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?
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.