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Liberal Hall of Shame "There's nothing you could point to in the Bush Administration with pride," she says. "Nothing. There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America." "It is shocking that some people's lives are enriched by this nonsense--these boycotts and e-mails. They are proving themselves to be fundamentally anti-American and anti-democratic. They are against the First Amendment, so what are they defending? Unless they are trying to build a fascist Administration, unless they are trying to bring the American people to a point that we exist under a totalitarian regime May 2003 Issue
"[A war] is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster." Antiwar actor: 'I don't have to be a policy
expert'
"This [Iraq war] is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area. "There is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. You never even get that idea floated in the mainstream media. If you bring it up, they hate the messenger. You've ruined everyone's good time." No Kidding On Iraq, Janeane Garofalo Fights
to Be Taken Seriously
by Marcus Rubyman, staff reporter [July
30, 2002]
"There has been so many inappropriate responses to dissent, which is the most patriotic thing you can do. And the First Amendment guarantees everyone’s right to speak out. The pillorying that was endured by the Dixie Chicks and Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins and now Johnny Depp is absurd. And, again, it is promulgated by the kind of Archie Bunker mentality that dominates the right wing of the Republican Party and also right-wing radio and some of the faux populist right-wing cable news shows." "Like, Joe Scarborough, for example, pretends that he is real upset about this Johnny Depp thing. It is just-it’s not news and it is not particularly intellectual. And there’s nobody that’s really upset about it. Johnny Depp has every right to say whatever he wants. And that’s a rather moderate thing to say about the puppy. There is global distaste for the Bush doctrine. And there is a lot of domestic distaste for the Bush doctrine, for that matter. And nobody ever had a problem with bashing the Clintons, which was like a national pastime. So this pretend partisan pseudo-patriotism is inappropriate. And people call it a backlash, but it’s not. It was an attack, what happened to the Dixie Chicks. And it is-like I said, it’s very Archie Bunker, anti-intellectual, unfair way to treat dissent." "I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don’t think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there’s some intimidation there." Countown with Keith Olbermann September 4, 2003
“This summer's hottest and most pandering concert tour is U.S. Attorney
General John Ashcroft's 'Scare the dopes and promote the Patriot Act’
tour. Today, he took the tour today to Cleveland and Philadelphia. This
is an elaborate pre-campaign commercial, not an honest effort to explain
why government agencies need to withhold any information we might need
to function as a democracy. The Bush administration wants to expand its
powers of surveillance over your life, while simultaneously rolling back
the Freedom of Information Act. Team Bush is more radically corrupt than
Richard Nixon ever tried to be.” "Well, there's no credible link between Iraq and al Qaeda. There's no credible link between Iraq and 9/11." "Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster." Thursday, February 20, 2003
"I did not support Operation Desert Fox. It's just that you didn't know me very well back then. Nobody really was interested in listening to me back then." Then she added, by way of explaining why the anti-Clinton protests never gelled, "It wasn't very hip. Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003 2:59 p.m. EST
The following interview by Bill O'Reilly aired on the March 6, 2003 edition of The Pulse GARAFALO: I resent this "Axis of Weasel" stuff. I resent this alienation of people that we need for the occupation and rebuilding. O'REILLY: They're weasels and you know it... GARAFALO: They're.. O'REILLY: You've traveled there GARAFALO: Don't tell me what I know O'REILLY: You've traveled there, and you know they're weasels. GARAFALO: I've been to Europe many times O'REILLY: You wouldn't date a Frenchman, I know that... GARAFALO: What? I'll tell you what, I would date a Frenchman with pride… ----------------------- BILL O'REILLY: Do you think that George W. Bush is more of a danger to this world than Saddam? GARAFALO: I would say he is a danger in a different way, and I'll tell you why. BILL O'REILLY: More or less than Saddam? GARAFALO: Equal. In a different way. Wait a minute, and let me say it. I would say [that] there needs to be some accountability for the idea that we might not be where we are right now if some different choices had been made in the wake of 9-11. I would say the with-us-or-against-us rhetoric was not helpful. The Axis of Evil speech was not helpful, and this huge ramping up of war, and this go-it-alone attitude has not been helpful. Now, do I think [Bush is] a crazy, despotic ruler like Saddam Hussein who would pour acid on his own people? Absolutely not. -------------------------------------------- O'REILLY: If you are wrong… and if the United States - and they will, this is going to happen - goes in, liberates Iraq [with] people in the street, American flags, hugging our soldiers… you gonna apologize to George W. Bush? GARAFALO: I would be so willing to say, "I'm sorry". I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say, "You were wrong. You were a fatalist". And I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, "Hey, you and Thomas Friedman were right… I shouldn't have doubted you"… |
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