Keith Olberman and Janeane Garofalo — A Marriage Made In Moron Heaven
Keith Olberman and Janeane Garofalo — A Marriage Made In Moron Heaven
by
Ken Eliasberg
Nature has a way of filling a vacuum; unfortunately she has yet to find a way to fill the ones that exist in the heads of MSNBC commentator Keith Olberman and his recent dangerously unstable guest, comedienne (?) Janeane Garofalo. Ms. Garofalo may be the most complete blend of idiocy and derangement that I have witnessed in my lifetime — and that’s saying something in view of the abundance of the many nasty imbeciles that the left-wing punditry offers up.
Ms. Garofalo, an intellectual nonentity who has failed to distinguish herself in various professional undertakings, has offered up any number of anti-conservative rants, ranging in content from the inane to the insane. In her last outing, she was aboard that Talk Radio Titanic, Air America when it sank into the waters of oblivion without leaving a ripple.
Olberman was a quite adequate sports reporter, a field in which his passion seemed to nicely combine with a certain amount of knowledge, resulting in a reasonably decent commentator. Unfortunately, in the political arena, his passion has exponentially increased, while his knowledge has decreased to the point of almost disappearing entirely. Ignorance and arrogance is a wicked combination, one that has come to rest in the person of this MSNBC jackass.
The 2 — tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber — were discussing the Tea Party events of that day, and Ms. Garofalo informed the audience that, not only were the Tea Party participants a bunch of ignorant “red necks” — an unflattering term used to describe a group of people who are intellectually a bridge too far for a nincompoop like Garofalo — but that the entire matter boiled down to nothing but the ravings of a bunch of racists. In other words, the Tea Party participants had no issue that might serve as a legitimate grievance — they just could not deal with the reality of having a black president. Now, setting aside the fact that I was an enthusiastic participant in one of these events, how did Ms. Garofalo deduce this bit of nonsense — who told her? How silly of me; a moron like Garafolo is equipped with a divining apparatus that allows her to look into the minds and hearts of all those aligned against her (which would involved almost any sane, let alone reasonably intelligent, human being). As far as racism goes — I was marching for civil rights while this recessive gene was housed somewhere in a scrotal insane asylum. Forgive me, but, when it comes to combining vitriol with vacuity, you would have to look far — very far — and wide to find Ms. Garofalo’s equal (except, possibly, in the case of her host, Mr. Olberman, the political primal scream — no, primal shriek).
Now it’s okay when a bunch of environmental, or anti-war, or anti-tax, or anti-whatever, wackos get together and destroy a particular locale because these guys are backing the right (no, left; no, actually wrong) cause. But when a bunch of patriots engage in a legitimate protest against an outrageous governmental intrusion into their lives, that gets a heated reaction from a mental midget like Garofalo (and, on a slightly more elevated scale — only slightly — a similar reaction from another strident nit wit, Paul Begala, aka “the brow,” “the sneer,” but really just the JERK).
Their arguments, such as they are: Garofalo- these are just a bunch or redneck racists who know nothing of the original tea party. Again, how does this airhead come up with this stuff? Begala, an arrogant lightweight, advances this argument slightly by calling our attention to the fact that the original tea party was based on the colonists being unhappy about taxation without representation. Which is true, as far as it goes; the problem with this line of reasoning (?) is that it doesn’t go far enough. The tax aspect of our revolutionary beginnings was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. We just didn’t like governmental overreaching at all, particularly from a monarch some 3,000 miles away. And that is what was involved with these Tea Parties — a group of concerned citizens banding together to express (in an orderly way) their objections to Obama’s piece by piece destruction of free enterprise. And, while I strongly suspect that most of the participants in the gatherings were Republicans (who did not vote for Obama), I’ll bet that some of those out there were Obama voters (not that it would make any difference to me, but, nonetheless, I’ll bet there are Democrats who are getting very concerned about Obama’s overreaching).
Begala adds that we are a bunch of whiners who can’t adjust to losing an election. Once again Begala, an overbearing gasbag, has it wrong. While we don’t like losing an election, Republicans are good — not happy, but good — losers (far better than their counterparts on the left). It is not losing an election that has brought us into the streets; it is the very real prospect of losing a country that upsets us. And that certainly appears the direction in which Mr. Obama is driving America — kissing up to every tin horn America- hating dictator, while spending us into a bankruptcy from which we may never recover.
And, besides folks, don’t ever take anything Paul Begala says seriously, and by no means should you be intimidated by this arrogant jerk. He is just a small cog in the left-wing attack machine, and too many of us take his kind of garbage seriously.
The mainstream media (MSM) chose to treat this protest in a somewhat dismissive matter when they chose to deal with at all, thereby suggesting that it was the reaction of a small fringe group, and therefore not worth giving it much attention. When they weren’t being dismissive, they were bering derisive (sound familiar; it’s the way Obama suggests that America has reacted to some of our European “friends” — you know, it’s really galling when your president throws the country under the bus to clear the way for his getting a better seat on it). MSNBC assigned the matter to Olberman’s female counterpart, Rachel Maddow, and CNN entrusted the matter to its brain dead reporter, Susan Roesgen. Their take can be found at a delightful piece at the American Thinker by Kyle-Anne Shiver, dated April 20th, entitled MSM’s Tea Party Cognitive Dissonance. The column captures the flavor of the left’s reaction to the protest. That said, I think the message behind the protest and the vigor with which the protest was carried out was not lost on the Administration.
Whether the Tea Party demonstrations have any lasting effect remains to be seen. If they turn out to be little more than a tamper tantrum — a tempest in a teapot, if you will — then they are fairly meaningless. In that case, they will be nothing more than an isolated demonstration of pique. If, on the other hand, they are the beginning of a movement to take back our country by a band of concerned patriots, then they are meaningful. In that case they might just represent the beginning of a conservative movement to put a spinal column back into the pudgy mass of incompetency that now represents the Republican Party. In all events, the significance of this outpouring is not to be determeid by an examination of left-wing criticism, which, as would be expected, ranges from the nasty, stupid, and vacuous Garofalo-Olberman ramblings to the banal and insipid nonsense that was sprinkled around various media sources, including the one in this paper.
One last point, the left and its punditry are always railing about how mean the right is. I only wish it were true. My experience has been the exact opposite; the right will go to almost any length to be polite and thereby avoid a fight, while the left, rarely knowing what they are talking about, is in your face 24/7. It is my main complaint with the Republican Party — NO GUTS! The left on the other hand takes meanness to a disgusting extreme! As I commented to a friend at a recent gathering, the Dems are passionately wrong; Republicans are passively right (intellectually, philososphically, and morally, as well as politically). And, don’t get me wrong — I admire the left’s passion; too bad it is combined with such intellectual vacuity
In all events, hats off to Tea Party participants — hopefully, the waters of protest will not recede into the wetlands of memory. Regarding Ms. Garofalo, if unfounded, there are few charges more despicable and disgusting that can be leveled against someone than calling him or her a reacist — and defense, no matter how justified, is typically lost in the shuffle. And make no mistake about it these Tea Parties were populated by patriots not racists. There are few people more despicable, disgusting and downright dumb than Janeane Garofalo! Oh, I almost forgot — there were blacks at my Tea Party; were these guys racists too?