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Posted on 11/29/2005 11:42:53 PM PST by goldstategop
Janeane Garofalo, left-wing actress-turned-Air America radio host, is a miserable woman. Last week before the holidays, she turned up on cable TV. No, not to count her blessings – but to rant against conservative journalist Bob Novak, author Ann Coulter, and the Fox News Channel. She didn't have anything better to do for Thanksgiving?
Accessorized by a permanent scowl (hard to believe she was once considered a comedienne), Ms. Garofalo accused conservatives of having "an anger management problem." Without a trace of irony, the frowning Garofalo griped about "right-wing partisan hacks" who "are always on the verge of punching somebody or always behave as if they've just been cut off in traffic."
This, dear readers, is a classic case of liberal projection. Like CNN executive Jonathan Klein, who derided Fox's audience as full of "angry white men, and those men tend to be rabid," and liberal comedian Bill Maher, who also railed that "Republicans need anger management" and are possessed with a "vein-popping, gut-churning rage that consumes the entire right wing," Ms. Garofalo crossly blames the Right while denying the pathological wrath and fury that characterize the unhinged Left.
Who are you calling angry, Ms. Garofalo? You want political road rage? Let's start with Al. Take your pick: Sharpton. Gore. Franken. Yearrghh!
Now, open your eyes:
It isn't out-of-control conservatives tossing Molotov cocktails at police officers in San Francisco, burning American soldiers in effigy, and smearing pig's blood and feces on the walls and windows of military recruitment centers across the country to protest on behalf of peace.
It isn't rage-blinded conservative professors who embrace fragging (the murder of American soldiers by their fellow soldiers on the battlefield) as a legitimate anti-war tactic.
It isn't vengeful conservatives torching SUVs, condo developments, and research facilities, and targeting biotech and pharmaceutical company employees and their families to protest on behalf of the environment.
It wasn't mad conservatives sporting "F--- Bush" license plates, punching cardboard cutouts of the president, and vowing to secede after losing the 2004 presidential election.
It wasn't rabid conservatives who gloated over Ronald Reagan's death or John Ashcroft's pancreatitis.
It wasn't a gut-busting conservative journalist who vowed to kill herself if Dick Cheney ran for president. (That would be the perpetually aggrieved Helen Thomas.)
It wasn't hate-filled Republican officials who reportedly screamed "faggot" and "fruitcake" and "I'll break your nose" at their political opponents. (Those were all Democrats: Pennsylvania state legislator Vincent Fumo, California Rep. Pete Stark, and Virginia Rep. Jim Moran, respectively.)
It isn't fanatical conservatives joking about the assassination of President Bush and the execution of his Republican aides. (That, Ms. Garofalo, would include your Air America colleagues. But I'll forgive you if you weren't tuned in to them. Few are.)
And it wasn't ruthless conservatives who cheered last week when a liberal Bush-hater wrote on the popular DemocraticUnderground.com website last week:
I am an American, Born and Raised, but I am NOT a citizen of BUSH'S America. I want nothing to do with the country these people have created.
And for those who support them, Let's get Something Nice And Sparkling CLEAR:
Stay The [F---] Away From Me. Stay OUT of my personal space. I want NOTHING from you. I want NOTHING to do with you. I want NOTHING to do with your "vision" of what the world should be.
What DO I want from you?
Honestly?
I will freely admit there are days, and they are becoming more than not, that the Alien at Area 51 in Independence Day and I share quite a common ground on the answer to that question.
And I am NOT apologizing for it.
In the words of the Late, Great Bill Hicks, about the most conciliatory thing I can say for those people at this point is simply this:
Kill Yourself.
My Christmas wish for Ms. Garofalo and her ilk: a mirror and a clue to make the yuletide bright. In the meantime, when vein-popping liberals start seething about the rage of the Right, the wisest action for peaceful right-wingers I can recommend is this:
Duck.
That's exactly what I thought.LOL.
I bet Shakespeare could have pulled it off in PG-rated fashion...
It's not that everyone is cynical, it's just that all media are big business... Rush, Sean, Bill, Ann and, yes, even Jeanne are not paid to be political analysts, pundits, etc. They are paid to be entertainers. That's what sells soap. Even Randi Rhodes gets on some Clear channel stations outside of AAR, because she apparently did well enough on her Palm Beach radio show. Guess she got the "Howard Stern" crowd.
So yes, years before I was born, maybe Jack Parr routinely interviewed poets, captains of industry, labor leaders, statesmen and such in a thought-provoking way - back when things didn't have to fit into 15 sec. soundbites, and one could relax with a cigarette on the air. But, that isnt' today...
2nd discussion of same article.
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"Each to his own opinion. Merry Christmas."
Each to his own. Absolutely! Cheers! I honour your choices in great American writers: Twain and Steinbeck.
(...no other literary work is so profound as MOBY DICK...
by Herman Melville...)
Names Ash Housewares quoted:
""All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all
truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all
the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were
visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled
upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by
his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he
burst his hot heart's shell upon it." -Melville (Moby Dick)
*Exquisite!
Referring to Democrats and "liberals" Names Ash Housewares wrote:
"They are as mad as Ahab. And the same fate awaits them.
I am not angry at the left. I laugh at them.
ha ha ha ha.
"Juvenile Delinquent"?
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How you can compare the two groups and come up with an equals sign with at straight face is amazing.
The one time a Republican actually gets mad enough to answer back in the same vein = the constant evil uncivilized crap from the dems for years now. Right!
A better man than I with the English language for sure.
Excellent article! No one sounds angrier than Jeanne the few minutes I can stomach listening to her on Airbag America. The twisting of reality about who is the big bully here is just amazing.
Graybeard, it's a Juris Doctorate. The thing that you suffer through 3 years of law school (and dozens of insufferable liberal pontificating a** professors) to get.
mark
If you want me to agree that using the "f" word in a public forum such as the U.S. Senate is EVER acceptable, by anyone, particularly a vice president, my answer will always be NO.
I expect BETTER from our Repub leaders than I expect from the Dems..
It wasn't on the senate floor. Leahy approached Cheney outside on the mall to rub his nose in his petty little way. It was just the two of them. And it wasn't "f-- you", it was "go F-- yourself".
Much more effective, and completely appropriate, IMHO. :-)
Cheney was, in that moment, speaking for thousands of us.
It was in the Senate chamber, but the Senate wasn't in session, just a photo session.. still doesn't excuse that language.. I expect better from Repubs..
And it wasn't "f-- you", it was "go F-- yourself".
OH!! That changes EVERYTHING! I stand corrected!
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