“Everybody I saw at that tea party is racist,” and “I will not apologize.”
Intelligent people don’t make generalizations like that when they know that everyone “at that tea party” can’t be racist. That only proves that while Ms. Garofalo fancies herself an “intelligent” woman, she exposes her ignorance by first making the idiotic statement and then confirms it by refusing to retract any part of her obviously inaccurate conclusion.
About the tea parties, she challenges the interviewer by saying “if you don’t want to admit the racist element to those people who were there, then you are in deep denial.”
“They’re not just honest protestors,” she says, like she knows? And she equates the “fiscal imprudence of the last eight years” to what is happening today when the deficit is four times what it was in 2008, with no real end in sight. She says that the protestors can’t be protesting excessive spending, otherwise they would have been protesting during George Bush’s term. Does the term “magnitude” mean anything to this IQ-challenged rabble-rouser? Obama will quadruple the deficit this year, and the long-term outlook shows them rising, not falling, under Obama’s plans.
In her feeble little mind, Bush’s projected deficit of $482 billion for 2009 is the equivalent of Obama’s projected deficit of $1,750,000,000,000 – what kind of “logic” is that? We were already pi$$ed at Bush for his increase in spending. When Obama quadruples it, we are accused of being racist for protesting?
She is obviously angry and bitter. Why is she so angry and bitter? Her Messiah is in the White House and will undoubtedly fix everything that is wrong with the U.S., won’t he? I’m quite sure that she expects him to add several inches to her height or make her funny – both actions requiring real miracles.
A quote attributed to her: “I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.” Now that pretty much paints a picture of the kind of woman who has a real problem. Of course, being negative isn’t her only problem; she’s literally loaded with them. A better career for her would be to become a full-time case study for postgraduate psychologists – she is a natural goldmine of research material and destined to receive “Thesis Subject CumLaude” honors.
And she finds much wrong with this country. According to the reporter who was trying to interview her, her “act” consisted of being anti-religion, anti-marriage, and anti-children - and she blames men. She says, “We're (women) our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.”
She is quoted as saying, “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 gueer!' -- 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.”
This is America, where the Constitution guarantees her right to freedom of speech. She might want to try living in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for a year or so to “augment” her intellectual education.
I know that I’m just an ignerunt, Texas hick, but would someone please enlighten me on what Janeane contributes to the betterment of the human race? Her face on a milk carton wouldn’t bother me (except for the visual pollution resulting therefrom).