I'm thinking of making this bad taste week. An old Navy buddy sent me some horrible cartoons and I'm gonna post one a night starting with this one:
Now that's a cat picture even Acidman could like.
I got my cast off today! Hot damn! It feels great! Cindy's father came by to take me to the doctor's office. Last time I went, Cindy and I were there over two hours, so I was prepared for a long wait. Cindy's dad took me up to the office and then went to park the truck. I signed in and two minutes later, my name was called. I went back to a room and had my cast cut off. Two minutes later the doctor showed up, shook my hand, looked at my hand, said it looked good, shook my hand and said he wanted to see me in two months. I paid my co-pay and went out to the elevators to wait for Cindy's dad. All this was done while he was parking the truck. In and out in less than ten minutes. Amazing!
Saturday night, Michael told me about some actress he had seen ranting and raving on the Scarborough show. He couldn't remember her name, so I guessed Susan Saranwrap.
Nope.
Julia Roberts?
Nope.
Jane Fonda?
Nope.
Who could it be?
He said she really went off the deep end. Then it hit me.
Janeane Garofalo?
Yeah. That's the one.
Michael, that was a trick question. You said actress. She used to be a wisecracking sarcastic standup comedian. She was on Saturday Night Live for one season. She has made one movie that I know of, The Truth About Cats and Dogs. She used to be kinda cute. Now, she's a regular skank, and a rabid one at that. She's lately been bitching about how her anti-war views cost her a sitcom on ABC. Janeane, welcome to the world of actions have consequences.
If you were an established star rather than a second rate talent, maybe ABC would take a chance on you. As it is, maybe they don't want to take a chance on someone who is as unpopular as you are now.
I went out to the MSNBC website and got the transcript of the show and got this raving screed from Ms. Garofalo:
JANEANE GAROFALO, ACTRESS: The Republican Party, their message and their policies of exclusion and the tilted playing field appeals to the dumb and the mean. There is no shortage of dumb and mean people in this culture. So, therefore, their message, the dumb and the mean find a nice home in the GOP.
This dumbing down and this pseudo patriotism, which is very conveniently partisan, because the dumb and the mean love patriotism. Now the dumb believe unto patriotism because it’s really-when it’s as unexamined as it is for the dumb, it’s merely narcissism. Yeah, it’s my country right or wrong. Well what of these colors don’t run? What do you mean? I don’t know. They use the word evildoer with a straight face, knee jerk reactionary phrases that go down well from the Republican Party with the dumb and the mean and then the mean pretend that it’s unpatriotic to be critical of your government.
You don’t let the facts get in the way of your arrogance and belligerence. You just keep saying no, it doesn’t or you just lie about everything. What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogamists, homophobes and people who love tilted playing fields and the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative. They have hijacked that name and somehow they are proud of it. I don’t understand that, why they’re proud of being conservative but that is-seems to be the case. There is no liberal media.
If there was a liberal media that would be good and our culture would reflect it. We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean. Thank you.
All I can say is "Janeane, you ignorant slut!" This is a person who has called Bush inarticulate.
Let's see. She talks about the dumb and the mean being Republicans. The only people I hear mean stuff from are Dimocrats. Alec Ballwin (a twofer: dumb and mean) saying that we should all go down to Henry Hyde's house and pull him and his wife and children out of the house and stone 'em. Julianne Malveaux saying she hopes Clarence Thomas' wife feeds him high fat foods so he'll die of a heart attack. I hear lots more meanness from the left than I do from the right. If you eliminate the dumb and the mean, that would be the end of the Dimocrat Party. That is their core constituency.
This dumbing down and this pseudo patriotism, which is very conveniently partisan, because the dumb and the mean love patriotism.
Janeane, listen to yourself. You equate patriotism with being dumb and mean. Since the majority of Americans are patriotic and did support the war, you have just done a real good job of pissing off a whole bunch of potential fans. If I worked for ABC, I would have cut you loose also. Do you have a functioning brain?
You don’t let the facts get in the way of your arrogance and belligerence. You just keep saying no, it doesn’t or you just lie about everything.
This from someone who really admires Bill and Hillary Clinton.
what of these colors don’t run? What do you mean? I don’t know.
You got that right. You don't know.
What you have now is people that are closet racists,
Unlike Senator Kleagle Byrd. In all the Dimocrat administrations there has never been a black Secretary of State or a Black National Security Advisor. It took the racist Republcans to appoint them.
misogamists,
Now I'm not really sure what she means here. A misogamist is someone who is against marriage. Conservatives are all for marriage. Maybe she's talking about gay marriage?
homophobes
Only the far right.
and people who love tilted playing fields and the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative.
As opposed to the politics of inclusion where the Dimocrats take the black vote for granted and do nothing but keep them in poverty and dependent on gummint handouts. And the reasons the playing field is tilted are many. The disgrace that is the inner city school system that will not improve thanks to the teachers' union. The anti-achievement mentality in the black community that thinks doing well in school is acting white. The black leaders could get around to addressing that as soon as they take care of the most important problem plaguing the black community: the Confederate flag. And speaking of exclusion, National Security Advisor Rice and Secretary Powell.
There is no liberal media.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism.
Why not? We are expected to tolerate you. If you think that we should no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism, then most of Hollywood, including you, should just STFU as Hollywood probably has the highest per captita of anti-intellectuals in the country.
We can no longer tolerate liberal bashing
Why not? Liberal bashing is fun.
and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean.
Well there goes the Dimocratic Party.
Janeane, I really think you need to up the dose on your Prozac.
Posted by denny at June 23, 2003 08:27 PM