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The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues. From the New York Times:

Minnesota Public Radio Drops Garrison Keillor Over Allegations of Improper Conduct
By MAYA SALAM NOV. 29, 2017

Minnesota Public Radio said Wednesday that it was severing all business ties with Garrison Keillor, the creator and retired host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” after allegations of “inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him.”

Over four decades, Mr. Keillor, 75, had created a financial juggernaut for the radio network with his weekly broadcast of songs, skits and tales of his fictional hometown Lake Wobegon, along with related books, recordings and other products.

In a statement he provided to The New York Times, Mr. Keillor said, “I’ve been fired over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. Most stories are.”

Here’s Dennis Dale on how we’re this close to airbrushing men out of old photos.

Some old iSteve content on Keillor:

Keillor’s self-projection of his own insecurities about New York onto Trump (of all people)

Keillor’s justly popular trashing of Bernard Henri-Levy’s book about America

My review of the Prairie Home Companion movie directed by Robert Altman.

 
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  1. Are all these dominos falling because Hillary lost the election?

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @JimB

    Yes. If you read the comments on places like the NY Times, the readers really want to get Trump, the biggest pussy grabber of them all. They have no way of getting at Trump so all these male authority figures serve as his effigies that can be burned in his place.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @JimB

  2. This guy always seemed creepy to me and what we now know about NPR ( Michael Oreskes, Charlie Rose) it was a playground for creeps who thrived there until now.

  3. They’re also purging relatively unknown, backstage talent as well:

    https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/935955064438521857

  4. The best li’l whorehouse in Lake Wobegon.

    • Replies: @Lurker
    @Bard of Bumperstickers

    Where all the girls are above average.

  5. “I’ve been fired over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. Most stories are.”

    Actually, Garrison, perhaps most other people’s stories are more interesting and complicated than the published versions, but the stories that comprised your essentially-autobiographical novels were less interesting and complicated than you made them appear.

    Although Keillor was talented, he staked off a couple of small and strictly-bounded plots of ground and worked them over relentlessly in his novels and Prairie Home Companion.

    In any case, I can’t suppress my schadenfreude over this latest MeToo revelation. Keillor pretty much defines ‘creepy-ass’ (TM), and he’s arrogant and condescending to go along with it.

    • Replies: @International Jew
    @The Last Real Calvinist

    Yeah, I tried reading one of his books and it was boring. But on the radio, I always liked him. He's a great storyteller, and his skits — the pretend cowboy, Cafe Boeuf, etc — are great.

    I realized about fifteen years ago that he was an idiot on politics, but I've managed to ignore that part because he mostly kept his politics out of his act.

    Replies: @Hibernian

    , @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @The Last Real Calvinist

    Agree.

  6. Every MeToo case that’s sticking features physiognomy mismatch. In a feminist age, many talented beta males rise to positions of influence. They pull some hotties, despite their creepy beta looks and creepy beta behavior. But when the hotties become older, colder and bitter, they regret what they gave up to those betas and cry “me too.”

    This is glorious to watch.

  7. Garrison Keillor? For Chrissake! The “sexual harassment” phrase is distorting what’s actually going on here. With Harvey Weinstein, we’re looking at behavior that seems to me clearly criminally and civilly actionable. Those Al Franken photos just look like an adolescent slob acting out in an old man’s body. (Not sure about the testimony, though, which I don’t think has reached any investigative body other than mass media playing the inquisitor for a titillated public.) But Garrison Keillor’s offense?

    Barely a few days ago, I was half-inclined to take the accusers pretty seriously, despite the lack of criminal complaint or civil action at the time of the alleged offense. Now I’m baffled. The employers’ behavior really stinks like opportunistic discharge or termination of contract of high-priced help.

    FWIW: I made a wisecrack today that our local state university’s trustees held an emergency meeting to discharge all its wankers and gropers. The idea was scratched by noon when it sunk in they’d have no one to teach classes then.

  8. This is great. Matt Lauer, this one, Franken, etc. All of these were very anti-Trump. Once again they are being hoisted on their own petards by their undies – atomic wedgies.

    No one seems to see that ever since Trump met Melania he’s been a one-woman man. I recall some guy who works with Glen Beck making unkind comments about a younger woman “selling” herself to a richer man and how she has to “work” for this rich man. I knew it was a jibe against Trump. The Democrats, MSM, never-Trumpers are going insane. This is so much fun.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @attilathehen

    The far Left crowded hated Lauer. According to the Narrative, one the reasons why Hillary lost (aside from the #1 Reason, being the Russians) was that when Lauer had Hillary on he was really mean to her and asked her about the email server when he should have just given her the usual softball questions about how wonderful it will feel when you break the glass ceiling, but when he had Trump on, he "normalized him" by treating him respectfully and not denouncing him as a Fascist (the same mistake the NY Times guy made with that other Nazi recently).

    Replies: @The Man From K Street, @attilathehen

  9. And then there was… I dunno, how many are left?

  10. “The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues”

    Oh, tbey’re gettin’ some homos and coloreds too

  11. “The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues.”

    Any theory as what the end game is with this? I have my own, just curious to hear other PsOV.

    • Replies: @Jus' Sayin'...
    @MikeatMikedotMike


    “The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues.”

    Any theory as what the end game is with this? I have my own, just curious to hear other PsOV.
     
    The amount of squid ink currently being spurted leads me to believe that the establishment is worried about something other than adult sexual harassment. If a truly major scandal of a different nature is gradually gaining traction beyond public view, the powers-that-be may be attempting to divert attention from such a horrendous, criminal scandal, lessen its eventual impact, or even bury the emerging serious story by means of the outrageous amounts of publicity these witch hunts are receiving.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42, @BB753

  12. If this continues, soon enough the purged one will be able to open their own TV network. White men only, no women allowed – for their own safety.

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @inertial


    If this continues, soon enough the purged one will be able to open their own TV network. White men only, no women allowed – for their own safety.
     
    Yep. Weinstein level predation is one thing. (And back in the day such predation--if truly unwelcome, not involving women doing "deals"--might have had consequences from fathers, husbands, brothers.)

    But when it gets to "he made a pass at me" or "he made a suggestive joke" or now "he put his hand on my bare back" we're off into territory where the only real protection is either a learned "turn into a sexless automaton when a woman enters the room" or ... segregation.

    The players are always going play--that's what they do. But you can bet that there's a good number of men, either whose romantic/sex lives are in fine shape outside the work environment or who just make the cost/benefit calculation, who will simply avoid interacting with female employees. Don't be friends with them, joke with them, eat with them. Don't be alone with them. Don't mentor them. Don't manage them. Just don't hire them!
  13. Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @anony-mouse

    "Make this about Jews! Make this about Jews! Love us, hate us but don't you dare ignore us, even for a second!"

    , @Beckow
    @anony-mouse

    It is a purge. When looking back in 2100 the story will go something like this:

    By 2016 Western liberalism got out of control. After achieving total control of culture, media and politics, they dreamt about ever more absurd things. They felt they can change people's sex lives and other countries's governments just by talking. They got caught up in cognitive dissonance so massive that they were no longer able to even discuss things. All they wanted was for the 'others' (they used worse terms) to be shut down.

    Liberals had everything on their side except results. It wasn't working. Then a number of real and symbolic setbacks occurred, the most important in the Anglo world were Brexit and Trump.

    Hillary Clinton's defeat unravelled liberalism. After a short period of emotional screaming and mindless posturing ('we will reverse the elections!', 'treason'), the inevitable consequences started for the defeated liberals. They were ruthlessly purged and dismissed. Two main pillars of Hillary liberalism: progressive beta males and radical feminists turned on each. That accelerated the purge.

    Ideologies die when they over-reach. It is a purge, enjoy it.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @AnotherDad, @BB753

    , @Anonymous
    @anony-mouse


    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

     

    A few weeks ago, as you know, there were a hell of a lot less heads that were chopped off, yet Jews are still over represented in matters of abhorrent behavior towards white women.

    If you’re interested, as you seem to be, in undermining the common perception of abhorrently negative Jewish stereotypes, you time would be far better spent refraining from portraying the role of "cynical self-involved manipulative Jew." I think it may pay you far more significant dividends in the long run.

    Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa's. It’s getting embarrassing.

    Yours forever,
    White Protestant Justice Warrior

    Replies: @Karl, @AndrewR

    , @Anonymous
    @anony-mouse

    Actually, Stalin's purges also started with Jews (mostly) but then, once in full swing, moved onto goys (mostly).

    , @Anon
    @anony-mouse

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    What makes you think Sailer gives a damn about these guys?

    They are libby-dibs.

    I hope this never ends. It's cracking me up.

    Too bad Mr. Rogers is dead. He might have gotten accused too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2P16LXA94

    Maybe it will catch on with muppets and fictional characters.

    Miss Piggy accusing Count Dracula and Cookie Monster.

    Replies: @whorefinder

    , @Space Ghost
    @anony-mouse

    Today I learned "accidentally touching a woman on the back" once is equivalent in your mind to rape, coerced sex, forced voyeurism, jerking off into potted plants, etc.

    , @Tex
    @anony-mouse

    I dunno about Steve, but seeing Garrison Keillor get unpersoned is pretty damn funny, even if he's a Looteran. Current year is best year!

  14. Did you read Spandrell’s Biological Leninism post?

    He posits that we are ruled by the incompetent who maintain their position only due to being legitimised by the ruling narrative. This makes them loyal to the state which supports and is supported by said narrative as they know if the narrative falls so do they. But those rascally white men, even those who have been supportive to the narrative, can never be so trusted. They are competent enough to do just fine even without the narrative. And so must be purged.

    I talk about this in a blog post that might, or might not, be of interest to some.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @SAK

    I think it's more simple than that. People in high places who have made a lot of enemies over the years are just being purged, and this happens to be a convenient time. It was just that a certain social momentum was needed to make the changes. The defenders of these men were liberals who would kneejerk fly to the defense of their idols and cause too much trouble to be able to fire the offenders. These liberal defenders had to be cowed by their own side to get rid of the men who were breaking the law.

    Replies: @SAK

  15. @The Last Real Calvinist

    “I’ve been fired over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. Most stories are.”

     

    Actually, Garrison, perhaps most other people's stories are more interesting and complicated than the published versions, but the stories that comprised your essentially-autobiographical novels were less interesting and complicated than you made them appear.

    Although Keillor was talented, he staked off a couple of small and strictly-bounded plots of ground and worked them over relentlessly in his novels and Prairie Home Companion.

    In any case, I can't suppress my schadenfreude over this latest MeToo revelation. Keillor pretty much defines 'creepy-ass' (TM), and he's arrogant and condescending to go along with it.

    Replies: @International Jew, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    Yeah, I tried reading one of his books and it was boring. But on the radio, I always liked him. He’s a great storyteller, and his skits — the pretend cowboy, Cafe Boeuf, etc — are great.

    I realized about fifteen years ago that he was an idiot on politics, but I’ve managed to ignore that part because he mostly kept his politics out of his act.

    • Replies: @Hibernian
    @International Jew

    I'd say a leftist slant was evident when I witnessed a show by him in Evanston IL. (Affluent Chicago suburb and home of Northwestern U.)

  16. I’ve got to say, at least to hear Keillor tell it, what he’s alleged to have done is a pretty lame reason to get into trouble, though who knows if there’s more and he’s merely minimizing?

    “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”

    Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”

    He insisted his discomfort with physical affection was common knowledge, adding, “If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I’d have at least a hundred dollars.”

    I suppose he wouldn’t be invalidating any stereotypes or aspects of his public persona if touching a bare back is considered racy.

    This comment on another post on this blog made me think:

    The Anti-Gnostic says:
    November 29, 2017 at 8:06 pm GMT

    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.

    Perhaps #MeToo will be the go-to catch-all excuse to get rid of any old male employee or colleague who is past his prime without having to worry about a buy-out, severance, or parting shots. Wouldn’t surprise me. How hard can it really be over a long career to find some female co-worker who was “made uncomfortable” at some point by some thing?

    • Replies: @Dumbo
    @Thomas


    How hard can it really be over a long career to find some female co-worker who was “made uncomfortable” at some point by some thing?
     
    If all it takes now for "sexual harrassment" is a hand on a woman's back, I don't see this ending any time soon. Did any of these recent cases end in prosecution? Was there even a crime committed?
    , @Matthew Kelly
    @Thomas


    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.
     
    That was exactly my first thought when I saw his name come up as the next victim of this latest installment of the Salem Witch Trials.

    Replies: @Space Ghost

    , @utu
    @Thomas

    and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches

    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?

    Other thing: how long ago was it that it surfaced now? Any connection to his defense of Franken?

    Replies: @whorefinder

    , @whorefinder
    @Thomas


    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.
     
    Not a bad thought. Was Weinstein not generating the hits like he used to? Was Charlie Rose a pain at CBS? Was Lauer actually dragging the Today show down, at least in the eyes of some upper-level V.P.?

    We also can't forget that jealousy and career-back-stabbing come into play. Ann Curry got axed because Lauer didn't like her---was this some revenge by her or one of her friends? Was she a victim of Lauer's who didn't play ball?

    At this point, if you're in corporate media or Hollywood and you've got a big name star who isn't producing, leaking some sexual harassment stuff on them might be a great way to rid you of them. And they all do. No man gets into a position of power and fame like these losers and doesn't have at least one slip up where he tries to bed a woman and things go awry.
  17. The fun just doesn’t stop! More please!!

    Here’s one I didn’t realize for some reason: “[Matt] Lauer’s father was of Romanian Jewish ancestry.”

    Lol! Anudda one.

    Keillor gets to go into the “see, Goys do it too” pile.

    • Replies: @Neuday
    @peterike


    Keillor gets to go into the “see, Goys do it too” pile.
     
    (((some people))) misuse potted plants and show off their genitals to obviously uncomfortable shiksas, and some people put a hand on a woman's bare back. Same thing. Moral Relativism becomes Immoral Universalism, because all men are disgusting horndogs. The only solution is Rule by minority women. Oprahtocracy. Because Hillary lost, now we'll get Kamala Harris, good 'n hard.
  18. • Replies: @Jim Christian
    @Triumph104


    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls.
     
    Biden is a Democrat VEEP, perhaps more. They have to protect him. Besides, HIS stuff was open. Not to defend him. He may well be the best candidate for the Democrats to run in 20. Imagine that?

    Biden and especially Franken, they are to be spared. Franken, his is delicate, Keith Ellison wants Franken's seat. So far, the ADL and Senate Republicans and Democrats intend to tolerate the imposition of Franken on the rest of them, same for in The House with Conyers, although there is more clamor for Conyers to go. But Franken and Conyers are symbols if they stay while so many others have to go. Jews and Blacks are tough to dislodge. Look for an intern scandal to pop too. Poor, mistreated, abused 18-22 year olds, 6 weeks on the Hill and back to college. Bet there are stories that emerge for the 11pm news sooner than later. Interesting times indeed. They're flushing the men down the drain, the very men who got them their privilege.
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Triumph104


    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls...

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
     
    Bulgarian meets vulgarian!

    Well, that's why he's vice president. Someone has finally discovered what the position is for.

    But Jew-mah... that's awfully desperate, even for Biden.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @whorefinder, @AKAHorace

  19. Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    Well if he was all about bashing the Jews it’s funny that he has yet to mention Matt Lauer.

    Weinstein was a powerful Hollywood (and yes, Jewish) mogul whose escapades were far more interesting in what they said about a Hollywood than all those that have come out since. Pervs – Killor, Lauer, Spacey, etc. – are a dime a dozen. Using your position atop a major Hollywood studio to hand out stardom based on the granting of sexual favors? That’s a blockbuster.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Wilkey

    I think that this only could have happened because of an undiscussed background diminution of Hollywood's status, power and income. Every day brings stories about people not seeing movies as often as they used to.

    , @International Jew
    @Wilkey

    Agree. It's been all downhill since Harvey.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    , @Karl
    @Wilkey

    6 Wilkey > Using your position atop a major Hollywood studio to hand out stardom based on the granting of sexual favors?



    yeah, just think about all those multitude of corners of the entertainment and culture businessii, where meritocracy is the rule.

  20. Broadcast media/journalism figures seem to be dropping like flies in the wake of the weinstein scandal. Maybe they’re just more replaceable than other types of viagra-bracket power brokers, so its easier to throw them under the bus…

  21. First they came for the cheeseheads of Lake Wobegon,
    and I didn’t say nothin’ cause I’m below average ….

    Next they came for Nina Totenberg,
    and I didn’t care because she was not the hot spinster I’d imagined from listening to her soothing voice on NPR….

    as they dragged those two to the van, I texted in another tip to #PERVNADO.

  22. I personally felt that a great deal of Keillor’s shtick was mocking what he considered to be Upper Mid-Western rubes. But the rubes seemed to lap it up, seemingly without taking much offense. Unfortunately maybe they actually were what he mocked.

    • Agree: Jim Don Bob
    • Replies: @eddy wobegon
    @Dan Hayes

    We felt he was doing an honest self-reflection on himself. his family, and the locals. No offense was taken about his fiction. He was an ass about Republicans but it didn't creep into A Prairie Home Companion.

    Even in his recent column defending Al Franken, Keillor struck back at the hysterical statue felling/renaming craze that the PC mafia is embroiled in. A prominent lake in Minneapolis is now being renamed from Calhoun to the unpronounceable Bde Maka Ska.

    As far as insufferable liberals, at least Keillor isn't a cookie-cutter clone. He has a writing style with great charm.

  23. “I’ve been fired over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. Most stories are.”

    Is this also a dig against the tales that Keillor has been telling on MPR?

  24. have you noticed that Collin kaepernik’s jewish biological mother (russo) has had a nose job ?

    It seems that someone doesn’t want the goyim to find out that she is a jew

    i’m willing to bet that the rumor about him being a muslim was spread by the jews (ADL etc) after they found out that kap is a jew under jewish law

    my radar was on fire when i saw ruth bader ginsberg attack him to distance her tribe from him

    that made me look into it and i noticed the nose job

    before the nose job

    Colin got his jew nose from her

    after the nose job

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Organized Chaos

    Dear Chaos,

    Racial science has advanced greatly since the '30s, when we had to rely on clues such as nose shape, which can often be misleading. I suggest that you find Colin and insult him to his face. Perhaps call him a dirty Jew-N___ger, something like that. This will cause him to spit at you. You then can wipe up the sputum from you face and send it off for DNA analysis and get a definite answer to this urgent racial question. Please let us know when you get the results.

    Replies: @Autochthon, @Hunsdon

    , @Autochthon
    @Organized Chaos

    She should get her money back: the after version is as Jewy as ever.

  25. I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can’t be “sexually harassed” or/and where they can’t trade sex for advancement?

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @27 year old

    Yes and if there's a move to keep women and men out of each other's space while they try to earn a living, maybe people will say "The Handmaid's Tale is not an instruction manual!" the way they often do about Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four?

    , @Moses
    @27 year old

    This is crimethink.

    , @Jim Christian
    @27 year old


    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can’t be “sexually harassed” or/and where they can’t trade sex for advancement?
     
    Leave the workforce? You mean get married? Children, a home, a husband? Only trading up they do is to marry the richest man if she doesn't go to work. If she doesn't work, she must be supported. Maybe we're about to begin a trend where women leave all this, start marrying younger? But the sexual-harassment model we have in place now is ridiculous. It's going to wreck every workplace.
    , @Barnard
    @27 year old

    A lot of women aren't married to men who can solely provide a standard of living that would be acceptable to them. They feel like they have to work.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42

    , @John Pepple
    @27 year old

    I'm pretty sure the feminist line will be that men should leave the workplace, not women.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @27 year old

    , @Buzz Mohawk
    @27 year old

    Another side effect to consider is how men might decide it is best never to be alone in a room with a woman at work or anywhere else. Always have witnesses, in case you get accused of something.

    Hey, how about we all wear body cameras?

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Lugash, @Anon7

    , @Frau Katze
    @27 year old

    You are assuming that all women think this whole exercise is just fine and dandy.

    I’m not that familiar with Keillor, although I’ve heard of him (I’m not an American).

    But the whole thing seems a bit dangerous to me.

    Weinstein was apparently a clear case and it was an open secret.

    Why is it spreading like a witch hunt?

    Don’t assume this will stop at liberal media and entertainment men.

    Is it really fair to very suddenly change the social rules that were the norm for a very long time?

    I worked for 35 years without being harassed. None of my friends have complained of it either.

    Perhaps these well known men thought they could get away with it, unlike your average guy working in a cubicle (think Dilbert).

    Replies: @Kylie, @27 year old

  26. In retrospect, it was just after the closing ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Games that the “end of history” era started to end. The Canadian equivalent of NPR, CBC Radio had Jian Ghomeshi go over to Sochi and host their sneering, anti-Russian, pro-LBGTQ2 coverage.

    I mention him because he turns out to have been the first politically impeccable male feminist media celebrity to be caught up in this kind of news story; the kind that’s now coming in two and threes some days. That was the first time women in media gathered to cast out one of their supposed male allies. Like the others, he turned out to be a predatory perv. It was rough sex and teddy bears in his case.

    It’s interesting how 2014 was the year the ice started to break all over the place both with this stuff and with Pax Americana more broadly. Who could have known we’d end up here? Funny thing is that this ride is far from over. History is back on.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Cagey Beast

    Hey, good comment. I didn't realize the butthurt about the Russian respect for human dignity (as in their disgust for the public promotion of all the BLT/G crap) went back that far. Maybe that started off the whole Lyin' Press/Neocon push for Cold War II.

    I especially liked your:


    Funny thing is that this ride is far from over. History is back on.
     
  27. have you noticed that Collin kaepernik’s jewish biological mother (russo) has had a nose job ?

    It seems that someone doesn’t want the goyim to find out that she is a jew

    i’m willing to bet that the rumor about him being a muslim was spread by the jews (ADL etc) after they found out that kap is a jew under jewish law

    my radar was on fire when i saw ruth bader ginsberg attack him to distance her tribe from him

    that made me look into it and i noticed the nose job

    before the nose job

    Colin got his jew nose from her

    after the nose job

  28. @anony-mouse
    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has 'creepped' in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It's now a 'purge'!

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Beckow, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Space Ghost, @Tex

    “Make this about Jews! Make this about Jews! Love us, hate us but don’t you dare ignore us, even for a second!”

  29. @27 year old
    I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can't be "sexually harassed" or/and where they can't trade sex for advancement?

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Moses, @Jim Christian, @Barnard, @John Pepple, @Buzz Mohawk, @Frau Katze

    Yes and if there’s a move to keep women and men out of each other’s space while they try to earn a living, maybe people will say “The Handmaid’s Tale is not an instruction manual!” the way they often do about Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty Four?

  30. @Thomas
    I've got to say, at least to hear Keillor tell it, what he's alleged to have done is a pretty lame reason to get into trouble, though who knows if there's more and he's merely minimizing?

    “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”

    Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”

    He insisted his discomfort with physical affection was common knowledge, adding, “If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I’d have at least a hundred dollars.”
     
    I suppose he wouldn't be invalidating any stereotypes or aspects of his public persona if touching a bare back is considered racy.

    This comment on another post on this blog made me think:

    The Anti-Gnostic says:
    November 29, 2017 at 8:06 pm GMT
    @Thomas
    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.
     
    Perhaps #MeToo will be the go-to catch-all excuse to get rid of any old male employee or colleague who is past his prime without having to worry about a buy-out, severance, or parting shots. Wouldn't surprise me. How hard can it really be over a long career to find some female co-worker who was "made uncomfortable" at some point by some thing?

    Replies: @Dumbo, @Matthew Kelly, @utu, @whorefinder

    How hard can it really be over a long career to find some female co-worker who was “made uncomfortable” at some point by some thing?

    If all it takes now for “sexual harrassment” is a hand on a woman’s back, I don’t see this ending any time soon. Did any of these recent cases end in prosecution? Was there even a crime committed?

  31. Saw Kiellor talk at the Book Review…phlegmatic….appearance:biological mutant America…just like Rachel Maddow…Did Three Mile Island have something to do with this? For a Science Channel show about this….use polychromatic atonal music for the background music…

    • Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @War for Blair Mountain


    Did Three Mile Island have something to do with this?
     
    Yes, he is the one who personally swallowed large amounts of the problematic nuclear reactor coolant, which averted the catastrophic cascade that would have resulted from the coolant setting Lake Erie on fire, and then lighting up all six of the five Great Lakes because of the film of petroleum byproducts residing upon them. It gave Garrison funky hair and out-of-control eyebrows.
  32. So that’s why he defended Al Franken in his editorial a few days ago in the Wapo. In that same editorial, he described some slave owner from the early 1800’s as being “as ugly as a mud fence.” Garrison calling someone ugly is like Bill Clinton calling someone sexist. That’s how removed both of them are from reality.

    http://time.com/5041509/garrison-keillor-fired-defended-al-franken/

    • Replies: @biz
    @J1234

    Keillor once joked that when he was starting out in broadcasting someone said he had a face made for radio.

  33. It’s funny because on the way home I was thinking about “First they came for Roy Moore, and I did not speak out because I hate Roy Moore . . . ”

    • Replies: @anon
    @Alec Leamas

    Hard to tell if ole Roy! has a sense of humor, but if he has, he must be laughing his black guts out by now.

  34. OT:
    For those still interested in the case, Tony Hovater, the Traditionalist Workers’ Party member and heavy metal drummer interviewed by the New York Times apparently did an extended interview on The Daily Shoah (I know) podcast. You all know how to do a web search if you’re into this ongoing story.

    • Replies: @27 year old
    @Cagey Beast

    Another good time to mention that both he and his wife got fired from their jobs, and there is a crowd funding effort to donate to their family to help them out.

    https://goyfundme.com/projects/hovater-support-fund/

    Replies: @Simple Song

    , @Cagey Beast
    @Cagey Beast

    Don't bother with this podcast, over the 2hrs you probably hear Tony Hovater for about 8 minutes. He sounds quite bright but the regulars on the show have to keep talking over him and digressing into inanities. They could have had anyone on as a guest and the podcast would have been nearly identical.

  35. @27 year old
    I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can't be "sexually harassed" or/and where they can't trade sex for advancement?

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Moses, @Jim Christian, @Barnard, @John Pepple, @Buzz Mohawk, @Frau Katze

    This is crimethink.

  36. National Perv Radio’s Predator Home Companion, where the sexual harassment lawsuits are all above average…

    • Replies: @Brutusale
    @Anonymous

    NPR: No Penis Radio!

  37. All these guys getting ousted appear to be on the spectrum of difficult-to-work-with and had some humiliating/sexually-tinged demeanor that was an “open secret. Political correctness in the workplace has been around for a long time, which suggests a “rules don’t apply to me” attitude. It’s only now their just deserts are being served.

  38. L Woods says:

    When you create a “crime” of which virtually everyone is in one way or another guilty, the question upon one’s fall from grace becomes (like in the USSR) not why, but why now. We already had a version of this with the revelation earlier in the 21st century that any amount of alcohol in a chick’s system means she “cannot consent” (even if she did consent).

    I simply can’t wait to see what they come up with next. Who needs prolefeed when you’ve got this kind of live entertainment.

    • Agree: Autochthon
  39. • Replies: @Tex
    @Anon

    Do Jewish migrants regularly beat up crippled kids? I suppose the prime minister of Malaysia could tweet a picture of George Soros with the caption, "A Jewish migrant beat up my economy."

    Replies: @Autochthon

    , @Cagey Beast
    @Anon

    Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about!

    Q: "Should we fix this faulty elevator?"
    A: "Yes! What if a Jew should get on it?"

    Q: "Is murder wrong?"
    A: "But what if a Jew really needs to kill someone?"
    Q: "Hmmmm...."

    This has become darkly comical.

    I don't think we can build a universal system of ethnics and governance around the two questions: "but is it good for the Jews?" and "how do the Jews fit into all this?". Sorry Jews and sorry monomaniacal anti-Semites, it's not roadworthy as a worldview.

    , @Jack D
    @Anon

    The Trump anti-Muslim tweets have provoked a real political firestorm in the UK - top story there. They were retweeted from some "far right" organization. The controversy is over the source, not whether the film is real. The best that they can do is say that the film is from a few years ago, so it's not really news.

    I was sort of hoping that Bell was being ironic, knowing that Jews don't usually beat up crippled Dutch boys, but no such luck - the man really is a fool.

  40. OT/ Stanford discriminates against whites in financial aid…

    Not happy that people found out..

    https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/stanford-gsb-experience/leadership/dean/statements/data-exposure-financial-aid-practices

  41. The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues. From the New York Times:

    Hmm, I think the single most distinguishing characteristic is old males. Boomer trash/values being discarded by the millenials.

    This is a generational purge. Other than perhaps a 2d trump term, no baby boomer will ever be president again, their time is over.

    That is what is really going on. Just like the greatest generation was over when Clinton came in in 1992, the Baby Boomer generation is over now.

    These millenials want that kinder gentler America, if not world, and are determined to make it happen by rooting out the inherited filth at home.

    More power to them, it is long past due and is part of that Singer thing about our better angels getting better all the time. The internet, the information superconductor, is accelerating the pace of this improvement of humanity. Never again is it going to be ok to be an odious male in power corrupting women.

    Reagan was elected to roll back communism abroad and social degeneration at home. He succeeded brilliantly at the first but failed at the second.

    We should all be happy now show some gratitude for the millenials for finally getting that second part done.

    BTW, you might want to compliment #MeToo people for standing up for treating ladies with decorum and respect, it is a timeless value.

    Remember, I said there was going to be a rebirth of goodness/decency after the Trump election. Not because of it, just because it is a natural part of the sequence. So this is really cool to see play out….

  42. @anony-mouse
    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has 'creepped' in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It's now a 'purge'!

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Beckow, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Space Ghost, @Tex

    It is a purge. When looking back in 2100 the story will go something like this:

    By 2016 Western liberalism got out of control. After achieving total control of culture, media and politics, they dreamt about ever more absurd things. They felt they can change people’s sex lives and other countries’s governments just by talking. They got caught up in cognitive dissonance so massive that they were no longer able to even discuss things. All they wanted was for the ‘others’ (they used worse terms) to be shut down.

    Liberals had everything on their side except results. It wasn’t working. Then a number of real and symbolic setbacks occurred, the most important in the Anglo world were Brexit and Trump.

    Hillary Clinton’s defeat unravelled liberalism. After a short period of emotional screaming and mindless posturing (‘we will reverse the elections!’, ‘treason‘), the inevitable consequences started for the defeated liberals. They were ruthlessly purged and dismissed. Two main pillars of Hillary liberalism: progressive beta males and radical feminists turned on each. That accelerated the purge.

    Ideologies die when they over-reach. It is a purge, enjoy it.

    • Agree: Harry Baldwin
    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Beckow


    It is a purge, enjoy it.
     
    That's what I told my hot, thin girlfriend after dinner one time.
    , @AnotherDad
    @Beckow

    It's a great story Beckow. And dovetails with the current hissy. But there's zero evidence that this crackup--however bizarre and entertaining--dethrones modern "liberalism"--modern managerial multi-culti statism.

    These folks are *firmly* entrenched. It's going to be the hard tedious work of decades--with much better and firmer rhetorical clarity and action than we're getting from any "conservatives" now--to root their noxious poison out. If it gets done at all.

    , @BB753
    @Beckow

    We can't enjoy it as whoever wins the internal struggle gets to stay in power. After all, Stalin and Mao stayed in office after their own purges.
    Only if the purge gets out of control and the liberal power structure collapses will we have a reason to celebrate.

  43. Honestly, where are the women to defend these men? How’s about all the ladies with copies of “Fifty Shades of Gray” under their beds. Nowhere to be found. Stalin, thy name is woman! And vice versa!

  44. Dahlia says:

    My dad is going to be devastated. He was a religious listener and when Keillor’s movie came out, despite having not been to a theater in decades, he was there for the opening weekend.

    They’re even changing the name of his show that Chris Thile (whom I love, btw) took over! I mean, dadgum! What is it that they think you did, Garrison?

    “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”

    Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”

    Putting my bias out there: I believe him. I also want to believe him. I just can’t see any impropriety coming from him.

    An excuse to play this: Keillor’s replacement, Chris Thile, with his band Punch Brothers doing my favorite modern bluegrass song, “Rye Whiskey”

    • Replies: @psmith
    @Dahlia

    Chris Thile is a fine musician, but his speaking voice on the radio is the most insufferably twee bugman shit I've ever heard. I quite liked Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor as a relaxing background soundtrack, but listening to Thile just makes me want to strangle him.

    Replies: @Dahlia, @The Last Real Calvinist

  45. Well, there’s always Bertha’s Pussy Boutique.

  46. I have determined that sexual harassment is a centipede, I mean how many more shoes can drop?

    • LOL: Luke Lea
    • Replies: @Ivy
    @Buffalo Joe

    Now that the big stars like Garrison Keillor are falling, when will we hear about Wolf Blitzer or Chris Hayes? They must be in the backwaters of the swamp.

    Replies: @Daniel H, @Buffalo Joe

  47. I don’t know who this guy is . Is this good or what ?

  48. Anonymous [AKA "Brian Hansen"] says:

    If gay men replace all the straight guys in media, how does this help women and minorities?

  49. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is taking classes to appear more human.
    http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/151388439
    ——-
    I don’t want to be this guy, but if Garrison Keillor successfully sexually assaults you, and you’re neither parapalegic or asleep, was there really nothing you could have done? It probably takes him five minutes to unbutton his fly.

  50. Anonymous [AKA "Seals"] says:

    I still say the lede is getting buried, which is what does it portend for our society when entire lifetimes of work of major media figures and creatives are essentially “expunged from the record”? I don’t believe there is an historic precedent. I can’t imagine what kids in their teens make of all this.
    Imagine one day, Walter Cronkite announces that he believes we lost the Vietnam name war, and a week later he’s fired for flashing an intern. Imagine Carey Grant caught feeling up young boys, his movies thrown on the perv pile for eternity.

    These massive erasures of cultural touchstones can’t… be good!

  51. @Triumph104
    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls.

    Secretary of Defense's wife
    Senator's daughter
    Young girl
    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
    Beyonce

    Replies: @Jim Christian, @Reg Cæsar

    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls.

    Biden is a Democrat VEEP, perhaps more. They have to protect him. Besides, HIS stuff was open. Not to defend him. He may well be the best candidate for the Democrats to run in 20. Imagine that?

    Biden and especially Franken, they are to be spared. Franken, his is delicate, Keith Ellison wants Franken’s seat. So far, the ADL and Senate Republicans and Democrats intend to tolerate the imposition of Franken on the rest of them, same for in The House with Conyers, although there is more clamor for Conyers to go. But Franken and Conyers are symbols if they stay while so many others have to go. Jews and Blacks are tough to dislodge. Look for an intern scandal to pop too. Poor, mistreated, abused 18-22 year olds, 6 weeks on the Hill and back to college. Bet there are stories that emerge for the 11pm news sooner than later. Interesting times indeed. They’re flushing the men down the drain, the very men who got them their privilege.

  52. @Cagey Beast
    OT:
    For those still interested in the case, Tony Hovater, the Traditionalist Workers' Party member and heavy metal drummer interviewed by the New York Times apparently did an extended interview on The Daily Shoah (I know) podcast. You all know how to do a web search if you're into this ongoing story.

    Replies: @27 year old, @Cagey Beast

    Another good time to mention that both he and his wife got fired from their jobs, and there is a crowd funding effort to donate to their family to help them out.

    https://goyfundme.com/projects/hovater-support-fund/

    • Replies: @Simple Song
    @27 year old

    Off topic--could somebody start a business for the purpose of employing PC refugees? (That is, people who have been fired due to PC?) Like, some low key business hidden away in Idaho that you can go work at if you lose everything in one of these witch hunts? An economic safe-house, basically.

  53. @Wilkey
    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    Well if he was all about bashing the Jews it's funny that he has yet to mention Matt Lauer.

    Weinstein was a powerful Hollywood (and yes, Jewish) mogul whose escapades were far more interesting in what they said about a Hollywood than all those that have come out since. Pervs - Killor, Lauer, Spacey, etc. - are a dime a dozen. Using your position atop a major Hollywood studio to hand out stardom based on the granting of sexual favors? That's a blockbuster.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @International Jew, @Karl

    I think that this only could have happened because of an undiscussed background diminution of Hollywood’s status, power and income. Every day brings stories about people not seeing movies as often as they used to.

  54. where is my comment about Miss Russo ?

  55. @Triumph104
    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls.

    Secretary of Defense's wife
    Senator's daughter
    Young girl
    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
    Beyonce

    Replies: @Jim Christian, @Reg Cæsar

    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls…

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

    Bulgarian meets vulgarian!

    Well, that’s why he’s vice president. Someone has finally discovered what the position is for.

    But Jew-mah… that’s awfully desperate, even for Biden.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Reg Cæsar

    There is a huge series of photos of Biden getting objectively too close to women and girls at photo ops and bill signings. It was spun as a result of him losing family members in karmic accidents but they predate the accidents.

    , @whorefinder
    @Reg Cæsar

    A favorite Joe Biden quote I heard was right around when Obama was elected in 2008. Joe claimed Obama had offered him either the VP slot or the Sec of State slot, and Joe chose the VP slot.

    It was so hilariously unbelievable I never forgot it. The idea that Obama would put a human gaffe machine like Biden in charge of foreign policy was astounding---remember this was not too long after Biden torpedoed his own campaign with the "articulate and clean" comments about Obama. Or the idea that some ambitious pol would not choose the Sec of State spot over the meaningless VP slot---Joe really expects us to believe that.

    Biden was a good choice for VP by Obama, however. He was instant assassination insurance, because--- no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama--- nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Intelligent Dasein

    , @AKAHorace
    @Reg Cæsar

    Vice president Pence is starting to look very prescient now with his insistence on not meeting women without his wife.

    Replies: @whorefinder

  56. Dang. Is there a groper/perv-pool, or prediction market. I’m gonna go with Michael Moore for the next round. Maybe one of the Friends dudes, Larry Ellison, and, uh, Green, that one guy who writes all the teen girl novels.

    This should be fun. Was Ashley Judd in the Times the Straw That Broke The Camels back?

    Mike Pence must be shaking his damn head.

  57. I never liked Keillor.

    I saw an interview with him once on Charlie Rose (hah!) and he struck me as pompous, pretentious and arrogant. He’s one of those liberals who talks very slowly to ensure that all his stupid inferiors get the profound wisdom of what he’s saying.

    That being said, on the couple of instances that I heard his show on NPR, I did have to admit he had some genuine old-school, 1930s-type radio talent — the ability to rivet the listener with merely a microphone, a monologue and an act.

    I don’t know if he’s a perv or not, but he never stuck me as one. I’d be inclined to think that as the sexual harassment witch hunt goes on, there’s going to be some innocent people accused of sorcery, particularly if the accuser has an attorney and sees dollar signs.

    Keillor just might be one such victim. There will surely be others.

    • Replies: @Dahlia
    @Dr. X

    I'm profoundly disturbed by the reactions to these accusations against Garrison Keillor.

    I watched a Minnesota local broadcast, read Chris Thile's reaction, and scrolled through dozens and dozens on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/search?q=garrison&src=typd

    There's been sadness, gloating, disappointment in him, and even more gloating, but I couldn't find a *SINGLE* person speak up and wonder if, well, maybe, just maybe, he's innocent? Maybe perhaps listen to his side and consider the fact that he does indeed deny it? He may be lying, but *nobody* is speaking out and saying he may be telling the truth.

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics, but it was enough to get hacks happy about his downfall. And the liberal side is weird. You've got many who are "concerned" and "disappointed", but, "Believe the women" and all that, so he's gotta go. And then there are these others who are looking for non-liberal things he did or said in the past and using those to justify to themselves why he's really always been a bad man (and they just didn't realize it) and he needs to go.

    Buckle up, this Hysteria still has some more mileage left in it. The man is a decades-long institution and yet he's just being so unceremoniously abandoned and humiliated over one accusation which he claims he's innocent of. Talk about fair-weather friends.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @PSR, @anonguy, @Anonymous, @SteveRogers42

  58. @27 year old
    I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can't be "sexually harassed" or/and where they can't trade sex for advancement?

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Moses, @Jim Christian, @Barnard, @John Pepple, @Buzz Mohawk, @Frau Katze

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can’t be “sexually harassed” or/and where they can’t trade sex for advancement?

    Leave the workforce? You mean get married? Children, a home, a husband? Only trading up they do is to marry the richest man if she doesn’t go to work. If she doesn’t work, she must be supported. Maybe we’re about to begin a trend where women leave all this, start marrying younger? But the sexual-harassment model we have in place now is ridiculous. It’s going to wreck every workplace.

  59. @Buffalo Joe
    I have determined that sexual harassment is a centipede, I mean how many more shoes can drop?

    Replies: @Ivy

    Now that the big stars like Garrison Keillor are falling, when will we hear about Wolf Blitzer or Chris Hayes? They must be in the backwaters of the swamp.

    • Replies: @Daniel H
    @Ivy

    >>Now that the big stars like Garrison Keillor are falling, when will we hear about Wolf Blitzer or Chris Hayes?

    Hayes has got that wounded, pussy-whipped demeanor. Probably lives in terror of his wife. Don't think we will here anything from him.

    , @Buffalo Joe
    @Ivy

    Ivy, I'm not the best looking guy around, but Weinstein and Keillor are dog butt ugly. This may be the only way they can get woman to notice them, you know, molest them.

  60. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @anony-mouse
    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has 'creepped' in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It's now a 'purge'!

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Beckow, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Space Ghost, @Tex

    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    A few weeks ago, as you know, there were a hell of a lot less heads that were chopped off, yet Jews are still over represented in matters of abhorrent behavior towards white women.

    If you’re interested, as you seem to be, in undermining the common perception of abhorrently negative Jewish stereotypes, you time would be far better spent refraining from portraying the role of “cynical self-involved manipulative Jew.” I think it may pay you far more significant dividends in the long run.

    Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa’s. It’s getting embarrassing.

    Yours forever,
    White Protestant Justice Warrior

    • Replies: @Karl
    @Anonymous

    20 Anonymous > Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa’s. It’s getting embarrassing.


    Yeah, there they were, just trying to be great McDonalds employees in Ohio, and you FORCED them to dream about making it big in Hollywood!


    Mouse, I want to make this right between us. i'll give you Rachel Maddow to play with.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Anon

    , @AndrewR
    @Anonymous

    If Lupita Nyongo's account is accurate, Weinstein wasn't just predatory towards the Aryan girls

  61. I used to listen to Keillor, but get disgusted with him when he came out in full-throated support of Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. Then it turned out Keillor was a serial adulterer, so of course he’d stick up for Slick Willy.

    Keillor has been married three times and had numerous affairs:

    To Mary Guntzel, from 1965 to 1976.

    To Ulla Skaerved, from 1985 to 1990. Keillor is mildly notorious for having dumped his long-time lover and Prairie Home Companion producer Margaret Moos to marry Ulla. The marriage failed when Keillor had an affair with his Danish language teacher.

    His current wife, violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson, from his hometown of Anoka, whom he married in 1995.

    BTW, what about George W. Bush, who molested Angela Merkel at a G8 meeting, giving her an unwanted back rub? Can we disgrace him, too?

    • Replies: @Dr. X
    @Harry Baldwin


    His current wife, violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson, from his hometown of Anoka, whom he married in 1995.
     
    Wow, the big NPR liberal Keillor and his third wife are from Anoka? I only know of it as the home of Federal Cartridge Corporation. Great ammunition! Small world, whaddya know...
    , @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @Harry Baldwin


    BTW, what about George W. Bush, who molested Angela Merkel at a G8 meeting, giving her an unwanted back rub? Can we disgrace him, too?
     
    We can, but GWB has disgraced himself far beyond the meager measures we can offer. GWB is a servant of the vile serpent called globalism. It is his service to that underlord of the great deceiver for which he will have to account before the Great White Throne.

    No matter how you spin it, betrayal is not a virtue.
  62. Don’t care. Let him burn, the piece of commie trash.

    The best part about all these purges is that while a few non-lefties are getting swept up, most have been lefties. And many lefties are feeling “pressure to resign” and give up, like Franken and Conyers, or just plain fired without trial, like Matt Lauer. They all were supposed to be better than this, and they acted worse because their politics gave them get out of jail free cards.

    Non-lefties simply shrug their shoulders and say, “unless it’s rape or assault, sex harassment is just a dude acting horny and rude and women getting prissy about it.” It’s why Roy Moore is leading in Alabama and Trump is in the White House but Franken has groveled.

    Make yourselves anti-fragile, boys.

    Related: perhaps feminazis, when they scream about constantly being harassed at work/school/life aren’t being completely delusional, but they just don’t realize that they live/work/study in a bubble. Non-lefty men rarely (if ever) act like this, but in the industries dominated by the left—Corporate media, Hollywood, academia—-horny lefty men act like this all the time, so feminazis think all men/environments are this creepy.

    Also related: whenever lefties these days scream about abusive worker conditions and feudal-like job structures, non-lefties are mystified. But in Corporate Media, Hollywood, and Academia, that’s exactly the kind of job structure: 90% of the workers eke by on nothing and live in squalor while being exploited by their bosses, while the top 10% live like decadent princes who do what they like to anyone. Most non-lefty industries aren’t like that.

    So I think a major feminism disconnect is that feminists are in industries and places where men do act like horny lecherous pervs and/or force themselves on women as a matter of course, but those industries are actually the exception rather than the rule when it comes to the average american’s life. The feminazi bubble-environment then reinforce the crazy notions of feminists.

  63. I wonder who is coordinating this “witch hunt”?

    • Replies: @newrouter
    @newrouter

    "They" tried this gambit on Trump and failed. "They" tried it on Moore and you get this blowback. Interesting.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42

    , @tsotha
    @newrouter


    I wonder who is coordinating this “witch hunt”?
     
    I would guess the American Bar Association.
  64. @Thomas
    I've got to say, at least to hear Keillor tell it, what he's alleged to have done is a pretty lame reason to get into trouble, though who knows if there's more and he's merely minimizing?

    “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”

    Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”

    He insisted his discomfort with physical affection was common knowledge, adding, “If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I’d have at least a hundred dollars.”
     
    I suppose he wouldn't be invalidating any stereotypes or aspects of his public persona if touching a bare back is considered racy.

    This comment on another post on this blog made me think:

    The Anti-Gnostic says:
    November 29, 2017 at 8:06 pm GMT
    @Thomas
    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.
     
    Perhaps #MeToo will be the go-to catch-all excuse to get rid of any old male employee or colleague who is past his prime without having to worry about a buy-out, severance, or parting shots. Wouldn't surprise me. How hard can it really be over a long career to find some female co-worker who was "made uncomfortable" at some point by some thing?

    Replies: @Dumbo, @Matthew Kelly, @utu, @whorefinder

    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.

    That was exactly my first thought when I saw his name come up as the next victim of this latest installment of the Salem Witch Trials.

    • Replies: @Space Ghost
    @Matthew Kelly

    "Salem" is an anagram of "Males". Someone alert Nick Land.

  65. Anon • Disclaimer says:

    I remember saying after the election of Trump that the most interesting part was going to be the civil war among the Democrats, but I didn’t expect it to go like this. Rumor has it that the worst of the in-fighting is only beginning.

    Since the vast quantity of patronage jobs the liberals expected to gain from a Hillary win didn’t happen, what then? Patronage, bribery, graft and helping your own kind are absolutely central to Democratic politics. It’s the glue that holds the Democratic coalition of the fringes together. It looks like the weaker and younger liberals are conducting an internal purge to destroy the top liberal power-holders in an attempt to seize their jobs.

    This is not going to be pretty. Leftist purges never are. Robespierre, Stalin, it’s all a-comin’. It’ll stop when the slots are all filled with a new liberal elite who will turn the purge off once they have their own positions secure.

    • Agree: AndrewR
  66. @Wilkey
    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    Well if he was all about bashing the Jews it's funny that he has yet to mention Matt Lauer.

    Weinstein was a powerful Hollywood (and yes, Jewish) mogul whose escapades were far more interesting in what they said about a Hollywood than all those that have come out since. Pervs - Killor, Lauer, Spacey, etc. - are a dime a dozen. Using your position atop a major Hollywood studio to hand out stardom based on the granting of sexual favors? That's a blockbuster.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @International Jew, @Karl

    Agree. It’s been all downhill since Harvey.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @International Jew

    Has anybody else besides Weinstein called an ex-PM of Israel to connect him with the Mossad Squad to silence his enemies list 0f 91 personal enemies?

    That's a tough standard to match ...

    So far this scandal has been anti-climactic. But maybe there is some good stuff still out there waiting to be revealed.

    Replies: @International Jew

  67. @anony-mouse
    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has 'creepped' in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It's now a 'purge'!

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Beckow, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Space Ghost, @Tex

    Actually, Stalin’s purges also started with Jews (mostly) but then, once in full swing, moved onto goys (mostly).

  68. @Thomas
    I've got to say, at least to hear Keillor tell it, what he's alleged to have done is a pretty lame reason to get into trouble, though who knows if there's more and he's merely minimizing?

    “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”

    Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”

    He insisted his discomfort with physical affection was common knowledge, adding, “If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I’d have at least a hundred dollars.”
     
    I suppose he wouldn't be invalidating any stereotypes or aspects of his public persona if touching a bare back is considered racy.

    This comment on another post on this blog made me think:

    The Anti-Gnostic says:
    November 29, 2017 at 8:06 pm GMT
    @Thomas
    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.
     
    Perhaps #MeToo will be the go-to catch-all excuse to get rid of any old male employee or colleague who is past his prime without having to worry about a buy-out, severance, or parting shots. Wouldn't surprise me. How hard can it really be over a long career to find some female co-worker who was "made uncomfortable" at some point by some thing?

    Replies: @Dumbo, @Matthew Kelly, @utu, @whorefinder

    and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches

    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?

    Other thing: how long ago was it that it surfaced now? Any connection to his defense of Franken?

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @utu


    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?
     
    Keillor is a tall man ('6'4"). If she was moving slightly forward when he tried to pat her on the back then his natural reaction would be to go both upwards (towards his own height to be comfortable) as his hand tried to follow her. It's just the sort of awkward thing an awkward tall guy might do. And if he doesn't realize her shirt is open or he's just too awkward to stop himself he hits skin.

    It's rather Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I can see it.

    that said, let Rapey Garrison burn with the rest of 'em.

    Replies: @utu, @tsotha, @Inquiring Mind, @SteveRogers42

  69. @Reg Cæsar
    @Triumph104


    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls...

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
     
    Bulgarian meets vulgarian!

    Well, that's why he's vice president. Someone has finally discovered what the position is for.

    But Jew-mah... that's awfully desperate, even for Biden.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @whorefinder, @AKAHorace

    There is a huge series of photos of Biden getting objectively too close to women and girls at photo ops and bill signings. It was spun as a result of him losing family members in karmic accidents but they predate the accidents.

  70. @Reg Cæsar
    @Triumph104


    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls...

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
     
    Bulgarian meets vulgarian!

    Well, that's why he's vice president. Someone has finally discovered what the position is for.

    But Jew-mah... that's awfully desperate, even for Biden.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @whorefinder, @AKAHorace

    A favorite Joe Biden quote I heard was right around when Obama was elected in 2008. Joe claimed Obama had offered him either the VP slot or the Sec of State slot, and Joe chose the VP slot.

    It was so hilariously unbelievable I never forgot it. The idea that Obama would put a human gaffe machine like Biden in charge of foreign policy was astounding—remember this was not too long after Biden torpedoed his own campaign with the “articulate and clean” comments about Obama. Or the idea that some ambitious pol would not choose the Sec of State spot over the meaningless VP slot—Joe really expects us to believe that.

    Biden was a good choice for VP by Obama, however. He was instant assassination insurance, because— no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama— nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.

    • Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @whorefinder


    no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama— nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president
     
    Well, you have something there, but if I had to choose between a corrupt idiot like Biden as president and a venal, virtue-free, and vicious corrupt idiot like Hillary as president I would choose the former.
    , @Intelligent Dasein
    @whorefinder


    He was instant assassination insurance, because— no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama— nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.
     
    This could not be more inaccurate. Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration. I would have taken Biden a thousand times over a sneering, contemptuous Farquaad like Obama. Besides which, corruption and idiocy are by no means undesirable traits to have in a president. As long as the president is beholden to various other forces who can check and control him, the citizens enjoy a measure of liberty. A hypothetical 8 years of Biden would have been gold compared to what we actually endured with Obama.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @whorefinder

  71. Matt Lauer accused of sexting NBC intern and staffers

    NBC News President Andy Lack said in a meeting with staff Wednesday that Lauer’s involvement with the woman, who has not been named but is still an NBC employee, continued after they returned to New York.

    That’s returned from Sochi in 2014 — it (the “involvement”) was all so traumatic she still works at NBC nearly four years later…

  72. @27 year old
    I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can't be "sexually harassed" or/and where they can't trade sex for advancement?

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Moses, @Jim Christian, @Barnard, @John Pepple, @Buzz Mohawk, @Frau Katze

    A lot of women aren’t married to men who can solely provide a standard of living that would be acceptable to them. They feel like they have to work.

    • Replies: @SteveRogers42
    @Barnard

    If women leave the work force, the labor pool shrinks and wages will rise, perhaps to the point that a married man could reasonably be expected to earn enough to provide for his family.

  73. OT

    Brief reminder: Please consider donating to Tony Hovater and his wife — after the NYT piece, he was fired.

    Another reminder: well over $100k was raised for thug DeAndre Harris.

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @eah

    Have a look at the tweets below this one. Real sweeties. Nice White ladies are heavily represented in the schadenfreude brigade, of course.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/936031532724170754

    , @eah
    @eah

    https://twitter.com/TOOEdit/status/936359567922827264

  74. Dahlia says:
    @Dr. X
    I never liked Keillor.

    I saw an interview with him once on Charlie Rose (hah!) and he struck me as pompous, pretentious and arrogant. He's one of those liberals who talks very slowly to ensure that all his stupid inferiors get the profound wisdom of what he's saying.

    That being said, on the couple of instances that I heard his show on NPR, I did have to admit he had some genuine old-school, 1930s-type radio talent -- the ability to rivet the listener with merely a microphone, a monologue and an act.

    I don't know if he's a perv or not, but he never stuck me as one. I'd be inclined to think that as the sexual harassment witch hunt goes on, there's going to be some innocent people accused of sorcery, particularly if the accuser has an attorney and sees dollar signs.

    Keillor just might be one such victim. There will surely be others.

    Replies: @Dahlia

    I’m profoundly disturbed by the reactions to these accusations against Garrison Keillor.

    I watched a Minnesota local broadcast, read Chris Thile’s reaction, and scrolled through dozens and dozens on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/search?q=garrison&src=typd

    There’s been sadness, gloating, disappointment in him, and even more gloating, but I couldn’t find a *SINGLE* person speak up and wonder if, well, maybe, just maybe, he’s innocent? Maybe perhaps listen to his side and consider the fact that he does indeed deny it? He may be lying, but *nobody* is speaking out and saying he may be telling the truth.

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics, but it was enough to get hacks happy about his downfall. And the liberal side is weird. You’ve got many who are “concerned” and “disappointed”, but, “Believe the women” and all that, so he’s gotta go. And then there are these others who are looking for non-liberal things he did or said in the past and using those to justify to themselves why he’s really always been a bad man (and they just didn’t realize it) and he needs to go.

    Buckle up, this Hysteria still has some more mileage left in it. The man is a decades-long institution and yet he’s just being so unceremoniously abandoned and humiliated over one accusation which he claims he’s innocent of. Talk about fair-weather friends.

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @Dahlia


    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics
     
    OMG are you insane? He was a political hack half the time, and semi-hard lefty.

    No quarter for the left, they gave/give no quarter to us. Rapey Garrison should burn.
    , @PSR
    @Dahlia

    "Seldom dabbled in liberal politics?" Oh please, he was so bitter and venomous about the George Bush presidency, and couldn't keep his anger out of his show, I finally had to quit listening to PHC. I have no idea if he's innocent or guilty of real sexual harassment but he IS a big time knee-jerk leftist.

    Replies: @Dahlia, @Jim Don Bob

    , @anonguy
    @Dahlia


    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics,
     
    C'mon....
    , @Anonymous
    @Dahlia

    It doesn't seem that he has even defended himself. He did say that things did not happen as they were being portrayed, and that he had simply accidentally slid his hand under a woman's shirt or something. But from what I've read, he still seemed resigned and apologetic.

    It is all well and good for a man to apologize if he accidentally touches a woman in a manner that she will reasonably interpret as sexual. But according to him, he did that, years ago, and he says that she accepted his apology.

    If that is the case... then he should have defended himself NOW. He should have stood up and said forthrightly that her current accusations were inappropriate. That she is now wrong, and he is now right.

    If he speaks the truth about the incident, and apologized, and the woman accepted his apology and thereafter treated him as a friend, then her current accusations deserve condemnation. He is either lying about what happened, or he is acting with cowardice, perhaps supposing that if he slinks away his reputation won't be too harmed. And his reputation probably would be harmed if did the right thing and condemned the accusations. But to act wrongly in order to preserve your reputation is cowardice. Other men will suffer the effects of his cowardice.

    Replies: @utu, @SteveRogers42

    , @SteveRogers42
    @Dahlia

    An "institution" for being a sanctimonious left-wing prick.

    Toughski Shitski, as they say in the Polish Marine Corps.

  75. say what u want about Keillor: he literally invented an art form. He’s F’n brilliant

    • Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @Meretricious

    "say what u want about Keillor: he literally invented an art form. He’s F’n brilliant"

    I beg to disagree.

    Freeman Gosdon and Charles Correll beat him to it in the 1920's.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy

    Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist

  76. Anonymous [AKA "Zox"] says:

    Just in terms of common decency, you don’t fuck around with an intern. They are a desperate, captive audience with zero power in the corporate world. Screwing around with one means you’re significantly divested from reality. Doesn’t matter if they’re flirting with you or not.

    That said, I thought Laur went off the reservation when he started shaving his head. Coupled with his growing arrogant attitude, he began traipsing about like a mean foppish Little Lord Fauntleroy.

    However, to err on the side of compassion, it must be tough to know Tom Cruise is laughing at you.

    • Replies: @Guy de Champlagne
    @Anonymous

    This intern apparently wasn't so powerless since she had the power to get things from Matt Lauer.

  77. @Wilkey
    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    Well if he was all about bashing the Jews it's funny that he has yet to mention Matt Lauer.

    Weinstein was a powerful Hollywood (and yes, Jewish) mogul whose escapades were far more interesting in what they said about a Hollywood than all those that have come out since. Pervs - Killor, Lauer, Spacey, etc. - are a dime a dozen. Using your position atop a major Hollywood studio to hand out stardom based on the granting of sexual favors? That's a blockbuster.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @International Jew, @Karl

    6 Wilkey > Using your position atop a major Hollywood studio to hand out stardom based on the granting of sexual favors?

    yeah, just think about all those multitude of corners of the entertainment and culture businessii, where meritocracy is the rule.

    • LOL: Autochthon
  78. @newrouter
    I wonder who is coordinating this "witch hunt"?

    Replies: @newrouter, @tsotha

    “They” tried this gambit on Trump and failed. “They” tried it on Moore and you get this blowback. Interesting.

    • Replies: @SteveRogers42
    @newrouter

    Somehow, in some way, I think The Don pushed the first domino over.

    Much as he recently did with the Saudis.

  79. @Thomas
    I've got to say, at least to hear Keillor tell it, what he's alleged to have done is a pretty lame reason to get into trouble, though who knows if there's more and he's merely minimizing?

    “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”

    Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”

    He insisted his discomfort with physical affection was common knowledge, adding, “If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I’d have at least a hundred dollars.”
     
    I suppose he wouldn't be invalidating any stereotypes or aspects of his public persona if touching a bare back is considered racy.

    This comment on another post on this blog made me think:

    The Anti-Gnostic says:
    November 29, 2017 at 8:06 pm GMT
    @Thomas
    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.
     
    Perhaps #MeToo will be the go-to catch-all excuse to get rid of any old male employee or colleague who is past his prime without having to worry about a buy-out, severance, or parting shots. Wouldn't surprise me. How hard can it really be over a long career to find some female co-worker who was "made uncomfortable" at some point by some thing?

    Replies: @Dumbo, @Matthew Kelly, @utu, @whorefinder

    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.

    Not a bad thought. Was Weinstein not generating the hits like he used to? Was Charlie Rose a pain at CBS? Was Lauer actually dragging the Today show down, at least in the eyes of some upper-level V.P.?

    We also can’t forget that jealousy and career-back-stabbing come into play. Ann Curry got axed because Lauer didn’t like her—was this some revenge by her or one of her friends? Was she a victim of Lauer’s who didn’t play ball?

    At this point, if you’re in corporate media or Hollywood and you’ve got a big name star who isn’t producing, leaking some sexual harassment stuff on them might be a great way to rid you of them. And they all do. No man gets into a position of power and fame like these losers and doesn’t have at least one slip up where he tries to bed a woman and things go awry.

  80. @Dahlia
    My dad is going to be devastated. He was a religious listener and when Keillor's movie came out, despite having not been to a theater in decades, he was there for the opening weekend.

    They're even changing the name of his show that Chris Thile (whom I love, btw) took over! I mean, dadgum! What is it that they think you did, Garrison?

    “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it.”

    Mr. Keillor claimed that they continued to be friends “right up until her lawyer called.”
     
    Putting my bias out there: I believe him. I also want to believe him. I just can't see any impropriety coming from him.

    An excuse to play this: Keillor's replacement, Chris Thile, with his band Punch Brothers doing my favorite modern bluegrass song, "Rye Whiskey"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=braQeLkJUvE

    Replies: @psmith

    Chris Thile is a fine musician, but his speaking voice on the radio is the most insufferably twee bugman shit I’ve ever heard. I quite liked Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor as a relaxing background soundtrack, but listening to Thile just makes me want to strangle him.

    • Replies: @Dahlia
    @psmith

    I laughed! Yeah, he's so different from Keillor. They come from such completely different generations, don't they?

    Oh, he's so phenomenal on the mandolin! Winner of a MacArthur "Genius Grant":
    https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/10/chris-thile-talks-earning-macarthur-fellowship.html

    , @The Last Real Calvinist
    @psmith

    Keillor does have a nice sonorous baritone voice; it's good for radio.

    I went to youtube and listened to a clip of Thile, and it didn't take very long for me to agree heartily with your assessment.

  81. @utu
    @Thomas

    and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches

    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?

    Other thing: how long ago was it that it surfaced now? Any connection to his defense of Franken?

    Replies: @whorefinder

    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?

    Keillor is a tall man (‘6’4″). If she was moving slightly forward when he tried to pat her on the back then his natural reaction would be to go both upwards (towards his own height to be comfortable) as his hand tried to follow her. It’s just the sort of awkward thing an awkward tall guy might do. And if he doesn’t realize her shirt is open or he’s just too awkward to stop himself he hits skin.

    It’s rather Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I can see it.

    that said, let Rapey Garrison burn with the rest of ’em.

    • Replies: @utu
    @whorefinder

    I still do not see it. If his hand got under her shirt and touched her bare skin by moving 6 inches up his hand must have started on her buttocks. And what does it mean that her shirt was open? Open where?

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    , @tsotha
    @whorefinder

    And yet... if you took that to a lawyer, even a hungry one, he'd laugh in your face. He's lying, or at least leaving out important parts.

    , @Inquiring Mind
    @whorefinder

    The geometry and mechanics of Mr. Keillor's admission to an accidental grope? What is this, the Zapruder film?

    , @SteveRogers42
    @whorefinder

    Yeah, he was mindin' his own bidness, not doin' nothin' to no one, and then all of a sudden -- whoops! -- tripped and fell into her vagina.

    Yeah, that's the ticket!

  82. @Dahlia
    @Dr. X

    I'm profoundly disturbed by the reactions to these accusations against Garrison Keillor.

    I watched a Minnesota local broadcast, read Chris Thile's reaction, and scrolled through dozens and dozens on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/search?q=garrison&src=typd

    There's been sadness, gloating, disappointment in him, and even more gloating, but I couldn't find a *SINGLE* person speak up and wonder if, well, maybe, just maybe, he's innocent? Maybe perhaps listen to his side and consider the fact that he does indeed deny it? He may be lying, but *nobody* is speaking out and saying he may be telling the truth.

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics, but it was enough to get hacks happy about his downfall. And the liberal side is weird. You've got many who are "concerned" and "disappointed", but, "Believe the women" and all that, so he's gotta go. And then there are these others who are looking for non-liberal things he did or said in the past and using those to justify to themselves why he's really always been a bad man (and they just didn't realize it) and he needs to go.

    Buckle up, this Hysteria still has some more mileage left in it. The man is a decades-long institution and yet he's just being so unceremoniously abandoned and humiliated over one accusation which he claims he's innocent of. Talk about fair-weather friends.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @PSR, @anonguy, @Anonymous, @SteveRogers42

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics

    OMG are you insane? He was a political hack half the time, and semi-hard lefty.

    No quarter for the left, they gave/give no quarter to us. Rapey Garrison should burn.

  83. @Anonymous
    @anony-mouse


    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

     

    A few weeks ago, as you know, there were a hell of a lot less heads that were chopped off, yet Jews are still over represented in matters of abhorrent behavior towards white women.

    If you’re interested, as you seem to be, in undermining the common perception of abhorrently negative Jewish stereotypes, you time would be far better spent refraining from portraying the role of "cynical self-involved manipulative Jew." I think it may pay you far more significant dividends in the long run.

    Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa's. It’s getting embarrassing.

    Yours forever,
    White Protestant Justice Warrior

    Replies: @Karl, @AndrewR

    20 Anonymous > Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa’s. It’s getting embarrassing.

    Yeah, there they were, just trying to be great McDonalds employees in Ohio, and you FORCED them to dream about making it big in Hollywood!

    Mouse, I want to make this right between us. i’ll give you Rachel Maddow to play with.

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @Karl


    Mouse, I want to make this right between us. i’ll give you Rachel Maddow to play with.
     
    We goyim are dumb, but we're not that dumb.

    Incidentally, isn't it amazing that when talking about race-mixing, blacks and ((certain people))) talk about equality, as if they're trying to pawn off their inferior, less-desired, uglier, more masculine women as an equal trade for the better-looking, smarter, more feminine white women?

    It's almost like they're trying to sucker us.

    , @Anon
    @Karl

    I don't think they dreamt about making that big...

    Is it possible all we have here is a simple misunderstanding?

  84. @anony-mouse
    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has 'creepped' in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It's now a 'purge'!

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Beckow, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Space Ghost, @Tex

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    What makes you think Sailer gives a damn about these guys?

    They are libby-dibs.

    I hope this never ends. It’s cracking me up.

    Too bad Mr. Rogers is dead. He might have gotten accused too.

    Maybe it will catch on with muppets and fictional characters.

    Miss Piggy accusing Count Dracula and Cookie Monster.

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @Anon


    Maybe it will catch on with muppets and fictional characters.

    Miss Piggy accusing Count Dracula and Cookie Monster

     

    If anything, Kermit has a strong suit for sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking against Miss Piggy. #greenlivesmatter

    Replies: @Anon

  85. @Anonymous
    @anony-mouse


    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

     

    A few weeks ago, as you know, there were a hell of a lot less heads that were chopped off, yet Jews are still over represented in matters of abhorrent behavior towards white women.

    If you’re interested, as you seem to be, in undermining the common perception of abhorrently negative Jewish stereotypes, you time would be far better spent refraining from portraying the role of "cynical self-involved manipulative Jew." I think it may pay you far more significant dividends in the long run.

    Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa's. It’s getting embarrassing.

    Yours forever,
    White Protestant Justice Warrior

    Replies: @Karl, @AndrewR

    If Lupita Nyongo’s account is accurate, Weinstein wasn’t just predatory towards the Aryan girls

  86. @International Jew
    @The Last Real Calvinist

    Yeah, I tried reading one of his books and it was boring. But on the radio, I always liked him. He's a great storyteller, and his skits — the pretend cowboy, Cafe Boeuf, etc — are great.

    I realized about fifteen years ago that he was an idiot on politics, but I've managed to ignore that part because he mostly kept his politics out of his act.

    Replies: @Hibernian

    I’d say a leftist slant was evident when I witnessed a show by him in Evanston IL. (Affluent Chicago suburb and home of Northwestern U.)

  87. @Harry Baldwin
    I used to listen to Keillor, but get disgusted with him when he came out in full-throated support of Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. Then it turned out Keillor was a serial adulterer, so of course he'd stick up for Slick Willy.

    Keillor has been married three times and had numerous affairs:

    To Mary Guntzel, from 1965 to 1976.

    To Ulla Skaerved, from 1985 to 1990. Keillor is mildly notorious for having dumped his long-time lover and Prairie Home Companion producer Margaret Moos to marry Ulla. The marriage failed when Keillor had an affair with his Danish language teacher.

    His current wife, violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson, from his hometown of Anoka, whom he married in 1995.

    BTW, what about George W. Bush, who molested Angela Merkel at a G8 meeting, giving her an unwanted back rub? Can we disgrace him, too?

    Replies: @Dr. X, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    His current wife, violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson, from his hometown of Anoka, whom he married in 1995.

    Wow, the big NPR liberal Keillor and his third wife are from Anoka? I only know of it as the home of Federal Cartridge Corporation. Great ammunition! Small world, whaddya know…

  88. ““I put my hand on a woman’s bare back,” he wrote. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled.”

    I have a hard time visualizing this scene. Why is her back bare? Her shirt was open how and where? Unbuttoned? On her back? On her front? “my hand went up it [her shirt? her naked back?] about six inches”: about six inches up from where? the small of her back? A writer’s vague description like this makes one think of the ancient Chinese proverb, “A video is worth a thousand words.”

  89. @Karl
    @Anonymous

    20 Anonymous > Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa’s. It’s getting embarrassing.


    Yeah, there they were, just trying to be great McDonalds employees in Ohio, and you FORCED them to dream about making it big in Hollywood!


    Mouse, I want to make this right between us. i'll give you Rachel Maddow to play with.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Anon

    Mouse, I want to make this right between us. i’ll give you Rachel Maddow to play with.

    We goyim are dumb, but we’re not that dumb.

    Incidentally, isn’t it amazing that when talking about race-mixing, blacks and ((certain people))) talk about equality, as if they’re trying to pawn off their inferior, less-desired, uglier, more masculine women as an equal trade for the better-looking, smarter, more feminine white women?

    It’s almost like they’re trying to sucker us.

  90. @27 year old
    I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can't be "sexually harassed" or/and where they can't trade sex for advancement?

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Moses, @Jim Christian, @Barnard, @John Pepple, @Buzz Mohawk, @Frau Katze

    I’m pretty sure the feminist line will be that men should leave the workplace, not women.

    • Agree: Barnard
    • Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @John Pepple

    LOL

    , @27 year old
    @John Pepple

    Women will also reject an all female workplace.

    Replies: @Jack D

  91. @anony-mouse
    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has 'creepped' in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It's now a 'purge'!

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Beckow, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Space Ghost, @Tex

    Today I learned “accidentally touching a woman on the back” once is equivalent in your mind to rape, coerced sex, forced voyeurism, jerking off into potted plants, etc.

  92. @Anon
    @anony-mouse

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    What makes you think Sailer gives a damn about these guys?

    They are libby-dibs.

    I hope this never ends. It's cracking me up.

    Too bad Mr. Rogers is dead. He might have gotten accused too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2P16LXA94

    Maybe it will catch on with muppets and fictional characters.

    Miss Piggy accusing Count Dracula and Cookie Monster.

    Replies: @whorefinder

    Maybe it will catch on with muppets and fictional characters.

    Miss Piggy accusing Count Dracula and Cookie Monster

    If anything, Kermit has a strong suit for sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking against Miss Piggy. #greenlivesmatter

    • Replies: @Anon
    @whorefinder

    Feminists should take this in other directions.

    Fat or ugly women should lodge complaints of Sexual Neglect or Attention Exclusion. They felt bad because the men were showing interest in OTHER women but not them.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Ivy

  93. @Cagey Beast
    OT:
    For those still interested in the case, Tony Hovater, the Traditionalist Workers' Party member and heavy metal drummer interviewed by the New York Times apparently did an extended interview on The Daily Shoah (I know) podcast. You all know how to do a web search if you're into this ongoing story.

    Replies: @27 year old, @Cagey Beast

    Don’t bother with this podcast, over the 2hrs you probably hear Tony Hovater for about 8 minutes. He sounds quite bright but the regulars on the show have to keep talking over him and digressing into inanities. They could have had anyone on as a guest and the podcast would have been nearly identical.

  94. @Dahlia
    @Dr. X

    I'm profoundly disturbed by the reactions to these accusations against Garrison Keillor.

    I watched a Minnesota local broadcast, read Chris Thile's reaction, and scrolled through dozens and dozens on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/search?q=garrison&src=typd

    There's been sadness, gloating, disappointment in him, and even more gloating, but I couldn't find a *SINGLE* person speak up and wonder if, well, maybe, just maybe, he's innocent? Maybe perhaps listen to his side and consider the fact that he does indeed deny it? He may be lying, but *nobody* is speaking out and saying he may be telling the truth.

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics, but it was enough to get hacks happy about his downfall. And the liberal side is weird. You've got many who are "concerned" and "disappointed", but, "Believe the women" and all that, so he's gotta go. And then there are these others who are looking for non-liberal things he did or said in the past and using those to justify to themselves why he's really always been a bad man (and they just didn't realize it) and he needs to go.

    Buckle up, this Hysteria still has some more mileage left in it. The man is a decades-long institution and yet he's just being so unceremoniously abandoned and humiliated over one accusation which he claims he's innocent of. Talk about fair-weather friends.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @PSR, @anonguy, @Anonymous, @SteveRogers42

    “Seldom dabbled in liberal politics?” Oh please, he was so bitter and venomous about the George Bush presidency, and couldn’t keep his anger out of his show, I finally had to quit listening to PHC. I have no idea if he’s innocent or guilty of real sexual harassment but he IS a big time knee-jerk leftist.

    • Replies: @Dahlia
    @PSR

    My impression was formed from growing up listening to him with my dad and sporadically when I visit Dad. It just so happened that politics didn't come up during those times. I heard Keillor become bitter about Bush (because of the war? I don't remember), but Dad never brought it up when discussing a show with me; he personally was nonplussed about it so I didn't think it could have been that bad.

    Replies: @PSR, @Mr. Anon

    , @Jim Don Bob
    @PSR


    Oh please, he was so bitter and venomous about the George Bush presidency, and couldn’t keep his anger out of his show, I finally had to quit listening to PHC.
     
    Me too.
  95. @Meretricious
    say what u want about Keillor: he literally invented an art form. He's F'n brilliant

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter

    “say what u want about Keillor: he literally invented an art form. He’s F’n brilliant”

    I beg to disagree.

    Freeman Gosdon and Charles Correll beat him to it in the 1920’s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy

    • Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist
    @Jim Bob Lassiter

    I think Keillor's style also owes a serious hat tip to Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood'.

    But there were of course many, many radio plays, monologues, and other audio drama stylings in the first few decades of the wireless.

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter

  96. @whorefinder
    @utu


    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?
     
    Keillor is a tall man ('6'4"). If she was moving slightly forward when he tried to pat her on the back then his natural reaction would be to go both upwards (towards his own height to be comfortable) as his hand tried to follow her. It's just the sort of awkward thing an awkward tall guy might do. And if he doesn't realize her shirt is open or he's just too awkward to stop himself he hits skin.

    It's rather Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I can see it.

    that said, let Rapey Garrison burn with the rest of 'em.

    Replies: @utu, @tsotha, @Inquiring Mind, @SteveRogers42

    I still do not see it. If his hand got under her shirt and touched her bare skin by moving 6 inches up his hand must have started on her buttocks. And what does it mean that her shirt was open? Open where?

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @utu

    Eh, I tried, and I really don't want to.

    LET RAPEY GARRISON BURN!

    , @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @utu

    Oh come on. Her shirt was open after he unbuttoned it, and because she was braless, he moved up and grasped her naked breast. Then the fact that he honked it like a bicycle horn really put her off. But mostly because of the sound effects he added to the event.

    His assumption was that because she was braless, she was inviting him to "take the next step." Unfortunately for him, she just thought she was a good feminist. And now his time in Hell has begun early.

    Replies: @Lurker

  97. The sexual harassment net seems to be catching mostly libs. My guess is that conservatives (particularly in media and entertainment) are grossly outnumbered and thus on higher alert around women to prevent any pretext for dismissal. Conservatives also tend to be more religious and understanding of temptation and taboo.

    Mike Pence, take a bow.

  98. @newrouter
    I wonder who is coordinating this "witch hunt"?

    Replies: @newrouter, @tsotha

    I wonder who is coordinating this “witch hunt”?

    I would guess the American Bar Association.

  99. @Reg Cæsar
    @Triumph104


    Vice-President Joe Biden sexually harassed women and girls...

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
     
    Bulgarian meets vulgarian!

    Well, that's why he's vice president. Someone has finally discovered what the position is for.

    But Jew-mah... that's awfully desperate, even for Biden.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @whorefinder, @AKAHorace

    Vice president Pence is starting to look very prescient now with his insistence on not meeting women without his wife.

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @AKAHorace

    I keep pointing this out to various men of all political stripes:

    "Who's the only guy in Washington who can never be accused of this? Mike Pence! And remember when you laughed at him for his policy a few months ago?"

    And every single one has agreed. The Left wingers have fear in their eyes when they do so---because they were supposed to be protected! They were the good guys! They were the favored pets, not the evil wolves!

    I'm cackling as I write this. Too rich, too awesome.

  100. @whorefinder
    @utu


    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?
     
    Keillor is a tall man ('6'4"). If she was moving slightly forward when he tried to pat her on the back then his natural reaction would be to go both upwards (towards his own height to be comfortable) as his hand tried to follow her. It's just the sort of awkward thing an awkward tall guy might do. And if he doesn't realize her shirt is open or he's just too awkward to stop himself he hits skin.

    It's rather Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I can see it.

    that said, let Rapey Garrison burn with the rest of 'em.

    Replies: @utu, @tsotha, @Inquiring Mind, @SteveRogers42

    And yet… if you took that to a lawyer, even a hungry one, he’d laugh in your face. He’s lying, or at least leaving out important parts.

  101. Here’s Dennis Dale on how we’re this close to airbrushing men out of old photos.

    This is about airbrushing Left-wing men out of old photos. The Left already air brushed any man not left-wing from history, to the cheers or at least non-resistance of scum like Keillor. Now they come for Rapey Garrison and I’m supposed to feel bad?

    Those lefty men heartily deserve this damnatio memoriae of their own making, as they didn’t stop it when we non-lefty white men were UnPersoned, blamed for all the world’s problems, and never allowed to be heard.

    Let him feel the purge, let him feel his entire career was worthless—because it was. He supported evil his whole life, and now evil has turned upon him with a vengeance. Poetic and deserving.

    Burn, Rapey Garrison, burn!

    • Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist
    @whorefinder


    Let him feel the purge, let him feel his entire career was worthless—because it was. He supported evil his whole life, and now evil has turned upon him with a vengeance. Poetic and deserving.

     

    I know exactly where you're coming from with this.

    My background isn't too different from Keillor's. When I first discovered Lake Wobegon Days as a teenager, it seemed like a work of real insight to me, since it hit so close to home on so many issues. It made me feel smart and insightful; I could pierce my own small prairie town's hypocrisies with the same stiletto-subtle thrusts and ripostes Keillor employed.

    But as I grew up, I started to see through his trick, i.e. exploiting the memories and mores of his home and its people for the amusement and approval of his sophisticated new peers. Lots of writers and artists do this, of course, but it seemed to me Keillor's approach was particularly clinical and heartless. Maybe I was just too close to it.

    Anyway, as Keillor later turned openly to leftist politicking, I got increasingly frustrated and then outright angry with who and what he'd become. He had real talent, but he pimped it out for political and social approval.

    Replies: @anonguy

  102. Garrison Keillor today, Garry Wills tomorrow. After all, Wills wrote a respectful biography on John Wayne, who last yr was denied a state sponsored day in CA, due in large part to a 1971 Playboy interview where Wayne said some controversial things regarding minorities. So obviously, Garry Wills is a racist white male and must go. If he committed some misconduct with a female decades ago, all the more reason to make sure this stale pale male never gets to publish anything ever again. I mean, a racist sympathizer and possible harrasser. How much more proof do you need?

  103. @Dahlia
    @Dr. X

    I'm profoundly disturbed by the reactions to these accusations against Garrison Keillor.

    I watched a Minnesota local broadcast, read Chris Thile's reaction, and scrolled through dozens and dozens on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/search?q=garrison&src=typd

    There's been sadness, gloating, disappointment in him, and even more gloating, but I couldn't find a *SINGLE* person speak up and wonder if, well, maybe, just maybe, he's innocent? Maybe perhaps listen to his side and consider the fact that he does indeed deny it? He may be lying, but *nobody* is speaking out and saying he may be telling the truth.

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics, but it was enough to get hacks happy about his downfall. And the liberal side is weird. You've got many who are "concerned" and "disappointed", but, "Believe the women" and all that, so he's gotta go. And then there are these others who are looking for non-liberal things he did or said in the past and using those to justify to themselves why he's really always been a bad man (and they just didn't realize it) and he needs to go.

    Buckle up, this Hysteria still has some more mileage left in it. The man is a decades-long institution and yet he's just being so unceremoniously abandoned and humiliated over one accusation which he claims he's innocent of. Talk about fair-weather friends.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @PSR, @anonguy, @Anonymous, @SteveRogers42

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics,

    C’mon….

  104. Dahlia says:
    @PSR
    @Dahlia

    "Seldom dabbled in liberal politics?" Oh please, he was so bitter and venomous about the George Bush presidency, and couldn't keep his anger out of his show, I finally had to quit listening to PHC. I have no idea if he's innocent or guilty of real sexual harassment but he IS a big time knee-jerk leftist.

    Replies: @Dahlia, @Jim Don Bob

    My impression was formed from growing up listening to him with my dad and sporadically when I visit Dad. It just so happened that politics didn’t come up during those times. I heard Keillor become bitter about Bush (because of the war? I don’t remember), but Dad never brought it up when discussing a show with me; he personally was nonplussed about it so I didn’t think it could have been that bad.

    • Replies: @PSR
    @Dahlia

    I guess we come from different perspectives and will have to leave it at that. I enjoyed Prairie Home Companion for many years but had to quit listening during the Bush years. Keillor could simply not let go of his disdain for Bush and I had never tuned in to the show to hear Keillor's opinion on politics or foreign affairs.

    Replies: @Prof. Woland

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Dahlia

    Keillor made a living by extolling the virtues of midwestern-nice Minnesota (for which he seems to have a genuine affection). The politics he favored were just about everything required to destroy it.

    I don't imagine many Somalis listen to A Prairie Home Companion.

  105. @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @Meretricious

    "say what u want about Keillor: he literally invented an art form. He’s F’n brilliant"

    I beg to disagree.

    Freeman Gosdon and Charles Correll beat him to it in the 1920's.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy

    Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist

    I think Keillor’s style also owes a serious hat tip to Dylan Thomas’s ‘Under Milk Wood’.

    But there were of course many, many radio plays, monologues, and other audio drama stylings in the first few decades of the wireless.

    • Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @The Last Real Calvinist

    In any case, he didn't "invent the art" any more than Mick Jagger invented the blues.

  106. @Dahlia
    @PSR

    My impression was formed from growing up listening to him with my dad and sporadically when I visit Dad. It just so happened that politics didn't come up during those times. I heard Keillor become bitter about Bush (because of the war? I don't remember), but Dad never brought it up when discussing a show with me; he personally was nonplussed about it so I didn't think it could have been that bad.

    Replies: @PSR, @Mr. Anon

    I guess we come from different perspectives and will have to leave it at that. I enjoyed Prairie Home Companion for many years but had to quit listening during the Bush years. Keillor could simply not let go of his disdain for Bush and I had never tuned in to the show to hear Keillor’s opinion on politics or foreign affairs.

    • Replies: @Prof. Woland
    @PSR

    I particularly hate this type of political moralizing on the public radio / TV. It is supposed to be for everyone to enjoy and benefit from but instead it has become monopolized by SJWs and smug virtue signalling prigs like Keillor. He has had his share of air time. Time to go.

    Replies: @Anon

  107. This witch hunt will temporarily further banish men, masculinity and healthy sexuality from the public space, especially leftist public spaces (also known as mainstream public spaces), but this can’t last. In that respect it’s a good thing. Normal people need to be pushed hard enough to get angry. I’m really glad the left has stopped boiling the frog slowly and put the burners up to high.

  108. @The Last Real Calvinist

    “I’ve been fired over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. Most stories are.”

     

    Actually, Garrison, perhaps most other people's stories are more interesting and complicated than the published versions, but the stories that comprised your essentially-autobiographical novels were less interesting and complicated than you made them appear.

    Although Keillor was talented, he staked off a couple of small and strictly-bounded plots of ground and worked them over relentlessly in his novels and Prairie Home Companion.

    In any case, I can't suppress my schadenfreude over this latest MeToo revelation. Keillor pretty much defines 'creepy-ass' (TM), and he's arrogant and condescending to go along with it.

    Replies: @International Jew, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    Agree.

  109. @eah
    OT

    Brief reminder: Please consider donating to Tony Hovater and his wife -- after the NYT piece, he was fired.

    Another reminder: well over $100k was raised for thug DeAndre Harris.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_Jcewi35I

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @eah

    Have a look at the tweets below this one. Real sweeties. Nice White ladies are heavily represented in the schadenfreude brigade, of course.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/936031532724170754

  110. Boing!.. and Cha-ching?

    Big media saving money by getting rid of big names with big contracts?

  111. @psmith
    @Dahlia

    Chris Thile is a fine musician, but his speaking voice on the radio is the most insufferably twee bugman shit I've ever heard. I quite liked Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor as a relaxing background soundtrack, but listening to Thile just makes me want to strangle him.

    Replies: @Dahlia, @The Last Real Calvinist

    I laughed! Yeah, he’s so different from Keillor. They come from such completely different generations, don’t they?

    Oh, he’s so phenomenal on the mandolin! Winner of a MacArthur “Genius Grant”:
    https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/10/chris-thile-talks-earning-macarthur-fellowship.html

  112. @psmith
    @Dahlia

    Chris Thile is a fine musician, but his speaking voice on the radio is the most insufferably twee bugman shit I've ever heard. I quite liked Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor as a relaxing background soundtrack, but listening to Thile just makes me want to strangle him.

    Replies: @Dahlia, @The Last Real Calvinist

    Keillor does have a nice sonorous baritone voice; it’s good for radio.

    I went to youtube and listened to a clip of Thile, and it didn’t take very long for me to agree heartily with your assessment.

  113. Eli Manning, while probably not liberal, is another straight white male purged this week.

    • Replies: @SteveRogers42
    @Dave Pinsen

    Tim Tebow got purged a long time ago.

  114. @Matthew Kelly
    @Thomas


    That seems like NPR pretextually getting out of a high-dollar contract with an aging star.
     
    That was exactly my first thought when I saw his name come up as the next victim of this latest installment of the Salem Witch Trials.

    Replies: @Space Ghost

    “Salem” is an anagram of “Males”. Someone alert Nick Land.

  115. @27 year old
    I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can't be "sexually harassed" or/and where they can't trade sex for advancement?

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Moses, @Jim Christian, @Barnard, @John Pepple, @Buzz Mohawk, @Frau Katze

    Another side effect to consider is how men might decide it is best never to be alone in a room with a woman at work or anywhere else. Always have witnesses, in case you get accused of something.

    Hey, how about we all wear body cameras?

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @Buzz Mohawk


    Hey, how about we all wear body cameras?
     
    Some states (such as California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts) have rules that state you can't record someone without their consent if the area is a private one---i.e. if they have an expectation of privacy. It's something the left put in to protect themselves from sting operations.

    And you can bet lefty women will enforce that, because all women should be believed! How dare you claim objective facts should rule!

    Simple rule: avoid being alone with all left-wing women.
    , @Lugash
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's impossible to prevent being alone in a coworker, particularly in the types of jobs we've seen. Maybe we'll see powerful men deciding it's just not worth the risk to have women around, and promote men instead?

    Replies: @tsotha

    , @Anon7
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Never be alone with a woman in a room at work - I had that figured out in 1983, when a friend of mine was a supervisor in a large university department, and a woman who he interviewed but did not hire as a secretary claimed that he made inappropriate advances toward her. The university suspended him without pay immediately, in spite of his five years of service, and subjected him to months of intrusive interrogations about his personal life, ultimately deciding to pay off the woman and to fire him.

    After that, I asked my sixty year-old secretary to stay in the room with me, with the door open, whenever I interviewed women for clerical positions. She was there to "take notes".

    There's no defense against this, women can trash your career whenever they want. And sometimes they do.

    Replies: @Ivy

  116. @utu
    @whorefinder

    I still do not see it. If his hand got under her shirt and touched her bare skin by moving 6 inches up his hand must have started on her buttocks. And what does it mean that her shirt was open? Open where?

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    Eh, I tried, and I really don’t want to.

    LET RAPEY GARRISON BURN!

  117. @whorefinder
    @Anon


    Maybe it will catch on with muppets and fictional characters.

    Miss Piggy accusing Count Dracula and Cookie Monster

     

    If anything, Kermit has a strong suit for sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking against Miss Piggy. #greenlivesmatter

    Replies: @Anon

    Feminists should take this in other directions.

    Fat or ugly women should lodge complaints of Sexual Neglect or Attention Exclusion. They felt bad because the men were showing interest in OTHER women but not them.

    • Replies: @whorefinder
    @Anon

    Feminists: "You aren't entitled to our bodies!"
    Also feminists: "But we're entitled to yours!"

    This has already started. Within the last few years, child molester Lena Dunham attacked (black) football player Odell Beckham for not hitting on her or giving her the proper amount of sexual attention when they both attended some awards show/banquet/charity thing.

    Note that Dunham not only looks like a pre-op version of Boss Hogg normally:
    -Dunham: https://whoresoftheinternet.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/n-lena-dunham-molested-sister-large570.jpg
    -Boss Hogg: https://whoresoftheinternet.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/71744-13-boss-hogg-hazzard.jpg

    ... but also she was deliberately dressed in a full male-tuxedo at the time and had made herself look dumpy for the event:
    -Lena Dunham tuxedo trainwreck: https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/lena-dunham-1.jpg?w=669

    But still Dunham felt entitled to Beckham's sexual attention, and when he didn't give her what she wanted, she wrote an article about it the next day, whining about how he owed her sexual attention. And Beckham literally did nothing to her---he didn't insult her, he didn't touch her, he didn't laugh at her, he didn't even speak or look at her.

    Thankfully, Beckham is black, and so black women rushed to his defense against this Middle Eastern woman claiming control over a superior black body, and it became (((white))) woman exerting ((white)) privilege on oppressed black millionaire athlete.

    But if Odell had been white....

    , @Ivy
    @Anon


    Fat or ugly women should lodge complaints of Sexual Neglect or Attention Exclusion. They felt bad because the men were showing interest in OTHER women but not them.
     
    That actually happened to my buddy! He called the HR rep on it when one complained about another getting the attention. ("Tell me which ones are less attractive and I'll pay more attention to them"). Turn those rules around on the Alinskyites, fun and effective.
  118. @whorefinder

    Here’s Dennis Dale on how we’re this close to airbrushing men out of old photos.
     
    This is about airbrushing Left-wing men out of old photos. The Left already air brushed any man not left-wing from history, to the cheers or at least non-resistance of scum like Keillor. Now they come for Rapey Garrison and I'm supposed to feel bad?

    Those lefty men heartily deserve this damnatio memoriae of their own making, as they didn't stop it when we non-lefty white men were UnPersoned, blamed for all the world's problems, and never allowed to be heard.

    Let him feel the purge, let him feel his entire career was worthless---because it was. He supported evil his whole life, and now evil has turned upon him with a vengeance. Poetic and deserving.

    Burn, Rapey Garrison, burn!

    Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist

    Let him feel the purge, let him feel his entire career was worthless—because it was. He supported evil his whole life, and now evil has turned upon him with a vengeance. Poetic and deserving.

    I know exactly where you’re coming from with this.

    My background isn’t too different from Keillor’s. When I first discovered Lake Wobegon Days as a teenager, it seemed like a work of real insight to me, since it hit so close to home on so many issues. It made me feel smart and insightful; I could pierce my own small prairie town’s hypocrisies with the same stiletto-subtle thrusts and ripostes Keillor employed.

    But as I grew up, I started to see through his trick, i.e. exploiting the memories and mores of his home and its people for the amusement and approval of his sophisticated new peers. Lots of writers and artists do this, of course, but it seemed to me Keillor’s approach was particularly clinical and heartless. Maybe I was just too close to it.

    Anyway, as Keillor later turned openly to leftist politicking, I got increasingly frustrated and then outright angry with who and what he’d become. He had real talent, but he pimped it out for political and social approval.

    • Replies: @anonguy
    @The Last Real Calvinist


    Anyway, as Keillor later turned openly to leftist politicking, I got increasingly frustrated and then outright angry with who and what he’d become. He had real talent, but he pimped it out for political and social approval.
     
    There is something vaguely tragic about Keillor. He seemed to have been truly touched by the muse in some fashion, he was genuinely entertaining and seemingly thoughtful some decades past.

    Replies: @Anon

  119. @John Pepple
    @27 year old

    I'm pretty sure the feminist line will be that men should leave the workplace, not women.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @27 year old

    LOL

  120. Then they came for Garrison Keillor, and I didn’t say anything…………….because I don’t like him.

    • LOL: Kylie
  121. @AKAHorace
    @Reg Cæsar

    Vice president Pence is starting to look very prescient now with his insistence on not meeting women without his wife.

    Replies: @whorefinder

    I keep pointing this out to various men of all political stripes:

    “Who’s the only guy in Washington who can never be accused of this? Mike Pence! And remember when you laughed at him for his policy a few months ago?”

    And every single one has agreed. The Left wingers have fear in their eyes when they do so—because they were supposed to be protected! They were the good guys! They were the favored pets, not the evil wolves!

    I’m cackling as I write this. Too rich, too awesome.

  122. @Buzz Mohawk
    @27 year old

    Another side effect to consider is how men might decide it is best never to be alone in a room with a woman at work or anywhere else. Always have witnesses, in case you get accused of something.

    Hey, how about we all wear body cameras?

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Lugash, @Anon7

    Hey, how about we all wear body cameras?

    Some states (such as California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts) have rules that state you can’t record someone without their consent if the area is a private one—i.e. if they have an expectation of privacy. It’s something the left put in to protect themselves from sting operations.

    And you can bet lefty women will enforce that, because all women should be believed! How dare you claim objective facts should rule!

    Simple rule: avoid being alone with all left-wing women.

  123. @Buzz Mohawk
    @27 year old

    Another side effect to consider is how men might decide it is best never to be alone in a room with a woman at work or anywhere else. Always have witnesses, in case you get accused of something.

    Hey, how about we all wear body cameras?

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Lugash, @Anon7

    It’s impossible to prevent being alone in a coworker, particularly in the types of jobs we’ve seen. Maybe we’ll see powerful men deciding it’s just not worth the risk to have women around, and promote men instead?

    • Replies: @tsotha
    @Lugash

    It's a huge legal minefield. I predict the end of the corner office, and managers will end up ensconced in glass-walled offices set smack dab in the middle of ye olde cube farm where everybody can see. If I were entering the workforce instead of leaving I'd invest some time into learning how to read lips.

    Replies: @Rod1963

  124. Anonymous [AKA "Stephen Marlell"] says:

    Off topic, Steve Sailer gets name-checked in this recording of a Canadian cultural revolution interrogation at a university, from about 16:30:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2165&v=50xW002aU7c

    “A lot of your references [in one of your papers] are not scholarly or academic. A couple of the bloggers that you’ve referenced, Steve Sailer, who is not a scholar that would be on the same [level as …].”

    The student is charged with compromising collegiality in the course by having an agenda different from the teacher’s.

  125. @War for Blair Mountain
    Saw Kiellor talk at the Book Review...phlegmatic....appearance:biological mutant America...just like Rachel Maddow...Did Three Mile Island have something to do with this? For a Science Channel show about this....use polychromatic atonal music for the background music...

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson

    Did Three Mile Island have something to do with this?

    Yes, he is the one who personally swallowed large amounts of the problematic nuclear reactor coolant, which averted the catastrophic cascade that would have resulted from the coolant setting Lake Erie on fire, and then lighting up all six of the five Great Lakes because of the film of petroleum byproducts residing upon them. It gave Garrison funky hair and out-of-control eyebrows.

  126. @PSR
    @Dahlia

    I guess we come from different perspectives and will have to leave it at that. I enjoyed Prairie Home Companion for many years but had to quit listening during the Bush years. Keillor could simply not let go of his disdain for Bush and I had never tuned in to the show to hear Keillor's opinion on politics or foreign affairs.

    Replies: @Prof. Woland

    I particularly hate this type of political moralizing on the public radio / TV. It is supposed to be for everyone to enjoy and benefit from but instead it has become monopolized by SJWs and smug virtue signalling prigs like Keillor. He has had his share of air time. Time to go.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Prof. Woland

    The US taxpayer--including Republican taxpayers--are forced to subsidize the liberal politicking of guys like Keillor on NPR. Keillor is getting what he deserves.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland

  127. Well, Keillor deserved it. After all, he’s a vicious anti-semite:

    And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write ‘Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah’? No, we didn’t. Christmas is a Christian holiday—if you’re not in the club, then buzz off.

    http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/22606/garrison-keillor-doesn%E2%80%99t-like-jews-writing-christmas-songs

    The moral arc of the universe is long, and it doesn’t bend toward Lake Wobegon.

    • Agree: Dan Hayes
    • Replies: @utu
    @40 Acres and A Kardashian

    His defense of Christmas tradition is pretty good in this 2009 article.

    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-12-16/news/bal-op.keillor16dec16_1_silent-night-unitarian-christmas

    Replies: @40 Acres and A Kardashian

  128. @Dahlia
    @PSR

    My impression was formed from growing up listening to him with my dad and sporadically when I visit Dad. It just so happened that politics didn't come up during those times. I heard Keillor become bitter about Bush (because of the war? I don't remember), but Dad never brought it up when discussing a show with me; he personally was nonplussed about it so I didn't think it could have been that bad.

    Replies: @PSR, @Mr. Anon

    Keillor made a living by extolling the virtues of midwestern-nice Minnesota (for which he seems to have a genuine affection). The politics he favored were just about everything required to destroy it.

    I don’t imagine many Somalis listen to A Prairie Home Companion.

  129. @Harry Baldwin
    I used to listen to Keillor, but get disgusted with him when he came out in full-throated support of Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. Then it turned out Keillor was a serial adulterer, so of course he'd stick up for Slick Willy.

    Keillor has been married three times and had numerous affairs:

    To Mary Guntzel, from 1965 to 1976.

    To Ulla Skaerved, from 1985 to 1990. Keillor is mildly notorious for having dumped his long-time lover and Prairie Home Companion producer Margaret Moos to marry Ulla. The marriage failed when Keillor had an affair with his Danish language teacher.

    His current wife, violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson, from his hometown of Anoka, whom he married in 1995.

    BTW, what about George W. Bush, who molested Angela Merkel at a G8 meeting, giving her an unwanted back rub? Can we disgrace him, too?

    Replies: @Dr. X, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    BTW, what about George W. Bush, who molested Angela Merkel at a G8 meeting, giving her an unwanted back rub? Can we disgrace him, too?

    We can, but GWB has disgraced himself far beyond the meager measures we can offer. GWB is a servant of the vile serpent called globalism. It is his service to that underlord of the great deceiver for which he will have to account before the Great White Throne.

    No matter how you spin it, betrayal is not a virtue.

  130. So, what is this song really about?

    Come here, pussy pussy.

  131. @J1234
    So that's why he defended Al Franken in his editorial a few days ago in the Wapo. In that same editorial, he described some slave owner from the early 1800's as being "as ugly as a mud fence." Garrison calling someone ugly is like Bill Clinton calling someone sexist. That's how removed both of them are from reality.

    http://time.com/5041509/garrison-keillor-fired-defended-al-franken/

    Replies: @biz

    Keillor once joked that when he was starting out in broadcasting someone said he had a face made for radio.

  132. @whorefinder
    @Reg Cæsar

    A favorite Joe Biden quote I heard was right around when Obama was elected in 2008. Joe claimed Obama had offered him either the VP slot or the Sec of State slot, and Joe chose the VP slot.

    It was so hilariously unbelievable I never forgot it. The idea that Obama would put a human gaffe machine like Biden in charge of foreign policy was astounding---remember this was not too long after Biden torpedoed his own campaign with the "articulate and clean" comments about Obama. Or the idea that some ambitious pol would not choose the Sec of State spot over the meaningless VP slot---Joe really expects us to believe that.

    Biden was a good choice for VP by Obama, however. He was instant assassination insurance, because--- no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama--- nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Intelligent Dasein

    no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama— nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president

    Well, you have something there, but if I had to choose between a corrupt idiot like Biden as president and a venal, virtue-free, and vicious corrupt idiot like Hillary as president I would choose the former.

  133. Related: Jim Clyburn (D-SC) makes sure to remind everyone that John Conyers’ accusers are Becky Cave Bitches. http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article187166378.html

    “James Clyburn compared Conyers’ accusers to the child murderer Susan Smith, who initially claimed a black man had abducted her kids. Clyburn said, these are all white women who’ve made these charges against Conyers,” Robert Draper tweeted.

  134. Twit of the year

    https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/935988655742771200

    Funny thing is Slim isn’t even Mexican. He’s a Lebanese globalist, a kind of Sorosian figure.

    • Replies: @Cato
    @Anon

    Carlos Slim doesn't "own" or "control" the New York Times: he owns 17% of the Class A shares, and Class A directors make up only a third of the NYT board. The Ochs family still controls the board.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Company#Ownership

  135. @utu
    @whorefinder

    I still do not see it. If his hand got under her shirt and touched her bare skin by moving 6 inches up his hand must have started on her buttocks. And what does it mean that her shirt was open? Open where?

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    Oh come on. Her shirt was open after he unbuttoned it, and because she was braless, he moved up and grasped her naked breast. Then the fact that he honked it like a bicycle horn really put her off. But mostly because of the sound effects he added to the event.

    His assumption was that because she was braless, she was inviting him to “take the next step.” Unfortunately for him, she just thought she was a good feminist. And now his time in Hell has begun early.

    • LOL: utu
    • Replies: @Lurker
    @Charles Erwin Wilson

    And then he could have chased her round the building in speeded up Benny Hill-style. With the music as well.

  136. @International Jew
    @Wilkey

    Agree. It's been all downhill since Harvey.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Has anybody else besides Weinstein called an ex-PM of Israel to connect him with the Mossad Squad to silence his enemies list 0f 91 personal enemies?

    That’s a tough standard to match …

    So far this scandal has been anti-climactic. But maybe there is some good stuff still out there waiting to be revealed.

    • Replies: @International Jew
    @Steve Sailer

    You make it sound like Weinstein hired the Mossad. What he did was hire private investigators who were Mossad alumni. I don't know why he wanted to hire an Israeli firm, but given that, it's hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Space Ghost, @utu

  137. These guys are obviously believers in the old saying –

    A Man Is Only As Old As The Woman He Feels

  138. So when are SJWs going to insist that professional athletes and team owners be held to the same standards as Garrison Keillor?

    I used to be the next door neighbor of a man who worked nights as the security guard at the gate of the mansion of a well known team owner in Dallas. He said that many nights when the guy’s wife was out of town, which was often, the owner would call the gatehouse and inform him that one of his nieces was coming over to visit and he should let her in. The “nieces” were invariably young and attractive, provocatively dressed, and usually spent the night.

  139. @Buzz Mohawk
    @27 year old

    Another side effect to consider is how men might decide it is best never to be alone in a room with a woman at work or anywhere else. Always have witnesses, in case you get accused of something.

    Hey, how about we all wear body cameras?

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Lugash, @Anon7

    Never be alone with a woman in a room at work – I had that figured out in 1983, when a friend of mine was a supervisor in a large university department, and a woman who he interviewed but did not hire as a secretary claimed that he made inappropriate advances toward her. The university suspended him without pay immediately, in spite of his five years of service, and subjected him to months of intrusive interrogations about his personal life, ultimately deciding to pay off the woman and to fire him.

    After that, I asked my sixty year-old secretary to stay in the room with me, with the door open, whenever I interviewed women for clerical positions. She was there to “take notes”.

    There’s no defense against this, women can trash your career whenever they want. And sometimes they do.

    • Replies: @Ivy
    @Anon7


    There’s no defense against this, women can trash your career whenever they want. And sometimes they do.
     
    You may recognize the above option in its domestic guise, divorce.

    They prefer to think of it as putz-call parity.

  140. @Anon
    @whorefinder

    Feminists should take this in other directions.

    Fat or ugly women should lodge complaints of Sexual Neglect or Attention Exclusion. They felt bad because the men were showing interest in OTHER women but not them.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Ivy

    Feminists: “You aren’t entitled to our bodies!”
    Also feminists: “But we’re entitled to yours!”

    This has already started. Within the last few years, child molester Lena Dunham attacked (black) football player Odell Beckham for not hitting on her or giving her the proper amount of sexual attention when they both attended some awards show/banquet/charity thing.

    Note that Dunham not only looks like a pre-op version of Boss Hogg normally:
    -Dunham:
    -Boss Hogg:

    … but also she was deliberately dressed in a full male-tuxedo at the time and had made herself look dumpy for the event:
    -Lena Dunham tuxedo trainwreck:

    But still Dunham felt entitled to Beckham’s sexual attention, and when he didn’t give her what she wanted, she wrote an article about it the next day, whining about how he owed her sexual attention. And Beckham literally did nothing to her—he didn’t insult her, he didn’t touch her, he didn’t laugh at her, he didn’t even speak or look at her.

    Thankfully, Beckham is black, and so black women rushed to his defense against this Middle Eastern woman claiming control over a superior black body, and it became (((white))) woman exerting ((white)) privilege on oppressed black millionaire athlete.

    But if Odell had been white….

  141. Keillor was still doing his five minute daily radio program “The Writer’s Almanac” which was pleasant literary or historical musings and he ended each show with “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” That was the pleasant side of him.

    As others have noted, Keillor to the end remained an obnoxious critic of Republicans and skewered Trump with relish in his frequent newspaper columns. His attitude could be interpreted anywhere from arrogant to humble. He portrayed himself as a quintessential dyed-in-the-wool Democrat whose greatest fear will be realized as people will remember him as a sexist pig.

    As Minnesota Public Radio said to Keillor today: “Be well, do good work, but don’t keep in touch.”

  142. @Anon
    @whorefinder

    Feminists should take this in other directions.

    Fat or ugly women should lodge complaints of Sexual Neglect or Attention Exclusion. They felt bad because the men were showing interest in OTHER women but not them.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Ivy

    Fat or ugly women should lodge complaints of Sexual Neglect or Attention Exclusion. They felt bad because the men were showing interest in OTHER women but not them.

    That actually happened to my buddy! He called the HR rep on it when one complained about another getting the attention. (“Tell me which ones are less attractive and I’ll pay more attention to them”). Turn those rules around on the Alinskyites, fun and effective.

  143. Anon • Disclaimer says:

    Now, ‘marrying’ is a class thing.

    Too many pimps and whores.

    Too many women with jobs and high expectations.

    Too many men without jobs or without jobs that can support families.

    So, it takes money + moral sense + status to get married, increasingly rare traits.

    So, marriage that used to be near universal is now a Class thing.

    The Married Class.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Anon

    Marriage is turning into a privilege

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Anon

    That was Murray's thesis in Coming Apart. He said the middle-upper classes of Belmont talked Sixties to Fishtown but lived Fifties themselves.

  144. I’m with Whorefinder on Keillor. I’m glad he’s getting purged, and I hope all the rest of the liberal straight White males get purged.

    When all the sci-fi, fantasy, detective, thriller, adventure, and superhero genres are written, directed, produced, and acted by women, gays, Muslims, and Blacks, there will be nothing left holding White men to this country. Sure the NBA attracts some White dudes, but not many. The NHL has more White fans the NBA I’d wager. And probably more teams make more money; a number of NBA teams have to be carried by the league as they lose money. The NFL is getting there if it has not already arrived — partners are supposedly on track to lose $500 million this year over the kneeling.

    Remove all these guys and having nothing but SJW White women and gays and various non-Whites and there is both a tremendous market opportunity and the country starts to go up for grabs. France has done this partly and already there are serious suggestions for splitting the country into partly Sharia Run independent republics by French academics not Muslims. California is ground zero, there are hardly any White men in politics and the next Governor is likely the Latino State Senator or Antonio Villaraigosa. Imagine either one as the Governor — they make Jerry Brown look like a statesman.

    Already comic books, science fiction, fantasy, detective and thriller stories are pozzed out anti-White, anti-White Male, pro-Muslim and gay and Black no go zones for readers and authors. The older White writers were purged a few years ago and its nothing but lesbian were-seals in space or fashionista werewolves. I’m not kidding either. Comic book heroes are either gay or Muslim, thrillers and detective stories feature lesbians or Black detectives, it is never OK to be White (and male). Even being Taylor Swift is now questionable.

    This is IMHO part of the decisive cultural battle — the Schwerpunkt of the fight, where the forces of anti-Whites which are White women and non-Whites over-pursue retreating White men into the Weeds.

    Put it this way — even Jerry Seinfeld is getting fed up with this stuff — and if **HE** gets unpersoned along with Larry David and Steven Speilberg for just being White men who are straight, thats a very significant development.

    • Replies: @40 Acres and A Kardashian
    @Whiskey


    even Jerry Seinfeld is getting fed up with this stuff — and if **HE** gets unpersoned along with Larry David and Steven Speilberg for just being White men
     
    Can you step into my office for a minute?
    , @Dahlia
    @Whiskey


    I hope all the rest of the liberal straight White males get purged.
     
    I was trying to imagine the last day or so what the lay of the land is within, say, a journalism outlet, and what it must be like living through this Moral Panic if you're a liberal straight male (race being unimportant in this).

    I imagine it must be a very fearful time. Even if you've never done anything wrong. What if something was misconstrued, misunderstood, or what if someone is just a sociopath?

    But it's going to end soon, right?


    Remove all these guys and having nothing but SJW White women and gays...
     
    This moral panic is being driven by elite, working women and gay men. The women for obvious reasons, and the gay men because they empathize with the women while being unable to relate to the men.
    But contemplating our journalism outlet, journalism in general, what percentage of it are these two groups? I don't know, but every time I start to think it's slowing down a little, it revs up big time, so whatever the threshold, it is obviously being reached and then some. It's slowed down more for Hollywood where the problem is worse!
    Since I suspect that the Alabama election is, at this point, also helping sustain the moral panic for cynical reasons, I've been kind of expecting it to peter out in December, but who knows. The Salem Witch Trials ended when the the governor shut it down after his wife was accused.

    Anyway, I'd be incredibly worried if I were a straight, liberal journalist. I *do* believe that many of them have more narcissistic entitlement than the Average Joe and *will* have behaved more badly. So, there is likely lots of fruit left to be picked.
    We'll see.

  145. Jorge Videla [AKA "jorge videla (BGI volunteer)"] says:

    ACT UP.

    FIGHT BACK.

    FIGHT STEVE.

    SILENCE = UNZ.

  146. @Anonymous
    Just in terms of common decency, you don’t fuck around with an intern. They are a desperate, captive audience with zero power in the corporate world. Screwing around with one means you’re significantly divested from reality. Doesn’t matter if they’re flirting with you or not.

    That said, I thought Laur went off the reservation when he started shaving his head. Coupled with his growing arrogant attitude, he began traipsing about like a mean foppish Little Lord Fauntleroy.

    However, to err on the side of compassion, it must be tough to know Tom Cruise is laughing at you.

    Replies: @Guy de Champlagne

    This intern apparently wasn’t so powerless since she had the power to get things from Matt Lauer.

  147. @40 Acres and A Kardashian
    Well, Keillor deserved it. After all, he's a vicious anti-semite:

    And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write ‘Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah’? No, we didn’t. Christmas is a Christian holiday—if you’re not in the club, then buzz off.
     
    http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/22606/garrison-keillor-doesn%E2%80%99t-like-jews-writing-christmas-songs

    The moral arc of the universe is long, and it doesn't bend toward Lake Wobegon.

    Replies: @utu

    His defense of Christmas tradition is pretty good in this 2009 article.

    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-12-16/news/bal-op.keillor16dec16_1_silent-night-unitarian-christmas

    • Replies: @40 Acres and A Kardashian
    @utu


    His defense of Christmas tradition is pretty good in this 2009 article.
     
    Exactly. He's a vicious anti-semite.
  148. @Whiskey
    I'm with Whorefinder on Keillor. I'm glad he's getting purged, and I hope all the rest of the liberal straight White males get purged.

    When all the sci-fi, fantasy, detective, thriller, adventure, and superhero genres are written, directed, produced, and acted by women, gays, Muslims, and Blacks, there will be nothing left holding White men to this country. Sure the NBA attracts some White dudes, but not many. The NHL has more White fans the NBA I'd wager. And probably more teams make more money; a number of NBA teams have to be carried by the league as they lose money. The NFL is getting there if it has not already arrived -- partners are supposedly on track to lose $500 million this year over the kneeling.

    Remove all these guys and having nothing but SJW White women and gays and various non-Whites and there is both a tremendous market opportunity and the country starts to go up for grabs. France has done this partly and already there are serious suggestions for splitting the country into partly Sharia Run independent republics by French academics not Muslims. California is ground zero, there are hardly any White men in politics and the next Governor is likely the Latino State Senator or Antonio Villaraigosa. Imagine either one as the Governor -- they make Jerry Brown look like a statesman.

    Already comic books, science fiction, fantasy, detective and thriller stories are pozzed out anti-White, anti-White Male, pro-Muslim and gay and Black no go zones for readers and authors. The older White writers were purged a few years ago and its nothing but lesbian were-seals in space or fashionista werewolves. I'm not kidding either. Comic book heroes are either gay or Muslim, thrillers and detective stories feature lesbians or Black detectives, it is never OK to be White (and male). Even being Taylor Swift is now questionable.

    This is IMHO part of the decisive cultural battle -- the Schwerpunkt of the fight, where the forces of anti-Whites which are White women and non-Whites over-pursue retreating White men into the Weeds.

    Put it this way -- even Jerry Seinfeld is getting fed up with this stuff -- and if **HE** gets unpersoned along with Larry David and Steven Speilberg for just being White men who are straight, thats a very significant development.

    Replies: @40 Acres and A Kardashian, @Dahlia

    even Jerry Seinfeld is getting fed up with this stuff — and if **HE** gets unpersoned along with Larry David and Steven Speilberg for just being White men

    Can you step into my office for a minute?

  149. My response to Garrison Keillor’s blog entry “Understanding Hillary”, just before Trump was elected:

    http://www.mailtribune.com/opinion/20160918/garrison-keillor-understanding-hillary

    James Bowery

    My affection for your work goes back to the Prairie Home Morning Show that used to gently guide my morning dreams as I gradually awoke to for work, at the PLATO computer networking precursor to the Internet, across the street at Control Data Corporation’s Arden Hills operations. So I am prone to view your essay as a defense of a woman you respect, against the invective-charged 2016 Presidential Campaign. However, when you, yourself, resort to invective — particularly with regards to the Internet, in the passage “Extremism has poked its head into the mainstream, aided by the Internet.” you descend into the mosh pit.

    Very well. Let’s mosh.

    The PLATO system was, in 1979, ready to deploy to the mass market in the Twin Cities and bring the equivalent of the WWW to the people at least 15 years early. PLATO’s primary advocate and financier was CDC’s CEO: A Scandinavian-heritage farm boy. He so-identified with that heritage that he placed a farm windmill before the corporate towers as an irritating statement to the coastal urban managerial elites that despised his efforts to preserve the rural culture of the Midwest against urbanization. I know. I was there. I saw it infect the managerial class of CDC to the point that they — inspired by the business press of their mid-Atlantic and more urbane “betters” — mounted what can only be called a mutiny and stopped this project. CDC died and with it the Midwestern culture that produced Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution, the first computer at the agricultural school in Ames, the founder of Intel, the first supercomputer beating IBM with a small team under the leadership of Seymour Cray… Need I go on, really?

    THAT is “extreme”. Please read:

    http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2016/09/diversity-vs-human-development.html

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @James Bowery

    Yes, PLATO.

    http://friendlyorangeglow.com/


    You can still get a Plato account and play with the system yourself:
    https://cyber1.org/index.asp

  150. @27 year old
    @Cagey Beast

    Another good time to mention that both he and his wife got fired from their jobs, and there is a crowd funding effort to donate to their family to help them out.

    https://goyfundme.com/projects/hovater-support-fund/

    Replies: @Simple Song

    Off topic–could somebody start a business for the purpose of employing PC refugees? (That is, people who have been fired due to PC?) Like, some low key business hidden away in Idaho that you can go work at if you lose everything in one of these witch hunts? An economic safe-house, basically.

  151. @Steve Sailer
    @International Jew

    Has anybody else besides Weinstein called an ex-PM of Israel to connect him with the Mossad Squad to silence his enemies list 0f 91 personal enemies?

    That's a tough standard to match ...

    So far this scandal has been anti-climactic. But maybe there is some good stuff still out there waiting to be revealed.

    Replies: @International Jew

    You make it sound like Weinstein hired the Mossad. What he did was hire private investigators who were Mossad alumni. I don’t know why he wanted to hire an Israeli firm, but given that, it’s hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @International Jew

    Sorry I have to respond to this.
    Mandatory universal two-year stint pointing weapons at children =! Mossad.
    And Weinstein is literally in a photo with an Izzy PM, I think Barak, and there are quotes thanking each other. It was spooks with a top recommendation, not a random Hadag Nachash fan selected by t-shirt color.
    I honestly don't care about certain world-controlling groups but that was unforgivably sloppy and lazy. "You make it sound like" BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. And this has been in the public record for nearly a month. Go ahead, call me a theorist and hope nobody knows how to use a search engine.

    , @Space Ghost
    @International Jew

    "it’s hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans."

    Why is that fact relevant? Every Israeli male is not required to serve in Mossad. The IDF is not Mossad, you yutz. There are (supposedly, according to wikipedia) 1,200 Mossad employees. The IDF has 176,500 active duty personnel. Why would you mention the IDF when we are talking about Mossad?

    Replies: @International Jew

    , @utu
    @International Jew

    who were Mossad alumni

    The are no Mossad alumni. It is not a school. There are former Mossad employees who really are never former.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @International Jew

  152. @Anon
    Twit of the year

    https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/935988655742771200

    Funny thing is Slim isn't even Mexican. He's a Lebanese globalist, a kind of Sorosian figure.

    Replies: @Cato

    Carlos Slim doesn’t “own” or “control” the New York Times: he owns 17% of the Class A shares, and Class A directors make up only a third of the NYT board. The Ochs family still controls the board.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Company#Ownership

  153. @Ivy
    @Buffalo Joe

    Now that the big stars like Garrison Keillor are falling, when will we hear about Wolf Blitzer or Chris Hayes? They must be in the backwaters of the swamp.

    Replies: @Daniel H, @Buffalo Joe

    >>Now that the big stars like Garrison Keillor are falling, when will we hear about Wolf Blitzer or Chris Hayes?

    Hayes has got that wounded, pussy-whipped demeanor. Probably lives in terror of his wife. Don’t think we will here anything from him.

  154. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    Garrison deserves no pity, he supported the whole Cultural Marxist agenda that made millions of lives miserable and has done immeasurable damage to our future.

    The power dynamics are changing. New Brown Americans don’t want liberal Whites speaking for them anymore. They don’t really even want them as “allies”. They don’t really want them to exist.

    So, there is no place for White liberals to run for safety.

    • Replies: @utu
    @Anonymous

    he supported the whole Cultural Marxist agenda

    I do not think so. Not "the whole." He put up with it. He did not promote it.

    Replies: @bomag

  155. @International Jew
    @Steve Sailer

    You make it sound like Weinstein hired the Mossad. What he did was hire private investigators who were Mossad alumni. I don't know why he wanted to hire an Israeli firm, but given that, it's hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Space Ghost, @utu

    Sorry I have to respond to this.
    Mandatory universal two-year stint pointing weapons at children =! Mossad.
    And Weinstein is literally in a photo with an Izzy PM, I think Barak, and there are quotes thanking each other. It was spooks with a top recommendation, not a random Hadag Nachash fan selected by t-shirt color.
    I honestly don’t care about certain world-controlling groups but that was unforgivably sloppy and lazy. “You make it sound like” BECAUSE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. And this has been in the public record for nearly a month. Go ahead, call me a theorist and hope nobody knows how to use a search engine.

  156. @Lugash
    @Buzz Mohawk

    It's impossible to prevent being alone in a coworker, particularly in the types of jobs we've seen. Maybe we'll see powerful men deciding it's just not worth the risk to have women around, and promote men instead?

    Replies: @tsotha

    It’s a huge legal minefield. I predict the end of the corner office, and managers will end up ensconced in glass-walled offices set smack dab in the middle of ye olde cube farm where everybody can see. If I were entering the workforce instead of leaving I’d invest some time into learning how to read lips.

    • Replies: @Rod1963
    @tsotha

    In the USAF, officers are not allowed to be alone in a office with a female.

    They handle it this way: the office door stays open at all times and when the senior officer is talking to a female subordinate there is always a witness in the room as well.

    Lower ranked officers just have a open cube usually shared by other people.

    Of course it's sheer hell for the male officer because it makes it impossible to discipline a female subordinate without it spiraling into a sexual discrimination case no matter what. So most officers just let female incompetence slide so they don't destroy their own career.

    It's even worse with female pilots. I remember on one program I worked on the male test pilots were shitting bricks when the AF dumped a female pilot on them. It basically ruined their ability to be blunt and open. Because of fear of offending the female pilot.

    It just ruins well running shops when females are put in.

    This focus on the female is going to ruin our military. They are sheer poison because they are a protected class.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42

  157. @International Jew
    @Steve Sailer

    You make it sound like Weinstein hired the Mossad. What he did was hire private investigators who were Mossad alumni. I don't know why he wanted to hire an Israeli firm, but given that, it's hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Space Ghost, @utu

    “it’s hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans.”

    Why is that fact relevant? Every Israeli male is not required to serve in Mossad. The IDF is not Mossad, you yutz. There are (supposedly, according to wikipedia) 1,200 Mossad employees. The IDF has 176,500 active duty personnel. Why would you mention the IDF when we are talking about Mossad?

    • Replies: @International Jew
    @Space Ghost

    Because if they'd not been in the Mossad, your panties would have reflexively bunched up over "commandos" or "paratroopers".

    Unz.com already provides a damp log for your type to hide under — the Giraldi blog. Why don't you take it there.

    Replies: @Space Ghost

  158. @Prof. Woland
    @PSR

    I particularly hate this type of political moralizing on the public radio / TV. It is supposed to be for everyone to enjoy and benefit from but instead it has become monopolized by SJWs and smug virtue signalling prigs like Keillor. He has had his share of air time. Time to go.

    Replies: @Anon

    The US taxpayer–including Republican taxpayers–are forced to subsidize the liberal politicking of guys like Keillor on NPR. Keillor is getting what he deserves.

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @Anon

    I agree. I resent the fact that my tax money supports NPR and Public Television when both are unabashed liberal bastions. Public Television once felt it necessary to provide William F. Buckley with a platform, but there's no longer a single non-liberal voice on state-sponsored media.

    Replies: @Kylie

    , @Prof. Woland
    @Anon

    I am driving a lot more in the middle of the day and listen to NPR on the radio (I channel surf), particularly The World with Marco Werman and it become nothing but non-stop rah rah on immigration, refugees, and the other. Not only is it daily, but frequently there are multiple sob stories.Never do I hear anything that even comes close to how the majority of the population feels (The Nation) or the consequences of what they are covering. It is always happy coverage (look, little Mohamed wants to become a doctor) to where you just want to puke.

    I have long since come to the conclusion that they would never hire me or someone who shares similar opinions or interests on the National Question. It is not that I am so close minded that I cannot tolerate this stuff but it is so relentless and pointed that I can no longer listen to it without immediately pulling it up on my radar. The ideological clique that controls NPR is probably so tight and you have to pass so many gatekeepers over your career that they are now probably incapable of producing anything that actually reflects the majority population.



    The social convergence is so complete it has become inbred.
     
  159. @Anon
    Now, 'marrying' is a class thing.

    https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/936009893336834053

    Too many pimps and whores.

    Too many women with jobs and high expectations.

    Too many men without jobs or without jobs that can support families.

    So, it takes money + moral sense + status to get married, increasingly rare traits.

    So, marriage that used to be near universal is now a Class thing.

    The Married Class.

    Replies: @Anon, @YetAnotherAnon

    Marriage is turning into a privilege

  160. Dahlia says:
    @Whiskey
    I'm with Whorefinder on Keillor. I'm glad he's getting purged, and I hope all the rest of the liberal straight White males get purged.

    When all the sci-fi, fantasy, detective, thriller, adventure, and superhero genres are written, directed, produced, and acted by women, gays, Muslims, and Blacks, there will be nothing left holding White men to this country. Sure the NBA attracts some White dudes, but not many. The NHL has more White fans the NBA I'd wager. And probably more teams make more money; a number of NBA teams have to be carried by the league as they lose money. The NFL is getting there if it has not already arrived -- partners are supposedly on track to lose $500 million this year over the kneeling.

    Remove all these guys and having nothing but SJW White women and gays and various non-Whites and there is both a tremendous market opportunity and the country starts to go up for grabs. France has done this partly and already there are serious suggestions for splitting the country into partly Sharia Run independent republics by French academics not Muslims. California is ground zero, there are hardly any White men in politics and the next Governor is likely the Latino State Senator or Antonio Villaraigosa. Imagine either one as the Governor -- they make Jerry Brown look like a statesman.

    Already comic books, science fiction, fantasy, detective and thriller stories are pozzed out anti-White, anti-White Male, pro-Muslim and gay and Black no go zones for readers and authors. The older White writers were purged a few years ago and its nothing but lesbian were-seals in space or fashionista werewolves. I'm not kidding either. Comic book heroes are either gay or Muslim, thrillers and detective stories feature lesbians or Black detectives, it is never OK to be White (and male). Even being Taylor Swift is now questionable.

    This is IMHO part of the decisive cultural battle -- the Schwerpunkt of the fight, where the forces of anti-Whites which are White women and non-Whites over-pursue retreating White men into the Weeds.

    Put it this way -- even Jerry Seinfeld is getting fed up with this stuff -- and if **HE** gets unpersoned along with Larry David and Steven Speilberg for just being White men who are straight, thats a very significant development.

    Replies: @40 Acres and A Kardashian, @Dahlia

    I hope all the rest of the liberal straight White males get purged.

    I was trying to imagine the last day or so what the lay of the land is within, say, a journalism outlet, and what it must be like living through this Moral Panic if you’re a liberal straight male (race being unimportant in this).

    I imagine it must be a very fearful time. Even if you’ve never done anything wrong. What if something was misconstrued, misunderstood, or what if someone is just a sociopath?

    But it’s going to end soon, right?

    Remove all these guys and having nothing but SJW White women and gays…

    This moral panic is being driven by elite, working women and gay men. The women for obvious reasons, and the gay men because they empathize with the women while being unable to relate to the men.
    But contemplating our journalism outlet, journalism in general, what percentage of it are these two groups? I don’t know, but every time I start to think it’s slowing down a little, it revs up big time, so whatever the threshold, it is obviously being reached and then some. It’s slowed down more for Hollywood where the problem is worse!
    Since I suspect that the Alabama election is, at this point, also helping sustain the moral panic for cynical reasons, I’ve been kind of expecting it to peter out in December, but who knows. The Salem Witch Trials ended when the the governor shut it down after his wife was accused.

    Anyway, I’d be incredibly worried if I were a straight, liberal journalist. I *do* believe that many of them have more narcissistic entitlement than the Average Joe and *will* have behaved more badly. So, there is likely lots of fruit left to be picked.
    We’ll see.

  161. @Anonymous
    Garrison deserves no pity, he supported the whole Cultural Marxist agenda that made millions of lives miserable and has done immeasurable damage to our future.

    The power dynamics are changing. New Brown Americans don't want liberal Whites speaking for them anymore. They don't really even want them as "allies". They don't really want them to exist.

    So, there is no place for White liberals to run for safety.

    Replies: @utu

    he supported the whole Cultural Marxist agenda

    I do not think so. Not “the whole.” He put up with it. He did not promote it.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @utu

    His radio show pretty much shilled Democrat politics; not particularly cultural Marxism, but he didn't do much to slow it down.

    I went to his recent one man show; downright conservative on that stage.

  162. @International Jew
    @Steve Sailer

    You make it sound like Weinstein hired the Mossad. What he did was hire private investigators who were Mossad alumni. I don't know why he wanted to hire an Israeli firm, but given that, it's hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Space Ghost, @utu

    who were Mossad alumni

    The are no Mossad alumni. It is not a school. There are former Mossad employees who really are never former.

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @utu

    A US Marine veteran will challenge you if you refer to him as "a former Marine." There are no "former" Marines, just Marines. Or so I've been instructed by one of them.

    Perhaps true of Mossad veterans as well.

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike, @Reg Cæsar

    , @International Jew
    @utu

    Thank you, Mr. Literal.
    https://youtu.be/jI4Ojgz5Qo4

  163. @27 year old
    I thought of something about this whole sex thing.

    What if it ends up encouraging women to leave the workforce, as women themselves reject a work environment where they can't be "sexually harassed" or/and where they can't trade sex for advancement?

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Moses, @Jim Christian, @Barnard, @John Pepple, @Buzz Mohawk, @Frau Katze

    You are assuming that all women think this whole exercise is just fine and dandy.

    I’m not that familiar with Keillor, although I’ve heard of him (I’m not an American).

    But the whole thing seems a bit dangerous to me.

    Weinstein was apparently a clear case and it was an open secret.

    Why is it spreading like a witch hunt?

    Don’t assume this will stop at liberal media and entertainment men.

    Is it really fair to very suddenly change the social rules that were the norm for a very long time?

    I worked for 35 years without being harassed. None of my friends have complained of it either.

    Perhaps these well known men thought they could get away with it, unlike your average guy working in a cubicle (think Dilbert).

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Frau Katze

    I was propositioned once by a male boss but was never harassed or intimidated.

    I think the difference is these are powerful, famous guys who think that because they're successful in their profession, sex on demand should be one of the perks they're entitled to.

    , @27 year old
    @Frau Katze


    You are assuming that all women think this whole exercise is just fine and dandy.
     
    Not assuming that, I'm speculating on what might happen if things continue on their course. But, since you mention it so far, women have not really objected to this (publicly). I can think of 2 groups where opposition could come from: apolitical normie women or right wing lite-antifeminist women. Normie women are by definition not going to move the needle of political winds. Right wing women really don't have much power to do anything. So I think even if not all women are on board, I don't think women can stop it.

    Don’t assume this will stop at liberal media and entertainment men.
     
    I don't assume that either, but that is the target rich environment. If/when it goes beyond liberal media and liberal entertainment we can worry about it then. This is not the time to be a cuckservative standing athwart whatever yelling please clap. This thing is hurting our enemies, just let it happen.

    Is it really fair to very suddenly change the social rules that were the norm for a very long time?
     
    Is it really fair to expect "the social rules" as defined by the baby boomers to be the norm for all of time? This is what a fourth turning looks like.
  164. @The Last Real Calvinist
    @whorefinder


    Let him feel the purge, let him feel his entire career was worthless—because it was. He supported evil his whole life, and now evil has turned upon him with a vengeance. Poetic and deserving.

     

    I know exactly where you're coming from with this.

    My background isn't too different from Keillor's. When I first discovered Lake Wobegon Days as a teenager, it seemed like a work of real insight to me, since it hit so close to home on so many issues. It made me feel smart and insightful; I could pierce my own small prairie town's hypocrisies with the same stiletto-subtle thrusts and ripostes Keillor employed.

    But as I grew up, I started to see through his trick, i.e. exploiting the memories and mores of his home and its people for the amusement and approval of his sophisticated new peers. Lots of writers and artists do this, of course, but it seemed to me Keillor's approach was particularly clinical and heartless. Maybe I was just too close to it.

    Anyway, as Keillor later turned openly to leftist politicking, I got increasingly frustrated and then outright angry with who and what he'd become. He had real talent, but he pimped it out for political and social approval.

    Replies: @anonguy

    Anyway, as Keillor later turned openly to leftist politicking, I got increasingly frustrated and then outright angry with who and what he’d become. He had real talent, but he pimped it out for political and social approval.

    There is something vaguely tragic about Keillor. He seemed to have been truly touched by the muse in some fashion, he was genuinely entertaining and seemingly thoughtful some decades past.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @anonguy

    Literary writers are experts at acting like terrific people for the public eye, then behaving like creeps in private. It's long been a shtick of theirs. Writers have been pulling off self-anointed saint crap since Rousseau, Dickens, and Tolstoy.

  165. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @Dahlia
    @Dr. X

    I'm profoundly disturbed by the reactions to these accusations against Garrison Keillor.

    I watched a Minnesota local broadcast, read Chris Thile's reaction, and scrolled through dozens and dozens on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/search?q=garrison&src=typd

    There's been sadness, gloating, disappointment in him, and even more gloating, but I couldn't find a *SINGLE* person speak up and wonder if, well, maybe, just maybe, he's innocent? Maybe perhaps listen to his side and consider the fact that he does indeed deny it? He may be lying, but *nobody* is speaking out and saying he may be telling the truth.

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics, but it was enough to get hacks happy about his downfall. And the liberal side is weird. You've got many who are "concerned" and "disappointed", but, "Believe the women" and all that, so he's gotta go. And then there are these others who are looking for non-liberal things he did or said in the past and using those to justify to themselves why he's really always been a bad man (and they just didn't realize it) and he needs to go.

    Buckle up, this Hysteria still has some more mileage left in it. The man is a decades-long institution and yet he's just being so unceremoniously abandoned and humiliated over one accusation which he claims he's innocent of. Talk about fair-weather friends.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @PSR, @anonguy, @Anonymous, @SteveRogers42

    It doesn’t seem that he has even defended himself. He did say that things did not happen as they were being portrayed, and that he had simply accidentally slid his hand under a woman’s shirt or something. But from what I’ve read, he still seemed resigned and apologetic.

    It is all well and good for a man to apologize if he accidentally touches a woman in a manner that she will reasonably interpret as sexual. But according to him, he did that, years ago, and he says that she accepted his apology.

    If that is the case… then he should have defended himself NOW. He should have stood up and said forthrightly that her current accusations were inappropriate. That she is now wrong, and he is now right.

    If he speaks the truth about the incident, and apologized, and the woman accepted his apology and thereafter treated him as a friend, then her current accusations deserve condemnation. He is either lying about what happened, or he is acting with cowardice, perhaps supposing that if he slinks away his reputation won’t be too harmed. And his reputation probably would be harmed if did the right thing and condemned the accusations. But to act wrongly in order to preserve your reputation is cowardice. Other men will suffer the effects of his cowardice.

    • Replies: @utu
    @Anonymous

    Good points. I was wondering myself why he does not defend himself if the woman accepted apology, etc? BTW, how long ago did it happen? He also said:

    “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.”

    And also

    “respect the privacy of the two employees who have made the allegations.”

    Two different cases? And why the big deal about privacy?

    , @SteveRogers42
    @Anonymous

    Why not both? His physiognomy screams out "cowardice", and his explanation of what occurred is laughably mendacious.

  166. @James Bowery
    My response to Garrison Keillor's blog entry "Understanding Hillary", just before Trump was elected:

    http://www.mailtribune.com/opinion/20160918/garrison-keillor-understanding-hillary

    James Bowery

    My affection for your work goes back to the Prairie Home Morning Show that used to gently guide my morning dreams as I gradually awoke to for work, at the PLATO computer networking precursor to the Internet, across the street at Control Data Corporation's Arden Hills operations. So I am prone to view your essay as a defense of a woman you respect, against the invective-charged 2016 Presidential Campaign. However, when you, yourself, resort to invective -- particularly with regards to the Internet, in the passage "Extremism has poked its head into the mainstream, aided by the Internet." you descend into the mosh pit.

    Very well. Let's mosh.

    The PLATO system was, in 1979, ready to deploy to the mass market in the Twin Cities and bring the equivalent of the WWW to the people at least 15 years early. PLATO's primary advocate and financier was CDC's CEO: A Scandinavian-heritage farm boy. He so-identified with that heritage that he placed a farm windmill before the corporate towers as an irritating statement to the coastal urban managerial elites that despised his efforts to preserve the rural culture of the Midwest against urbanization. I know. I was there. I saw it infect the managerial class of CDC to the point that they -- inspired by the business press of their mid-Atlantic and more urbane "betters" -- mounted what can only be called a mutiny and stopped this project. CDC died and with it the Midwestern culture that produced Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution, the first computer at the agricultural school in Ames, the founder of Intel, the first supercomputer beating IBM with a small team under the leadership of Seymour Cray... Need I go on, really?

    THAT is "extreme". Please read:

    http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2016/09/diversity-vs-human-development.html

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Yes, PLATO.

    http://friendlyorangeglow.com/

    You can still get a Plato account and play with the system yourself:
    https://cyber1.org/index.asp

  167. @Anonymous
    @Dahlia

    It doesn't seem that he has even defended himself. He did say that things did not happen as they were being portrayed, and that he had simply accidentally slid his hand under a woman's shirt or something. But from what I've read, he still seemed resigned and apologetic.

    It is all well and good for a man to apologize if he accidentally touches a woman in a manner that she will reasonably interpret as sexual. But according to him, he did that, years ago, and he says that she accepted his apology.

    If that is the case... then he should have defended himself NOW. He should have stood up and said forthrightly that her current accusations were inappropriate. That she is now wrong, and he is now right.

    If he speaks the truth about the incident, and apologized, and the woman accepted his apology and thereafter treated him as a friend, then her current accusations deserve condemnation. He is either lying about what happened, or he is acting with cowardice, perhaps supposing that if he slinks away his reputation won't be too harmed. And his reputation probably would be harmed if did the right thing and condemned the accusations. But to act wrongly in order to preserve your reputation is cowardice. Other men will suffer the effects of his cowardice.

    Replies: @utu, @SteveRogers42

    Good points. I was wondering myself why he does not defend himself if the woman accepted apology, etc? BTW, how long ago did it happen? He also said:

    “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.”

    And also

    “respect the privacy of the two employees who have made the allegations.”

    Two different cases? And why the big deal about privacy?

  168. All these guys have always seemed very creepy to me, except for Dustin Hoffman, who always seemed equal parts talented and creepy. They’re the kinds of guys who, when considered as potential sex partners, make being a nun or a lesbian instantly appealing. Even being dead suddenly reveals its upside, if only momentarily.

    So I’m not sorry for any of them. I can easily imagine them making crude, rude, vulgar, unwanted sexual advances. Maybe of the overt “grab a tit and see what happens” type or maybe the “I’ll just pat your bare back in a home companionable way” type. But creepy. Because, let’s face it, they’re all physically repulsive and too arrogant to bother developing any charm of manner that might get them what they want without their having to grab or pat it. Every last one of them comes across as smug and entitled. And the woman in me thinks, “Power schmower. When you’re that ugly, you better be nice. And you bloody well better ask.”

    • Replies: @Dahlia
    @Kylie


    Every last one of them comes across as smug and entitled. And the woman in me thinks, “Power schmower. When you’re that ugly, you better be nice. And you bloody well better ask.”
     
    Yeah, malignant narcissism is a real thing with so many of them. These are the guys who feel themselves so superior that they probably are *not* afraid of being hauled up for appalling behavior because that would be beneath them. They're just too smart and Machiavellian to get caught.
    I wouldn't be surprised if the worst ones were shocked when they got publicly accused.

    Replies: @Kylie

  169. @Frau Katze
    @27 year old

    You are assuming that all women think this whole exercise is just fine and dandy.

    I’m not that familiar with Keillor, although I’ve heard of him (I’m not an American).

    But the whole thing seems a bit dangerous to me.

    Weinstein was apparently a clear case and it was an open secret.

    Why is it spreading like a witch hunt?

    Don’t assume this will stop at liberal media and entertainment men.

    Is it really fair to very suddenly change the social rules that were the norm for a very long time?

    I worked for 35 years without being harassed. None of my friends have complained of it either.

    Perhaps these well known men thought they could get away with it, unlike your average guy working in a cubicle (think Dilbert).

    Replies: @Kylie, @27 year old

    I was propositioned once by a male boss but was never harassed or intimidated.

    I think the difference is these are powerful, famous guys who think that because they’re successful in their profession, sex on demand should be one of the perks they’re entitled to.

  170. What are Keillor’s grounds for objection? This is all communism run amok, something he, his employers, and his entire industry have been promoting for generations. Now that the mob they whipped up has turned on its masters, I say pass the popcorn.

    Let the purges continue until the politics improve. There’s probably more opposition to this witch hunt here at iSteve than there is in the entire entertainment industry. Sounds like we need to purge the cucks.

    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has ‘creepped’ in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It’s now a ‘purge’!

    You’ve been moving more than Steve has. E.g., the ecstatic thing was all in your head, this isn’t the first time he’s called it a purge, etc. Jews see the world through a Jewish lens. Then when someone like me specializes in Jews it’s all shock and horror from the Jews.

    A neurotic, self-obsessed bunch.

    Don’t assume this will stop at liberal media and entertainment men.

    K, sure, first they came for the Jews, then they came for me.

    But what if they came for the Jews, and then came for the Jews again, then came for the Jews again, then came for the Jews again, then came for the Jews again, etc? Might we not begin to think that after they come for the Jews, they’ll just come for the Jews again?

    Yeah, there they were, just trying to be great McDonalds employees in Ohio, and you FORCED them to dream about making it big in Hollywood!

    Mouse, I want to make this right between us. i’ll give you Rachel Maddow to play with.

    Yeah I’ll bet Sweinstein would have cured cancer, if he hadn’t gone to Hollywood to do his important work. Or maybe he’d be running a pawn shop, or swindling little old goyische ladies out of their retirement savings.

    It’s impossible to prevent being alone in a coworker,

    Freudian slip? “I slipped and fell in the pussy!”

    So when are SJWs going to insist that professional athletes and team owners be held to the same standards as Garrison Keillor?

    Or sportscasters? The sports media seem almost as thick with Jews as the rest of Big Media.

  171. You make it sound like Weinstein hired the Mossad. What he did was hire private investigators who were Mossad alumni. I don’t know why he wanted to hire an Israeli firm, but given that, it’s hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans.

    “I don’t know why he wanted to hire an Israeli firm,” Bambi said, from the woods. When you figure it out, you’ll have figured out why despotic Christian monarchs used Jews to squeeze the peasantry, the Soviet regime used Jews to squeeze Soviet satellites, Spain and England flourished after expelling the Jews, etc.

  172. @tsotha
    @Lugash

    It's a huge legal minefield. I predict the end of the corner office, and managers will end up ensconced in glass-walled offices set smack dab in the middle of ye olde cube farm where everybody can see. If I were entering the workforce instead of leaving I'd invest some time into learning how to read lips.

    Replies: @Rod1963

    In the USAF, officers are not allowed to be alone in a office with a female.

    They handle it this way: the office door stays open at all times and when the senior officer is talking to a female subordinate there is always a witness in the room as well.

    Lower ranked officers just have a open cube usually shared by other people.

    Of course it’s sheer hell for the male officer because it makes it impossible to discipline a female subordinate without it spiraling into a sexual discrimination case no matter what. So most officers just let female incompetence slide so they don’t destroy their own career.

    It’s even worse with female pilots. I remember on one program I worked on the male test pilots were shitting bricks when the AF dumped a female pilot on them. It basically ruined their ability to be blunt and open. Because of fear of offending the female pilot.

    It just ruins well running shops when females are put in.

    This focus on the female is going to ruin our military. They are sheer poison because they are a protected class.

    • Replies: @SteveRogers42
    @Rod1963

    Looks like SF is being emasculated even before the women arrive -- in order to lead the way:

    https://sofrep.com/94786/careerism-cronyism-malfeasance-special-warfare-center-end-special-forces-capability/

  173. @John Pepple
    @27 year old

    I'm pretty sure the feminist line will be that men should leave the workplace, not women.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @27 year old

    Women will also reject an all female workplace.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @27 year old

    Generally speaking, women make the worst bosses, and they treat their female colleagues worst of all.

    Our declining, deindustrializing economy combined with a growing population (grown even more by immigration and the introduction of women into the workplace) and the ever increasing # of people with degrees means that there is vicious competition for every job above the level of Wal-Mart shelf stocker. One of the best ways to ascend the corporate pyramid is on the backs of your rivals. And if you are at the top of the pyramid and want to stay there, to get rid of any potential challengers for your spot as top dog. Lauer himself was notorious for getting anyone who was a potential rival canned at Today. He would go to his bosses and say , "it's either him or me" and they would pick him because they were making a lot of $ off of Today and they did not want to change what was working (no one really knows how to reproduce the elusive magic formula for success on TV ).

  174. @Alec Leamas
    It's funny because on the way home I was thinking about "First they came for Roy Moore, and I did not speak out because I hate Roy Moore . . . "

    Replies: @anon

    Hard to tell if ole Roy! has a sense of humor, but if he has, he must be laughing his black guts out by now.

  175. @whorefinder
    @Reg Cæsar

    A favorite Joe Biden quote I heard was right around when Obama was elected in 2008. Joe claimed Obama had offered him either the VP slot or the Sec of State slot, and Joe chose the VP slot.

    It was so hilariously unbelievable I never forgot it. The idea that Obama would put a human gaffe machine like Biden in charge of foreign policy was astounding---remember this was not too long after Biden torpedoed his own campaign with the "articulate and clean" comments about Obama. Or the idea that some ambitious pol would not choose the Sec of State spot over the meaningless VP slot---Joe really expects us to believe that.

    Biden was a good choice for VP by Obama, however. He was instant assassination insurance, because--- no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama--- nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Intelligent Dasein

    He was instant assassination insurance, because— no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama— nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.

    This could not be more inaccurate. Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration. I would have taken Biden a thousand times over a sneering, contemptuous Farquaad like Obama. Besides which, corruption and idiocy are by no means undesirable traits to have in a president. As long as the president is beholden to various other forces who can check and control him, the citizens enjoy a measure of liberty. A hypothetical 8 years of Biden would have been gold compared to what we actually endured with Obama.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Intelligent Dasein


    This could not be more inaccurate. Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration.
     
    I thought the choice of Dan Quayle was inspired. He came across as a fool, which discourages thoughts of deposing the boss, but in reality he was quite capable of handling the job of president. GHWB did spend eight years up close with him in the Senate, after all.
    , @whorefinder
    @Intelligent Dasein


    Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration.
     
    lol. Could not be more inaccurate. Obama partly wanted to be shown as magnanimous leader in choosing idiot Joe, the racist who'd racistsed himself out of the campaign. But Obama could have chosen literally any Democrat in congress as VP to give his administration perception of seriousness. John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, etc. Heck, Obama could have really upped the ante and chosen Nancy Pelosi, a big thumb to the eyes of Hillary and making her the first female VP.

    But he chose Joe. Why? Because Joe was so pathetic and stupid nobody wanted him as president. Pelosi, Clinton, Kerry, Reid---plenty of people on the Left and Right might have been ok with them being president if Obama pissed them off enough. And Obama wanted to cover himself. Hence Hairplug Joe got the tap.

    Nobody wanted Biden as President. Take it to the bank.
  176. @The Last Real Calvinist
    @Jim Bob Lassiter

    I think Keillor's style also owes a serious hat tip to Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood'.

    But there were of course many, many radio plays, monologues, and other audio drama stylings in the first few decades of the wireless.

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter

    In any case, he didn’t “invent the art” any more than Mick Jagger invented the blues.

  177. Matt Lauer accused of sexting NBC intern and staffers

    NBC News President Andy Lack said in a meeting with staff Wednesday that Lauer’s involvement with the woman, who has not been named but is still an NBC employee, continued after they returned to New York.

    That’s returned from Sochi in 2014 — it (the “involvement”) was all so traumatic she still works at NBC nearly four years later…

    Sounds like that could fake news on your part. A fuller quote:

    Matt Lauer has also been accused of sexting female staffers at NBC, allegedly sending lewd messages and revealing pictures to women including a young intern.

    Sources tell Page Six that the reason he was fired so quickly by NBC News is that the messages, saved by an NBC employee whom he approached while they were in Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympics, “showed incontrovertible proof of inappropriate sexual behavior on his part.”

    It is believed the first woman to come forward and complain about Lauer is a junior production worker who was at the 2014 Sochi Olympics as an intern, where she was first approached by Lauer.

    NBC News President Andy Lack said in a meeting with staff Wednesday that Lauer’s involvement with the woman, who has not been named but is still an NBC employee, continued after they returned to New York.

    A source told Page Six, “There’s at least one picture [sent to her by Matt] which was a major part of the evidence, which is why the firing came so quickly … my understanding was it was so damning that it was unquestionable whether or not he should be fired.

    It sounds like “involvement” is Lack’s word for “being sexted by.” By the way, is forcible rape less a crime if the victim doesn’t sob on the stand, or otherwise sufficiently conform to your idea of trauma? Is a pimp no longer scum if some of his whores love their work?

    A different piece notes that Lauer’s wife accompanied him to Sochi, because she didn’t trust him.

    Lauer will not be missed by some of his co-workers. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tweeted: “Matt Lauer was remorsely vindictive and tyrannical to everyone at NBC News and management repeatedly enabled him and buried the issue.”

    My favorite thing about Olbermann is his juxtaposition of communist lunacy and stupidity: “remorsely.” It doesn’t even look like “remorselessly.” His version of remorselessness lacks remorselessness, seems more like remorse. Rprllent, really.

  178. @Anon
    Now, 'marrying' is a class thing.

    https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/936009893336834053

    Too many pimps and whores.

    Too many women with jobs and high expectations.

    Too many men without jobs or without jobs that can support families.

    So, it takes money + moral sense + status to get married, increasingly rare traits.

    So, marriage that used to be near universal is now a Class thing.

    The Married Class.

    Replies: @Anon, @YetAnotherAnon

    That was Murray’s thesis in Coming Apart. He said the middle-upper classes of Belmont talked Sixties to Fishtown but lived Fifties themselves.

  179. @utu
    @Anonymous

    he supported the whole Cultural Marxist agenda

    I do not think so. Not "the whole." He put up with it. He did not promote it.

    Replies: @bomag

    His radio show pretty much shilled Democrat politics; not particularly cultural Marxism, but he didn’t do much to slow it down.

    I went to his recent one man show; downright conservative on that stage.

  180. @Karl
    @Anonymous

    20 Anonymous > Oh, and try to keep your paws off the shiksa’s. It’s getting embarrassing.


    Yeah, there they were, just trying to be great McDonalds employees in Ohio, and you FORCED them to dream about making it big in Hollywood!


    Mouse, I want to make this right between us. i'll give you Rachel Maddow to play with.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @Anon

    I don’t think they dreamt about making that big…

    Is it possible all we have here is a simple misunderstanding?

  181. @Cagey Beast
    In retrospect, it was just after the closing ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Games that the "end of history" era started to end. The Canadian equivalent of NPR, CBC Radio had Jian Ghomeshi go over to Sochi and host their sneering, anti-Russian, pro-LBGTQ2 coverage.

    I mention him because he turns out to have been the first politically impeccable male feminist media celebrity to be caught up in this kind of news story; the kind that's now coming in two and threes some days. That was the first time women in media gathered to cast out one of their supposed male allies. Like the others, he turned out to be a predatory perv. It was rough sex and teddy bears in his case.

    It's interesting how 2014 was the year the ice started to break all over the place both with this stuff and with Pax Americana more broadly. Who could have known we'd end up here? Funny thing is that this ride is far from over. History is back on.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Hey, good comment. I didn’t realize the butthurt about the Russian respect for human dignity (as in their disgust for the public promotion of all the BLT/G crap) went back that far. Maybe that started off the whole Lyin’ Press/Neocon push for Cold War II.

    I especially liked your:

    Funny thing is that this ride is far from over. History is back on.

  182. @Beckow
    @anony-mouse

    It is a purge. When looking back in 2100 the story will go something like this:

    By 2016 Western liberalism got out of control. After achieving total control of culture, media and politics, they dreamt about ever more absurd things. They felt they can change people's sex lives and other countries's governments just by talking. They got caught up in cognitive dissonance so massive that they were no longer able to even discuss things. All they wanted was for the 'others' (they used worse terms) to be shut down.

    Liberals had everything on their side except results. It wasn't working. Then a number of real and symbolic setbacks occurred, the most important in the Anglo world were Brexit and Trump.

    Hillary Clinton's defeat unravelled liberalism. After a short period of emotional screaming and mindless posturing ('we will reverse the elections!', 'treason'), the inevitable consequences started for the defeated liberals. They were ruthlessly purged and dismissed. Two main pillars of Hillary liberalism: progressive beta males and radical feminists turned on each. That accelerated the purge.

    Ideologies die when they over-reach. It is a purge, enjoy it.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @AnotherDad, @BB753

    It is a purge, enjoy it.

    That’s what I told my hot, thin girlfriend after dinner one time.

  183. @whorefinder
    @utu


    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?
     
    Keillor is a tall man ('6'4"). If she was moving slightly forward when he tried to pat her on the back then his natural reaction would be to go both upwards (towards his own height to be comfortable) as his hand tried to follow her. It's just the sort of awkward thing an awkward tall guy might do. And if he doesn't realize her shirt is open or he's just too awkward to stop himself he hits skin.

    It's rather Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I can see it.

    that said, let Rapey Garrison burn with the rest of 'em.

    Replies: @utu, @tsotha, @Inquiring Mind, @SteveRogers42

    The geometry and mechanics of Mr. Keillor’s admission to an accidental grope? What is this, the Zapruder film?

  184. @anony-mouse
    Waydaminit.

    A few weeks ago when Larry David pointed out that a whole lot of Jews were being uncovered as less than gentlemanly, Steve seemed to be ecstatic at the revelation.

    Now that more diversity has 'creepped' in, suddenly Steve has changed his mind. It's now a 'purge'!

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Beckow, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Space Ghost, @Tex

    I dunno about Steve, but seeing Garrison Keillor get unpersoned is pretty damn funny, even if he’s a Looteran. Current year is best year!

  185. @Dan Hayes
    I personally felt that a great deal of Keillor's shtick was mocking what he considered to be Upper Mid-Western rubes. But the rubes seemed to lap it up, seemingly without taking much offense. Unfortunately maybe they actually were what he mocked.

    Replies: @eddy wobegon

    We felt he was doing an honest self-reflection on himself. his family, and the locals. No offense was taken about his fiction. He was an ass about Republicans but it didn’t creep into A Prairie Home Companion.

    Even in his recent column defending Al Franken, Keillor struck back at the hysterical statue felling/renaming craze that the PC mafia is embroiled in. A prominent lake in Minneapolis is now being renamed from Calhoun to the unpronounceable Bde Maka Ska.

    As far as insufferable liberals, at least Keillor isn’t a cookie-cutter clone. He has a writing style with great charm.

  186. @utu
    @40 Acres and A Kardashian

    His defense of Christmas tradition is pretty good in this 2009 article.

    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-12-16/news/bal-op.keillor16dec16_1_silent-night-unitarian-christmas

    Replies: @40 Acres and A Kardashian

    His defense of Christmas tradition is pretty good in this 2009 article.

    Exactly. He’s a vicious anti-semite.

  187. @Anon
    OT:
    https://twitter.com/DavidAvromBell/status/936028833471434752

    Really makes you think...

    Replies: @Tex, @Cagey Beast, @Jack D

    Do Jewish migrants regularly beat up crippled kids? I suppose the prime minister of Malaysia could tweet a picture of George Soros with the caption, “A Jewish migrant beat up my economy.”

    • Replies: @Autochthon
  188. @MikeatMikedotMike
    "The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues."

    Any theory as what the end game is with this? I have my own, just curious to hear other PsOV.

    Replies: @Jus' Sayin'...

    “The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues.”

    Any theory as what the end game is with this? I have my own, just curious to hear other PsOV.

    The amount of squid ink currently being spurted leads me to believe that the establishment is worried about something other than adult sexual harassment. If a truly major scandal of a different nature is gradually gaining traction beyond public view, the powers-that-be may be attempting to divert attention from such a horrendous, criminal scandal, lessen its eventual impact, or even bury the emerging serious story by means of the outrageous amounts of publicity these witch hunts are receiving.

    • Replies: @SteveRogers42
    @Jus' Sayin'...

    Yup. That was their plan.

    However, as the eminent philosopher Sir Michael Tyson once demurred: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouf".

    , @BB753
    @Jus' Sayin'...

    Disney and Nickelodeon are teeming with homo pedophiles and predators of teenage girls. It's no secret.
    And then google: Bryan Singer and Apt Pupil, Roland Emmerich, etc..

  189. @peterike
    The fun just doesn't stop! More please!!

    Here's one I didn't realize for some reason: "[Matt] Lauer's father was of Romanian Jewish ancestry."

    Lol! Anudda one.

    Keillor gets to go into the "see, Goys do it too" pile.

    Replies: @Neuday

    Keillor gets to go into the “see, Goys do it too” pile.

    (((some people))) misuse potted plants and show off their genitals to obviously uncomfortable shiksas, and some people put a hand on a woman’s bare back. Same thing. Moral Relativism becomes Immoral Universalism, because all men are disgusting horndogs. The only solution is Rule by minority women. Oprahtocracy. Because Hillary lost, now we’ll get Kamala Harris, good ‘n hard.

  190. @Anon
    OT:
    https://twitter.com/DavidAvromBell/status/936028833471434752

    Really makes you think...

    Replies: @Tex, @Cagey Beast, @Jack D

    Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about!

    Q: “Should we fix this faulty elevator?”
    A: “Yes! What if a Jew should get on it?”

    Q: “Is murder wrong?”
    A: “But what if a Jew really needs to kill someone?”
    Q: “Hmmmm….”

    This has become darkly comical.

    I don’t think we can build a universal system of ethnics and governance around the two questions: “but is it good for the Jews?” and “how do the Jews fit into all this?”. Sorry Jews and sorry monomaniacal anti-Semites, it’s not roadworthy as a worldview.

  191. @JimB
    Are all these dominos falling because Hillary lost the election?

    Replies: @Jack D

    Yes. If you read the comments on places like the NY Times, the readers really want to get Trump, the biggest pussy grabber of them all. They have no way of getting at Trump so all these male authority figures serve as his effigies that can be burned in his place.

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @Jack D

    "Think globally, lash out personally".

    , @JimB
    @Jack D

    The dominos toppling were public figures overwhelmingly critical of Trump. You seem to be saying that the Dem plan to take down Trump is to clean their own house first so they can gain purity points for future grandstanding against him.

    This looks like a racial phase transition of the progressive movement to me. It was inevitable that the client population of the welfare state grown by demographic change would revolt and take over the machinery of wealth extraction.

    Given that CA is test driving America’s post-white future, I’m predicting that Jerry Brown will get swept out of office by some scandal soon.

  192. @PSR
    @Dahlia

    "Seldom dabbled in liberal politics?" Oh please, he was so bitter and venomous about the George Bush presidency, and couldn't keep his anger out of his show, I finally had to quit listening to PHC. I have no idea if he's innocent or guilty of real sexual harassment but he IS a big time knee-jerk leftist.

    Replies: @Dahlia, @Jim Don Bob

    Oh please, he was so bitter and venomous about the George Bush presidency, and couldn’t keep his anger out of his show, I finally had to quit listening to PHC.

    Me too.

  193. OT: The Swede who made a fortune off Minecraft:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
    … just tweeted this:

  194. @Jack D
    @JimB

    Yes. If you read the comments on places like the NY Times, the readers really want to get Trump, the biggest pussy grabber of them all. They have no way of getting at Trump so all these male authority figures serve as his effigies that can be burned in his place.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @JimB

    “Think globally, lash out personally”.

  195. @Anon
    @Prof. Woland

    The US taxpayer--including Republican taxpayers--are forced to subsidize the liberal politicking of guys like Keillor on NPR. Keillor is getting what he deserves.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland

    I agree. I resent the fact that my tax money supports NPR and Public Television when both are unabashed liberal bastions. Public Television once felt it necessary to provide William F. Buckley with a platform, but there’s no longer a single non-liberal voice on state-sponsored media.

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Harry Baldwin

    I don't think the arts should be publicly funded, either.

    I thought way even before "Piss Christ". If an artist truly has a vocation, he--or more rarely, she-- will find a legal way to finance the creation of his--or more rarely, her--art.

    Schubert literally sang for his supper, Beethoven taught piano, T.S. Eliot worked in a bank. If an individual wants to be a patron of an artist, fine. But tax monies should not be used for that purpose.

  196. @attilathehen
    This is great. Matt Lauer, this one, Franken, etc. All of these were very anti-Trump. Once again they are being hoisted on their own petards by their undies - atomic wedgies.

    No one seems to see that ever since Trump met Melania he's been a one-woman man. I recall some guy who works with Glen Beck making unkind comments about a younger woman "selling" herself to a richer man and how she has to "work" for this rich man. I knew it was a jibe against Trump. The Democrats, MSM, never-Trumpers are going insane. This is so much fun.

    Replies: @Jack D

    The far Left crowded hated Lauer. According to the Narrative, one the reasons why Hillary lost (aside from the #1 Reason, being the Russians) was that when Lauer had Hillary on he was really mean to her and asked her about the email server when he should have just given her the usual softball questions about how wonderful it will feel when you break the glass ceiling, but when he had Trump on, he “normalized him” by treating him respectfully and not denouncing him as a Fascist (the same mistake the NY Times guy made with that other Nazi recently).

    • Replies: @The Man From K Street
    @Jack D

    I've seen this line of attack as well. Not just with Lauer--but arguing that the thing that he and Thrush and Halperin have in common (no, not that lol) is that all of them were media figures who "trashed" Hillary during the campaign. These people actually believe that the MSM wasn't 100% in Team D's corner in 2016.

    , @attilathehen
    @Jack D

    I saw that interview of (((Matt Lauer))) and Hilligula. He was tough with her. I wonder if he voted for her? Big picture, his sexual escapades have been known for years. His wife left him for a time because of his infidelity. The Hilligula people are happy he got fired. We got a break though with his treatment of her and Trump. These breaks don't happen very often with the MSM, I'm just happy the left is getting their just desserts.

  197. @utu
    @International Jew

    who were Mossad alumni

    The are no Mossad alumni. It is not a school. There are former Mossad employees who really are never former.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @International Jew

    A US Marine veteran will challenge you if you refer to him as “a former Marine.” There are no “former” Marines, just Marines. Or so I’ve been instructed by one of them.

    Perhaps true of Mossad veterans as well.

    • Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike
    @Harry Baldwin

    As a "former" Marine myself, saying "former Marine" is an acceptable term. It is a helpful indicator to others that said Marine is no longer an active (or even inactive) member of the Corps.

    The incorrect term is "x-Marine". There are no x-Marines.

    Replies: @anon, @Reg Cæsar

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Harry Baldwin


    A US Marine veteran will challenge you if you refer to him as “a former Marine.” There are no “former” Marines, just Marines. Or so I’ve been instructed by one of them.
     

    Here's one former Marine for you:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-nabors-gomer-pyle-andy-griffith-show-dead-87-honolulu/

    "His husband" said Nabors contracted hep-B by cutting himself shaving in India (which I admit sounds suicidal), but we all know the real reason.

    Cardiac ar-ray-est, cardiac ar-ray-est!

  198. Dahlia says:
    @Kylie
    All these guys have always seemed very creepy to me, except for Dustin Hoffman, who always seemed equal parts talented and creepy. They're the kinds of guys who, when considered as potential sex partners, make being a nun or a lesbian instantly appealing. Even being dead suddenly reveals its upside, if only momentarily.

    So I'm not sorry for any of them. I can easily imagine them making crude, rude, vulgar, unwanted sexual advances. Maybe of the overt "grab a tit and see what happens" type or maybe the "I'll just pat your bare back in a home companionable way" type. But creepy. Because, let's face it, they're all physically repulsive and too arrogant to bother developing any charm of manner that might get them what they want without their having to grab or pat it. Every last one of them comes across as smug and entitled. And the woman in me thinks, "Power schmower. When you're that ugly, you better be nice. And you bloody well better ask."

    Replies: @Dahlia

    Every last one of them comes across as smug and entitled. And the woman in me thinks, “Power schmower. When you’re that ugly, you better be nice. And you bloody well better ask.”

    Yeah, malignant narcissism is a real thing with so many of them. These are the guys who feel themselves so superior that they probably are *not* afraid of being hauled up for appalling behavior because that would be beneath them. They’re just too smart and Machiavellian to get caught.
    I wouldn’t be surprised if the worst ones were shocked when they got publicly accused.

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Dahlia

    Exactly, Dahlia, thanks.

    After I posted my comment, I worried that despite the qualifiers, the guys here might think I meant all men. But yes, I meant specifically those malignant narcissists.

    I like men; their company, their conversation, etc. I once flirted most enjoyably with a sexy guy who had shiny blond hair and sparkling green eyes. It was only after he left and our mutual friend mentioned his disability that I realized yeah, he had no legs and was in a wheelchair. So when a man creeps me out, I take notice.

    All these guys creeped me out long before the accusations against them were made public.

    Replies: @Jack D

  199. @Organized Chaos
    have you noticed that Collin kaepernik's jewish biological mother (russo) has had a nose job ?

    It seems that someone doesn't want the goyim to find out that she is a jew

    i'm willing to bet that the rumor about him being a muslim was spread by the jews (ADL etc) after they found out that kap is a jew under jewish law

    my radar was on fire when i saw ruth bader ginsberg attack him to distance her tribe from him

    that made me look into it and i noticed the nose job

    before the nose job

    Colin got his jew nose from her

    http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2771693.1472578496!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/russo.jpg


    after the nose job

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/30/19/37B98E8E00000578-3765635-image-a-28_1472581928713.jpg

    Replies: @Jack D, @Autochthon

    Dear Chaos,

    Racial science has advanced greatly since the ’30s, when we had to rely on clues such as nose shape, which can often be misleading. I suggest that you find Colin and insult him to his face. Perhaps call him a dirty Jew-N___ger, something like that. This will cause him to spit at you. You then can wipe up the sputum from you face and send it off for DNA analysis and get a definite answer to this urgent racial question. Please let us know when you get the results.

    • Replies: @Autochthon
    @Jack D

    But he should save some saliva for evidence in his lucrative civil suit for assault and battery so that Kaepernik can buy him a new house.

    (And, no, "He said something mean to me first." is not a valid affirmative defence to assault and battery in a civil context, notwithstanding preposterous and decrepit statutes about "fighting words" in some jurisdictions.)

    , @Hunsdon
    @Jack D

    C'mon, Jack, you're just leaving that "Let's you and him fight" stereotype hanging there . . . .

  200. @Frau Katze
    @27 year old

    You are assuming that all women think this whole exercise is just fine and dandy.

    I’m not that familiar with Keillor, although I’ve heard of him (I’m not an American).

    But the whole thing seems a bit dangerous to me.

    Weinstein was apparently a clear case and it was an open secret.

    Why is it spreading like a witch hunt?

    Don’t assume this will stop at liberal media and entertainment men.

    Is it really fair to very suddenly change the social rules that were the norm for a very long time?

    I worked for 35 years without being harassed. None of my friends have complained of it either.

    Perhaps these well known men thought they could get away with it, unlike your average guy working in a cubicle (think Dilbert).

    Replies: @Kylie, @27 year old

    You are assuming that all women think this whole exercise is just fine and dandy.

    Not assuming that, I’m speculating on what might happen if things continue on their course. But, since you mention it so far, women have not really objected to this (publicly). I can think of 2 groups where opposition could come from: apolitical normie women or right wing lite-antifeminist women. Normie women are by definition not going to move the needle of political winds. Right wing women really don’t have much power to do anything. So I think even if not all women are on board, I don’t think women can stop it.

    Don’t assume this will stop at liberal media and entertainment men.

    I don’t assume that either, but that is the target rich environment. If/when it goes beyond liberal media and liberal entertainment we can worry about it then. This is not the time to be a cuckservative standing athwart whatever yelling please clap. This thing is hurting our enemies, just let it happen.

    Is it really fair to very suddenly change the social rules that were the norm for a very long time?

    Is it really fair to expect “the social rules” as defined by the baby boomers to be the norm for all of time? This is what a fourth turning looks like.

  201. @Intelligent Dasein
    @whorefinder


    He was instant assassination insurance, because— no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama— nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.
     
    This could not be more inaccurate. Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration. I would have taken Biden a thousand times over a sneering, contemptuous Farquaad like Obama. Besides which, corruption and idiocy are by no means undesirable traits to have in a president. As long as the president is beholden to various other forces who can check and control him, the citizens enjoy a measure of liberty. A hypothetical 8 years of Biden would have been gold compared to what we actually endured with Obama.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @whorefinder

    This could not be more inaccurate. Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration.

    I thought the choice of Dan Quayle was inspired. He came across as a fool, which discourages thoughts of deposing the boss, but in reality he was quite capable of handling the job of president. GHWB did spend eight years up close with him in the Senate, after all.

  202. @Anon
    OT:
    https://twitter.com/DavidAvromBell/status/936028833471434752

    Really makes you think...

    Replies: @Tex, @Cagey Beast, @Jack D

    The Trump anti-Muslim tweets have provoked a real political firestorm in the UK – top story there. They were retweeted from some “far right” organization. The controversy is over the source, not whether the film is real. The best that they can do is say that the film is from a few years ago, so it’s not really news.

    I was sort of hoping that Bell was being ironic, knowing that Jews don’t usually beat up crippled Dutch boys, but no such luck – the man really is a fool.

  203. @Anon
    @Prof. Woland

    The US taxpayer--including Republican taxpayers--are forced to subsidize the liberal politicking of guys like Keillor on NPR. Keillor is getting what he deserves.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland

    I am driving a lot more in the middle of the day and listen to NPR on the radio (I channel surf), particularly The World with Marco Werman and it become nothing but non-stop rah rah on immigration, refugees, and the other. Not only is it daily, but frequently there are multiple sob stories.Never do I hear anything that even comes close to how the majority of the population feels (The Nation) or the consequences of what they are covering. It is always happy coverage (look, little Mohamed wants to become a doctor) to where you just want to puke.

    I have long since come to the conclusion that they would never hire me or someone who shares similar opinions or interests on the National Question. It is not that I am so close minded that I cannot tolerate this stuff but it is so relentless and pointed that I can no longer listen to it without immediately pulling it up on my radar. The ideological clique that controls NPR is probably so tight and you have to pass so many gatekeepers over your career that they are now probably incapable of producing anything that actually reflects the majority population.

    The social convergence is so complete it has become inbred.

  204. @Space Ghost
    @International Jew

    "it’s hard to find any adult male Israelis who are not military veterans."

    Why is that fact relevant? Every Israeli male is not required to serve in Mossad. The IDF is not Mossad, you yutz. There are (supposedly, according to wikipedia) 1,200 Mossad employees. The IDF has 176,500 active duty personnel. Why would you mention the IDF when we are talking about Mossad?

    Replies: @International Jew

    Because if they’d not been in the Mossad, your panties would have reflexively bunched up over “commandos” or “paratroopers”.

    Unz.com already provides a damp log for your type to hide under — the Giraldi blog. Why don’t you take it there.

    • Replies: @Space Ghost
    @International Jew

    First of all I object your gender-normative language, which implies that there is something wrong or cowardly about those who wear panties, a historically feminine garment. Secondly, I laugh at your attempt to indict me over a counterfactual scenario. Why don't you respond to my actual point? Why is it relevant that most Israelis serve in the IDF, when the organization we're talking about is Mossad?

  205. The far Left crowded hated Lauer. According to the Narrative, one the reasons why Hillary lost (aside from the #1 Reason, being the Russians) was that when Lauer had Hillary on he was really mean to her and asked her about the email server when he should have just given her the usual softball questions about how wonderful it will feel when you break the glass ceiling, but when he had Trump on, he “normalized him” by treating him respectfully and not denouncing him as a Fascist (the same mistake the NY Times guy made with that other Nazi recently).

    So, Lauer was too moderate in his communism, and didn’t satisfy the far-left communists. He’s still a communist.

  206. @utu
    @International Jew

    who were Mossad alumni

    The are no Mossad alumni. It is not a school. There are former Mossad employees who really are never former.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @International Jew

    Thank you, Mr. Literal.

  207. @Ivy
    @Buffalo Joe

    Now that the big stars like Garrison Keillor are falling, when will we hear about Wolf Blitzer or Chris Hayes? They must be in the backwaters of the swamp.

    Replies: @Daniel H, @Buffalo Joe

    Ivy, I’m not the best looking guy around, but Weinstein and Keillor are dog butt ugly. This may be the only way they can get woman to notice them, you know, molest them.

  208. @Intelligent Dasein
    @whorefinder


    He was instant assassination insurance, because— no matter how right wing or left wing or how much they hated Obama— nobody wanted a corrupt idiot like Biden as president.
     
    This could not be more inaccurate. Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration. I would have taken Biden a thousand times over a sneering, contemptuous Farquaad like Obama. Besides which, corruption and idiocy are by no means undesirable traits to have in a president. As long as the president is beholden to various other forces who can check and control him, the citizens enjoy a measure of liberty. A hypothetical 8 years of Biden would have been gold compared to what we actually endured with Obama.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @whorefinder

    Biden was added to the ticket because Obama was a political lightweight with no experience in anything, whereas Joe was an old Washington hand and had the policy chops and the connections to legitimize the administration.

    lol. Could not be more inaccurate. Obama partly wanted to be shown as magnanimous leader in choosing idiot Joe, the racist who’d racistsed himself out of the campaign. But Obama could have chosen literally any Democrat in congress as VP to give his administration perception of seriousness. John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, etc. Heck, Obama could have really upped the ante and chosen Nancy Pelosi, a big thumb to the eyes of Hillary and making her the first female VP.

    But he chose Joe. Why? Because Joe was so pathetic and stupid nobody wanted him as president. Pelosi, Clinton, Kerry, Reid—plenty of people on the Left and Right might have been ok with them being president if Obama pissed them off enough. And Obama wanted to cover himself. Hence Hairplug Joe got the tap.

    Nobody wanted Biden as President. Take it to the bank.

  209. It’s these “empowered” left-of-center university-educated white women with soft degrees who are lodging ALL of these sexual harassment complaints. Whether the alleged perps are cads deserving of their comeuppance or not, we can’t lose sight of the visceral hostility most of our own women now have for us.

    The advice I give to young white men is neither to work in industries populated by these sorts of women nor to enter long-term relationships with them. I’d even be cautious about a pump and dump.

    Due process no longer exists in matters of family law or sexual harassment investigative procedure. One negative word out of the mouth of a 105-IQ 35-year old harpy or 25-year old female hipster and you’re tarnished for life.

    It’s a sad state of affairs, but if you’re looking to enter a long-term relationship, these are the types of women you have to go for:

    1. An Eastern European woman who has been in North America for 5 years or less;
    2. An Asian immigrant woman or else an Asian-American raised under the strict guidelines of her Pentecostal or Roman Catholic Church;
    3. A Latin American woman; or
    4. A Mormon.

    After all, we live in a world where Rebel Media is constantly labelled a “far right” media organization and where an Anglophone woman can physically assault someone like Roosh with impunity simply because she didn’t like his cultural commentary.

    • Replies: @Jonathan Mason
    @Canadian Observer


    1. An Eastern European woman who has been in North America for 5 years or less;
    2. An Asian immigrant woman or else an Asian-American raised under the strict guidelines of her Pentecostal or Roman Catholic Church;
    3. A Latin American woman; or
    4. A Mormon.
     
    This sounds about right, but then again look at England's Prince Harry who is about to marry American actress and SJW Meghan Markle. It appears that now she has met her charming prince, she is prepared to give up everything including her US citizenship to play a child-bearing role before it is too late for her and stay at home baking venison pies in a gilded palace. I guess the moral is that every North American woman has her ultimate price, but not every man is Prince Charming.
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Canadian Observer


    It’s a sad state of affairs, but if you’re looking to enter a long-term relationship, these are the types of women you have to go for...


    3. A Latin American woman...
     
    Like Brenda Barattini? Or Lorena Bobbitt?
    , @BB753
    @Canadian Observer

    I'd stay clear of Latinas and Filipinas : they can't remain faithful to a man for too long.

  210. @Organized Chaos
    have you noticed that Collin kaepernik's jewish biological mother (russo) has had a nose job ?

    It seems that someone doesn't want the goyim to find out that she is a jew

    i'm willing to bet that the rumor about him being a muslim was spread by the jews (ADL etc) after they found out that kap is a jew under jewish law

    my radar was on fire when i saw ruth bader ginsberg attack him to distance her tribe from him

    that made me look into it and i noticed the nose job

    before the nose job

    Colin got his jew nose from her

    http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2771693.1472578496!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/russo.jpg


    after the nose job

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/30/19/37B98E8E00000578-3765635-image-a-28_1472581928713.jpg

    Replies: @Jack D, @Autochthon

    She should get her money back: the after version is as Jewy as ever.

  211. @Jack D
    @Organized Chaos

    Dear Chaos,

    Racial science has advanced greatly since the '30s, when we had to rely on clues such as nose shape, which can often be misleading. I suggest that you find Colin and insult him to his face. Perhaps call him a dirty Jew-N___ger, something like that. This will cause him to spit at you. You then can wipe up the sputum from you face and send it off for DNA analysis and get a definite answer to this urgent racial question. Please let us know when you get the results.

    Replies: @Autochthon, @Hunsdon

    But he should save some saliva for evidence in his lucrative civil suit for assault and battery so that Kaepernik can buy him a new house.

    (And, no, “He said something mean to me first.” is not a valid affirmative defence to assault and battery in a civil context, notwithstanding preposterous and decrepit statutes about “fighting words” in some jurisdictions.)

  212. @Dahlia
    @Kylie


    Every last one of them comes across as smug and entitled. And the woman in me thinks, “Power schmower. When you’re that ugly, you better be nice. And you bloody well better ask.”
     
    Yeah, malignant narcissism is a real thing with so many of them. These are the guys who feel themselves so superior that they probably are *not* afraid of being hauled up for appalling behavior because that would be beneath them. They're just too smart and Machiavellian to get caught.
    I wouldn't be surprised if the worst ones were shocked when they got publicly accused.

    Replies: @Kylie

    Exactly, Dahlia, thanks.

    After I posted my comment, I worried that despite the qualifiers, the guys here might think I meant all men. But yes, I meant specifically those malignant narcissists.

    I like men; their company, their conversation, etc. I once flirted most enjoyably with a sexy guy who had shiny blond hair and sparkling green eyes. It was only after he left and our mutual friend mentioned his disability that I realized yeah, he had no legs and was in a wheelchair. So when a man creeps me out, I take notice.

    All these guys creeped me out long before the accusations against them were made public.

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Kylie

    Your feelings make perfect sense. When a woman says that a man is "creepy" (or a man says that a woman is "repellent") , etc. you are attempting to verbalize feelings that come from a much deeper place (and so which cannot really be expressed adequately in words, which is why you were concerned that you had not expressed yourself clearly and why the whole vocabulary sounds like it is coming from a 9 year old - creepy, gross, etc.). Ultimately what we call "attractive" or not comes down to the answer to the question, "is this a person who would be suitable to bear my offspring" (even if you are just flirting or watching the person on the screen and have no realistic prospect or desire to bear that person's children). This is how our brains are programmed. So the shiny hair and sparkling eyes (markers of youth) were signalling to you that yes, I could bear healthy fit offspring with this mate. That his legs were disabled because of some accident does not change the answer. If, OTOH, the man looks like the Emperor Palpatine, then your lizard brain is signalling "UNFIT, UNFIT" and this gets verbalized as "creepy".

    Replies: @Kylie

  213. Anon • Disclaimer says:
    @SAK
    Did you read Spandrell's Biological Leninism post?

    He posits that we are ruled by the incompetent who maintain their position only due to being legitimised by the ruling narrative. This makes them loyal to the state which supports and is supported by said narrative as they know if the narrative falls so do they. But those rascally white men, even those who have been supportive to the narrative, can never be so trusted. They are competent enough to do just fine even without the narrative. And so must be purged.

    I talk about this in a blog post that might, or might not, be of interest to some.

    Replies: @Anon

    I think it’s more simple than that. People in high places who have made a lot of enemies over the years are just being purged, and this happens to be a convenient time. It was just that a certain social momentum was needed to make the changes. The defenders of these men were liberals who would kneejerk fly to the defense of their idols and cause too much trouble to be able to fire the offenders. These liberal defenders had to be cowed by their own side to get rid of the men who were breaking the law.

    • Replies: @SAK
    @Anon

    A very reasonable theory.

    But is Keillor powerful enough to have enemies who would make moves against him? Is he collateral damage?

  214. @anonguy
    @The Last Real Calvinist


    Anyway, as Keillor later turned openly to leftist politicking, I got increasingly frustrated and then outright angry with who and what he’d become. He had real talent, but he pimped it out for political and social approval.
     
    There is something vaguely tragic about Keillor. He seemed to have been truly touched by the muse in some fashion, he was genuinely entertaining and seemingly thoughtful some decades past.

    Replies: @Anon

    Literary writers are experts at acting like terrific people for the public eye, then behaving like creeps in private. It’s long been a shtick of theirs. Writers have been pulling off self-anointed saint crap since Rousseau, Dickens, and Tolstoy.

  215. @Kylie
    @Dahlia

    Exactly, Dahlia, thanks.

    After I posted my comment, I worried that despite the qualifiers, the guys here might think I meant all men. But yes, I meant specifically those malignant narcissists.

    I like men; their company, their conversation, etc. I once flirted most enjoyably with a sexy guy who had shiny blond hair and sparkling green eyes. It was only after he left and our mutual friend mentioned his disability that I realized yeah, he had no legs and was in a wheelchair. So when a man creeps me out, I take notice.

    All these guys creeped me out long before the accusations against them were made public.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Your feelings make perfect sense. When a woman says that a man is “creepy” (or a man says that a woman is “repellent”) , etc. you are attempting to verbalize feelings that come from a much deeper place (and so which cannot really be expressed adequately in words, which is why you were concerned that you had not expressed yourself clearly and why the whole vocabulary sounds like it is coming from a 9 year old – creepy, gross, etc.). Ultimately what we call “attractive” or not comes down to the answer to the question, “is this a person who would be suitable to bear my offspring” (even if you are just flirting or watching the person on the screen and have no realistic prospect or desire to bear that person’s children). This is how our brains are programmed. So the shiny hair and sparkling eyes (markers of youth) were signalling to you that yes, I could bear healthy fit offspring with this mate. That his legs were disabled because of some accident does not change the answer. If, OTOH, the man looks like the Emperor Palpatine, then your lizard brain is signalling “UNFIT, UNFIT” and this gets verbalized as “creepy”.

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Jack D

    That's it exactly, Jack. My reaction to these men was visceral. Any attempt to analyze it or clarify it would be pointless beyond what you said--that, ultimately it's based on my biological sense of them as unfit to mate with.

    I also make a distinction between people with outsized egos and malignant narcissists. Trump has a huge ego but he seems able to focus on things connected to but outside himself: his business, his family. And why shouldn't he have a big ego? He's been pretty successful, even factoring in all his early advantages. I don't get the sense that his ego is any barrier to his affections.
    He doesn't give me that chill of uneasiness these other guys do.

    (I do have fun imagining what it would be like to meet him. "So what drives you, Kylie?" "Well, Mr. Trump, I have a passion for German culture, especially its Lieder." "Good for you! Yep, Germany has produced some great leaders, no doubt about it.")

  216. @Bard of Bumperstickers
    The best li'l whorehouse in Lake Wobegon.

    Replies: @Lurker

    Where all the girls are above average.

  217. @27 year old
    @John Pepple

    Women will also reject an all female workplace.

    Replies: @Jack D

    Generally speaking, women make the worst bosses, and they treat their female colleagues worst of all.

    Our declining, deindustrializing economy combined with a growing population (grown even more by immigration and the introduction of women into the workplace) and the ever increasing # of people with degrees means that there is vicious competition for every job above the level of Wal-Mart shelf stocker. One of the best ways to ascend the corporate pyramid is on the backs of your rivals. And if you are at the top of the pyramid and want to stay there, to get rid of any potential challengers for your spot as top dog. Lauer himself was notorious for getting anyone who was a potential rival canned at Today. He would go to his bosses and say , “it’s either him or me” and they would pick him because they were making a lot of $ off of Today and they did not want to change what was working (no one really knows how to reproduce the elusive magic formula for success on TV ).

  218. @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @utu

    Oh come on. Her shirt was open after he unbuttoned it, and because she was braless, he moved up and grasped her naked breast. Then the fact that he honked it like a bicycle horn really put her off. But mostly because of the sound effects he added to the event.

    His assumption was that because she was braless, she was inviting him to "take the next step." Unfortunately for him, she just thought she was a good feminist. And now his time in Hell has begun early.

    Replies: @Lurker

    And then he could have chased her round the building in speeded up Benny Hill-style. With the music as well.

  219. @Jack D
    @Kylie

    Your feelings make perfect sense. When a woman says that a man is "creepy" (or a man says that a woman is "repellent") , etc. you are attempting to verbalize feelings that come from a much deeper place (and so which cannot really be expressed adequately in words, which is why you were concerned that you had not expressed yourself clearly and why the whole vocabulary sounds like it is coming from a 9 year old - creepy, gross, etc.). Ultimately what we call "attractive" or not comes down to the answer to the question, "is this a person who would be suitable to bear my offspring" (even if you are just flirting or watching the person on the screen and have no realistic prospect or desire to bear that person's children). This is how our brains are programmed. So the shiny hair and sparkling eyes (markers of youth) were signalling to you that yes, I could bear healthy fit offspring with this mate. That his legs were disabled because of some accident does not change the answer. If, OTOH, the man looks like the Emperor Palpatine, then your lizard brain is signalling "UNFIT, UNFIT" and this gets verbalized as "creepy".

    Replies: @Kylie

    That’s it exactly, Jack. My reaction to these men was visceral. Any attempt to analyze it or clarify it would be pointless beyond what you said–that, ultimately it’s based on my biological sense of them as unfit to mate with.

    I also make a distinction between people with outsized egos and malignant narcissists. Trump has a huge ego but he seems able to focus on things connected to but outside himself: his business, his family. And why shouldn’t he have a big ego? He’s been pretty successful, even factoring in all his early advantages. I don’t get the sense that his ego is any barrier to his affections.
    He doesn’t give me that chill of uneasiness these other guys do.

    (I do have fun imagining what it would be like to meet him. “So what drives you, Kylie?” “Well, Mr. Trump, I have a passion for German culture, especially its Lieder.” “Good for you! Yep, Germany has produced some great leaders, no doubt about it.”)

  220. @Beckow
    @anony-mouse

    It is a purge. When looking back in 2100 the story will go something like this:

    By 2016 Western liberalism got out of control. After achieving total control of culture, media and politics, they dreamt about ever more absurd things. They felt they can change people's sex lives and other countries's governments just by talking. They got caught up in cognitive dissonance so massive that they were no longer able to even discuss things. All they wanted was for the 'others' (they used worse terms) to be shut down.

    Liberals had everything on their side except results. It wasn't working. Then a number of real and symbolic setbacks occurred, the most important in the Anglo world were Brexit and Trump.

    Hillary Clinton's defeat unravelled liberalism. After a short period of emotional screaming and mindless posturing ('we will reverse the elections!', 'treason'), the inevitable consequences started for the defeated liberals. They were ruthlessly purged and dismissed. Two main pillars of Hillary liberalism: progressive beta males and radical feminists turned on each. That accelerated the purge.

    Ideologies die when they over-reach. It is a purge, enjoy it.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @AnotherDad, @BB753

    It’s a great story Beckow. And dovetails with the current hissy. But there’s zero evidence that this crackup–however bizarre and entertaining–dethrones modern “liberalism”–modern managerial multi-culti statism.

    These folks are *firmly* entrenched. It’s going to be the hard tedious work of decades–with much better and firmer rhetorical clarity and action than we’re getting from any “conservatives” now–to root their noxious poison out. If it gets done at all.

  221. @Jack D
    @attilathehen

    The far Left crowded hated Lauer. According to the Narrative, one the reasons why Hillary lost (aside from the #1 Reason, being the Russians) was that when Lauer had Hillary on he was really mean to her and asked her about the email server when he should have just given her the usual softball questions about how wonderful it will feel when you break the glass ceiling, but when he had Trump on, he "normalized him" by treating him respectfully and not denouncing him as a Fascist (the same mistake the NY Times guy made with that other Nazi recently).

    Replies: @The Man From K Street, @attilathehen

    I’ve seen this line of attack as well. Not just with Lauer–but arguing that the thing that he and Thrush and Halperin have in common (no, not that lol) is that all of them were media figures who “trashed” Hillary during the campaign. These people actually believe that the MSM wasn’t 100% in Team D’s corner in 2016.

  222. @Harry Baldwin
    @Anon

    I agree. I resent the fact that my tax money supports NPR and Public Television when both are unabashed liberal bastions. Public Television once felt it necessary to provide William F. Buckley with a platform, but there's no longer a single non-liberal voice on state-sponsored media.

    Replies: @Kylie

    I don’t think the arts should be publicly funded, either.

    I thought way even before “Piss Christ”. If an artist truly has a vocation, he–or more rarely, she– will find a legal way to finance the creation of his–or more rarely, her–art.

    Schubert literally sang for his supper, Beethoven taught piano, T.S. Eliot worked in a bank. If an individual wants to be a patron of an artist, fine. But tax monies should not be used for that purpose.

  223. @inertial
    If this continues, soon enough the purged one will be able to open their own TV network. White men only, no women allowed - for their own safety.

    Replies: @AnotherDad

    If this continues, soon enough the purged one will be able to open their own TV network. White men only, no women allowed – for their own safety.

    Yep. Weinstein level predation is one thing. (And back in the day such predation–if truly unwelcome, not involving women doing “deals”–might have had consequences from fathers, husbands, brothers.)

    But when it gets to “he made a pass at me” or “he made a suggestive joke” or now “he put his hand on my bare back” we’re off into territory where the only real protection is either a learned “turn into a sexless automaton when a woman enters the room” or … segregation.

    The players are always going play–that’s what they do. But you can bet that there’s a good number of men, either whose romantic/sex lives are in fine shape outside the work environment or who just make the cost/benefit calculation, who will simply avoid interacting with female employees. Don’t be friends with them, joke with them, eat with them. Don’t be alone with them. Don’t mentor them. Don’t manage them. Just don’t hire them!

  224. @Jack D
    @JimB

    Yes. If you read the comments on places like the NY Times, the readers really want to get Trump, the biggest pussy grabber of them all. They have no way of getting at Trump so all these male authority figures serve as his effigies that can be burned in his place.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @JimB

    The dominos toppling were public figures overwhelmingly critical of Trump. You seem to be saying that the Dem plan to take down Trump is to clean their own house first so they can gain purity points for future grandstanding against him.

    This looks like a racial phase transition of the progressive movement to me. It was inevitable that the client population of the welfare state grown by demographic change would revolt and take over the machinery of wealth extraction.

    Given that CA is test driving America’s post-white future, I’m predicting that Jerry Brown will get swept out of office by some scandal soon.

  225. Maybe Garrison ate too many Powdermilk Biscuits? They give shy persons the strength they need to get up and do what needs to be done.

  226. @Harry Baldwin
    @utu

    A US Marine veteran will challenge you if you refer to him as "a former Marine." There are no "former" Marines, just Marines. Or so I've been instructed by one of them.

    Perhaps true of Mossad veterans as well.

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike, @Reg Cæsar

    As a “former” Marine myself, saying “former Marine” is an acceptable term. It is a helpful indicator to others that said Marine is no longer an active (or even inactive) member of the Corps.

    The incorrect term is “x-Marine”. There are no x-Marines.

    • Replies: @anon
    @MikeatMikedotMike

    There are. They handle x-files.

    -(not a Marine)

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @MikeatMikedotMike


    The incorrect term is “x-Marine”. There are no x-Marines.
     
    Most Marines are XY-Marines, but here's an XX one:

    https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/09/25/its-official-marines-have-their-first-female-infantry-officer.html

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike

  227. @MikeatMikedotMike
    @Harry Baldwin

    As a "former" Marine myself, saying "former Marine" is an acceptable term. It is a helpful indicator to others that said Marine is no longer an active (or even inactive) member of the Corps.

    The incorrect term is "x-Marine". There are no x-Marines.

    Replies: @anon, @Reg Cæsar

    There are. They handle x-files.

    -(not a Marine)

    • Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike
    @anon

    Deep. I have since realized that the reason I hated the X-files wasn't because I hated the X-Files, but because I hated myself.

  228. Unz.com already provides a damp log for your type to hide under — the Giraldi blog. Why don’t you take it there.

    People uncomfortable with substantive free speech can always try the other 99.9% of the Web that enforces Jewish sensibilities.

  229. @International Jew
    @Space Ghost

    Because if they'd not been in the Mossad, your panties would have reflexively bunched up over "commandos" or "paratroopers".

    Unz.com already provides a damp log for your type to hide under — the Giraldi blog. Why don't you take it there.

    Replies: @Space Ghost

    First of all I object your gender-normative language, which implies that there is something wrong or cowardly about those who wear panties, a historically feminine garment. Secondly, I laugh at your attempt to indict me over a counterfactual scenario. Why don’t you respond to my actual point? Why is it relevant that most Israelis serve in the IDF, when the organization we’re talking about is Mossad?

  230. Occam’s Razor seems to suggest that Dems whipped up a mob to go after Trump for his comments about pussy-grabbin’, and it turned on them. The conspiracy theories that this is all part of the Democrat Master Plan seem like the usual Konspiracy Kook need to impose order and intelligent design on the universe. They really should try Church.

  231. @Anon
    @SAK

    I think it's more simple than that. People in high places who have made a lot of enemies over the years are just being purged, and this happens to be a convenient time. It was just that a certain social momentum was needed to make the changes. The defenders of these men were liberals who would kneejerk fly to the defense of their idols and cause too much trouble to be able to fire the offenders. These liberal defenders had to be cowed by their own side to get rid of the men who were breaking the law.

    Replies: @SAK

    A very reasonable theory.

    But is Keillor powerful enough to have enemies who would make moves against him? Is he collateral damage?

  232. And then they came for the Founding Fathers. Jefferson was the first to fall, having raped a slave called Sally Hemings who was a relative of his wife, but then old documents were found in Nevis implicating Hamilton in hanky-panky, and before long it became apparent that George Washington, who could not tell a lie, had been a habitual taker of cherries long before he tried to hide the evidence by chopping down the cherry tree.

    The others soon fell, with Madison, the designer of the square garden, having been found to have molested all four of his younger sisters under the guise of ‘playing doctor’.

    And so they were replaced with the Founding Mothers, who included Pocohontas, Virginia Dare, Bessie Smith, May Flowers, Lizzie Borden, Pearlie Gates, Madonna, and Anthony Be Susan.

    [Excerpted from: History of the First Three American Millenia, Chapter XLIII: Stephanie Saylor Rodham. Pub. November 30th, 4017 by Last Trump Publications .]

    • LOL: Dan Hayes
  233. @MikeatMikedotMike
    @Harry Baldwin

    As a "former" Marine myself, saying "former Marine" is an acceptable term. It is a helpful indicator to others that said Marine is no longer an active (or even inactive) member of the Corps.

    The incorrect term is "x-Marine". There are no x-Marines.

    Replies: @anon, @Reg Cæsar

    The incorrect term is “x-Marine”. There are no x-Marines.

    Most Marines are XY-Marines, but here’s an XX one:

    https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/09/25/its-official-marines-have-their-first-female-infantry-officer.html

    • Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike
    @Reg Cæsar

    Aaaaand any regret I may have had about not making it a career ebbs ever more away...

  234. @Reg Cæsar
    @MikeatMikedotMike


    The incorrect term is “x-Marine”. There are no x-Marines.
     
    Most Marines are XY-Marines, but here's an XX one:

    https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/09/25/its-official-marines-have-their-first-female-infantry-officer.html

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike

    Aaaaand any regret I may have had about not making it a career ebbs ever more away…

  235. @anon
    @MikeatMikedotMike

    There are. They handle x-files.

    -(not a Marine)

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike

    Deep. I have since realized that the reason I hated the X-files wasn’t because I hated the X-Files, but because I hated myself.

  236. @Canadian Observer
    It’s these “empowered” left-of-center university-educated white women with soft degrees who are lodging ALL of these sexual harassment complaints. Whether the alleged perps are cads deserving of their comeuppance or not, we can't lose sight of the visceral hostility most of our own women now have for us.

    The advice I give to young white men is neither to work in industries populated by these sorts of women nor to enter long-term relationships with them. I’d even be cautious about a pump and dump.

    Due process no longer exists in matters of family law or sexual harassment investigative procedure. One negative word out of the mouth of a 105-IQ 35-year old harpy or 25-year old female hipster and you’re tarnished for life.

    It’s a sad state of affairs, but if you’re looking to enter a long-term relationship, these are the types of women you have to go for:

    1. An Eastern European woman who has been in North America for 5 years or less;
    2. An Asian immigrant woman or else an Asian-American raised under the strict guidelines of her Pentecostal or Roman Catholic Church;
    3. A Latin American woman; or
    4. A Mormon.

    After all, we live in a world where Rebel Media is constantly labelled a “far right” media organization and where an Anglophone woman can physically assault someone like Roosh with impunity simply because she didn't like his cultural commentary.

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Reg Cæsar, @BB753

    1. An Eastern European woman who has been in North America for 5 years or less;
    2. An Asian immigrant woman or else an Asian-American raised under the strict guidelines of her Pentecostal or Roman Catholic Church;
    3. A Latin American woman; or
    4. A Mormon.

    This sounds about right, but then again look at England’s Prince Harry who is about to marry American actress and SJW Meghan Markle. It appears that now she has met her charming prince, she is prepared to give up everything including her US citizenship to play a child-bearing role before it is too late for her and stay at home baking venison pies in a gilded palace. I guess the moral is that every North American woman has her ultimate price, but not every man is Prince Charming.

  237. @Harry Baldwin
    @utu

    A US Marine veteran will challenge you if you refer to him as "a former Marine." There are no "former" Marines, just Marines. Or so I've been instructed by one of them.

    Perhaps true of Mossad veterans as well.

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike, @Reg Cæsar

    A US Marine veteran will challenge you if you refer to him as “a former Marine.” There are no “former” Marines, just Marines. Or so I’ve been instructed by one of them.

    Here’s one former Marine for you:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-nabors-gomer-pyle-andy-griffith-show-dead-87-honolulu/

    “His husband” said Nabors contracted hep-B by cutting himself shaving in India (which I admit sounds suicidal), but we all know the real reason.

    Cardiac ar-ray-est, cardiac ar-ray-est!

  238. @Jack D
    @Organized Chaos

    Dear Chaos,

    Racial science has advanced greatly since the '30s, when we had to rely on clues such as nose shape, which can often be misleading. I suggest that you find Colin and insult him to his face. Perhaps call him a dirty Jew-N___ger, something like that. This will cause him to spit at you. You then can wipe up the sputum from you face and send it off for DNA analysis and get a definite answer to this urgent racial question. Please let us know when you get the results.

    Replies: @Autochthon, @Hunsdon

    C’mon, Jack, you’re just leaving that “Let’s you and him fight” stereotype hanging there . . . .

  239. @Canadian Observer
    It’s these “empowered” left-of-center university-educated white women with soft degrees who are lodging ALL of these sexual harassment complaints. Whether the alleged perps are cads deserving of their comeuppance or not, we can't lose sight of the visceral hostility most of our own women now have for us.

    The advice I give to young white men is neither to work in industries populated by these sorts of women nor to enter long-term relationships with them. I’d even be cautious about a pump and dump.

    Due process no longer exists in matters of family law or sexual harassment investigative procedure. One negative word out of the mouth of a 105-IQ 35-year old harpy or 25-year old female hipster and you’re tarnished for life.

    It’s a sad state of affairs, but if you’re looking to enter a long-term relationship, these are the types of women you have to go for:

    1. An Eastern European woman who has been in North America for 5 years or less;
    2. An Asian immigrant woman or else an Asian-American raised under the strict guidelines of her Pentecostal or Roman Catholic Church;
    3. A Latin American woman; or
    4. A Mormon.

    After all, we live in a world where Rebel Media is constantly labelled a “far right” media organization and where an Anglophone woman can physically assault someone like Roosh with impunity simply because she didn't like his cultural commentary.

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Reg Cæsar, @BB753

    It’s a sad state of affairs, but if you’re looking to enter a long-term relationship, these are the types of women you have to go for…

    3. A Latin American woman…

    Like Brenda Barattini? Or Lorena Bobbitt?

  240. @Canadian Observer
    It’s these “empowered” left-of-center university-educated white women with soft degrees who are lodging ALL of these sexual harassment complaints. Whether the alleged perps are cads deserving of their comeuppance or not, we can't lose sight of the visceral hostility most of our own women now have for us.

    The advice I give to young white men is neither to work in industries populated by these sorts of women nor to enter long-term relationships with them. I’d even be cautious about a pump and dump.

    Due process no longer exists in matters of family law or sexual harassment investigative procedure. One negative word out of the mouth of a 105-IQ 35-year old harpy or 25-year old female hipster and you’re tarnished for life.

    It’s a sad state of affairs, but if you’re looking to enter a long-term relationship, these are the types of women you have to go for:

    1. An Eastern European woman who has been in North America for 5 years or less;
    2. An Asian immigrant woman or else an Asian-American raised under the strict guidelines of her Pentecostal or Roman Catholic Church;
    3. A Latin American woman; or
    4. A Mormon.

    After all, we live in a world where Rebel Media is constantly labelled a “far right” media organization and where an Anglophone woman can physically assault someone like Roosh with impunity simply because she didn't like his cultural commentary.

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Reg Cæsar, @BB753

    I’d stay clear of Latinas and Filipinas : they can’t remain faithful to a man for too long.

  241. @Jack D
    @attilathehen

    The far Left crowded hated Lauer. According to the Narrative, one the reasons why Hillary lost (aside from the #1 Reason, being the Russians) was that when Lauer had Hillary on he was really mean to her and asked her about the email server when he should have just given her the usual softball questions about how wonderful it will feel when you break the glass ceiling, but when he had Trump on, he "normalized him" by treating him respectfully and not denouncing him as a Fascist (the same mistake the NY Times guy made with that other Nazi recently).

    Replies: @The Man From K Street, @attilathehen

    I saw that interview of (((Matt Lauer))) and Hilligula. He was tough with her. I wonder if he voted for her? Big picture, his sexual escapades have been known for years. His wife left him for a time because of his infidelity. The Hilligula people are happy he got fired. We got a break though with his treatment of her and Trump. These breaks don’t happen very often with the MSM, I’m just happy the left is getting their just desserts.

  242. @eah
    OT

    Brief reminder: Please consider donating to Tony Hovater and his wife -- after the NYT piece, he was fired.

    Another reminder: well over $100k was raised for thug DeAndre Harris.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_Jcewi35I

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @eah

  243. @Anon7
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Never be alone with a woman in a room at work - I had that figured out in 1983, when a friend of mine was a supervisor in a large university department, and a woman who he interviewed but did not hire as a secretary claimed that he made inappropriate advances toward her. The university suspended him without pay immediately, in spite of his five years of service, and subjected him to months of intrusive interrogations about his personal life, ultimately deciding to pay off the woman and to fire him.

    After that, I asked my sixty year-old secretary to stay in the room with me, with the door open, whenever I interviewed women for clerical positions. She was there to "take notes".

    There's no defense against this, women can trash your career whenever they want. And sometimes they do.

    Replies: @Ivy

    There’s no defense against this, women can trash your career whenever they want. And sometimes they do.

    You may recognize the above option in its domestic guise, divorce.

    They prefer to think of it as putz-call parity.

  244. @Tex
    @Anon

    Do Jewish migrants regularly beat up crippled kids? I suppose the prime minister of Malaysia could tweet a picture of George Soros with the caption, "A Jewish migrant beat up my economy."

    Replies: @Autochthon

    • Disagree: Autochthon
  245. @Beckow
    @anony-mouse

    It is a purge. When looking back in 2100 the story will go something like this:

    By 2016 Western liberalism got out of control. After achieving total control of culture, media and politics, they dreamt about ever more absurd things. They felt they can change people's sex lives and other countries's governments just by talking. They got caught up in cognitive dissonance so massive that they were no longer able to even discuss things. All they wanted was for the 'others' (they used worse terms) to be shut down.

    Liberals had everything on their side except results. It wasn't working. Then a number of real and symbolic setbacks occurred, the most important in the Anglo world were Brexit and Trump.

    Hillary Clinton's defeat unravelled liberalism. After a short period of emotional screaming and mindless posturing ('we will reverse the elections!', 'treason'), the inevitable consequences started for the defeated liberals. They were ruthlessly purged and dismissed. Two main pillars of Hillary liberalism: progressive beta males and radical feminists turned on each. That accelerated the purge.

    Ideologies die when they over-reach. It is a purge, enjoy it.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @AnotherDad, @BB753

    We can’t enjoy it as whoever wins the internal struggle gets to stay in power. After all, Stalin and Mao stayed in office after their own purges.
    Only if the purge gets out of control and the liberal power structure collapses will we have a reason to celebrate.

  246. @Anonymous
    National Perv Radio’s Predator Home Companion, where the sexual harassment lawsuits are all above average...

    Replies: @Brutusale

    NPR: No Penis Radio!

  247. @Barnard
    @27 year old

    A lot of women aren't married to men who can solely provide a standard of living that would be acceptable to them. They feel like they have to work.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42

    If women leave the work force, the labor pool shrinks and wages will rise, perhaps to the point that a married man could reasonably be expected to earn enough to provide for his family.

  248. @Dahlia
    @Dr. X

    I'm profoundly disturbed by the reactions to these accusations against Garrison Keillor.

    I watched a Minnesota local broadcast, read Chris Thile's reaction, and scrolled through dozens and dozens on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/search?q=garrison&src=typd

    There's been sadness, gloating, disappointment in him, and even more gloating, but I couldn't find a *SINGLE* person speak up and wonder if, well, maybe, just maybe, he's innocent? Maybe perhaps listen to his side and consider the fact that he does indeed deny it? He may be lying, but *nobody* is speaking out and saying he may be telling the truth.

    The man seldomly dabbled in liberal politics, but it was enough to get hacks happy about his downfall. And the liberal side is weird. You've got many who are "concerned" and "disappointed", but, "Believe the women" and all that, so he's gotta go. And then there are these others who are looking for non-liberal things he did or said in the past and using those to justify to themselves why he's really always been a bad man (and they just didn't realize it) and he needs to go.

    Buckle up, this Hysteria still has some more mileage left in it. The man is a decades-long institution and yet he's just being so unceremoniously abandoned and humiliated over one accusation which he claims he's innocent of. Talk about fair-weather friends.

    Replies: @whorefinder, @PSR, @anonguy, @Anonymous, @SteveRogers42

    An “institution” for being a sanctimonious left-wing prick.

    Toughski Shitski, as they say in the Polish Marine Corps.

  249. @newrouter
    @newrouter

    "They" tried this gambit on Trump and failed. "They" tried it on Moore and you get this blowback. Interesting.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42

    Somehow, in some way, I think The Don pushed the first domino over.

    Much as he recently did with the Saudis.

  250. @whorefinder
    @utu


    I have a difficulty visualizing geometry and mechanics of it. Where was his hand first? How long/short was her shirt? Wast the shirt buttoned on the back?
     
    Keillor is a tall man ('6'4"). If she was moving slightly forward when he tried to pat her on the back then his natural reaction would be to go both upwards (towards his own height to be comfortable) as his hand tried to follow her. It's just the sort of awkward thing an awkward tall guy might do. And if he doesn't realize her shirt is open or he's just too awkward to stop himself he hits skin.

    It's rather Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I can see it.

    that said, let Rapey Garrison burn with the rest of 'em.

    Replies: @utu, @tsotha, @Inquiring Mind, @SteveRogers42

    Yeah, he was mindin’ his own bidness, not doin’ nothin’ to no one, and then all of a sudden — whoops! — tripped and fell into her vagina.

    Yeah, that’s the ticket!

  251. @Dave Pinsen
    Eli Manning, while probably not liberal, is another straight white male purged this week.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42

    Tim Tebow got purged a long time ago.

  252. @Anonymous
    @Dahlia

    It doesn't seem that he has even defended himself. He did say that things did not happen as they were being portrayed, and that he had simply accidentally slid his hand under a woman's shirt or something. But from what I've read, he still seemed resigned and apologetic.

    It is all well and good for a man to apologize if he accidentally touches a woman in a manner that she will reasonably interpret as sexual. But according to him, he did that, years ago, and he says that she accepted his apology.

    If that is the case... then he should have defended himself NOW. He should have stood up and said forthrightly that her current accusations were inappropriate. That she is now wrong, and he is now right.

    If he speaks the truth about the incident, and apologized, and the woman accepted his apology and thereafter treated him as a friend, then her current accusations deserve condemnation. He is either lying about what happened, or he is acting with cowardice, perhaps supposing that if he slinks away his reputation won't be too harmed. And his reputation probably would be harmed if did the right thing and condemned the accusations. But to act wrongly in order to preserve your reputation is cowardice. Other men will suffer the effects of his cowardice.

    Replies: @utu, @SteveRogers42

    Why not both? His physiognomy screams out “cowardice”, and his explanation of what occurred is laughably mendacious.

  253. @Rod1963
    @tsotha

    In the USAF, officers are not allowed to be alone in a office with a female.

    They handle it this way: the office door stays open at all times and when the senior officer is talking to a female subordinate there is always a witness in the room as well.

    Lower ranked officers just have a open cube usually shared by other people.

    Of course it's sheer hell for the male officer because it makes it impossible to discipline a female subordinate without it spiraling into a sexual discrimination case no matter what. So most officers just let female incompetence slide so they don't destroy their own career.

    It's even worse with female pilots. I remember on one program I worked on the male test pilots were shitting bricks when the AF dumped a female pilot on them. It basically ruined their ability to be blunt and open. Because of fear of offending the female pilot.

    It just ruins well running shops when females are put in.

    This focus on the female is going to ruin our military. They are sheer poison because they are a protected class.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42

    Looks like SF is being emasculated even before the women arrive — in order to lead the way:

    https://sofrep.com/94786/careerism-cronyism-malfeasance-special-warfare-center-end-special-forces-capability/

  254. @Jus' Sayin'...
    @MikeatMikedotMike


    “The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues.”

    Any theory as what the end game is with this? I have my own, just curious to hear other PsOV.
     
    The amount of squid ink currently being spurted leads me to believe that the establishment is worried about something other than adult sexual harassment. If a truly major scandal of a different nature is gradually gaining traction beyond public view, the powers-that-be may be attempting to divert attention from such a horrendous, criminal scandal, lessen its eventual impact, or even bury the emerging serious story by means of the outrageous amounts of publicity these witch hunts are receiving.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42, @BB753

    Yup. That was their plan.

    However, as the eminent philosopher Sir Michael Tyson once demurred: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouf”.

  255. @Jus' Sayin'...
    @MikeatMikedotMike


    “The purging of the ranks of straight white liberal males continues.”

    Any theory as what the end game is with this? I have my own, just curious to hear other PsOV.
     
    The amount of squid ink currently being spurted leads me to believe that the establishment is worried about something other than adult sexual harassment. If a truly major scandal of a different nature is gradually gaining traction beyond public view, the powers-that-be may be attempting to divert attention from such a horrendous, criminal scandal, lessen its eventual impact, or even bury the emerging serious story by means of the outrageous amounts of publicity these witch hunts are receiving.

    Replies: @SteveRogers42, @BB753

    Disney and Nickelodeon are teeming with homo pedophiles and predators of teenage girls. It’s no secret.
    And then google: Bryan Singer and Apt Pupil, Roland Emmerich, etc..

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