:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::

"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.

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:: 2.23.2003 ::

:: JANEANE ON FOX ::

Transcript: Janeane Garofalo on Fox News Sunday
February 23, 2003

This is from an interview with Tony Snow of FOX News to air at 6 pm EST tonight. Here's an excerpt:

GAROFALO: Well, yes, I guess it's a lot of coercion and arm- twisting. I would say -- I would say that it has been the idea since 1990, '91 to go into Iraq and to have hegemony over the region, redraw the map. Oil is a part of it, not all of it.
But 9/11 has been a way to reinvigorate the plan that the right- wingers and the ideologues and people like the people at the American Enterprise Institute and...
SNOW: Well, OK, whoa, whoa, whoa. This seems highly fanciful. Go in, occupy the region and redraw the map?
GAROFALO: Yes. Oh, don't pretend that this is like some crazy conspiracy theory and I'm...
SNOW: Well, but it strikes me as a little far-fetched. I mean, the British tried to do it in the beginning of the century.
GAROFALO: Well, what is far-fetched...
SNOW: But you...
GAROFALO: What is far-fetched about wanting hegemony over the region? Since the 1940s, American diplomats and government people have been very vocal about the fact that there is a lot of wealth to be obtained in that area and it behooves anyone to be in charge of that area.
SNOW: Well, wait, wait, wait.
GAROFALO: And it behooves anyone -- yes.
SNOW: No, I'm just curious about it, because again, the idea of hegemony -- trade relations are a way to build wealth.
GAROFALO: Sure.
SNOW: Hegemony is a way to build trouble. And the United States has no record...
GAROFALO: Yeah, absolutely, hence my problem.
Oh, I just spit. Sorry.
(LAUGHTER)
Hence my -- I'm foaming at the mouth, Tony.
Hence my problem with it. I also...
SNOW: I'm happy I've been able to get you so passionate about this.
GAROFALO: You've gotten me all flumoxed.

Garofalo is part of The Win Without War Coalition that will sponsor the Virtual March on Washington on February 26.

RELATED:

From Yahoo! News: Should Celebrities Speak Out Over Iraq?
By Jill Serjeant

"We are not experts. What we are is citizens in a democracy. We are using our patriotic rights and our ability to get the attention of the media." -television producer Robert Greenwald, founder of the fledgling Artists United to Win Without War

Also from Yahoo! News: Clooney Exhorts Americans to Speak Out

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