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[Z-List "Actress" Janeane] Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President
NewsBusters ^ | April 16, 2009 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 04/16/2009 10:32:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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):

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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?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: drivebymedia; garofalo; hollywood; idiotalert; liberalmedia; mediabias; msm; obama; stuckonstupid; taxes; teaparties; teaparty
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To: rlmorel

Don’t forget that Odumbnuts is half white. Notice how he’s only called a “black” man. Garafalo is completely nuts.


61 posted on 04/17/2009 3:37:43 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She can’t form a single coherent thought.


62 posted on 04/17/2009 3:46:18 AM PDT by grimalkin (The ultimate basis of an all around bureaucratic system is violence. - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

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

May I come along with you for moral support? ;)


63 posted on 04/17/2009 3:50:54 AM PDT by poobear (a 2-iron is best for killing Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and Water Moccasins...)
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To: webschooner
blackguy,  Image Hosting Hey Jeanene, lick my teabag.
64 posted on 04/17/2009 3:59:40 AM PDT by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals are truly hate-filled bigots.


65 posted on 04/17/2009 4:00:05 AM PDT by mike-zed
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To: DanZanRyu

Because THIS TIME we scared them, and they know we are coming, we will not be stopped, the Tsunami is rolling and will hit D.C., not sure just when.


66 posted on 04/17/2009 4:04:53 AM PDT by annieokie (i)
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To: All

Run Dr. Thomas Sowell for POTUS and see how racist we vote. We vote by character and actions NOT by skin color.


67 posted on 04/17/2009 4:15:32 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I shoot only after kindness fails.)
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To: kb2614
if Olberman and Garofalo reproduce. I’m thinking something like Alien

I don't know, she looks a lot like an unhappy catfish to me.

68 posted on 04/17/2009 4:17:26 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (I long for the days when advertisers didn't constantly ask about the health of my genital organs.)
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To: Nateman
Thank you for your kind comments. I think it is important to understand that the race card when used by liberals is a rationalization, akin to a symptom, of their underlying condition. They use the race card because they are God players. If that's true, they cannot be appeased into behaving honorably because they will simply raise the bar.

Conservatives have been so thoroughly intimidated over the last two generations by the mere hint of a charge of racism, that they have abandoned the political field to Democrats on many, many issues and in many, many geographical locations. That is why I have so often said that Tip O'Neill's maxim that all politics is local should be amended to say, all politics is racial.

As the country becomes more and more Hispanic, expect the emphasis to shift and expect the process in many ways to start all over again. It worked very well for Democrats when they applied it to women's rights and it might yet work for them on homosexual rights. In other words, there is no end to the ethnic, racial, and gender good liberals are prepared to do. Yet no issue provides liberals with the massive throw weight that alleged African American racism provides.

We conservatives must find a way to make the case that every time a liberal sets out to do good he is stealing a little bit of somebody's liberty.


69 posted on 04/17/2009 4:52:24 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When is Jack Bauer going to put one through her fat head and get her off the show?


70 posted on 04/17/2009 5:46:22 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (We have our own pirates. They're called politicians.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s their biggest nightmare come true with conservatives getting a start in the protest movement and it needs to continue because it will only grow as reality sets in with Demonrat control of our gov’t. THEY CANNOT HANDLE CRITICISM and flip out like they do with any opposition. They have to live on lies and this is putting the message out there for all to discover the truth. And there has never been a better time to destroy their Demonrat myth because it’s about to go down in flames. It’s a righteous anger and protest against them. I just have to laugh at these stupid ‘racist’ comments that have nothing to back it up and they know it and the people they led to ‘vote’ their way by ignorance are coming to know it, too.


71 posted on 04/17/2009 6:47:16 AM PDT by bushfamfan (United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, she has one thing right. We don’t much care for Bozo but it has nothing to do with his being black.


72 posted on 04/17/2009 7:26:14 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Renegade

And Baldwin never moved. We lost twice.


73 posted on 04/17/2009 10:57:42 AM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
No, you have Stockholm syndrome, they wouldn't call you a racist. You're a person of color, you just have to be deprogrammed to despise your white captors.
74 posted on 04/17/2009 6:20:23 PM PDT by tralfazwasused? (The real Tralfaz)
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To: thecabal
I said the same thing. Because in Chomsky's world, "homophobic", "sexist" Islamics are sympathetic reactors to American imperialism, they can be transitioned into citizens of the world. And because the One believes he can talk with them, they must not have quite the same syndrome that we large-limbics do. Thus white european conservatives are almost some kind of perverse sub-species, different from the rest of the world. She doesn't believe that she can have a conversation with people of her own country, but Obama believes that talking will always work. Chomsky is disconcerted that the conservatives have "left the conversation". Everything can be done by talk, or otherwise Obama's talk-first, talk-last, talk-always methodology would be shown for the naive worldview that it is. She believes in both a type of mental determinism, and that Obama is not naive in thinking he can talk to the world. Thus American, (or perhaps European, white) conservatives, must be the only large-limbics in the world, who just won't listen to reason. What can the superior races do? She already says that she wishes there were less of us. That our malady was dying out. Unfortunately natural selection doesn't seem to be doing the job fast enough, it seems. Since Obama can speak to everybody except white conservatives, for the future of the country, the large-limbics will have to be marginalized, perhaps medicinalized--they're so pro-science, you know. If only there were a final solution...
75 posted on 04/17/2009 6:34:16 PM PDT by tralfazwasused? (The real Tralfaz)
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To: backhoe
She was quite cute. And I liked her in Dog Park--and definitely Mystery Men, and a number of other movies. I think she's decent actress and had a very good performance in an indy she did called Sweethearts. I see no reason to call her a "bad actress" a Z-list actress,... because one's got nothing to do with the other. She's just another one of the left that thinks that what crosses their mind is a lot more valid than it is. And I would describe her deterministic ad hominem circumstantial stereotype hateful and dismissive. I think the term bitch even applies, here. Yeah, it definitely applies....
76 posted on 04/17/2009 6:42:36 PM PDT by tralfazwasused? (The real Tralfaz)
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To: tralfazwasused?
you just have to be deprogrammed to despise your white captors

I only have one white captor...my wife :o). LOL

77 posted on 04/17/2009 8:27:35 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s not even good enough to be Z-list


78 posted on 04/18/2009 10:39:51 PM PDT by screaming eagle2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...these people, all white for the most part, unless there’s some people with Stockholm syndrome there.”

So first Mz G. starts out saying that any blacks that participated were there because they had been held hostage
to white people.

Then she applies the same liberal logic to any woman who
happened to watch Fox and has a man. Pathetic and vile, and not just vile but damned vile.

“...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 again. There’s a lot of Stockholm syndrome, is what I’m saying ultimately.”

Perhaps it’s being with a man that she dreams of at night?
I think the lady doth protest too much.


79 posted on 04/18/2009 10:56:23 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: nathanbedford
I wrote this in 2007 about the race card, and how it might help Obama to the White House (which seemed quite far-fetched at the time):

Deval Patrick seems to be running into some tough sledding in his first months after his landslide win as governor of Massachusetts. Part of the reason is that he's not as corrupt as the permanent Democrat majority in the legislature, and they are trying to show him who's boss. The major reason is, of course, that he is spectacularly unqualified for such extensive executive responsibility. He seems like a smart guy who has spent all his time in affirmative action jobs and thus has never been shaped or developed by criticism.

He shares many features with Barack Obama, the first term Senator from Illinois, who, I agree, stands an excellent chance of being elected President despite HIS spectacular lack of qualification for such a complex administrative and executive position.

What they have in common is that they are black, but they are not "black politicians". They do not owe their offices to black votes - not even a little bit. Yes, each got a large black turnout, but each won absolute and large white majorities, and each would have been elected even if every black voter had stayed home or even voted for their opponent.

Now, this fact is curious in that it appears to contradict the standard Leftist model of group voting. Any white voter who is not a communist (and there are not many of those) would have had every reason to oppose Patrick, or Obama, on simple self-interest grounds. Both Patrick and Obama are far, far to the left of even their own leftist parties of origin. Both come from, and support, a system which rewards blacks and punishes whites. Both will act, in office, in a way which is inimical to the interests of whites, both individually and collectively.

So, as they say, "whazzup"? What accounts for Patrick's huge white majorities in a state with a small black population? What does this portend for Obama's presidential aspirations?

In the Howie Carr column [yesterday], Mr. Carr says, "But everybody wanted to overlook the obvious fact that the guy was utterly unqualified. The electorate just wanted to feel good about itself. The voters, or at least 56 percent of them, figured if Deval got in they would feel less guilty - about what, I have no idea."

What Mr. Carr means by "I have no idea" is, I assume, that most of the electorate never discriminated against blacks personally, never belonged to the Klan, grew up in a historically anti-slavery state, supports hiring blacks into all sorts of government and other jobs, goes along with "active anti-racism" in their public schools, etc. etc - so what do they have to feel guilty about?

This question - why are whites in 2007, especially young whites, SO guilty that they flock to candidates like these nobodies?

The answer, I believe, is that they are expressing a neurotic conflict. Everything they know from outside of their own heads tells them that blacks and whites are the same - except in professional sports, where blacks are superior. Every black person they are taught about is a hero, or a victim of whites. But their experiences as they grow to voting age and beyond bring them into contact with more than a few actual blacks. This is the first generation for which this is true.

They search everywhere - at school, at work, listening to music, watching the news, and (especially) walking home after dark for the blacks who are just like them. They send their children (when they are very small, at least) into venues where they will be in contact with large numbers of blacks. But as they grow and develop into adulthood, the search for blacks who are like whites becomes to some degree frustrating. What can this mean?

To some of them, it means, "I am a racist". But most of them have sufficient self-regard to know this is not true. They can't discuss this among themselves. They can't talk to their teachers, or their parents, or to their husbands or wives. They can't read, or see, or hear discussion of this phenomenon. But it's real. What to do? How can they, as Senator Obama says constantly, "heal"?

Well, they can vote for Deval Patrick or Barack Obama, that's how. The Boston Globe ran a piece before the November election which revealed much, much more than they intended. Listen to the wife of an out-of-work union plasterer in Massachusetts. She said her husband was unemployed because illegal aliens were doing all the work. Deval Patrick wants to facilitate and to protect from Federal action illegal aliens, But she's voting for Deval Patrick. Why? "I don't know. He is so well-spoken".

Well spoken compared to what? To nigg***, that's what. She's voting for Deval Patrick because she thinks blacks don't speak well, and she feels guilty because she thinks that.

This guilt over one's own white thoughtcrime is the rocket fuel in Barack Obama's spaceship. Can it carry him to the White House? Perhaps.

80 posted on 04/19/2009 11:25:00 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They are willing to kill for socialism...but not to die for it.)
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