Janeane's foreign policy brilliance
has just won one of our most esteemed
Jacko/Pee-Wee series Twilight Zone awards.
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/
Inked fingers stands for freedom and democracy.
Liberals are disgusted by freedom and democracy.
Thusly, liberals are disgusted by inked fingers.
She's angry at all that is good and wholesome.
She is, after all, a liberal.
She is a sore loser. Life is unfair and it's all our fault.
Janeane's foreign policy brilliance
has just won one of our most esteemed
Jacko/Pee-Wee series Twilight Zone awards.
Their favorite mantra now is "Lowest approval rating, only 50%" and I don't believe it anyway. It's probably considerably higher.
Top-notch quote there. Sad thing is, she probably believes it.
I suspect that Chrissy was playing an SOTU drinking game and took a swig every time President Bush said "freedom."
Sometimes I think they should just give "Hardball" to John Meacham. Better a logical liberal leaner than Chrissy's drunken pendulum-swinging.
Okay, everybody, ignore the Garofalo and it will go away.CNN's John King echoed that "this is a President at a historic low in terms of delivering a State of the Union, a 50 percent approval rating."
They're on good drugs over at CNN.
Self-absorbed Democrats and MSM will eventually self-destruct. They don't get it yet. Maybe they never will.
Respect for the Office of the Presidency by members of Congress is a given in our society. Those who show disrespect do so at their peril. Republicans who run against Democrats in the 2006 elections can use this incident for their benefit.
Anyone have any statistics on times the opposing "Party" booed during a State of the Union Address?
I suspect that the show of democracy was disguting to all socialists the world over.
TOUGH!
No lie. The mainstreamers in the Democrat Party (yes, a few remain) are furious at Michael Moore and their type. They figure -- probably correctly -- that the uberleftist rantings cost Kerry the election.
Garofalo has gotten more bitter and hateful as the years go by. Now she is equating freedom and democracy with fascism and nazism.
Have they NO shame!! Their pompous arrogant shameless spewing..
"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."
Very typical libspeak.
On one hand, blame President Bush and Republicans for anything that doesn't go 100% right in Iraq.
Simultaneously refuse to give credit for things that do go right.
In their world, they always have it both ways...just like their failed flip-flopper candidate.
LOL!
Another moron leftist..plain and simple...
Well at least she's not bitter.
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