In Santa Claus Song, NPR's Garrison Keillor Mocks Gingrich for Adultery While Opposing Clinton
On the popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion this weekend, NPR star Garrison Keillor sang a different version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." It had a slightly different melody, and mocked Newt Gingrich, without naming him. Keillor sang: "Don’t think a sense of style conceals your escapades / Don’t vote to impeach Bill Clinton while shacking up with Congressional aides." Gingrich was cheating on his second wife (with his eventual third wife) at that time in 1998.
Keillor also sang that Santa is watching for who is "beating up on" gays or minorities. There's nothing wrong with opposing physical violence or mean-spirited bullying -- but with NPR, you'd have to suspect Keillor is implying a broader argument about conservative arguments against gay marriage or "affirmative action." Keillor sang:
Don’t beat up on minorities, or folks with idiosyncracies
Santa Claus, he’s looking at you
Christians or intellectuals, artists or homosexuals
Santa will know it if you do
Keillor is hardly the person to make too much noise about adultery -- since he has enthusiastically participated in affairs -- and like Gingrich, has been married three times. He just hates conservatives who moralize against it. He's also not so wild about Christmas. He's going to Hawaii this year -- to hang out with Obama?
"This year we're going to Hawaii," he said, practically making the parishoners at Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church gasp in unison.
"It's a way of taking a vacation from Christmas. We'll be there with a few friends. We'll light a candle on Christmas Eve and sing 'Silent Night.' But we're doing something different. My daughter loves to swim."
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I didn't know he was married what less 3 times.
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 1:44pm.
I have heard Keillor quite a bit & he can by quite funny... but certainly not when he is mocking of Christians/values. Many comedians are dark & messed up on the inside which is the source of their satire comedy.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
What
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 2:25pm.
do expect. He is from Minnesota along with Franken and Ventura. Thought this arrogant elite radical was going to retire. I live in MN and know of nobody who listens to this fool and his many books, can be found in local thrift stores, for 50 cents to a buck.
Keillor.....
Submitted by adamsmith on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 5:09pm.
I can see that being the case gramma.....I think listening to this clown for more than five minutes can be more powerful than the Propophol that knocked out Michael Jackson. I can't listen to him on NPR(National Progressive Radio) while driving for that reason alone. His voice alone is a snoozefest.
Listening
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:19pm.
to him is punishment but, looking at him is a death sentence!
Keillor does voice over radio
Submitted by celator on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 5:15pm.
Keillor does voice over radio ads for Honda in the UK (and maybe other places, I don't know). They are terrible ads. He sounds demented or hungover in the ads. He rambles on, unfocused, creating the impression he really doesn't know anything about Honda and doesn't care. Very weird. I'm sure he gets megabuck for the ads, so he's still raking it in.
DemonRat dementia
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 4:16pm.
is such a sad, sad thing to see. Looking into a DemonRat soul one sees a mental disorder altering their entire life. Senile old fool!
Once again-it was ok for
Submitted by helomech on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:17pm.
Once again-it was ok for Clinton to treat the governors mansion and the White House like $5 whorehouses but if anyone else had 'liasons' then those people are in the wrong...
The Leftists: people who refuse to accept the reality of facts.
This past Sunday
Submitted by mawendt on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:58pm.
This past Sunday I listened to Keillor's radio program and was struck by how bitterly sarcastic and irreligious, even anti-christian, the program was. Odd, for the holidays.
It just sounded nasty and bitter, the little skits. Most I couldn't appreciate the subtext and dark humor of joking about 'Chistians' murdering an old lady, and another about the moral failure of... can you guess? a Christian.
Something turned.
One can only hope
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:29pm.
That if there is truly justice, Keillor and Stephen King will have to spend eternity, in a room with each other, talking.
Garrison who?
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 8:53pm.
The mystery is why anyone ever found Garrison Keillor interesting, or funny, or informative, or even useful. His material defines "tedious."
My theory: Some people -- usually liberals -- have a knack for coming across as though they embody public opinion about fill-in-the-blank. Such a one catches on even though nobody finds him even vaguely entertaining. Then he sticks around because everybody figures that everybody else thinks he's cool stuff. Hence Regis Philbin. Hence Garrison Keillor.
That mythical place where all the kids are above average? It rose to that level only after they ran Garrison Keillor off.
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Jack, I agree 100% Keillor
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 1:44am.
Jack, I agree 100% Keillor has zero entertainement value, same goes for Philbin, two morons who got lucky by playing on other's stupidity.
I caught snippets
Submitted by Mark81150 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 10:05am.
of his show on the radio sometimes.
I found him unfunny, and beyond boring.. Then after finding out he's a rabid leftwinger, I understood why his make believe town was so immensely dull. Not a single differing opinion among them.. only a lefty can imagine a town filled with every race and creed, and all in complete lockstep on politics and their lack of serious faith.
A lefty's utopia would be a Hell to anyone else, the esscense of drama, of good story telling, is conflicting ideas. Something no good, or rather, hardcore leftist would tolerate in his dreamworld. Because as they often let us know, disagreeing with a lefty is an act of pure evil.
Making them at heart, a very boring group.