Garofalo: “Stupid People” Watch Fox & Talk Radio Hosts Lie

Media Research Center ^ | 4-1-2003

[Paul Atreides]

Actress/comedienne Janeane Garofalo is back. War coverage may be keeping her, for now, off the cable news channels, but she popped up Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. [Be advised, this item includes an accurate quotation of a vulgarity.]

Garofalo labeled the U.S. attack on Iraq as “not fair” because it is an “unprovoked strike.” Talking about those denouncing Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks for saying she was “ashamed” to be from the same state as President Bush, Garofalo suggested the attacks on the Dixie Chicks are a “wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet...they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is...”

When co-panelist Michael Graham, a radio talk show host, recalled seeing a sign at an anti-war march proclaiming, “We Support Our Troops...When They Shoot Their Officers,” Garofalo doubted it ever existed and flew into a rage about how “that's what all you right-wing radio hosts do. You make shit up all the time.”

In between, Garofalo preposterously maintained: “Dissent is being criminalized.”

When we last heard from Garofalo she was claiming that Bush is just as dangerous to the world as Saddam Hussein. “Equal, in a different way,” actress/comedienne Janeane Garofalo replied when, on the March 6 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.” See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030307.asp#6

Back to Friday's, March 28, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. Garofalo appeared on the panel with talk show host Michael Graham and comedian/actor Larry Miller.

-- Garofalo whined about Iraq as the victim of the U.S.: “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.”

-- On anger at the Dixie Chicks: “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.”

-- Graham recalled seeing this sign at an anti-war march: “We Support Our Troops...When They Shoot Their Officers.”

That set off Garofalo: “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 shit up all the time.”

The audience cheered Garofalo's attack on talk radio.

[Paul Atreides]

Hollywood is made up of mental cases.

[OldFriend]

One thing she knows.......STUPID LIARS

[bmwcyle]

It is a shame ranting loons like this have a stage.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

To: Janeane Garofalo
From: Uday

You make my loins ache for blood.

Sincerely,

Uday

[billbears]

I've tried watching Maher twice. Unlike Dennis Miller, a far better and more intelligent host, Maher has clearly stacked his audience with far left wing people. Even Larry Miller hardly says a thing. When Dennis Miller was on a few weeks back, the audience booed him because he agreed with the war

[bankwalker]

Let her talk. More free advertising for us.

[Paul Atreides]

He could be her only chance.

[amused]

I was there...she was in full martyr gear wailing about the persecution of the anti-war mnovement and the crushing of dissent....of course I have already heard this rant during the 100 previous appearances by Garafalo on everything from Fox News to the Weather Channel ;-)

[ECM]

It's true. I live here.

And no, I'm not a mental case (I'm not in the entertainment industry, so that helps).

[Timesink]

Ahem:

The [HOLLYWOOD] audience cheered Garofalo's attack on talk radio.

[PJ-Comix]

Garofalo pretty much let the cat out of the bag when she was asked why she didn't protest the bombing of Serbia by Clinton. Her reply was that it just "wasn't hip" back then. The fact is that Garofalo wouldn't be saying a word if it was Clinton who ordered the liberation of Iraq. Why? As she said, it wouldn't be "hip."

[richardtavor]

She is not only stupid, she's not funny--the funniest thing about her is her face.

[Timesink]

That set off Garofalo: ?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 shit up all the time.?

Yeah, like your career, bitch.

[Petronski]

She's pissed because those Fox hosts kicked her ass on live TV...either that or the oncoming rush of irrelevancy.

[Paul Atreides]

[AppyPappy]

I hope the skank dies from an implant leak.

[7thson]

When she popped on the scene about a month or so ago, someone on FR had a link to the IMDB - a list of movies and television shows she has been featured in. I took a look at it and it was not until I saw Mystery Men - about 20 movies down - that I recognized something she was in. Her remark about Vin Diesel tells a lot. I do not watch his movies either but it seems she's got a bug up her rearend probably because his movies draw more people.

[nutmeg]

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[EdReform]

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