Garofalo does it again: anti-government-spending protesters are ‘racists’

Janeane Garofalo suggests if you don't like taxes, YOU ARE A RACIST! Griff Jenkins, a Fox News Washington correspondent, caught up with actress Janeane Garofalo last weekend, asking questions about her repeatedly calling tax protesters racists. Jenkins asked her about the Tax Day protests and she said, “Everybody I saw at that tea party are racists.” She followed up with her own question, “Why were they not protesting the last 8 years under Bush?” In the video posted at YouTube, Jenkins persists and Garofalo repeats. Racists. She's also said the protesters don't know history. Racism is the time-honored mantra of Democratic strategists and politicians, at least ever since they finally let blacks into the party after being sued. Talk about history. There probably wouldn’t be a Dem on Main Street if history served as a voting guide.

Garofalo, like many members of the political class, is clueless when it comes to everyday Americans. If she didn’t see the symbolism in a number of Republicans being turned out of office and the symbolism in President Barack Obama’s presidential win, we can assume she cannot complete a thought process more complicated than barking at anyone who doesn’t support the current Democratic lock on the government. She can probably be forgiven—after accusing tax protesters of not knowing history. When she yammered with a comic on MSNBC recently, she displayed her own knowledge by being uninformed about anger towards GOP spending, repeatedly noted by media and obsessively noted by Obama himself every time he says, “I didn’t create this problem.” Obama’s wrong too—he and his fellow Democrats in Congress did help create this problem. And they just set all-time records for additional spending.

When the president criticizes earmarks, he is simply being a canny politician because he leaves out his own astronomical levels of earmarks during his short term in the US Senate. Those earmarks are publicly posted, but pomp media, and oddly, the Republican presidential candidate, ignored them because as Obama said during the White House Correspondents dinner, media “all voted for him.” Obama meant it as a joke, but it’s as close to the truth as any politician will ever get.

The Associated Press had this to say about the Democrats’ mantra ‘Bush created all the spending problems’: “It actually was him [Obama]—and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years—who shaped a budget so out of balance.” Pomp media didn't pick up that talking point, did they?

I know many people who voted for Obama—85 percent of my family and many of my friends. Race for most of us isn’t the big issue pomp media and the Democratic National Party proclaim in the self-interest of vote garnering. Most of us are too busy trying to survive a challenging world. And a good portion of those Obama voters are very concerned about taxes and spending. Garofalo may be surprised to learn that Americans are indeed capable of translating the term ‘cap and trade’ into ‘tax.’

Garofalo has a lot of hatred for conservatives—it’s evidenced by her hate speech. But she might want to remember there are conservatives in her own party’s base, and quite a few are upset about taxes. Are they racists? Maybe Garofalo could read some history.

Garofalo does it again: anti-government spending protesters are 'racists' by Kay B. Day