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CNN 'Evaluating' Kathy Griffin's NYE role: 'No Decisions At This Point'
The Hil ^ | 05/30/17 10:09 PM EDT | BY MARK HENSCH -

Posted on 05/30/2017 8:00:32 PM PDT by drewh

CNN is evaluating Kathy Griffin’s role in its annual New Year’s Eve coverage following the comic's controversial photo shoot in which she posed with a decapitated, bloody head resembling President Trump.

“We found what she did disgusting and offensive,” CNN said in a statement Tuesday. “We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down. We are evaluating our New Year’s Eve coverage and have made no decisions at this point."

Griffin earlier Tuesday apologized for the photo, noting that she had crossed a line.

“I sincerely apologize,” she said in a 31-second video posted on Twitter. “I’m a comic. I cross the line. I move the line and then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is way too disturbing.” “I understand how it offends people,” Griffin added. “It wasn’t funny. I get it. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career, I’ll continue.”

Griffin also asked for forgiveness in the vide, promising to take the image down. The photo, however, had already sparked debate on social media and caused "Kathy Griffin" to trend on Twitter.

Griffin has co-hosted CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live” broadcast every January since 2007 when she joined network anchor Anderson Cooper.

Cooper tweeted earlier in the evening that he was "appalled" by the photo.

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She says that the photo of her dangling a gory, mutilated, severed head of the President of the United States was just "a joke" that "went over the line".

JOKE = total LIE. One does NOT joke such a way, she MEANT everything in her ACTING, period !!!

141 posted on 05/31/2017 11:28:18 AM PDT by danamco
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After five months of considering it,

“We found what she did disgusting and offensive,”

CNN said in a statement Tuesday.
Liars.

142 posted on 05/31/2017 11:53:17 AM PDT by rx (Truth Will Out!)
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[ One does NOT joke such a way, she MEANT everything in her ACTING, period !!! ]

Of course she did. That’s why I say, send her to prison. She was trying to promote violence against the President. Give her 10 years, at least.


143 posted on 05/31/2017 1:02:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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Help me spread this far and wide!

https://www.facebook.com/DavidJHarrisJr/videos/1907053909507090/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

144 posted on 06/01/2017 6:45:59 AM PDT by seekthetruth (Now we have a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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