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December 22nd, 2009

Anti-Semitism in Lake Wobegon

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For thirty-five years, Garrison Keillor has brought listeners into the village of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, the “town that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve.”  An idealized setting for Keillor’s storytelling, it has, until recently, been innocent of overt prejudice. Last Wednesday, Keillor ruined all that in an anti-Semitic column, “Nonbelievers, please leave Christmas alone.”

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