Racism, apparently, is alive and well...

So for those of you that don't know, April 15th is Tax Day here in the United States. This year, however, conservatives everywhere held protests called "Tax Day Tea Parties" to protest Obama's ridiculous spending and bailout bills that have been passed through Congress in his 1st couple months in office.

If you remember, a few days after those Tea Parties, a story broke that Janeane Garofalo, a known Hollywood Liberal, blasted the Tea Party movement on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show, saying that the Tea Parties are "about hating a black man in the White House" and that "this is racism straight up." She also resorted to calling the party-goers "a bunch of teabagging rednecks," all of which Keith Olbermann agreed with.

Last night, on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show, he showed a clip where one of his reporters found Janeane Garofalo outside of Boston leaving a Starbucks. What follows is the complete transcript. Thanks to Fox News Network and CQ Transcriptions.

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: And tonight in "Your America," now you may remember when the left-wing liberal actress Janeane Garofalo had this to say regarding the attendees of the anti-tax tea parties.

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JANEANE GAROFALO, ACTRESS: It's not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about.

KEITH OLBERMANN, "COUNTDOWN" HOST: That's right.

GAROFALO: They don't know their history. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

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HANNITY: Our own Griff Jenkins recently confronted Miss Garofalo just outside of Boston and asked her if she stood by those ridiculous insane comments. Let's take a look.

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GRIFF JENKINS, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: What do you think of calling just honest protesters racists?

GAROFALO: Well, because they're not just honest protesters. They were indeed motivated a lot by racism. You saw some of those signs. Did you not? And if they are upset about fiscal imprudence, where were they for the last eight years?

JENKINS: But you don't know they're racist.

GAROFALO: I haven't had a good — what about that one sign that said, "What you talking about, Willis?" What do you think about that sign?

JENKINS: I didn't see that sign, I was just asking you.

GAROFALO: Right.

JENKINS: What do you say to the people that say, all right, you owe those people an apology?

GAROFALO: I don't. So they're going to have to wait a long time. So I'd say I don't.

JENKINS: And what about to the people who say that NBC should not let — you know, your comments go unchallenged?

GAROFALO: How do they go unchallenged? They're being challenged all the time. And why — I would say, why do they not challenge anything that FOX says?

I don't want to talk to you about this because you're obviously trying to provoke something here. If you don't want admit the truth about the racist element to those people that were there then I would say that you are in deep denial.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's not what you said. You said everybody involved was a racist.

GAROFALO: Sure.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You hate conservatives. That's the bigotry that you condemn.

GAROFALO: They are not conservatives. Barry Goldwater is a conservative. The conservative party has not been the conservative party since 1980.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right.

GAROFALO: There is not tenets of the conservative movement — why are you even here? What do you guys — I'm going to get — you guys are ridiculous.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, that's what we are.

JENKINS: You saying what the movement was about.

GAROFALO: Where are you guys running? What's your thing? Yeah, it was racist.

JENKINS: How so then? That's all I'm asking.

GAROFALO: Because if it's about fiscal imprudence why were they not protesting for the last eight years under the Bush spending? Where were they? Why did they have no problem with that?

JENKINS: Again. No need to apologize?

GAROFALO: No. No. I'm not talking about this anymore. I stand by my words. I do not apologize.

JENKINS: Everybody at a tea party are racists?

GAROFALO: Yes. Everybody I saw at that tea party are racists.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Amazing.

GAROFALO: It is amazing, isn't it? How dare I?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Um..... where do I begin?

Okay, I was at the Cleveland Tea Party on April 15th. I can't recall ever seeing a racist sign, anyone saying anything racist about President Obama, or anything like that. To be honest, it was a crowd of mixed backgrounds, so I don't know where she's getting that it was a racist protest.

Ms. Garofalo, it was about how Obama is spending his way out of a problem which another Democrat started (Bill Clinton) by bankrupting our kids, our grandkids, and our great-grandkids. If you think the way to get out of a recession is by printing more money and giving that money back to America, therefore decreasing the value of the dollar, you must be living in a Hollywood-type setting, where nothing is real.

In the article, the reporter, Griff Jenkins, states that he was at the Washington DC rally on April 15th and only saw "honest American protesters protesting the billions spent, the bailout, the trillions, and the budget deficit, and I didn't see any pointy white hats, I didn't see any racist signs." Well, Ms. Garofalo, according to these two accounts and a bunch of others I have read online, I do not see how this was taken as a racist riot protesting a black president.

According to Ms. Garofalo, Conservatives "probably couldn't tell you thing one about taxation without representation, the Boston tea party, the British imperialism, whatever the history lesson has to be." As best I can remember, American history or American government is a required course in all high schools, and the things she is talking about, aren't they some of the core topics of these American history classes? Just so you know, Ms. Garofalo, I invite you to ask me what the Boston Tea Party is, what British imperialism is, even what taxation without representation is. We wouldn't be a country without these three important steps along the road to revolution in the 1700's.

Jeneane Garofalo, you are on perhaps the most conservative of any of the sitcoms on TV, 24. I'm surprised you yourself haven't noticed this and said something about it. Do us all a favor and think before you talk. The tea parties were not about racism, they were about standing up against a soon-to-be socialist government who will take all our money and put our country in debt for generations to come.

God bless America.

Credits: Fox News: "Garofalo Stands By 'Racist' Remarks", May 12th, 2009