Garrison Keillor Fired from Minnesota Public Radio

Let's work out the new name!

Prairie Human Resources.

Creepy Man Companion.

edit: interesting that he's been calling some of the Franken criticism absurd recently. Always disliked his smug, smarmy radio persona and the loud nasal breathing on air.

 

This is all getting extremely weird. Like B-Bob, I had never been a huge fan of the fellow while he was on the radio, but certainly listened to the program from time to time. The list of those apparently accused of sexual impropriety continues to grow.

 

Apparently, all the rest of you have been whipping your junk out and grabbing women by the p***y for years while I've been behaving myself.

Did I miss a memo or something?

 

I'm curious what the improprieties are. I suppose MPR doesn't feel they owe their audience this information?

 

I hope they deliver a report in vintage Prairie Home Style, with home-made sound effects in the background and an excruciatingly slow, halting delivery, full of supposed gravitas.

 

Let's hope that a bath robe was not involved.

 

Probably because you've been staring at the stars too much, giving us reports of asteroids and new planets and such...all about the geek life.

Pretty Horny Companion

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Lake Robegon Daze

 

Dang. I used to listen to his readings as a kid.

http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/index.html


I am deeply grateful for all the years I had doing "A Prairie Home Companion" and "The Writer's Almanac", the summer tours, the outdoor shows at Tanglewood and Wolf Trap, the friendships of musicians and actors, the saga of Lake Wobegon, the songs and sketches, Guy Noir, Dusty & Lefty, the sheer pleasure of standing in the warmth of that audience. A person could not hope for more than what I was given. I've been fired over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. Most stories are. It's some sort of poetic irony to be knocked off the air by a story, having told so many of them myself, but I'm 75 and don't have any interest in arguing about this. And I cannot in conscience bring danger to a great organization I've worked hard for since 1969. I am sorry for all the poets whose work I won't be reading on the radio and sorry for the people who will lose work on account of this. But my profound feeling is that of gratitude, especially to my wife Jenny, and for this painful experience that has brought us even closer together.
— Garrison Keillor

 

I am hearing third hand that:
1. At a social event he was resting his hand on a woman's lower back. She bent over to pick something up and his hand got under her shirt and moved up her back a bit.
2. She was freaked out and eventually talked to him about it.
3. They had, according to him, a good frank conversation. He'd had no idea he'd done something that felt naughty. They were good and were still work friends for a good long while.

I dunno. It doesn't seem like part of a pattern, but his attitude is pretty good. I'm done with this. So long and thanks for all the airtime. EDIT: I just wish he had done it sooner, and apparently, so does at least one of his coworkers.

 

You have a strange way of looking at these things. "Not-exactly-very-guilty"? Really? I mean, I've never accidentally found my hand in a woman's shirt. Have you? He was just resting his hand on her lower back? Really? Look, If I have my hand inside a woman's shirt it's 100% on purpose.

C'Mon man.

 

Never heard of him and never cared for any show about prairies.

 

Old guys get handsy. They need to adapt.

 

I hear you. I don't know what the hell he was doing. He's definitely guilty of making a coworker uncomfortable. It just doesn't seem like assault as with some of these mofos, and it doesn't seem like a pattern.

If it's strange that I see differences between the wide range of allegations against these dudes, okay. I see rape and assault as worse and more harmful than some of these other things, but that might be strange to some.

Mainly I wanted to come on here to make fun of his show and whatever its new name will be. But then I heard through Mrs. B-Bob about the report she heard of the incident, so I shared it.

 

Or just resign ASAP.

 

If all of this was in regards to a single incident which can easily have been an inadvertent slip of the hand, it is a shameful overreaction. I’ve appreciated MPR in my two years as a new resident of MN, but if this is what it appears to be than I’m really disappointed.

 

It may well be out of respect for his long service to and work for public broadcasting. They're not going to try to embarrass him, and if people criticize them for a quick trigger, so be it. That's my guess. Also, if she is suing, she may be suing both Keillor and also MPR. Then they'd have extra reason to be quiet about this.