Why it's so difficult to defend Janeane Garofalo

A few days ago Janeane was ambushed...



...because she told Keith Olbermann in a recent interview that ALL "teabaggers" are racists (as Olbermann moaned a bit).

One doesn't need to have knowledge of Boolean logic to know that the claim is absurd. If she said that even the majority of the protestors are racist it would seem ridiculous. ALL of them? ...it's possibly time for sedatives...

I want to address one other falsehood from her recent statements. She said that Reagan wasn't a Goldwater Republican. Well, everyone from objective biographer Edmund Morris



to left-leaning Sean Wilentz (who displays obvious antipathy for him)



would argue otherwise.
Reagan was THE Goldwater conservative. I agree that the Republican party has mutated into a beast. As Maher recently noted, the religious Christian-nut parasite that Reagan tolerated now controls the host. BUT the transformation did not begin during 1980.