Let Garofalo's Tea Party Slur Speak for Itself
BySometimes, your opponent makes your case for you. We’ve been disturbed for some time by the vitriol and hate we’ve observed coming from the organized-Left both online and offline, but a recent interview of Janeane Garofalo on MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann illustrates this trend so well, we feel the best argument we can make is merely to point to their example. In this extended clip, Garofalo calls everyone who participated in a tea party a racist and argues that the Republican party has become about white supremacy.
Garofalo’s slur is so off-the-mark, it doesn’t concern us that much. However, we are concerned with the ease with which she aims to cast the hurtful “racist” label on those who disagree with her about the ideal size and scope of government. Garofalo and the rest of the old Air America crowd, including venomous haters Rachel Maddow and Al Franken, are increasingly successful at setting the tone for legions of young people who were attracted to online political advocacy by the charisma of Barack Obama and the money of Moveon.org.
We don’t usually give advice to the organized-Left’s army of online devotees, but this time we’ll make an exception: If you are tempted to echo talking points from the Air America crowd on your blogs and websites and in comments and forums, we urge you to pause and think about what you will become if you absorb their hatred and make it your own. You don’t need to play gentle, but try to choose evidence and ideas over hate and vitriol — you’ll be more persuasive and emerge with your heart in a better place.
Garafalo deserves to be exposed for her rants. She only embarrasses herself and ultimately, her cause.
Now we will also have Senator Smalley from Minnesota to deal with. There will be no shortage of outrageous sound bites for the next several years.
Is it possible for Garofalo to be any more of the liberal, socialist cliché? Her rant is based on a theory that is actually about certain breeds of dogs that more or less states that breeds such as German shepherds, and certain others, have a problem that causes the animal to go momentarily insane during a moment of excitation as a result of the brain swelling to the point that it presses against the skull. In other, more evolved dogs, the skull has a joint that allows it to expand to accommodate the increased size of the brain. Thus, conservatives, at least to Garofalo are dogs.
Garofalo’s bad theory is same sort of fiction that was billed as truth and became a pillar of the false pragmatism at the heart humanity’s greatest atrocities in the last century. One can close his eyes almost imagine himself in Germany in the late 1930’s listening to a Nazi intellectual discuss why certain physical characteristics made a certain race of people were inferior to another race to the point one could hardly consider them people at all. This is same sort of methodology used to reduce the unborn to viable tissue masses.
And, yet, conservatives that believe that all people have worth and inalienable rights given to them by a higher power are the animals? A true, intellectual empiricist without an agenda can look to the history of humanity and see that the application of social philosophy led to tyranny, atrocity, and failure.
Thanks for the comment, Matt. We’re glad to hear we’re in agreement on Garofalo. She was funny and even a little likeable when she did the “Ben Stiller Show” years ago, but these days we cringe everytime we hear her voice. Great way to let politics ruin an otherwise promising acting career.