Gary The Elitist Liberal Racist

Garrison Keillor's latest screed is another work of elitist art. (HT Mitch)

When you look at the audience numbers for TV and then add up the incarcerated felons, Alzheimer's patients and confirmed barflies in America, it dawns on you who is watching TV these days -- people unable to lead normal productive lives --

Uff da! I didn't know that anyone who watched television didn't lead a "normal, productive" life. I guess I have to redefine productive because some of the most productive business people I know watch some television - usually cable news but....Gary then goes on to tie anyone who watches television with the "Current Occupant"

And we allow the Current Occupant to leave the Mansion d'Blanc with a big grin in a couple of weeks, his self-esteem apparently fully intact, imagining that his legacy will emerge golden and shining in a hundred years after all of us are deceased. He is one of the cheerfullest idiots you ever saw, a man who could burn down his own house and be happy that the patio was still standing. Had Congress impeached him, his defense would have been that he was not capable of understanding the charges.

Because after all you morons voted for him where Gary didn't and he knows better donchaknow...

Now honestly, I am used to Gary's screeds - read two of his columns and you get a firm understanding what an out of touch elitist he truly is. However, this next graph got my full attention.

So you shouldn't fret, dear hearts, if what you do doesn't draw a big crowd or get written up in the papers. Be proud. If you've dedicated yourself to the tango, or playing drop-thumb banjo, or digging up ancient cities, or writing sonnets, you are beautiful, and please do not yearn for the bright lights. Those wombats reading the news off teleprompters are talking to the bedridden, the delusional and the criminal. The happy StairMaster president is on his way to a mansionette in Dallas, to be the decider of where to put the sofa. His successor, Mister Mambo, has cast his lot with Harvard and Yale and old Clinton hands, and soon enough, Lord knows, they will get the first of many comeuppances, and their shining faces will be chopfallen.

Emphasis mine. In a campaign where the mere mention of the President-elect's middle name brough charges of racism, you can imagine the howls of outrage that came from this recent affront.....

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Sigh....

While we wait and watch the double standard in action, go read Mitch's fisk of the entire column. It's classic....