I love the hypocrisy of the left.
I love the hypocrisy of the left. Can you imagine if a right-leaning political or public figure did something similar? It would be labeled as inciting violence, that individuals would then be canceled, removed from all of social media and never work again. Whether it should or should not is a different discussion but the first amendment does not currently protect you against making threats to injure an individual. Based on prior situations the left have had melt downs over, THEY would consider this a threat of violence and therefore should be treated that way.
Individuals want Trump cut from Home Alone 2. Would these same individuals support a movement to remove Kathy Griffin from shows and movies for holding a fake, severed head of a president of the United States?
In this article Griffin shows no remorse and in fact decided to “hit the road again” and go overseas in search of people filled with as much hate as her to continue her “act”. While on tour in London she received a threat of injury from a driver and called the president of the company and had him fired. If Griffin claims that she did not break the law with her stunt then shouldn’t the same apply to the driver?
I would love to have a Democrat explain to me what consequences a conservative should face for similar actions and why I should pity and feel sorry for Kathy Griffin?
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Griffin said the photo was meant as political satire, but that didn't stop all hell from breaking loose. The president reacted, tweeting: "Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11-year-old son Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"
But the damage was done. Her comedy tour was cancelled; she lost her endorsement deal with something called Squatty Potty; and she found herself under investigation for conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States – a charge that potentially carries a life sentence.
At a press conference, Griffin was emotional when she spoke of Mr. Trump's, and the government's, response: "To be honest, he broke me."
Griffin says her name ended up on the no- fly list, and CNN fired her from her long-running gig co-hosting their New Year's Eve special with Anderson Cooper. "I really did love Anderson and I really loved doing that gig. And it was a lot of fun. And, you know, they just couldn't get over it."
"I thought: 'Well, I know how to be funny, and I know how to get people to buy tickets.' Because I'm pretty sure there's a whole bunch of countries overseas that really don't like Trump. And that's how it all started."
So, she hit the road again, but only after taking control of her business, learning how to book every element of it herself, from renting the theaters, to marketing the shows, to hiring the ushers. "I think it was 13 countries and 26 cities. And then I thought, 'Okay, I'm onto something.'"
Her tour grossed more than $4 million. "And yet, I don't have a single day of paid work on television ahead of me for the rest of my life," she said.
But she'll always have the stage. Her world tour became the basis for her new comedy special, called "Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story."
"I was in London a month ago and I had a driver who took myself and my assistant from London Heathrow to the hotel, and he recognized me from the photo and he said that he was from Morocco and that if we were in Morocco he would cut my tongue out.
"I called the president of the company and had him fired!" she replied.
Burbank asked, "If you could click your heels together and go back and just like, at the end of the photo shoot before the mask came out, could it just been like, 'Let's call it a day,' would you?
"No," she replied, "'cause I've learned so much. I think a lot of people would love it if I said, 'Oh, I wish I had never taken that picture. I wish I had never cursed. I wish I had never made this comment or that comment.' But the most important thing that I hope people see is that, long after I kick the bucket, they see the crazy red-haired lady didn't go down."
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