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RE: GARRISON KEILLOR

Sounds like my suspicion was on-target. A crunchy FrontBurnervian writes:

Somebody I know who was there read Keillor’s slam on the Methodists for being hypocritical, hard-hearted, and so forth because they applauded his line, and said Keillor completely misread the meaning of the applause. I read his book Homegrown Democrat, and it was really unpleasant, not because it criticized Republicans (which of course I expected), but because he was so unfunny and vicious. (Now if he had been vicious AND funny, that would have been different). Point is, I bet he went into that church with a fixed idea about what the people were like, and didn’t cut them any slack at all.

Update: Jacquielynn Floyd is all over it. Tomorrow's column is already online. And it's a fine effort. (Perhaps her best?) Indeed, Keillor misread his audience--a result, it seems, of his own small-mindedness.

Tim Rogers · October 4, 2006 04:13 PM