Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President

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By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) April 16, 2009 - 23:56 ET

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):

[Wil H]

Hey, you pig-ignorant, bigoted bitch, Garofalo, in the first place, 0bama isn’t any more black than he is white - have you seen his mother?

And why do you think conservatives would have anything to do with that Democrat founded institution “The Klan”? Do you think we want to hang out with that senile old racist Robert Byrd?

Secondly, we don’t give a cuss about 0bama’s heritage, it’s his radical marxist policies we are protesting.

It is YOU that are fixated on race and color, presumably to deflect attention from 0bama’s marxism, but then maybe you are just a racist bigot.

We have no problem with America having a “black” President, we just don’t agree that any black man will do.

[driftdiver]

Thats racist.

/vomit

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Guess this sh*t-cans the kumbaya...

[LottieDah]

My name is Janeane Garafalo and I play the race card. See how cool I am. Everyone who disagrees with me or Obama must be rascist. Blah, blah, blah. Put a sock it Janeane.

[autumnraine]

They are going to repeat this until enough people say “Hey, I don’t like .... about Obama, but I don’t that he’s black!” and they will revolt on this garbage.

I’m getting tired of the “If you don’t support everything this Muslim Commie does, you are a racist”.

[angelcindy]

Oh here comes the race card....so sick of that....this has nothing to do with race..

[Sudetenland]

It’s Janine and Keith...who gives a flying f*(# what they say or think?

[huldah1776]

Dear Ms Garofullofit, obviously our non-love of your spew proves we don’t like liberals of any shade.

[Cap'n Crunch]

Wait a minute. Isn’t the President half white? Wasn’t his momma white? Was he raised by his white grandparents? In Hawaii?? And then went to Harvard????

I’m blacker than he is.

[Doogle]

This is racism straight up."

..she hasn't seen anything straight up since the last time she picked her nose

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Sure, and if it was a white president that raised taxes and pushed socialism all of these ‘racists’ would be just fine with it, right? And if a Republican black president lowered taxes, worked for effective immigration reform, and advocated for personal responsibility these same ‘racists’ would be against him/her, right?
What a ridiculous argument she tries to make.

[misharu]

Wil, settle down. Don't let this brainless twit get to you. Also, I would have to point out . . .wasn't the Klan created and populated with Democrats? But I get ahead of myself.

She is scared shtiless -- the Silent Majority is starting to become not so silent. Ain't it fun!

[mellow velo]

When I come upon Olberdork's show while channel surfing, my thumb can't move fast enough to change the channel. Has he ever had a guest on his show that isn't a member of the left wing circle jerk?

[pallis]

I can’t speak for everyone in the civil rights party, but I could care less about 0’s color, and even less than that about brainwashed, ignorant race-baiters who want to call me a racist. If I have to be called a racist because I’m resisting this Nazi-like approach to Marxism on the Potomac, so be it. I despise the color of 0’s politics.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

She needs to apologize to my daughter for her hate-filled comments. My daughter was out at a rally holding a sign, fighting for the Constitution and freedom; and to preserve her college education money.

NOT because Obama is black! (even though one half of his mama was a white Communist; that is, if she is in fact, his mother. Still haven't seen any real birth certificate.)

[wombtotomb]

LOL, no, not black haters, GARAFOLO haters, we just wanted to get your b$tch on... Guess we won LOL

[Numbers Guy]

I can see why she’s on Olbermann’s show. If she was on any show hosted by someone with a brain, she’d last about 15 seconds before getting verbally gutted.

I still think she’s the mole on this season’s “24”.

[MozarkDawg]

Yet another idiot who does not seem to comprehend that the General Public pays her salary, if I may put it that way. When people stop watching her films and TV shows, let the sponsors know they are not going to purchase their products and WHY, she feels it in her pocketbook — then she may think twice before opening her yap this way.

[timetostand]

It’s much easier than the race card, we just can’t stomach left wing extremists, doesn’t matter what color they are!!