Janeane Garofalo: 'I Have Nothing to Apologize For'

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/13/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

It looks like outspoken Iraq war critic Janeane Garofalo won't be honoring her pledge to apologize to President Bush anytime soon.

"I have nothing to apologize for," she told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, who requested an interview with the comedienne-turned-peacenik for his Sunday morning broadcast.

Malzberg tells NewsMax that instead of agreeing to the interview request, Garofalo boasted that her upcoming TV show on ABC is going forward despite a tidal wave of complaints received by the network.

"Boycotters are welcome to keep giving me tons of publicity," she dared before reiterating, "There will be no apologies."

Just five weeks ago, when Garofalo appeared on Fox News Channel's "The Pulse," host Bill O'Reilly asked what she would do if her predictions that the war would be a disaster turned out to be wrong. The contrite-sounding comic promised:

"I would be so willing to say I'm sorry, I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say you were wrong, you were a fatalist, and I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, hey, you were right, I shouldn't have doubted you."

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[jimbo123]

More ABC contacts. Tell them that they will lose any advertisers who support the Garofalo show.

ABC PRIMETIME ADVERTISING, MARKETING & PROMOTIONS/
ABC CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
contact: Suzanne Gordon
tel: 818-460-6628
fax: 818-460-5636
E-Mail: suzanne.f.gordon@abc.com

ABC PRIMETIME SERIES
contact: Sharon Williams
tel: 818-460-6453
fax: 818-460-5903
E-Mail: sharon.d.williams@abc.com

ABC PRIMETIME/SALES/MARKETING/AFFILIATE RELATIONS
contact: Susan Sewell
tel: 212-456-1508
fax: 212-456-1433
E-Mail: susan.l.sewell@abc.com

[NYpeanut]

Can't get a date?

[dagoofyfoot]

Dear Ms. GodAwfulHo....YOUR BED IS MADE


Now that is an excellent and creative play on words. This arcticle show how this person has no honor, no morals, and no shame. The plug about her new show, and the boycott will bring free publicity is really an "In your face" attitude from someone rightfully dubbbed, " Ms. GodAwfulHo!"

[Timesink]

Can you blame her? The most basic right we have as Americans is the right to earn a living in our chosen professions.

No we don't. We have only the right to TRY.

[Ima Lurker]

Me too. I'd never even heard of her before I saw her on O'Reilly.

[MizSterious]

"Boycotters are welcome to keep giving me tons of publicity," she dared before reiterating, "There will be no apologies."

Oh, really? Well, Susan Saranden and the DitsieDixie Chicks thought that too. So far, I count two cancellations for events where Saranden was to speak, and, according to one recent report, a 40% drop in CD sales for the Ditsies. I think Ms. Garafolo just made a major miscalculation.

It's not as though she's a "major talent" anyway.

[Tench_Coxe]

No conscience, no shame, no morality. The kind of person folks like Saddam and Stalin loved to have as supporters--at least for a time.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The most basic right we have as Americans is the right to earn a living in our chosen professions.

Chapter and Verse please.

[cwb]

Ya...I must of missed that "right," too. That's like saying everyone is entitled to a job. So if I choose to be a movie star, does Hollywood have to hire me? This is typical liberal rhetoric. They sure didn't care about Dr. Laura's right to earn a living.

[Anamensis]

I hate to admit it, but even if she apologized I don't know if I could ever stand to look at her again. Once I "break up" with someone, I tend not to go back. ;^)

[Damagro]

Can you blame her? The most basic right we have as Americans is the right to earn a living in our chosen professions

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Where, exactly is that right listed in the constitution? I couldn't find it

[kassie]

OH you are good !

[cake_crumb]

"I would be so willing to say I'm sorry, I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say you were wrong, you were a fatalist, and I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, hey, you were right, I shouldn't have doubted you."

Well Garafolo, you're already a buffoon. We're simply having fun pointing it out.

As for the idiotic promise breaker's little sitcom: ABC will sit up and take notice when it gets 2% Neilson ratings. Who's her co-star gonna be...Scudball Ritter?

I suggest that NO ONE watch the show.

[IronJack]

"Boycotters are welcome to keep giving me tons of publicity,"

This is the remark of a child who gets punched in the arm and, with tears in his eyes, says "I didn't even feel it."

[doug from upland]

They never do anything for which they apologize. Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry.

[IronJack]

The guileless is kept from maleficence by the slenderness of her wit.

Jeanie's epitaph.

By the way, I always thought her name sounded like some kind of Doctor Suess animal, a cross between a giraffe and a buffalo.

[Future Snake Eater]

To paraphrase Jennifer and Oliver ("Love Story"), being liberal means never having to say you're sorry.

That's the one inspired by Al Gore, right?

[kattracks]

I guess when you're a hugh NOBODY in showbiz, negative publicity is better than none at all.

[SandRat]

I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, hey, you were right

OK she said it, we all know and knew that GW was right, so when is Garofalo going to live up to her word to Bill O?

Bill ORiley is going to have so much fun in the coming days.

Waiter, Blacklist please, another Hollywood weenie.

[Flyer]