Garrison Keillor fired over alleged "improper behavior"

[TitanTiger 20,468]

I fully expect to hear Santa Claus is next:

http://www.wsfa.com/story/36953545/garrison-keillor-says-fired-over-alleged-improper-behavior?utm_content=buffer9551a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[DKW 86 7,410]

This is getting funny now. Lauer and Keillor? I have some stodgy old liberal friends that have done a complete turn around on the whole sexual assault thing. They are now convinced, with no evidence, that it is a Fox News/Breitbart conspiracy. They just cannot ascribe this behavior to Liberal Icons...

[TitanTiger 20,468]

Keillor is pushing back on this one.  Says the alleged "improper behavior" was him accidentally putting his hand on a woman's bare back when he meant to pat her on the back over her shirt (her shirt had some weird split in it and his hand ended up touching her bare back by accident), he immediately apologized and he thought that was that.

http://m.startribune.com/garrison-keillor-reportedly-fired-for-improper-behavior/460802703/#1

[DKW 86 7,410]

Lets hope so.

On another note, Lauer is getting creepier as time goes on. 

[autigeremt 6,568]

Men need to be very careful of how they present themselves moving forward. We are easy targets right now good or bad. 

[kevon67 2,368]

I hope thats the case................mmmmm Powder Milk Biscuits

 

 

[AUDub 11,131]

Hmm. Might have been more to this than Keillor let on.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/23/keillor-workplace

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When Minnesota Public Radio abruptly severed ties with Garrison Keillor in November, the sole explanation offered by the company was "inappropriate behavior" with a female colleague.

For his part, the creator and longtime host of A Prairie Home Companion described his offense as nothing more than having placed his hand on a woman's back to console her.

An investigation by MPR News, however, has learned of a years-long pattern of behavior that left several women who worked for Keillor feeling mistreated, sexualized or belittled. None of those incidents figure in the "inappropriate behavior" cited by MPR when it severed business ties.

Nor do they have anything to do with Keillor's story about putting a hand on a woman's back: