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A Christmas Eve Defense of Garrison Keillor -- and Satire

Garrison Keillor wrote a Christmas-related column for Salon that has kicked up unusual sand. Here are the key paragraphs: "You can blame Ralph Waldo Emerson for the brazen foolishness of the elite. He preached at the First Church of Cambridge, a Unitarian outfit where I discovered that "Silent Night" has been cleverly rewritten to make it more about silence and night and not so much about God . . . Unitarians listen to the Inner Voice and so they have no creed that they all stand up and recite in unison, and that's their perfect right, but it is wrong, wrong, wrong to rewrite "Silent Night." ...

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