Comedian 'Trump severed head prank cost me my career...'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-c ... p-broke-me

Fired comedian Kathy Griffin weeps: 'Trump broke me'

US comedian Kathy Griffin has tearfully said she fears her career is over after CNN fired her for posing in a photo with a prop meant to resemble the severed head of President Donald Trump.



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[Tyrannical]

She certainly jumped the shark with that one. Huff Post will probably hire her though.......

[pErvinalia]

Yeah, bit of a shocker. There's also a controversy with the Jeopardy host who has tweeted about it making fun of Barron Trump. And he won't recant. He's apparently a kids book author. I wouldn't buy any kids book from someone like that.

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Free speech. Innit. Funny how the right are whining and acting out raged about. It's like they're... what's the word for people who do the same thing they slam others for?

Trump tried to get the sympathy vote by saying his 11 year-old didn't need to see that, but one of Obama's kids was only 9 when he hi.self spread disgusting allegations that Obama wasn't a US citizen. And where was the right's outrage when racist shots were walking around with effigies of Obama hanging like a lynch Negro from the good ol' days?

I stand with Kathy Griffin here. After mocking the disabled, Trump has no moral high ground.

[Brian Peacock]

Meh.

[Scot Dutchy]

Trump has no morals period.

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Article on the right's double standards and the left's weakness.

http://observer.com/2017/05/kathy-griff ... ign=buffer

I absolutely agree. She shouldn't have folded and apologised. She should've ask Trump where his apology was when he mocked the disabled, implied someone should take care of Hillary, and started a lie about Obama's birth.

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Trump. Concern troll.

https://thenib.com/concern-troll

[laklak]

It's a bit OTT, but not illegal. Free Speech doesn't mean there won't be consequences for your actions, just that the government won't prevent it. She learned this the hard way, and it had absolutely nothing to do with Trump's actions. CNN didn't fire her because of Trump, Squatty Potty (LOL!) didn't end her contract because of Trump, her shows haven't been cancelled because of Trump, and even The Clown Senator (Al Franken) distanced himself.

The kid's writer is just a jerkoff. Kids should be off limits. I felt that way about Obama's girls, Bush's kids, Chelsea Clinton, and I feel that way about Barron. They didn't ask to live in a fish bowl, leave them alone.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah, poor kid's got enough troubles with Trump as his dad.

Regarding Griffin, she fucked up. She's not helping by having a sook about it now. She needs to shut up and go back to the (comedy) drawing board.

[laklak]

I never found her particularly amusing, her only real claim to fame was hosting the annual New Year's Eve show with Anderson Cooper.

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Earlier this week, Kathy Griffin released a mind-numbingly stupid video in which she stares wide-eyed into the camera, holding a gruesome mold that resembled Donald Trump’s severed head. The prop was dripping with blood and the Internet smelled it almost immediately.

Backlash was exactly what Griffin was aiming for — and it certainly wasn’t unjustified — but there was something inauthentic about the intensity of the response. The stunt was quickly glommed in with “the left,” which contributed to the tribalism of public condemnation from both sides. Conservatives clutched their pearls in unison, while mainstream media figures like CNN’s Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper clarified their personal disturbance as if participating in a roll call. The posturing of righteous indignation was not only the safest possible reaction, but something of an obligation. This outrage performance is an unnerving handicap on the productivity of public discourse and further evidence of our mounting inability to process relativity in a moment where the cultural force of shame appears to be malfunctioning. Or, in other words: Where the hell is the line if Donald Trump gets to be president?

Trump rose to political prominence with his inherently bigoted stance on Obama birtherism, and was elected despite a rich history of racist housing policy and sexual assault allegations. On the 2016 campaign trail, he called Mexicans rapists, took aim at the families of war heroes, and said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters. Then he won the election.

The simple fact that Trump won the election marked a condonation of his rap sheet, which continues to destabilize our propensity for shock. And while we discussed the merits of Kathy Grifin trying too hard to get attention, Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement, effectively cancelling the United States’s commitment to the preservation of the planet. If this course goes uncorrected, environmental disasters will increase, and our children and grandchildren will be forced to grapple with unimaginably harsh daily conditions. But please, keep dragging Kathy Griffin on Twitter.

This isn’t about whether what Griffin did was really so bad, but our collective inability to prioritize a system of shared values. Holding up the decapitated head of the president is deeply disturbing, but so was Trump’s mocking of a disabled reporter and bragging about sexually assaulting women on the Access Hollywood tapes. We’re all well aware that Trump’s list of unforgivable infractions is longer than a Costco receipt, and yet he occupies our highest office, supremely unscathed. Meanwhile, the factionalized mobs slice through even the most irrelevant public figures with brute force. In both conservative condemnation and progressive purity checking, the standards apply to everyone except the man who ought to be held up as the highest example. We’re living in an outrage culture without any sort of enforceable set point.

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/kathy-gr ... l_facebook

In other words; who gives a shit about some minor celebrity when you have a piece of shit in the White House who is actually in a position to cause real and lasting damage. Priorities and all that.

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Dear Trump,

I thought you should know the first thought I had when you tweeted about your kids’ reaction to Kathy Griffin’s picture holding your (fake) severed head. I was disgusted. But not by what she did. I was disgusted by you. Over the day, I became even more disgusted by you. And as a citizen of this country, you need to know that.

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What about the children who get harassed and attacked as the result of your anti-muslim rhetoric and policies? The Latino kids who get called rapists. The Muslim kids who are called terrorists. What does it say to the children in this country that it took you over a year to denounce all the violence that you helped spawn?

What about the kids who go to bed every night terrified that their mommy and daddy won’t be there the next morning, because of your anti-immigration policies?

What about the kids who will lose their health insurance under the new plan you are peddling? You know, the ones whose lives depend on it?

So I’m glad your kids are having a hard time dealing with Kathy Griffin’s tweet.

You’ve acted atrociously for years. And you’ve never shown one inkling of remorse for the collateral damage. But then one person puts out a tasteless image, and suddenly your shocked and your kids are hurting? Good. You should spend some more time experiencing what its like to be on the receiving end.

And you know what else? Kathy Griffin apologized. I’ve never heard an honest apology from you. A lot of rationalizations and excuses and blame and attacking, but never an honest, humble apology. So after a lifetime of stepping all over others, you want pity because you got the shoe? No way.

A little empathy would do you a world of good. Especially considering that you are the so-called leader of the free world. Which means the choices you make effect your kids as well as ours.

http://politicallyincorrectusa.net/2017 ... -children/

A bit harsh.



...but fair.