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UPDATE: More liberal lunacy regarding the tea parties
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Clearly liberal politicians, liberal journalists and liberal activists still do not get the point of the Tax Day tea parties that took place this past Wednesday. The latest hit piece on the tax parties took place on Keith Olbermann's 'Countdown' show on Thursday evening. Given the poor ratings of the show, I am sure that most of you did not see it (nor did I), but there was one segment of the show that I have seen and it is actually worth sharing because it clearly shows how out of the 'mainstream' Olbermann and people like his guests are. It also shows that Olbermann is not an actual journalist but more of just a joke-alist.
With the video embedded below, I found one that left off the first couple of minutes of the show's segment, during which Olbermann once again continued his network's plan to make juvenile and vulgar 'teabagging' jokes to describe the tea parties and their attendees. I chose not to subject anyone with more of those asinine antics.
Instead I chose to start with Olbermann's interview of another celebrity activist, because that is the truly disturbing part of the segment. I have broken down the show by minute and second, shown in parentheses, and provided analyses of the various points made in the interview.
(0:01) Olbermann starts off by stating, "On a more serious note, we're now joined by actor and activist, Janeane Garofalo." So when Olbermann wants serious commentary on an important national issue he turns to...a former comedienne??? I say 'former comedienne, because as you will see, Garofalo is definitely not a funny person anymore, if she ever was at all.
(0:06) Garofalo states, "There is nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not certain what he's saying." First, I will ignore the lack of grammar skills in that statement and others that Garofalo makes and instead just stick to the point that she was trying to make. She was referring to a clip that Olbermann had shown previously of people reacting at a tea party in Pensacola, FL. Of course, Garofalo paints all of those people in attendance as simply 'racists' rather than citizens who were concerned about the direction of their country.
(0:15) Garofalo states, "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. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks." Whew! Wow! I am not even sure where to begin on this one, but first I will note that Olbermann can be heard agreeing with everything Garofalo is saying with his "Mmm-hmmm," "Yeah," and "That's right" comments. He does that throughout the entire video and never once challenges any of Garofalo's far left-field assertions. So much for objective journalism, right? Obviously neither Garofalo nor Olbermann actually attended any of the tea parties or viewed any of the videos from them. There were certainly many people who criticized Obama at them, but not one of them that I saw or heard based that criticism on his skin color. Instead, most of it was based on his policies, which as I have mentioned in previous articles, have set our nation on a path toward trillion-dollar deficits in every year for the foreseeable future. The main point of these tea parties was to protest overall government irresponsibility and it was levied at both major political parties, at both the executive and legislative branches of the government, and at the federal, state and local levels. However, as the biggest advocate for and proponent of these irresponsible policies, Obama is certainly going to get the brunt of the protests.
(0:55) Garofalo explains, "The limbic brain inside a right-winger or a Republican or a conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their, in their head space than in a reasonable person and it's pushing against the frontal lobe, so their synapses are misfiring.....it is, it is a neurological problem that we're dealing with." Well thank you, "Doctor" Garofalo. She starts off by generalizing that essentially right-wingers, Republicans, conservatives and 'white power' activists are all one in the same. What was clear from the tea parties is that many of the attendees were fiscal conservatives, but the range of personalities was very wide-spread, including Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, white-collar workers, blue-collar workers, wealthy, poor and so on. I consider myself to be a very strong fiscal conservative, but I am much more moderate on social issues - hence, why I consider myself to be a Libertarian. And I am certainly not a 'white power' activist, nor do I imagine many other attendees of the tea parties are either.
Since I do not know if Garofalo is or was a neurologist, I will defer to her 'expertise' in the discussion of the limbic brain. However, her implication that the people at the tea parties are suffering from some sort of neurological problem is once again a cheap-shot insult at people voicing legitimate concerns about the direction of our nation. According to realclearpolitics.com, only 34.7 percent of the population feels that the direction of the country is on the right track whereas 58.8 percent feel it is still on the wrong track. Therefore, I would argue that the tea party attendees reflect the majority of the country and not the small minority that Garofalo and Olbermann represent. Given her neurological 'expertise', I wonder how Garofalo would explain the adolescent and immature giddiness exhibited by a bunch of supposedly adult commentators on MSNBC smirking and giggling every time they got to use some derivation of the word 'teabagging'???
(1:55) Garofalo states, "And again, this is about racism. It could be any issue, any port in the storm. These guys hate that a black guy is in the White House. But they, they immigrant bash. They pretend it's about taxes and teabags. And like I said, most of them probably couldn't tell you thing one about 'taxation without representation,' the Boston Tea Party, the British imperialism, whatever the history lesson has to be. But these people, all white for the most part, unless there's some people with Stockholm Syndrome there." Once again, Garofalo pulls out the race card to explain a nationwide protest that had absolutely nothing to do with race. Then she again generalizes about the overall lack of intelligence of the people in attendance, thereby insulting a broad range of the American citizenry. In the next segment, Garofalo expounds on that theory.
(2:29) Garofalo states, "And Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that's their bread and butter. If you have a cerebral electorate, Fox News goes down the toilet, very very fast.....That is why Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch started this venture - is to disinform and to coarsen and dumb down a certain segment of the electorate. But what is really, uh, I didn't know there was so many racists left. I didn't know that. I, I, because , you know, as I said the Republican hyphen conservative movement has now crystallized into the white power movement." Once again...again...Garofalo uses the race card, but this time also claims that now all Republicans and/or conservatives are members of the white power movement. That is quite a stretch and major generalization, even for someone like her. And by association, she is implicating that all the concerned citizens at the tea parties are also all racists who are a part of the white power movement.
However, is it possible that some people dislike Obama simply because of his ultra-liberal policies, or are all of those people who do not worship him simply a bunch of racists who are against him because of his skin color? Garofalo seems to believe that the latter is closer to the truth. And as I stated in a previous article, Garofalo and Olbermann should remember that it was an NBC employee, Rick Santelli of CNBC, who initially suggested the idea of the tea parties. Fox News commentators, like real news people should do, covered the events rather than simply mocking them and using the opportunity to use 'naughty' words on television like those at CNN and MBNBC did.
As I have also stated in a previous article, the tea party nearest me, in the city of Louisville, was organized by a 24 year-old, Democrat named Wendy Caswell. I feel confident in suggesting that Ms. Caswell would disagree that she is a disinformed, dumbed-down, racist conservative. However, given the tenor and topics of this interview segment, the anti-intellectual bread-and-butter of MSNBC seems to be very clear with this combination of Garofalo and Olbermann.
(3:15) Garofalo states, "Literally tens of people showed up to the, to this thing." There are estimates that put the tea party attendance at anywhere from 250,000 to 1,000,000 people. Additionally, there were also approximately 500 different events nationwide rather than just one 'thing', as Garofalo implies. That line just shows how little Garofalo actually knows about the tea parties themselves and it shows her utter hypocrisy in making claims that the attendees at the parties did not know anything about the Boston Tea Party and other historical events.
For the rest of the segment, Garofalo and Olbermann continue their diatribe of Fox News and their attempts to paint the tea parties as Republican and racist events. However, overall it was obvious that neither Garofalo nor Olbermann had any clue what the tea parties were actually about and they certainly showed their absolute disdain for the people who attended them. Garofalo was speaking clearly from her own limbic brain, because most of her comments were filled with nothing but emotion, primarily her vitriolic attitude toward the tea party attendees, Fox News and the Republican Party. She at no point ever offered a single piece of evidence that indicated racism at the tea parties, and of course Olbermann never asked for any.
Perhaps in future interviews Garofalo will attempt to use some of her own frontal lobe by doing a little bit of research on the subjects she is planning to discuss. However, given her history I doubt that will happen, and when she is doing interviews with non-journalists like Olbermann, who clearly would never challenge her ridiculous statements, then why would she??? To paraphrase our current president, Garofalo and others like her really should try to know that they are talking about before they speak.
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