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Kathy Griffin Wants Attention Again; Update: Griffin Apologizes
Photo Credit: TMZ.
D-list comic Kathy Griffin is transitioning to ISIS-inspired prop comedy. In a photo shoot, likely leaked to TMZ by Griffin herself, she is shown holding an effigy of President Donald Trump — in the form of his severed, bloody head.
Griffin’s attack on Trump is the latest in her desperate cries for attention. While hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper, she regularly drops the F-bomb live and once groped and pretended to fellate her co-host. She televised a public pap smear before a cheering crowd and mocked Jesus during an Emmy acceptance speech. Griffin has been banned from “Ellen,” “The Tonight Show,” and “The View,” among others.
According to TMZ, Griffin joked she would need to “move to Mexico once the pics got released.” Instead, she’ll just stay in her Bel-Air mansion, receive accolades from the far left, and yell at middle America for confusing her with Carrot Top and Andy Dick.
Once the photo hit social media, most conservatives were outraged, wondering if the press that demanded a rodeo clown be fired for wearing an Obama mask will hold Griffin to any standards whatsoever. Others wondered if the best punishment was simply to ignore the stunt, starving Griffin of the attention she so greedily craves. Which reaction do you recommend?
Update: Griffin has issued a video apology and has asked the photographer to take down the photo.
Published in Entertainment, PoliticsI am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong. pic.twitter.com/LBKvqf9xFB
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 30, 2017
I. G. N. O. R. E.
I. G. N. O. R. E.
Hmmn, is that to the tune of the Mickey Mouse song?
I – G – N (Yes, they’re in your face!) O – R – E (Eeeee! There is no use screaming!)
All Their Hip-Po-Scat!
Kathy who?
Serious question: doesn’t that image violate the CoC? It surely violates a sense of decency, and I could do without it on my screen.
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But the focus should be on anyone who called for the rodeo clown to be fired, and then said nothing about her, and on the prominent people who reward her. Her persona is just the vicious and pornographic object at the end of the puppet strings.
The left will always give a script to, and exploit, troubled people. (I’m thinking of Mattress Girl, for instance, as much as I am of this creature.) It’s time to make like Dorthy and pay some attention to the man behind the curtain.
I was torn on showing it at all, but since it was all over the internet, I thought it was silly not to show it. It’s extremely ugly, but I don’t believe it violates the CoC.
My question exactly.
Kathy Griffin: “I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong.”
Edit: I am sorry. Didn’t see the update.
I want to set up a PR shop specializing in apologies only…
Kathy Griffin, how could you? Don’t you remember when Sarah Palin incited the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords?
Strange way to signal your virtue…
I think her apology seems sincere. On the face of it, the picture is simply gross, but when you step back and think that there are murderers who continue to behead people, real people, with families left behind, it really is equally barbarous to make a grotesque visual joke of that heinous act.
Free speech comes with the ability to make errors in judgment. I’m glad she walked it back.
Interesting. I didn’t get sincerity out of that.
Nor species.
Strange that in her apology she avoids using President Donald Trump’s name.
Sincerely afraid?
I get a feeling this country is getting more like the early scenes of Gone With The Wind where everyone is talking about how great and easy the war will be. I’ve been thinking that for about 6 and a half years and it only seems to be getting worse. Like Kevin says, no one sensible should want this. If it comes, it will be worse than anyone thinks.
Source: Wikipedia
Are we lucky that enough people put rejecting the barbarous image higher than their hatred for Trump?
For me it wasn’t the Trump connection, but the barbarity embedded in the image.
I mean who wants to be like the people who solve their social grievances that way?
I’m mildly uplifted that she got enough flack from the proper people that she was forced to step back from her stupidity.
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“Sincerely afraid ?”
Yes. She sincerely does not want the people who encouraged her to now make her their scapegoat and disassociate themselves .
The apology looks and sounds like a lucid moment in which she was suddenly aware of just how expendable she is.
Arahant: King of the Double Entendre (btw, double entendres are illegal in North Georgia, Eastern Tennessee and all of West Virginia)
That is a sad but wonderful story. What brave nuns.
The true measure of her sincerity could be measured if their was a video of her the first time she saw the prop head. I would venture to guess that she squealed with delight. Probably took a half hour or so before she could get that deadpan look on her face.
It was grossly inappropriate. She knew it when she did it. Now you’ll get a stretch where everyone will say “No one deserves to lose their livelihood because of a poor decision.” And then when a Democrat is back in office it will become a capital crime again.
You are correct.
I’m not so sure. I think this is a classic case of “I’m sorry I got caught,” or rather “I’m sorry people reacted the way they did.” This is not regret, it’s damage control.
Naturally she’s expressing remorse now, because she has realized this is bad for her career. But this image will never go away, nor should it be allowed to. She made this decision, and now she has to live with it.
I think she bet on a full house of Trump hatred and was subsequently trumped by the barbarity of it all.
Newsbusters – Kathy Griffin, 2012: “I don’t like Jan Brewer in Arizona going like this to the president on the tarmac. I don’t like that. When I was on the view, Barbara Walters said you respect the office.”
I got a lot of CYA out of it.
By the way, who is she apologizing to? To me? I don’t accept.
My understanding is that she’s also being accused by Muslim groups of cultural appropriation.
Indeed. It’s sincerity in the form of grotesque opportunism. How long did it take to arrange this little stunt? It almost certainly took a couple of days, perhaps even a week or two of collaborating. It was hardly some spur of the moment emotional act.
This is just the crass opportunism of an entertainer seeking status in her peer group. It is rather pathetic that she is being supported by purported opponents promulgating the action and here I am guilty as well responding to the idiots who put this forward in the first place. But I imagine it generates page views and clicks, everyone has to eat I suppose and business is business.