The Furious Spinner

Don't you just love how much Garrison Keillor is speaking out against the Emperor and his fashionistas? He does it so succinctly, easily, eloquently. Keillor is a kind of walking representative for small town values given his creation of Lake Wobegon and his long running stint as host of the Prairie Home Companion. (Yes, I realize "small town values" is relatively meaningless, but you get my drift.) His most recent essay, "Day of Reckoning for the Current Occupant," is particularly wonderful. He writes, "Over the course of time, the Chief Occupant has been cruelly exposed over and over. He sat and was briefed on the danger of a hurricane wiping out a major American city, and without asking a single question, he got up from the table and walked away and resumed his vacation. He played guitar as New Orleans was flooded. It took him four days to realize his responsibility to do something. When the tsunami killed 100,000 people in Southeast Asia, he was on vacation and it took him 72 hours to issue a statement of sympathy.

"The Republicans tied their wagon to him and, as a result, their revolution is bankrupt. He has played the terrorism card for all it is worth and campaigned successfully against Adam and Steve and co-opted whole vast flocks of Christians, but he is done now, kaput, out of gas, for one simple reason. He doesn't represent the best that is our country. Not even close."

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