I stopped watching 24 because of Janeane Garofaolo. She’s homely, her voice is grating, and she’s a leftie.
I love 24...and if you want to enjoy it w/FRiends, we have a live (realtime) thread here during the show. Its fun!!! That said, Chloe has been a quirky, well written character on the show; Janis (or as we call her on our thread...Garfy) is a whiny, unkempt, computer nerd. I would never not watch a show that I really enjoy because of someone like Garafalo. Watch, enjoy and FReep...
I can’t watch 24 week to week with commercials. I just bought several seasons at BestBuy for 20 dollars each. One of my favorite shows despite the absurd computer references.
I would like to see Chloe reveal Ms. Garafalo as the mole she is then shoot her right between the eyes after cutting off a finger or two............but thats just me.
I like the fact that Garafolo has to work for a conservative and do what he says...What’s not to like?
Chloe reminds me a bit of Bailey on the old WKRP, the cute shy smart one in the background.
She classifies Republicans as follows: “The reason a person is a conservative Republican is because something is wrong with them. That’s science — that’s neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a Republican. It’s counterintuitive.” Garofalo also discussed former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin saying, “She’s small-minded and mean-spirited...There’s definitely something wrong with her.”
“I don’t know if you heard me talking to Jenny a while ago, but I was saying that first you have to be an asshole and then comes the conservatism. You gotta be a dick to cleave onto their ideology.” (during an interview in 2009).
She is an atheist and has participated in a radio interview by Freethought Radio, a show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she was quoted as saying (in the November 2001 issue of Commentary), “Who would have thought that I’d be angry on behalf of my country? I’m used to being angry at my country.”
She became more prominent as an activist when she voiced opposition to what became the 2003 Iraq War, appearing on CNN and Fox News to discuss it. She said that she was approached by groups such as MoveOn.org and Win Without War to go on TV, because these organizations say that the networks were not allowing antiwar voices to be heard. Garofalo and the other celebrities who appeared at the time said they thought their fame could lend attention to that side of the debate. Her appearances on cable news prior to the war garnered her praise from the left and spots on the cover of Ms. and Venus magazines. Garofalo has had frequent on-air political disputes with Bill O’Reilly, Brian Kilmeade, and Jonah Goldberg.
Prior to the 2003 Iraq War, she took a position on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
For example, in an interview with Tony Snow on a February 23, 2003 episode of Fox News Sunday, Garofalo said of Saddam Hussein, “Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there’s no evidence that he (Hussein) has weapons of mass destruction. There’s been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons.
We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We’ve got Iran and North Korea. We’ve got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don’t know what to say about that. There’s a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.”
In March 2003, she took part in the Code Pink anti-war march in Washington, D.C. That fall, she served as emcee at several stops on the Tell Us the Truth tour, a political-themed concert series featuring Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, and others. Throughout the year, Garofalo also actively campaigned for Howard Dean.
Garofalo Backs Rather, Declares Petraeus ‘Dishonest...He Is Betraying Us’
By Brent Baker | September 22, 2007
Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, “actress/comic” Janeane Garofalo asserted she has “no doubt” that, on the Bush National Guard story, “there were executives at CBS that folded under right wing coercion” and she endorsed MoveOn.org’s ad which maligned General David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.” The tattooed Garofalo, who has joined the cast of Fox’s 24, charged: “Petraeus has been dishonest” and “is betraying us.”
On the Dan Rather lawsuit, she fretted incoherently about how “it’s amazing how the right wing has done it in this country and it doesn’t seem like it’s a democracy at all when you let that happen.” On Petraeus and the MoveOn.org ad, she ludicrously saw the “mainstream media” as colluding with those who considered the ad over the line: “The thing is is to pretend that it’s MoveOn.org that has the problem, and that the mainstream media allows that nonsense to continue. Yet, he is betraying us.”
http://newsbusters.org/people/janeane-garofalo
Janeane Garofalo: ‘Bush is a War Criminal,’ ‘O’Reilly Can Kiss My Fat A**’
By Noel Sheppard | September 22, 2007
Beginning with her tirade about America’s support of Israel being “the detriment of the Palestinian people and the American people,” to telling Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly to “kiss my fat a**,” and concluding with her statement that “George Bush is a war criminal,” Garofalo demonstrated just how totally unhinged Hollywoodans have become.
http://newsbusters.org/people/janeane-garofalo
E:You were a vegetarian for 18 years…
JG (Janeane Garofalo): Right, but I’m no longer a vegetarian.
E: I read that.
JG: I’m a vegetarian except for bacon. The amount of times I eat bacon is negligible though. I’d say I eat bacon once or twice a year. But other than that — no meat at all.
E: Now I know you’re very politically involved. Are you excited to see Obama in office?
JG: Yes, very. But I’m not excited when he panders to the right wing. I’m not excited about that at all. Democrats make that mistake all the time. The DLC is responsible. They think it’s prudent to pander to the least among us – which would be conservatives. And it’s a very vocal minority. They’re just the squeakiest wheel so they get greased.
When Obama tries to “reach across the aisle,” it’s a fool’s errand. They will never be bipartisan because their ideology won’t allow for it. So I don’t know why Obama is doing things like taking reproduction justice out of the stimulus package. Stuff like that is just nonsensical.
E: What are three things you’d like to really see Obama change in this country?
JG: I’d like to see him be a proud liberal and say it. You know what I mean? There’s no shame in being a liberal – it’s something to be very proud of. He should say it – cause he is one – and he should be proud to be one. And since it is clear and has been clear since Reagan that the republicans, the “conservatives” will NEVER play ball…NEVER…fu%$ um.
Their policies have destroyed us and most of the world – that’s a fact not an opinion. Their policies of deregulation, pre-emptive strikes, unmitigated support for Israel to the detriment of the Israelis, Palestinian’s, Americans, the British. Every single policy that “conservative republicans” have put forth since Reagan has destroyed us. And we affect most of the world, so why do they still get a say? That’s what blows my mind. It’s almost like self-flagellation or masochism in some way. We keep going to that portion. They are NEVER going to compromise. The thing is that the more you give in to something like that, the more they take advantage.
The reason a person is a conservative republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that’s science – that’s neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. It’s counter-intuitive. And they revel in their anti-intellectualism. They revel in their cruelty.
I don’t know if you heard me talking to Jenny a while ago, but I was saying that first you have to be an asshole and then comes the conservatism. You gotta be a dick to cleave onto their ideology.
E: This might be an appropriate time to segue into Sarah Palin. I would love to know what you think about Palin.
JG: Probably what most people think about Sarah Palin. She’s small-minded and mean-spirited. It has nothing to do with gender — I don’t give a shit about her gender — she is what the Republican Party has become: obstructionist, contrarians, small-minded, all of these things. She just happens to be attractive. There’s definitely something wrong with her. She’s lacking in so many areas. Of course she’s successful with a segment of the country because she represents that lesser segment of the country. It’s people’s lesser nature – their human frailty. You know whatever’s wrong with them is what she is about.
E: I think it’s safe to say she’s done some pretty nutty things.
JG: It’s not even nutty. It really is neuroscience. I truly believe that it has something to do with their limbic brain. I really believe that some people’s limbic brain dominates more than others. Our limbic brain controls all our emotions and it causes us to be irrational. Our limbic brain goes into action when we’re ecstatic, frightened, when we’re having sex. I really believe that if a neuroscientist examined the brain of somebody who identified as a conservative, they would find it’s wired differently.
E: I know you’re about to do your set, so I don’t want to keep you. Are there any projects you have in the works?
JC: I just wrapped on 24. I’m sort of always doing stand-up. I’m doing some dates here, San Francisco, Portland, England, Ireland, Melbourne. So just waiting for another job. I think I might be doing another series on USA next year, but it’s still just theoretical.
I do try to look away when she’s on. All this talk about torture... SHE is torture to look at. There had better be some sort of payoff for forcing her on us.
I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to watch to relax tonight. I was leaning towards an episode of “Firefly”. Now I’m going to watch the only thing that I have ever enjoyed with Janeane Garofalo in it.
Team America.
