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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
Charles CW Cooke: “She shouldn’t have apologized at all.”
And we have a winner.
CNN fired Kathy G., so now we’ll have to celebrate New Year’s Eve without her. It’s like they canceled the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl. Like they banned champagne and kissing. Like the old man and the baby in the sashes will not make appearances. Like the calendar page will not change. NEW YEARS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME! (Not that I’ve ever watched her.)
Should Trump be assassinated (g-d forbid) the left will parade in the streets and the division between them and anyone that’s not a leftist will get much uglier.
She’s apologizing because serious men in suits wearing aviators and not laughing showed up at her door. By the way, remember the hoopla when the rodeo clown came out with an Obama mask on? That was mentioned today when a gasp from the global body was heard round the world…..I dare Griffin to do a new version with her favorite Muhammad look-a like…..
She’s utterly shellshocked in the apology video. She anticipated outrage – even welcomed it – but not from her own side. Riding the outrage train doesn’t always stop at the Relevance Station; sometimes it takes the express route to Ruin.
Taking down her copy of the photo is about as effective as inhaling to quell a tsunami. That sucker’s everywhere now.
The D-list is looking pretty good. And forever out of reach.
There is a glimmer of hope for humanity if we can get most people from every corner of the earth to publicly decry the barbarous act that Ms. Griffin attempted to joke about.
I had the same thought. Thanks to Kathy, we finally know there IS a line a solid majority can agree on.
It’s lower than I’d hoped, but it’s a start.
Baby steps. ?
When you’ve lost Squatty Potty you’ve lost the argument.
I sure hope this is happening. I was in CPS court one day and one of the “serious men in suits” showed up to interview a parent who had *faxed* a threat to President Obama, threatening military reprisals if he didn’t legalize marijuana. The fax was sent on 4/20. Get this – it was a *faxed* threat, from a guy who lived in a single-wide in one of the most rural areas of Texas who had declared himself a priest in his own church that used marijuana in it’s rituals. I asked the Secret Service guy who he ticked off to get stuck with investigating this threat? (There is no major airport for 3 hours). Said secret service officer did not crack a smile I thought it was funny…but maybe too true??
Anywho, if that guy gets a special visit from the feds, Kathy certainly deserves one.
I look forward to Griffin on Celebrity Apprentice. She’ll be cleaning a Squatty Potty for weeks.
Maybe Levi Johnston will take her back.
I forgot all about that.
She isn’t funny now, and she hasn’t been funny for a long, long time.
I still feel a little sorry for her. She really had no idea this would blow up like it has.
Which speaks volumes about her estimation of public standards. As low as those standards are these days, it only underscores how vulgar and low she actually is.
I think it says more about the bubble she was in. I’ll bet that though she undoubtedly knows someone who voted for Trump, she has no idea who, because whomever it would be is probably keeping mum about it to avoid the drama.
You follow the news that little? whodathunkit.
OK, so Griffin herself has been smacked down.
But what about the photographer? What about the artist who crafted the bloody Trump head? What about the lighting crew? The makeup and wardrobe people? Her publicist and manager, who surely knew what she was doing?
Apparently, not a single one of them saw any problem here.
Kathy Griffin is not the problem. The problem is that she is part of an entrenched culture that is completely unmoored from decency and out of touch with the rest of the country, and yet somehow they have gained control of the entertainment industry.
One can only hope that this controversy has taught all of them something, but I’m not optimistic.
If leftists were capable of being taught anything they wouldn’t be leftists.
Now that she’s lawyered up (I have no idea what charges she plans on bringing), I think we can call her apology “fake news.”
It didn’t. See above.
And he didn’t even curse. Very disproportionate.
Dear Secret Service,
It’s time to go full out on this one.
Thank you.
A Citizen
If she wants to headline at Guantanamo, she should say so.
What a pathetic press conference.
I actually feel like watching the last Amy Schumer special for a laugh.