Garofalo Awards Announced at White House Press Dinner
Comedienne-turned-antiwar activist Janeane Garofalo will
be among those honored at a ceremony sponsored by the
Washington, D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com outside
tonight's annual White House Correspondents Association
Dinner.
The first annual "Garofalo Awards" ceremony will
spotlight celebrities who distinguished themselves in
recent months with "histrionic predictions of gloom and
doom before and/or during Operation Iraqi Freedom [and
who] stand head and shoulders above all others for their
shrillness, certainty and apocalyptic ravings," a
FreeRepublic spokesman told NewsMax.
The award itself - a stuffed ready-to-eat crow on a
silver platter - will be given to the top 10 celebrity
activists, politicians, pundits and reporters based on
votes of FreeRepublic members.
Winners include Garofalo herself, who was the top vote
getter based on her bizarre pre-war observation, "We are
doomed if we go into this war into the heart of the
Arabian world with a U.S. led effort against world
opinion. We are doomed if we do this."
CNN news executive Eason Jordan followed in second
place, for his recent confession in a New York Times
op-ed piece that he and his network covered-up firsthand
accounts of Saddam Hussein's torture and execution of
innocent civilians.
Other Garafalo Awards winners include:
* Fired NBC and National Geographic reporter Peter
Arnett
* Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter
* Actor Tim Robbins
* Columnist Helen Thomas
* Former President Bill Clinton
Clinton is being honored with a Garofalo for his for
remarks to a New York business group last week, where he
accused the U.S. of trying to bully the world.
"Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible
happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the
right to interpret all future events in a way that
everyone else in the world must agree with us," Clinton
told the Conference Board. "And if they don't, they can
go straight to hell."
Each Garofalo Award recipient will also receive a bottle
of red wine vinegar to help wash down the crow dinner.
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