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.

[nickcarraway]

[hope]

airhead alert!

[TheJollyRoger]

"Operation 'Desert Fox'...

What? I thought it was Desert Shield...Desert Storm.
I thought the Desert Fox was Rommell. Maybe I'm too old.

Who IS this bubble-head? Does she vote? Has she reproduced?

[Freedom4US]

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

Nobody's really interested in listening to you know, either. Bad cess to FOX for letting your ugly mug on the screen in the first place.

[oyez]

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

Nor does anybody(that's anybody) gives a damn, today.

They should title her as out of work comedienne-turned-peace activist. I'd like to know her story about her leaving SNL.

[slomark]

I've got a web site I just put up last week (becuase I'm so pissed at these hollywood celebs like Janeane Garafalo) that catalogs all the stupid things these people say--currently it's mostly anti-war. Let me know what you think: www.hollywoodhalfwits.com.

It's just a hobby site--nothing commercial. It's actually kind of a political release for me.

[Grampa Dave]

Did she have a problem, when the Clintoon fired about 400 cruise missiles into Iraq because of WMDs?

Left wingers hate conservatives, our military and of course President Bush. They are the biggest phonies in the history of our world.

[SpinyNorman]

It's funny that the denizens of DU think she mopped the floor with Tony! I guess they didn't actually listen to what she really said, nor checked her assertions (presented as facts).

I wonder how many Iraqi defectors she actually took the time to speak with, or glanced at the pictures of the eradicated villages of Kurds, or worse, the survivors?

Maybe that isn't necessary to be politically "hip", oh excuse me, now it is "hyp"!!

[aristeides]

I remember getting e-mails from Ramsay Clark's International Action Center bitterly criticizing Clinton's Kosovo War in '99. I don't know whether they condemned Clinton's bombing of Iraq in Dec. '98, since I don't think they had begun sending me e-mails at that point.

I became aware of their Communist nature when I read Justin Raimondo's columns about anti-Kosovo War rallies he attended. We all opposed the Kosovo War, but that doesn't mean all of us had to agree with Communists.

[aristeides]

Now that I think about it, Ramsay Clark was one of the more vociferous opponents of the '91 Gulf War. He wrote a book accusing this country of war crimes in it.

[aristeides]

the Desert Fox Operation (A tribute to Rommel?)

I've always suspected that operation name was ironically chosen by some anti-Clinton person in the Pentagon, and the Clintonistas approved, being too ignorant to realize the significance of the name.

[techcor]

I'm pretty sure she and her organization recently gave Clinton an award for peace. It was the same week he declared that he had almost launched a war on North Korea without even telling anyone. Anyone have a confirmation on that?

[aristeides]

Yeah, I heard Baghdad McDermott make that declaration-of-war argument on one of the Sunday shows yesterday.

[Aquinasfan]

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.

LOL!

[Doc Savage]

"DITTO!, and she looks like a dumpy troll!"

You know when something doesn't get used for a long time you get mold and cobwebs,............yeeeccchhh! She may need a Roto-Roter treatment!

[Itaintwhy]

I didn't see the broadcast, but the transcript clearly reveals Janeane's "hip" remark referred self-depricatingly to her relative level of celebrity rather than any past or pending conflict.

"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.

(LAUGHTER)

It wasn't very hip to..."

That said, Snow's dissection of her porous argument unveils a mind-set that offers no solution other than to remain distrustful of the Bush administration.

[Charles Martel]

She went further than that : she entertained our troops in Kosovo via the USO.

You have a good memory. Here's a snippet from the Air Force News on the topic:

"Traveling with the Clintons were actor-comedian Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow, who also boarded separate Blackhawk helicopters for visits and mini-shows with troops based at the most remote Bosnian outposts.

"This is the most exciting day of my life," Crow said. "I visited the soldiers and they seemed just happy to see somebody from the States."

Two-faced bee-yotch.

[timestax]

You know when something doesn't get used for a long time you get mold and cobwebs,............yeeeccchhh! She may need a Roto-Roter treatment

You can say THAT again. I recently saw her on an old Sienfeld episode, and even Jerry Sienfeld , in the show, thought she was creepy!!

[DeuceTraveler]

The actual quote that I have on record is this:

"SNOW: Why didn't you protest it then?

GAROFALO: 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 them.

(LAUGHTER)

It wasn't very hip to...

SNOW: Well, perhaps let me change the question, then. Why wasn't there an organized anti-war movement under Bill Clinton? "



Now maybe she said something more than the thread I have, but she never actually finished her sentence. This is a case of biased newsreporting against the liberal establishment on the part of Newsmax that I don't appreciate. I already think Garofalo is an idiot, as is her supporters. I don't like truth being twisted on the part of Newsmax to get across a point that may or may not be based on facts. Truth is a rare enough commodity as is.

[DeuceTraveler]

"I didn't see the broadcast, but the transcript clearly reveals Janeane's "hip" remark referred self-depricatingly to her relative level of celebrity rather than any past or pending conflict.

"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.

(LAUGHTER)

It wasn't very hip to..."

That said, Snow's dissection of her porous argument unveils a mind-set that offers no solution other than to remain distrustful of the Bush administration."




I concur and now I am left to doubt the accuracy of anything someone posts from Newsmax on this site.