Garofalo Fun!
The girl likes to mix it up and in bluest Beantown,* of all places, Janeane Garofalo’s looking at a hostile crowd! Boston Herald’s Inside Track:
It may be no laughing matter when Janeane Garofalo takes the stage at the Somerville Theatre May 8 to do her standup schtick. Because the rabble rousers who staged the tea party protests in Boston earlier this month are planning to focus their wrath on the “24” star for mocking their mission!
Fueling the tea party-goers’ ire was Janeane’s appearance on Obama apologist Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show earlier this month wherein the left-leaning funnygal painted the tax protesters as a bunch of redneck racists.
“You know, there’s nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry . . .,” she said. “Which, let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”
Well, it seems that many of the protesters beg to differ. And one sent a raaather nasty e-mail to the director of The Alternative Comedy Festival, which is bringing Garofalo to town.
“This (bleep) is gonna hear it from Boston,” the anonymous e-mailer said. “All us bigots and racists are buying up tix to let this piece of excrement hear it from us. shame on her.”
It’s kind of a weird thing to say, what Garofalo blurted out. Sounds kind of double-reverse racist, like the only reason to oppose Obama is because he’s a black man, or like all white conservatives are bigots. Not nice. I told you this would happen.
It’s not like Obama didn’t just let the drunken rampaging chimp also known as Congress push through $800 billion in self-serving pork under the guise of an economic stimulus plan. Anyway, I was at one of three Boston tea parties, and the confused and angry racists holding signs and wearing buttons there included blacks and Asians. I think there might have been some Hispanics, too. There were some people who claimed to be disillusioned Obama voters, too, which I would call the definition of being confused and angry.
* If you want to get technical about it, the Somerville Theatre is in Davis Square, Somerville … part of the greater Beantown area. Shows and tickets here!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:05 am Comments (5) on Monday, April 27, 2009
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April 27th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Not only did she call all of us racists and rednecks (although I fail to see the insult in “redneck”, as I come from a family of them), but she said we all have defective limbic systems. Not sure what that means, either, but I don’t like it!
April 27th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
“defective limbic systems.”
Rednecks can’t dance.
Cheers
April 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Janeane Garofalo: Just 32 teeth and a flat-top away from perfection.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Buy her tickets and then don’t go? I mean, I’m down here in rural Texas for cryin’ out loud. What’s a redneck to do?
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 am
Dear Gerard,
You owe me for the can of beer I spewed all over my monitor, not to mention the time and effort it took to clean off my keyboard, after reading your comment.
Since it was a very funny (and ribald) comment, I shall forgive you. This time.
Just remember that Icehouse beer isn’t cheap. Except that it is. Oh, fer !@$#, you know what I mean!
P.S. I used to like Ms. Garafalo, before she crossed the sanity horizon. She was in several rather enjoyable movies.