Janeane Garofalo drew a fair amount of unwarranted flack a couple years ago when she dared to take a role on 24, a show whose torture-filled plotlines don’t quite match up with her own well-known progressive views. Now that same old non-issue is back in the news because Garofalo has told The Village Voice that she snubbed such fine Americans as Rush Limbaugh and Lynne Cheney when they visited the set of 24. "I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything," Garofalo recalled. "When somebody came to me privately and said ‘do youwant to meet them?’, I said absolutely not." Good for her! The fact that Garofalo acts in an apparently right-leaning fictional television show does not obligate her to get pals-y in real life with the likes of Limbaugh and Cheney.
In fact, it sounds to me like Garofalo was far nicer than she needed to be. She told the Voice that she "didn’t want to make a scene out of it" when Limbaugh and Cheney arrived: "I would never have made a big show of it and embarrassed people who worked there." Let me tell you, if I was offered the opportunity to greet Rush Limbaugh, I don’t know if I’d be able to muster that kind of polite restraint. Gawker, meanwhile, actually faults Garofalo for not making a bigger scene: "But, hey, at least Garofalo mounted a private act of semi-defiance, whichmay or may not have been noticed, in between cashing paychecks." Yes, Gawker, your liberal activist cred is soooo much more impressive and purer than Janeane Garofalo’s. Holier-than-thou FAIL.
I guess Garofalo is just damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t for some people. What do you think? Should she have done something differently when Rush and Lynne graced her with their presences? Do you even care about this?
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not particularly.
Good grief, if you don’t want to meet someone you don’t have to. She was polite, she could have gone and laughed in their faces. People need to let stuff like this go.
Cloe would of done it
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Ahh the tolerant liberal voice of EW’s bloggers. I am sure Rush and Lynne Cheney were so sad they couldn’t meet Janeane Garofalo. They must have really felt snubbed. A man of who has millions of fans and the accomplished wife of Vice President would be sad they didn’t meet a C list actress.
This quote had me laughing “Let me tell you, if I was offered the opportunity to greet Rush Limbaugh, I don’t know if I’d be able to muster that kind of polite restraint.”
Seriously? You wouldn’t do anything Simon. If you met Rush Limbaugh you would shake his hand and say ‘Hello’.
It’s not exactly a snub unless they asked to meet her. If she just decided not to participate in their set visit, and they never even knew about it, why is it a snub? If anything it’s only stupid of her to bring it up as a significant act on her part.
No – she handled it perfectly. Had she been rude or ungracious, Rush could have called her out on his radio show. This way, she acted in a dignified manner and didn’t give him an ounce of ammunition.
Janeane couldn’t meet with Limbaugh or Cheney because she had to go see Jim Stansel. He’s…that guy.
I don’t like her character anyway. She could leave her desk and not come back and I would never miss her. Interesting that she works for money on something so adverse to her well known political leanings.
We want Chloe
Such typical liberal biased crap….
I think she handled it perfectly as well. Once upon a time, I actually lived by one of the many infamous Bush Administration people once. As much as I disliked them and their policies, I didn’t think it was necessary to humiliate or embarrass them. As Shakespeare said “The better part of valor is discretion”.
She didn’t come out and snub those with celebrity and power, but she can go on Lbermann and call snyone upset about bail outs and TRILLON dollar defecits racists. Wait ’til she get a load of “The Power of the People.”
I mean “Olbermann” and “anyone”. don’t type when your angry.
JG is a typical liberal idiot…who doesn’t seem to realize she’s an employee of the conservative company Fox.
She is simply irrelevant.
Rarely have I ever seen two more intolerant people in the same room then I did last night on Countdown. JG and KO go on to talk about how superior they are and how stupid the majority of people in this country are for not wanting a black president. They speak of the vast amount of racism in this country. Maybe they should read a little bit more. WE ELECTED a black president. Whoever said, and I believe it might have been John Adams, that there was never such a concentration of intelligent minds in the White House at one time since Thomas Jefferson dined alone was so right. Two bad TJ never got to have his own tv show. Then maybe we would hear truth, intelligence, and above all honesty. None of which JG nor KO seem to be able to deliver, at least in the area of political commentary. I sort of feel sorry for these two deluded and very bitter people. Well, since no one really watches MSNBC (I like a good laugh now and then) not many heard this inane discussion.
I totally agree with the writer of this article. Janeane stuck to her guns without making an ass of herself (to the producers, some of whom are very close with the visitors — just ask James Morrison, aka Bill Buchanan, who WAS forced to meet with them). Gawker can shove it.
So this is about how cool or “heroic” or proud of herself she is because she refused to say Hello to someone???
*boggle* She’s a really Champ!???
And this is a story because….? I need these 2 minutes of my life refunded pls.
Oh goodness EW, you were one of the last publications that didn’t cave into the liberal media bias. I have canceled subscriptions to Time and Rolling Stone and if I see anything else like this, I will cancel my EW. If I wanted political discussion I would go somewhere else. Please stick with ENTERTAINMENT
Hey Tom, don’t be so sure you know what Simon would do. I once was at a conference and found myself on a receiving line for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon – I didn’t shake his hand, even though lots of people did. Nor would I shake Rush Limbaugh’s hand – I say, good for Garofalo.
Hey Tom, don’t be so sure you know what Simon would do. I once was at a conference and found myself on a receiving line for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon – I didn’t shake his hand, even though lots of people did. Nor would I shake Rush Limbaugh’s hand – I say, good for Garofalo.
Hey Tom, don’t be so sure you know what Simon would do. I once was at a conference and found myself on a receiving line for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon – I didn’t shake his hand, even though lots of people did. Nor would I shake Rush Limbaugh’s hand – I say, good for Garofalo.
Hey Tom, don’t be so sure you know what Simon would do. I once was at a conference and found myself on a receiving line for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon – I didn’t shake his hand, even though lots of people did. Nor would I shake Rush Limbaugh’s hand – I say, good for Garofalo.
Seems like she handled it the best way possible. Good for her for not putting on a phony act or going the other way and having a confrontation.
I’ve often wondered what I would do if at a party or something I might meet someone like Cheney, or Levinson. I’d probably be as polite as necessary. “Hello.” Can’t lie and say “Nice to meet you” or “It’s an honor.” Then again, if I were introduced to Rush, I’d eye him up and down and theatrically sniff with faux contempt. If I were to meet Mark Morford, who writes a biting humor column for the San Fran Chronicle, I’d throw my drink in his face, slap him, and then stride out of the party, hoping I become notorious. It’s all about making a scene, baby, a gloriously outre scene.
I think we should all have big red (or blue) “Ds” and “Rs” stamped on our heads so we can be at constant war with anyone whose politics don’t precisely match our own. It would save time. James Carville is married to Mary Matalin, for crying out loud. The death of common civility is not to be applauded.
The idea that Jeneane Garofalo could possibly embarrass Rush Limbaugh is ludicrous. He’s RUSH FREAKING LIMBAUGH, for God’s sake. You may hate him, you may despise him, but the reality is he has 15x her radio audience and is much more famous than she. He thinks very highly of himself. He DESPISES people like her. You think he feels “snubbed”? I mean, imagine this in reverse. Would Garofalo feel embarrassed if Rush had refused to meet her? Heck, no. She’d assume he was afraid to be intellectually incincerated by her laser-like mind and deep knowledge of history and politics. Right now I’m sure he’s over on his show laughing and claiming that she was afraid to meet him because he might ask her some kind of hard question, like what the Tenth Amendment says, or who wrote the “Federalist Papers.” It’s frustrating that so many of our public liberals have to act like little kids. Obama won because he acts like a grown-up. Take a lesson.
She’s a nut. She thinks she’s a Nazi scientist making a case for why conservatives have something wrong with the limbic system and are subhuman. She’s nothing but the same kind of filth that’s caused so much suffering in history.
She should have snubbed them privately and then not told us about it.
In actual fact, she “didn’t want to make a scene out of it.” And so she went and retold the story to the entertainment gossips, ensuring that many more people would know about it than if she had just raised a fuss on the sheltered set? How absurd.
I’m amazed how quickly EW is forgetting that it is an entertainment magazine and not a political one. Each week I have to roll my eyes at the leftist “off the cuff” jabs that belittle those who dare hold a different political oopinion. I can’t believe that you’re applauding this juvenile behavior! Just because someone disagrees with someone politically doesn’t mean that they can’t be cordial or at least friendly! They don’t have to act like a baby and then get applauded for it by and ENTERTAINMENT magazine. I used to really like Garofalo despite her political views because I could appreciate her talent. You don’t have to agree with everything that someone says to appreciate what they do. That is being mature. That is being an adult. There is way too much acrimony in the political discourse in this country. What? We can’t even say “hi” to each other anymore? Grow up. Don’t applaud such behavior.
She’s always struck me as ridiculously self-important. How is discussing this *complete non-event* with the news media a way of ‘not making a big deal’ of it? Who CARES who Janeane Garofolo does or doesn’t want to meet? I don’t want to meet Rush Limbaugh either – can you write a story about ME ME ME now?
Janeane Garofalo,You are a wack-ooooooooooooo