[Z-List "Actress" Janeane] Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President

NewsBusters ^ | April 16, 2009 | Noel Sheppard

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During last year's election campaign, liberal media members treated Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with a hatred most Americans had never witnessed from the press.

On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's Tea Parties with the same vitriolic contempt.

Garofalo actually called Party-goers "a bunch of teabagging rednecks," adding "this is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up."

But that's just the beginning, for what Olbermann and Garofalo engaged in Thursday evening is amongst the most vile, hate-filled attacks on average American citizens ever conveyed on national television by so-called journalists. Please brace yourself (video embedded below the fold with transcript corrected from closed-captioning, h/t NBer Jeff Fuller):

(VIDEO AT LINK)

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: Well, the teabagging is all over, except for the cleanup. And that will be my last intentional double entendre on this one at least until the end of this segment. Our number two story tonight, the sad reality behind the corporate sponsored Tea Parties, visual proof that this is not about spending, deficits, or taxes, but about some Americans getting riled up by the people who caused these things, and finally about some Americans who just hate the president of the United States. According to both the conservative organs, the New York Post and the Washington Times, see there was another double entendre coming, the protests only drew tens of thousands nationwide, despite relentless 24/7 promotion on Fox News, including live telecasts from several locations. Like Fox's Neil Cavuto caught yesterday off-air estimating his crowd in California's capitol at 5,000, then on air claiming it might have been 10,000 or 15,000. Despite Cavuto's live show with radio talker Michael Reagan there, Sacramento police put the crowd at just over 5,000. "I wouldn't say it was among the largest we've seen here, but 5,000 is pretty large for the west steps."

And then there were the protest messages, seething with hate. Cavuto calling that hate bipartisan. "They hate Republicans who waste money, they hate Democrats who waste money." That claim put to the test in Pensacola when an unemployed blogger named Jeff accepted an invitation to speak to Florida.

BLOGGER JEFF: I want to start off by honoring the service of our veterans, our current service members, thank you so much for all you've done for this country. I also want to say, a little history lesson here. Back in 2000, there was a bunch of surplus in the country. And then the next ten years, it was just destroyed by the profligate spending by the Bush administration. Here we are today in a situation where we have to...Cheer if you make less than $250,000 in a year. Just cheer. Your taxes are going to be cut under the current budget. Congratulations. I was laid off in September because my employer had to make budget cuts. That was before the election. Let's remember if you're going to argue about more taxes and less spending, to place the blame where the blame belongs and that's squarely in the hands of the Republican congress and...

CROWD: Boo!

OLBERMANN: Congratulations, Pensacola teabaggers. You got spunked. And despite the hatred on display, a few of you actually violated the penal code. But teabagging is now petered out, taint what it used to be. And when you co-opt the next holiday, Fourth of July, try to adopt a holiday food that does not invite the double entendres like, you know, franks and beans. On a more serious note, we're now joined by actor, activist Janeane Garofalo. Good to see you.

JANEANE GAROFALO: Thank you. You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying. It sounds right and then it doesn't make sense. Which, let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they'll believe it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become -- it's like showing Frankenstein's monster fire. They become confused, and angry and highly volatile. That guy, causing them feelings they don't know, because their limbic brain, we've discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring. Is Bernie Goldberg listening?

OLBERMANN: Russ.

GAROFALO: Because Bernie might not have heard this when I said this the first time. So, Bernie, this is for you. It is a neurological problem we're dealing with.

OLBERMAN: Well, what do we do about it, though? I mean, our friend in Pensacola there who played them like a $3 fiddle and led them right down the garden path with nothing but facts and then they went, wait a minute, that doesn't sound like Rush Limbaugh. If you can't get them to make that last leap to what are we all doing here, Howard Johnson is wrong, how do you break through that?

GAROFALO: I don't think you do, for most of them. This is a -- it's almost pathological or elevated to a philosophy or lifestyle. And again, this is about racism. It could be any issue, any port in the storm. These guys hate that a black guy is in the White House. But they immigrant bash, they pretend taxes and tea bags, and like I said, most of them probably couldn't tell you thing one about taxation without representation, the Boston tea party, the British imperialism, whatever the history lesson has to be. But these people, all white for the most part, unless there's some people with Stockholm syndrome there.

OLBERMANN: And, I didn't see them, the fact that they weren't near the cameras which is bad strategy on the part of the people that were staging this at Fox.

GAROFALO: True, and Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that's their bread and butter. If you have a cerebral electorate, Fox news goes down the toilet, very, very fast. But it is sick and sad to see Neil Cavuto doing that. They've been doing it for years, that's why Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch started this venture, is to disinform and to coarsen and dumb down a certain segment of the electorate. But what is really, I didn't know there were so many racists left. I didn't know that. I -- you know, because as I've said, the Republican hype and the conservative movement has now crystallized into the white power movement.

OLBERMANN: Is that not a bad, long-term political strategy because even though your point is terrifying that there are that many racists left, the flip side of it is there aren't that many racists left.

GAROFALO: They're the minority, but literally tens of people showed up to this thing across the country.

OLBERMANN: But if you spear your television network or your political party towards a bunch of guys looking who are just looking for a reason to yell at the black president, eventually you will marginalize yourself out of business, won't you?

GAROFALO: Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes. Fox News will have some viewers. But what else have they got? If they didn't do that, who is going to watch -- you know what I mean? They have tackled that elusive clam -- you know, the clam, the 18 to 35 clam -- klan. Klan. With a k demo. But, you know, who else is Fox talking to? I mean, what is it urban older white guys? And the girlfriend, and, you know, the women who suffer from Stockholm syndrome gain. There's a lot of Stockholm syndrome, is what I'm saying ultimately. What else do you want to know?

OLBERMANN: What happens if somebody who's at one of these things hurt somebody?

GAROFALO: That is an unfortunate byproduct since the dawn of time of a volatile group like this of the limbic brain. Violence unfortunately may or may not ensue. It always, it's like a, the Republican Party now depends upon immigrant bashing and hating the black guy in the White House. Will people act on that? It's not new. But, you know, Fox doesn't mind fomenting it. Michelle Bachmann doesn't mine fomenting it. Glenn Beck doesn't mind fomenting it.

OLBERMANN: Lou Dobbs.

GAROFALO: Lou Dobbs. Oh, man he sure doesn't mind. But this is, this their, what have they got if they don't have this? You know what I mean? It's like an identity politics of the worst kind.

OLBERMANN: They'd have peace in our time.

GAROFALO: Is Bernie still listening?

OLBERMANN: Bernie doesn't listen. Bernie listened for about two minutes last week. And that was it.

GAROFALO: Oh, he doesn't watch your show?

OLBERMANN: No, no, no, no, no, I mean in general that was his year's contribution to the actual political

GAROFALO: So I can move up the rung from five to at least three.

OLBERMANN: Janeane Garofalo, number five, comedian, actress, political activist, and the expert on the limbic brain, great thanks as always.

GAROFALO: Very much thanks to you.

Wow! Is this what America has become?

[Finny]

I welcome both her & Oblobermann to meet me (an American of Samoan ancestry) anytime, anywhere to call me a racist.

I think they'd take one look at you -- whether you're male or female! -- and if you're like Samoans I've known, would immediately rethink saying anything to piss you off! The Samoan Fire Dance pretty much indicates all one needs to know about messing with Samoans. Other Polynesian cultures' dances look like little kids playing hopscotch in bunny slippers by comparison. Samoans -- GOOD warriors to have on our side!

[NTHockey]

Was this diz born this stupid or does she work at it 24/7? Some people are to stupid to be walking our streets.

[Finny]

They now realize that not only is the honeymoon over (if there ever really was one?) but, it may get as bad for him as the last 2 years of Slick’s Administration.

Before the outcome of the election, I predicted here that if Obama won, he'd quickly become extremely unpopular. It has happened even faster than I expected.

[TigersEye]

I went to a Tea Party because I hate Janeane Garofalo.

Zer0's color doesn't bother me.

[strykr]

So many things wrongs with these LIB ASS CLOWNS!! Although I will correct Garofalo’s statement about violence at/following demonstrations.. BITCH but you didn't see cars being overturned, fires being started, cops in riot gear!! OOhhh excuse me that must be the “peaceful” libs protesting a point. Finally, thanks for proving the point that liberals can't argue the facts about these demonstrations and have defer to name calling and personal insults..

[dirtman]

The Tongans and Maori dances dont seem that much like kids playing hopscotch...

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/60397/all_blacks_vs_tonga_wardance/

[wac3rd]

What Liberals don’t understand is that HALF of the Democratic “base” are on public assistance, and really only care as long as entitlement checks continue to cash.

The mob will have no loyalty to the Liberals who scream their praises from doorman-guarded Upper West Side towers if there is no free ride.

Olbermann will be the first to run, trust me. He is a fraud, a clown and a loser.

[driftless2]

"they fear us"

They clearly don't understand us. For the past forty years the standard belief of dimwitted Dems is that everything conservative Republicans do stems from some sort of racist principle. It doesn't matter what we believe or propose, only if it doesn't jibe with liberal/progressive thinking, it's racist. They just can't get away from the "Republicans are racist" trope because it brings them so many ignorant voters. Garafolo proves once again that we're dealing with morons.

But there are a lot of other morons or ignoramuses in the country. We have to educate as well as protest. The average American only believes what he or she sees and reads in Big Lib Media. We have to reach them.

[yankeedame]

Always remember, we don't hate those who are our inferiors -- we may scorn them, pity them, or find them droll but we don't hate them.

We hate our superiors.

[nathanbedford]

Thank you posting this viable piece of visual evidence which demonstrates on so many levels how the left works.

As I said on my about page, the last refuge for scoundrels of the left is to play the race card. This is the key to understanding the liberal mind and more. The issue of race dominates American politics more than half a century after the civil rights struggle was settled because it offers a rationalization to liberals for their failed policies. God players, liberals' egos compel them to impose their will on the whole of society. When that experiment results in systemic failures, as it inevitably must, and hundreds of thousands of Americans go to the streets to protest, the liberal invokes race to cover his (or in this case, her) own sins by discrediting Americans.

The protesting Americans on the streets of our country are saying to the liberals, stop playing God with our lives and the lives of our children. Look at the mess you have made. The liberal does not want to stop playing God, he cannot stop playing God, he is compelled by his original sin to play God with the lives of your children. His justification? Garafalo's justification? Your racism.

White guilt explains much of the psychosis which overcame the discernment of millions of Americans and put a singularly unqualified and potentially tyrannical man in the White House. White guilt motivates liberals, it is natural that they assume that it would motivate normal Americans.

The entire psychosis about race which afflicts the American soul has riven our country and dominated its politics as no other single issue. A God player is not about to relinquish such an effective tool to tinker with all our lives.

Once the race card is played, the liberal need not inquire further into the nature of the protesters' complaints. He need not concern himself with the real and human need of our citizens to live in freedom from his soft (or ultimately, not so soft) tyranny. He need not defend himself at all because once the race card is laid down all arguments are trumped and all debate simply stops. The God player is left free to play God.

The leftist presumption, conservatives are racists and we are not, permits them to engage their egos without restraint because racists are undeserving of any consideration whatsoever. It permits them to rationalize that the ends justify the means. A very dangerous state of mind in a God player who comes anywhere near power.

In this context let us examine what might be thought of as an offhand reaction by Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: What happens if somebody who's at one of these things hurt(sic) somebody?

Garofalo's. response reveals that she did not get Olbermann's cue where to go with that question. The question was asked in the context of her prior comments about violence and the Ku Klux Klan. Olbermann is no doubt informed that the extreme leftist Southern Poverty Law Center successfully invoked the civil provisions of the RICO statute to gain a judgment which bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan and effectively put it out of business. Olbermann is suggesting that an act of violence by some demonstrator on the street can be connected, without the need to show actual conspiracy, to news outlets like Fox News which he says sponsored the Tea Parties.

Fox news can then be sued under civil RICO and multiple millions of dollars in punitive damages recovered.

Olbermann unwittingly revealed how the left is thinking and the revelation is breathtaking and frightening. Here racism is to be invoked to silence free political speech. Rico provides the tyrant with the tool to end opposition. Employed against racists, Olbermann never doubts for a second that his end justifies the means. The Olbermann's of the world are waiting only for some marginal protester to commit some act of violence and they will pounce.

Witness the excessive press coverage of the reaction to the tea bags thrown over the White House fence. When John Kerry did it with somebody else's medals, it was considered an act of patriotic resistance to a despotic regime. Now it is considered a hate crime against a black man. One would think a bag of deadly germs had been thrown over the fence.

Keith Olbermann will die utterly self-righteous, cloaked in his belief that he is righteous and conservatives are wicked because we are racist and he is not. This mindset enables him to indulge the very sin he and Garafalo unjustly accuse conservatives of committing, permitting themselves to be ruled by passion and prejudice. It is not the conservative mind which is impervious to reason, but the liberals mind which is in thrall to his original sin: He would be God.

If liberals inquire disingenuously in their self-righteousness why I use the name and avatar of Nathan Bedford Forrest, I do it for liberty. Yes, even their liberty. I stand by the sentiments expressed on my about page.

[so_real]

The conservatives call it “Tea Parties”. The liberals call it “teabagging”. It really says a lot about personal “character” ... doesn’t it. Their parents must be so proud.

[backhoe]

As I mentioned here:

9,973 posted on 02/15/2009 1:17:44 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)

 

Janeane Garofalo Says GOPers Are A**holes and Sarah Palin Is 'Small-minded''

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Proof that Liberalism is corrosive, and Hollyweird is just, well, weird?

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[cva66snipe]

The last black man to run for POTUS on the GOP ticket the Liberal media treated like crap because he’s a Christian Conservative. I doubt GAROFALO can even name him. I voted for him {Keyes} before she voted for Osbama :>}

[Jeff Gordon]

She just might be the dumbest person in the country.

You have to understand that she has a real synergy with Olbermann. Together they make an amoeba look smart.

[Vaduz]

“this is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.” How Hollywood can one be.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Prison Tats!

[Renegade]

She never crawled up the Capitol stops over broken glass as she stated she would do after W won the election .

[Nateman]

I always make a beeline towards your posts when I see them. You have not let me down yet.

It does get tiresome hearing this same old tune all the time but like your post points out these clowns are going to stick with this twisted idea of theirs until the day they die. I figure the best thing we can do as citizens is simply to stop watching them. Since I can't stomach listening to them for even a few minutes I've done myself that favor years ago.

[Anti-Bubba182]

All opposition to Obama is by definition Racist according to the screwheads on the left. This is not because it is true but because it effectively quells the people who are more afraid of being labeled racist than afraid of what Obama will do to the country. Unfortunately that is too many people.

[rlmorel]

Yeah. I am a racist. Tell me who couldn’t see this kind of thing would be coming from liberals over a year and a half ago. Yep.

The fact that this POS and his liberal new dealers want to put the final nail in the coffin of this country that was begun by their hero FDR by spending more taxpayer money than WWI, the New Deal, WWII, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the NASA expenditures, and the Savings and Loan Bailout...ALL ADDED TOGETHER.

The fact that the President is:

1.) A disciple of an astoundingly and incredibly amoral and immoral author like Saul Alinsky who dedicated the pinnacle of his life’s work (Rules for Radicals) to, amongst other thngs, Satan.

2.) A close personal friend with a Black Theologian racist “Reverend” Wright who thinks the white people in this country invented AIDS to kill black people, donated thousands of dollars to this man’s “church” as he sat in the pews nodding with agreement all those years before the light of the public shined for a fleeting instant on that rathole.

3.) A close associate of a terrorist like Bill Ayers and his like in the Weathermen who thought a reasonable price to pay would be to kill millions of Americans who wouldn’t buy into their radical plans once they took power, not to mention Bernadine Dohrn who thought the sticking of a fork by murderers into the slain body of a pregnant woman was a fabulous thing. Do any of YOU out there have friends like this? Do you even KNOW anyone like this? THESE people are close friends and associates of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Think about that for a minute.

4.) On recorded film to gut our military

5.) Seen by the world to have bowed at the waist a la POW Dick Stratton (with as much craven dishonor as that good man’s bow to his Vietnamese torturers was brave and honorable) to a Saudi King, something NEVER before done by a US President. As such, he has clearly telegraphed one of two things to the leaders and intelligence agencies both friend and foe: He is either incredibly stupid and naive, or he is deliberately sending a signal to those who are paying attention of his view of America’s new place in the world and his desire to set that place at the table for us.

And I could go on. Obama is not Hitler yet, because not enough time has passed. My tagline deals with “The Road to Serfdom”, and it is one of the most applicable treatments of where we are and where we are going, and it was written by a now deceased guy who published it in 1944 while the evils of socialism and where it invariably leads were fresh in the minds of all.

Socialism INVARIABLY leads to TYRANNY and DESPOTISM.

But hey. I only feel this way because I am a bigot and a racist. Go figure.