Fact-checking Garrison Keillor
Stefan at the
Shark Blog fact-checks Garrison Keillor and Garrison Keillor comes up wanting:
bq. I was listening to Garrison Keillor's monologue this weekend where he recounted a story about his mother's trip out west in the Summer of 1935. The trip included a visit to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was a very good story, but since Garrison said the story was about his own 89-year-old mother (and not about one of the many wonderful characters from "Lake Wobegone" that he usually talks about) I assumed it was supposed to be a true story.
bq. On the other hand, the Golden Gate Bridge wasn't finished until 1937. A visitor to the Golden Gate in 1935 would have witnessed the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, which is even more more memorable than seeing the bridge itself, and surely would have been mentioned if the story was indeed true.
bq. The reason I bring this up is because Garrison Keillor is now advertising himself as a Democrat (a celebration of liberalism as the "politics of kindness.").
bq. Like other Democrats, Garrison Keillor seems to be better at making up stories and presenting them as fact than he is at describing the world that actually exists.
Heh...
Posted by DaveH at August 15, 2004 4:46 PM