Posted on 02/03/2005 6:39:42 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
"The inked fingers was disgusting," Air America radio talk show host Janeane Garofalo declared on MSNBC in denouncing Republican lawmakers who, before and after the State of the Union, showed off an inked finger meant to demonstrate solidarity with Iraqi voters who dipped a finger in ink when they voted. To mock the display, Garofalo soon held up her hand in a Nazi salute as she predicted: "The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a Daily Show photo already, of them signaling in this manner [Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that."
For a still shot of Garofalo's Nazi hand gesture -- arm fully extended at an upward angle with four fingers together -- check the posted version of this CyberAlert item. After 10am EST, go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050203.asp#5
Garofalo made the Nazi salute, which the MRC's Brad Wilmouth noticed, at 12:37am EST Thursday morning during MSNBC's 12-2am EST After Hours show from Washington, DC. Garofalo, an actress/comedienne-turned talk host, appeared by satellite from New York City.
The relevant portion of her appearance, picking up when Pat Buchanan asked her about the jeers Democrats uttered during Bush's speech: "Janeane, do you think what Mike Barnicle described as Animal House behavior in the Congress helps the Democratic Party when you got a State of the Union, solemn occasion, Supreme Court there, both Houses, First Lady, and they're hooting and jeering the way they would at, you know, at some rock concert when they were in college? Do you think that's helpful?"
Garofalo: "No, what I don't think is helpful is a Republican Party that has been nothing but partisan and dishonest in service of this President who lied about weapons of mass destruction, has lied about Social Security-"
Buchanan: "I'm not sure if that's addressed to my question."
Garofalo: "Yeah, I am answering your question. It wasn't Animal House behavior, and it was a very short, vocal response. And the inked fingers was disgusting. And the standing ovations were such mediocrity. You guys are so easily impressed, it's shocking. But the inked fingers showing solidarity-"
Joe Scarborough: "I'm glad we could shock you."
Buchanan: "You got the whole gang, you got the whole gang you're going after now."
Garofalo: "Yeah, except for Ron Reagan, who actually is the only one who is being reasonable there-"
Scarborough: "God bless you, Ron. That's why we have you on."
Garofalo: "The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a Daily Show photo already, of them signaling in this manner [does the Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that. And also, the bit of theater about the very distraught parents of the soldier who had died, the point is not if this was a real moment, if it was staged, if it was PR. The point is, is those parents and their son were misled about why that young man went into Iraq. And when he wrote a letter to his mother saying, 'It's my job to protect you now,' protect her from what? The imminent threat of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction? So don't bring up, 'Is it helpful if the Democrats make some noise' when they're being lied to. That's not helpful, that's not helpful to pundits like you maybe, but it is not helpful to the country when a Republican President and his partisan Republican Party continue to perpetuate myth and dishonesty on the country."
A bit more tan a week ago on MSNBC Garofalo declared that "George W. Bush is unelectable." That prompted Joe Scarborough to wonder "why does he keep winning?" Garofalo responded with ridiculous accusations followed by cluelessness: "I don't know, voter fraud? A failed mainstream media that fails to inform the electorate about what their government is doing, ignorance, apathy? I don't know." See: http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050124.asp#6
The Web page for Garofalo's nighttime Air America radio show: http://www.airamericaradio.com/shows/majorityreport/
She's really not ugly. Seriously.
OH! I missed the new text. :o)
Why should I be the only one who want too go bang their head against the wall?
Mpls (REALLY RED)Star Tribune
Editorial: State of the Union/A masterly salesman's pitch
George W. Bush may turn out to be the finest salesman who ever occupied the White House, a leader who sold a war in Iraq using bad intelligence, who enacted three big tax cuts the government could not afford and who won re-election even though a majority of voters had grave doubts about the policies he actually stands for.
(snip)
But a good salesman wants customers to fall in love with the product before they see the price tag, and so it was with major elements of Bush's speech. Sketching his plan to overhaul Social Security, he played on the obvious appeal for young workers of retirement accounts they can call their own. Yet he did not say the government will have to borrow billions of dollars and cut future Social Security benefits dramatically to finance those accounts -- never mind that such accounts do nothing to solve Social Security's current financial gap.
Bush also promised permanent new tax relief without telling voters that, when the government is running massive budget deficits, a tax cut today is merely a tax increase passed on to other taxpayers in future generations.
On foreign policy, Bush took time to bask in the warm afterglow of Sunday's election in Iraq. He was more than entitled; the election was an impressive success. But it's just plain wrong for Bush to use the prospect of democracy in Iraq to justify the invasion. That's not why the United States went to war.
Just this week the CIA said it had erred seriously in its pre-war analysis of the threat that Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction posed to the United States. That threat was the reason America went to war, and it turns out to have been entirely bogus.
(snip)
Moreover, there's a big gap between what Bush said and what U.S. policy is. World over, many of our closest allies are anything but democratic. To his credit, Bush named Saudi Arabia and Egypt as two friends that need to move toward democracy, but if the United States wants truly to become the chief purveyor of freedom, it must better match its actions to its rhetoric.
This was a brilliant speech, a credit to the president and his speech writers. But the details of Bush's budget, his Social Security reform proposals and his foreign policy may be much tougher to swallow than his words last night.
Actually she is kind of cute. Not really. But I know that that description of her really pisses her off.
I think she is kinda cute. A kinda cute-as-a-button cute. A cutesy cute cutish kinda cute-y cute. Cute, in a cuteness-personified cute way.
(did you say that calling her cute pisses her off?)
Yeah, particularly in the past year since she joined that train wreck called "Air America" (or "Err America", if you prefer). What a miserable skank she is!
I can't stand to watch either MSNBC or CNN! They have nothing positive to say, and they offer no solutions when they complain about President Bush's policies.
I watch Fox almost exclusively, and I must say that I was certainly enjoying the thrashing that the Dems were getting from the Fox & Friends crew this morning! Everyone but Kiran Chetry was talking about how bad the Dems looked last night when they were booing the President. Kiran doesn't get much time to offer her opinions on that show, and I guess it's because the others don't want to hear her lib viewpoints. I know that E.D. is a Democrat too, but she certainly aligns herself with Bush quite a bit.
I think Kiran likes the gig, but doesn't want to go along with a lot of the conservative opinions. For a liberal, though, she does an okay job.
My faves at Fox are Brit Hume and John Gibson. What a refreshing comparison to those over at CNN and MSNBC! As a matter of fact, there is no comparison.
I agree. Devils advocate answer: They ask and she answers because they get paid big money, all for providing TV 'Schlock and Awe' Style Entertainment that appeals to the Tabloid Mentality Audience.
And we respond because we're sick of seeing and hearing their vile lies, unpatriotic and Terrorist abetting propaganda that's used by our enemies plastered all over the media.
She is a very miserable girl, ain't she?
JG--
One word--
PROZAC!
More of the seamy underbelly of the beast being exposed.
Keep it up,lefties...keep it up.PLEASE.
She needs a very big bran muffin with that cup of tea.
...Or something else really big,delivered by a big,strong conservative manly-man.That might straighten her out!
Nice of Janene to dress up for the program in a sweatsuit..
Maybe he could deliver her an enema instead, lol.
The loony left don't care about our fallen soldiers or their families .. they only want to see pictures of their coffins
Says it all,Janeane!
No (R)s to vote for the war --> No War --> No Elections
No (R)s to keep American soldiers in Iraq (because Pelosi wants exit strategy, etc.) --> We pull out too soon --> Failed Elections
No (R)s to vote for appropriations --> Insufficient Funding for our Troops --> Failed Elections
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