Talk:Garrison Keillor/Comments
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This entry seems very incomplete. It's long on Keillor's folksy quotations and short on Keillor's journey into political screedism.
It seems that the writers of this article haven't been long-time listeners, nor have they actually read HOMEGROWN DEMOCRAT in which Keillor calls Republicans "hairy-backed swamp developers, corporate shills, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, hobby cops, misanthropic frat boys, lizardskin cigar monkeys, jerktown romeos, ninja dittoheads. .. .tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, grab-ass executives, gun fetishists, genteel pornographers, nihilists in golf pants."
While claiming that his book describes "the politics of kindness, Keillor also says that Republicans are "criminal" and worse, "evil, deeply evil."
In 1999 Keillor told THE GUARDIAN (London) "Republicans might be heathens out to destroy all we [sic] hold dear; but that doesn’t mean we take them seriously. Or be bitter because they are swine.”
Moreover, Keillor's show predictably departs from its friendly, inclusive, folksy format and dives into bitter political polemic every presidential election cycle. The show immediately following the 2004 election featured Keillor "jokingly" suggesting that Christian conservatives have their voting rights revoked.
I fail to see why entries on conservatives who use inflammatory rhetoric, such as Ann Coulter, contain abundant and lengthy examples of such comments, while secular progressives such as Franken and Keillor enjoy entries that omit their equally incendiary statements and behaviors (all of which are accessible and documented).
I have often used Wikipedia entries (and have directed my four children toward them) when doing research. I have found them to be accurate and very helpful. This entry, however, has caused me to question the integrity of this service and to wonder about, or perhaps simply to recognize, a political bias that distorts the accuracy of information presented.
To maintain credibility, Wikipedia needs to amend its approach to use a more even hand when representing highly outspoken and controversial figures on both sides of the aisle.
Sixbrocks 05:07, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
