Garrison Keillor's diatribe on Norm Coleman

** Garrison is a skillful writer, and when he gets angry at you, you don't want him to write about you! I can't say I knew Norm Coleman very well when I lived in St. Paul. I guess I thought he was pretty much a nice guy - and St. Paul seems to be doing OK. I'm sure Keillor and Paul Wellstone were birds of a feather, which might explain the vitriol in this Salon.com piece. Or, maybe GK knows more about Norm than I do.

Norm Coleman won Minnesota because he was well-financed and well-packaged. Norm is a slick retail campaigner, the grabbiest and touchingest and feelingest politician in Minnesota history, a hugger and baby-kisser, and he's a genuine boomer candidate who reinvents himself at will. Salon.com Politics | Empty victory for a hollow man

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