Janeane Garofalo’s Meltdown: Christian Racists Wrapping Themselves In Flag Violates Separation of Church and State
by AWR HawkinsOn June 25, the A.V. Club posted an interview with comedian Janeane Garofalo. It was a fairly substantial piece in which the interviewer, Sean O’Neal, asked about everything from Garofalo’s stand-up routine, to her political outrage, to her criticisms of Tea Parties, and matters touching on religion.
Not surprisingly, the self-loathing Garofalo was moderately introspective before going out of her way to insult every aspect of traditional American life she could.
I think those of you who’ve read the interview will agree with me when I say that Garofalo has some serious problems. Not necessarily because she aimed her criticism at historically conservative matters, but because many of her answers were simply irrational.
For example, early in the interview, after O’Neal asked her if she was “ready to laugh again” now that “the Bush administration” was gone, Garofalo replied that the Obama administration isn’t that great, that the media is “getting even worse,” that the “the teabag racists [are] adding insult to injury,” that the Obama administration is disappointing, and that the election of 2000 was stolen, in that order. And her answers never really got clearer.
She varied from this pattern long enough to discuss the fact that she had, in fact, referred to Tea Party participants as “racist rednecks” and then tried her best to convince O’Neal that “the ‘racist redneck” thing is a state of mind, not a geographical location. So [she didn’t] mean to imply that it’s just Southerners.”
The problem with this particular exchange was that O’Neal never brought Southerners up. Instead, Garofalo brought them up ostensibly to assure everyone she wasn’t talking about Southerners when she said “racist rednecks.” But watching her try to do this was somewhat akin to watching a suspect tell a policeman he threw the gun into the pond behind the building before the officer even asks him for his name.
At one point, O’Neal said to Garofalo: “It’s not that I totally disagree with you, but I suppose the presence of minorities in [Tea Party] videos and such is their way of showing that they aren’t racist.” Nevertheless, Garofalo made it clear that the presence of minorities at Tea Parties didn’t mitigate in her belief that the movement itself is racist. (O’Neal didn’t ask Garofalo what she thinks about the fact that Tea Partiers have historically opposed more white candidates than black ones, but her answer would have been interesting.)
O’Neal did express concern that talking about Tea Partiers the way Garofalo does might create an “us-vs-them” atmosphere. To this Garofalo replied: “I don’t think it does. I think what hinders the argument is when people are afraid of hurting the feelings of racists and people who are genuinely—some of them—out of their minds.”
As for the “stolen elections” of 2000, I suppose Garofalo doesn’t know that presidential elections are decided by the direct votes of the Electoral College, not the indirect votes of the people. Thus, although Al Gore won the popular vote by a few hundred thousand ballots, he lost the presidential contest because Florida’s electoral votes went to Bush. (Yes Gore then tried to steal the election, but I bet that’s not the thievery that bothers Garofalo.)
When O’Neal brought up Garofalo’s protest of the Iraq War, which Garofalo carried out against those “who like to wrap themselves in the flag, hide behind Jesus, and be aggressive,” everything fizzled out. Garofalo intimated that “wrapping [oneself] in the flag and hiding behind Jesus” is violation of “the separation of church and state.” (I promise I’m not making this stuff up.)
Garofalo’s best answer of the interview came when asked if she ever watches herself on television. To this she said: “I [once] made it through about 35 seconds and decided I would rather be hit in the face with a board repeatedly than listen to me, the sound of my voice.”
I bet a lot of people can relate.
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Pity is all I can muster. She needs medical attention asap.
Is it untalented, hateful, dimwitted left-wing, female comedian day on this site?
Why do you and others here keep talking about this loser. Just ignore her…
Are you really trying to think through her answers to questions? She's a moron who doesn't have an original thought in her head (she and Maher must read the same talking points).
We need to treat her and Maher like internet trolls and stop feeding them. Fail troll is fail and we need to just ignore her.
It is mind-boggling that we give platforms for people like Garafolo and Rosie O'Donnel. What are their qualifications to speak about politics? By their own admissions they are only marginally intelligent and have no background that makes their musings relevant to anyone Soooo, we pay attention to them because they had (past tense here) hot Hollywood careers? We keep giving them attention and press as their careers continue to fade into the sunset (thank goodness). I don't get it. The Big sites are probably giving them more exposure in one day than they'd normally get in a year. Stop the insanity.
Janeane who? Why is this barking moonbat treated with the courtesy of our attention? She obviously loves it.
We need more of this.
Liberals need to express themselves fully and TRUTHFULLY.
If all libs were as open, Americans could see the insanity of letting these hate-filled, petulant, immature, yet ironically elitist children run anything larger than a tofu stand or perhaps a marijuana dispensary.
Schizophrenia
Characteristic symptoms: Two or more of the following, each present for much of the time during a one-month period (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment). ____Disorganized speech, which is a manifestation of formal thought disorder____Social/occupational dysfunction: For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, one or more major areas of functioning such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, are markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset.____Duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least six months. This six-month period must include at least one month of symptoms (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).
Don't worry Janeane, I'll bet Obamacare covers mental illness at 100%.
What is with all these crazy ugly liberals? I am so sick of these talentless hacks trashing the tea parties and anyone who is not a crazy socialist.
Maybe if we just keep showing her pictures of Tea Baggin' Rednecks wrapped in American Flags long enough her head will just explode from the pressure of trying to make sense of it and we won't have to listen to her anymore!! Problem solved.
What would really be great is if she had a sleepover with Rosie, Joy Behar, Barbara Sreisand and Hanoi Jane and they could just all be lemmings and explode together. Several problems solved at once. The sucking sound created by the Black Hole of that much loss of ignorance at one time would be deafening.
Giving an interview to Garofalo is like giving a mike to Al Sharpton. Both will use it for no good. So stop giving it to them, okay?
Inane Garofalo opens her big mouth again…
I forgot about her until this article showed up.
On June 25, the A.V. Club posted an interview with comedian Janeane Garofalo.
co·me·di·enne (k-md-n)
n.
A woman professional entertainer who tells jokes or performs various other comic acts. This might be through telling jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool.
Usage: "Janeane Garofalo isn't very funny, but when it comes to acting a fool, she's the best comedienne around".
See also:
Clown, Buffoon
I'd be in favor of an informal limit on fringe-lefty coverage here at Big Hollywood: no more than three posts per year about a third-rate celebrity like Janeane, unless they do something that's newsworthy for reasons other than, "Hey, this idiot is still an idiot and would like everyone to know."
We can institute some kind of cap-and-trade scheme for third-rate lefty reportage! I'll leave the details to a Gore-quality thinker… like, maybe a grumpy toddler or something?
I guess it's time to add another person to my prayer list. I'd feel more enthusiastic over it if she wasn't so mean all the time, but I guess that means she really needs it.
People like this make it hard to try to be nice.
Garofalo has reached the critical mass stage where any further reaction to her shrill leftist rantings just fuels her sick need to be relevant!
Isn't Garofalo the most tebagged actress in Hollywood?
I would rather be hit in the face with a board repeatedly than listen to me, the sound of my voice.”
Mzzzzz. GRRR Awful O, That makes two of us.
Self loathing pathetic loser, and one of the most unfunny so called comedians (along with G. Lopez). I can't even stand looking at her let alone listen to her delusional rantings.
All of Janeane's opinions are totally hip. She has the Totally Underground Alternative Intellectual Dude Tattoo of Approval. Just ask anyone down at the alternative book shop or the alternative coffee shop or the alternative food co-op or the second-hand store or the underground comix store or the underground vampire club.
Poor Janeane. I just want to pick her up, give her a bath, put her in a nice dress and take her for a picnic in the country. Something "normal" to help her get her head out of her underground alternative ass…
Thank you Mr. Hawkins. You suffered through her rant so the rest of us didn't have to.
You took one for the team!
Shhhh, don't remind them, or they're libel to bring back the daily O'Donnell rants.
The only time these people should be news is when they go to ambient temperature.
I agree. I say let them talk and talk and talk. The more they talk, the easier it is to expose them for the nut jubs that they are.
“I [once] made it through about 35 seconds and decided I would rather be hit in the face with a board repeatedly than listen to me, the sound of my voice.”
I'd rather have you hit in the face with a board, too, Janeane.
As much as I don't like Mike Savage, I'm thinking he's right, especially with this doofus: liberalism IS a mental disorder.
I used to hang around lots of people very similar to Garofalo in the early to mid 90's but then I grew up.
Someone, please …..guide Ms. G back to her room, give her some meds, and LOCK THE DOOR.
I almost feel sorry for her. Just almost. The girl is physically unattractive and rendered even more so by her truly ugly personality. She is clearly off of her rocker and going downhill fast. If she weren't so hateful, I would feel sorry for her. As it is, I can only manage "almost". Don't be surprised to find her on the list of dead "almost celebrities" one day soon. You can't live with this much filth in you without dying of hatred poisoning.
I agree wholeheartedly! And I'm not sure we even need to know that they left the world that they so despise.
Garafalo is an unattractive, vacuous, pinko commie boob! Who cares what she says!
Don't ignore her. It's just going to get worse over the next 18-24 months. By November 2012, they'll be doing nothing but crying race.
That's exactly what I use the mega moon bats for. As a teaching prop. Point to something like this and ask them "are you sure you agree with this?"
Gets them thinking.
True, but it might be better than the slow sucking of intelligence from America into their orbit.
Re: See also idiot, asswipe, moonbat and bat sh*t crazy.
As long as we're not paying for access, we get what we get.
In my opinion, the plus side it far superior to the negatives.
Three
Do they make haz-mat suits strong enough to withstand that?
I'm optimistic by nature, so when there is a down side, I like to look for the upside in it.
This is a perfect opportunity to engage people you know who consider themselves modern liberals. Ask them if they really agree with all of this?
Odds are at least a few will start scratching their heads and ask themselves 'is this really what I believe?'
Arrested adolescence.
Exactly. These types don't. They still have the mentality of a middle school clique. They're the cool kids, they get to sit at the cool lunch room table. And their insults are all funny for no other reason than they say so.
a not too bright Satanic troll…
That kind of sums up the voluble but clueless Garofalo, who for some reason people seem to take seriously.
It takes more than poorly reasoned inflammatory rhetoric to make an interesting discourse.So, other than Carney geek attraction, this leaves us cold…
I just can't believe that a person who hates herself so much has any love for others. It's a wonder that a person with hardly any self-confidence should expect others to look to her for answers.
It is no longer available to her under Obamacare.
“I [once] made it through about 35 seconds and decided I would rather be hit in the face with a board repeatedly than listen to me, the sound of my voice.”
35 seconds?? That has to be a record or something….
As for getting hit in the face with a board, looks like someone took care of that for you already….repeatedly…..
Got to appreciate a man who'll take one for the team.
It's nice to hear a little good news once in a while…
At my age, I feel that I'm done suffering fools and prefer to spend what time I have left with people who don't disgust me, but good luck with that….
In the '90s I was a HUGE JG fan. I always felt she never really developed the self-confidence to match her talent. But something traumatizing must have happened to her somewhere along the way. She is so angry and bitter and the few bits of "comedy" I've seen from her in the last few years have been anything but funny. I feel sad for her. I thought she really had places to go. I'm disappointed to see someone who used to have such a great ability to create humor from strangeness and darkness turn into such a rude, close-minded, embittered hag. Miss you Janeane. I hope you find your way back someday.
Kill the rabbit
Can you scrub away insanity?
I'm not sure she's qualified to run a marijuana dispensary. Fractions and conversions involving money just don't seem to be in a liberals bag of tea. Besides, to run a dispensary one must have a firm grasp of economics, fair trade, and capitalism in order to be successful. So since most liberals don't believe in these sort of things, I sincerely doubt her qualifications to be qualified.
Actually I am having a lot of good luck with this method. I've been using it for years to separate the wheat from chaff on the left.
You'd be surprised how many people on the left are only on the left because they've never thought about it before.
The trick is figure out easily which ones are worth the effort. Then work on them and ignore the rest.
Four.
And we keep featuring her crap comments why?
Is nobody of merit saying ANYTHING AT ALL THESE DAYS? Between Rollin Stone, the WaPo loser and this piece the public is so underinformed….we might as well BE China.
Why is she even relevant? Has she done anything really worth mentioning? If she hates American principles so much, why doesn't she move to France.
Janeane is like every other horned rimmed glasses wearing liberal New York hipster chick I encounter here in my travels through the Big Apple, all of them reading from the same angry liberal checklist:
Bush stole the election in 2000? Check.
Bush the worst person ever to hold any kind of office? Check.
Tea Party people are racist redneck mother#%%$? Check.
Then when they're done ranting, they go outside the bar to smoke a cigarette and text on thier iPhone.
; )
I long for the days when only smart people got into college and managed to get a degree. She is the perfect example that a college degree does not make you smart….. oh wait, i think Obama may be a better one. They might as well just send those degrees out in the mail, addressed to OCCUPANT.
I've tried to find a more descriptive word for this hag, but the only on that keeps coming back is … puerca.
If she is taking drugs she should stop, if she is not she should start
What a whack job
You could probably sell tickets to a pay per view event of people whacking her in the face with a board.
So in other words, she thinks the state owns us so therefore we are not allowed our flag!!!! I don't think so you stupid Bit$$!!! Did she EVER take a logic class? Obviously NOT!!! Another stupid hack opening her mouth and proving beyond a shadow she is an idiot.
Well…. there is that. Today we get to say goodbye to Robert Byrd and although I hope he rests in peace, I am sure glad he is out of office!
It takes more than poorly reasoned inflammatory rhetoric to make an interesting discourse.
Not for those who believe poorly reasoned inflammatory rhetoric makes an interesting discourse.
As much as the left thinks they own us…..not in this life time honey!!! WE are individuals who comprise as a whole a great country. We control ourselves and our destiny…not the gov't!!!
Yeah, if we could get rid of them we might get back some of the " like, you know" crowd back on our side! LOL. Just had that conversation with my 17 year old niece over the weekend who thinks I am a prick because I keep calling her on using like and you know every other word. I have a 2 " like, you know " limit, then the conversation is over.
I wonder if her parents regret not aborting this white trash. They must be so embarrassed and ashamed to have such a cockroach for a daughter. I'm sure Warren Beatty can empathize with her parents.
Liberalism really is a mental disorder.
I will go "open kimono" as we used to say at IBM when laying it all out. I was a fan back then. I thought she was hysterical in Bye Bye Love and Mystery Men.
This kind of moon battery doesn't just pop up. It must have been there all along, and at some point she decided it would be better for her career to not only let it all hang out, but crank it up.
I still like those movies, and will watch them, but that's about it.
She has the right to say this just like I have right to call her a spoiled, ungrateful "useful idiot."
But then won't we all be hungry in a couple of hours?
I was going to ask why this moonbat continues to get attention but a couple of dozen beat me to that comment
I was under the impression it was only the rich people that got into college.
The GI Bill changed that.
Garofalo's stereotyping of "tea partiers" is nothing more than racial profiling. The projection of the liberal mind is a curious object to behold.
Couldn't find a hit for that word on Wikipedia, but this is there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbat
Janeane calling the Tea Party racist last year was the final straw and pushed me to attend the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington. She just adds fuel to the fire.
I'm not content to wait for them to die from 'natural' causes. Hopefully, in November, we can start thining the herd. Do Jackasses travel in herds?…..or RINOs, for that matter…
Tricks are for kids, and I'm way past that….
Okay….dumpin the "dump the thumbs" plan…..bwahahaha!
Here's some ammunition for you.
http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Articles-i-...
It always amazes me that all those people who want to be 'different', always look alike, and think alike as well.
Maybe its time to get back into it. There's a very important election coming up in November.
The left never stops trying. And they have the entertainment industry, the MSM and academia doing this on their side.
We need votes on this side. And this is how we get them.
"I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education." – Thomas Jefferson
The left is trying to take the power from We The People. It is our duty to educate the people.
Come on, win one for the Gipper.
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Six. I can't forget my impish inner child, Arlecchino.
I agree, but can we do it w/o the end she calls her face?
No, when at rest they are 'piles' and they travel by flushing.
That's what I thought watching the clip of Obama's meet and greet at the G-20. Seemed to me he acted like that 'too cool' high school kid who thinks his sh!t don't stink.
I've sworn the oath twice, and am a charter member of Oathkeepers. I'll do my part, but draw the line at giving these vermin the time of day. My daughter is a Democrat, and she doesn't want to be a Republican. She just wants her party back and will vote Republican until that happens.
Now this is only something I would recommend to a libertarian or conservative with very stamina, will power, knowledge of logic and facts.
If you have what it takes – and again, I am not recommending this, just mentioning it – if you can venture into the the moral and logical fallacies she spouts as Gospel, with out physically, emotionally or educationally, permanently damaging yourself, you can learn how the modern liberal mind works.
I recommend leaving this to the trained professionals, such as myself. I come from the left, so I was raised to think that way. I'm immune to it.
Make no mistake there are risks involved with even reading her rants.
SWEEET! Already sent it to her and my youngest one who dabbles in it , like, occasionally, you know.
Throwing dirt on 'em works when they stop moving.
At least, it helps with the smell…
Janeane Garofalo is living proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
I was born on the left, I was raised on the left, I was immersed in the left. And all the time I was there, something about it didn't seem quite right about their thinking. There were disconnections that never made sense.
The older I got the more I distanced myself from the left, but remained cordial with them because they were pretty much the only ones I knew. In college I started meeting non-modern liberals. And they weren't nearly the dirty rotten scoundrels I was raised to believe they were. I also took a class for comp sic called logic and it was life changing.
The ancient Greeks came up with rules for proper debate. IF you followed their rules, you were allowed to debate at the Greek, and if you didn't, shut up and go away because you've just proved you are stupid.
There are varying lists of what are the official "fallacies," but a fallacy is where by the very structure of an argument is proof it is wrong, there fore untrue, security, remove this oaf from our Public Forum.
So then I turned that on the left, and they were not pleased at all. I did lose some friends, but the majority of people actually agreed with me. We stopped arguing about politics, but we still debate them.
That is my assessment at this point of what the problem with modern liberalism is. They have the exact same attitude as the cool guys who made my high school years a living hell. They are no better than those dicks I dealt with 35 years ago.
She looks a lot like a long-term heroin addict I saw on TV this weekend. I hope that's not really her problem because I wouldn't wish addiction on anybody.
Sounds like you're already doing it. Apologies for suggesting your not.
Garafalo types are hopeless, the only reason is to even worry about them is if you like to poke the bear. If your done poking the bear, that's fine by me. I'm suggestion we do exactly what you are doing, talking with your daughter.
That's how we win this. Convert with the truth. And let's set them free.
Christ, that's taken one for all mankind……………….ewww………….remember the saying from the younger days Darkwolf……….Not even with someone else's ____ (fill in the blank)
Can you say Lobotomy……………….
I can't say this little troll's last name without it sounding like I'm clearing my throat.
She will be starring in the new movie SEVENTH SENSE. She won't be seeing dead people. She sees racists.
She's silly.
I have nothing to say about her. She's said the stupid things she has said and has made clear that she believes in them.
She's set in her ways and so am I; I just wish she weren't so willfully dumb.
Janeane Garofalo wrapped in anything less than a straightjacket violates all justice in this world.
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