Bubba-Jean Garbarfalo after Brian Kilmeade slam-dunked her as the idiot, liberal panty-waist she is . . .
Posted on 05/17/2003 7:51:00 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
While I know and love Janeane Garofalo for her charmed comedy career, many Americans came to know her recently as a media spokesperson for the anti-war movement. While she, along with Susan Sarandon, the DIXIE CHICKS and Jessica Lange became the poster-women of hate for the anti-intellectual and insubstantial talk show hosts such as Bill O’Reilly who are more interested in good TV than good debate, she was also lauded for taking the anti-war message to the mainstream media. Garofalo made an interesting comment about being attacked by the right wing as much for being a woman as for being feminist and progressive. Come to think of it, Tim Robbins didn’t take nearly as much of a beating even though he was just as involved as his wife, Susan Sarandon.
Her interest in progressive social and political issues have been a strong motivator in her life and in her stand-up. I interviewed Janeane Garofalo to hear more of her side of the anti-war message without interruption or criticism and her personal interest in living, voting and supporting the progressive values platform.
This is a lengthy introduction but I hope it helps to provide the proper context to develop a deeper understanding of the point of view of Janeane Garofalo and where she and many others like her, fit into these larger stories about our ever evolving culture.
TF: What is your personal commitment to the progressive movement and why is it so important for you?
JG: I am a progressive, liberal person. I vote that way and I live that way. That is the way I believe is the ideal way for society to function in a liberal, tolerant, egalitarian way. I contribute money towards causes that espouse that. I believe anyone who values their civil liberties would think it is important especially women and people of color had better vote Democrat, especially the more liberal wing of the Democrats because this radically right-wing administration seeks to keep the playing field very unlevel. Askew, if you will.
I think anyone that’s concerned about their freedom and their future and their child’s future and the economy had better vote Democrat. And had better vote for the more liberal Democratic candidates. All this partisan flag-waving isn’t going to save the economy. It isn’t going to make you more secure from terrorists and it isn’t going to stop the corporate scandals. It isn’t going to stop the tragedies inherent in the globalization movement sponsored by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
If you say that oil is a big motivator, a prime mover of the Bush Jr. Administration’s foreign policy agenda, people who discount any attempt to tell an alternate version of the story of the Bush Administration will say, “Oh, that’s crazy, that’s a ridiculous thing to say.” And that’s what proves that it’s oil. Why would they get so hyper about it? If it wasn’t oil, they’d just be like, easy going about it if people mentioned oil and said, “No, it isn’t.”
I equate this, before I quit, I quit drinking in 2001. Before that a lot of people would say, “You’ve got to quit drinking.” I would be like, “Why? I don’t have a problem with alcohol.” And they’d say, “You have to quit drinking alcohol.” I would say, “Alcohol is not the problem. I don’t have a problem with alcohol. I was adamant about that. And then my friend Amy said, “I need you to quit eating oranges. And I went, “Okay.” And then she said, “Do you see? I just asked you to quit eating oranges and you were fine with that. And when I asked you to quit drinking you make a big deal that drinking is absolutely not a problem.” I equate that, if that makes any sense, with the oil issue. If you bring up oil, you are somehow some kind of wing nut.
TF: If the Bush Administration is so keen on liberating the oppressed, as is now the Pentagon sponsored, media-driven, story about our foreign policy towards Iraq, why is the Vice President so against racial integration, gay rights and equal rights for women?
JG: Because they are not into liberation. They aren’t. It’s the politics of exclusion. I’m sure everybody is thrilled that Saddam is gone. There is no question about that. Nobody has a problem with that. Perhaps a lot of these guys that have been around since Gerald Ford shouldn’t have been supporting Saddam in the first place. And perhaps Halliburton shouldn’t have been doing business with him until 1998. But be that as it may, a lot of nations are guilty of supporting questionable regimes. Not just America. That’s a worldwide business-is-business issue.
TF: Why doesn’t that story get told in the mainstream media?
JG: It does in dribs and drabs. But the mainstream media has decided to be self-censoring. I suppose it’s because they don’t want to appear to be unlikable, un-American, or its because their corporate masters decree that they tow the party line or tow the establishment line and then of course you have THE NEW YORK POST and Fox whose job it is to not give the whole story.
TF: But Fox’s journalism is Fair and Balanced as they like to remind their viewers dozens of times every day.
JG: According to their definition. My friend Martin Lewis is filing a lawsuit against Fox News because of the words “fair” and “balanced.”
TF: In STEAL THIS MOVIE, you played the wife of the controversial Viet Nam era agitator, Abbie Hoffman. In that movie, federal agents seem to have much more power to openly bully anyone who was critical of the Nixon administration or the Viet Nam war. What was it about Abbie Hoffman that was so threatening that the government did anything they could to shut him up.
JG: It wasn’t just him. They were doing it to so many people. They followed and had files on people who were the most innocuous. There would be no reason in the world to have a file on them. Like Granny D [Doris Haddock] and Martin Luther King’s children.
I think that they saw in a guy like Abbie Hoffman a guy that really, charismatically, moves people. And he’s a guy who’s not afraid of them. And that’s what scares them the most when there are people that aren’t afraid of “them.” That aren’t afraid of the power base. That aren’t afraid of Cointelpro. Aren’t afraid of the government. Aren’t afraid of Joe McCarthy. I know he’s before Abbie Hoffman but they aren’t afraid of guys like Joe McCarthy. And when you are not afraid of McCarthyism and you are not afraid of repressive regimes and you are not afraid of Big Brother, then they wanna know about you.
(Excerpt) Read more at moviepoopshoot.com ...
Of special note is her attack on Fox (one of the few places that had her on) for being biased and her glee that one of her friends is suing the network for calling itself "fair and balanced."
I hope O'Reilly remembers that the next time he defends her as courageous for going on his show.
Of other note is her admission of being a recovering alcoholic. It makes one wonder if she has simply substituted a new addition (the spotlight) for the old.
And if anyone asks "where's the barf alert"...it's an interview with Jeaneane Garofalo. Her name alone is plenty of alert.
Bubba-Jean Garbarfalo after Brian Kilmeade slam-dunked her as the idiot, liberal panty-waist she is . . .
She must be making a parallel to people like Hillary Clinton and FBI files which are kept in private to be used for extortion and racketeering on innocent law abiding folk like most conservatives.
I've always found it interesting how liberals claim McCarthy was absurd when he suggested covert schemes were afoot in the 50/60s to create a more socialistic America. Do they sincerely believe America is less socialistic and more conservative today than during the era of McCarthy?
IMHO, the evidence would suggest there was something sound in McCarthy's cause. The mechanisms he employed may have had weaknesses, but the cause seems to have been very well substantiated by how socialization has overcome middle America and destoyed so much of our potential.
Commercial spokesman for ToysRUs . No,thats Jeffrey Giraffe. Sorry.
OMG, this is the depth of thought that takes up the majority of space in an otherwise vacuous liberal mind.
She and the author seem to think all Republicans are angry white males, too...but Garafolo, Sarandon and Natalie Maines took a far bigger beating from conservative women, because we're tired of these uneduacated, irrational, shallow, hormonally-driven, megalomaniacs vapidly spouting hateful stupidity into the faces of mainstream America, therebye making ALL women look bad.
They seem to have forgotten there is probably no more dangerous creature on Earth than a truely ticked off female.
Just my 2 cents as a conservative woman tired of having these alien beings shoved down our throats as some kind of epitome of womanhood.
He is one NASTY leftie, I think he's British, an old favorite at CNN. I hope the SCUMBAG LAWYERS charge him double for his idiotic loser lawsuit.
Yes, let the Demcrats showcase their loony ideologues -- the Baldwins, Moores, Sarandons, Frankens and Garafalos. With each and every interview a few more Democratic voters realize this party indeed represents the criminally insane.
Ergo, Me thinketh she is a pompous ignorant Hollywood idiot with yes, a dictionary and a crack pipe...
...no, no one has that kind of luck...
"I wish Scott Peterson would take her fishing."
Nawww...she's too ugly for bait. Even fish have their standards.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!...beer on my monitor and keyboard alert!
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| By Jeneane Garafalo |
I don't get it. I'm a good person who lives an honest life and is nice to people, yet for some reason, I seem to have the worst luck: My toast always falls jam-side down, the one day it rains is always the day I leave my windows open, and the one time I have unprotected sex in a public-beach changing room, I end up with chlamydia! What gives?
Yes, every single year, I go for my annual gyno visit and, without fail, I find out I've got chlamydia again. Why am I always the one to get chlamydia? It's just not fair!
It's not like I'm any more sexually active than the average girl. My best friend Susan Suranden has sex with her boyfriend almost every single night, and she's never had it. Me, I'll be lucky if I have 200 one-night stands in an entire year! So if she's having sex at least 10 times as often as me, why hasn't she ever had it? Did I do something wrong in a past life? I don't think I've done anything recently to deserve being cursed with chronic chlamydia. I guess I'm just a chlamydia magnet or something.
I know what you're probably thinking: Susan's so dumb, she never got her first infection cleared up. Well, that's just not true. Sure, I was totally freaked when I first got it and the DNC convention back in 2000. (I thought I was going to go blind or crazy or something.) But when my doctor told me that, if caught early, chlamydia is easily cured with just a day's worth of antibiotics, I was totally relieved. Thank goodness my first experience wasn't like the time I caught that rare strain of Southeast Asian chlamydia. Lying in that hospital bed with my urethra on fire made me appreciate how easy it was to get rid the normal chlamydia I usually get.
I'm not irresponsible, either. I take care of myself, because I totally wouldn't want to spread it to other people. Especially cute guys. There's nothing more embarrassing than getting a call from some hottie you picked up at the bar last month accusing you of giving him chlamydia. Once that happens to you half a dozen times, you start to get real careful and make sure you go to the doctor as soon as you see symptoms.
And it's not like I don't have standards. I tend to go for goth-wanna-be, Micheal Moore-type guys, the kind who'd be very unlikely to have an STD. Plus, I almost always have them use a condom if they don't swear up and down that they're clean. So what's the deal?
We've all been there. I mean, I'm hardly the only one out there having oral, vaginal, and anal sexual contact. I'm just the one who winds up with a pus-like discharge shooting out of my hoo-hoo.
Sometimes, I think it's my family's fault. The Glauber clan is cursed. My dad died in a drunk-driving accident when I was 5, and my mom is just plain crazy. She actually got pregnant when she was 40 after dating a guy she worked with for a week. She even kept the baby. That's why I'm on the pill. I've been more or less lucky on that front (don't ask), yet I've got to admit that this chlamydia thing gets me down. Maybe if I came from a different family, I might have better luck.
Oh, listen to me pissing and moaning: "My family's crazy"... "I wish I was luckier"... "I'm always contracting chlamydia." Everybody's got problems. It's not like I'm starving on the street without a penny to my name. I've got good friends, a good job, and a halfway-decent sex life. Maybe instead of whining about how much I seem to get chlamydia, I should be thankful for the times I don't have it.
I must say, I would probably have a more positive attitude about the whole chlamydia thing if I didn't have it right now. But, as they say, the grass is always greener on the STD-free side of the fence, right?
Dubya is now high on American patriotism -- AND inspiring his people towards disinfecting the world of leftist wing-nuts, self-absorbed poseurs, and pompous nitwits...
Ringing a bell here by chance??
Your president's a recovering alcoholic. What's he replaced his alcoholism with? Ian www.spinneyhead.co.ukI don't know. But I do know that I have replaced you with Folger's Crystals.
I don't think anyone will notice.
Seller is from L.A. Southern Kapitol for Socialism.
I guess the real question is who is smarter?
President George W. Bush earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School; served as an F-102 pilot in the Texas Air National Guard; began his career in the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until 1986; elected governor on Nov. 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In a historic re-election victory, he became the first Texas governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms on Nov. 3, 1998, winning 68.6 percent of the vote, with 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27 percent of the African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of women.
Janeane Garofalo: Dropped out of college Career: Stand-up comedy/acting - Oh and BTW - Recovering Alcoholic!
Bush replaced his booze with service to his state and to his country and love and faithfulness unto the Lord.
Garofalo replaced her booze with chlamydia from "having 200 one-night stands in an entire year!" Yep this is an idiot I want to listen too!
Uh ... I do think that this girl (and I say that as if I am talking about a little girl, by the way she is lost in her wierd unfounded rationals) needs some serious counsel.
The point is that "oil" is the left's only rational of rock throwing to the right. They have no basis for it other than our president being from Texas has some strong ties to the industry therefore it must be "about oil."
This warped mentality omits that
1 - it is quite clear that for France, it WAS about Oil, and that to keep Saddam in power, was proven to be tied to their strong oil relationship with Iraq and the "bonanza" that they were after with this tie.
2 - They also miss the point that if it was truly "about oil" for the USA, it would be a lot easier to deal with Saddam to buy oil than for some future peoples republic of Iraq that may be more difficult.
3 - If it was about Oil, why did Colin Powell immediately say that ANY funds from Iraq's oil belongs to the Iraqi people and we will hold them in trust until we are gone and we will be gone as soon as possible, which history shows is always pretty damn quick .. sometimes too quick (WW2 coming to mind).
The problem with the Garofalo's of the world is that they simply do not think.... they either make up or simply "parrot" some rationale that they heard that fits with the "anti-Republican" position that they want to hold.
To encourage women and minorities to "vote Democratic" also has no basis in any facts, but that is another subject entirely....
LOL. Me too. I even taped it so I can play it for friends who didn't see it. He was one mad hombre and she looked like she'd been smacked with a two-by-four.
Welcome to FR by the way. I noticed you're relatively new. Grow thick skin and don't ever let idiots like me run you off. LOL. We're often-times a surly bunch, but it's only because we're so passionate. Hang around and you'll love it.
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