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Conservative ‘Character Flaw’ Diagnosed by Neurological Scientist Janeane Garofalo

Posted on | December 11, 2010 | 18 Comments

“The British empire is the original douchebag empire, where sh*tty Americans and sh*tty Australians come from. . .
“What politics does shine a big light on is human frailty. And I think what conservatism has shined a light on also is human frailty. What does it mean to be a conservative or a Republican anymore? I’m not quite sure, but it clearly shows you’ve got a lot of frailty — you’ve got a lot of flaw. That you’re arrogant as f**k about that and you’re belligerent and you have very little self-awareness.
“But what does it mean to be the type of journalist who kowtows to a conservative? . . . To be a modern-day Republican or conservative, to be a George Bush type of Republican or conservative, to be a Hannity type — it’s a character flaw. It’s a character flaw or it also could be neurological. . . .
“I’m not joking at all. Limbic brain — seat of your emotions — something’s not working, whether it’s your private life or your literal neural anatomy, something is not working. . . . It is, I think, a neurological issue.
“It is also the party now . . . for racists, for sexists, for homophobes, for closet queens. Whatever, again, is wrong with you, because a tent full of hate has elastic walls.”
– Janeane Garofalo, May 27, 2009

Exactly why that audio was featured today at The Blaze, I’m not sure. Perhaps they just found it online today, but they didn’t provide a full transcript and I thought it might be a useful service to provide one.

One of my 18-year-old twin sons was sitting on the other side of the office while I playing and re-playing that audio to transcribe it.

“Who is that?” he asked.

“Janeane Garofalo,” I said.

“Never heard of her,” he said.

Garofalo probably considers her amateur diagnosis to be a real cutting-edge breakthrough in political analysis, but this business of treating conservatism as a mental disorder has a very long history, as I explained a year ago:

Even before the Senate voted on cloture, the Democrats’ health-care legislation was already delivering benefits in the form of a free mental-health screening delivered by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: If you oppose this bill, you’re a dangerous nut.
Such was the essence of Sunday’s floor speech in which the junior senator from Rhode Island quoted at length from Richard Hofstadter’s 1965 classic, The Paranoid Style in American Politics and offered it as a diagnosis of the health bill’s opponents.
Whitehouse paraphrased Hofstadter’s thesis, warning of “the dangers of an aggrieved right-wing minority with the power to create what [Hofstadter] called a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible.”
This “aggrieved” minority, Whitehouse asserted, was responsible for the “malignant, vindictive passions” of those who opposed the health-care bill. He compared these opponents to the Nazi brownshirts responsible for Kristallnacht in Germany — “broken glass has sparkled in darkened streets” — as well as to the Jacobin rabble of revolutionary France and racial lynch mobs.
“Does that sound familiar…in this health debate?” Whitehouse asked. . . .

This particular species of nonsense, the widespread liberal belief that there can be no rational reason to oppose their policies and that therefore voting Republican is symptomatic of insanity, has been employed against Glenn Beck and his audience. Back in March, when Frank Rich was portraying the Tea Party movement as an aggregation of violent kooks, I wrote:

There is no cure for the liberal disorder of political psychosis, which erupts whenever it appears conservatives are gaining ground. If present trends continue, Republicans ought to make one concession on health-care reform — free Xanax for Democrats on Nov. 3.

We’re barely five weeks past Election Day, folks. The era of total moonbat madness has just begun.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/jeff.weimer Jeff Weimer

    “Never heard of her,” he said.

    For an “entertainer”, that’s the unkindest cut of all….

    This “aggrieved” minority, Whitehouse asserted, was responsible for the “malignant, vindictive passions”

    We certainly saw an aggrieved minority (the dems who won re-election as those who lost weren’t allowed by Pelosi to participate) exercising malignant vindictive passions this week. What was it? Oh, yeah, “F**k the President!”

    I swear, these folks have the worst case of mass projection I’ve ever seen.

  • JeffS

    The era of total moonbat madness has just begun.

    I suggest that we’ve been in the era of total moonbat madness for 3 years or so, sometime around the start of the 2008 Presidential campaign season.

    It’s just that now it’s chic to be insane, so they’re taking the mask off. Thus, the symptoms are easier to see.

  • melanerpes

    Nurse Janeane Ratched Garofalo practices psychiatry like back in the USSR. See Punitive Psychiatry in the Soviet Union.

  • http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/ keyboard jockey

    Conservative character flaw?

    Columbia professor arrested for incest

    Columbia political science professor, 46, arrested for a three year sexual relationship with his daughter. He has also appeared as political analyst on CBS and written for Huffington Post.

    http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/columbia-professor-arrested-for-incest/

    It”s interesting what he was blogging about Sarah Palin back in 2009 on the Huffington Post….she does attract her share of perverts.

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  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    Geez – look at her. All those tattoos on her arms just scream “Daddy issues.” And she’s calling me nuts? http://bit.ly/hKq2PV

  • http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu Anonymous

    I just don’t get why anyone takes this cupid stunt seriously anyway.

  • http://twitter.com/YetAnotherITGuy C.Robinson

    Janeane Garofalo. Gross.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Coffer/1296650908 Chuck Coffer

    If one seeks credibility in describing the sanity of people they’ve never met, the first thing one should refrain from doing is turning themselves into a walking comic book.

    Just sayin’.

  • http://twitter.com/SumErgoMonstro The Monster

    If she’s saying that this character flaw is something we American and Australian folks somehow inherited from the British, then isn’t she also saying that one ethnic group may be predisposed genetically to certain behavior? Isn’t that… racist?

  • AnonymousDrivel

    Garofalo: “The British empire is the original douchebag empire, where sh*tty Americans and sh*tty Australians come from…”

    Well, I must say, that’s a pretty compelling argument, Professor. Please, do go on.

    BTW, you might want to investigate the tag team Etch A Sketching your shell. I think they’re spiking the ink with idiot juice.

  • Anonymous

    If I needed therapy, I sure has hell would not be consulting nutcases like Janeane Garofalo.

  • Anonymous

    I do not want to give this idiot Janeane Garofalo the courtesy of a response, and while my Irish ancestors are not exactly pro English, would be really be better off if we spun off the Spanish, French, German, Chinese empires, or Islamic calphinate? When it comes to human rights (especially the rights of women), along with Northern Western Europe, it does not get better than the UK, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

    But I make the mistake of even giving that libtard a response. I have to remember she is mentally ill and there is no reasoning with her.

  • Anonymous

    I do not want to give this idiot Janeane Garofalo the courtesy of a response, and while my Irish ancestors are not exactly pro English, would be really be better off if we spun off the Spanish, French, German, Chinese empires, or Islamic calphinate? When it comes to human rights (especially the rights of women), along with Northern Western Europe, it does not get better than the UK, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

    But I make the mistake of even giving that libtard a response. I have to remember she is mentally ill and there is no reasoning with her.

  • David Gillies

    I’m vastly more intelligent than Garafolo – and better read, more numerate and more articulate, to boot – and I can say that without fear of any meaningful contradiction. There’s this conceit within the Left, as has been noted by many, not least Ace at Ace of Spades HQ, that simply to cleave to Leftist politics confers an intellectual boost. In their minds, to deviate from progressive orthodoxy is a tacit admission of either a cognitive deficit or active malfeasance. Disagree with the Left’s agenda? You’re not just wrong, you’re stupid or malevolent (and thus dangerous.) To try to balk their desires is evidence of bad faith. This attitude reaches its apotheosis in the person of our God-Emperor, Obama. Opposition to Obama’s policy is not merely the normal cut and thrust of partisan politics. It is lèse majesté.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Y’all need to give Janeane Garofalo more respect. After all, she earned her GED and even took college drama classes.

    To prove her expertise on policy, economics, and foreign affairs, consider that she has appeared on television, and even in the movies.

  • http://twitter.com/meanolmeany paul mitchell

    WORST. RULE. 5. EVER.

    Hurry up and get home, Smitty.

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