From Lynn Davidson at Newsbusters:

According to the former Air America radio host, a conservative starts out an “asshole,” and the politics come later. She asserted, “The reason a person is a conservative republican (sic) is because something is wrong with them…It really is neuroscience.”

In this February 12 interview with the environmentalist celebrity blog Ecorazzi, Garofalo also claimed the “irrational” emotion center of the brain, the limbic system, is what creates conservatives (text reformatted, profanity edited, all bold mine):

The reason a person is a conservative republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that’s science – that’s neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. It’s counter-intuitive. And they revel in their anti-intellectualism. They revel in their cruelty.

I don’t know if you heard me talking to Jenny a while ago, but I was saying that first you have to be an asshole and then comes the conservatism. You gotta be a dick to cleave onto their ideology…

Sarah Palin didn’t escape Garofalo’s ire either. She said Palin is “small-minded and mean-spirited” and “is what the Republican Party has become: obstructionist, contrarians, small-minded, all of these things (sic).”

Garofalo raved that “[t]here’s definitely something wrong” with Palin, and she’s successful with some Americans “because she represents that lesser segment of the country. It’s about people’s lesser nature…”

Stay classy, Janeane… stay classy. And to the “24″ producers: You’ve made a VERY big mistake with this choice. Was it your plan for Janeane’s character to look like she hadn’t taken a shower or washed her hair for a month? What about that red star tattoo on her right hand? There were so many other actors you could have chosen, but this one?

When I see her, I can only remember back to that one appearance of hers on Real Time with Bill Maher, where she was obviously tweaking. If anyone can look at this video and honestly tell me you think she is not on drugs, then you should get out more.