So... how do you feel about Janeane Garofalo's rant?

[Steven from Colorado]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms45EzMR0f8&feature=PlayList&p=CCBCE00C7FFFE9C1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

It irks me, just a little. Here's why:

Though, I thought the tea parties were either a) partisan Republican whining or b) populated by pussies or c) both, Garofalo here equivocates people who don't like Obama with partisan Republicans, and then says we are all racist.

I dunno, I wanted to write a detailed and fairly comprehensive response to this, but why bother? If she really believes that only liberal democrats are intellectual, I guess good for her.

Though, I would like to debate her on the subject of the Revolutionary generation. I would be willing to be a whole lot of money that I have read more on that subject just in the last year, than she has read in the last 44 years.

[Ecolitan]

I don't know about the rant but I've got something to say about the Tea Parties and this is the only active thread that mentions them so....

Fucking Pussies!!!! 

You want to have a modern day BTP?  Dress up like a terrorist and go to AIG headquarters, break everything.

Anything less is an insult to the real BTP and implies seriously fucked up delusions of grandeur or at least a huge under appreciation of true revolutionaries.

Go ahead and get your little protest permit and hold your signs but know that you look as stupid calling it a tea party as I would putting on a dress and strutting around my bedroom and calling it a fashion show and myself a super-model.

[AbstractVagabond]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms45EzMR0f8&feature=PlayList&p=CCBCE00C7FFFE9C1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

It irks me, just a little. Here's why:

Though, I thought the tea parties were either a) partisan Republican whining or b) populated by pussies or c) both, Garofalo here equivocates people who don't like Obama with partisan Republicans, and then says we are all racist.

I dunno, I wanted to write a detailed and fairly comprehensive response to this, but why bother? If she really believes that only liberal democrats are intellectual, I guess good for her.

Though, I would like to debate her on the subject of the Revolutionary generation. I would be willing to be a whole lot of money that I have read more on that subject just in the last year, than she has read in the last 44 years.

That rant is as ignorant as the tea parties she's ranting against. Everything's static.

[Steven from Colorado]

That rant is as ignorant as the tea parties she's ranting against. Everything's static.

Agreed. I think what bugged me about it was her implication claim that people who don't like Obama are racist. Or, alternately, anyone who is not white who doesn't like Obama is suffering from Stockholm syndrome. In other words, it cannot be that we disagree with Obama's policies. It must flow from some tribal, racist fount.

Oh also that she, as a liberal, necessarily knows more about history than a non-liberal. I would debate this crazy bitch on any historical subject, anytime, any place, anywhere.

Not only could I debate her ass into the ground on history, I could also debate a Bush-happy, flag-suckling, neo-con jackass far more effectively than her. Her entire rant against partisan Republicans is nothing more than an ad hominem.

Footnote: I was complaining about this idiot in the presence of a young relative, who isn't old enough to remember me 15 years ago when I was a flaming liberal leftist. She said "You don't sound like you were ever a liberal to me."

My response?

"Thank you."

[TimeLady Victorious]

janeane garofalo is an annoying, unfunny cunt

[Alex Libman]

I've watched for about 30 seconds before I concluded that I'm listening to one of the most intellectually dishonest human beings alive, at which point I've decided to stop.  I remember her from when I used to listen to Air America (hey, I wasn't born enlightened).  There are certain drones -- left, right, and center -- who just simply have no credibility, they will say that 2 + 2 is 5 if they have to in order to cause controversy (ratings) or appeal to their target audience.  Why waste your time?

[thersites]

Sad. The whole tea party thing was pretty silly, but this is simply dumb.

[Bill Brasky]

She is a moron. 

[Low-Eight]

janeane garofalo is an annoying, unfunny cunt

Pretty sure that this video was her attempt at comedy. . .

[TimeLady Victorious]

janeane garofalo is an annoying, unfunny cunt

Pretty sure that this video was her attempt at comedy. . .

it was both annoying and unfunny

[Low-Eight]

janeane garofalo is an annoying, unfunny cunt

Pretty sure that this video was her attempt at comedy. . .

it was both annoying and unfunny

Pretty sure that was my attempt at being sarcastic. . .

[TimeLady Victorious]

janeane garofalo is an annoying, unfunny cunt

Pretty sure that this video was her attempt at comedy. . .

it was both annoying and unfunny

Pretty sure that was my attempt at being sarcastic. . .

Sarcasm!? NOT BEING UNDERSTOOD? ON THE INTERNET!?!?!!?!?

[Riddler]

I don't know about the rant but I've got something to say about the Tea Parties and this is the only active thread that mentions them so....

Fucking Pussies!!!! 

You want to have a modern day BTP?  Dress up like a terrorist and go to AIG headquarters, break everything.

Anything less is an insult to the real BTP and implies seriously fucked up delusions of grandeur or at least a huge under appreciation of true revolutionaries.

Go ahead and get your little protest permit and hold your signs but know that you look as stupid calling it a tea party as I would putting on a dress and strutting around my bedroom and calling it a fashion show and myself a super-model.

careful, dick 3's on his way over now.....

[Riddler]

arrogant ''progressive'' liberal cunt....
god help this country, with people like this in power

[davann]

I don't know about the rant but I've got something to say about the Tea Parties and this is the only active thread that mentions them so....

Fucking Pussies!!!! 

You want to have a modern day BTP?  Dress up like a terrorist and go to AIG headquarters, break everything.

Gafofalo's is a cunt.

AIG , Federal Reserve, Congress and the White House should have been targeted. In the U.K. the mobs managed to get into the lobby of thier version of AIG and break some windows and damage a little bit of property before being pushed out by riot police. As usual Repugs talk a good game but fail on the execution.

Thinking about it, I bet the second sentence is enough to get a call from the jack boots. Ah, fuck it.