Janeane Garofalo Attacks Conservative Males

Conservative Men 'Immature'

Is Garofalo One To Talk? Plus, Franken's Deadly Praise


Is there a weekly contest at Air America to see which host can make the most asinine public statements?

Perhaps there's a chart in the breakroom where each silly press outburst gets a happy face sticker next to the person's name?


Here's a typically "mature" item from Garofalo's blog, with National Review editor Jonah Goldberg as the turkey.



Between Al Franken's recent rambling, room-clearing speech in New York, to the over-the-line Bush bashing (and potentially threatening) performances from Randi Rhodes, self-destructive behavior seems worn like a badge of honor at Air America.

Even Air America President Gary Krantz recently got into the act.

Janeane Garofalo must be feeling way behind, because it appears to be catch-up time, based on an interview in today's Winston-Salem Journal.

While much of the story focuses on Garofalo's admissions her film and television career is now largely stalled, she manages to take a shot at middle-aged conservative males, the population segment divide-and-conquer liberals love to hate most:


When the network made its debut in March 2004, Garofalo said she endured a barrage of insults from the right. "At first, it was shocking to found out people your dad's age are as immature as guys you knew in junior high," she said. "But I'm used to it now."


Yes, brash, crude, obnoxious Janeane Garofalo wants us to believe she's a victim of middle-aged conservative males, not only evil, but immature to boot.

Somehow, while previously surrounded only by calm, enlightened, well-centered liberals, she never encountered these cavemen. Once on the air, an army of boorish, childish right-wing men came out of the woodwork to attack the poor, defenseless talk show host.

Now feminists can rejoice that Janeane has grown strong enough to take on the Evil White Republican Male threat.


If this photo, also from Janeane Garofalo's site, doesn't represent junior-high level humor, what does?


I've yet to encounter a Garofalo interview where she doesn't take the opportunity to whine about some perceived unfairness in her life. Hasn't she had quite a lot of career opportunites?

While she indicates she had a good run in the nineties, Garofalo feels age discrimination, at 40, is working against her now.

That's despite a new TV movie and a recently-taped sitcom pilot about a professional female poker player, that wasn't picked up by the network.

Maybe the network felt not enough immature right-wing males would be interested.


Meanwhile, has Al Franken discovered how to fire his deadliest weapon, otherwise known as praise?

I'm not sure if New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is quite sure what to do with these comments in today's New York Post:


"I like some of what Bloomberg's done," Franken said of the Republican mayor. "I like his appointment of [Schools Chancellor] Joel Klein. I have no major problem [with Bloomberg]. I don't."

That's certainly not something Bloomberg's Democratic opponents want to hear.

They've been trying for months to portray the mayor as a patsy of Republican leaders in Albany and Washington.

Remarkably, Franken also had kind words for Bloomberg's most notable failure, the controversial plan to build a West Side football stadium.

"I don't even know if the stadium was a horrible idea," Franken told The Post's Carl Campanile. "I wasn't [against it] because I wanted the Olympics."


This story neglects to mention how much this plays into the GOP's hands, where the mayor's long been accused of being a Republican-in-name-only (RINO).

Al, you've finally found your most effective attack method: complimenting people to death!


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