Peacenik Garofalo Upset at Harassment, May Quit Protesting

NewsMax.com ^ | 3/11/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Jean S]

Antiwar activist Janeane Garofalo announced Monday that she may quit protesting U.S. plans to make war on Iraq, saying she's being harassed and complaining that Hollywood leftists who speak out don't get enough respect.

Addressing a panel on media coverage of the war in Manhattan, the comedienne-turned-foreign policy expert said that she may "just bow out for the rest of my life," according to New York's Newsday. Garofalo complained that she's had to change her home phone number after getting several harassing calls.

The bespectacled Bush basher blames the media, which she said ridicules antiwar actors "as a way to trivialize" the concerns of those who oppose the war. [Garofalo herself, however, admitted two weeks ago that the peace movement stayed dormant during U.S. troop deployments in the 1990's because "it wasn't hip" to protest President Clinton.]

Fellow panelist William McGowan, author of "Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism," disagreed. He said antiwar activists are belittled because of their "silly, vacuous slogans."

[666beast]

honestly, what career?

She looks like she's funny, but i've never heard her doing an original bit, she's never made me laugh. i've almost always been disappointed by Garafalo and, like some other posters have stated, she has charisma. I want to like her and see her do well, but she consistently dissappoints in appearances and performances.

Her act stinks. She's a an example (a very bad one) of the sad state of comedy today (it's become all political with zero fun and amusement). People like her and David Cross and others are just trying TOO hard to "be hip" and they attack subjects that were sacred cows a half century ago. Religion, for example.

They all want to be Lenny Bruce, who was overrated and made famous by publicists and journalists.

So what you get is stale, not funny, not edgy, not intriguing and not even interesting.

They should dump her over Iraq because everytime i've ever seen her since Reality Bites and The Truth About
Cats and Dogs which was ten years ago, she BOMBED!!!!!!!

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Looks like a case of frustration.

 

She went outside her genre, waded off into things outside her expertise and got her head handed to her. Now it's no fun anymore.

 

 

 

[blackbart.223]

"Addressing a panel on media coverage of the war in Manhattan, the comedienne-turned-foreign policy expert said that she may "just bow out for the rest of my life," according to New York's Newsday."

Her conviction to her cause seems to be lacking. If you firmly beleve in somthing you stick to your guns regardless of the fallout.

She's just another useful idiot that now wants to fold because many people don't agree with her misguided outlook.

[lawgirl]

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!! One down, 3000 Hollywood liberals to go......

[ewing]

This is the first coherent thing that Jeanene has said!

[FreedomCalls]

[Exit148]

So what is it? Selective anti-ism?

If a Liberal/Socialist wants war? --Hey! Way to go! But a Conservative? A bummer?

I hope she keeps her word as I really dislike her condescending superior attitude.

Talking about actors ---What is it with Ron Silvers?

[CyberAnt]

They are not anti-war, THEY ARE ANTI-BUSH!!!

It wasn't HIP to protest x42, because he was a DEMOCRAT - never forget the motivation of these protests - never!!

[Calpublican]

Wait!

She's WAY committed to her cause AND A FEW PHONE CALLS make her want to quit!

I laugh!

[Calpublican]

Oooooh! You must be a masochist.

[leprechaun9]

You get respect the old fashion way, YOU EARN IT!

[ironwill]

I still think she is kinda cute.

Yaa. In an ugly sort of way.

[Calpublican]

I want to like her and see her do well, but she consistently dissappoints in appearances and performances.

She's too angry to be funny. Always has been. She was okay on Larry Sanders, and that was her best work. Mediocre is really about all you can say about her. Well, mediocre and angry.

[Braak]

Ah, nice to see the Quivering Jello has gone wobbly!

[MHT]

I keep hearing about what Brian did to her. I missed it. When did this happen--on the morning show (she's not capable of getting up that early)? What did he say or do to her?

[TontoKowalski]

Well, it took 54 posts, but someone finally caught the most vicious slam in the article.

I wonder how it must have felt for JG to be sitting on a pseudo-intellectual discussion panel, to have her say...portraying herself as a victim, of course, and to have had her views dismissed as "vacuous" and "silly" right to her face.

I'd have paid the price of admission to see that.

[Redcloak]

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps she watched a tape of herself and thought "That really sounds stupid. What was I thinking?!?"

What?

It could happen.

No, really.

It could.

[Kay Soze]

She is allowed her opine and we are allowed ours.

They can dish it out but they sure cannot take it!

[thegreatbeast]

You've got to worry about poor Janeane (where did that name come from?). You know she's not wrapped too tight and is liable to do something harmful to herself.
O'Reilly p* me off the other night talking to some dimwit saying that he doesn't want to see anybody lose work (he was specifically talking about Penn) as a consequence of their political beliefs. That is just plain wrong! If some unfortunate soul, hopelessly besmirched by addiction to alcohol or drugs, kept on getting into scrape after scrape wouldn't you want to withhold your patronage of his Art as a sign of censure if nothing else? Being terminally stupid, being a card-carrying member or being a useful idiot should draw the same opprobrium from a discerning public. Freak the a__h*s! Let 'em starve. O'Reilly doesn't always fire on all cylinders.

[bart99]

Wait -- I thought all her 'protesting' WAS part of her new comedy act. I thought she was funny getting all excited when she argued. Bet she had a um..... well...... is this site censored? *L*