Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

GAROFALO ON BUSH: "It Is...a Conspiracy of the 43rd Reich"
MRC ^ | Thursday August 21, 2003 | BrentBaker

Posted on 08/21/2003 11:37:14 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay

Another round of looniness from left-wing activist/actress Janeane Garofalo as the co-host in the left chair on CNN's Crossfire this week. On Monday she held the Bush administration "responsible" for the blackout. On Wednesday afternoon she blamed the Bush team for the terrorist attack on the UN hotel: "It is the Bush/Cheney cartel's fault for this."

Railing against the Bush administration's efforts to pass and now argue in favor of the benefits of the Patriot Act, Garofalo raised Nazism. Playing off how George W. Bush is the 43rd President, she charged: "It is in fact a conspiracy of the 43rd Reich."

In between, she contended that the war in Iraq "was an attempt at a corporate takeover. This was about oil. It wasn't about human rights. It's not about human rights." And she spewed: "Team Bush is more radically corrupt than Richard Nixon ever tried to be."

Some highlights of Garofalo's rants during the "Political Alert" segment at the top of the August 20 Crossfire at 4:30pm EDT:

Co-host Tucker Carlson: "Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham is making up for his lack of personality with an oversupply of vehemence. After yesterday's truck bombing at the UN's Baghdad headquarters, Graham put out a statement saying quote, 'Had the president pursued the war on terrorism prior to initiating military action against Saddam Hussein, as I advocated last year, it's likely that al Qaeda and other terrorist networks would not have been able to take advantage of the chaos that now exists in Baghdad,' end quote.

"In other words, yesterday's tragedy was the President's fault. Only Bob Graham could have prevented it. The moral of the story: No event, not one, is so tragic that it can't be turned into a political opportunity for a presidential candidate. That's axiomatic. Everybody knows that. But it's still revolting, I have to say, to see it."

Garofalo: "Well, I would say that he is partially right. I blame the President. I blame the media cheerleaders, I blame the pseudo patriots. Iraq was not the threat."
Carlson: "Wait. What about the terrorists who did it?"
Garofalo: "You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well, now it is a threat. Now it is a terrorist hotbed. The fiction is now reality. And now we have to deal with it. It was an attempt at a corporate takeover. This was about oil. It wasn't about human rights. It's not about human rights.
Carlson: "Terrorists just murdered innocent UN peacekeepers."
Garofalo:
"Yes, they did. Yes, they did."
Carlson: "And you're blaming the President, the media and corporations."
Garofalo: "I am blaming the occupation that the terrorists are resisting."
Carlson, waving arm as if to bring her in from far left field: "Come on home, Janeane. You're out there."
Garofalo, to cheers from the audience at George Washington University: "You're politicizing it. And it is the Bush/Cheney cartel's fault for this."

Garofalo set up the next topic: "This summer's hottest and most pandering concert tour is U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's 'Scare the dopes and promote the Patriot Act' tour. Today, he took the tour today to Cleveland and Philadelphia. This is an elaborate pre-campaign commercial, not an honest effort to explain why government agencies need to withhold any information we might need to function as a democracy. The Bush administration wants to expand its powers of surveillance over your life, while simultaneously rolling back the Freedom of Information Act. Team Bush is more radically corrupt than Richard Nixon ever tried to be."

Carlson, after applause for Garofalo's line: "You know what? Statements like that just show -- and I mean no offense by this -- but how out of it the left is. There's actually a lot to criticize about John Ashcroft, his total mishandling of the anthrax investigation, for instance, blaming a potentially innocent man, etcetera. But instead, you hear all this whining, nonspecific whining, about the Patriot Act, which passed with complete bipartisan support. Nobody ever points to anything specific in it. It's just, oh, our civil liberties are gone."
Garofalo: "OK, first of all, the Patriot Act passed in the fear of the aftermath of 9/11. It was passed very hastily. It was passed without any congressional scrutiny, because this administration operates like a private corporation, no public oversight, no congressional scrutiny."
Carlson: "What are you talking about?"
Garofalo: "Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. You have to live here, too, Tucker. And you pretend. And you've got to live with this, too."
Carlson, mocking her: "It is a conspiracy, Janeane. I agree with that. We're powerless, not really a democracy."
Garofalo, at same time as Carlson and in a comment missed by the CNN transcribers for the posted transcript: "It is in fact a conspiracy of the 43rd Reich."
Carlson, ridiculing her: "It's like Apollo 13. There was no moon landing. That's tomorrow's show!"

CNN deserves some criticism for giving someone as far out as Garofalo a credible spot on one of their shows.

An item in the August 19 CyberAlert recounted how Garofalo contended on Monday's Crossfire that "the majority of people in Iraq and Afghanistan no longer see us as liberators, but as occupiers and trespassers." The now-blonde Garofalo also held the Bush administration "responsible" for the blackout. In a diatribe delivered back in June, Garofalo charged that "the dumb and the mean love patriotism." She impugned conservatives: "What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogynists, homophobes and people who love tilted playing field and the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative."
See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030819.asp#2


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anarchistsocialist; antiamerican; antibush; antibushmongers; anticapitalist; ashcroft; barfalert; blackout; blameamericafirst; bobgraham; boycott; bush; bushbashing; clymer; cnn; communist; crossfire; dummycrap; garofalo; hateamericafirst; kneepadbrigade; liar; lostherbet; lovedclintonswars; lovesflagburning; lyingwitch; meadiabias; nazism; patriotact; prohomosexual; seditionact; tuckercarlson; unamerican; unfunnylady; wouldntapologize
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last
I blame Garofalo and her ilk for giving 'psychological support' to the enemy and thus prolonging peaceful solutions in the rebuilding of Iraq. As long as voices such as hers are given 'media credibility' and pumped around the world by the networks, especially CNN; coalition forces will remain targets for further terrorist attacks in hopes of breaking down popular opinion behind Bush in our war on terror.

Osama bin Laden bloodied Americans in Somalia and other parts of the world and what did Bill Clinton do but turn tail and run to the nearest golf course. There were no serious repercussions for committing terrorist acts against our country and torturing and murdering their own people. Thus, the belief that ALL Americans are spineless, bin Laden pulled off the 9/11 attack.

Saddam Hussein during the Clinton years evicted the UN arms inspectors, cozied up to France, Germany and Russia in the Oil for Palaces Program and all Bill Clinton could do was was huff and puff on his Cuban cigar and pull his pants down. Now terrorists actually believe all Americans are 'spineless jellyfish' like Bill Clinton and that they will eventually break our will to fight. They need only to hear the voices of those such as Garofalo piercing the CNN airwaves with supportive applause from audiences such as those at GWU and believe they will in the end topple all support behind Bush.

It ain't happening..Garofalo!

1 posted on 08/21/2003 11:37:14 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
A conspiracy of the 43rd Reich.....What a meathead!!! THis woman is collossally uninformed! If this were the 43rd Reich, she, Robbins and his 'life partner' Sarandon would have all breathed in the Sulfur Hexachloride about 9 months ago.
2 posted on 08/21/2003 11:39:41 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (The Problem With Socialism Is That You Eventually Run Out Of Other People's Money - Lady Thatcher)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
can you call in and ask her how her show is doing?

oh right it got cancelled before it even got started

sorry never mind... move along nothing to see here
3 posted on 08/21/2003 11:39:54 AM PDT by hapy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
Janeane Garofalo et al are in need of some serious help!

I hope that they soon find it.

4 posted on 08/21/2003 11:41:32 AM PDT by jos65
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay

She gives 'dumb blondes' a bad name.

5 posted on 08/21/2003 11:41:47 AM PDT by Pokey78
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
So, according to CNN, Garafalo is now a political pundit? CNN, you are seeding your own demise...good riddance.
6 posted on 08/21/2003 11:43:24 AM PDT by hattend
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jos65
I hope they never find it!
7 posted on 08/21/2003 11:44:19 AM PDT by Seeking the truth (McDonald Clan - Hired Mercenary - Have Bullhorn - Will Shout for Brew!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
Cuffs and collars don't match (you can see her black roots even in that little picture). She gives "women discussing politics" a bad name.
8 posted on 08/21/2003 11:46:05 AM PDT by hattend
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
At least Tucker was mocking her. Worth something.
9 posted on 08/21/2003 11:48:48 AM PDT by jjm2111
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
"Carlson, ridiculing her: "It's like Apollo 13. There was no moon landing. That's tomorrow's show!""

CNN not exactly getting the brightest of the bulbs to counter there. It's pretty common knowledge that Apollo 13 never got to the moon.
10 posted on 08/21/2003 11:49:06 AM PDT by Monty22
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
OMG! She makes all us blondes look bad...
11 posted on 08/21/2003 11:49:11 AM PDT by evets (Why did the chicken cross the road?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: hattend
Is she trying to be the commie version of Anne Coulter?
12 posted on 08/21/2003 11:49:17 AM PDT by exile (Exile - proudly ticking off the Left since 1992)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
Think about this comment for a moment.  It's simply amazing, and shocking!  "It is in fact a conspiracy of the 43rd Reich."  What this life form has said is that this is the 43rd Reich.  She expresses without having the capacity to comprehend it, that she thinks every Presidency has been just like the "Third Reich".

To it's credit, CNN is willing to put people on the air who express their views openly, and shamelessly.

Not to it's credit, are the abysmal and tragic views themselves.

This person and CNN see no difference between our 43 presidents and their polices, than the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler and his policies.

Well CNN, I'm sure you'll skate on this, not that we have a leftist media.  Everyone knows that's a falicy.

13 posted on 08/21/2003 11:49:25 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
She's not a natural blonde, she's brainwashed.
14 posted on 08/21/2003 11:49:55 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (The Problem With Socialism Is That You Eventually Run Out Of Other People's Money - Lady Thatcher)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Monty22
Noticed that too hugh. LOL, it's like the other networks making comments like this, "Nobody's more conservative than Bill Krystal." We get flaming moderats decribed as reasoned middle road conservatives when they are nothing but warmed over right center leftists.
15 posted on 08/21/2003 11:52:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
When I read the thread title I thought she finally came out of the closet...
16 posted on 08/21/2003 11:53:24 AM PDT by bedolido (My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hattend
Amen to that. Those CNN people are complete idiots for putting her on the show. They are showcasing their stupidity!
17 posted on 08/21/2003 11:54:04 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
"but how out of it the left is."

You can go into all the details about France, Russia, Food for Oil, etc., but the characature leftists (seemingly almost all of them) are completely resistant to learning anything new, especially if it impugns an enemy of America since the enemy is presumably correct for them. Try explaining that the "terrorists" are in Iraq precisely to prevent Iraq from pumping oil so to benefit Saudi and Iran and you'll see some vacant stares (I've seen them) then a return to "Cheney".

18 posted on 08/21/2003 11:54:13 AM PDT by Shermy (Stirring the pot...adding fuel to the fire...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
There is simply no way to try and counter these kinds of arguments, especially in that settting. The only response is to quietly get up, take off your microphone, and walk off the stage.

Why any conservative consented to going on Bill Maher's failed talk show still boggles my mind.

It's a stacked deck on these stupid shows with ultra libs stuffed into the audience and ready to whoop at the most absurd suggestions as long as they attack "right wingers."

There is no context for these rantings anymore. They are not grounded in any way to objective reality that can be discussed and debated. The more fanciful, the better.

These people are astonishingly anti-intellectual and stunning liars.

And CNN puts them on the air.
19 posted on 08/21/2003 11:55:13 AM PDT by BigTime
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fight_truth_decay
The day will come when this poor creature will have to strip down naked in order to get noticed. When she has done this once, nobody will pay her any attention and finally the men in the white coats will carry her away.
20 posted on 08/21/2003 11:55:57 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson