This is not the first time Keillor has attacked a Minnesota politician. He also holds a very low opinion of Jesse Ventura, and gave it to him both barrels when he was elected four years ago. I found Keillor's attacks on Ventura to be cheap shots from a nose stuck in the air snob, and still do.

But his attacks on Coleman really belie the deeper feelings so many people in Minnesota had about the political debacle that was born out of Wellstone's death.

Keillor's articles on the subject belie that anger, disgust, resigned frustration and sadness, that so many of us felt watching the train wreck that was the last days of the election here happening.

The really nasty article, if people must know, was the one published not too long ago in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which gave a blow by blow description of events after the plane crash. It seems Coleman and the Republicans were even more despicable than I thought possible, which really isn't easy, as I'm about as cynical as they come regarding the contemporary Republican party & their soulless agendas.

It seems even people like myself were the dupes--Coleman's "public grieving" was totally planned and contrived, from the moment the campaign heard about the crash. They called the media to the Coleman house for a press conference on his front steps. To the parking lot of KSTP (the local channel were Norm made his national TV campaign appearances while he supposedly wasn't campaigning out of respect for the Wellstones). Norm Coleman made numerous campaign appearances during what was supposed to have been a campaign blackout period between the time of the crash on Friday, and the public memorial on Tuesday. It just makes one ashamed and sick at what we've become, and that is what Keillor is commenting upon. I just wish he had come out with it on the Wednesday following the memorial. His opinion and influence might have encouraged others like him to come forward and brand Coleman for the opportunist that he is, and tipped the scale for Mondale.