Bush Bashing is Taking a Toll - We're Very Saddened

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[lisaann8]

04-10-03- Well, it appears that the message is getting across that the majority of Americans have lost their patience with celebrities bashing our president and it's taking a toll, "We're very saddened".

Check out this story from Page Six Today- The high cost of Bush-bashing

 

JANEANE Garofalo's relentless bashing of President Bush might have doomed her new ABC sitcom.

Garofalo is set to play a producer of a TV newsmagazine on "Slice O'Life." But ABC has been deluged with calls and e-mails from patriotic types threatening to boycott the network and its advertisers if the sitcom gets on the schedule, reports MSNBC.com's Jeannette Walls.

[EternalVigilance]

This can only mean one thing--time for more calls! ;-)

We need to turn the heat up white-hot on NBC to dump perky Katie Couric. Her egregious comments calling the pulling down of Saddam's statues a 'desecration', is in my opinion the worst thing any Lefty in the press said through this whole thing--and obviously, it takes alot to claim that particular prize.

The woman is demented, and her continued employment in any responsible capacity in the media is an insult to the American people and to our troops in the field.

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Wow, she really said that? That is extreme. Too bad I never watch anything on that network, I could boycott it.

[Woahhs]

"We do not wish to see the faces of liberal Hollywood, particularly those that provided aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein," one protestor, Jon Alvarez, e-mailed ABC. "We will stand up and fight for our right to request their exclusion from shows and sponsors that seek our attention."

We have seen the enemy...and he has email.

[EternalVigilance]

Yes, she did. Even Brokaw was totally disgusted with her...he even overtly showed it on camera.

You may not watch it, but that doesn't mean you can't still send them a message--believe me, they won't know the difference! ;-)

[thegreatbeast]

It would be nice to see Garofalo go through embarassment of having her series air once or twice and THEN die from lack of audience.
What is curious here is we are playing into Janeane's subconscious desires. So much of her act/persona is about being unlikeable/unapproachable.

[Beck_isright]

I would rather the bimbo get her show the the advertisers drop her like a hot potato. Much more humiliating.

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[AAABEST]

Her egregious comments calling the pulling down of Saddam's statues a 'desecration'

I could never stand that leftist wench. The word that best describes her begins with "C" and ends with "T". She makes Jennings look like an American hero, and he's Canadian.

[demkicker]

I think it's important that we continue to FReep ABC about JANEANE Garofalo's new show. Now is the time to show our outrage about that anti-American idiot.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Putting her face in front of a camera should be considered desecration.

[demkicker]

When did Katie make this comment, on the nightly news? Was she doing a play by play of the statue coming down?

[netmilsmom]

Can you post the Katie Couric story on it's own. I think it is important to get this story out. I can't verify it, as soon as the action started yesterday, I turned to Fox.
And please ping me. Thanks

[EternalVigilance]

Yes. It was during the time the statue was pulled down. Her comments were reported in detail by several FReepers.

Brokaw left in disgust. She reportedly asked him on air if she had said something wrong, and he said something really cutting and took off.

I'll see if I can find it.

To me, putting pressure on NBC for this is about a thousand more times important than Garefolo or whatever her name is.

[kcvl]

A statue topples; what does it mean?
Last Updated: April 9, 2003
Inside TV & Radio

Tim Cuprisin

It is the television image for this brief war.

That video of the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in al-Firdos Square at the center of Baghdad is as potent today as it was Wednesday morning when the moment was broadcast live around the world. The power of this video could actually grow in the months and years ahead.

"These are the pictures they dreamt about," NBC's Tim Russert said of the Bush administration.

"I suppose that gesture of his has become a kind of a goodbye wave," Fox News' Britt Hume said of the statue's extended right arm. "There's a sort of a 'see ya later, buddy' feel to this whole thing."

To most Americans watching at home, the fall of the statue symbolized the demise of a dictator, a decisive military victory and a sign that Iraqis were cheering the arrival of U.S. troops at the very heart of the Iraqi capital.

But TV images don't play the same way for everybody. Viewers see what they want to see.

The statue didn't come down from the efforts of the crowd of enthusiastic Iraqis, including one burly man who swung a sledgehammer with great power at the statue's base. It took a Marine tank recovery vehicle to tug Hussein off his pedestal.

"For obvious reasons, I suppose our military would prefer the symbolism of seeing the Iraqis bring that statue down themselves," said Fox News' Jon Scott. "They just don't have the muscle to do it."

What message does that part of the image send?

It could be a symbol of the cooperation that's necessary as Iraqis and Americans toil together to build a new country out of the shambles of Hussein's dictatorship. Or it might be a sign that Americans are calling the shots, something that could ultimately discredit a post-Hussein government.

Wednesday's pictures aren't black and white in any sense of that term.

And what about the U.S. serviceman who shrouded the statue's head in the American flag before Hussein came tumbling down?

NBC's Katie Couric called it "a serious in-your-face gesture."

"Well, that's an interesting, a very interesting development," said ABC's Peter Jennings as the flag went over Hussein's face.

"U.S. officials have been very sensitive that this is liberation, not conquest," said Fox News' Hume, as the short sub-plot in Wednesday's drama unfolded.

"This, I have to say, may look like fun," said CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "A lot of the soldiers have been told not to, sort of, do this kind of triumphalism because it's not about American flags, but Iraqi sovereignty."

After the Stars and Stripes was removed, it was replaced with an Iraqi flag. CBS' Lara Logan was standing in the square below the statue.

"A man here, in amongst the crowd, said to me, 'This is a historic moment, not just for Iraq, but for the whole world,' " she reported live.

Only 90 seconds elapsed from the time the flag was put in place until its removal. There's no telling how long this historic minute and a half will resound around the world.

There's no way to gauge the ultimate meaning of any of the images from al-Firdos Square.

Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, said as much.

"Historians will make judgments about what today means,"he told reporters Wednesday afternoon.

Whichever way the winds blow, historians are certain to refer to Wednesday's dramatic images of a tyrant's statue tumbling to the pavement when they make those judgments.

Call Tim Cuprisin at (414) 224-2397. E-mail him at tcuprisin@journalsentinel.com.


A version of this story appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on April 10, 2003.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

here's the email for ABC TV (home of Janeane Garofalo)
netaudr@abc.com
they need to hear from us

[EternalVigilance]

Here is the post that started the report about Couric...it continues down the thread for awhile, several others saw it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/888971/posts?page=5#5

[Southern_Republican]

Bushophobs...

[samtheman]

April 10, 2003 -- The high cost of Bush-bashing

JANEANE Garofalo's relentless bashing of President Bush might have doomed her new ABC sitcom.

Garofalo is set to play a producer of a TV newsmagazine on "Slice O'Life." But ABC has been deluged with calls and e-mails from patriotic types threatening to boycott the network and its advertisers if the sitcom gets on the schedule, reports MSNBC.com's Jeannette Walls.

"We do not wish to see the faces of liberal Hollywood, particularly those that provided aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein," one protestor, Jon Alvarez, e-mailed ABC. "We will stand up and fight for our right to request their exclusion from shows and sponsors that seek our attention."

ABC reps had no comment.

The war "is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance," Garofalo declared to the Washington Post in January, in one of her many outbursts against the president. "There is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. You never even get that idea floated in the mainstream media. If you bring it up, they hate the messenger. You've ruined everyone's good time.

"I won't stick my head in the sand and have history roll right over me," she declared. "I refuse to allow my government and the mainstream media to bully me into accepting a war that is immoral and illegal. If it means people make fun of me or think I'm a jerk, or I lose a job here and there, that means nothing to me."

Meanwhile, an ad the Dixie Chicks shot for Lipton Brisk iced tea might never air. The commercial was filmed before lead singer Natalie Maines told a concert crowd last month they were ashamed that Bush hails from their home state of Texas.

Radio stations around the country banned the Dixie Chicks' music and their new album suffered a 40 percent decline in sales.

Chicago-based ad agency Leo Burnett created the Lipton commercial which - unbeknownst to Lipton or the Dixie Chicks, sources say - was shot at the former Spahn Movie Ranch outside L.A., the infamous Manson family hangout.

Brisk is a joint venture between Pepsi and Unilever. Execs at both corporations fear a Dixie Chicks endorsement might actually hurt sales and are debating whether to air the spot. A Pepsi rep referred to it as a "Unilever situation" and referred calls to their rep, who could not be reached.


Star power


DETAILS magazine claims that Hollywood is obsessed with the size of its leading men. It says a list has been kept since the 1940s, updated through a post office box in Palm Springs, of those who "share one singular chracteristic: big box office" in the realm of physical endowment. Besides Liam Neeson, Matt Dillon and Kevin Costner, Details names Bruce Willis, Jason Priestley and Sean Penn. "One celebrity stylist claims to have heard (from gossipy ex-girlfriends he's worked with)" that Tobey Maguire, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell are particularly well-endowed.


Back to Hanoi


JUST call her "Baghdad Barbarella." Jane Fonda told a lecture audience in Vancouver the other day that the "entire world" will turn against the U.S. after the war in Iraq. "What it's going to mean for [America's] stability as a nation, for terrorism, for the economy, I can't imagine," Fonda declared. "I think the entire world is going to be united against us. I don't know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world."

[G.Mason]

"I think the entire world is going to be united against us".

Should this be true, Hanoi Jane should be a happy marxist.

Why do I beleive she is weeping?