May 06, 2005
Left Wing Radical Janeane Garofalo Rants Like Madwoman on PBS
PBS' "weekly news magazine" had a very slanted, one-sided "torture" special last week- where they interviewed a suspected terrorist who was at Abu Gharib, and this week they started off their half hour show with left wing radical talk show host, Janeane Garofalo. I watched her interview by the HORRIBLE interviewer and host of the show, David Brancaccio. He asked softball questions and never challenged her claims once. He actually implied support on her outrageous claims. I don't think he does anything well if he can't even challenge her most blatant lies.
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Garofalo was asked about news media and if journalism is doing a good job. She said that most news is entertainment value news, and most of it wasn't about the truth. Air America, the network that airs death threat jokes about President Bush, IS real news she says. Out of the blue, she starts attacking Fox News, saying that it doesn't even deserve to be talked about (yet, she will, indeed, talk about it) because it's nothing but "tabloid" lies and it's not news at all...no truth to what Fox News says. I wonder if it bothers her that Fox has such high ratings, and Air America is on the verge of folding due to horribly low ratings? With this information in mind, it would seem that she thinks that she's somehow above the majority of us who disagree with her outlandish views.
She mentions the "right-wing" probably 30 times in about 12 minutes (a long interview for such a radical for what is, partly, a publicly funded show that SHOULD be balanced), and she kept saying that the right wing is ALL about lies. They're never honest about anything, they use "disinformation" and they "redefine words" to mislead the people. They want everyone to be uninformed. At the same time she says the evil right wing changes the definition of words (there's no such thing as partial birth abortion she says- tho she never mentions she, herself, uses the word pro-CHOICE, which is absurd since it's really pro-ABORTION.) She also changes the definition of words herself, saying that Bush "LIED" about Iraqi intel, yet she's surely aware that the intel was a MISTAKE (she herself has spent time attacking the nation for having bad intel!!), so she has changed the definition of "mistake" into the meaning of the word "lie." She claimed Bush lied at least 5 different times during the interview.
She then turned her attack on Americans she called "bible thumpers," and she said that if they had their way, no woman would be allowed to vote, abortion would be illegal (god forbid we try to cut down on millions of unborn children being aborted each year!), and that birth control would be outlawed (a silly claim, considering most christians don't have any problem with birth control.) Attacks on the religious, which is the majority of the country, are just pointless, and Garafolo shows her ignorance with such attacks.
She then talks about activist judges...and she claims that to republicans an "activist judge" is merely one that goes with facts, the truth, and the law. Another pointless attack from a radical with no common sense. She says that, to Republicans, brown vs board of education would be "activist" which is not only ridiculous but offensive. Her clear attack is- Republicans are racist scum. I say to Garofalo- try looking in the mirror to find the scum.
Garofalo says that conservatives aren't really a majority in the US, liberals actually are, but conservatives have lied to so many people and "fooled enough people enough of the time" that Americans only THINK they're conservative and support conservatives. She offends the majority of the nation by calling them too stupid to realize what they actually think. Thank goodness we have a fool from Air America to inform us that we don't really KNOW what we REALLY think! God bless you Janeane! What would we do without you? The host says that Bush won the last two elections, so that must mean something...Garofalo's reply was- "maybe." She then attacks Bush and claims he wasn't elected in 2000...that he was "installed" by Scalia (she neglects to mention the majority of SCOTUS is considered more liberal than conservative- so her claim is, liberals lied and 'installed' a conservative to the US presidency! Does she think before she talks?!) She then talks about Ohio and says Bush stole it in 2004, and that there was a conspiracy in 2000 to steal Florida with the help of Katherine Harris. Here, she doesn't mention the facts- the networks called the state for Gore, and official studies have shown that this probably cost Bush around 1 million votes, since the polls in the panhandle wouldn't close for another hour, which means hundreds of thousands in this area (a republican stronghold) never voted, thinking it was pointless because the state was called for Gore. She also neglects to mention the fact that Gore wanted to toss out military votes, on a bogus claim that these votes HAD to have a postmark, but that they didn't. He also wanted selective recounts in selective democratic-strong counties in the state. She also never mentions that the largest newspapers in the US went down to Florida and did their own recounts and no matter how you counted it, Bush won by a considerable margin.
She then keeps claiming Bush lied about Iraqi intel, yet the 9/11 commission said there were NO lies told, and that NO misleading was done...AND that no one in the Bush administration coerced anyone to change intel or bolster the case for war. This was a bipartisan commission that was actually fairly slanted TO THE LEFT, so her claims are clear lies, having been exposed as that many times.
Garofalo admits, she, herself, isn't ALWAYS a truth teller. No kidding?!
She goes into the fact that news outlets use official sounding people to support the war on the right and actors like her to protest the war, which she says isn't fair. She couldn't possibly outdebate a "fellow" from so and so foundation, and implies a right wing conspiracy in the media overall. Of course, the great majority of ALL reporters/journalists label themselves democrat and liberal, so this destroys her silly argument. Maybe, it was the fact that mainly only stupid actors like her protested the war. She claims that many many people in the FBI and pentagon protested the war in Iraq, which makes no sense. Pentagon officials against war- that's a novel concept!!
She says that she really doesn't like to speak out like she does (yea right), but that no one else on the left will do it, so she has no choice but to speak out. Should someone introduce nutjob Janeane to the scores of other left wing radicals out there speaking out, so she can stop speaking out like she wants to do?
Host, David Brancaccio, never once challenged anything she said, nor did he ever want her to explain or back up any of her ridiculous conspiracy theories. He interviewed her alone, and after this the next guest was Bob Barr, who spent much of his time attacking the Patriot Act. So much for overall balance in a program. It's not so much that it wasn't exactly balanced- the main problem lies in the fact that Janeane Garofalo is SUCH an unhinged radical leftist, and she goes totally unchallenged. A show with a stated slant one way or another isn't all bad, but when left unchecked, it leads to the disinformation Garofalo claims comes from Fox News, the Bush administration, and others. Not a good thing in my opinion.