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capri0mniI would have posted this yesterday morning, right after it happened, just for sheer WTF-ery. But I lost my Internet Friday night, and just got it back this afternoon.
When PHC was new-ish, it was one of our family's favorite two hours of the week, period. But in the last 10-15 years, Garrison Keillor (the host, writer, and exec. producer) has gradually turned it more into a showcase for proselytizing his own Christian beliefs and talents than hosting the talents of others (I mean, why does he always have to sing bass, now, in a duet with every woman singer he brings on?).
But, hope springs eternal, I guess, and I turned on the Sunday repeat broadcast for something to listen to because my current favorite show was not on yet.
For the "Guy Noir" segment, he wrote the criminal as a wheelchair user, and I quote: "the guy's in a wheelchair, and like a lot of these chair-bound people, he's wily and unpredictable..."
(scattered audience laughter)
Yes -- he really did say "chair-bound." And why for ever-loving Frog's Sake -- why? Just to make fun of an outside group? And okay, putting the perp in a rocket propelled wheelchair for a radio drama gives your sound-effects man a chance to do something interesting and funny with his mouth-skills. But why not make it clear that it's this individual is untrustworthy, instead of a whole class of people?
That's it. I'm done with the show. For good.
When PHC was new-ish, it was one of our family's favorite two hours of the week, period. But in the last 10-15 years, Garrison Keillor (the host, writer, and exec. producer) has gradually turned it more into a showcase for proselytizing his own Christian beliefs and talents than hosting the talents of others (I mean, why does he always have to sing bass, now, in a duet with every woman singer he brings on?).
But, hope springs eternal, I guess, and I turned on the Sunday repeat broadcast for something to listen to because my current favorite show was not on yet.
For the "Guy Noir" segment, he wrote the criminal as a wheelchair user, and I quote: "the guy's in a wheelchair, and like a lot of these chair-bound people, he's wily and unpredictable..."
(scattered audience laughter)
Yes -- he really did say "chair-bound." And why for ever-loving Frog's Sake -- why? Just to make fun of an outside group? And okay, putting the perp in a rocket propelled wheelchair for a radio drama gives your sound-effects man a chance to do something interesting and funny with his mouth-skills. But why not make it clear that it's this individual is untrustworthy, instead of a whole class of people?
That's it. I'm done with the show. For good.
