{"id":1263,"date":"2009-05-09T10:47:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2009-05-10T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T08:50:07","slug":"janeane-garofalo-gets-the-last-laugh-on-sean-hannity-and-the-tea-baggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Janeane Garofalo Gets The Last Laugh On Sean Hannity And The Tea Baggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Janeane Garofalo appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In the course of the interview, she made some rather controversial comments about the those attending the Fox News sponsored Tea Parties:<\/p>\n

“…let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Subsequent to that appearance, Sean Hannity, and a phalanx of other feverish right-wingers, immediately went on the attack. They criticized Garofalo for expressing her views, and Olbermann for allowing her to do so. Mind you, these are the same defenders of the First Amendment that are now complaining that the noted racist schlock jock, Michael Savage, has been banned from the U.K<\/a>. To them, in other words, speech by a racist is fine, but speech about racists is foul.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to further chastise Garofalo, and even harm her professionally, Hannity promoted this story<\/a> which he prefaced by saying that “Revenge is sweet…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Hannity (4\/29\/09)<\/a>: “The Boston Herald reports that supporters of the Boston tea party protests earlier this month. well they’re planning to attend one of her upcoming stand up performances. And they plan to give her a piece of their mind […] tickets, by the way, are reportedly going fast. Unfortunately for the left-wing actress, many of the tickets are being sold to the same tea partiers that she labeled racist […] It looks like Janeane isn’t going to get the last laugh this time around. By the way, good luck in Boston.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hannity and the tea baggers had better exercise some restraint in doling out pieces of their minds. They seem to have little to spare. First of all, the clown who came up with idea to scoop up tickets to Garofalo’s show in order to hurt her by making her richer is truly hilarious. Secondly, Hannity offers no evidence whatsoever that any tickets were sold to tea baggers, much less “many”<\/em> as Hannity claimed. Lastly, the threat to which Hannity is referring from the article in the Herald really comes down to a single anonymous e-mailer with anger management issues:<\/p>\n

“This (bleep) is gonna hear it from Boston,” the anonymous e-mailer said. “All us bigots and racists are buying up tix to let this piece of excrement hear it from us. shame on her.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the cantankerous warning from the mad e-mailer, and Hannity’s free publicity for it, the turnout of angry tea baggers was decidedly underwhelming. In fact, according to an update in the Herald<\/a>, Garofalo performed her entire, nearly sold-out set without interruption from inside or outside the theater. She even had a bit of fun with them on stage saying…<\/p>\n

“If there are any tea baggers here, welcome, and white power.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As it turns out, Hannity’s contention that “many of the tickets”<\/em> were sold to tea baggers was, not surprisingly, a lie. And it looks like Garafalo did end up getting the last laugh. But Hannity was right about one thing: Revenge is sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, Janeane Garofalo appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In the course of the interview, she made some rather controversial comments about the those attending the Fox News sponsored Tea Parties: “…let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[33,549,23,304,129,534],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-fox-news","tag-janeane-garofalo","tag-keith-olbermann","tag-michael-savage","tag-sean-hannity","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-kn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1121,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1121","url_meta":{"origin":1263,"position":0},"title":"And The Winner Is … Keith Olbermann’s Countdown","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/4\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been a long campaign, but the tally is finally in. 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