"Prairie Home Companion " repeat this AM was, at best, a 'faux pas.'

[DemoTex]

Today was the 40th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" on Selma's Edmund Pettis bridge. During the repeat of PHC, Garrison Keillor sang "Dixie." I am sure it was an unintentional coincidence, but it really sounded bad given what happened on the Edmund Pettis bridge in Selma on "Bloody Sunday" forty years ago.

[karlrschneider]

1. Oops. Had to be a dumb oversight. I just got back & didn't hear the show

I usually manage to if I'm in town. Hmm.

[DemoTex]

3. It was sung almost like a hymn.

But Jeeze! You would think they would check the calendar very closely before going way out on that "Dixie" limb. It is fraught with peril. At least Keillor's true stripes are known and none can say that he has a racist bone in his body. But Jeeze! What go out on that limb?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Better to have sung "Eve of Destruction"

mainly....

think of all the hate there is in Red China
then take a look around to Selma Alabama.....

[paineinthearse]

4. "Dixie"

"Dixie," one of President Lincoln's favorite songs, was a minstrel tune written by a northerner. Lincoln ordered it played by the Union band, upon hearing of Lee's surrender.

[KittyWampus]

5. What A Great Piece Of Information. Thanks! I Love DU,

and garrison too.

[paineinthearse]

6. Source

http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=8514&PID=10102016&Tab=reviews&CID=18

A review of Ken Burns' CIVIL WAR.

I can verify that was said in the documentary, as I've seen it at least 10 times.

In it, Garrison Keillor plays poet/hospital corpsman Walt Whitman.

Maybe that's the connection.

[hatrack]

7. It was a rerun, recorded some time in 2004

I didn't listen to the whole show, but the intro said it was from Hot Springs some time last year.