If I Ignore A White Idiot, Does That Make Me A Racist?

October 4, 2009 · carl · Print This Article

Some people are just so stupid it hurts.

Janeane Garofalo is one of them.

It doesn’t matter that she is a white woman.

I still think she is a moron.

“Actress/activist” Janeane Garofalo used another media appearance to smear anti-Obama protesters as racists, this time, Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, insisting “it’s obvious to anybody who has eyes in this country that tea-baggers, the 9-12ers” are “clearly white power movements” led “by the Glenn Becks, the Michelle Bachmans, the Rush Limbaughs.”

She fretted that “so few people are willing to say that yes it is racism, straight up racism,” before confusing which party controlled segregationist southern states: “The Republican Party has been willing to carry water for racists in this country since about the 1950s.” Garofalo proceeded to repeat a charge she’s made often: “Fox News is happy to feed into this; AM radio is happy to feed into this,” including “this tacit nudging towards violence.” Read the rest of this entry

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