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In reply to the discussion: Wobegone Is Me [View all]Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)As I live abroad, I've not been a regular listener. Until the advent of internet streaming, I didn't have access to PBS.
Keillor is a national jewel and legend, both for his droll, but gentle skewering of Middle America, and for his progressive values.
Also, I'm grateful for the embedded link to Keillor's exquisite evisceration of the book by French philosopher, Bernard-Henri Levy, 'AMERICAN VERTIGO -
Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville.
Keillor's delicious dissection of the French "faux" vision of America was delightful.
Being a French-speaker myself, and having often bewailed the French penchant for pedantry, I LOLed all the way through.
How did I miss that 'trouvaille' back in 2006? Didn't have internet broadband and wasn't active on DU. I guess that explains it.