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MPR Cuts Ties with Garrison Keillor over “Inappropriate Behavior”

HeadlineNov 30, 2017

Minnesota Public Radio has severed ties with Garrison Keillor, the former host of the popular radio show “Prairie Home Companion,” over what the network called “inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him.” MPR did not clarify what allegations Keillor faces. In a statement to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Keillor wrote, “I put my hand on a woman’s bare back. I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized.” Keillor was fired less than a day after The Washington Post published his op-ed defending Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, whose political future is in doubt after four women said he had groped or inappropriately touched them. Keillor’s piece was headlined “Al Franken should resign? That’s absurd.”

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