Kos Don't Know a Prarie Home

Say what? I too am astonished.

Perhaps he never heard when the man wove, in the summer of 2004, the most moving and eloquent, most spiritual, appeal for an end to US torture into his show's story:

...and nowadays we're stone cold sober, stone cold sober, Lord help us, and the terrible things that righteous people can do.

God knows, God knows, friends.

People without a shred of self-doubt, a person without any doubt is a monster.

I'm horrified (applause)...I'm horrified at the thought that torture of prisoners is American policy. It just terrribly horrifies me. Say I'm wrong, I'd like to be wrong...but I would hate to see enlisted men and women being made scapegoats in order to protect policy makers.

America doesn't stand for torture, it's not who we are. America is a refuge, for people who suffer from torture and oppression, and if we practice it ourselves then what plan does God have for us?

Think about all these things, looking down at the graduates at Lake Wobegone High School. Wishing the best for them, how could you not be romantic for them, how could you not, how could you not want to give them the sweet good country that was given to us. We have a long way to go. That's the news from Lake Woebegone...

This from a show on June 12th, 2004 (segment 8 in the news from Lake Woebegone part). Other than the speech given by Clinton that summer, I don't think I'd heard something as compelling on the radio as this news from a place where the women are strong, men good looking, and children above average.

So Kos, maybe you should give it a listen, even if it does not appeal to your sense of humor. People write things on blogs, and say things on radio. I don't think you can find another moment of audio that so fully captures the disgust, horror, and shame of all decent people in America at what happened in Abu Ghraib last summer.

The fact that you don't know who he is says a lot about who is out of touch.

As a drywall subcontractor who's faking his way towards two Master's degrees (see 'em in December), I work alone and almost every weekend, and the Prarie Home is something I look forward to. I usually try to wrap up work around 7:20 or so and begin the long drive home just as the News From section begins, god I love that news. Needless to say, I take criticism of Keillor personally and think critics should take a look at the sort of value added radio Keillor and his crew have been putting out for all these years.

So for Kos, instead of calling him an asshole, maybe you should try to appreciate an American original, a national treasure, and perhaps one of the left's greatest living orators. Or you could side with the guy whose trying to make a buck out of Keillor's show with a lame ass shit because, good god, the guy is a blogger.

Your choice.

First, listen to the news and then tell him he's wrong.