Asymetrical Warfare
Interesting profile of Janeane Garofolo in The Guardian. For instance, they describe her thus:
It's very easy to caricature Janeane Garofalo as an outspoken, self-important leftie liberal drone [....] But when you speak to her, what you hear is not windbaggery but carefully-argued polemic, put for the most part in an extremely gentle and reasonable way.
If they want to make this claim, perhaps they should have kept the following out of the article, or at least not placed it in the next paragraph:
...she's recently found herself at the centre of one of those five-minute media storms, in this case due to her claims that the "Tea Party" demonstrators against Obama were nothing more than "teabagging rednecks". She's absolutely unrepentant. "Fucking redneck douchebaggery. Unmitigated douchebaggery. Why are they holding signs that say, 'Whatchoo talking about, Willis?' These people are called 'racially sensitive', what they should be called is racist, backward motherfuckers."
Even more interesting is her reaction to being a marionette in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America.
What am I getting my head blown off for? For speaking out against an immoral, illegal and unjustified invasion and occupation? What they did was cowardly.
Well, I wouldn't say attacking Garofalo was brave (though Stone and Parker are two rare satirists who actually are brave, attacking Scientology, trying to show a cartoon of Muhammad, etc.), but who cares, since the point is being funny. Garofalo can dish it out, but she can't take it. Apparently she's exempt from satire because her argument is correct.
Speaking of which, I love when celebrities lecture us on the ins and out of international law. Which reminds me of a line she has in Team America:
Janeane Garofalo: As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.
That's even better than blowing her head off.
It's very easy to caricature Janeane Garofalo as an outspoken, self-important leftie liberal drone [....] But when you speak to her, what you hear is not windbaggery but carefully-argued polemic, put for the most part in an extremely gentle and reasonable way.
If they want to make this claim, perhaps they should have kept the following out of the article, or at least not placed it in the next paragraph:
...she's recently found herself at the centre of one of those five-minute media storms, in this case due to her claims that the "Tea Party" demonstrators against Obama were nothing more than "teabagging rednecks". She's absolutely unrepentant. "Fucking redneck douchebaggery. Unmitigated douchebaggery. Why are they holding signs that say, 'Whatchoo talking about, Willis?' These people are called 'racially sensitive', what they should be called is racist, backward motherfuckers."
Even more interesting is her reaction to being a marionette in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America.
What am I getting my head blown off for? For speaking out against an immoral, illegal and unjustified invasion and occupation? What they did was cowardly.
Well, I wouldn't say attacking Garofalo was brave (though Stone and Parker are two rare satirists who actually are brave, attacking Scientology, trying to show a cartoon of Muhammad, etc.), but who cares, since the point is being funny. Garofalo can dish it out, but she can't take it. Apparently she's exempt from satire because her argument is correct.
Speaking of which, I love when celebrities lecture us on the ins and out of international law. Which reminds me of a line she has in Team America:
Janeane Garofalo: As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.
That's even better than blowing her head off.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:20 AM
3 Comments:
It's often (though certainly not always) true that folks who come across as assholes when you put a microphone in front of them can be charming, humble, reasonable and likeable in a private one-on-one conversation.
Yes, and that impression may even have come across if they hadn't quoted her.
What's she complaining about? The marionette looks way better than she does.l
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