Garrison Keillor is explaining his side of the story after Minnesota Public Radio severed ties with him. In an email to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the former host of A Prairie Home Companion… Celebrity News Summaries.| Newser
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Garrison Keillor is explaining his side of the story after Minnesota Public Radio severed ties with him. In an email to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the former host of A Prairie Home Companion says the incident in question was a case of accidental contact:
Keillor went on to say that he was « the least physically affectionate person in the building » and suggested that he had himself been the recipient of inappropriate behavior over the years. « If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I’d have at least a hundred dollars, » he writes, calling the allegations against him « poetic irony of a high order. » He added, however, that « I had a good long run and am grateful for it and for everything else.” Meanwhile, a 1994 quote from Keillor is making the rounds, as noted by a post at Hot Air: « A world in which there is no sexual harassment at all is a world in which there will not be any flirtation, » he said during a speech.
