THE FOUNDER OF “A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION” GETS ON BOARD AGAINST TRUMP

…The real Garrison Keillor!

 

It took a while, but even a person like Keillor had to finally speak out against “The Donald”.

 

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, radio & voice actor, and on-the-air personality.

 

He is known as the creator of  the radio program called A Prairie Home Companion, which he has hosted since 1974.  Keillor also created the fictional Minnesota town, Lake Wobegon for his program, the setting of many of his books. 

 

Garrison is also known as known as having the attitude of what is sometimes referred to as a middle-of-the-road American.  A thoughtful, intelligent and stable minded mid-western American.  He is not extreme in his thoughts and actions, and is known for being a fair and just individual.

 

Sounds like a good, basic American that probably weighs his thoughts and ideas well before putting them to pen on paper.  Or before he would make them part of his weekly radio program that he started 42 years ago.

 

With that in mind, Mr. Keillior has now done something very out-of-the ordinary.  He has written an opinion article for the Washington Post in regards to the presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump.

 

Here are some of Mr. Kellior’s thoughts about this New Yorker, but he has also come out with his own theory of where Mr. Trump came from, what kind of person he thinks Donald Trump is, and what he seriously feels about Trump becoming the possible US president.

 

I think you will find it interesting for this well-balanced and thoughtful American to be publically stating his thoughts about this individual.

 

His comments are also in response to Mr. Trump’s 5+ years of being a “birther” regarding President Barack Obama not being a US citizen.  Mr. Keillor has the following to say in his article regarding Mr. Trump’s origin:

 

“Donald Trump was not born in Queens, he was born in the Philippines, in a hotel in downtown Manila. where his hair turned bright vanilla due to vitamin deficiencies.

His mom and dad were Celanese and they left him with Franciscan nuns at the age of 14 months.

He was adopted on the third of June by a real estate tycoon who took the little boy away to a mansion in the USA, bestowing on him great largesse and naturalized him, more or less. 

The record of his nativity is kept under lock and key with his tax returns & the MRIs showing what’s behind his eyes including, (according to rumors), a diverticulated tumor.

I hope it isn’t true, although it comes from folks who ought to know.”

 

Mr. Keillor, a master story teller, then proceeds to tell the following story about a pan-handler in New York’s Times Square ;

 

“A week ago, a panhandler in Times Square sat holding a sign reading, “Give me a dollar or I’ll vote for Trump,” and people laughed and reached into their pockets. His bucket overflowed. He stuffed the bills into his jacket, and other panhandlers looked at him with admiration. The man could’ve sold franchises and retired to Palm Beach.

The panhandler knows what every New Yorker knows, which is that the biggest con job since the Trojan horse is taking place in our midst. Millions of Americans are planning to cast their votes for a man who has lived his life contrary to all of their most cherished values. They are respectful, honest, generous, loyal, modest, church-going people with no Mafia connections and good credit records who try not to spout off about things they know nothing about.”.

 

Mr. Keillor’s followers were brought up to be wary of slick-talking New Yorkers, but here they are, falling right into line behind the biggest braggart ever to hit the campaign trail. If he’s elected, it’s going to be an education for them, watching him cut taxes while expanding the military and building a wall and deporting 11 million people. In America, you can’t send the police through the streets to round up people in trucks and load them on boxcars and ship them away. There is a judicial process. People have certain rights.

 

Garrison in his story-telling manner then proceeds to tell a story about the man who says he’s from Queens.  It is a serious explanation for Garrison's followers as to why they should be wary of this New Yorker.

 

“Trump’s boast after the Manhattan pressure-cooker bombing last Saturday night was revelatory. “I called it!” he cried on Fox News, as he had after the Orlando nightclub shooting. It would’ve been classier [more appropriate] for him to have congratulated New York’s Finest, but instead he took it as a personal coup.

What the bombing showed was the courage and smarts of the NYPD, arriving on the scene in time to defuse a second bomb, identify a suspect and track him down Monday morning. “We’ve got to be very, very tough,” cried the New York candidate out in Colorado, but back in New York, the work was being done by people who know how to do it.

 

Ah, the chutzpah! There was once a mayor of New York (Giuliani) who overruled the NYPD and the Secret Service and put the city’s Emergency Command Center on the 23rd floor of the World Trade Center, and whose emergency plan for the towers led to massive confusion and miscommunication, with some desperate people directed to climb up and others told to stay put, as the mayor stood in the streets below and urged residents to be calm, and thereby became a national hero and started his own security consulting company. This is like the captain of the Titanic, had he survived, writing a book called “The Art of Navigation.” That New York mayor is now a very close Trump adviser.

 

Trump is a man whom few Republicans would care to invite into their homes. So what’s going on here? An epidemic of poisoning from bad enzymes in cheap beers? The man is a fraud, a compulsive liar and a clueless playboy whose presidency would be an unmitigated disaster for this country. If you would make us the laughingstock of the world just to irk your liberal sister-in-law, you are someone who should not be allowed to come within 500 yards of an elementary school.

 

The success of Trump would show our children the exact value of education, which is: not that much. It would mean that fact-based journalism had very little bearing in America and a Manila-born Celanese child could aspire to the highest office in the land. So here’s a dollar in the beggar’s bucket. Good luck to democracy. Hang in there.”

 

I have been a fan of Garrison Keillor for many years, as has many of my father’s family members.  They were and are, just basic Americans that for years had cultivated and worked the corn and wheat fields of Kansas and Missouri.  As with Garrison, they were and are the antithesis of someone like Donald Trump.

 

Where Trump is the braggart, they seldom mention anything that would be seen as bragging about themselves.  Where he is known as a compulsive liar, they are very direct and seldom say anything that they aren’t sure is the complete truth.

 

I can surely see where someone such as Mr. Keillor was continuingly seething when he was subjected to Trump’s comments and his so called political policy ideas.  At some point, Mr. Keillor just had to put pen to paper and to “tell it like it really is”, instead of having his followers listening to all the B.S. from Mr. Trump.

 

I was very glad that someone as centered on honesty and clarity of purpose as is Mr. Keillor, is finally on board regarding this issue.  “Thanks for your honest opinions Garrison.  They were and are well received here.”

 

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