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[url="http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/aar/mr/dead-wrong_aar-mr.mp3"]GlobalFreePress.com[/url]
No promised apology coming on Iraq statements
Before the war in Iraq started, Garofalo told the following to Bill O'Reilly on The Pulse:
[quote]"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."[/quote]
Her exchange with O'Reilly on the March 6 The Pulse on Fox:
[quote]“Equal, in a different way,” actress/comedienne Janeane Garofalo replied when, on Thursday's The Pulse on Fox, Bill O'Reilly asked her if she thinks “George W. Bush is more of a danger to this world than Saddam?” After she condemned Bush for his “with us or against us” rhetoric and claimed his “'axis of evil' speech was not helpful,” O'Reilly shot back: “When you say that, people out there, they’re gonna think you’re a loon.” [/quote]
Garofalo did, however, promise that if she is proven wrong and Iraqis welcome U.S. troops who find stores of weapons of mass destruction,
[quote] “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.'” But, she quickly added, “I think to think that is preposterous.” [/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030502.asp#7"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
She also told Hollywood Reporter correspondent Paul Bond:
[quote]"There's no way a war in Iraq will go well."[/quote]
"If you're wrong and we defeat them with minimal casualties, and the Iraqi people say 'God Bless America for removing Saddam Hussein,' will you admit you were wrong?" Bond asked
[quote]"I want to be wrong. I would hold a press conference. I'll bring orchids to Laura Bush and Dick Cheney!"[/quote]
Well, even the harshest critics will not argue that the war did not go well. But, here is Janeane's comment about the apology to WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg:
[quote]"I have nothing to apologize for." [/quote]
Source:
[url="http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7222"]FrontPageMag.com[/url]
Garofalo goes on rant mocking intelligence of Fox News staff
Actress/anti-liberation of Iraq activist Janeane Garofalo went on a rant on The View against Fox News, mocking the intelligence of their reporters and denying she has anything to apologize for after promising Bill O'Reilly she would apologize to President Bush if her predictions of disaster in Iraq did not come true.
[quote]“Just because a statue falls down -- that's a great photo-op -- doesn't mean that the war or the conflict is over,” Garofalo argued, and the “Anglo-American conflict with Iraq” is “not going to end anytime soon, contrary to Fox News's idea of what the news is, their version of the news."[/quote]
Garofalo charged that “some news anchors, apparently, at Fox aren't smart enough to understand” that “victory cannot be defined by a photo op of a statue."
[quote]She soon denigrated Fox News again: “I don't know what is more alarming over at Fox News. Is it that they know that, in the bigger picture, there's a lot of problems over there and they scrub the information or, B, they don't know because they don't watch the news.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030502.asp#7"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
She asked for it
In more than one interview, Garofalo was asked about the people writing angry letters to ABC in regard to her show. Her gloating response was to mock the protestors. She even boasted that the show was going forward despite the tidal wave of complaints and even dared the boycotters keep giving her tons of publicity.
[quote]"Boycotters are welcome to keep giving me tons of publicity. There will be no apologies."[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/15/130556.shtml"]NewsMax.com[/url]
Well, Ms. Garofalo got her wish. The show was dumped just days before the pilot was scheduled to be taped.
[quote]A source close to Garofalo says the actress was furious by the last-minute change and believes it's yet another example ''of a network bowing to the perceived power of the Bush administration. Janeane is convinced her politics and all the hate mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind all this.'' '[/quote]
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[url="http://www.celiberal.com/linkcache/2a/245.html"]Celiberal.com[/url]
Could she have done it for her career?
You have to wonder why so many of the outspoken Hollywood activists are low-tier or has-been actors. Could it be that their career needs the attention. Here's Garofalo, excited about what the controversy has done for her noteriety:
[quote]"Before this I was a moderately well-known character actress. Now I'm almost famous."[/quote]
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[url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A7229-2003Apr21¬Found=true"]WashingtonPost.com[/url]
Fun with Bill Mayer
On HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher March 28, 2003, Garofalo whined about Iraq as the victim of the U.S.:
[quote]“I would say a pre-emptive, unprovoked strike is not fair. This is a pre-emptive strike. It was not provoked. That is not fair.” [/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030401.asp#6"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
On anger at the Dixie Chicks:
[quote]“You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It's a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030401.asp#6"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
Graham recalled seeing this sign at an anti-war march: “We Support Our Troops...When They Shoot Their Officers.” That set off Garofalo:
[quote]“That one guy that had that one sign that you'll probably beat into the ground. You're going to use it over and over whether it actually existed or not. That's what all you right-wing radio hosts do. You make shucks up all the time.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030401.asp#6"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
Naked gays burning the flag choke her up with pride
From a 1998 interview in the now-folded Buzz magazine:
[quote]"Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride."[/quote]
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[url="http://www.hollywoodinvestigator.com/2002/garofalo.htm"]HollywoodInvestigator.com[/url]
Trendy protesting (of republicans)
Explaining why she and other anti-war protesters didn't organize demonstrations when President Clinton launched attacks on Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and the Sudan
[quote]"It wasn't very hip" [to protest Clinton's Wars].[/quote]
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[url="http://www.homunculus.com/articles/garofalojaneane/garofalofoxnews030224.html"]Homunculus.com[/url]
Dozens of countries with the U.S. is not unilateral—look it up, Janeane
[quote]“I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
What planet is she living on?
[quote]“Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
Maybe she just refuses to believe facts she doesn’t like
[quote]“If I am uninformed, which I'd like to think I work very hard not to be, uninformed, it is the fault of the White House and the mainstream media. We don't get enough information. We don't get enough news with our news. And how can we function as a democracy without information? We are given disinformation and White House propaganda all the time. We have no history to our news, no context to our news, no global perspective. We don't see people outside our borders as humans. And if I am uninformed, which I'd like to think I work very hard not to be, uninformed, it is the fault of the White House and the mainstream media.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
In denial
[quote]'Well, we know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction.’ No, we don't. We do not. We do not know that.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
What planet, again?
[quote]“They [network news] tend to marginalize it [anti-war protests] by only interviewing the guy dressed as a carrot on stilts or Wavy Gravy. You know what I mean? Like some guy with no teeth and a tie-dyed Grateful Dead shirt, because they want to marginalize it.”[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"]MediaResearch.org[/url]
The world was better when the U.S.S.R, was a superpower
[quote]"The world would be better off with multiple superpowers."
"Sure [our enemies should be more powerful], when Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement."[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31259"]WorldNetDaily.com[/url]
She's got all the facts
[quote]"This [Iraq] is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area."
"There is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. You never even get that idea floated in the mainstream media. If you bring it up, they hate the messenger. You've ruined everyone's good time."[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A47534-2003Jan26¬Found=true"]WashingtonPost.com[/url]
Republicans are "dumb and mean"
At a forum in New York City, Janeane Garofalo discussed the future of the Democratic Party and the role young people will play with party members and activists.
The following segment of her speech was featured on Scarborough Country:
[quote]"The Republican Party, their message and their policies of exclusion and the tilted playing field appeals to the dumb and the mean. There is no shortage of dumb and mean people in this culture. So, therefore, their message, the dumb and the mean find a nice home in the GOP.
"This dumbing down and this pseudo patriotism, which is very conveniently partisan, because the dumb and the mean love patriotism. Now the dumb believe unto patriotism because it’s really-when it’s as unexamined as it is for the dumb, it’s merely narcissism. Yeah, it’s my country right or wrong. Well what of these colors don’t run? What do you mean? I don’t know. They use the word evildoer with a straight face, knee jerk reactionary phrases that go down well from the Republican Party with the dumb and the mean and then the mean pretend that it’s unpatriotic to be critical of your government.
"You don’t let the facts get in the way of your arrogance and belligerence. You just keep saying no, it doesn’t or you just lie about everything. What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogamists, homophobes and people who love tilted playing fields and the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative. They have hijacked that name and somehow they are proud of it. I don’t understand that, why they’re proud of being conservative but that is-seems to be the case. There is no liberal media.
"If there was a liberal media that would be good and our culture would reflect it. We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean. Thank you."[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.liberalartists.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=347"]LiberalArtists.com[/url]
Excerpts from her interview with The Progressive - May 2003 Issue
[quote]"There's nothing you could point to in the Bush Administration with pride," she says. "Nothing. There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America."[/quote]
[quote]Question: Why are you speaking out against this war in Iraq?
Janeane Garofalo: ...I painfully felt that the anti-war movement was being ignored...
...it became abundantly clear that no one was getting on TV talking about this...
...I can't stand watching history roll right over us. It's like they're asking you to bend over, put your head in the sand, and put a flag in your ass.[/quote]
[quote]It is shocking that some people's lives are enriched by this nonsense--these boycotts and e-mails. They are proving themselves to be fundamentally anti-American and anti-democratic. They are against the First Amendment, so what are they defending? Unless they are trying to build a fascist Administration, unless they are trying to bring the American people to a point that we exist under a totalitarian regime.[/quote]
[quote]Q: What's your opinion on the current state of the mainstream media?
Garofalo: The mainstream media has, in my opinion, been so grossly negligent, so disturbingly devoid of authentic debate, and actual dissemination of information. ... At a time as important as this, they have absolutely rolled over to the conservative hawkish agenda.
The parents of the troops who die and the parents of Iraqi civilians who die should have the right to slap a lot of these media outlets with a suit of criminal negligence. Military parents would have a legitimate case, especially against Fox and the New York Post for cheerleading this thing the whole way, for waving the flag, and using knee-jerk, sycophantic, pseudo-patriotism as a tool to galvanize public opinion.
That brings us to some of the rightwing pundits who dominate the radio, like Mike Savage, or some of the commentators at Fox--the Ann Coulters, what have you. I think what they do is they turn their own personal issues--whether they be racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or imperialistic--and they wrap them in the flag and hide them behind Jesus.[/quote]
[quote]Q: How do you react when people say you are brave to speak out?
Garofalo: What's brave about it? There's nothing brave in saying, "Hey, I don't think this is right." There's nothing brave about saying, "I feel we are not functioning under a true democracy, I feel like we are being manipulated." That's not brave, that's common sense. I guess it's brave to go on television. It's certainly brave and sadomasochistic to go on Fox.[/quote]
[quote]...This will potentially be one of the worst chapters in American history that will go on for twenty or thirty years, until democracy, in some fashion, is established.[/quote]
[quote]Q: Do you have plans to tour again?
Garofalo: No. ...in part because nothing's funny to me.
Q: Why is that?
Garofalo: There's been such an assault on democracy here, and the mainstream media is complicit in it. We are living in neo-McCarthy, post-democratic times. Democracy is being criminalized. Democracy is being ignored.[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.html"]Progressive.org[/url]
Excerpts from Contra Costa Times interview...
15 MINUTES WITH: Garofalo rides tide of criticism
[quote]Q: You've taken a lot of heat for your anti-war stance. Has the experience been good or brutal?
Garofalo: "It's been a good experience in that you get to participate in democracy, if you will; you also get to meet some of the most wonderful people in the activist community. ... The downside is you also, unfortunately, are confronted with some of the nastiest, dumbest, most close-minded, misguided bullies in the world. ...
"Then there's also people who just hate women who are "mouthy" -- you get misogynists coming out of the woodwork. ... They just know that they don't like you, and they don't like the Dixie Chicks, they don't like Susan Sarandon, they don't like Jessica Lange. But you know what, they don't seem to have a problem with Tim Robbins or Martin Sheen."[/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/6306600.htm?1c"]ContraCostaTimes.com[/url]
She mocks Republicans who supported Iraqi voters and compared their actions to Nazis...
[quote]"The inked fingers was disgusting," [/quote]
To mock the display, Garofalo soon held up her hand in a Nazi salute as she predicted:
[quote]"The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a Daily Show photo already, of them signaling in this manner [Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that." [/quote]
Source:
[url="http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050203.asp#5"]MediaResearch.org[/url] 2/3/2005
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