NOMINATION THREAD FOR THE FREE REPUBLIC GAROFALO AWARDS

Thursday, April 17, 2003 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Nominations for Free Republic's Garofalo Awards are being accepted on this thread.

The Garofalo--ready-to-eat stuffed crows on a platter--will be awarded to prominent individuals in the media and elsewhere whose histrionic predictions of doom and gloom before and/or during Operation Iraqi Freedom stand head and shoulders above all others for their shrillness, certainty, and apocalyptic ravings.

To be nominated, the person must meet the criteria. Documentation will be needed (not necessarily provided by the nominator) to provide specific reasons when announcing the winners as to why they were singled out for special recognition.

Ten Garofolos will be awarded. We will do our best to present them to any winners who attend the White House Correspondents Association dinner April 26 when the D.C. Chapter holds its 5th annual freep there of liberal bias in the media.

Janeane Garofalo, whom the award is named for, is eligible to win.

Nominations close Sunday, April 20 at 3 p.m. EDT. Voting will commence on a new thread soon thereafter.

[kristinn]

Have fun!

[Paleo Conservative]

Janeane Garofalo, whom the award is named for, is eligible to win.

Since this is a new award, shouldn't Janine Garafalo win the first award?

[Angelwood]

DC Chapter Ping List!

[hillary's_fat_a**]

Daschle

[Arkinsaw]

I nominate Robert Fisk for a special foreign category Garofolo. As the war went along his daily output amounted to several stinky piles of Fisk per day!

[azhenfud]

"The American war plan has failed...", Benedict Arnett, 2003

[Notforprophet]

My nomination: Baghdad Bob. The Ultimate Garafolo. Too bad he won't be there to accept it in person, having shuffled off this mortal coil.

[So Cal Rocket]

"This invasion of Iraq, if it goes off, will join the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Desert One, Beirut, and Somalia in the history of military catastrophe. What will set it apart, distinguishing it for all time, is the immense--and transparent--political stupidity."

--Chris Matthews, San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2002

[nhoward14]

Retired U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey

LONDON, March 24 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led force in Iraq risks as many as 3,000 casualties in the battle for Baghdad and Washington has underestimated the number of troops needed, a top former commander from the 1991 Gulf War said on Monday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885610/posts

[Dog Gone]

Scott Ritter:

"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening.

"We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war is inevitable," he said.

"Every time we confront Iraqi troops we may win some tactical battles, as we did for ten years in Vietnam but we will not be able to win this war, which in my opinion is already lost," Ritter added.

[So Cal Rocket]

"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated....We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war is inevitable. . . . [W]e will not be able to win this war, which in my opinion is already lost."

--Scott Ritter, on a South African radio station, March 25, 2003

[Nita Nupress]

Could I talk you into dressing up as Baghdad Bob when presenting the award? ;-)

[So Cal Rocket]

"If history is a guide, you cannot subdue a large and hostile city except by destroying it completely. Short of massacre, we will not inherit a pacified Iraq. . . . To support 'the groundwork' for this effort is to support a holocaust, quite soon, against Iraqi civilians and also against the troops on both sides. That is what victory means."

--James K. Galbraith on the American Prospect website, April 1, 2003

[Exit148]

"----shrillness, certainty, and apocalyptic ravings---"

No contest! Janadana herself!!

[Senator Pardek]

"We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war is inevitable," he said.

I used that line on a ten year old chick I met yesterday - and it worked!

[Dark Knight]

Ed Asner for best supporting role in a debate show.

On O'Reilly he debated for Mumia Abu Jamal, and mumbled when he stumbled I wasn't ready...for these kind of questions...

A classic, that has few peers. Or does it?

DK

[kristinn]

No, but I know someone who might :-)

[Nita Nupress]

Scott Ritter.

 

National Post (f/k/a The Financial Post)
September 14, 2002 Saturday National Edition
Exclusive Interview; Pg. B1

Truth or treason?: Former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter maintains Bush is wrong about Iraq
David Wallis

(snip)

D.W. Assuming that there is a war and a U.S. military victory, what steps will America need to take to govern post-war Iraq?

S.R. You assume victory. If Saddam Hussein fortifies his cities with Republican Guard troops, especially in the Sunni heartland, the fight will resemble Grozny. The Russians had no choice but to level the city. That's the kind of fight we are talking about. And if Saudi Arabia does not give us support, we are talking about invading through a single conduit of support: Kuwait.

D.R. Will Iraqis dance on the streets of Baghdad when the U.S. topples Saddam? Do you think he enjoys more popular support than pundits estimate?

S.R. Absolutely, he's more popular than any time since the Gulf War. Saddam has cynically manipulated the economic sanctions against the Iraqi people for his own political gain, transferring blame away from himself to the United States... The Iraqis, who have suffered egregiously, don't like Saddam, but they have rallied around him and his regime because they hate us more. We may be able to generate support for an invasion among some of the Shiites and some of the Kurds, but to get to Baghdad you must penetrate the "Sunni Triangle." Sunnis will not rise up against Saddam -- ever. They will fight tooth and nail.

(snip)

[leilani]

"Since this is a new award, shouldn't Janine Garafalo win the first award?" Or does it mean we can only nominate washed-up dyslexic lesbians like Garafolo? We're confused.

[Petronski]

Janeane Gawdawfulho must win the first, for her statement on the Today Show (IIRC), which I paraphrase:

"If America does this unilaterally, we are doomed. We're DOOMED."

Funny, I always thought being 'doomed' would feel more, uh, tingly."