smut talker Garrison Keillor banned from Ky. radio

[donsu]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/21/PKGJNCF2191.DTL&hw=breast&sn=001&sc=1000


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No matter. At least they're decent. Damn, they're downright crazy with decency in Kentucky. To prove this, on Aug. 1, Lexington public radio station WUKY-FM decided to cancel an offensive radio show. Howard Stern? Some phone-in sexologist? Nah. Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac."

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Station General Manager Tom Godell told the Lexington Herald-Leader that WUKY had been tracking the show's content for a year. And by God, the vigilance paid off when Keillor threw morality to the wind and read three poems containing words that dare not speak their names on the American airwaves. "Curse of the Cat Woman" by Edward Field (broadcast July 23) and "Thinking About the Past" by Donald Justice (Aug. 12) both contained the word "breast." "Reunion" by Amber Coverdale (Aug. 2) included the phrase "get high. "

Terrified of Federal Communications Commission censure in a hypervigilant, ultraconservative climate, WUKY moved swiftly and cut "The Writer's Almanac" from its schedule. Two weeks later, it just as swiftly reversed the cancellation after a wave of protest from the show's fans. That's right -- decency gave way to the will of the people, dirty though it may be. Money trumps morals every time.

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Keillor is approaching the kerfuffle with his usual acerbic good humor. In an e-mail to the Cincinnati Post, he wrote, "Mr. Godell apparently considers the word 'breast' to be raw language. I don't. ... If he feels it's his mission to protect them from the word 'breast' uttered on the radio, then that's his problem, not mine." In another e-mail, to the Lexington Herald- Leader, he noted, "The fact that someone is troubled by hearing the word 'breast' is interesting, but what are we supposed to do with 'A Visit From St. Nicholas' and the 'breast of the new fallen snow'? Should it become a shoulder or an elbow?"
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witnessing the war on women - breast is a dirty word

[underpants]

1. IRaqi women will lose rights---> Repubs don't care

Sorry this is a side note. If they don't want to hear about "breasts" telling them about the plight of Iraqi women is going to fall on deaf ears.

[imperialismispasse]

2. I think they want to shut down writers in general.

They are often the last ones telling the truth.

[MadHound]

6. Yes, you've got it, and they've wanted to shut down Keillor for awhile

Ever since he took Bush to task before the election. The right could put up with(barely) Garrison's witty, funny impersonations of the Shrub, even though they invited more ridicule and laughter at the expense of the Bushboy. But Keillor has become increasingly more critical of this misadministration, and thus the rabid RW is now in attack mode.

[imperialismispasse]

9. Keilor is just the kind of guy they can't stand.

He's too smart, too clearspoken, and too honest. And he believes in book learnin too.

[Chipper Chat]

3. What I wanna know is......

How did Kentucky's own Colonel Sanders get by with advertising his "Two Breast meal" for 50 years?
Yeah, how 'bout that WUKY?

[Terran]

4. Dang, don't they eat fried chicken in Kentucky?

What do they say, "Pass me a bosom, please"?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. The proper phrase is...

"Pass me some knockers" or alternatively, "Pass me some fun bags."

[imperialismispasse]

7. Can I get some barbeque sauce on them hooters?

[jimshoes]

8. I just spit soda

on my screen! Good one!

[SoCalDem]

10. and i would bet that Chris Rock won't be playing there anytime soon

He'd holler "titties",and the whole audience would swoon with indignity and horror:)

[Terran]

12. Me too, almost.

Started to come out of my nose. There needs to be an internet acronym for that...

[jimshoes]

13. ssomn or spomn

Spit soda out my nose. Spit pop out my nose.

[Terran]

15. or

soda shooting out my nose

:rofl:

[OrlandoGator]

11. Titties...extra crispy.

n/t

[Roland99]

14. Garrison recently appeared to a sold-out audience at the Louisville Palace

Louisville's Public Radio Partnership (http://www.prp.org) is unique in the nation and very well-respected. Just another thing Lexington could learn from its brother just west down I-64.

16. keillor outspoken

I was surprised at how much he bashed Bush before the last election, with skits on people in poverty and kings throwing out pittances. I was impressed, because I know how rabid the media is on controlling what gets on the airwaves. Also considering his small town themes, I thought he might have a hard time filling is halls, but apparently not. YOu go Garrison. :P