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Janeane Garofalo Fends Off Fox News Ambush
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Economy, Media, RaceFox News sent Griff Jenkins out to ambush Janeane Garofalo into apologizing for an anti-Tea-bagger rant in which she accused all of the Tea Party protesters of being racists: Janeane's rant was wrong, but she does a great job here Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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The Sideshow —
Atrios gets it just right: "WE MUST DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY TO SAVE IT: Hey, it's Trustees report day. I had almost forgotten. The bad news is that with absolutely no changes whatsoever to the program it can pay scheduled benefits in full until 2037 after which it could continue to pay out about 75% of scheduled benefits forever. The good news is that the Social Security Administration believes we're going to live a bit longer!" Yes indeed, the damned Boomers had no children and are going to live forever, so Social Security is suddenly going to stop working before we all reach our 200th birthdays. This one is strong even for the Rude One, but ...
O'Reilly's First Amendment Rights List: Ms. California – Yes! Janeane Garofalo – Denied?
News Hounds —
Guest blogged by Julie
On the May 11, 2009 O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly said, “My newspaper column this week is about the incredibly hypocritical ACLU not sticking up for Miss California's freedom of speech . . . .” (See my recent post here) Remember that, folks: O'Reilly is all about everybody's First Amendment rights. With video.
But what happened to the First Amendment? On last night's O'Reilly Factor (5/12), O'Reilly triumphantly declared, in his Pinheads and Patriots segment, “Janeane Garofalo – ho ho, we got ya in Boston.” With video.
O'Reilly continued by saying, “On the Pinhead front, no way Janeane ...
