Posted on 08/16/2011 1:23:16 PM PDT by presidio9
I love the few, brave souls out there who are willing to say out loud what everybody else is thinking. Which is why, of course, I love Kathy Griffin. And I especially love her take on Michele Bachmann: "She's a comedian's dream. I don't know if she's good for the country, but she's good for comedy."
And after hearing the story Griffin told on Conan about her absolutely surreal run-in with Bachmann, there's no possible way anyone could argue with the comic's assessment of the straw-for-brains Straw Poll winner. I don't know how you could listen to Griffin's anecdote and not have about a million alarm bells instantly go off in your head.
I mean, what Bachmann said to Griffin was so mindless, so oblivious, so good-lord-this-woman-really-isn't-playing-with-a-full-deck-is-she ...
But I digress. Here's what happened:
Griffin was at an event in Washington, D.C., where she was organizing a rally to support the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell when the gods of comedy smiled upon her and she randomly ended up on the same escalator as Bachmann.
Seizing the moment, Griffin asked Bachmann if she could count on her support for the gay rights rally.
Bachmann answered this one predictably, with a bland, "I don't think so."
But Griffin's deliciously dark comic side came out with her next question:
"Congresswoman Bachmann, were you born a bigot or did you grow into it?"
Bachmann's response?
"That's a good question, I'm gonna have to get back to ya."
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I'm sorry, what?! Is this woman so incredibly dense that she doesn't know "bigot" is one of those accusations that's supposed to be immediately, visibly offensive? From this interaction, it would be logical to deduce that Bachmann thinks "bigot" is a perfectly acceptable lifestyle choice. Unless ... she must know what the word "bigot" means, right? Her vocabulary can't be that limited, can it?
Personally, I think the most likely reason for Bachmann's self-implicating response to Griffin's question is that, as a puppet for the GOP, she's not in the habit of saying words that somebody else didn't write for her first.
Either way, Griffin is right. This woman might be a nightmare for the country, but she's a comedian's dream, and a blogger's dream, too (if I do say so myself).
Why do you think Bachmann gave Kathy Griffin such a lame answer?
I dont see it. I took her response as kind of a nice way of telling Griffin off. It looks like it was meant as sarcasm, and the writer here seems to be dense enough to have missed that. How else do you answer the “do you beat your wife” question. I like the idea of making the questioner look foolish.
I mean the joke of a writer who authored this pap
“That’s a good question, I’m gonna have to get back to ya.”
That’s a good a humorous brush off as I’ve heard in a while. You refuse to engage with bigots.
Kathy Griffin is truly one of the most seriously disturbed women on the planet.
If Obama wants to reduce unemployment he should send about a million people for their psychotherapy degrees, because she could keep ‘em all busy for the rest of her natural lifespan.
“I wonder, does it matter to Griffin that Obama (officially) opposes gay marriage, too?”
That’s completely different. She knows he was lying.
“I mean, what Bachmann said to Griffin was so mindless, so oblivious, so good-lord-this-woman-really-isn’t-playing-with-a-full-deck-is-she ...”
How intelligent is someone who strings together monstrous hyphenated phrases because her brain can’t conjure appropriate adjectives, or someone who can’t string together thoughts in a short blog entry without resort to elipses every few paragraphs?
KG is a pig. She’s not funny and she is a sick twisted sl*t. Anyone who “loves” her like this fool writer, is just showing their ignorance.
“Thats completely different. She knows he was lying”
Yes, but his lie helps heterodoxy, heteroarchy, patriarchy, and bourgeois capitalism, or whatever. As the commies might have said back in the day, Obama “objectively” legitimizes the superstructure with such lies. Actually, they probably would’ve called him “fink” or “turncoat” and left it at that.
Kathy Griffen is exactly like Whoppie Goldberg - neither of these two broads every said a funny thing in their lives.
JMHO, but Kathy Griffin is a walking yeast infection.
These days, I don’t have any trouble with “racism,” “bigotry,” “homophobia,” “Islamophobia,” etc.
Matter of fact, if a politician hasn’t PO’d the gays, feminazis, race pimps, and Islamists, they’re not worth voting for.
Perhaps she’d like to go into any Black neighborhood and ask if they’d join her in supporting gays in the military and/or gay marriage. When THEY say “I don’t think so,” will this bobblehead then ask THEM if they were born bigots?
Yeah, I didn’t think so. Go ahead, you harpy. I dare ya.
This DU level posting on FR is getting out of hand.
A good source from England told me when the Queen blows you off she says very politely,”good for you”. Of course GFY also stands for something not as polite.
Really? I've been doing it for twelve years now, and I have my reasons. A good rule of thumb is to "take what you need, leave the rest."
“Congresswoman Bachmann, were you born a bigot or did you grow into it”
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First off, you queers have intimidated and bullied yourselves into a postion of protected status. The need for ADDITIONAL gay rights are a mythology and an abomination.
To answer your ignorant, vocabulary-vacuous attack: No, I just recognize and abhor homosexuality, in the same way that our ancestors have throughout eons of history.
BTW, were you born a disgusting pervert or did you grow into it?
Who is Kathy Griffin? Sorry, but a) I never heard of her and b) If I had, sounds like someone to avoid.
Kathy Griffin was the actress who played a comedian with a 1 man show in Seinfeld.
Her whole show was to rip Jerry. She used personal encounters to create her popularity. When he stopped talking to her, she got stale and turned to Cramer.
Now, am I really supposed to believe that 20 years later Kathy Griffin had life immitate art? It’s a heck of a coincidence. I’m more likely to believe that she is immitating her character.
Further, if it did happen... It sounds like Bachman was being a smartass right back to Griffin.
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