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Readers who have posted letters in response to this and other Keillor columns as if they were critiquing a political commentator don't get it. Garrison doesn't need to be a pundit in the Beltway (or Sansabelt) mould; there are plenty of those. What he seems to attempt each week is to reclaim a little bit of the English language from the pundits and flacks. This allows the rest of us to imagine a town square of ideas free from the perpetual shouting matches and sloganeering that have displaced actual discourse in our fine nation. If American during the Philippine Insurrection needed a vitriolic Mark Twain to wake it up and reclaim the English language from the peddlers of Manifest Destiny and Christian Uplift of the Little Brown Brother, America today needs a Garrison Keillor to reclaim its language from spin, finely calibrated wedge issues, and Pilate-like sophistry. His gentle shakes of the head are worth a hundred fortissimo verbal salvos. Please keep it up, Mr. Keillor.
