FNC's Brian Kilmeade Takes on Janeane Garofalo

Media Research Center ^ | February 26, 2003

[George W. Bush]

Shh. I'm hoping Lauren never leaves. Hush. :p

Yes, a quiet and mysterious beauty. A real lady. And said to be a very fine pianist.

[PJ-Comix]

Even though Fox and Friends runs here in Arizona between 3am and 6am I am still a longtime fan.

I like them too because they sound like REAL people in stark contrast to the Ivory Tower mentality of Matt & Katie. The latter sound like they are trying to talk DOWN to us "peons." Also the chatter of the latter sounds VERY atrificial.

[Kip Lange]

A real lady.

Indeed, and they're in very short supply these days.

[Kip Lange]

Heh, the worst thing is that I know a crazy lib. (who wears glasses a lot like Garofalo's) who does some of the scripting for F&F. Won't reveal his name, as he would be very embarassed & might screw up his career, and besides, I stole his hairbrush eight years ago and he hasn't forgiven me, so, etc., but I still laugh when I think that this kid is writing stuff for them. I mean, you gotta know the kid. ;-) Crazy whacko Columbia-grad snotty lib. He must hate it there. MUHAHAHAH! I wonder where he put his copies of Marx & Engels...

Bwahahahaha. And I still have his hairbrush.

[Judith Anne]

We've been very impressed with Loren Green this week--she's amazing! Very fast thinker and obviously bright and conservative, not to mention pretty. It's just frosting on the cake that she's a pianist--

And we've long been fans of Brian. He is amazing.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I saw the segment. It was classic! My favorite part was this exchange. He really nuked her with this one:

Kilmeade: "Is that beneath you? No because I'm not going to let you sit in there and get off because you're a celebrity."
Garofalo: "What? Why am I, what the hell does me being a celebrity have to do with anything?”
Kilmeade: "Well that's the only reason you're here"
Garofalo: "What does my occupation have to do with anything?"
Kilmeade: "That's the only reason you're here."

[oyez]

Most of the loud mouths seem to be unemployed at this time. Hmmm.

[bert]

I sent him a note and he replied"Thanks"

[martin gibson]

SEE...SEE...Kilmead hates her just because she is a womyn!!!

[FreedomPoster]

BTW, if you haven't seen the Kilmeade/Garofalo face-off, you can view the streaming video at FOXNews.com:

http://www.foxnews.com/foxfan/index.html

It's currently on the upper-left of the page; don't know how long it'll be there. Standard news site mini-registration required.

[Kip Lange]

Thread's old, but I did want to add this: I couldn't disagree more with Janeane Garofalo if I was a Professional Disagreer with a PhD in Disagreeing from the finest Disagreement University in the land -- *but* -- at least she had the ovaries to climb down out her Ivory Tower and show up on Fox. It's a shame. Garofalo has delivered great performances, and even some of her standup I think is alright (and standup is grueling work -- so I give her another slight notch of respect, which is that she really did put in her hours working the circuit and refining her material), but now I can't flip on anything with her in it without getting annoyed at her. Anyway, point is, I doubt Richard Gere and Sean Penn etc etc would have had the balls to show up. They'd rather hide out and preach to the choir. So, Janeane may be fabulously WRONG, but at least she showed up.

Where have all the good liberals gone? I mean, they're all fantastically wrong, but f'r'instance, out here in MA in the old days when our liberal governors actually ran as liberal governors...Dukakis, contrary to what the press used to say about him ("politically savvy but a personality dud") I found to be the exact opposite; in fact, he managed to charm a family of three conservatives (this was back when a...relation of mine...was doing work on a show called "The Advocates" on PBS...anybody remember that one?). Incredibly cheap, though, he was. I recall a story about him and Keriotis...I *think* it was Keriotis...he offered to take him out to lunch and he'd "pick up the tab" -- and the Duke took him down to a hot dog stand. ;-)

In a way, I mourn the passing of Donahue's relevancy. Where there used to be liberals of conscience -- albeit misguided in their information and opinions -- all over the place, there are now liberals of convenience, "lifestyle liberals" (liberal because it's hip and acceptable), celiberals (Garofalo being both a lifestyle lib and celib), and people who aren't liberal but rather are just completely filled with hate against anybody who's conservative, which they somehow think qualifies them as a liberal (the former bunch being the most prevalent).

I mean, where's the fun in engaging in lively debate with your "enemy" when your enemy is...no longer capable of reasonable discourse? When nobody is even LISTENING to your "enemy" (for rhetorical debate purposes)? I often fear the current disarray of the Dems will lead us 'Pubs into starting to tear into each other over our single-issue pet peeves since we all love debate and we can't find much worthwhile with the liberals.

There are a few left I respect. Since we're patting Fox and Brian Kilmeade on the back, I'll also go ahead and give Alan Colmes a pat on the back. He's affable, smart, informed, and, of course, completely wrong, but able to laugh it off easily and still manages to connect with a viewer/listener on some level. Or, to rephrase: "I don't run for the remote control like I do when I see Susan Sarandon being interviewed."

Perhaps the libs forgot how to debate after so many years in power. I pray it doesn't happen to us.

[Nateman]

I like them too because they sound like REAL people in stark contrast to the Ivory Tower mentality of Matt & Katie.

Couldn't tell you what I think of those two because during the dark years of Clinton's reign I stopped watching any nitwork news broadcasts. They might say something nice about the disgusting piece of s*** that was in the Whitehouse at the time and get me so mad I couldn't concentrate anymore. I use to watch the evening news every night. Not anymore.Perhaps once or twice a year now to see what I'm NOT missing.

[boltCutter]

I had thankfully never heard of janine goofalo until this "hideous dropping of the veil" at Fox. I don't keep up with hollywood and I don't understand why others do. But I digress. She strikes me as being like most people who are:
1.) very wealthy - but superficially conceal it
2.) not very bright - but have all the hollow, store-bought trappings of it.
3.) free of time obligation - nothing meaningful to do with their time and often seasonally or intermittently employed.
4.) arrogant and elitist - but preachy to everyone else about the very same trait.
That combination spells disaster and it is why so many celebrities disproportionately get caught up in crime, premature death, kindergarten political views devoid of reason, controversy and so many other sad trials of the marginally conscious.

[ConservativeMan55]

semajj Since Jan 1, 2004.

ZOT!

[ConservativeMan55]

[dighton]

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL

[JohnHuang2]

Brian Kilmeade pulverized Janeane Garofalo. I saw this exchange.

[ConservativeMan55]

I saw it too. He made mincemeat out of her.

She mentioned that Foxnews was Conservative.

Brian responded by saying that Foxnews was number 1. Then he said "What does that say about America?"