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Liberal
Hall of Shame
"I am a Democrat – it's no secret. I am a museum-quality Democrat," Keillor said. "Last night I spent my time crouched in a fetal position, rolling around and moaning in the dark." According to a report in the University of Chicago's Chicago Maroon, Keillor told the audience: "If born-again Christians are allowed to vote in this country, then why not Canadians?" Keillor: Born-agains should not have right to vote
What appalled Boone, long an admirer of Keillor - he called him "the Mark Twain of this century" - was an article in the far left-wing "In These Times" on the Web, which borrowed heavily from Keillor's book "Homegrown Democrat." In it, Keillor at first praised Republicans of past times as good-hearted, "pragmatic, Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships." He added that Republicans are now "a gang of pirates that diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer chutzpah." And then he tells readers what he really thinks, abandoning pristine Lake Wobegon for a dip into the sewer. Richard Nixon was the last GOP president to care for the poor. The GOP is the "party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs." President Bush is "a dull and rigid man ... whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk," who is running for president on a platform of tragedy. Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004 1:40 p.m. EDT |
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