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Kathy Griffin Apologizes For Trump Tweet, CNN Concerned (Video)
Opposing Views ^ | May 30, 2017 | Michael Allen

Posted on 05/30/2017 10:12:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Comedienne Kathy Griffin caused a firestorm on Twitter on May 30 after she posted a picture of herself and a fake severed head of President Donald Trump (video below).

According to TMZ, Griffin was photographed by Tyler Shields, who has a reputation for shocking pictures.

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Griffin reportedly joked that she and Shields would have to flee to Mexico to avoid prison.

After hours of outrage on Twitter, Griffin removed the tweet, and tweeted a video apology:

According to TMZ, Griffin was photographed by Tyler Shields, who has a reputation for shocking pictures.

Griffin reportedly joked that she and Shields would have to flee to Mexico to avoid prison.

After hours of outrage on Twitter, Griffin removed the tweet, and tweeted a video apology:

I sincerely apologize. I am just now seeing the reaction of these images. I'm a comic. I cross the line, I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn't funny.

I get it. I've made a lot of mistakes in my career, I will continue. I ask your forgiveness, taking down the image, gonna ask the photographer to take down the image. And I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong.

Griffin's CNN co-host for New Year's Eve, Anderson Cooper, tweeted his disapproval of the image: "For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in. It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate."

CNN issued a statement to Mediaite.com that seemed to call into question Griffin's status for its New Year's Eve 2017 broadcast:

We found what she did disgusting and offensive. We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down. We are evaluating New Year’s Eve and have made no decisions at this point.

ABC News host Jake Tapper also weighed in on Twitter: "For those asking, I said on air that I thought the beheading imagery by Griffin about the president was disgusting and inappropriate."

Chelsea Clinton condemned Griffin's original tweet with her own tweet: "This is vile and wrong. It is never funny to joke about killing a president."

Scottie Nell Hughes‏, a Trump surrogate who often appears on CNN, tweeted her condemnation: "When will HOLLYWOOD stop trying to get laughs by encouraging violence/hate. I hope u will stand w/ me & say [kathygriffin] crossed the line."

Donald Trump Jr., whose father has attacked people for years on Twitter, tweeted his disgust: "Disgusting but not surprising. This is the left today. They consider this acceptable. Imagine a conservative did this to Obama as POTUS?"

Revelist noted in November 2016 some of the numerous racist and threatening pictures that were put on social media against Obama following his election win in 2008.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: assassasination; assassination; cnn; fakeapology; hollywood; kathygriffin; searchworks; television; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>>Revelist noted in November 2016 some of the numerous racist and threatening pictures that were put on social media against Obama following his election win in 2008<<<

Yeah, I remember all those Conservative Comics and Entertainers encouraging showing Photographs of Obama being Beheaded.

Oh wait...


21 posted on 05/31/2017 12:13:17 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mistakes aren’t planned, and this was no mistake.

The Video of the Photoshoot is damning and renders her non-apology Apology as vacuous as her rotting Cranium.


22 posted on 05/31/2017 12:17:01 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don Lemmon said it was joke....end of story. The whole tag team were there during that segment to rehab this.....what????.....person. It was disgusting.


23 posted on 05/31/2017 12:31:28 AM PDT by Texas Songwriter (proawakileftist)
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To: All

In the end, maybe we should just pity this woman and pray for her.

Maybe she’s never watched one of the horrific videos where someone is getting their head sawed off. Maybe she’s never seen someone burned alive in a cage.

Maybe she doesn’t know how the islamists use cordless drills on someone’s face and joints.

Maybe she’s not aware that their “doctors” will open up a person’s stomach and lay their organs on their chest, promising to put them back if they swear allegiance to allah.

Maybe she doesn’t know that this picture she made will be in islamist propaganda saying, “See? Even the Western women want us to rule.” or something to that effect.

Regardless, she needs our prayers.

Kit.


24 posted on 05/31/2017 12:33:09 AM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: Teacher317

Let me know when you see a REAL apology, and a REAL act of contrition. This was neither.


25 posted on 05/31/2017 12:34:46 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Teacher317

Her words of apology sounded good...you can be sure she prepared them long before the photo was released. The whole thing was a publicity stunt from a hateful, desperate D-lister. She knew what reaction she would get. She may have gotten fewer public “atta girl”s than she was expecting, but I’ll bet she got plenty in private. She is vile and soulless; don’t be snowed by that phony apology. It was nothing but pre-fabricated damage control. May this stunt blow up in her Botoxed face.


26 posted on 05/31/2017 12:35:23 AM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her next date is June 16 in Grass Valley, Ca. Here is the contact info for the Grass Valley Veterans Menorial Auditorium.

The Center for the Arts
314 W Main St.
Grass Valley, CA 95945

office: 530-274-8384
ticket info: 530-274-8384 ext 14
fax: 530-272-7084

Office hours: noon to 5:00PM, Tuesday through Saturday

Julie Baker, Executive Director – ext 13 jbaker@thecenterforthearts.org


27 posted on 05/31/2017 2:55:56 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Griffin should be doing 3-to-5 years on a chain gang.


28 posted on 05/31/2017 3:01:51 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seeing her without makeup is a real crime!


29 posted on 05/31/2017 3:33:41 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chelsea acknowledges Trump is the President. Alert the media.


30 posted on 05/31/2017 3:45:51 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: BubbaJunebug

I sent him an email last night


31 posted on 05/31/2017 3:47:12 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

K/G ,,,, GO TO HELL !!! ,,,,, your ticket is already paid for .


32 posted on 05/31/2017 3:53:04 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: Steely Tom

I think these people who put out these horrific images are trying to put a message out there to assassinate President Trump and there are some unstable people who might start thinking about it. Her intent was obviously to stoke ISIS and get them on the wagon.

She knew what she was doing and I hope she loses everything dear to her. I hope she becomes a pariah in this world.


33 posted on 05/31/2017 3:58:25 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Teacher317

She apologized because of the firestorm she created, not because she did it. She did NOT apologize to President Trump who is the offended party. How can there be an apology if it is not directed to the offended person?


34 posted on 05/31/2017 4:11:08 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kathy Griffin reveals a severely disturbed spiritual condition. Maybe she is seeing her career as a comedian in a desperate downward fall and she is grabbing at any attention getting gimmick to stay afloat. The path she chose reveals a deep sickness that has destroyed her notion of excellence, either of character or of comportment. What she has revealed is a deficit that is becoming ever so apparent with the character of the Left. It is a deficit of self control that has become a disgraceful pattern that has plunged the Left into a morass so deep that Griffin’s downward fall becomes a metaphor for its degeneracy.

The Left is revealing a deficit that has allowed an obsession with hate to rule their lives. This deficit comes from being Godless. When God is not in ones heart, the lord of hate moves in. This obsession with hate has poisoned the Left like a drug. It is more addictive than the hardest narcotic, overwhelms the spirit and turn ones life into slavery always seeking the next fix. Life becomes a downward spiral into depravity when one rejects the love of Christ and lets the rule of demons control their life.


35 posted on 05/31/2017 4:44:10 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: sargon
These reprobates never really apologize for anything.
36 posted on 05/31/2017 4:48:24 AM PDT by pa_dweller (President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. Because I know you like seeing it.)
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To: KitJ

Well said, but I have one disagreement.

Her apology was not nice because she never apologized to the Trump family. She should beg Donald Trump for forgiveness.


37 posted on 05/31/2017 4:52:17 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the end, there is no bad press. I think Kathy got exactly what she wanted.


38 posted on 05/31/2017 5:09:09 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: jonrick46

On September 8, at the 59th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards, comedian Kathy Griffin won Outstanding Reality Program for her Bravo show, “My Life on the D-List.” In her acceptance speech, Griffin said, “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3556691/posts

The article from the above post makes may case against Kathy Griffin when it said,

“In an interview with Houston’s gay magazine, OutSmart, Griffin described herself as a ‘complete militant atheist.’ Unfortunately, her kind of vulgar in-your-face brand of hate speech found a receptive audience on Saturday [the 59th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards]: The Hollywood Reporter says her foul remark ‘drew laughs.’


39 posted on 05/31/2017 5:10:03 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats are upset because this pos is like the three year old at the dinner table who blurts out “I saw mommy kissing the mailman.” Everybody knows it’s true but no one wants to talk about their real feelings.
satan hates it when the light of truth hits him or her.


40 posted on 05/31/2017 5:49:35 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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