Posted on 06/02/2017 6:24:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
How could Kathy Griffin think she didn't cross a line with her Islamic State group-beheads-the-president imitation? In a sense, her ignorance is understandable. Since Donald Trump was elected, there have been no lines to cross. Anything ... everything ... has been acceptable. The challenge has been not to temper the outrage but to push its limits. It was "art," she claimed at first.
Despite taping a video apology, she was dumped by CNN, which had promoted this "comedian" for 10 years as New Year's Eve entertainment in Times Square alongside Anderson Cooper. It tells you everything you need to know about CNN that, up to this point, it had found her antics acceptable.
CNN started putting her on air in 2007 after her award-acceptance rant at the Creative Arts Emmys during which she told Jesus Christ to "suck it." She cracked: "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."
Griffin has long used smears on conservatives and Republicans to boost her career. In 2010, she caused CNN stars John King and Dana Bash to laugh nervously as she described Sen. Scott Brown's teenage daughters as "prostitutes."
When the outrage came, she boasted: "Whenever a statement is issued against me, I'm in heaven. I feel my next special is half-written for me. And then I get to read statements allowed in my live shows which you can go to KathyGriffin.net and see the many, many cities I've picked up for my current tour."
Back then, the gossip site Radar Online was thrilled to describe Griffin's chat with an unnamed publicist for Playgirl magazine. The publicist said, "I asked Kathy what star she'd like to see take a 'celebrity spill' and she said 'I'd like to push Sarah Palin down the stairs.'" Griffin also claimed that Palin became John McCain's running mate by performing oral sex on him.
The far left has coddled her, and, clearly, she thought she'd be the toast of the town for this mock beheading stunt. It didn't pan out that way. CNN host Jake Tapper denounced the stunt on air, and Cooper disavowed it as "disgusting" on Twitter. Almost everyone implicitly understood how the country would have greeted anyone "artistically" holding up a severed head of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
The vast majority of Americans were nauseated ... but not everyone. The delinquents at the leftist site Vox protested that Griffin and photographer Tyler Shields "are resisting a rapidly shifting world in which women are losing access to basic reproductive health care."
Journalist Molly Ball of The Atlantic cynically denounced the Trumps on CNN for protesting this outrage, saying: "I have a hard time bringing myself to care about something like this. I think it just speaks to the need to see themselves as a victim that they have, that they are constantly being persecuted."
Sen. Al Franken has refused to cancel a joint appearance with Griffin in July to promote his book "Giant of the Senate." The politician called it a "horrible mistake" but said, "She's actually begged for forgiveness, and I believe in forgiveness."
Baloney. There is no real repentance here. Everyone knows that this was an apology offered to save her line-crossing business. The left wants her to cross the line to smash conservatives in the mouth. Incivility is the most satisfying kind of "resistance." Does anyone doubt she will return to her nasty routine once Franken & Co. get her "back on her feet"?
I remarked the other day that she would not suffer at all for her photo-shoot. Quite the opposite.
She would be in the doghouse for no more than a moment, just long enough for her friends to strike the right pose. Then they will complain that she is being persecuted by right-wingers and they’ll all rally around her. This will no doubt only take a couple of days.
She has just made her bones. I predict she will be busier after than she was before.
Comeuppance? Bullcrap. The POS got what it wanted: 1) Name and ugly face back in the limelight, 2) heralded and praised by the perverted filth that comprises the leftard Demonic Party, and 3) about to double down on vile by parading around with its victim card in order to garner more support from the demented scum that infests this country. Hardly a comeuppance.
Kathy Griffin and the black uniformed, masked rioters have become the face of the democrat party.
Picture Milo, BUT..
not young
Not hot
Not witty
And suuuuper obsequious to the Media Bosses
I see she’s lawyered up with Gloria Allred’s daughter is now claming the Trump family “bullied” her. Trying to stave off the end of her career I guess.
“I predict she will be busier after than she was before.”
I predict she wont be able to go out in public without getting slapped.
Oh, its not nearly enough, Brent
Ugly Kathy deserves so much, much, more
Greg Gutfeld made the comment that Griffin was just attempting to move from a D-Lister to a B-Lister in Lib circles. I agree. She had every reason to believe that The Left would overwhelmingly support her.
For whatever reason The Left didn’t. And anyone who believes the reason is related to decency and morality is a fool. It was strategic in some sense to sacrifice her.
The Gremlin was supposed to make a statement at 9:00 am - I expect that would be Pacific Time.
Just waiting to see her make some more stupid comments. She and Hillary make a wonderful example of what is wrong with the Left.
Sorta like LEFT over lunch. No-one wants to eat yesterday’s food. It’s old and cold with mold.
A talentless foul mouthed tart. One or two notches below the odious Lena Dunham and the rabid Sarah Silverman. Griffin’s last network sitcom (on which she played a supporting role) has been off the air for twenty some odd years.
Her disgusting attack upon Trump reminded me of when a liberal film producer made a film fantasizing about assassinating George W. Bush.
She will be welcome to perform on college campuses.
i hope u are correct
She should be publicly shamed at every step.
Nah, she just placed herself at the top of millions of dead-pool lists.
3-to-1 odds that she is dead in two years.
Unfunny, ugly, half ass, liberal , dumbass , bitch.....I would go on but it would never end!!!
What career....she’s been nothing but a liberal media whore...never got close to being funny!!!
Tart, implies that the subject is at least pleasing to the eye and a pleasure to behold. She is not. She is downright ugly, and would make a good choice for the Wicked Witch of the West in Oz.
Strumpet is more to her character....................
You said it.
I’d bang her-once.
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