Janeane Garofalo on Dissent – Then And Now

Just because she can read a script in front of a camera makes her an instant expert on politics? As far as I am concerned, she has the IQ of a dirty sock. (I apologize to all the dirty socks out there).She is a NOBODY and should be treated as such. Why is she getting any press coverage at all? Stop wasting your time listening to her, because while you do, Obama is taking advantage of this distraction to raise more taxes and spend money that hasn't even been printed yet. Don't give her any attention and she will go away...

She has the working I.Q. of a twenty dollar prostitute. Get real or shut up!

Seems like everyone is posting "to the point" comments. I like it.

hey jeanne shut up you idiot

She's a jackass

Janeane Garofalo is a fool.

One of those people who lie for selfish political reasons and hope to stimulate their brainless twitter fans with horse feathers and verbal flatulence.

People like Garofalo are "only" entertainers and worthless in the "real" world

what a stupid shallow woman

So, flux, do you agree with her or not; is she right or wrong? You are weaseling out of the main point of her remarks. Defend this nitwit's right to free speech if you like, I would too, but what do you think? Is each and every one who demonstrated against bigger government a racist or not? Is Stockholm disease rampant on the right? Or is her reference to this "disease" complete nonsense?

That compilation was fail, in that it did nothing to mesh with the introduction.

She never said the teabaggers didn't have the right to speak out or that they should be stopped from doing so. She just said they were largely motivated by racism. That's certainly a point you could argue against, but impugning ugly motives to her political enemies in no way contradicted her 2003 remarks.

Perhaps this blog post's point was valid when looking at the full body of her remarks, but from the short snipped bits presented here the initial argument was fairly incoherent.

or make sure there is enough of a positive message that people take the real intended message away from the event, and not just see the racist elements.

No way to do that when we have the media bias that exists today, not as regards John Q. Disengaged the citizen.

From the images I have seen, there was clearly a rasict tone to the events. That theme was present in multiple locations with multiple signs that were clearly race-based commentaries on our president.

She called it like she saw it, and there seems to be enough visual evidence to back up her assesment.

It is unfortunate that the movement appeals to people like that, but it appears to be a place where they are welcomed and can voice their opinions, which of course are legal (up to the point of inciting violence of course).

Obviously this will be a challenge for any continued momentum for this movement, how to not attract that element, or make sure there is enough of a positive message that people take the real intended message away from the event, and not just see the racist elements.

I dont think whatever the intended message was made it through the bigotry, neither does she, and neither do a lot of other Americans. People have seen the extremist elements and now the movement is probably permanently tarnished by those carrying that message.

OhIGetIt: Your first sign... What the heck does that have to do with race? People of ALL races are out of work. Are you insinuating that only minorties don't work? YOU seem to be trying to be trying to paint everyone with the same brush, just like Janeane does.
Your second sign... Maybe that PERSON is a racist. It doesn't mean that everybody at that rally was now does it?

Could somebody see to it that there is a microphone nearby this woman at all times? She's about the best booster for Republicans and conservatism that I've heard lately. What better spokesMAN for the left could there be?

OhIGetIt says:
April 20, 2009 at 4:40 pm (Edit)

so wait, how does this work?

People go to a rally with overtly racist signs, and someone who observes the signs and says “wow, thats, uh kinda a racist sign you have there my fellow American” that person, the observer, is somehow a racist?

wha?

You know signs like -
this one and this one…

Look, you seem to be ignoring the idea that she didn't just speak of those people who had signs, but she painted the entire movement with one big racist brush. Go watch the entire video and see for yourself.

Also, it isn't credible anyone to paint an entire movement based a on a few people or signs. Any black person there has Stockholm syndrome and any white person there is a racist. That's what she said. Quit trying to spin this to defend her. Either you agree with her or you don't.

so wait, how does this work?

People go to a rally with overtly racist signs, and someone who observes the signs and says "wow, thats, uh kinda a racist sign you have there my fellow American" that person, the observer, is somehow a racist?

wha?

You know signs like -
this one and this one...

Janeane Garofalo is a RACIST HYPOCRITE. She is the one bringing up the presidents skin colour. She obviously can't get past his skin colour.. JANEANE, THE RACIST. That's the problem with left wing extremists. They always have to bring up different races instead of just the HUMAN RACE.

It has been said (no, I don't know by whom, but I know I am not the first one capable of creating such an apt metaphor...let us not allow this triviality to deter us) that solid logic is like pure clear water. Now when a long-time victim of syphilis sees water they are struck by a case of the howling fits. They shake and tremble with fear and paranoia. Perhaps this is what happened when Ms Garofalo learned of the tea parties against bigger government. Let us hope she seeks effective treatment.

this woman disgusts me...for her - and all or most of the liberals for that matter - to use and promote the 'tea bagging' when referring to the protests only reinforces WHO THE REAL RACISTS ARE...

stilldon't get it - your name says it all. You left wingers got exactly what you wanted. You got a tax and spend government that is going to sell this country off to the highest bidder. I, just like most rebublicans, have no problem with our current President's color of skin. I would rather have seen Colin Powell in the White House, but oh well.

No-one cares about the color of this President's skin. That is simply the only stump that you fecal matter craniums seem to be able to attach to us. I have yet to hear a liberal say that they like that he and his co-horts are spending all our money.

Let's look at this another way. Do you recall the protests in London last month? The people that broke through the windows and looted items from those banks were leftist liberals. Does that make all of the people there protesting idiots? No it doesn't. The few do not speak for the rest. You can't make a blanket statement that we are all racists due to one idiot with a sign.

Oh by the way - Dr. Martin Luther King was a republican.

Kevin Jackson had a brilliant response on the Black Sphere.

http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com/2009/04/raci...

stilldontgetit, it's about her attitude and her premise.

And she did label everyone...all the tea party attendants....racists. Not just a few, which would have been more acceptable, but everyone.

You remind me of Obama, spending 10 minutes to answer a question and still missing the point of the question. Perhaps this is too subtle for you to get.

She was correct in pointing out the overtly racist message delivered by *some* attendees of the TEA Parties (not all), based on the signs that they carried saying the future was "White slavery" for americans. She did this since the signs could be visually, you know, seen being carried by people at the rallies.

If you are defending racism, well, then we will have to agree that there is no common ground between us.

All I read here is comments making fun of her physical appearence. It is this kind of cunning political thought that has left the GOP where it is. No ability to talk about substantive issues, just make fun of how people talk. Genius.

Nowhere in the video clip that I watched did she say that the tea partyers do not have the right to do what they did, call for this to stop, be banned, or that it is unpatriotic or should not be allowed to continue. She did label attendees as racists based on visual evidence. Again, she didnt say they don't have these rights.

She does not even call the acts "dissent" in anyway what-so-ever, she just mocks the content of the message, not the right to deliver the message or believe in it.

And not to belabor the point, in the first video, she is voicing concern that when people were speaking about the war, they WERE being told that dissenting is unamerican and that they can't do that.

And technically the TEA parties are dissent - when only 250,000 people in a nation of lets say, what, 100 Million eligable voters turn out to protest something, it is a extreme minority and thus, is dissent. It is of course, perfectly legal, constitutionaly upheld, and legitamite dissent, but it is "express(ing) opposition through action or words" and that is techincally dissent. Ms. Garaffalo I doubt would have any problem with that. Dissent is not illegal. Treason, is illegal, but dissent is not treason.

BUT - the right to dissent is not the right to not-be-made-fun-of. She was doing the latter, not saying TEA partiers don't have the right to do the gather and protest at will. She knows they do. Her point in the first video was the opposite, people were telling her and her co-minded they don't have the right to say they disaggree with the war. Of course they did then, just like the TEA partiers do.

Maybe it is too subtle a point for the deep thinkers here to pick up on.

So - she was not mocking the right to do it, just mocking (and in my opionion and frankly after the dust has settled, most of the US thinks the same way) the content of the meetings.

It strikes me that Ms. Garofouledup's physical appearance these days simply matches the less attractive aspects of what's inside that head of hers--nasty thoughts and 32 inches of vacuum between the ears.

And yes, she was not bad looking back in the day--but those days are long ago and, in her case, far away.

yeah, I didn't think it was that hard to see the relevance of the two videos. It's clear that some people over think things a little too much.

I'll type slow so you can keep up:

Dissent = patriotism when it's a topic the Queen of Hygiene agrees with

Dissent = racism when she doesn't

"The tea parties were stupid and she is right!"

Ouch, that really hurt! Gosh you're mean and I can't believe how insightful and biting your commentary is!

**YAWN**

You work on that all night, or just copy down the latest temper-tantrum by Olber-douchebag?

Hey Robert, lay off Paula Poundstone. I went to see her live in Hollywood last summer and she put on one of the best, cleanest, and funniest stand-up shows I've ever seen. There wasn't a partisan note or gratuitous liberal head-nod in the whole thing and I ended up with a very high opinion of the lady. Don't even try to lump her in with this creepy Garofalo character.

And yeah, I understand you were only saying that Poundstone has some masculine qualities, which is true. But they're not there to make her seem smarter, as you charge, whereas with Garofalo, I agree with you: it's all deliberate and phony.

Very typical of leftist discourse, make ad hominem attacks followed by ridicule and never ever discus the points raised.

First of all, these two clips are not even about the same thing.

If you wanted to show her being hypocritical, she would have needed to be saying that she doesn't support the right of the TEA party movement to even HAVE the TEA parties, which she doesn't do.

What she does do, is comment on the content of the demonstrations in one clip (the most recent) and she is talking about the over all idea of not allowing dissent in the first.

She does not say "this is unamerican" or "they should not be allowed to do this" which was her point in the first clip where people were being demonized for even bother ing to utter an anti-Iraq war comment.

She is just making fun of them, because, you know the TEA parties were stupid and she is right, look at the montages of the photos from *many* different parties around the US and there some straight up racist comments on some of the signs.

So despite the heavy-handed editing job, you picked two different points to weld together.

I give it a C- and it represents the same level of understanding as the TEA parties did.

Hypocritical Janeane Garofalo Contradicts Herself on Dissent and Lies About Rush Limbaugh Visit
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/...

Quite a reverse. Check out this Onion-style parody of her at http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/04/department-...

Janeane Garofalo on Dissent - Then And Now
http://activitypit.ning.com/video/janeane-garof...

Ben Affleck really hit that? Really?

I particularly enjoy the monotonal manish quality in Garofolo's voice, as if it's supposed to make her seem intellectual. The fake glasses make her appear smarter too. Others who shared that same manish quality: Eleanor Roosevelt, Paula Poundstone and Billie Jean King.

Let's be honest about what this is about - back in 1978, Janeane saw all the cute cheerleaders get a date to the senior prom, but it was another night of cheetos and diet coke for her.

Let go of the hate, Janeane. Let it go.

I bore original witness to that evening at Keith's waterdesk. I can also say the difference my allegedly ruptured sensibilities detected between J.G.'s demeanaor even 10 years ago, compared to this recent baseless venom squirt, saddened me greatly. Would that last sentence qualify as a full one?? Have I matured sufficiently to support the real middle??
For the long run, playing the race card in the middle of what should have been a comparatively disassociated dicussion of fundamental economics was quite below her. Most of us should be sure she's better than that. She must have chosen otherwise.
Is the subject of rampant criminality becoming so obvious that we need a cable watch-woobie on every channel to be tucked in with to tell us we're wrong every night?
I stopped worrying about the bomb right after they quit teaching Civics in H-school.

Somebody needs to remind Ms. Garofalo that she's not black.

I always wonder about glow in the dark white people (like myself) playing the race card. Straight up racism, that's all it is, really? No other possible reason?

I believe that she is a very smart woman, but apparently she has the same swollen brain syndrome she ascribes to Republicans.

She was great in The Truth about Cats and Dogs with Uma Thurman, who was also hot, but that was in 1996.

As many have put forth, liberalism is clearly a mental disorder. Garofalo a clear example of the pathos. Olbermann the enabler.

This thing is an idiot. Talk about media malpractice, how is she still allowed on TV, how has she not needed to apologize for saying what she said? If any right-winger said something comparable to what she said, they would be chastised by the media, lose their job, and have to issue an apology before they were allowed to do anything ever again. Shes a very racist person, a very sexist person, and just doesnt have one nice quality about her.

It's just a game to these liberals. They need to get into sports or something. This is not Lakers vs. Celtics or something ultimately meaningless of the like. They want to win and keep winning at any cost. Of rich celebrities never have to worry about what things cost.

The woman has face of carp. You can see her morfed into a Carp here.
http://maser-media.org/gallery/details.php?imag...

GARBOFFALO

God does not tolerate such self-idolotry. He will punish her by making it so the only job she can get is on a show where the hero is a merciless terrorist-stomper who saves lives patriotically.


... wait ...

not to downplay people's concerns over garafolo's language of antipluralism - her attitude does seem to prevail in the obama whitehouse, which recently commissioned a report from the dhs which identified all non-progressive voices in the country as representing a "terrorist threat" - but she isn't a credible amplifier of this policy, as she suffers from a paranoid narcissism which causes her to make up stories about having righteously snubbed rush limbaugh, whom she has never had the opportunity to meet.

Such a boob.

superficially, it looks like hypocrisy, but
these attitudes are consistent with one another if one assumes that progressives are implicit totalitarians.

"...now she’s just another brainless liberal "

'NOW'? When was she anything else?

I'm not surprised that someone who would make such blanket and unfounded statements are guilty of hypocracy. Most people unwilling to address the issue are guilty of most of the qualities they try to paint other people with during their commentary?

She's lying about the content of the dissent.

She's not being hypocritical. She's not attacking dissent. She's attacking the content of the dissent.

This level of hypocrisy from the left should surprise noone at this point.

Obviously she has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. I guess all the black people in the crowds hate the black man in the Whitehouse. I wonder what she could tell us about the brains of people that are racist against their own race? I bet she thinks they have Uncle Tom syndrome. Let's be real here. Are we to seriously believe that anyone with at least a few brain cells even listens to this woman. You would have to be a complete moron to take anything but what she reads from a script someone else has written seriously. This is just another example of how working in the movie industry destroys brain cells. They are so used to taking direction and told what to say that they cannot have any reasonable independent thought.

Olbercrackhead? I came to this blog hoping for some serious political discussion, but apparently some thirteen year old kid must be operating this site. This is yet another blog I won't be returning to -- is it so hard to post mature musings on politics for adults? It must be for therightscoop.

Good work.

I remember when I actually thought she was fairly likable. She was humorous on occasion when her comedy was about relationships and she played the self-effacing, "I am SO neurotic" part. And she wasn't TERRIBLE in that crappy superhero movie w/ Ben Stiller and Paul "Pee Wee" Ruebens.

Garofola, or GAR! as I like to call her now, must have gone through some type of "purification" a few years ago when she shed the last vestiges of her humanity and reason. She went through a "cleansing" ritual where she purged the remaining traces of common sense and rational thought.

Why the purge? Obviously, it was the price that Olberturd and his ilk demanded for admittance into the Cult of Progressiveness.

Sad. And, I am sorry to say, there is no deprogramming for this affliction. Therefore, the only approach to GAR! and Olberturd is to ignore them. Garofo-who?

Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd had better insights.

Only liberal bedwetting moonbats are capable of dissent, "I'm in favor of any citizen talking if they want to", "Right".

Beautiful job of pointing out more lies from the unhinged moonbat leftists.

Listen to the anti-Americans bash Americans today. They want to tell us what we were doing when we were protesting big Nanny State Government. They are pathetic.

Well done!

Tom, Olbermann sat there and agreed with her the whole time. For that he is a crackhead...or Olbercrackhead.

I particularly enjoyed her "racial" theories on the brain function of conservatives. Of course, if you simply diagnose all conservatives as being pathological, it absolves you of the need to come up with any honest intellectual response to their points. Which, no doubt, is why Garofalo does it. A "racist," as the old saying goes, is a conservative who is winning an argument with a liberal.

That's right up there with her proclaiming a half-million dead US solders in two weeks just prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion. Still waiting on her to eat that crow she promised. . .

Seven years later, more troops as a percentage died in Germany and on US posts then on combat duty in Iraq. Ten times more people as a percentage of pop are murdered in Chicago then in Iraq - and more people choke to death on PEANUT BUTTER in 18 months in the US then have died in seven years in Iraq! God Bless each one of them, but come on, when are we going to declare Chicago LOST and pull out!

See. This is what happens when you leave the hair coloring dye sitting on the scalp too long. It got all the way though her skull and stained the part of her brain that had survived the drugs and the venereal disease.

Ice T had it right 20 years ago: "Freedom of speech... just watch what you say." Welcome to The Establishment, Janeane.

It appears we are becoming a nation of
rage.
One would think the liberals and socialits would be pleased as punch to see their man and their plan destorying the country- but they seem as angry as those of us on the right are.

Poor thing (and I do me thing). The Bush years took their toll mentally and physically. When she finally goes barking mad it will be our fault and not Keith who is in effect parading around the local unhinged bag lady for his own amusement.

Game set match!

We are wasting time debating a woman who clearly has a mental disorder.

Nothing she says carries any weight and she should just be ignored.

I can never get over the contrast between that smug sense of superiority and the idiotry that comes out of their mouth's.

I encountered the exact same people in NYC hanging out with activists. They would say something about how much smarter they are to Geo. Bush, and then proceed to spout ridiculous childish idiotry.

WOW! Not that we needed video confirmation to prove she is a partisan hate monger, but here it is none the less. :)

Foot meet mouth...classic!

What a fool.

Aaron you're spot on.

Back when she was just an actress I thought she was attractive... now she's just another brainless liberal struggling to feel an unearned sense of superiority over someone else. Liberals always have and always will make the best racists.

I didn't see the video but let me guess what she said. One showed her a few years ago proclaiming dissenting against the President is good and the other showed a recent video saying dissenting against the President is bad.

Dang, she looked good back in the day.

Garafalo's a self important $%&#. She is worthless.

Beautiful!