Posted on 08/03/2004 3:33:52 AM PDT by Miami Vice
She is a gadfly of the Bush administration.
A vitriolic critic of George Bush, Republicans, and the war in Iraq, Janeane Garofalo has made a more impressive career of being an antiwar protester than she did as a comic. She is a frequent guest of radio talk shows – and hosts one of her own.
A comic, actress, and author, she is a multifaceted individual. She is even a philosopher.
She once wrote a book in which she said, “Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.” (italics mine)
In other words, she thinks she should be obnoxious because the average person is an idiot, and by being different and abhorrent, she can demonstrate her superiority. The corollary to this is because she is superior the rules for mere mortals do not apply to her.
Garofalo will bristle if someone says she is un-American for protesting the war in Iraq. Yet, she quite easily calls other people traitors, as she did President Bush during an interview with Sean Hannity at the Democratic National Convention.
Garofalo will condemn anyone who would utter a racial slur. However, Garofalo can easily use the word “ cracker “ when referring to southern whites as she did during this same interview with Hannity. Being the intellectual giant that she is, Garofalo knows full well that the term cracker is, “ used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States,” according to the American Heritage dictionary.
Insulting people gratuitously, calling people traitors, and using ethnic slurs are permissible for the great philosopher, social commentator, and moralist Janeane Garofalo. It is not permissible for the hoi polloi.
She is also a brilliant political theorist. An example of her brilliance is this quote, “ The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.”
The world was better off when millions of people were in Gulags and enslaved by Eastern European dictators? So all those people who were shot trying to get to West Berlin just did not know what was good for them?
Of course, Garofalo does not think Communism or Communists were a threat. She believes America is evil. This sage actually thinks that America was responsible for the killing fields of Cambodia - rather than the Maoist Khmer Rouge who planned to make a utopia.
She was supposed to star in a sitcom that was cancelled by ABC about a year ago. Garofalo is certain it is because of her anti-Bush politics. Obviously, she is so important and since there is no such thing as an anti-Bush TV comedy that could be the only reason. After all, it could not be her lack of talent.
Like all geniuses, Garofalo is a bit eccentric. She named her production company, I Hate Myself Productions. Obviously, this is an indication of her self-loathing and preoccupation with herself. This is why she believes in the Michael Moore conspiracy theories. She is so different and so smart that she can determine the truth.
Janeane Garofalo is just another example of the type of person Orwell referred to when he wrote, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. “
Although, she may not belong to the intelligentsia (albeit she certainly considers herself a unique genius), yet she is quite the fool. She is the latest of a group of people who buy into conspiracy theories. Just like those who think that John Wilkes Booth was not killed by soldiers twelve days after he assassinated Lincoln and those who think Jesse James was not killed by John Ford. Janeane Garofalo knows the truth because she is so much smarter and more moral than the rest of humanity.
Sanctimonious, supercilious, and sciolistic, Garofalo sounds like a typical liberal.
Michael P. Tremoglie is a writer whose work has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Front Page and Insight magazines. He is working on his first novel 'A Sense of Duty'.E-mail him at elfegobaca2@earthlink.net
Great personality review of JG. I am glad the public wil never recognize or reward her negativity. There is not really enough room for one Michael Moore and no room left for JG.....
I think the great ability of genius is to analyze information and respond to it.
I've heard her talk. She's no genius.
You would think that anybody with an ounce of common since would realize the baffoonic indignation this woman holds for anything on the right, but the reality is there are too many people just like her and they are all democrats, leftist, and socialist.
That broad is on crack. I saw Hannity interview her at the convention and it looked like the last time she took a shower or bathed was last year. Then she puts on this whole pseudo intellectual attitude like a kid who doubts herself, probably because she does doubt herself, and you can see why by the utter idiotic naive statements she makes. Why this idiot is given any type of air time, never mind any type of credibility, is something I`ll never understand in a million years.
Janeane Garofalo has just one note to riff on: the pseudo-intellectual, elitist poseur. Her type usually develop that attitude because, at some point in their lives, they realized that for whatever reason, people just don't like them very much on a personal level, so they decide it must be because others are jealous of their intelligence rather than because of some personality flaw that renders them unlikeable. Moore fits that description as well.
I missed that one so any comments/details would be appreciated.
She's bitter, and embarrasing to hear.
I believe her guilt of building walls between the CIA and the FBI will haunt her until she dies. She instead spits out venom at President Bush. Anyone with that much anger must be covering up for something else.
another member of the insane asylum of the american left
To be honest, there are a number of libs I've know who are intelligent about many things... other than how life works and how humans think and respond. They just don't get the human nature thing which they believe either doesn't exist or they can reshape. The fact that they're always being disproved dissuades them not the slightest. Normal people at least recognize when they're wrong and shift course. Not so hard-core libs. They never admit they're wrong, and they'll dig the hole deeper to prove it.
Can't fix stupid.
Yea, but she was great in Mystery Men ;]
Poor, poor Janeane Gabuffalo. She never developed past high school, emotionally.
Indeed Garofalo does have a very high opinion of herself and stoops to the lowest form of hate rhetoric ever to spew from a leftist's mouth. Garofalo also states that her favoriate candidate is Howard Dean because Kerry is not left enough for her. Do the United States a favor, Garofalo, and move to France or better yet, try your hate with the people of Iraq. Pitts off.
She is one of those people who knows a lot of individual facts but is unable to connect them into anything resembling a coherent philosophy.
I remember very well February 2003, when she went toe-to-toe with Brian Kilmeade . . . and Brian pressed the buttons, and turned her into a swamp.
"So Saddam must love you."
"Where are those 100,000 tonnes of VX gas?"
"That right-wing 60 Minutes?"
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