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Kathy Griffin Gets Booed By U.S. Troops After Calling Bristol Palin Fat
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Posted on 12/06/2010 10:14:10 AM PST by roses of sharon

Comedian and self-proclaimed “D-lister” Kathy Griffin hosted VH1 Divas Salute the Troops which was taped for an audience of servicemen at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, California, and aired last night. The ribald and unconventional comedian set the tone for the night when she joked about Bristol Palin and her supposed weight gain while competing with Dancing With The Stars. But the joke fell flat, as the military men and woman in attendance lustily booed the host for taking a shot at Sarah Palin’s daughter.

Ms. Griffin has used the Palin clan for her “comedy” material before. Last summer, while filling in for a vacationing Larry King, she had on as guest Sarah Palin grand-baby daddy Levi Johnston. This was a follow-up to Johnston’s attending the Teen Choice Awards as Griffin’s guest the night before. She later revealed that the “romantic” relationship between Johnston and herself was merely a publicity ploy (duh!)

Griffin may have been guilty of misjudging her audience on this particular joke, but she went with it, even challenging the audience to boo more (which allowed her to “own” the failed joke.) Watch the clip from VH1 below, which includes a subject-changing introduction of Jersey Shore’s Snooki and Mike “The Situation” Sorrento.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; freepressforpalin; kathygriffin
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To: Tanniker Smith

She was in a Muppet movie? Hopefully , she wasn’t one of the puppets.


41 posted on 12/06/2010 1:24:46 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: txrangerette

Someone disgusted by the idea of saluting the troops who decided to make a protest pick.


42 posted on 12/06/2010 1:47:23 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Army Air Corps

Worse, she was “acting”. She’s (I think) a guard who gets attacked by Animal ... and then you see her going after Animal instead IIRC.


43 posted on 12/06/2010 2:28:09 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: roses of sharon
No-Talent _ss Clown.

Buy a vowel and guess the puzzle.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

44 posted on 12/06/2010 2:54:28 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

VIDEO

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4449245/-troops-boo-kathy-griffin-for-jab-at-bristol-palins-weight/?playlist_id=86856


45 posted on 12/06/2010 4:07:16 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: roses of sharon
This from the sewer-mouthed, plastic-faced thing called Kathy Griffin. Bristol has more class in her pinkie nail than it has in its entire scuzzy body.
46 posted on 12/06/2010 5:31:04 PM PST by Fudd Fan (Payback is a behar.)
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To: taildragger
She is competing with Joan Rivers in the plastic surgery department and she is still butt ugly. At least Joan just does it because she is aging, Kathy is still trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Ain't gonna happen Kathy, ain't gonna happen.

She is just as ugly on the inside as she on the outside.

47 posted on 12/07/2010 9:49:14 AM PST by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: roses of sharon

Bristol is a beautiful young woman. Kathy Griffin was never a beautiful young woman. Hence the anger and ugliness on her part.

I didn’t like it when they went after Chelsea Clinton when she was an awkward 13 year old kid and I don’t like this. To go after teenage girls(especially about their weight) is a very immature and classless thing to do. These people really make me want to vomit.


48 posted on 12/07/2010 10:20:41 AM PST by Mrs. Frogjerk
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