Garrison Keillor said Wednesday he was accursed from Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) because of an adventure area he put his duke on a woman’s bald back.
MRP appear beforehand Wednesday it had accursed Keillor afterwards allegations of inappropriate behavior from one of his co-workers.
“I put my duke on a woman’s bald back. I meant to pat her aback afterwards she told me about her dejection and her shirt was accessible and my duke went up it about six inches. She recoiled,” Keillor told The Minneapolis Star Tribune in an email.
“I beatific her an email of acknowledgment after and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to anticipate about it. We were friends. We connected to be affable appropriate up until her advocate called,” he added.
Keillor alleged his battlefront "poetic irony of a aerial order."
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“If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to booty a selfie with me and who slipped an arm about me and let it alluvion bottomward beneath the beltline, I’d accept at atomic a hundred dollars. So this is a anapestic irony of a aerial order,” Keillor said.
“Getting accursed is a absolute acumen in broadcasting and I’ve waited 50 years for the honor,” Keillor said. “All of my heroes got fired. I alone ambition it could’ve been for article added heroic.”
MPR appear it would end rebroadcasts of Keillor’s “The Best of A Prairie Home Companion” as able-bodied as administration and advertisement of addition appearance he hosts, “The Writer’s Almanac.”
Only one day earlier, Keillor wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post arresting Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenDemocrats about-face on Al Franken Schumer called, met with Franken and told him to abandon Overnight Finance: Trump says abeyance 'could happen' | Ryan, conservatives inch afterpiece to spending accord | Senate approves motion to go to tax appointment | Ryan promises 'entitlement reform' in 2018 MORE (D-Minn.) amidst allegations that the agent had groped women after their accord in the past.
Keillor said calls for Franken’s abandonment are “pure absurdity.”
