Janeane Garofalo
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The Top 1000 Liberals in America
"You guys are the kings of petty, nasty rhetoric," Garofalo snapped at Fund, who writes for the Wall Street Journal.
She then slammed the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., as a gathering of "small-minded, very petty (and) mean" delegates and speakers who simply grinded out "red meat" for the "dopes" in the red states.
"It's all limbic brain stuff," she said.
"There is no evidence to support that the current incarnation of the Republican Party-hyphen-conservative movement has any tethering to decency, kindness, tolerance (or) open-mindedness," she said. "What do they stand for? Torture as a policy. They stand for homophobia. They stand for no reproductive justice. They stand for denying global warming."
A flabbergasted Fund, who was sitting next to her, asked: "So what should we do, jail them?"
"That would be great!" Garofalo exclaimed with a straight face.
Actress Janeane Garofalo: Jail all Republicans
Activist says GOP 'small-minded,' only Democrats 'decent'
Posted: September 15, 2008 11:47 pm Eastern
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75431
"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
http://www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.html
"[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'
Thursday, February 20, 2003 Posted: 1:30 PM EST (1830 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/20/cf.opinion.antiwar.hollywood/
"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 Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 27, 2003;
Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A47534-2003Jan26¬Found=true
"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."
by Marcus Rubyman, staff reporter [July
30, 2002]
JANEANE GAROFALO: FLAG-BURNING CHOKES ME WITH PRIDE!
http://www.hollywoodinvestigator.com/2002/garofalo.htm
“The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us....It
was an attempt at a corporate takeover. This was about oil. It wasn’t
about human rights. It’s not about human rights....It is the Bush/Cheney
cartel’s fault....Team Bush is more radically corrupt than Richard Nixon
ever tried to be....It is, in fact, a conspiracy of the 43rd Reich.”
Crossfire Aug. 20, 2003
"But the only ramifications were, like, the kind of bigoted right-wing
assault and pretend anger, partisan anger, that came from some right-wing
radio people or the pretend anger from guys like Scarborough and nonsense
like that."
"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
“You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was
that Iraq was a threat to us. Well, now it is a threat. Now it is a terrorist
hotbed. The fiction is now reality. And now we have to deal with it. It
was an attempt at a corporate takeover. This was about oil. It wasn't
about human rights. It's not about human rights."
“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.”
August 20, 2003 Crossfire
"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
Antiwar actor: 'I don't have to be a policy expert'
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/20/cf.opinion.antiwar.hollywood/index.html
"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
Janeane Garofalo: 'It Wasn't Hip' to Protest Clinton's Wars
Newsmax.com
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…
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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.
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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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