Garofalo Awards Announced at White House Press Dinner

NewsMax.com ^ | Saturday, April 26, 2003 | Carl Limbacher

[kristinn]

Comedienne-turned-antiwar activist Janeane Garofalo will be among those honored at a ceremony sponsored by the Washington, D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com outside tonight's annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

The first annual "Garofalo Awards" ceremony will spotlight celebrities who distinguished themselves in recent months with "histrionic predictions of gloom and doom before and/or during Operation Iraqi Freedom [and who] stand head and shoulders above all others for their shrillness, certainty and apocalyptic ravings," a FreeRepublic spokesman told NewsMax.

The award itself - a stuffed ready-to-eat crow on a silver platter - will be given to the top 10 celebrity activists, politicians, pundits and reporters based on votes of FreeRepublic members.

Winners include Garofalo herself, who was the top vote getter based on her bizarre pre-war observation, "We are doomed if we go into this war into the heart of the Arabian world with a U.S. led effort against world opinion. We are doomed if we do this."

CNN news executive Eason Jordan followed in second place, for his recent confession in a New York Times op-ed piece that he and his network covered-up firsthand accounts of Saddam Hussein's torture and execution of innocent civilians.

Other Garafalo Awards winners include:

* Fired NBC and National Geographic reporter Peter Arnett

* Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter

* Actor Tim Robbins

* Columnist Helen Thomas

* Former President Bill Clinton

Clinton is being honored with a Garofalo for his for remarks to a New York business group last week, where he accused the U.S. of trying to bully the world.

"Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us," Clinton told the Conference Board. "And if they don't, they can go straight to hell."

Each Garofalo Award recipient will also receive a bottle of red wine vinegar to help wash down the crow dinner.

[patriciaruth]

It's the only reason he did a 180

Money is not the only incentive. Scott made have shared some motivations in common with Uday that Uday helped him attain.

[patriciaruth]

Ronald Reagan joined the Army, but his eyesight was so bad they wouldn't give him a gun. So, he swallowed his pride and did training and morale films.

Most people don't know he had coke bottle eyeglasses when he first came to Hollywood and his agent got him to wear contact lenses.

[AmericanMade1776]

Speaking of Crow..where are the Dixie Crow girls on this list?

[Squantos]

Nothing they do suprises me anymore..........Stay Safe !

[cake_crumb]

Stuffed crow in a silver platter, with a bottle of red wine vinigar to wash it down....who says conservatives have no sense of humor or creativity?

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a picture of the plate prepared for this left wing POS, MS G Spot on her knees for the Clintoon.

[facedown]

BTTT

[kristinn]

Link to W04Man's photos from last night.

[sweetliberty]

"Fox News and NBC filmed the ceremony"

What do you reckon are the chances that they'll show it? Hehehe... that is something I would love to see. Sorry that little Tommy didn't make the cut, but the awards given were well-deserved. Were any actually presented to the recipients?

[sweetliberty]

Hehehe...cute picture.

[JulieRNR21]

The addition of the wine vinegar to help 'wash down the crow' was brilliant!

Make that French wine Vinegar.

Merci beaucoup.......LOl

[sweetliberty]

What time does the Today Show air? I never watch it.

[JulieRNR21]

Your signs are fantastic.....did you get any reactions to them from the media elite as they paraded to the dinner?

[sweetliberty]

"I just hope the paperwork is found in Iraq that shows he was on the take ala Labourite Galloway of GB"

Or pictures of him "visiting" with the children.

[sweetliberty]

"I just hope the paperwork is found in Iraq that shows he was on the take ala Labourite Galloway of GB."

Perhaps he was invited by Uday to indulge himself in one of Uday's favorite passtimes; sending for young girls at the the girls' schools and raping them.

[sweetliberty]

Have ANY of todays movie "stars" even served in the military?

[sweetliberty]

"Scott made have shared some motivations in common with Uday that Uday helped him attain."

You said it a little more delicately than I did. Hehe..

[RWG]

"Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us," Clinton told the Conference Board. "And if they don't, they can go straight to hell."

finally something that makes sense

Although, Man do I hate Bill Clinton, is still as true as ever.

[nicmarlo]

Those are great pics, kristinn. Great FReep!! These are my favs:

[cricket]

"finally something that makes sense"

. . .makes sense. . .though Clinton, was himself, making the opposite point here.