Janeane Garofalo: What a Joke

USA News and Views ^ | 8/20/03 | Paul Walfield

[political_chick]

Warm and fuzzy, cute and cuddly have absolutely nothing in common with the venom spewing Leftist, Janeane Garofalo. Janeane makes her living as a comedienne and as an actor, but her calling seems to be that of emulating a shrew on a bad hair day.

Janeane is now co-host of CNN’s faltering Crossfire TV show, at least for a week anyway. No doubt the wisest at CNN understands their prospective audience far better than ordinary folks who just tune in. In their infinite wisdom they chose to have a spokesperson of Janeane’s unique qualifications to represent the Left and democrats across the nation.

[Quilla]

I took the liberty to post the entire article, hope you don't mind:

Warm and fuzzy, cute and cuddly have absolutely nothing in common with the venom spewing Leftist, Janeane Garofalo. Janeane makes her living as a comedienne and as an actor, but her calling seems to be that of emulating a shrew on a bad hair day.

Janeane is now co-host of CNN’s faltering Crossfire TV show, at least for a week anyway. No doubt the wisest at CNN understands their prospective audience far better than ordinary folks who just tune in. In their infinite wisdom they chose to have a spokesperson of Janeane’s unique qualifications to represent the Left and democrats across the nation.

The CNN bigwigs must have delved deeply into Janeane’s past accomplishments and her rhetoric and understood that most of their viewers would relate to her and feel a sense of loyalty and devotion to a kindred spirit. CNN, like all big corporations would never hire someone to host one of their television shows without testing audience reaction to their presence. CNN must know something everyone else who can think has missed.

The folks over at CNN must have looked at all the easily available sources of information on Janeane and naturally, they would have looked at things us ordinary folks do not have easy access to. For instance, an easily obtainable bit of information about Janeane that CNN must have looked upon approvingly; after all, they hired her, is this quote from Janeane and reported on Hollywood Investigator from an interview in “Buzz Magazine,” “Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride.”

Of course, Janeane’s distaste for all things American is probably not the only thing that endeared her to the suits over at CNN. There is also her love for all things liberal. For instance, NewsMax reported that Janeane is not necessarily against the bombing and burning of people in foreign lands. Well, she might be against that type of pillaging, but she’d rather keep it to herself during a democratic administration.

When asked by Tony Snow on FoxNews Sunday why she and her brethren were not, at the time, out protesting the bombing of Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia and the Sudan, she said she was absolutely against the bombing of Iraq. When pressed about her lack of vocalizing her displeasure, Janeane is quoted as answering, “it wasn’t very hip,” to protest against a democratic president.

To be fair, Janeane pointed out that her pals Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins led many protests against President Clinton’s bombing of Iraq. Though, NewsMax reported an extensive search by their staff of all the news stories at the time showed no such “protest” actually occurred. But CNN must have been impressed with Janeane’s spunk and willingness to make things up on the fly. However, it does seem to be a common trait of the folks on the Left and not a unique trait of Leftist television talk show hosts.

Then again, there is the backhanded whack she threw at all News outlets located in the United States which presumably includes CNN News. Media Research reported Janeane as saying, “We don't get enough information. We don't get enough news with our news. And how can we function as a democracy without information? We are given disinformation and White House propaganda all the time. We have no history to our news, no context to our news, no global perspective.”

Janeane then added her thoughts about the American people in general and the White House, “We don't see people outside our borders as humans. And if I am uninformed, which I'd like to think I work very hard not to be, uninformed, it is the fault of the White House and the mainstream media.”

Then there is Janeane’s opening performance as co-anchor of CNN’s Crossfire. Janeane was as warm and loving as ever and began by saying that the killing in Iraq lately is not terrorism, but rather by freedom loving Iraqis. It would seem then that the truck bomb that slaughtered about a score of Iraqi citizens as well as the chief UN official on August 19, 2003, was by Iraqi loyalists who just wanted to express their displeasure with America’s continued presence in their country.

As Janeane put it when talking about previous killings, “This destruction was supposedly the work of pro-Saddam loyalists, but I disagree. This is the work of anti-occupation resistance. The majority of people in Iraq and Afghanistan no longer see us as liberators, but as occupiers and trespassers.”

It must be comforting to the loved ones and the over one hundred wounded that their suffering was for a good cause.

Though Janeane is not exactly sure that the removal of the murdering cutthroat Saddam Hussein is a good thing, it does sound like she is leaning in that direction, “That might be a good thing that he's gone, but occupation and democracy are at loggerheads all the time.” For Janeane, wanting to keep the likes of Saddam and his henchman from returning to power and instituting a bloodbath is an “occupation,” by America, and putting into place an infrastructure in Iraq that will support freedom for its citizens; an evil cause.

For the folks at CNN, it sounds like just what they want to hear. It is probably just what the folks at rival FoxNews want to hear also.

[Numbers Guy]

Garafaolo and "cute and cuddly" should never appear in the same article.

I've never been *that* drunk.

[weegee]

J Garafolo "Check out my new wardrobe" contest

[tutstar]

ping

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Breaking News?

[sox_the_cat]

The little shrew is hosting this week. Who's hosting next week? Al Franken? He's pretty good at making stuff up. CNN is a cess pool. Does Jesse Jackson still have a weekend show?

[ken5050]

About the only difference between Garafalo, Carville, and Begala, is the visible tattoos..

[Constitution Day]

Breaking News?

The knowledge that "Janeane of Arc"* is a joke is actually quite OLD news. :)

*as Ann Coulter describes her in Treason.

[sarasota]

You're going to have to change the hair color to blonde, cut it short and "sassy" and rework the face. She's had some work done.

[Tiger_eye]

I happened to have Crossfire on monday evening and she came on and was so caustic I turned the show off.

She gives me the creeps.

[Prodigal Son]

No doubt the wisest at CNN understands their prospective audience far better than ordinary folks who just tune in. In their infinite wisdom they chose to have a spokesperson of Janeane’s unique qualifications to represent the Left and democrats across the nation.

Actually, that is a very insightful comment. Janeane is the perfect spokesperson for the left.

[Maria S]

I saw her yesterday on CNN. Blonde hair is not a good look for her!

[1Old Pro]

CNN thinks they have the Left version of Ann Coulter. The joke's on them.

[Tacis]

Thank you. These posts are interesting. I'd never know what was on CNN without them.

Is there any question why the word "traitor" is applied to people like Inane Garafolo?

[RJL]

Bump

[weegee]

Here's an old shot that had about as much airbrushing as Hillary's bookcover...

[Prodigal Son]

CNN thinks they have the Left version of Ann Coulter.

Well, in a sense they do have the leftist version of Ann Coulter. This Garofolo woman represents the heart of the leftists perfectly. She is the corruption spewing mouth of their morally bankrupt souls. She is basically as deep as it gets on the left side of the aisle.

[Porterville]

I'm beginning to think that CNN is actually a conservative news station that is undercover to expose the Left as baffoons. Double-Agent CNN

[Mo1]

If I ever had questions about Janeane Garofalo .. this article answered them .. Janeane is nothing but a supporter of commie rule of thought