Did liberal-bashers cost Garofalo her sitcom?

Chicago sun-Times ^ | 6/5/2003 | Bill Zwecker

[Connservative]

Is the ghost of Sen. Joe McCarthy alive and well in Hollywood? That is certainly on the minds of many outspoken liberals in Tinsel-town these days. The latest conspiracy theory focuses on the just-announced axing by ABC of very vocal anti-Iraq war activist Janeane Garofalo's new sitcom, ''Slice o' Life.''

Though the alphabet network had given Garo-falo and Universal Tele-vision a thumbs up on the show for next season, network execs changed their minds, telling Daily Variety and other industry outlets it was ''the direction of the series story line'' that led to the dumping of ''Slice''--just days before the show's pilot was scheduled to be taped in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A source close to Garofalo tells this column the actress and comedian was furious by the last-minute change and believes it's yet another example ''of a network bowing to the perceived power of the Bush administration. ... Janeane is convinced her politics and all the hate mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind all this.''

An ABC spokeswoman denies that, saying this was a decision based strictly on the artistic merits (or lack thereof) of the show--with Garofalo's politics ''never coming into the decision-making process whatsoever.''

For the pilot, Garofalo would have played an unwilling segment producer assigned to come up with corny feature pieces to run at the end of a TV newsmagazine show.

This is Garofalo's second recent TV stumble. A potential HBO project was also shelved.

[Connservative]

All I can say is:

BWAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:D

[Maceman]

Three words:

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

[mgist]

I am deeply saddened.

[Spruce]

HAHAHAHA! Suffer B*tch!

[TheBigB]

Would a Schadenfreude moment be appropriate here? =D

[Connservative]

Three words: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

And Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity if the rabid left gets their way.

good point

[cincinnati65]

Jeez, is today like a good news pile-up or what????

[pabianice]

A perfect Liberal. She wants the right to say what she likes but wants to be protected from the consequences of her own actions. Don't work that way, babe, in the free market.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Garafalo's show was doomed to failure in any event. No talent there.

[skeeter]

Liberal-basher bump.

[johniegrad]

An ABC spokeswoman denies that, saying this was a decision based strictly on the artistic merits (or lack thereof) of the show--with Garofalo's politics ''never coming into the decision-making process whatsoever.''

So, in addition to being stupid, she has no talent?

[finnman69]

bwahahahahahhahaha

TAKE THAT BEYOTCH! And next time shut yur' pie hole you unfunny leftist whore.

[spodefly]

So when all of us dumbasses out here in the hinterlands decide we don't like someone from Hollyweird and choose not to buy their product, that is just like "McCarthyism" ... The natural order would, of course, be that we buy everything they shovel at us from anyone inside Hollywarped, and when we decide not to buy something then it is "censorship", a "chill wind", "McCarthism", and "Blacklisting" ...

OK. Thanks for the clarification.

[Noumenon]

I am deeply, deeply saddened.

Not.

[finnman69]

Audio pronunciation for
" schadenfreude "

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?schade01.wav=schadenfreude

[Buffalo Bob]

Three words: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

I agree with your sentiment, however it's not an even trade. Janeane Garofalo is not good enough to be even a fiber in the toilet paper Dr, Laura uses to wipe her butt.

[TheBigB]

Howlin' Howell Raines quits, Barfalo gets her show axed, Dow over 9,000...

Is it Christmas? :)

[Pukin Dog]

Yes, a great news day. On top of all that, Bush gets in and out of Baghdad safely.

[anoldafvet]

Two words: NO TALENT