Garofalo gets her wish

HollywoodHalfwits.com ^ | 06/12/03 | Shayne Winslow

[slomark]

After several heated appearances with Bill O'Reilly, Garofalo was a hotter commodity than she had ever been and was invited to appear on a host of shows on which she was lauded as "'so brave" to speak out about her feelings regarding the war and the President. Ah, the smell of shameless self promotion in the guise of humble, peace activist...

Then the whispers began circulating that ABC was looking to develop a show as a vehicle for Garofalo. She was ebullient, self assured and boastful. In more than one interview she was asked about the people writing angry letters to ABC and its parent company, Disney, in regard to her show. Her gloating response was to mock the protestors. In fact, when WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg contacted Garofalo to interview her about her upcoming TV show and the complaints ABC was getting, she turned down the invite but boasted that "the show was going forward despite the tidal wave of complaints received by the network" and went on to daringly state, "boycotters are welcome to keep giving me tons of publicity."

Well, Ms. Garofalo got her wish. The American public that was standing firm behind President Bush and gave him a 70% approval rating were tired of hearing her hyped up, motor mouth diatribes attacking the president, making bald face lies and dire predictions.

ABC realized that the outspoken comic with the rapid-fire delivery and pseudo-intellectual vocabulary had bitten off far more than she or the network could chew. The American public was calling her on her statements and when she would not answer or prevaricated, the novelty of her activism shriveled.

ABC realized they would waste money developing a show around Ms. Garofalo when the American public would not watch it and announced they'd scrapped the project entirely. Now that the news is out, Garofalo, who is no longer ebullient, gloating or boastful, has gone on the offensive yet again, this time accusing the president of putting the kibosh on her show. Bill Zwicker of the Chicago Sun-Times interviewed a "source" close to Garofalo who told him that she "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 behind all this."

[DPB101]

Nothing left for Garofalo to do now but throw herself at him and hope Ed Asner proposes. It is that or the night shift at 7-11.

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[RightField]

Let me be the first to say it:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Rainbow Rising]

Poor, poor Janeane. Being smart means more than wearing black framed glasses and tossing around words like "hegemony" and citing the New York Times. It actually involves thinking and not just striking a pose. Maybe she'll reach a point in her life where she will understand this.

What am I saying? That'll never happen! LOL

[des]

I THINK SHE IS THE PERFECT CHOICE FOR HILLARY!--THE MOVIE.

[Conservative til I die]

Garafalo has always been overrated. Her big gimmick was that she was dumpy and somehow this made her different and sexy. No, it just meant that she was (and is) dumpy.

[AndyTheBear]

I really liked her in "The Truth about Cats and Dogs". But now she has ruined that movie for me. It is too hard for me to ignore her defense of a brutal dictator so trasparantly motivated by her avirtion to a Republican in the White House.

[thegreatbeast]

This is a corker from the 'source close to Garofalo': "the perceived power of the Bush administration..."
Not to be too small but any US president has real power, not "percieved power". But we know that W's power in particular is real, immense and far-reaching.
And Ms. Garofalo can thank Gaiae or whatever she believes in that the president wouldn't think of directing his power her way!

[RJayneJ]

Actually, what you said is very perceptive and she just may as she has time for more perspective.

I think that with a little fame, suddenly these young people are thrown into a crowd that is insulated from opposing views, and soon they think that everyone else believes as they do, and all others are morons and don't deserve any voice because there are so few.

They still have not processed that Florida wasn't about a stolen election, it was that American voters were, ideologically at the time, split down the middle.

[weegee]

Citing the NYTimes these days is like citing the Weekly World News or Mao's Little Red Book.

[Tamzee]

Since she proclaimed herself on Fox to be such a fan of Al Jazeera, perhaps she can get a job there? I understand there is an opening available from the firing of the fella that was taking bribes from Saddam...

[RogueIsland]

Now that the news is out, Garofalo, who is no longer ebullient, gloating or boastful, has gone on the offensive yet again, this time accusing the president of putting the kibosh on her show.

Sweetheart, I doubt the Pres even knows who the heck you are, or cares.

[FierceDraka]

Citing the NYTimes these days is like citing the Weekly World News or Mao's Little Red Book.

ROFLMAO - that was FUNNY! And soooo true. /mouth watering at the Left's self-destruction

[IrishBrigade]

Yeah, can't you just see the daily closed door Cabinet meetings where the first topic of business is Janeane and how to make her life more unbearable...

[mewzilla]

You mean Newt isn't really an alien?!

[Jonx6]

Yep, another victim of the VRWC.

[VaBthang4]

Maybe she can have a show on LINK. That's her sort of crowd. What bunch of milktoast effeminates.

[SpinyNorman]

In fact, when WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg contacted Garofalo to interview her about her upcoming TV show and the complaints ABC was getting, she turned down the invite but boasted that "the show was going forward despite the tidal wave of complaints received by the network" and went on to daringly state, "boycotters are welcome to keep giving me tons of publicity."

versus

Bill Zwicker of the Chicago Sun-Times interviewed a "source" close to Garofalo who told him that she "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 behind all this."

So let's see: when she thinks that ABC will ignore the "tidal wave of complaints" and give her a show, and that same tidal wave will only generate publicity for her and the show, she loves it.

When the complaints actally work, and she is ignominiously canned like used toilet paper, she clains that the "hate mail and the right wing lobby" did it to her. Boo effing hoo!

No Janeane, YOU did it to you. Maybe there IS such a thing as bad publicity.

I suggest she go into real estate, and leave the heavy thinking for people equipped for the job. Or go back to Providence College and take some non-feminist courses and acutally learn something. You sure have the time to do it now!! LOL!!!