MINNESOTA BLOGGER MITCH BERG HAS THIS TO SAY about Garrison Keillor, in response to Keillor’s latest in Salon:

Keillor is a funny man, a generally superb humorist, and Prairie Home Companion is a weekly ritual – even my children (9 and 11) love it. But Keillor is in his entirety a creation of the public sector. And like any public institution, he suffers the public with the same grace as do the cashiers at the Department of Public Safety. Having known, socially and professionally, many who’d worked with him, having met many more who’d dealt with him in a variety of capacities, one notes this: Keillor treats those he perceives as superiors with unvarnished obsequeity; Peers, he addresses with a veneer of respect; underlings, he treats like cat litter, to be rubbed underfoot and…well, you know how it ends, right? Having known a few people who’d worked on PHC, the metaphor basically fits.

Keillor is reacting to a Republican sweep the same way the Teacher’s union, or the National Orgization of Women, do; with doomsday rhetoric, with chicken-little doommongering, with nasty, defensive slurs – and the added fun of lots of personal slurs against “the enemy.”

Following these observations is a point-by-point Fisking of Keillor’s assertions that, if there were any justice, would have Keillor apologizing profusely and begging forgiveness.

But there isn’t any justice where the likes of Keillor are concerned. Except that provided by the Blogosphere.

UPDATE: Tacitus has some interesting observations on Keillor, and a comparison of Keillor with Lewis Lapham.