain the Mark Twain of the Midwest?

Where is the Mississippi River, anyway?

[jamesatemple]

39. Twain claimed Hannibal, Missouri, as his home.

Hannibal lies almost on the west bank of the Mississippi River, "where the West begins". His actual birthplace was some 30 miles southwest of Hannibal; his family moved to Hannibal when he was four years old.

[Nevernose]

50. In fact, Sam Clemens even joined the Confederate army

In which he ran around the woods with his friends for two weeks, before realizing just how dumb the whole Civil War was and moving to Nevada.

[MADem]

46. When I think "midwest," I don't think "Minnesota"--and that's where GK is from, and

that's what colors his narrative. "Upper midwest" maybe...Great Plains, perhaps?

I realize my view might not hold sway here. I think of him as a genius from Minnesota....

[dgauss]

56. Yeah, midwest is a strange term since it seems to cover some north, south, east and west.

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I think historically it's a little screwy at least in part because the idea of "west" kept shifting westward and the actual geography of the term was secondary to changing convention. I live in Wisconsin and grew up thinking of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota as the midwest even though WI and MN are on the northern border of the US and WI is east of the Mississippi river. Central North would make more sense but that's not a description that ever caught on.

In any case, Garrison Keillor has described the people I grew up with better than anyone else I've ever read. Definitely a genius from Minnesota in my book.

[Kalidurga]

10. I think he was rather hasty removing cat stranglers...

and he probably should add this one, rape enablers. But, only those rapes that produce a zygote.

[lunasun]

13. leave the cat stranglers in Mr. Keillor

[ladym55]

11. I disagree

He should keep cat stranglers.

[lapfog_1]

12. me too

they are all sociopaths.

[juajen]

15. Egad, that was rich! Love that man!

[Tigress DEM]

16. Unfortunately, they do worse to cats than strangle them.

<snip>
Burned cat in Mpls. park puts Secret Service on alert
Article by: PAUL WALSH , Star Tribune Updated: August 13, 2012 - 11:18 PM


The cat was staked with an American flag next to an Obama/Biden lawn sign in Minneapolis' Longfellow Park.



http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/165990196.html?refer=y

[MADem]

17. FWIW, he's very good live.

He initially said he was retiring next year, but that might be on hold--I hope he keeps going as long as he feels good.

[treestar]

21. Sure they love their cats!

[alfredo]

22. Love it

[Bette Noir]

23. Laughing myself helpless.

Why don't you tell us how you really feel, Gary?

[grasswire]

25. a national treasure

I'm so glad to have seen him live a few times. Love him dearly.

[BeyondGeography]

26. And you can hear him say it, too

[trailmonkee]

27. Brownshirts in Pinstripes... I am so stealing that one...

[GP6971]

29. Almost as good

as Harvey Korman's rant in Blazing Saddles

[geckosfeet]

30. I don't know. I thought cheese merchants was a little over the top as well.

Besides, I like cheese and I hate to think I am only putting money in republican pockets.

[Chorophyll]

31. That was absolutely delightful.

Thanks for posting!

[turtlerescue1]

32. Yep, my kind of Lutheran!

He almost (ALMOST) makes me miss Minnesnowta enough to wonder if I could STAND another cold snowy icy frozen Minnesota Winter.... ALMOST

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Anyone remember when a certain St. Paul Mayor ran for Senate, and Paul and Sheila Wellstone "died" mysteriously.
BUT Mr. Keillor wrote a column? In the New Yorker??
My life is such I get the start then the end, but at the DFL caucus I got the middle.
Deja Vu Mr. Coleman.


I loved Keillor before, but since then, I adore him. If he led a cult, I would be hard pressed not to join it.

"fundamentalist bullies: freelance racists; sweatshop tycoons; line jumpers"

BUt "backed-up Baptists" aye, dat's so perfect.

[snot]

33. A great humorist and story teller . . .

but would someone pls tell him to stop singing!

[kurtzapril4]

63. I'm with you on that!

Who told him he could sing? What an awful singer he is, LOL!

[bullwinkle428]

66. When he does duets with REAL singers, it just accentuates his lack of vocal ability.

But other than that, he's awesome!

[barbtries]

34. not excessive at all

Arkansas Democrat's cat killed, painted with "liberal"
i like garrison keillor, but cat stranglers is not the least bit excessive as a description of republicans.

[tomp]

37. LOL!!!!

So Twainian.

[Canuckistanian]

38. "nihilists in golf pants"

[Magoo48]

43. It takes a courageous person to admit when they've gone too far. Kudos GK...

[RoccoR5955]

47. Calling some of them members of the Human Race seems excessive to me. n/t

[april]

49. I listen to him on Sundays ..lov him

[heaven05]

51. yep

very excessive always listened to 'Prairie Home Companion'. lots of laughs. good fun.

[BadGimp]

55. I think he is being polite..

[Deacon Blue]

59. Fantastic Cartoon!

I love the little chamberpot on the floor. And a nod to the artwork of "The Wall" with the judge's ass poised to shit on the protagonist, but these are willingly swallowing Murdoch excreta. Superb, and where did it come from?

[MADem]

60. OMG, that cartoon deserves it's own thread in MULTIMEDIA!!!

The little kid "chamberpot" is just too freaking much!!!!

It is both crude AND brilliant!!!

Five out of five stars from me!!!

*****

[xxqqqzme]

57. What are 'line jumpers'?

scabs?
or line as in the start of a race
or 'butting' in line in front of everyone. It is a cheat anyway you look at it.


I would wholeheartedly recommend reading Keillor's Homegrown Democrat. It is every reason why anyone is (or should be) a Democrat.

[MADem]

61. People who cut into a queue. I see them at the grocery store all the time! nt

[uponit7771]

58. Nice, guy has a great voice

[Mosaic]

62. I'm Glad to Listen to Him

Every weekday morning. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. Kudos Garrison, glad to have you on the side of the good guys.

[budkin]

64. CROFL!

Badass!