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Keith Olbermann: a failed MSNBC host who frequently rants and raves. Click on the link for an encyclopedia of examples.)
Janeane Garofalo: a failed actess who seems to destroy every series or movie she touches. (Click link to see the voluminous link of movies & TV series her poisonous touch has ruined.)
So when these two get together, of course hijinks ensue! From The Washington Times:
Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.
“Let’s be very honest about what this is about. This is 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. It’s about hating a black man in the White House,” she said on MSNBC’s “The Countdown” with Keith Olbermann Thursday evening. “This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.”
Oh, how nice. She’s been reading the MSNBC Talking Points about how to slur people with sexual allusions. What a nice girl she is.
Olbermann did not once try to challenge her on those assertions.
Of course not. He probably fed her the Talking points — are you kidding?
The actress went on to describe the brain size of typical “right-winger, Republican or conservative or your average white power activist.” “Their synapses are misfiring. … It is a neurological problem we are dealing with,” she said. This isn’t the first time she’s offered this analysis, either. Ms. Garofalo said similar things about Alaskan GOP Governor Sarah Palin’s brain last February in an interview with an environmental blog.
The actress went on to bash the GOP on MSNBC Thursday because it had “crystallized into the white power movement” as well as Fox News, which she said has captured the “Klan demo[graphic].” “Who else is Fox talking to? Urban older white guys and their girlfriends who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome,” she said.
Ironically, Ms. Garofalo is currently playing a role on the drama 24, which is aired by the Fox Broadcasting Company and is popular among conservative circles.
And which just really SUCKS this season. All the propoganda about various liberal causes snuck into the script disguised as “moral dilemmas” for Jack Bauer have left me coled. I’m glad I decided not to watch this season when I heard Garofolo would be on.
To be honest, I blame here still ruining “Mad About You” for me with her horrific season-ending episode where she whined for an hour about what terrible parents she had. Ick.
And frankly, I’m tired of supporting these propagandist leeches who try to shut down any dissent to their own narrow-minded, small worldviews.
So I’m taking action. And I’d encourage you to do so as well. I wrote to Fox TV and complained about Garofolo. (Oddly, Fox now requires you wait 48 hours before posting on their message boards. Too many negative comments, Fox?)
I wrote to my Cable company and complained about MSNBC:
Time-Warner Cable
438 NW Loop 410, Suite 103
San Antonio, TX 78216
(800) 255-0501
And I found this contact information with a 5 second web search. I e-mailed them my concerns, then I printed out a copy and put it in the mail. They may not pay much attention to e-mails, but they do to written letters.
It may not have much effect; but I sure feel better knowing I did something.
So — don’t just sit there, huh?
***UPDATE:***
Brian Maloney at The Radio Equalizer has an excellent rundown of Garofolo’s bizarre behavior over the last few years, including her disastrous career at Air America, and her campaign for a star on the hollywood Walk of Fame that only gathered 200 votes!
Heh-heh-heh.
~~JD~~
Good blog site and good post! You sound like you may have some things in common with us.
Yeah- Keith Olberman should have stayed at ESPN. At least he was funny back in the day on SportsCenter. He’s kind of out there nowadays.
And that quote from Garofolo is really ignorant and ill-informed. I wonder if her reflexive use of the term racist to describe anyone who disagrees with Obama is a nuerological disorder?
You are a moron. You think Democrats or liberals or whomever have a narrow mind and small worldview?
You conservatives only think about your own selves.
I, on the other hand, have held dying babies in my arms.
Go ahead…make fun of that…go ahead, I know you want to say something rude to me. The babies died of hunger.
Maybe you should get a life and leave Garofalo alone. She is right about you backward folks.
You wouldn’t know how to help anyone…ever!
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My Dear Doctor Chandler;
I can tell you are a sensitive person. I think perhaps holding a dying child in your arms may have been extremely difficult for you. You appear to have a lot of anger about it.
I have held dying children in my arms too. Last week I held the hand of a dying woman who was beaten to death by her abusive husband. I watched the light go out of her eyes as a team of medical personnel rushed to save her. I watched her cry. I watched her die. I never left her until she was gone.
I’ve held the hand of many dying people. I’ve been a nurse for almost thirty years.
You’re quite right. That’s a very hard thing to do.
I don’t recall saying anything about Democrats having a narrow world view. Until last year I was a registered Democrat all my life. I am, however, fairly certain liberals tend to be reflexive, knee-jerk kinds of people. Ms. Garofolo is; she’s shown that repeatedly over time. And I certainly do not appreciate being told I’m a racist. Janean Garofolo doesn’t even know me.
Do you know what color I am, Professor? It isn’t white, that’s for sure. My wife is black; she’s from Africa, and has a Green Card. My son is mixed-race, like Tiger Woods. I have members of my family who are Americans, non-Americans, white, black, Chinese, Native American, . . . the list goes on.
I do not look at their colors. I love them anyway — they’re family. Janean Garofolo does. I make no claims beyond the idiot rantings of the tatooed, mysandronist rantings of Janean Garofolo.
And my IQ is significantly higher than the 60 or below required for one to be a “moron.”
Stop by again soon . . . if you care to have your assumptions challenged. It’s hard to have an actual Liberal mind by understanding conservatives, too.
I’ll understand if you can’t. That’s hard to do.
~~JD~~
(e-mailed to her at profchandler@gmail.com)