Garofalo and O'Donnell

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk






It would be so easy to dismiss Rosie O'Donnell and Janeane Garofalo as a couple of dopes, jerks, or what have you after their rant against conservative figures on O'Donnell's radio show this week. To do so, however, would be to make myself as guilty as they are. I think more serious words are in order.

First of all, I do indeed consider them both to be jerks or dopes or whatever you want to call them. This is not the first time I have written disparagingly of them. Listening to the radio broadcast, it sounded to me like two drunken women seated at a bar and ready to fall off their respective bar-stools as they pronounced everybody they didn't like to be "A-holes" (Actually, something we men do more often). This is what passes for reasoned discourse these days. How did MSNBC miss out on this broadcast?

They pretty much covered the whole range of their ideological enemies-from Limbaugh to Hannity to Beck and even perhaps more egregiously, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, O'Donnell's former colleague on "The View", who had the temerity to disagree with O'Donnell and finally to put her in her place quite effectively I might add.

Worse yet, they followed the left-wing line in insulting a large segment of the American populace- the so-called "tea-baggers" as they like to call them, those average, everyday folks who are not Obama followers and who call into question the government take-over of virtually every facet of our lives. Back where I come from, we used to call it elitist arrogance. At one point, the term, "douche-bags" was even used to refer to their enemies. Quite a debating point there.

The fact of the matter is that these two are a couple of petty, left-wing ideologues who have no respect for anyone with a different point of view. There they sit in their Manhattan studios-in between flights to Hollywood- and disparage the common folks who live in that vast fly-over country in places like Missouri or Nebraska-not to mention those unspeakable hill-billies in the Southeast quadrant-you know, those white, racist, homophobic......tea-baggers, for lack of a better word.

And don't forget Fox News!!!

Yet, it is very possible, after the excesses of the Obama White House and the Democratic-controlled Congress, that enough people in this land of ours are waking up. Perhaps, that is why the Garofalos and the O'Donnells are becoming ever more strident in their language. They realize that their whole philosophy is losing all credibility.

They can talk all they want about the so-called "fear" that average Americans are feeling. Maybe-just maybe-it is they who are feeling the fear.

Did I say "maybe"? What I meant to say was "definitely".