Posted on 06/25/2010 6:04:37 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Garofalo: Bible a 'Work of Fiction' for 'Child-Like Audience' By Nathan Burchfiel Created 06/25/2010 - 08:43
Sometime-comedian Janeane Garofalo never passes up an opportunity to slam conservatives or, apparently, Christianity. The Huffington Post gave her an opportunity June 24 to kill two birds with one stone.
In an interview [1] promoting her upcoming special on a network called EPIX, Garofalo compared the most widely-read book of all time, the Bible, to a Bill O'Reilly autobiography and a children's book authored by former President Bush.
When asked by a Huffington Post reader which of those three publications she'd rather read, Garofalo said, "Actually that's like six and one half, that is six and one half right there." Presumably, she meant to use the popular idiom, "six of one, half a dozen of the other."
"That's just three works of fiction targeted to a child-like audience so any, all, any one, none," Garofalo said. "I don't know how to read either, so that's kind of a drag."
During the interview, Garofalo also expressed disappointment in President Obama. "It's a drag that he's such a conservative," she lamented.
Garofalo's made her disdain for religion clear in the past. During a June 16 appearance on "The Joy Behar Show" on Headline News, she called prayer "anti-intellectual." Behar later defended Garofalo on ABC's "The View," saying the comedian should have said prayer was "un-intellectual."
Garofalo has also built a long resume of attacking conservatives. She has compared the GOP to neo-Nazis [1] and called Tea Party protestors "functionally retarded [1]," and "racist backward motherf***ers [1]." She has called the stable of Fox News anchors and hosts, as well as conservative talk radio hosts, liars [1].
She’s such an intellectual heavyweight. (snicker)
These people have not matured since college. I feel sorry for her. They are so busy villifying the Bible but if they actually read it they might see that it contains masterpieces in philosophy, “empathy” (the right kind), liturature, government, The foundations of society, and yes, even some social justice thrown in and the most amazing testimonials of witnesses to one of the earths most defining events, I could go on and on. So who is the childish one? The one who does what she is told and attacks something she obviously knows little about or the ones who actually read something before forming an opinion?
There goes one throwing her feces... again!
Because they are gutless. They are permanent adolescents, forever trying to shock their parents at the dinner table.
Definitely would have been a high point for the series.
Who would listen to a thing this idiot has to say? She can't put together one simple little idiom, an extremely popular one, correctly!
She talks as though she's high all the time. Me thinks she will go the way of Susan Sarandon...yeah, WHO??? We sure haven't heard much from her or her ex-live in since they whined they were being boycotted at the theater. HAHAHAHAHA!
She not getting older, dhe getting uglier.
She hasn’t matured since fifth grade. College is far above her level.
Letters, histories, literature, and sermons compiled over millenia.
A work of fiction it is not....in fact, such things could not be a work of fiction.
Consistent it is.
I’m amazed at those who have no idea that “Bible” is not a single book, but that it’s a collection.
So sad.
...well, she’s certainly not in high demand for her comedic or thespian talents so she’s gotta do something to keep her name out there...
I don’t have a problem with someone who has actually read it and disagrees with it.
But someone who is just parroting drivel is an intellectual wanna-be with nothing to share.
How does she take a bath? The water will just boil away!
In forty years no one but fellow nursing home residents will know who Janeane Garofalo is....
The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s apathy. I won’t waste any energy hating her. I have no feeling about her what soever.
Janeane, say that about the Koran.
Calm down everyone. She will learn in the end. remember, he who laughs last, laughs best. I’m not condemning her, that’s for God to do. But she will see.....
Liberals would be loading Christians into cattle cars today if they had the power.
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