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Garofalo Awards Announced at White House Press Dinner
NewsMax.com ^
| Saturday, April 26, 2003
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 04/26/2003 9:20:19 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dcchapter; eatingcrow; garafaloawards; garofaloaward
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To: kristinn
ROTFLMBO! Those are great pictures! I especially like the Baghdad Bob sign!
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posted on
04/27/2003 8:45:03 AM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: nicmarlo
Yeah, the full-body bag over the head is great.
82
posted on
04/27/2003 8:46:59 AM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: sweetliberty
83
posted on
04/27/2003 9:06:55 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
To: Angelwood
Thank you (and those that may have helped you) for doing the "Awards"--great idea, great fun and great release for all our pent up frustration with these useful idiots.
To: kristinn
Bubba Clinton lecturing about being a bully? Perhaps he was looking in a mirror when he said that.
To: GretchenEE
When X42 reaches Reagan's age, he will be at room temperature unless medical research has found cures for all the sexually transmitted diseases he reportedly doesn't have.
86
posted on
04/27/2003 11:06:14 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(The number of Saddam sightings is rapidly approaching those of Elvis!)
To: FoShizzol
Can you post a link to that quote?
87
posted on
04/27/2003 11:08:34 AM PDT
by
Endeavor
To: sweetliberty
Have ANY of today's movie "stars" even served in the military?Only when $25 and a bottle of Ripple sufficed.
88
posted on
04/27/2003 11:30:45 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray.)
To: cricket
then true to form anti-clinton is righteous
89
posted on
04/27/2003 11:32:50 AM PDT
by
RWG
To: fiftymegaton
Man do I hate Bill Clinton.
And I the Hildebeast!
90
posted on
04/27/2003 11:37:19 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Womb to Tomb! Birth to Earth!!!)
To: Squantos
Russ Tamblyn, Riff of West Side Story served alongside of my brother in the Army!
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posted on
04/27/2003 11:47:27 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Womb to Tomb! Birth to Earth!!!)
To: AmericanMade1776
Speaking of Crow..where are the Dixie Crow girls on this list?
Or Sheryl, she should have name mention ;)
92
posted on
04/27/2003 11:49:00 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Womb to Tomb! Birth to Earth!!!)
To: patriciaruth
Could well be Ritter was in an Iraqi squeeze, I think it was homegrown.
To: kristinn
Thanks for posting the link to the pix! FReepers rok! :-)
94
posted on
04/27/2003 11:54:34 AM PDT
by
spookycc
(I raq and I roll)
To: kristinn; Angelwood; tgslTakoma; All
GREAT JOB DC FReepers! Man, I wish I coulda been there.
"red wine vinegar to wash it down" -
ROTFLOL !!! Can't wait to see the pics, but I did catch some of the C-SPAN broadcast with Ray Charles - he is still awesome!
PS: So what about a crow for Sheryl Crow?
95
posted on
04/27/2003 1:16:23 PM PDT
by
Xthe17th
(FREE THE STATES. Repudiate the 17th amendment!)
To: patriciaruth; sweetliberty
You're right. Now that you mention it, that might be part of Chirac's link with the Husseins as well. In his case money, of course, is part of the thing, but he's a well-known womanizer-bordering-on-deviant.
Guess anyone who would get in bed with a tyrant figuratively would be just a step away from literally.
To: nicmarlo
The person in the paper bag is great, but I can't read the words in parenthesis. Do you know what they say?
To: InvisibleChurch
A tabloid,The Examiner, stated that Clinton may be going deaf.
To: CedarDave
>>When X42 reaches Reagan's age...
Ain't gonna happen. He'll never make it that far. Jelaous husband, drugs, or an STD will get him first.
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posted on
04/27/2003 2:09:47 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(404 tagline not found)
To: fiftymegaton
"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."As opposed to our paradigm in the Clinton Administration, "I got caught doing something terrible, so I'm going to go bomb the hell out of somebody in order to distract media attention."
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