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Listen to this: News from Lake Wobegone


“Republicans might be heathens and out to destroy all that we hold dear, but that doesn’t mean we need to take them seriously. Or be bitter or vituperative just because they are swine. I think one can still have friends who are Republicans.”

Garrison Keillor’s show A Prairie Home Companion is about as middle America as you can get. It’s also pretty clear about its politics, in amongst all that country music and the hilarious, laconic monologues of the Keillor’s fictional hometown of Lake Wobegone.