It's in the P-I

Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer reprints Garrison Keillor's very silly anti-Republican screed "Here's what happened to the Republican Party". This particular sentence caught my attention:

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brown shirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, N.M., little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk.

Among all the other groups of people Keillor insults, it's especially outrageous that he picks on:

shrieking midgets of AM radio

Just because Keillor is the "world's tallest radio humorist", does he really have to disparage those who are less tall than he is? Sheesh.

I'm disappointed that the P-I would participate in such an appalling display of insenstivity.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 12, 2004 11:43 AM | Email This