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.”

One big winner: Machete and Troublemaker Studios. The movie has yet to be released on DVD and, as they say, all publicity is good publicity.

Didn’t they get the message that they were supposed to cry “racism?”

Bonus video. Imagine Pee Wee as an America-hating racist and enjoy…

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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.

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.” 

Given a forum to comment on the previous day’s tea parties, in which hundreds of thousands of conservatives gathered to protest President Obama’s tax policies, she had the gall to declare,

“This is about hating a black man in the White House.” Huh?

“This is racism straight up.” She was just getting started:

“That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they’ll believe it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become-it’s like showing Frankenstein’s monster fire. They become confused, and angry and highly volatile. That guy, causing them feelings they don’t know, because their limbic brain, we’ve discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it’s pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring. Is Bernie Goldberg listening?”

So there it is. Anyone who believes higher taxes would be ruinous to this country is deemed dangerous. Anyone who disagrees with any policy Obama might enact is racist.

Not just racist, but a “teabagging redneck.” That sure shuts down the debate before it can get off the ground. Which is the entire point.

I think I’ll have a T-shirt printed. “Teabagging Redneck Against Taxes.”

I wonder if Janeane would try to lock me up?