Prairie Home Companion Seattle 4-3-10

[bookiemom]

<p>Did any CC PHC fans listen to the show today? I was really offended by the first skit of the show about Women Hunters of the Olympic Peninsula. It was about a mild-mannered, sweet woman who turned into a raving, mean, shrewish hunter because of PMS. Lots of out-of-date jokes about PMS, with the woman character snarling “shut up!” Women with PMS then turn into a band of hunters on the Olympic Peninsula, clubbing baby seals to death. It ends with the main woman spotting a whale offshore and taking off to kill it. </p>

<p>I have listened to Prairie Home Companion since 1979 and have been a fan all that time. I’ve been to two live broadcasts. I’m so glad I wasn’t there at the show today. I would have wanted to leave. </p>

<p>As far as I am concerned, it wasn’t funny at all and was very offensive on several levels. It was insulting to all women, hunters, and the Native Americans in WA who have legal rights to a certain amount of whale hunting. (I do not agree with that, but it is their legal right.)</p>

<p>I will email the show to complain, but I’ve really lost respect for Garrison Keillor. The more I think about it, the madder I get.</p>

[dragonmom]

<p>Only heard the last segment, so will go back and listen to the rest online. Thanks for bringing it up</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>boy I am glad I didn’t buy tickets- did he just get divorced or something?</p>

<p>I bet he has writers- but I would think that he would read it through first.</p>

<p>Ha!</p>

<p>Dan Savage doesn’t like him too much- can’t say I blame him
well the url has a little word in it that CC doesn’t like so I can’t do the link

search for *** rhymes with puck* Garrison Keillor**
posted by DAN SAVAGE on MARCH 14 2007 at 10:02 AM

Oh. My. God. I’m sitting here writing a silly little blog post about General Peter Pace when I get an email from a friend telling to go read Garrison Keillor’s piece on marriage and family over at Salon.</p>

<p>Keillor, concerned about the emotional well-being of children, comes to praise heterosexual marriage, monogamy, and life-long commitment:</p>

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I grew up the child of a mixed-gender marriage that lasted until death parted them…. Back in the day, that was the standard arrangement. Everyone had a yard, a garage, a female mom, a male dad, and a refrigerator with leftover boiled potatoes in plastic dishes with snap-on lids….
Under the old monogamous system, we didn’t have the problem of apportioning Thanksgiving and Christmas among your mother and stepdad, your dad and his third wife, your mother-in-law and her boyfriend Hal, and your father-in-law and his boyfriend Chuck. Today, serial monogamy has stretched the extended family to the breaking point. A child can now grow up with eight or nine or 10 grandparents—Gampa, Gammy, Goopa, Gumby, Papa, Poopsy, Goofy, Gaga and Chuck—and need a program to keep track of the actors.

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<p>Keillor has been married THREE TIMES. He has children from two of his marriages, children who presumably need a computer program to keep track of their step-siblings, half-siblings, and sprawling extended families, children that have to be “apportioned out on Thanksgiving and Christmas.” Okay, fine, whatever. Keillor can recognize marriage, life-long commitment, and less complicated family structures as the ideal, even if he himself has failed—failed spectacularly—to live up to that ideal himself. It might have been nice, however, if the withered old hypocrite had admitted to Salon readers that he has failed to live up to the ideals he’s espousing. How about a little full disclosure, Garrison?

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<p>and it gets better from there-</p>

[bookiemom]

<p>Please, anyone who is a Prairie Home Companion fan, let me know what you think about this stupid skit. The whole show will be online on their web site soon. </p>

<p>I haven’t read this Dan Savage piece, but it is not only not p.c., but really unkind to criticize gay parents. </p>

<p>I do not fault GK for being married three times. His first marriage was a long one, and he was married young. His second marriage involved three teenage children, and you have to forgive anyone whose marriage doesn’t work out under those circumstances. (And I speak from experience there.) His third marriage has also been going on for quite a time. But “withered old hypocrite” may just apply here.</p>

<p>But women with PMS clubbing baby seals to death due to raging hormones! I am furious over that.</p>