"This [Iraq war] is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.
"There is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. You never even get that idea floated in the mainstream media. If you bring it up, they hate the messenger. You've ruined everyone's good time."
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A47534-2003Jan26¬Found=true"I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"If I am uninformed, which I'd like to think I work very hard not to be, uninformed, it is the fault of the White House and the mainstream media. We don't get enough information. We don't get enough news with our news. And how can we function as a democracy without information? We are given disinformation and White House propaganda all the time. We have no history to our news, no context to our news, no global perspective. We don't see people outside our borders as humans. And if I am uninformed, which I'd like to think I work very hard not to be, uninformed, it is the fault of the White House and the mainstream media."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"You have anchors saying all the time, 'Well, we know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction.’ No, we don't. We do not. We do not know that."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"They [network news] tend to marginalize it [anti-war protests] by only interviewing the guy dressed as a carrot on stilts or Wavy Gravy. You know what I mean? Like some guy with no teeth and a tie-dyed Grateful Dead shirt, because they want to marginalize it."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030128.asp#4"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."
www.hollywoodinvestigator.com/2002/garofalo.htm"The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl."
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=91&u=/bpihw/20030220/en_bpihw/sheen_leads_antiwar_forces&printer=1"
is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster."
www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/20/cf.opinion.antiwar.hollywood/"I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal. I don't like it and I don't like to do it."
abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Primetime/celebritypolitics030220.html"I say at this point, for different reasons, they [Bush and Hussein] are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030221.asp#3"It wasn't very hip" [to protest Clinton's Wars].
www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/23/151110"The world would be better off with multiple superpowers."
When asked if that means our enemies should be more powerful Garofalo said, "Sure, when Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement."
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31259When asked if she'd apologize to Bush when the war in Iraq is successful, she said:
"I would be so willing to say I’m sorry, I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say you were wrong, you were a fatalist, and I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, hey, you were right, I shouldn’t have doubted you. But I think to think that is preposterous."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030307.asp#6"You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It's a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030401.asp#6"That one guy that had that one sign that you'll probably beat into the ground. You're going to use it over and over whether it actually existed or not. That's what all you right-wing radio guys do. You make sh*t up all the time."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030401.asp#6"There's no way a war in Iraq will go well."
frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7222"I want to be wrong," Garofalo said about a war in Iraq going well. "I would hold a press conference. I'll bring orchids to Laura Bush and Dick Cheney!"
frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7222"I have nothing to apologize for."
www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/13/82253"There's nothing you could point to in the Bush Administration with pride," she says. "Nothing. There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America."
www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.html"I'm so public about this because I've been asked to do so and because I painfully felt that the anti-war movement was being ignored."
www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.html"...I can't stand watching history roll right over us. It's like they're asking you to bend over, put your head in the sand, and put a flag in your ass."
www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.html"It is shocking that some people's lives are enriched by this nonsense--these boycotts and e-mails. They are proving themselves to be fundamentally anti-American and anti-democratic. They are against the First Amendment, so what are they defending? Unless they are trying to build a fascist Administration, unless they are trying to bring the American people to a point that we exist under a totalitarian regime."
www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.htmlQ: What's your opinion on the current state of the mainstream media?
Garofalo: The mainstream media has, in my opinion, been so grossly negligent, so disturbingly devoid of authentic debate, and actual dissemination of information. They are, in theory, the custodians of fact, the watchdogs of government. That's the theory. At a time as important as this, they have absolutely rolled over to the conservative hawkish agenda.
The parents of the troops who die and the parents of Iraqi civilians who die should have the right to slap a lot of these media outlets with a suit of criminal negligence. Military parents would have a legitimate case, especially against Fox and the New York Post for cheerleading this thing the whole way, for waving the flag, and using knee-jerk, sycophantic, pseudo-patriotism as a tool to galvanize public opinion.
That brings us to some of the rightwing pundits who dominate the radio, like Mike Savage, or some of the commentators at Fox--the Ann Coulters, what have you. I think what they do is they turn their own personal issues--whether they be racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or imperialistic--and they wrap them in the flag and hide them behind Jesus.
www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.html"The Republican Party, their message and their policies of exclusion and the tilted playing field appeals to the dumb and the mean. There is no shortage of dumb and mean people in this culture. So, therefore, their message, the dumb and the mean find a nice home in the GOP.
"This dumbing down and this pseudo patriotism, which is very conveniently partisan, because the dumb and the mean love patriotism. Now the dumb believe unto patriotism because it’s really-when it’s as unexamined as it is for the dumb, it’s merely narcissism. Yeah, it’s my country right or wrong. Well what of these colors don’t run? What do you mean? I don’t know. They use the word evildoer with a straight face, knee jerk reactionary phrases that go down well from the Republican Party with the dumb and the mean and then the mean pretend that it’s unpatriotic to be critical of your government.
"You don’t let the facts get in the way of your arrogance and belligerence. You just keep saying no, it doesn’t or you just lie about everything. What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogamists, homophobes and people who love tilted playing fields and the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative. They have hijacked that name and somehow they are proud of it. I don’t understand that, why they’re proud of being conservative but that is-seems to be the case. There is no liberal media.
"If there was a liberal media that would be good and our culture would reflect it. We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean. Thank you."
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