Janeane Garofalo: What a Joke

Paul Walfield / USANewsAndViews -- Warm and fuzzy, cute and cuddly have absolutely nothing in common with the venom spewing Leftist, Janeane Garofalo. Janeane makes her living as a comedienne and as an actor, but her calling seems to be that of emulating a shrew on a bad hair day.

Janeane is now co-host of CNN’s faltering Crossfire TV show, at least for a week anyway. No doubt the wisest at CNN understands their prospective audience far better than ordinary folks who just tune in. In their infinite wisdom they chose to have a spokesperson of Janeane’s unique qualifications to represent the Left and democrats across the nation.

The CNN bigwigs must have delved deeply into Janeane’s past accomplishments and her rhetoric and understood that most of their viewers would relate to her and feel a sense of loyalty and devotion to a kindred spirit. CNN, like all big corporations would never hire someone to host one of their television shows without testing audience reaction to their presence. CNN must know something everyone else who can think has missed.

The folks over at CNN must have looked at all the easily available sources of information on Janeane and naturally, they would have looked at things us ordinary folks do not have easy access to. For instance, an easily obtainable bit of information about Janeane that CNN must have looked upon approvingly; after all, they hired her, is this quote from Janeane and reported on Hollywood Investigator from an interview in “Buzz Magazine,” “Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride.”

Of course, Janeane’s distaste for all things American is probably not the only thing that endeared her to the suits over at CNN. There is also her love for all things liberal. For instance, NewsMax reported that Janeane is not necessarily against the bombing and burning of people in foreign lands. Well, she might be against that type of pillaging, but she’d rather keep it to herself during a democratic administration.

When asked by Tony Snow on FoxNews Sunday why she and her brethren were not, at the time, out protesting the bombing of Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia and the Sudan, she said she was absolutely against the bombing of Iraq. When pressed about her lack of vocalizing her displeasure, Janeane is quoted as answering, “it wasn’t very hip,” to protest against a democratic president.