Garrison Keillor fired for 'inappropriate behavior'

[Bruised_Reed]

I think a lot of these men force themselves on young attractive women because they feel their chances are pretty good that their advances will be welcomed, being famous and powerful celebrities.

Nothing to do with being famous or celebrities, it happens to women in all fields. We’re just hearing about the celebrities because consumers can’t get enough of them. But there notoriety also factors in. When a victim realizes she is not alone they might be more willing to come forward. That’s somewhat less likely to happen if victims don’t know that someone has filed a police report, hired a lawyer, etc. and never makes the front page.

I thought the article also quoted MPR where they said there were no other incidents.

Also, he sent her an apology email and she replied accepting, so there should be some evidence.

Different article from MPR cites multiple allegations.

 

[LittleFlower]

The article link gives all the context for the incident.

About the incident, yes but not so much on who he was.

Thank you!

 

[Bruised_Reed]

Yep.

 

[StephieNorthCo]

He hosted a Show called Prarie Home Companion. This was presented live in different venues, I think, every week. Variety, but lots of music and humor. The humor had multiple “running gags” that are alluded to in this thread. Campy. Corny. Cultish. Generally people either wildly enjoyed it or hated it. Carried on PBS radio.

 

[fin]

On one hand it is good that those who committed sexual assault are being revealed.

On the other hand, I don’t believe in witch hunts, where every guy that is accused is automatically a predator. There are women who do make false accusations, which is just as awful as sexual assault.

 

[Theo520]

Different article from MPR cites multiple allegations.

It seems the same person is making multiple allegations, but no details.

Later, in a message to MPR News, he indicated that two employees had raised questions about his behavior. However, late Thursday, MPR spokesperson Angie Andresen told the Associated Press that there is "a formal complaint from an individual that includes multiple allegations related to Garrison’s behavior."

 

[Bruised_Reed]

Right. The only details we’ve gotten are from Keillor. That he paints it as both unintentional and in the context of him being a good guy are red flags to me.

I just realized it would be a textbook example of gas lighting if he were saying it to her.

 

[Theo520]

That he left so quickly is what leads me to think there is more.

 

[Bruised_Reed]

He did say that he did not want to sully NPR by sticking around or fighting it but he owns PHC and another project so, yeah. NPR doesn’t get to use the work he’s trademarked.

 

[LOR]

I am very sad about this. How much is true? I haven’t tried to find out.

I have loved “A Prairie Home Companion” for decades. Mom found it on the radio way back when and we listened as a group on summer vacation. My husband and I continued the tradition, getting ready and having dinner at 6 on Saturday nights and tuning in the radio to the local NPR station. I bought Keillor’s books. We occasionally heard him give short writers’ profiles on “Writer’s Almanac” on NPR, a daily spot he continued after retiring from his radio show. Granted, sometimes I thought things got a little too precious, but his regular bits, for instance, “Guy Noir, Private Eye” and “News from Lake Wobegone,” and the bits that spotlighted the sound effects man, were bits we didn’t like to miss.

We saw Keillor with his touring company twice in the summer on the “Summer of Love” tour. Now, I didn’t know much about the man’s private life. I think he was divorced and remarried. For all I know he was divorced during the tours I saw, but his co-star was a young woman he seemed inordinately fond of. It wasn’t all showmanship. Again, he may have been divorced at the time, but I really don’t know. My husband thought I was imagining things, but in retrospect, I may not have been.

Really sad, Garrison. Really sad.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

Bill Clinton?
Oops, sorry, wrong decade

 

[Hereiam]

Clinton faced the Congress in impeachment; Trump has not…but hope springs eternal, and hopefully he will. But with better results than we had with Clinton, and Trump will be removed and possibly jailed.

 

[Nap66]

This is starting to get ridiculous…fair enough for those men who expose themselves or other overtly sexual overtures towards women…they should be exposed…(no pun intended) for their behavior…no wonder homosexuality is becoming a norm…men will become afraid to even look at a woman without him being accused of mentally undressing her thereby causing her deep distress which can only be alleviated by a sizable monetary payment…women will see all men as depraved perverts who will be banned from the land of Lesbian except those chosen few required for reproductive purposes.

So true. I’m a woman and am tired of the SJW culture that is just so offended at EVERYTHING. How will people ever date or find a husband or wife in the future? God forbid you should touch someone’s hand in the workplace. Or look at someone and say “I think you’re pretty or handsome.” They’d run and cry about harassment! Jeesh.

This reminds me of the daycare shenanigans in the 90’s. Remember that outcome after the witch hunt died down?

 

[fin]

True. I think it was Matt Walsh who said, what should men do now? Stay in a corner and wait for women to approach them? Apparently for some women, being told they are pretty or asked out is already sexual harrassment.

Back in college a classmate told me that a professor we had did not teach there anymore because he was accused of sexual harrassment. I remembered in his class, he walked to the back where I was seated to discuss an assignment and touched my shoulder. I didn’t think much of it, so I was wondering why got accused by a student. Maybe some are just hypersensitive.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

LOL and then we get Mike Prnce which would be fine and dandy.
Peace

 

[tomarin]

Clinton faced the Congress in impeachment; Trump has not…but hope springs eternal, and hopefully he will. But with better results than we had with Clinton, and Trump will be removed and possibly jailed.

I think the statute of limitations on those accusations has run out; they’re from decades ago.

 

[Bruised_Reed]

I’m a woman and am tired of the SJW culture that is just so offended at EVERYTHING.

I’m a woman and I’m tired of this dismissive, blanket “everyone is offended by everything these days.” Some things are offensive and I reserve the right to be offended, annoyed, hurt by statements and positions especially of people with power.

If you have managed to get through life without experiencing street harassment, workplace harassment, assault, you are fortunate and rare. I feel compelled to speak up and support women, men, and children who are victims survivors of systemic abuse.

TL;DR I’m offended because it is offensive. Call me a if you wish. I love snow.

How will people ever date or find a husband or wife in the future? God forbid you should touch someone’s hand in the workplace.

That’s a very tidy glossing over behaviors that are often criminal and always harmful. Consent is what matters here. If consent, what consent means, and what it looks like are confusing to some people there are a lot of sources available help clarify consent if actually want know and want to be a part of the solution.

Or look at someone and say “I think you’re pretty or handsome.” They’d run and cry about harassment! Jeesh.

Funny how exaggeration minimizes the harm done.

This reminds me of the daycare shenanigans in the 90’s. Remember that outcome after the witch hunt died down?

There is a huge difference between systemic abuse and assault that has gone unchecked, and involuntary disclosures from from children using a method that was harmful to the kids and full of leading questions undermining the credibility of them as witnesses. A lot was learned from those cases and it’s applied current cases of all kinds.

FYI: The pattern that is emerging is that those who are dismissive of these victims’ allegations are either perpetrators or are protecting one. Keillor spoke out for Franken knowing that there was a case building against himself and not knowing what was yet to come out about Franken.

 

[Theo520]

FYI: The pattern that is emerging is that those who are dismissive of these victims’ allegations are either perpetrators or are protecting one. Keillor spoke out for Franken knowing that there was a case building against himself and not knowing what was yet to come out about Franken.

I think they are trying to tone down the witch hunt for blood, not claim the women are lying.
We are going through a cultural shift

 

[Bruised_Reed]

We are going through cultural shift, yes. And i welcome the change even though it’s difficut. More on that later, maybe. I get not wanting to *pile on but I think these guys should not call for the protection of the accused over the accusers, especially if they don’t know the facts. If they want to reach out privately, fine.

• I was reserving my judgement about Keillor at first. I feel a kind of fatigue with each accusation which I recover from quickly imagining what the victims went through and how difficult it was to decide to come forward and the fact that the victims are routinely disbelieved and accused of doing it for the money. It was Keillor’s own words that convinced me of his guilt.