Janeane Garofalo: 'It Wasn't Hip' to Protest Clinton's Wars

Newsmax ^ | Sunday Feb. 23, 2003

[nickcarraway]

Comedienne-turned-peace activist Janeane Garofalo offered a stunning admission on Sunday, explaining that she and her fellow anti-war protesters didn't stage huge demonstrations when President Clinton launched attacks on Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and the Sudan because "it wasn't very hip" to protest the former president.

Asked by "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow why peace protesters like herself didn't object to Clinton's wars, Garofalo explained:

"I absolutely did. I did not support Operation Desert Fox. It's just that you didn't know me very well back then. Nobody really was interested in listening to me back then."

Then she added, by way of explaining why the anti-Clinton protests never gelled, "It wasn't very hip."

Garofalo went on to claim that Hollywood actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins led protests against Clinton's 1998 Iraq attack, saying that "there was a lot of protest, just as there was against the first Gulf War."

A Lexis-Nexis search for Dec. 1998, the month Clinton bombed the daylights out of Baghdad, failed to turn up a single report that mentioned either Sarandon or Robbins protesting the attacks.

A similar search for the month of Feb. 2003 turned up 124 reports on Sarandon protesting President Bush's Iraq policy.

[Theresawithanh]

Aha! It's just as I suspected! It's not about the lives which will be lost in a war, it's about being "hip"!

I say she's hyp, as in hypocrite.

And the hollywierdos wonder why we don't listen to them...

[Charles Henrickson]

SMO (Selective Moral Outrage).

Aka "hypocrisy."

[GaltMeister]

In other words, the Hollywierdo's don't protest or make a stand based on any kind of moral convictions, they only protest when they want to get attention, and then only if they think its 'hip'.

What petty BS nonsense from irrational, petty people. Then she says - I absolutely did. I did not support Operation Desert Fox. It's just that you didn't know me very well back then. Nobody really was interested in listening to me back then." Does she think anyone is really listening now? LOL

[Theresawithanh]

Ah, so it's not about the lives which will be lost in a war, it's about being "hip"! Now I understand, and I say she is hyp, as in hypocrite.

And the hollywierdos wonder why we don't listen to them...

[Theresawithanh]

So sorry about the double post! I just got a new computer, and it does some strange things.....

[alisasny]

What next? Michael Jackson's take on the war?

[mountaineer]

Transcript of Tony Snow interview of Janeane Garofalo. If anyone can figure out what this dunce is saying, more power to you!

[leadpenny]

It needed to be said twice.

[goodnesswins]

So....Jeanene...or whatever your name is.....if YOU were attacked in YOUR home, maybe others would think THAT was hip? You're SICK....because WE (those who know this war is RIGHT and necessary) have brains.

[Desdemona]

Not hip? Is she kidding?

Heaven help us. Please.

[goodnesswins]

Actually, I think she's trying to get "brownie points" for her Hollywood career....and that's it.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

It wasn't HIP?

I'll bet she wishes she hadn't let THAT slip out. LOL (Too bad, too, because she is actually very funny and I always thought she seemed exceptionally intelligent in spite of her political leanings...up until now, that is.)

[linn37]

when did clinton attack afghanistan?

[Nea Wood]

...Nobody really was interested in listening to me back then."

I got news for you, sweetie. Nobody's much interested in listening to you now.

[nickcarraway]

She impies she wasn't popular then. Seems to me she was at least as popular in '99, during the Kosovo War.

[Mike Darancette]

The organization "Move On" which seems to be the umbrella for the Hollyweird anti-war crowd was formed in Sept. 1998 with the charter of protecting "King Klinton" from impeachment. I imagine that any attempt to change the subject, such as the Bombing of Iraq, was to be applauded.

The deaths of Innocent Iraqis in defense of Bill is OK while any while any action against Iraq to protect this nation is evil.

[timestax]

Aha! It's just as I suspected! It's not about the lives which will be lost in a war, it's about being "hip"! I say she's hyp, as in hypocrite. And the hollywierdos wonder why we don't listen to them... 2 posted on 02/23/2003 12:23 PM PST by Theresawithanh (A

DITTO!, and she looks like a dumpy troll!

[RightWhale]

the anti-Clinton protests never gelled, "It wasn't very hip."

Clinton support was hip? Didn't realize something that attracted so much as 42% support could possibly be considered hip.

[Desdemona]

Well, I am now officially boycotting her movies.