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.

[sweetliberty]

ROTFLMBO! Those are great pictures! I especially like the Baghdad Bob sign!

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[sweetliberty]

Yeah, the full-body bag over the head is great.

[Squantos]

http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/military/actors_in_wwii.html

Only info I can find in a short search....... But I'll keep looking . Good Question ........

Stay Safe !

[krunkygirl]

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.

[FirstTomato]

Bubba Clinton lecturing about being a bully? Perhaps he was looking in a mirror when he said that.

[CedarDave]

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.

[Endeavor]

Can you post a link to that quote?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Have ANY of today's movie "stars" even served in the military?

Only when $25 and a bottle of Ripple sufficed.

[RWG]

then true to form anti-clinton is righteous

[JustPiper]

Man do I hate Bill Clinton.

And I the Hildebeast!

[JustPiper]

Russ Tamblyn, Riff of West Side Story served alongside of my brother in the Army!

[JustPiper]

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

Or Sheryl, she should have name mention ;)

[Just mythoughts]

Could well be Ritter was in an Iraqi squeeze, I think it was homegrown.

[spookycc]

Thanks for posting the link to the pix! FReepers rok! :-)

[Xthe17th]

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?

[Calpublican]

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.

[Calpublican]

The person in the paper bag is great, but I can't read the words in parenthesis. Do you know what they say?

[stimulate]

A tabloid,The Examiner, stated that Clinton may be going deaf.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>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.

[JoeSchem]

"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."