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/
Since the world were against our actions and continue to be...then the blood of those in the mass graves are on all their heads...they'll have to pay a high price in the hereafter for standing with Saddam & others.
No kidding, look at their lineup!!! MSNBC doesn't have a clue.
And electro... you forgot Tucker...
What are they thinking?
**shakes head**
Exactly!
Who does Barfalo think "had something to do" with the Iraqis voting? Kerry? Libs who carry anti-war signs and chant "no war for oil"? All the Dems who said the election could never happen?
Suuuuuure!
Ok all I want now is for these idiots like Garafalo to go away
The more you listen to liberals,
the weirder and weirder it gets...
Worst Seinfeld episode ever.
Hey Sen. Reid, have you ever heard of Flemming V Nestor?
No, I think this is the couple:
If there was ever an argument for forced sterilization....Between all of the hot air that passed between them, them we would definitely have cause for "global warming!"
Question - What’s stupider than a stupid Republican?
Answer - A smart Democrat
This is in no way a defense of what Garofalo said. As usual, these dim-witted Hate America First-ers go too far. I did, however, think it was a silly stunt.
Remind them that Bill Clinton and John Kerry both said that there were WMD's in Iraq, and that Saddam posed a grave danger.
Ted Kennedy said: The President concocted the Iraqi War in Texas solely for political gain. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean: I think the theory is interesting that the President may have been warned ahead of time by the Saudis about September 11. Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich: The President has intentionally targeted innocent civilians in the war on terrorism.
"The amusing thing is that most of these people -- snotty book-reviewers, Hollywood celebs, and New Class denizens -- like to think of themselves as separate and thus virtuously distinct from the general American scene: they define themselves by how different they are from ordinary people. They take pride in appealing to a "higher discourse": listening to NPR, disdaining conservative talk radio, reading avant-garde books. They are contemptuous towards capitalism and bourgeois values while enjoying the fruits of a free society they disdain."
"These individuals may strive to attain an Olympian outlook, and their overweening intellectual hubris may cause them to look with neutrality on the vicious war now being played out between civilization and its enemies, but they are hilariously unaware of a single, simple truth that Ann Coulter spelled out in her book Treason: If America is attacked again by terrorists, these people "are in it with the rabble this time."
you forgot michael moore!
boy!
if you spill any of that on bystanders, there will be lawsuits .
For the same reason people make faces to provoke the baboons in the zoo?
Definitely well-qualified for Twilight Zone honors, but a little too fat to fit into
the banner. Mikey takes up too many bytes.
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