Garrison Keillor fired from NPR

[Double Down]

I know we have a running "innapropriate behavior" thread, but damn. Another big name.



Edit: Realizing I said NPR in the headline here, when it's actually an affiliate. Minny Public Radio.

 

[britwrit]

That's what happens when you tell the wrong woman that you're "above average."

 

[User 149557]

Opinion | Al Franken should resign? That’s absurd.
Was this his pre-emptive strike in the WaPo?

Also, I've expressed this but his show was unlistenable hokum. After which I also learned there was a secret Hee Haw society at SJ.com.

 

[Alma]

I know we have a running "innapropriate behavior" thread, but damn. Another big name.



Edit: Realizing I said NPR in the headline here, when it's actually an affiliate. Minny Public Radio.

Only the beginning...

 

[Double Down]

Only the beginning...

I believe you are correct.

 

[heyabbott]

Everyone is accountable but Donald Trump and Roy Moore?

 

[YankeeFan]

I’ll be damned.

Just heard this on the radio, and had to look to make sure I heard the name right.

 

[poindexter]

That's what happens when you tell the wrong woman that you're "above average."

That is great.

I would have gone with "That's what happens when all the women are "above average", but you got there first.

 

[britwrit]

Which is even more amazing because - after having read three of his books as a young man - that phrase was the only thing my addled fortysomething brain could dredge up.

 

[Alma]

Everyone is accountable but Donald Trump and Roy Moore?

They don't work for private companies, man. Do you think, if you put it up to an American vote, Lauer or Rose would be out? I have no idea. None. But, hell, who knows.

 

[goalmouth]

If unlistenable hokum is any indication, then Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is in the crosshairs.

 

[Songbird]

Garrison ****ing Keillor.

The ghost of Mr. Rogers is so going down soon.

 

[da man]

That is great.

I would have gone with "That's what happens when all the women are "above average", but you got there first.

The women are strong. It's the kids who are above average.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

If unlistenable hokum is any indication, then Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is in the crosshairs.

boo!

 

[typefitter]

If unlistenable hokum is any indication, then Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is in the crosshairs.

I like Wait Wait, if only so I can hear Paula Poundstone yet again playing the role of "funny half-drunk lady at the bar spinning yarns while reaching bare-handed into the jar for another pickled egg."

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Garrison ****ing Keillor.

The ghost of Mr. Rogers is so going down soon.

He used to stick his hand up King Friday the 13th's ass.

 

[da man]

Garrison ****ing Keillor.

The ghost of Mr. Rogers is so going down soon.

He's your special friend. I like the way you say that.

 

[Donny in his element]

Mr. Rogers going down.

Might be what gets him into trouble.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Garrison Keillor fired by MPR: 'I put my hand on a woman's bare back,' he says

 

[poindexter]

Garrison Keillor fired by MPR: 'I put my hand on a woman's bare back,' he says

That's interesting.