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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


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To: AngryJawa
My pleasure.
61 posted on 08/21/2003 1:37:36 PM PDT by kesg
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To: fight_truth_decay
Good grief she's being a total bitch today too!
62 posted on 08/21/2003 1:41:25 PM PDT by Monty22
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To: Cyber Liberty
They just need an episode co-hosted by Beavis and Butthead. That would turn it arround.

"Hey Beavis, what's an axis, you fart-knocker?"
63 posted on 08/21/2003 1:45:08 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (The Problem With Socialism Is That You Eventually Run Out Of Other People's Money - Lady Thatcher)
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To: Impeach the Boy
8675309 035768

~"ABC-TV GAROFALO TV Show Is Back On The AIR"~ BB Speaks

Brain Dead As The Skull She Holds.


64 posted on 08/21/2003 1:47:17 PM PDT by Major_Risktaker (The only way to protect my family is to protect your family.)
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To: Major_Risktaker
LOL her voice is GRATING. Unwatchable! I'm watching just for the comedy value and it's difficult. Not to mention the assinine content of what she says.

And I think she's serious about this, not trying to be funny.
65 posted on 08/21/2003 1:50:35 PM PDT by Monty22
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To: DoughtyOne
Particularly since Hitler and the National Socialists campaigned against Big corporations and capitalism itself.

The ignorant left in this country frequently throw the term Nazi and fascist around whenever they attempt to describe a totalitarian position...except for Josep Stalin....he was never a totalitarian dictator...nope.

66 posted on 08/21/2003 2:07:47 PM PDT by Katya
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To: Major_Risktaker
What movie was that from?
67 posted on 08/21/2003 2:16:42 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: fight_truth_decay
Despite Carlson's best efforts, you really just can't lampoon this loon. Think of the most outrageous, out-of-touch statement you possibly can, then don't bother to say it to her sarcastically, because she is going to top it with something said with a straight face!
68 posted on 08/21/2003 2:18:44 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The Most Fabulous Object in the Universe... it does exist!)
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To: fight_truth_decay
I am blaming the occupation that the terrorists are resisting."

And who was President when , WTC I, the Cole, Embassy bombings.

The same president that had Arafat to the White House more than any other world leader, who's wife played smacky mouth with Arafat's wife. That went out of his way to pacify Moslems, that sent troops to Bosnia to stop 'genocide' of the Moslems, that sent his Sec. Of State to support the Palestinians v. Israel .

Why I believe that was the beloved slick willy

Seems moslems want to attack us even when their 'friend' and soul mate is in the White House.

70 posted on 08/21/2003 2:34:38 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: nightdriver
Janeane Garofalo has that same cold, lifeless look in her eyes as Hitlery.

Similar to a great white shark. Do her eyes roll back when she speaks? ( sorry, no way I could watch her)

71 posted on 08/21/2003 2:39:31 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Katya
No, the world's true leading totalitarians get a pass from these loons.
72 posted on 08/21/2003 3:43:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: fight_truth_decay
There is such a thing as "impenetrable stupidity". Garafalo exhibits a celebrity version of it, smeared over with the kind of skewed world view that could only have originated in some illegal LSD laboratory. One cannot realistically "debate" such a rabid leftist such as JG, and so any sane person would simply shake their head, and walk away.
73 posted on 08/21/2003 5:38:48 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: All
This is such a pity. I have long enjoyed Garafalo's comedic talent.

But this is going up on my blog of "Grantel's Choice Awards." How in the heck can CNN consider the California gubernatorial recall a circus and then let a left-wing whack job like Janeane be a host of Crossfire?

And that putz Jon Stewart on The Daily Show has the chutzpah to make fun of FNC. Oops-- that's right-- he's a personal friend of Janeane Garafalo...

74 posted on 08/21/2003 6:45:10 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: kesg
Speaking of newsbabes.

Does anybody know anything about Uma Pimarashu (sp?) on Fox News Radio? Ever seen a picture? She always announces her name with gusto. I'm curious what her story is and what she looks like.
75 posted on 08/21/2003 6:48:06 PM PDT by Minn
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To: fight_truth_decay
AHHHHHH Laurie!!!!!!
76 posted on 08/21/2003 7:09:45 PM PDT by bethelgrad (for God, country, and the Corps OOH RAH!)
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To: fight_truth_decay
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."

What's great about people like her, is they can't shutup. Keep up the good work, it fills the ranks of conservatives every day.
77 posted on 08/21/2003 7:10:12 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: kesg
I'm with you. Gorgeous with smarts!
78 posted on 08/21/2003 7:25:08 PM PDT by auboy
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To: Minn
Here is a picture of Uma Pemmaraju:


79 posted on 08/21/2003 8:32:53 PM PDT by kesg
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To: fight_truth_decay
Projectile Hurl ALERT!


80 posted on 08/22/2003 3:24:36 PM PDT by weegee
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