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.
Duck fast.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
She's doing just fine... the rant on her show, the rants on TV are just schtick... she couldn't be happier..
The Dems are just not angry; they're stark raving mad. Like Michelle Malkin observes of Jeanne Garafalo's rant, only one word comes to mind: Duck.
The era of civilise public discourse in this country is definitely over. TV and talk radio do not lend themselves to substantive debate, there are just soundbites and histrionics. I only watch/listen for amusement. Same with politics in general. The Dems are just a snarling impotent bunch. However, the Repubs have not been paragons of social virtue - recall how Dick Cheney's "F*** you" to Leahy on the Senate floor. No gracious winner that fellow.
So as far as politicians and the punditry go - it's ALL showbiz... and they're playing to their rowdiest backbenchers.
I'm sure she said it with the utmost respect and open minded tolerance. They are after all, the soul and conscience of our country. Without their understanding society would decay into a new dark age.
Just like when Al Quada says they want to kill Americans, they mean it figuratively right?
No wonder these people love our enemies.......
"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)
They are as mad as Ahab. And the same fate awaits them.
Yeah, well you can't afford to be non-challent during the elections anymore. Politics is the ultimate reality TV program.
I'm going to need at least $300 for vodka and $50 for Viagra.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
she is 1 miserable kook..poor thing just hates herself and hates being a woman..see it a mile away
My amazon.com review of Unhinged:
I just bought and read "Unhinged". Superb. All about the liberal bigotry, racism (just peruse the barely literate
comments she's gotten), violence, death threats against the President, conspiracy theories, and more. From Tawana-Brawley-like liberals "faking" hate crimes to Ward Churchill; calling our soldiers "baby killers", etc.
Haven't heard of any conservatives vandalizing cars with Kerry stickers. Don't recall Rush suggesting that Clinton should be assassinated when he was in office.
Haven't heard of any conservatives denigrating the soldiers that help keep us free.
Liberals and Democrats could take Malkin's advice and tone it down. Or maybe they'll just try to get the "blue states"
to secede.
"She's doing just fine... the rant on her show, the rants on TV are just schtick... she couldn't be happier.."
Yup. Its today's Hollywood "casting couch". Garafalo smears conservatives so she'll get invited to the right parties, to meet the right producers, to get cast in the right films. She can't sell herself to the hollywood elites unless they think she's "hip".
I wish she would go on the F&F with Brian Kilmeade again. Oh, what a great morning that was. hehe.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I wonder if she has tried Scientology.
Oh, it ain't so bad.....we've got the guns.
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