• Horse-faced saggy-butt and out-of-work Kathy Griffin, "New GOP TV ad fe

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    WASHINGTON
    A Republican Super PAC has found a new way to target Democratic
    candidates: Kathy Griffin.

    A new ad uses the controversial comedian to criticize Democrat
    Jon Ossoff, saying her recent controversial actions are part of
    a pattern of behavior from “liberal extremists” who now support
    the House candidate running in Georgia’s 6th Congressional
    District.

    Griffin drew widespread condemnation this week when she was
    pictured holding a fake severed head made to look like President
    Donald Trump. The head was covered in fake blood.

    “Now a celebrity Jon Ossoff supporter is making jokes about
    beheading the president of the United States,” a narrator
    intones in the ad. “It’s not funny.”

    Video of Griffin holding the head appears in the ad, alongside
    images of liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and black-hooded
    protestors smashing windows.

    A spokeswoman for the group running the ad, Congressional
    Leadership Fund, said it is not yet on air in the Atlanta
    suburban district. But the group, which is spending $6.5 million
    on the closely watched special election, could decide to use it
    in the weeks before the June 20 election, said Ruth Guerra.

    An official with the Ossoff campaign, in a statement, called the
    ad a “disgrace.”

    “Jon Ossoff believes what Kathy Griffin did was despicable and
    for Karen Handel’s Super PAC to say otherwise is a disgrace,”
    said Ossoff spokeswoman Sacha Haworth. “Karen Handel should
    immediately demand this ad be pulled before any more children
    have to see these disturbing images on TV.”

    The use of Griffin is an unusual tack in race that has otherwise
    been about Ossoff’s and Republican Karen Handel’s backgrounds,
    national security and health care. But in a race that has been
    saturated in spending by the candidates and outside groups,
    trying a new approach (if the ad does run on TV) might be an
    attempt to break through with voters who have grown weary of all
    the TV ads on the race.

    Ossoff faces Handel in a race that has drawn national attention
    as an early test of Trump’s popularity in a district he narrowly
    won during last year’s election. Ossoff is seen as a slight
    favorite, although both sides say the contest could still go
    either way.

    Griffin has apologized for the picture, but the controversy has
    nonetheless cost her endorsements and a job co-hosting CNN’s
    coverage of New Year’s Eve.

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