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Janeane Garofalo is a short fat idiot
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Posted: March 3, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
I had to laugh when I caught Ms. Garofalo's little debate with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News the other day. It reminded me of some of the more clueless hate mail I receive from time to time. She refused to answer direct questions but instead responded with questions of her own, denied easily verifiable fact and became quite emotional when presented with an obvious historical parallel. I will say that she did a little better than Ms. Streisand would have, though, as she didn't confuse Iran with Iraq.
And then, there was the ludicrous lie, which scored a solid 7.5 on the Goebbels scale by claiming 32 million members for the anti-war group Win Without War. Just to put this in perspective, the largest Protestant denomination in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, has 16 million members. Given that the current U.S. population is only about 290 million people, this figure is clearly absurd, even more so than the 600,000 claimed for the recent peace protest which was only inflated by a factor of 10.
I'm not saying that one cannot be in principled opposition to the ongoing war, but you certainly can't do it Ms. Garofalo's way – not if you want to retain any shards of intellectual integrity. Stick a fork in her, she's done.
The most amusing thing about the whole situation is that celebrities like Ms. Garofalo are becoming rather defensive about their right to hold an opinion. Of course you have a right to speak out, poor darling, but those of us who have actually read more than six books in our lives have the right to tell you that your opinion is baseless nonsense as we laugh at you.
Janeane Garofalo is a short fat idiot
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Posted: March 3, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
I had to laugh when I caught Ms. Garofalo's little debate with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News the other day. It reminded me of some of the more clueless hate mail I receive from time to time. She refused to answer direct questions but instead responded with questions of her own, denied easily verifiable fact and became quite emotional when presented with an obvious historical parallel. I will say that she did a little better than Ms. Streisand would have, though, as she didn't confuse Iran with Iraq.
And then, there was the ludicrous lie, which scored a solid 7.5 on the Goebbels scale by claiming 32 million members for the anti-war group Win Without War. Just to put this in perspective, the largest Protestant denomination in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, has 16 million members. Given that the current U.S. population is only about 290 million people, this figure is clearly absurd, even more so than the 600,000 claimed for the recent peace protest which was only inflated by a factor of 10.
I'm not saying that one cannot be in principled opposition to the ongoing war, but you certainly can't do it Ms. Garofalo's way – not if you want to retain any shards of intellectual integrity. Stick a fork in her, she's done.
The most amusing thing about the whole situation is that celebrities like Ms. Garofalo are becoming rather defensive about their right to hold an opinion. Of course you have a right to speak out, poor darling, but those of us who have actually read more than six books in our lives have the right to tell you that your opinion is baseless nonsense as we laugh at you.
