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Actress: Tea Protestors Were Redneck Racists
Don't like high taxes or runaway government spending? You're a dumb, redneck racist.
That's essentially what liberal actor Janeane Garofalo said on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night. She was prompted to give a response on the Tea Party protests after Olbermann ranted on about the protesters "seething with hate." This from Olbermann, who essentially built an entire show around an hour-long, hate-filled rant about then president George W. Bush.
Olbermann still rants about Bush in a daily segment each on his show - 100 days after Bush left office, mind you. At what point is he forced to give it up? Still somehow - after Olbermann had finished his numerous immature references to male genitals, which he evidently thought were funny - Garofalo upstaged Olbermann on who could be the nuttiest hypocrite on stage.
"You know there is nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry," she led off with. She went on to describe how none of the protesters could tell what the speakers were saying, or knew history at all.
"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 was about hating a black man in the White House," she said pointing her finger. "This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks and there is no way around that."
She couldn't just leave it at that, no way! She had much more hate left before she would be ready to give up the floor.
"You can tell these type of right-wingers anything and they'll believe it except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become -- it's like showing Frankenstein's monster fire -- they become confused and angry and highly volatile...The limbic brain of a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist. Their limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person and it's pushing against the frontal lobe so their synapses are misfiring."
There is nothing that can be done to fix conservatives -- or just people who think they pay too much in taxes, she said, because it's about racism.
If you are concerned about runaway government spending, you evidently are an uneducated, brain damaged, redneck, racist who is unable to decipher truth from fiction.
Paul Begala got a little worked up over the tea protests on Imus in the Morning Wednesday as well saying that Tax Day was "the proudest, most patriotic day for 99 percent of Americans, that we have all year."
Are 99 percent of Americans really going to think of tax day as the most patriotic day of the year? Not in this lifetime. What about real patriotic days like July 4th, Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, etc.?
Begala went on to a call tea partiers "Wimpy, whining weasels" who "don't love their country."
One thing is certain: Begala and Garofalo didn't seem to have a problem with whining throughout the past eight years.
That's essentially what liberal actor Janeane Garofalo said on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night. She was prompted to give a response on the Tea Party protests after Olbermann ranted on about the protesters "seething with hate." This from Olbermann, who essentially built an entire show around an hour-long, hate-filled rant about then president George W. Bush.
Olbermann still rants about Bush in a daily segment each on his show - 100 days after Bush left office, mind you. At what point is he forced to give it up? Still somehow - after Olbermann had finished his numerous immature references to male genitals, which he evidently thought were funny - Garofalo upstaged Olbermann on who could be the nuttiest hypocrite on stage.
"You know there is nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry," she led off with. She went on to describe how none of the protesters could tell what the speakers were saying, or knew history at all.
"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 was about hating a black man in the White House," she said pointing her finger. "This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks and there is no way around that."
She couldn't just leave it at that, no way! She had much more hate left before she would be ready to give up the floor.
"You can tell these type of right-wingers anything and they'll believe it except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become -- it's like showing Frankenstein's monster fire -- they become confused and angry and highly volatile...The limbic brain of a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist. Their limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person and it's pushing against the frontal lobe so their synapses are misfiring."
There is nothing that can be done to fix conservatives -- or just people who think they pay too much in taxes, she said, because it's about racism.
If you are concerned about runaway government spending, you evidently are an uneducated, brain damaged, redneck, racist who is unable to decipher truth from fiction.
Paul Begala got a little worked up over the tea protests on Imus in the Morning Wednesday as well saying that Tax Day was "the proudest, most patriotic day for 99 percent of Americans, that we have all year."
Are 99 percent of Americans really going to think of tax day as the most patriotic day of the year? Not in this lifetime. What about real patriotic days like July 4th, Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, etc.?
Begala went on to a call tea partiers "Wimpy, whining weasels" who "don't love their country."
One thing is certain: Begala and Garofalo didn't seem to have a problem with whining throughout the past eight years.
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seeka
9:59AM 9:59AM Apr 18th 2009
If you want to educate yourself on the different solutions many propose that are better cheaper and proven you can check out the these web sites. American Solutions.com, campaignforliberty.com, opensecrets.org, cato.org, heritage.org, the912project.com, cagw.org
The Tea Parties are Americans who are concerned for where our Country is headed.
People need to get educated and open thier eyes.
I consider Garofalo and Olbermann far left socialist who have either never read our Constitution or who don't care about it.
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perry
10:09AM 10:09AM Apr 18th 2009
You only saw small crowds because CNN only shot small pockets and wouldn't pan back further. Fox news on the other hand panned the crowd and there was a huge crowd at the tea party. Just how left is CNN?
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Charles
10:32AM 10:32AM Apr 18th 2009
Very well put.I could'nt of said it any better.
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Redneck Jr., Bubba
11:05AM 11:05AM Apr 18th 2009
You make a few reasonable suggestions, but it is difficult to take you seriously with a 'nic' of Feed the Republicans to the Lions.
IMHO the problem is trying to pin the problems on a single branch of government. "W" wasn't single handedly responsible for the current situation, NOR will "BO" be solely responsible for the economy when it comes around (But rest assured the leftist media will give him ALL the credit...BO will no doubt be elevated to an economic messiah!).
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frank
11:07AM 11:07AM Apr 18th 2009
OK where do we get the money? Go after the public officials that owe taxes and put them in jail for tax evasion. then vote on decent people to run this country .. veto the president and find a better jerk..Hes impossible..
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Feed the Republicans to the Lions
6:00AM 6:00AM Apr 18th 2009
"Olbermann still rants about Bush in a daily segment each on his show - 100 days after Bush left office, mind you." Ahhhh... but its ok 8 years later for Limballs to complain about Clinton, right? ROFL. See, this is what she is talking about... the "limbic brain".. it's twisted on the right side.
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Veronica RaRa
6:49AM 6:49AM Apr 18th 2009
BO Stinks ;-)
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Feed the Republicans to the Lions
11:03AM 11:03AM Apr 18th 2009
And so do you because rather then a solution or an actualy comment all you can do is sling mud. This is HOW we know the "teabag party" is the same old 20-30 percent belly achers. Nothing new, just slogans and slams. It's really very sad for all of you.
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Voice of reason
7:45AM 7:45AM Apr 18th 2009
This is what happens to so-called celebs when they don't have a career anymore
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Quita
7:59AM 7:59AM Apr 18th 2009
jeanne was right!i saw the tea parties.there were only white folks maninly rednecks who got upset that a smart black man won the white house.when bush was in the white house, left groups protested agaisnt bush's policies but never called him names meaning color.now that president obama has control, some folks complaining that a black is getting control of their government because he wants to cut taxes on working folks as well increasing taxes on the rich corporations & rick folks.how dumb these folks can be? oh, i forgot they are uneducated and probably sleeping with relatives or causing drama in their lives.they called our president like socialism,marixt,hitler(which hitler killed jews and hated blacks),commusist and n******.it was pretty pathetic!i'm glad that jeanne and keith said it and yes, i am black too.
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oggie
8:20PM 8:20PM May 15th 2009
yes with a name like quita you could have been hispanic
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Streit Rhoades
8:04AM 8:04AM Apr 18th 2009
She's right. This was a redneck/racist event. It wasn't about taxes (every simgle one of those 'protestors just got a tax cut from Obama), or TARP, or spending or any of those things. The real impetus of the tea parties was the election of a black president and these rednecks' hatred of that fact. These tea parties simply provide cover for cowardly bigots who wear it like the hooded robes their KKK counterparts favor.
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Roddenleg
8:28AM 8:28AM Apr 18th 2009
could someone please tell whoever said that Janeane Garofalo was an actress, news to me. Janeane Garofalo, this name sounds like a respectable italian redneck name to me. too bad she disgraces it everytime she opens her mouth. it seems like her and another useless commentor are in bed together on alot of issues, keith olbermann. these people are dangerous, they are the ones that continually stir up hate and dicontent.
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JD
8:38AM 8:38AM Apr 18th 2009
Boy, the left is getting desparate, aren't they? The Tea Parties really f'd'em up. The libs can't take any critisism what-so-ever, and this is how they're going to react from now on. Who gives a sh-t what that dyke thinks, she's a total idiot. And CNN and MSLSD (what Hannity calls it) are a joke, too. I can see why more and more people are turning to Fox now, how much of that ignorant, insane, hatefull crap can you watch.
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ljponejolic
9:26AM 9:26AM Apr 18th 2009
how did these people ever get on tv they are talking about something they know nothing about did they attend a tea party ? probably not these liberals go and shoot there mouths off and show the world how stupid they are these are the people we should look up to its because of people like this that we are in the mess were in
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Ed
9:31AM 9:31AM Apr 18th 2009
Oh, an actress said it? Well it must be true, actresses are pretty high in the Liberal pantheon of genius. Only a Messiah is higher.
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DaveK
9:55AM 9:55AM Apr 18th 2009
Olberman is a hypocrite...talking about "seething with hate". He obviously hasn't noticed all the hate-filled venom he's spewed the last year or more about Bush. And the idiot also doesn't seem to have noticed that Bush isn't even our president anymore! As for Jeanine Garofalo, who care what she has to say, to me she is a nobody, I don't even know why she is famous, what has she accomplished exactly?
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DaveK
10:04AM 10:04AM Apr 18th 2009
Streit Rhoades....it's funny that none of them remarked on how we have a black president, yet YOU do. I think maybe you just hate white people, that's why you feel a need to remark on that...maybe YOU are the racist, you fool...
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Streit Rhoades
12:37PM 12:37PM Apr 18th 2009
Dave, I hate stupidity. That's why I hate racists, rednecks, hippies and saxophone players. Your contention that I am the racist for pointing out the 800 pound gorilla in the room (that racism is what is really behind "tea parties")is pretty ludicrous considering the fact that you don't know for sure to what race I belong. "Am not, but you are", is a child's response.
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escort6768
10:28AM 10:28AM Apr 18th 2009
President Eisenhower once said,(cannot remember the exact words, have the article in a scrapbook somewhere) I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Everyone has their own opinion based on how they were raised, life experiences, etc. In this country everyone has the right to express their opinion.
Some people seem to forget that. Respect the opinions of others and they in turn will respect yours.
I disagree with her opinion, but I respect her right to voice it.
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