The Loveable Garrison Keillor talks about Karl Rove

Garrison Keillor has given his two cents on Karl Rove. However we learn much more about Garrison Keillor ,as usual, than we do about whoever is under the fury of his ponifications.

Garrison Keillor on his radio show sounds like the neighbor one would wish to have. I suspect the reality is much different. In reality,I bet he is the neighbor that is always calling the police when the neighbors kids get too loud and doesn't return the baseballs when they go over the fence.

In the real world neighbors have to get along. For instance I have friends and neighbors that disagree with me on politics. Yet after the election we are all friends and work with each other. When Mr Keillor's guy loses he holds grudges and nasty ones at that.

Garrision Kellier despite his folksy charm is pretty intolerant of what many of his fellow American citizens believe. He lives in a world where everyone can be put in a box. I mean look at this screed he did in 2004. Does he actually think those that think differently from him have all those attributes.

Perhaps on his nationwide tours he might consider getting out a little. But people of faith and others are often the subject of his tirades. I notice when he is in the South with his show in cities like Baton Rouge he leaves his nasty comments about "born again folks" at home.

Looking at todays article I noted this:
His last big assignment was to get the immigration bill passed. It failed in large part because Congress is tired of Mr. Rove and his boy-genius high-handedness. Instead, Homeland Security announced a new crackdown on illegal immigrants, which aroused protests from farmers who said that 70 percent of farmworkers today are illegal -- a stunning fact, if true: Most of the people who pick our beans and tomatoes are men and women forced to sneak across the border, and why? Because they're a security threat? No. So that we can get them cheap, that's why.
Mr. Rove spoke with great confidence about beans and tomatoes and showed slides and got standing ovations in many places, but he didn't get the crops in. Goodbye and good riddance.

I have just googled "Garrison keillor" and" immigration" under google and google news. Nothing comes up to show he was a big advocate for their plight. I put in the term "illegals" and still nothing. In fact I can't recall Garrison Keillor talking much about the issue at all or being a leading advocate of comprehensive immigration reform. So it appears he again is the critic. Despite Bush and Rove and other taking arrows by the bushel on this issue he just is the critic and a hateful one at that.

It is often rumored that he might try his hand at elected office. That will never happen. if he did He would learn that getting a vote is a privilege and that he will have interact with us great unwashed masses. In fact maybe even a Southern Baptist or horrors a Republican.

IN the end he is mad that Karl Rove helped get George Bush elected. He is mad that Karl Rove did not come down into the sewer and engage his rethoric. For that Karl Rove is a baddie.

I am not a huge fan of Ann Coulter. I think she is a tad over the top. Of course I am getting to the stage that I am not a fan of pundits at all. I am getting tired of seeing Sean Hannity interview Dick Morris that interviewsAnn Coulter that interviews Michelle Malkin. Where are all the people we actually elect? God knows I don't see them being interviewed very much on the cable news. There are 535 of them up there. We see perhaps 5 percent of them on a regular basis on tv.

However with Ann Coulter I think she does her stuff just to watch the reaction. I think Garrison actually thinks we Republicans are the anti Christ.

Update- I have looked at all the columns that he did during the immigration debate. This was his only mention
And then you run into extraordinary young people there who typify California, bright, motivated, disciplined, idealistic women and men who climb the slopes of academe and also surf and swim and play beach volleyball and who love the climate and nature and culture. It is more than ever a city of immigrants, the Europeans diminishing, the Rodriguezes and Jimenezes and Marquezes burgeoning. (Check out the phone book.) Immigrant culture isn't so pretty -- you rent a cheap storefront, work 16-hour days, scrimp on landscaping, make your kids toe the mark -- but there is dignity to it.
Unrestricted immigration is a dangerous thing -- look at what happened to the Iroquois. They failed to impose border controls and before they knew it, they were dying of infectious diseases they had no names for. In the case of Californa, however, it was Spanish before it was English and now it's simply tending back that way.

That was it!!! Republicans had a full fledged debate on this issue. People of good will like Senator Session(anti comp reform) and Senator Lott(pro reform) battled it out. People like Garrison were AWOL.