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who actually made the picture?? because I'm sure she doesn't have enough technological intelligence to work photoshop... so I'm guessing she had someone make it for her?
✨ Celebrity Kathy Griffin - Unfunny Hypocritical Comedian, Beheaded Trump in Effigy & Blames the Former POTUS for Ruining her Career
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She's just trying to get noticed by being edgy again.
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By not even having a joke to go along with whatever she was trying to do. Even Ted Nugent had some rhetoric along with his "call the Secret Service" level death threats and idiocy, and he's an absolute moron.
If you want to do that, you don't just cave in immediately when you're called out on it. You do something even more disgusting once you have everyone's attention.
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I knew there was something fishy about her when Newman said he was her biggest fan.
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That would be her vagina.
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I think Kathy should be directing her anger towards whoever told her it was a good idea or gave her the go-ahead to pull a stunt that was obviously going to backfire massively.
As someone outside America the way the press and celebrities are reacting to Trump seems incredibly childish and hypocritical; on one hand they say Trump is an idiot and acts like a child but then proceed to act in exactly that way. I'm no fan of him but 'Small Hands LOL', 'Two Scoops LOL', 'Steak with Ketchup LOL' and this beheading business is pretty petulant and ends up drowning out the actually important discussions regarding his presidency.
As someone outside America the way the press and celebrities are reacting to Trump seems incredibly childish and hypocritical; on one hand they say Trump is an idiot and acts like a child but then proceed to act in exactly that way. I'm no fan of him but 'Small Hands LOL', 'Two Scoops LOL', 'Steak with Ketchup LOL' and this beheading business is pretty petulant and ends up drowning out the actually important discussions regarding his presidency.
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Found this via the Bill Mahr thread in articles/happenings.
The GOP has now used her in attack ads against liberals in the Georgia special election. (archive)
(if this goes down, i'm working on setting up a mirror.)
The GOP has now used her in attack ads against liberals in the Georgia special election. (archive)
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Full disclosure (and I know I'm going to get shit over this) but I'm actually a big fan of hers, so I may be able to shed some light on her and this whole debacle.
When I was younger and in the closet (traditional Mexican family) there was something about her comedy really helped me out when it came to expressing myself and being unashamed for who I was. Here was this self-admitted an self-depreciating D-lister (a title she owned proudly) who would constantly shit on other celebrities for having sticks up their asses, while talking about her difficulties in love, her insecurities over her appearance and her doubts over her career candidly. I loved it when she would get in trouble because she ran her mouth
Over the years she's gotten in trouble/banned with:
But I think with this incident she went too far with her target and with the what she did. For starters what she did was distasteful, and backlash was exactly what Griffin was aiming for — and it certainly wasn’t unjustified — but there is 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. We're living in a time where factionalized mobs slice through even the most irrelevant public figures with brute force in order to condemn "the other side" in both conservative condemnation and progressive purity checking.
In this case, the decision fell to corporate America. Griffin lost her New Year’s Eve gig, much like Trump’s Access Hollywood accomplice, Billy Bush, lost his job at the Today show because of his role in the recording. Advertisers are becoming increasingly politicized, and companies, media and otherwise, are unwilling to bear the burden of risk. The problem is that the calculus that informs those decisions has been thrown completely out of whack. We’re living in an outrage culture without any sort of enforceable set point.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that everyone is a bunch of gay pearl clutchers and should calm the fuck down because fat people shouldn't have opinions anyways
When I was younger and in the closet (traditional Mexican family) there was something about her comedy really helped me out when it came to expressing myself and being unashamed for who I was. Here was this self-admitted an self-depreciating D-lister (a title she owned proudly) who would constantly shit on other celebrities for having sticks up their asses, while talking about her difficulties in love, her insecurities over her appearance and her doubts over her career candidly. I loved it when she would get in trouble because she ran her mouth
Over the years she's gotten in trouble/banned with:
- Steven Spielberg (when she hosted the Oscars she had a running gag where she would give faux "messages of hope" for celebrities who were in rehab for meth and prostitute abuse)
- Ellen DeGeneres (she was the one who broke the story that Ellen would yell at her staff and throw shit at them, and the two have a feud because they disagree with how they talk about celebrities)
- The View (shittalked Barbara Walters, Star Jones and Elizabeth Hasslebeck in one of her specials)
- Vogue Magazine (made fun of Gwyneth Paltrow and Anna Wintour as part of her gig at the Vogue fashion show)
- The Catholic Church and The Academy (told God to suck it while accepting her reward at the Emmys)
- etc.
But I think with this incident she went too far with her target and with the what she did. For starters what she did was distasteful, and backlash was exactly what Griffin was aiming for — and it certainly wasn’t unjustified — but there is 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. We're living in a time where factionalized mobs slice through even the most irrelevant public figures with brute force in order to condemn "the other side" in both conservative condemnation and progressive purity checking.
In this case, the decision fell to corporate America. Griffin lost her New Year’s Eve gig, much like Trump’s Access Hollywood accomplice, Billy Bush, lost his job at the Today show because of his role in the recording. Advertisers are becoming increasingly politicized, and companies, media and otherwise, are unwilling to bear the burden of risk. The problem is that the calculus that informs those decisions has been thrown completely out of whack. We’re living in an outrage culture without any sort of enforceable set point.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that everyone is a bunch of gay pearl clutchers and should calm the fuck down because fat people shouldn't have opinions anyways
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After reading this line, I fully expected the post to end with "and that's when my mom got scared and said you've moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air!". Sadly, it didn't.
Kathy Griffin is a marginally famous attention whore. Her attention grab backfired spectacularly, yet she's still trying like mad to keep the spotlight on herself because she craves it uncontrollably. She's a pre-Twitter lolcow with JUST enough comedic talent to settle on the fringe of show business and be the housewife's edgelord.
Twitter lets EVERY talentless attention whore have a platform, and that's why we have a forum.
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Eh, I say the death threats and the secret service trying to pursue a criminal investigation have her little miffed for now.
The only other something similar has happened to her was when she accidentally called Demi Lovato "Debbie" and Lovato's fans started sending her death threats to the point that the LAPD contacted her saying that Lovato's fans were going to her house in-person and asked if she needed protection.
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The photographer is called Tyler Shields. He took a bunch of oh so controversial pictures including a black man hanging a KKK member,
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Nah, man. If she had posed with an obvious, goofy-looking mannequin head, I don't think the reaction would have been the same. This particular prop -- and it was a prop, not a Photoshop job -- was nasty. It looked like him, and it was all clotted and gross, and the way the 'blood' crept up into the hair...it was an ugly, fetishistic sort of thing.
There's a reason people on the defense print a description and people on the offense print the picture itself.
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Eh, I tried reading one of her autobiographies when I was naive. I didn't even chuckle once. I did hear about her escapade on the radio but didn't seem to care...
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Except horses are suppose to be beautiful, intelligent, and people like to ride them. Griffin is not beautiful, she's not intelligent, and no fucking human would want to ride her if you catch my drift.
If were going to compare her to any Equss species, it would be a donkey, because she sure is good at making an ass of herself.
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A bit OT, but I still can't get over the fact that she dated the Woz.
I'll never figure it out.
I'll never figure it out.
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If I didn't Semper Fidelis you for the preceding paragraphs, I would have for this line alone.
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I remember that Griffin has (or at least had) a huge ladyboner for Cooper, and he just called her out. I wouldn't be suprised if that's why she's trying to backtrack.
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They are(were?) close friends, he went to her first about coming out publicly and they would hang out a lot. I wouldn't be surprised she backtracked just to be friends again.