Janeane Garofalo: There Is Almost No Liberal News Outlet in America

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UPDATE AT END OF POST: More tweets about Garofalo's meltdown at Latitude festival.

I've often wondered what the color of the sky is in Janeane Garofalo's world, and after hearing her interview on BBC Radio Saturday, I'm convinced this woman lives on another planet.

After all, in her view: "[T]he media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing."

This coming from a woman who used to host a program on the far-left-leaning Air America Radio, and is a frequent guest on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" as well as Bill Maher's "Real Time."

Such idiocy made it all the more fitting that after she finished her chat with the BBC's Clive Anderson, Garofalo ended up cutting her comedy routine at the Latitude festival short due to the audience's seeming disinterest in her views.

But before we get there, here's a partial transcript of her fact-challenged, Bush-bashing interview (audio available here, relevant section at 3:00, h/t NBer DB): 

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JANEANE GAROFALO: Over the last, well since the Bush administration, much more so, I was...

CLIVE ANDERSON, BBC: He used to be president.

GAROFALO: George Bush, yes, used to be President of the United States.

ANDERSON: I remember that.

GAROFALO: And I got involved in certain anti-war groups and stuff like that, and I would be invited on to these so-called news programs, but not because they thought I was any kind of a thinker. It was mostly just to mock and marginalize the anti-war movement and things of that nature.

Imagine that. On Garofalo's planet, the anti-war movement is mocked and marginalized by America's media. 

ANDERSON: There seems to be a slightly odd way in America, or maybe I've just got a false impression, that there seem to be a lot of programs where like-minded people get together and chat, and then, as your case might be a liberal group chatting, and then another group, might be sort of a radio jockey's got a TV program, then plays in clips of you, and then argues with you in your absence. You ought to put those two together some times you know.

GAROFALO: The, mostly the media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing. And also, they have an unfortunate need to make it combative where they have people that wind up devolving into a shouting match of sorts. 

ANDERSON: Well, I don't put up with that. I wouldn't dream of being in combat with anybody.

GAROFALO: No, you're very polite. You're British.

Fascinating, wouldn't you agree? But the best is yet to come, for watch how she gets dressed down by Anderson:

ANDERSON: So, but you started your own program, what your own radio...

GAROFALO: I worked at Air America Radio for 2 1/2 years, and, which was a radio station formed as an answer to all the rightwing radio that dominates.

ANDERSON: How did it do, is it still going?

GAROFALO: It's still going, I mean, it's had a lot of financial difficulties, and a lot of problems over the years. But that's just because of a poor business model. Yeah, it's still going. 

ANDERSON: But who'd have thought, a poor business model from a left-wing group? You should try a license fee, that seems to work well.

Hehehehehe. Gotta love it.

Later:

ANDERSON: Last week we had on the program Jamie Kilstein who's a comedian I think you know, and he made the point that there's a slightly different flavor now that American comedians bring to the country because for many years you've been able to come on and say, "Oh no, we've got this interesting man Bush as President." Now you've a different President and we, should we have a different attitude toward America now do you think?

GAROFALO: Well, I think people like us better now that Obama's there. It's a much better representative of the States I think, because George Bush certainly makes it seem like we're the biggest jerks in the world. And it's nice to have Obama. But there's certainly no shortage of still political things to discuss and media things to discuss.    

ANDERSON: And do you think there'll become a time when you'll be criticizing him, for he's having quite a long honeymoon.

GAROFALO: No, there is many things to criticize him for at this point. He's a great guy, but he acquiesces too much to the right-wing in our country.

ANDERSON: So you're never going to be satisfied are you?

GAROFALO: Well, why should I be? 

Why indeed? But most deliciously, it was folks that attended her comedy show hours later that weren't satisfied according to Britain's Uncut:

Janeane Garofalo cut short her Saturday afternoon set in Latitude's comedy tent because of the poor reception she was given by the audience. The American comedienne's rare UK live appearance was expected to be one of the highlights in a strong comic line-up, but she failed to win over the festival crowd.

Best known to TV viewers as talent booker Paula in The Larry Sanders Show and political campaigner Louise in the final series of The West Wing, Garofalo was due perform for half an hour, but left the stage after less than ten minutes when her routine about post-9/11 security checks at airports met with stony silence.

"It's not you, I blame myself for this," she said before leaving the stage.

Some attendees tweeted their displeasure:

Ouch. Jeaneane Garofalo was on the Comedy Stage at Latitude. She lasted five minutes. My interview with her was longer.Sarah Silvermanesque

And:

Oh dear, janeane garofalo has just died on stage seriously badly!

It seems quite fitting that she would flop after speaking such nonsense about our nation while on foreign soil, don't you agree?

*****Update: Here are some more tweets about Garofalo's meltdown at Latitude (h/t NBer DB1) --

At latitude I stormed janeane garofalo's dressing room to cheer her up. It worked http://twitpic.com/ariqj (via @jonronson)

@EmmaK67 great to hear you cheered her up but she was a bit crap, sadly from twibble in reply to EmmaK67

@EmmaK67 so, that was *afterwards*. What went wrong with the set? from twidroid in reply to EmmaK67

@PlaceFarm she had a nightmare. I couldn't bear it. I was told she was crying in her dressing room. So I did something about it... from Tweetie in reply to PlaceFarm

@EmmaK67 Oh no, that's terrible - but of all the people who could cheer her up I can think of no-one better than you xx from web in reply to EmmaK67

@SteveDoherty1 she had a meltdown and gave up from Tweetie in reply to SteveDoherty1

@SteveDoherty1 well she was in tears. But we did cheer her up. And then she loved us.She was LOVELY from web in reply to SteveDoherty1

@louis_louis_66 she had a disastrous gig and I found her crying in her dressing room from Tweetie in reply to louis_louis_66

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Impressive

Apparently her lack of understanding of the Tea Parties is only rivaled by her lack of understanding of what an American "Liberal" means. 

Maybe if she got state run TV in Russia where the journalists get double tapped to the head every month, she would feel more of that liberal warmth.  There's no excuse for this woman.  

To quote Douglas Adams, whenever I see a racist, classist, sexist all rolled into one aka a Socialist, I can't help but think of "A bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

"her lack of understanding

"her lack of understanding of what an American "Liberal" means"

I would suggest her interpretation would make Russ Feingold look like Reagan.

Also, what is good that more people know about her interview through this blog than actually watch or listen to her.

 

I can only

Laugh.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAAHAHA
ad infinitum.....

OMG....I started to do the

OMG....I started to do the same thing...LOL....and edited it to what I have below...

I guess that's a good thing!

 

I want what she is having.

I want what she is having. It must give you a potent buzz. 

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Now THAT is a comment that

Now THAT is a comment that is, to quote Michelle Malkin:

Snort-worthy.

 

 

Rand

Ayn Rand was right! Garofolo is proof positive!

 

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

 

  Please forgive my

 

Please forgive my ignorance,

 

i have yet to read any Ayn Rand but i want to, but what do you mean by your comment?

 

See, it was only recently that i found out i was a Conservitive...I always knew I never argeed with the left, but it wasn't untill I came to Newsbusters that i realized that I was not the only person in the US that felt like liberals were ruining our country.

 

 

FINALY A REAL CANDIATE FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!

http://zod2008.com/index.htm

red_dragon--

Welcome to the dark side...we have cookies! :-)

Ayn Rand newbies

Anyone who has not read Ayn Rand should start with her first novel, "We the Living."  It is relatively short and gives us a good idea of what life was like when the socialists took over every aspect of society in Soviet Russia.  If you can't get through her other classic two-inch thick tomes, at least read this one.

Snort-worthy.... That's

Snort-worthy....

That's funny.

Fitting too.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Postergirl of Moonbattery

The lack of shampoo has apparently affected her brain.

Obama "aquiesces to the right wing"?  On what planet, I'd like to know.

Seriously, NS, you need to photoshop a tinfoil hat for Ms. Garofolo, she is surely the postergirl of moonbattery.

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

(snicker...)

Good one.

 

Hey Janet Napolitano...I'm proud to be a Right-winger.

That's it then.

That settles it.  There is NO limit to idiocy.  I was pretty sure anyway , but this settles it for me.

Why, why, WHY didn't her

Why, why, WHY didn't her parents practice birth control?!

I wonder,

if abortion after the fact is out of the question.  Self inflicted, of course. 

boomercon--

That just might be covered -- or encouraged -- under Obamacare.

GAROFALO: And I got

GAROFALO: And I got involved in certain anti-war groups and stuff like that, and I would be invited on to these so-called news programs, but not because they thought I was any kind of a thinker. It was mostly just to mock and marginalize the anti-war movement and things of that nature.

   Well evidently the anti-war movement has been put out of business.  Obama has escalated the war in Afghanastan and Pakistan and I haven't seen any of Barfofolo's friends denouncing barry' war crimes at any of the hollywood's functions or during interviews.

Excellent point,

Excellent point, MA!

Earth to Garofaloop:  of course the "so-called news programs"  didn't think that you were any kind if thinker!  You're a demonstratable fool, drone, and an idiot, and you look like pure S**T! 

They did it to make fun of you........just as ABC, CBS, Katy Couric, NBC, Keith Overbite, Chris Matthews, MSNBC, CNN, and all the other "thinkers" did and continues to do to George Bush, Cheney, Palin, Rove, etc, and any other person who expresses ideas not in keeping with the losers on the left, you being one of them. 

So quit whining, Jannine (or however you spell your first name).  And, yeah, where is the outrage from all of scum and perverts in Hollywood over Obozo's escalation of "the war" into Afghanistan and Pakistan?  (Crickets, crickets, crickets)

 Oh well, at least I think that you can produce a bona-fide birth certificate!   Or can you?

What Seabeach said, but

What Seabeach said, but LOUDER, no-seriously. Apparently, the class of people that becomes the "crazy old man/woman" on the block now gets a job in Hollywood- that's good for the terrified children in your neighborhood, but bad for everyone else. Lord, please someone convince her and her ilk to move to Russia, N. Korea, or France (pretty much the same place, just spelled different).

              

                 The woman is starting to look a lot like Whoopi Goldberg. Unfortunatly she still sounds like an idiot.  So, if you bad mouth the people of the United States, you are a political activist. I'll bet she gets picked to fill the empty spot at CNN.

Hmm.  Seems to me that

Hmm.  Seems to me that she's saying that she is so far to the left that even CNN and MS-NBC are to her right.  Amazing!

When did Whoopi Goldberg

When did Whoopi Goldberg stop sounding like an idiot?

compared

compared to that mindless former school teacher Joy Behar (sp), Whoopi can sound downright reasonable.

A Leftist Tactic

Lie often enough and the Ignorant Masses believe it to be the truth.  Apparently, the British audience gets enough real truth to know that her ''routine'' was garbage. And a ''comedy'' bit on 9/11?? Extremely disturbed.

And how very erudite is this?

''And I got involved in certain anti-war groups and stuff like that . . .''

Yeah, involved in things and stuff, dude.  What a dork.  I claim that repeated oily build-up on her cranium has affected what little brain she had in the first place.

She just ain't funny . . .

Garofalo is obviously frustrated that the vast majority of folks (1) are not as radical as she, and (2) increasingly don't find her funny.  This leads her to a sense of denial, in which she refuses to grasp that her failures are directly attributed to her own attitudes and behavior, and not to some right-wing boogeymen.   It's most evident in he ridiculous that there are hardly any liberal news outlets in America.  No doubt she beleives this (and I beleive she sincerely does) because fewer and fewre news outlets are inviting her to appear.  To Garofalo, the right-wing media is actually growing and surrounding her.

As some comedians have pointed out, the deeper she gets in radical politics, the less funny she's become.  to the contrary, she comes a cross as a bitter, doomed individual.  Her entertainment career is in a death spiral, and narrowing down to appearances on MSNBC and BBC.

 

Fast and Furious

I occasionally observe how quickly an article can get comments. GaraFool excites the blood. 5 minutes for first response and more at about one a minute. She is such a fool and really must live in an alternate reality. Do liberal types really find her funny and believable?

Does George Soros pay this

Does George Soros pay this lost child to say stupid stuff? Or does being clueless come naturally to her? 

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

"A poor business model"!

Considering that Janeane's wacko views would probably make Vladimir Lenin and Joe Stalin "right-wing" by comparison, I guess I'm not surprised at her comments--but they are still inane.

But that bit about AirAmerica having "a poor business model"? Like, who knew misappropriating money from the Gloria Wise children's home wouldn't make for a great business model? I mean, they'd be a Fortune 500 company right now that would have driven Rush completely off the air if it hadn't been for the 'eeeeeevillll' Bush. 

I can tell you this

What planet? Let's just say when the sun comes up on her, there are two suns.

Plus

The other nite, I was remoting around and saw a movie called REALITY BITES with her in it...and just clicked onward.

Janeane,...

You really ought to lay off the mushrooms for a while.  You know, the ones that grow on the cow patties and "bruise purple".

Reality is slipping away.

Missed Opportunity

She almost ruined '24' for me. The only reason that I could watch the scenes in which she appeared was my active rooting for Jack Bauer to snap her neck in mid-sentence. Oh well.

 

God bless the Brits for their reaction to this delightful human being.

She's Sooooo Funny!!

I think Janeane Garofalo is one of the funniest people to ever come down the pike. She makes my sides split and tears run from my eyes.

If she doesn't already have

a big obama head tattooed on one of her cheeks, left or right doesn't matter, she should get one and caption it with "I love the bamster and it's all Bush's fault" Once she had this in place on her next failed stage trip she could just moon the audience and get more laughs than anything that comes out at the other end ever will. Olbermann could have a copy of her tattooed cheeks made to use as a backdrop for his show and every now and again in the middle of his Bush bashing turn around and give her a smack on the cheek.

Chris might get jealous though.

"No Recovery until Nobama!!!!!" me and at least 59,934,786 other Americans.

Reality...???

Man, that is what I call acting..making it seem like she's the victim for the lack of so called liberal news outlets!  ..Oh, crap, she was SERIOUS?!?!... I thought she was acting...you know like when she was innnnn...wait, give me a minute....oh, she hasn't had any acting dates in a while..oh, well, hell, I guess she's SOL.  

Totally out of connection with the rest of reality, isn't she.

 

 Nobody says nothing better than Obama. 

                      

debilitating dementia

Yes, Janeane.  I trust you weep, too, that there are almost no Muslims in the Middle East...

Hmmm....that triggered the thought

That Janeane Garofolo would absolutely spectacular in a burkha.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

 Noel said: "It seems

 Noel said: "It seems quite fitting that she would flop after speaking such nonsense about our nation while on foreign soil, don't you agree?"

To which I would reply.... yes.... and it only goes to prove and support two premisses we should all take a little more seriously.

A: There is a GOD who possesses a keen sense of righteous fairness. AND...

B: We need to make sure we allocate enough funds to support and sustain our network of psychiatric insitutions so that this walking piece of $H!+ no longer walks the streets and places her illness on display for all to see.

 

 

"We retort..... you decide."

 I think that she is just

I think that she is just to stupid to realize that the MSM is not being openly liberal. They are rolling their stories out, to sound to the ignorant, as thou they are being objective. It takes some intelligence to see past the misinformation or lack of information that would truely make the MSM unbiased. 

It is rather funny to see that she was invited to the BBC, and basicalyl made fun of. Its even more funny to see that she didn't recognize what was happening.

Additionally, based on what I saw happen with Air America. The poor business model was the fact that they were so liberal. Most mainstream libs do not want the rest of the world to really know what they think. Real libs want to work in the shadows, because they know that the rest of the country thinks they are whackjobs. 

...how about we have a recall vote on Senator/Congressperson so and so....

Next to the Idiot in Chief

Next to the Idiot in Chief and his trusty side kick Ponco the moron VP, she has to be one of the dumbest libs on the planet.

Garafalo reminds me of my ex wife..

I could say the sky was blue,,,she would say it was purple and there was no way I could convince her.

Attention Newsbusters:

This hag , nag, has been (Never Was) hasn't gotten this much attention in months.  Don't even bother posting about her anymore.  She has margianilized herself to the point of being a trivia question.  I'm sure even the left wing blogs have disowned her. 

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

Red

Janeane Garbuffalo is

J ust

A nother

N eomarxist

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A ssinine

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She is actually quite

She is actually quite brilliant.

No, really... I just operate under the premise that NO ONE can actually be that stupid. Under those operating guidlines, she is a brilliant method actor/comedian and is actually trying to highlight the insane actions of those on the left. Doing so by being so completely over the top as to seem quite mental. Furthermore, you really need to give her credit where credit is due if she has taken the love for her art to the degree where she is completely tanking shows, working for talk radio outlets in a revenue killing format etc. I really have to admire her dedication. However, I think we all get the point and it is probably time "end" the character she is playing come back to reality.

Major Misunderstanding

This was a masterful stroke of programming by the producers at the BBC.  Don’t people understand that to lighten up the ‘normal’ drool British news reporting they injected a little humor.  The interview was the height of the well known, tongue in cheek, sarcastic, understated but implied, British humor.  What else could explain the content and labeling of this total idiot as a Political Activist?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius

TRANSLATION:

"... there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing."

TRANSLATION: 85% isn't enough, leftists want fascists domination. 

Garofalo Is Off The Deep End, Being Exploited By News Outlets

Janeane lives a miserable life. Her failure onstage in London is an example of that. She stubbornly believes things that aren't true and refuses to intelligently discuss opposing views.

For her to believe that America has no Left wing news outlets is simply crazy. She's in need of professional care, and I'm sure she isn't getting anything more than claptrap from sycophants who tell her what she wants to hear. Complaints from her colleagues about her not showering or washing her hair have been common, and that is one of the symptoms of the clinically depressed, or otherwise mentally ill.

She probably also thinks Al

She probably also thinks Al Gore was president in 2000.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

What gets me is that Ann

What gets me is that Ann Coulter gets sucker punched by the State Run Media but this tattooed harpy gets a free pass no matter what comes out of that horrid pie hole.

By the way what planet is she living on?!!! Complete disconnect from reality.

Links to the video of her engagement

Here is the video of her "performance".  What a pro. 

http://is.gd/1E36U 
http://is.gd/1E37H 
http://is.gd/1E38q

 

Performance?  Where?  Good

Performance?  Where?  Good grief.

funk... Thanks for

funk...

Thanks for that...I appreciate it, I agree with Greg here...what performance?

Pathetic.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I guess this answers the

I guess this answers the question of whether or not Garofalo uses halucinagenic drugs . . .

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

For SHAME!

Did you're parents ever tell you not to make fun of the poor souls suffering because they're mentally deficient, physically infirm or insane? This poor girl has gotten by on her lack of wits for years, and now you, and all of the other posters here, want to tackle her due to her mental retardation?!? Maybe if Ronald Reagan hadn't personally shut down all of the insane asylums this poor soul would be better now. In the meantime, we ought not pick on her lack of IQ. It's just bad form! 

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare,

Garafalo, there's a ditch in Crawford with your name on it.

I think that, rather than merely having insane political views, Jaeneane  Garafalo, like Cindy Sheehan, has a serious mental illness and that illness is manifested through her political views and speech - if that's what you can call them. I'm willing to bet that, sooner or later, there will be news that she has suffered a total breakdown and has been hauled off and checked into a clinic for treatment. I'm not being flippant about this. This woman is sick.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Chris... I wouldn't doubt

Chris...

I wouldn't doubt it either.

I'm also being serious.

Just look at how she takes care of her own personal hygiene.

Talk about spooky.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Something wrong with that

Something wrong with that woman.  She has covered herself with tramp stamps and she has a receding hairline.

bt, Yeah, it's like we're

bt,

Yeah, it's like we're watching her physically deteriorate in front of our eyes. Aging aside, she doesn't even look like the same person from say ten years ago. At one time, to hear her kind of thoughts, we had to go to a park where some deranged soul would be babbling on a bench. Now, they give these same kind of people a microphone and a camera - as long as their babbling is from the left.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

deja vu

It's almost as creepy as watching Gollum's deterioration on Lord of the Rings...

BT, I seem to remember that

BT, I seem to remember that JG spoke about her mental state during an interview on radio a year or two ago. It might have been depression or a bipolar condition. The meds can get your brain pretty tangled up until they are correct, and her current general public behavior, at least, is consistent with that phase of adjustment (though, of course, we don't really know), 

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Hi cel... Thanks for that

Hi cel...

Thanks for that info. I guess I missed that, I think it's the first I've heard of this, like you say, we may never know, but that may fit the bill alright, whatever it is, she is one messed up critter.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

In more seriousness...I

In more seriousness...I think you may be on to something with her having mental health issues, as I have had to deal with my own over the years in the form of chronic depression. I have to take three pills a day to stay on an even keel and some days even that doesn't help. And yes, there have been times in the past where I could be a bit paranoid, but nothing like Garafalo appears to be. 

I need to stop making fun of her because it is apparent she does have problems and I of all people should back off, I think...

Howdy Kat... Glad you're

Howdy Kat...

Glad you're okay and such...and if this is a problem with JG she should just try really hard to keep her yapper shut when she is putting down this country and people living here, let alone what she says when over-seas...I'\d be glad to back off if she'd do that...heck, I never think of her until you see the latest hate coming from her mouth here or other internet sites.

She should just tend to her acting career, shut up and act if she doesn't want any fire coming back at her.

People of her ilk always seem to want it both ways.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

bt--

Agreed. Someone close to her needs to insist she get help and stay out of public view until she gets things together. But I think she wants fire coming back at her because it validates something in her that apparently needs attention.

Kat... Well...she is

Kat...

Well...she is getting her wish I suppose.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Kat and bt, What angers me

Kat and bt,

What angers me is that it seems that MSNBC (and others) are deliberately trying to cater to an audience stocked with people who are much like Garafalo. Angry, bitter, and somwhat deranged people who, for some defect in their wiring or chemistry, express their illness through politcial polemics. For this, they should change their name to MINBC (Mentally Ill National Broadcasting Network)

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

MINBC works for me...fits

MINBC works for me...fits them perfectly.

The majority of those angry critters are a couple bubbles off plumb.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I agree, Chris. I look at

I agree, Chris. I look at and listen to her (which isn't always easy to do) and see a deeply unhappy person.

Kat, Political speech

Kat,

Political speech seems to be a fairly new way that mental illness shows itself - obsession with Bush, hateful words beyond any rational bounds, etc. At one time, people like Garafolo and Sheehan were looked upon with pity or horror - now, as long as it serves the left's agenda, they're used as another weapon.

 

 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

It's quite simple.  She's

It's quite simple.  She's so far Left that all the news media look Right.

You know....

The only thing funny about Garofalo is that even my liberal friends (and there are a lot.  I do live just walking distance from Notre Dame, after all) see her as a running joke these days.  She has left the realm of the even remotely believable and become an almost Picasso-like caricature of leftist insanity. 

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein

 I mean there is almost no

 I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing.

Well, at least in a ratings sense, she is correct.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Garofalo really needs to

Garofalo really needs to take a hint...

Nobody wants to listen to anything you have to say...other than some nut-cases like herself on msnbc.

'Almost no liberal outlets'....what drugs does this woman take?

She's hopeless.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

 ....what drugs does this

Greg... LOL...as they

Greg...

LOL...as they say...a pictures worth a thousand words...those speak volumes.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

garofalo

she should move to fantasy island since she lives in a fantasy world.the woman is NUTS!!

If she moved to some

If she moved to some Communist Workers' Paradise, she'd only bitch and moan there, too.  These types are never satisfied, will complain about everything, and love to hear themselves talk.

She is one who should get the Congressman Clement Vallandingham Award.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

It's sick and sad what liberlism does to people...

This poor woman has been twisted into so many pretzel knots by all the hatered, conspiracy theories, brainwashing and other such nonsense that liberals accept as their bible that she probably has no idea what's what anymore.

Her mind has become like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.

Her mind has become like

Her mind has become like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.

Wow, I love that line...puts it all in a nutshell ...perfectly.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Garofalo's an embarassment to all she claims to be

She has little to add to intelligent, productive discourse, being one of many useful idiots who can't, or refuse to, see that they are neo Nazis and one-world order fascists.

Garofalo seems even worse these days, perhaps further addled by raging bouts of mindless menopause, as occurred to a generation of U.S. women whose core thought processes were additionally blunted by Oprah-Fonda-Steinem et al. propaganda, rendering many of them incapable of properly raising children and giving us millions of Garofalo-styled robo-idiots. (A few generations in a burqa will make them see the light.)

Using Garofalo as a political analyst, even by the Microsoft Nazi Broadcasting Co., is a total disgrace to journalism, to academia, to feminism -- which is to say that all of the aforementioned richly deserve this Marxist moron.  

 

This idiot hates everything

This idiot hates everything about herself and since she is American, hates everything about America.

I'm too close for lights, switching to horn - Maverick

She such

She such an--intellectual!!!!!!!!!!!  Heh. 

Liberalism is a convenient lie.

HMMMM

 

 This person is a crack head!!!!!!! 

Janeane Garofalo's comments...

in this BBC interview are proof positive that she has completely lost whatever grip she ever had on reality, and is now insane.  

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

Sky... Certifiably as

Sky...

Certifiably as close as you can get, Olbie's got her beat though, Matthews, Ed, Shyster close behind.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Hi bt...You betcha...She's got...

a lot of company in the booby hatch, that's for sure, but I think that she and Olbie are tied in the crazy sweepstakes... 

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

Another BBC Garofalo interview

Here's another BBC radio interview with Garofalo from just before her brief appearance on stage at the Latitude Festival. In this one she explains how hurt she gets by hecklers and how she would never heckle others because "it's too cruel" (making wild accusations of racism on national television are fine though, I take it). She goes on to defend Sarah Silverman for walking off stage early at a gig in London last year, blaming Silverman's management. This is somewhat ironic given that Garofalo was about to walk off stage herself after only six minutes; unfortunately she can't can't use the same excuse because she absolves her own managment of any potential blame during the interview. She then gets confused by the cost of tickets for her forthcoming gigs, explaining that they are anywhere between "12p" and "25p". The interviewer thinks this is part of some comedy routine before realising that she's serious and he has to explain to her that she means pounds, not pence. Finally the interviewer asks her about Team America:

<i>COLIN PATTERSON: You've had many awards in your career. You've had Emmy award nominations, you've appeared in The Simpsons. You were a puppet who was blown up...
GAROFALO: Yes. I was.
PATTERSON: ...in Team America. Where does that rank in your list of achievements?
GAROFALO: Er... I don’t know if it's a good... it's a dubious achievement. I actually, when I found out about it, I didn't see it, I was told about it...
PATTERSON: You've never seen it?
GAROFALO: I never saw Team America, no, but I... they flatter me by making me much more famous. I think I had a scene with George Clooney's puppet. I've never been that famous in my life so I thank them for that. But I ran into them in the street and I said, "The least you guys can do after blowing off my head is give me a puppet," because they have extras. And they said they would - they took down my address - and they never did. Those dudes never sent me my puppet. So they blew off my head and then lied about sending me a puppet.
PATTERSON: Trey Parker, Matt Stone from South Park, be ashamed!
GAROFALO: Yes, yes, they should be very ashamed.
PATTERSON: Why have you never watched it? If I was a puppet blown up I would want to see that.
GAROFALO: Um, only because 'A' it hurt my feelings...
PATTERSON: It did?
GAROFALO: ...to be quite honest, and 'B' they attacked my puppet [!!] and others for standing up against a corrupt government, an illegal invasion and occupation of another country. That's what they chose to mock, is the people that spoke out very loudly against the corruption and deceit of the Bush administration. So why does that garner you a head blown off? Now I know that people love to dislike people in entertainment, especially when they're... it's easy to marshal cultural hostility to anyone in entertainment who speaks out politically and they did that and I thought that 'A' it hurt my feelings and 'B' it wasn't helpful to people that were trying to point out all the corruption of the Bush administration. And of course there were millions of people doing that but they only picked on the actors who did it.</i>

Oh, the poor actors!

Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00lqblc @ 1:19:30 (you don’t have to wait for it all to download - just move the slider forward - available for the next 7 days ). Drinking game - take a hit every time she says "hurts my feelings". 

...

'A' Janeane, you're a moron, and 'B' Janeane, you're a moron.

What A Hypocrite

"Um, only because 'A' it hurt my feelings"

And what about the people she called "tea bagging racists?"  Maybe their feelings were hurt too.  She can't throw verbal insults and then try and hide when they come back at her.

"Look at me I wear kooky

"Look at me I wear kooky glasses, I'm such a character!"

That's her entire act.

Poor Janeane

Bless her small, tiny, biased, black, and hate-filled heart.

The girl should be considering, seriously, an extended stay in a reality rehab facility.

It's a shame Janeane has lost her mind, I really did enjoy her acting in a couple of the movies that featured her as the main character; Sweethearts and The Matchmaker.  You actually forget Janeane is Janeane Garofalo.

Poor thing.  She's beyond ridicule and deep into the pathetic.  All she now deserves is pity. 

Since this carpet muncher

Since this carpet muncher has 'Liberal' tatted on her arm, she ought to get an 'Idiot' tat directly underneath it.

Just a friendly suggestion.

Why does she always look

Why does she always look like she has a bad case of the trots....I'm sending her some imodium.

Today I laugh out loud, tomorrow I will weep quietly

eyebrow muncher

Who (or what) chewed off the outer halves of her eyebrows?

Never mind, I really don't want to know. 

That's funny. Take a look to

That's funny. Take a look to the left at the photo of Noel. He appears to have no eyebrows at all. Just an observation.

Lemme guess: Windows 95,

Lemme guess: Windows 95, Gateway 640 x480 monitor?

Janeane never did accept our Dallas Tea Party invitation

Yours truly went to a lot of trouble with the Dallas Tea Party invitation to Janeane to get her little hate-filled rear end to Big D and honestly report on what she experienced.  Out of the 37,000 patriots at America's Tea Party at Southfork Ranch on the 4th, no Janeane!  We looked for her but finally uncovered the real reason she stayed away.  Garofalo shot JR!

Angry White Dude

www.angrywhitedude.com

ROFL! ...that had to be

ROFL!

...that had to be what kept her away!

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I can only say---

  Garofalo, Garofolo.

I say this with conservative intensity.  

 

Garofalo (jeez, I hate even typing that), seen MTP lately?

David Gregory has taken NBC's holy grail Meet The Press and turned it into a shitty rerun of Olbermann's show.

This morning's 'panel' included go-to MSNBC hacks Harwood, Wolfe and that NPR weirdo. All of who appear on Countdown almost every other day.

I don't buy the whole Russert-As-Saint thing, but Gregory is really choking the chicken to death with these a-holes as his MTP panel. Was EVERYBODY else in DC out of town on Sunday?

Yep, I saw the panel, so

Yep, I saw the panel, so did not watch, they can't balance it I won't watch.

Btw...I think her name is Michelle (sp) Norris... prononced meshell of course.

Paul Gigot from WSJ would have been the only one I wanted to hear some from, I clicked it there a few times in between commecials from another political show I was watching, he was never speaking.

Figures.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Janeane Garofalo should be a comedian

Oh, wait....

-Dave

"...stimulus plan is 'working exactly as we had anticipated.'" - PrezBO

24

Please somebody tell me that Jack killed off her character in "24" this past season.  I was so dissappointed to see her on the cast.  I had to stop watching because she sickens me. 

http://www.framingthedialogue.com/

"crying in her dressing room"

Z-list British celebrity Emma Kennedy: "she had a disastrous gig and I found her crying in her dressing room"

Aw, poor venom-spewing little baby.

 

 

Hee. Hee, hee,

"...almost no liberal outlet for news..."

Hee.

Hee hee,

Hee hee hee.

Bwwwwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Snicker...

 

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana

"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause." - Padme, Star Wars 3

Moonbat

It's just really hard to think straight when your mind,heart and soul are consumed with irrational hatred. Watching Bill Maher, Keith Olbergoebbels,Chrissy Mathews,David Shyster,Ed Schultz, the result is always the same. They hate the right, Conservatives,Republicans as they have a sports fan's mentality when it comes to politics. Take a real political pig like Chris Dodd. He could steal, lie on tax forms, sell votes or Presidential pardons, and just because he's got a (D) after his name, in their eyes he's untouchable. I think Republicans are way better at flushing crap out of their party....Term limits are needed drastically. Just look at Charlie Rangel, Ted Kennedy,Barney Frank,Nancy Pelosi, and the list goes on......Poor Jeneanne Garofalo, if she only had a functioning brain, poor dear.....

Good point, Gat

Also, what is good that more people know about her interview through this blog than actually watch or listen to her.

You're right about that.  And for this reason I think Mr. Shepherd lowered himself by gloating over her unsuccessful stab at comedy in the UK.  I think adding the gossipy tweets to this blog was unnecessary.  Garafalo is not a deep thinker, obviously, and should be ignored - as her UK audience did.

More on Garofalo at Latitude Festival

Emma Kennedy has blogged about finding poor, hateful little Janeane in tears backstage. (For the benefit of American readers Emma Kennedy is a very low-ranking British "celebrity" who would not be recognized by 99.9% of Brits if they passed her in the street. The "Jon Ronson" referred to is a Guardian/BBC journalist. I don't know if you have the same phrase in the States but here in
Britain we call these air-kissing leftie media types "luvvies", and the world of British luvvies is small, self-absorbed and very narrow in its ideological outlook. A sort of Little League Hollywood, in fact.)

what?

All I can say to this is ....Really???!?!?!

pppfffffftttt...

...man I just got this new 30" monitor, now it's just a bigger screen to clean my coffee off of...

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