Finally, a little justice. Some of you might recall that the prospect of director Robert Rodriguez receiving taxpayer dollars after bringing one the most anti-American and outright racist films in years to the bigscreen was more than a little upsetting to those of us who pay taxes, aren’t racist, and kinda dig America.

Good news today via the “Wall Street Journal“:

The Texas Film Commission says it will refuse to pay $1.75 million in state incentives to the movie’s producers citing a state law that allows the state to refuse to pay incentives for “content that portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion.”

But what exactly is the “negative” portrayal the governor’s staff object to? Most commentators assume it is Sen. McLaughlin’s character, a virulently anti-immigration politician whose faux ad supports an “electrified border fence” and pledges “no amnesty for parasites.”

Or is it the fact that at the end of the movie, the main character – an ex-Mexican federal police officer played by Danny Trejo – gets legal status? This is after he leads a group of Mexican immigrants in a confrontation with border vigilantes.

Calls to the Texas Film Commission were forwarded to Gov. Perry’s press office. Katherine Cesinger, the governor’s spokeswoman, said the letter to the filmmakers didn’t specify why the movie ran afoul of the “negative” portrayal criteria. “The totality of the project is what the office takes a look at,” she said.

Here’s our favorite part of the story, where after crashing and burning, Rodriguez gets to stand up, brush himself off, and say: “I meant to do that.” (more…)

On 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. (more…)

Janeane Garofalo is an unreconstructed, unapologetic racist.

Yet the uncouth actress will never be punished, vilified or marginalized, because she openly disparaged the one ethnic group which enjoys no Hollywood protection. That would be white people. Particularly, white people from the South.

What do you think would happen should anyone turn the tables, reverse the races, change the geography, and denigrate an urban person of color? The conservatives I know do not resort to gutter talk. 

For her bold and unbridled racism – offenses that are sure to draw deafening applause by the American left – Janeane Garofalo is my Celebutard of the Week, in keeping with my book, “Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America.”  (more…)