Keillor's Kristmas Karol

    The Sage of Minnesota, the Pundit of Public Broadcasting, the Pope of Prairie Home Companion — Garrison Keillor — has blessed us with a pearl of wisdom from his world-famous "Perlz-of-Whizdum Warehouse and Laundromat" in downtown Minneapolis.
    In a syndicated column marking the Christmas season, after trampling a few grapes of wrath belonging to the former president of Harvard University, Garrison unsheathes his terrible swift wit at the Unitarian Church whose belief system, if any, he seems to dislike:

"It is wrong, wrong, wrong to rewrite ‘Silent Night.’ If you don't believe Jesus was God, OK, go write your own damn ‘Silent Night’ and leave ours alone. This is spiritual piracy and cultural elitism, and we Christians have stood for it long enough."

    Then he fixes his satirical eyes of glory on his main target:

"And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write "Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we'll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah"? No, we didn't. Christmas is a Christian holiday. If you're not in the club, then buzz off. Celebrate Yule instead or dance around in druid robes for the solstice. Go light a big log, go wassailing and falalaing until you fall down, eat figgy pudding until you puke, but don't mess with the Messiah."

    Garrison, I want you to know that I could not agree with you more. (I hope you don’t mind my addressing you by your Christian name.)
    Your insightful and hard-hitting comments concerning the intrusion of Unitarians and Hymies into Christmas have both touched and enlightened all of us. What right does a wizened little second-generation hebe like Irving Berlin have writing "I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas?"
    As you so aptly point out, such "dreck" (it is cleverly hilarious of you to employ this vaguely disgusting Yiddish word as counterpoint to your own whimsical and cultured outrage) insults the spirit of loving-kindness that is the biological heritage of true Christians. As we both know, Berlin’s motive in writing his Christmas abomination, like the motives of his co-religionists in everything they do, was to pad his already bulging wallet with additional filthy lucre — so different from Christians such as yourself who work and struggle without remuneration for the good of humanity and Christendom.
    Garrison, I’m sure that, like me, many of your best friends are Jews (although in my case most of them are dead) so in no way can your remarks be considered as hostile to the Chosen People. Nevertheless, I must caution you to be prepared for the usual whining accusations of "Anti-Semite" and "Bigot" that will come your way from the propaganda machine of the Jew-owned media, the perfidious Jew-run Israeli lobby that controls America’s foreign policy, and the Jew-dominated international banking establishment that is bent on subverting our and your Christian nation with its neo-fascist, communist, bourgeois, reactionary, socialist, capitalist, low-brow, pseudo-intellectual schemes.

    AMERIKA, ERWACHT!

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

 

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