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HAPPY #*%! NEW YEAR TO YOU, TOO (title of article quote from CNN)
The New York Post ^ | Jan 2,2009 | JEREMY OLSHAN

Posted on 01/02/2009 6:49:21 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

Comedienne Kathy Griffin may be doomed to life on CNN's S-list after answering a heckler with a shrieking, vulgar tirade during the network's live New Year's Eve broadcast.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cnn; kathygriffin; sewer; vulgar
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To: Pablo64

I am not sure why they think it is funny or shocking to say such vulgarities, when they are so common in any sewer New York City.


41 posted on 01/02/2009 7:26:50 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Ms. Kathy Griffin is disgusting and repulsive in every way.
I will not watch her or her attempts at vile humor.

BTW, nice attempt by her plastic surgeons to make her face acceptable to the masses. Sorry to say, they failed miserably as her lawsuits against them attest.

42 posted on 01/02/2009 7:26:55 AM PST by vox_freedom ("If God be for us, who is against us?" -- Romans 8:31)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I would not cross the street to watch either Griffin or Cooper.


43 posted on 01/02/2009 7:27:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: GUNGAGALUNGA
I must be out of touch with reality.

Is that why your user name is SHOUTING?

44 posted on 01/02/2009 7:29:34 AM PST by vox_freedom ("If God be for us, who is against us?" -- Romans 8:31)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Kathy Griffin is one of the most conspicuously unfunny comediennes I’ve ever heard. I’m assuming that her CNN tirade was deliberate so she has more material for her crummy reality show.


45 posted on 01/02/2009 7:29:40 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: A_perfect_lady
I have to admit, it was ... quite a unique comeback she had there.

It's actually one of the oldest anti-heckler comebacks in the book, but also one of the best in my opinion.

46 posted on 01/02/2009 7:31:46 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: AmericanMade1776
"I am not sure why they think it is funny or shocking to say such vulgarities, when they are so common in any sewer New York City."

Because we have raised a generation or more of intellectually lazy people. Resorting to the basest levels of our being doesn't require any effort at all. It's almost like being on auto-pilot. Refraining from the easy profanity and engaging your brain requires more effort than they are willing to put out, and sadly, even if they wanted to, their education has been so stunted that they may not even be capable of rising any higher anymore.

47 posted on 01/02/2009 7:31:57 AM PST by Pablo64 (Political Correctness is a DISEASE. <==> TRUTH is the CURE.)
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To: Junior_G

This was her comment at the Emmy’s...how unfunny and sad is this?

Accepting an Emmy for her Bravo show in 2007, she said: “A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. So, all I can say is, ‘Suck it, Jesus.’ This award is my god now.”


48 posted on 01/02/2009 7:32:37 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Fox was on a 12 second delay, or at least it took the programming 12 seconds to come out on my digital TV. My watch is set by the atomic clock in Denver (if you were wondering how I knew).


49 posted on 01/02/2009 7:36:10 AM PST by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Pryor was one of the best stand up comics in history.

Yep, vulgar. Yep, crude. And yep, like most stand up comics you can name, he did cocaine, and yep lit himself on fire ‘freebasing’.

But the man was absolutely HILARIOUS in his ‘prime’, just as Robin Williams once was.


50 posted on 01/02/2009 7:36:38 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Is she a tranny?


51 posted on 01/02/2009 7:39:42 AM PST by Niteranger68 (Barack Obama = Media Jesus)
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To: freekitty
Count me in too. My news comes from Net resources, starting right here. I refuse to rely on any news programs.. FOX included.

I only supplement with an interview or a live event.

My favorite show these days is "Red Eye".

52 posted on 01/02/2009 7:55:31 AM PST by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: AmericanMade1776

She adores gay people then uses an anti gay slur on a heckler. That makes sense. Why no gay outrage?


53 posted on 01/02/2009 8:03:32 AM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

At one time I considered her quite entertaining. I have not been able to listen to her as of late; she has becomne a hate filled vile woman.

When I listen to or view an entertainer of any sort (music, comedy, drama) I do not expect to hear their political and personal agendas pushed down my throat.

I liked Sean Penn at one time, had he shut his mouth I would still watch his movies, George Clooney also a talented idiot. I enjoy rock music but will forgoe listening to some because they assume they can tell their fans how to think.

I believe Cathy suffers from the same delusion as others listed previously; she has become an elitist and she believes her opinion matters to others.


54 posted on 01/02/2009 8:06:44 AM PST by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: freekitty

Another unfortunate looking, talentless female comic removes all doubt. And this is news?


55 posted on 01/02/2009 8:10:21 AM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Pablo64
"They didn’t just lash out at people with nothing but a profanity-laced verbal attack and then call it a bit."

I disagree. Kathy Griffin was paid to co-host the countdown BECAUSE she has a quick mouth. That is her bit. CNN got what they paid for. Because her profanity was not rehearsed and read from a cue card does not mean it is not part of the joke.
56 posted on 01/02/2009 8:16:50 AM PST by LetsRok
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To: AmericanMade1776
I'm sure the brain-dead Leftists (but I repeat myself) will find this trash amusing.

When a young teenage boy, I got a kick out of trash-talk with my buddies--raucous songs, the more obscene the funnier--and, perhaps, under certain circumstances, with a bunch of convivial men maybe, it might be funny now--but only if clever. Even as an adolescent boy, I found it unfunny merely to shout obscenities and tasteless to be vulgar under inappropriate circumstances, but, though I was only vaguely aware of it at the time, I was of higher intellegence than the hoi polloi--and am today--as numerous successes, epiphanies, intelligence tests of various kinds (including the standard), et al.--not to mention observations of the obvious--have attested.

Not so the decadent Left (but I repeat myself again). Leftists enjoy the iconoclasm of vulgarity. They are incapable of comprehending the decadence that they represent and promote or its consequences. They equate iconoclasm and vulgarity with humor, and evidently, to them, things of such low level, intellectually and otherwise, are humorous.

Such as this remind me of the small pornographic bronze statues of an amused Aphrodite, about to smack a priapic Eros with her sandal, that circulated through the Hellenic world as it sank deeper and more hopelessly into decadence during the third century B.C. The statues are cheap and, even today, revolting, but the decadent Hellenes found them hilarious. I'm sure the decadent Leftist of today, utterly unaware of their own stupidity and vacuousness, will find them just as hilarious, as they obviously do the cheap vulgarity described in this article.

57 posted on 01/02/2009 8:23:09 AM PST by Savage Beast (The Left is decadence.)
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To: LetsRok
She's a one-trick pony. That's all she's got. I don't know or care why they hired her, if you're trying to compare her to comedians like Pryor or Murphy you have to compare apples to apples.

"Because her profanity was not rehearsed and read from a cue card does not mean it is not part of the joke."

What joke? Any lame-brained, knuckle-dragging idiot can spew profanity. Doesn't mean it's funny or even clever. If that's your standard of comedy, you really ought to think about raising the bar just a little - maybe aim for the curb above the gutter.

58 posted on 01/02/2009 8:24:55 AM PST by Pablo64 (Political Correctness is a DISEASE. <==> TRUTH is the CURE.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Cooper seemed to become increasingly uncomfortable with Griffin's off-color remarks, including her request to "get a pap smear from [CNN medical reporter] Dr. Sanjay Gupta," and her description of former CNN host Glenn Beck as a "heroin addict Mormon."

Nice. Very classy, Kathy.
59 posted on 01/02/2009 8:26:29 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: mewzilla

The “dump” button involving a 7-second or so delay would not have made sense on New Years Eve. Imagine those poor suckers who watched CNN on a delay? No, the real idiocy is having the b1t¢h Griffin on in the first place.


60 posted on 01/02/2009 8:29:29 AM PST by buzzyboop (no tags, no fuss)
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