• Queen of saddlebags Kathy Griffin sorry for decapitated Trump head phot

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    Thank you Kathy Griffin for the indisputable evidence of your
    liberal bigotry and ignorance.

    Comedian Kathy Griffin apologized Tuesday hours after posting a
    horrific and shocking photo of her posing with a bloody mask
    representing a beheaded President Trump.

    After outrage poured in from both sides of the political aisle,
    Griffin admitted that her unfunny stunt went too far.

    “I sincerely apologize,” Griffin said in a video. “I am just now
    seeing the reaction of these images. I’m a comic. I crossed the
    line. I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The
    image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It
    wasn’t funny. I get it.”

    Even Trump’s toughest critics were turned off by the offensive
    display, which features a stone-faced Griffin holding aloft the
    fake Trump head like a terrorist inspiring her twisted troops.

    Earlier, Griffin cluelessly defended the display as nothing more
    than “art,” but the Secret Service took it seriously enough to
    weigh in.

    “On it!” the agency tweeted. “@SecretService . . . monitors open
    source reporting & social media to evaluate threats. "Threats
    made against @SecretService protectees receive the highest
    priority of all of our investigations.”

    Neither does shamelessness. After posing for photographer Tyler
    Shields and posting the slow-motion video on her Twitter feed,
    Griffin followed it up with an insensitive social media screed.

    “I caption this ‘There was blood coming out of his eyes, blood
    coming out of his. . . wherever,’” Griffin tweeted. “OBVIOUSLY,
    I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others to anyone,
    ever! I’m merely mocking the Mocker in Chief.”

    But the damage was already done, and the retribution was fierce.

    “Disgusting but not surprising. This is the left today,” Trump’s
    son Donald Jr. tweeted. “They consider this acceptable. Imagine
    a conservative did this to Obama as POTUS.”

    2/ OBVIOUSLY, I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others
    to anyone, ever! I'm merely mocking the Mocker in Chief.
    — Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 30, 2017
    Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Trump’s opponent, Hillary
    Clinton, also condemned the image.

    “This is vile and wrong,” she tweeted. “It is never funny to
    joke about killing a President.”

    Trump eyes John Pistole, Chris Wray as FBI director candidates
    Anderson Cooper, her CNN New Year's Eve co-host, responded late
    Tuesday night.

    "For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin
    took part in," he tweeted. "It is clearly disgusting and
    completely inappropriate."

    CNN said the network is "evaluating" the future of her annual
    special.

    "We found what she did disgusting and offensive," a spokesperson
    told the Daily News. "We are pleased to see she has apologized
    and asked that the photos be taken down."

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    Griffin was trending on social media for much of the day, and
    her reviews were not good.

    “What Kathy Griffin has done here is shocking and wrong,” wrote
    Evan Siegfried. “It’s behavior that should be condemned by all.”

    Another person compared the photo to radical terrorism: “Kathy
    Griffin shows her support for ISIS by holding a mock-up of
    President Trump’s decapitated head.”

    The gruesome image united the left and right.

    “Not a trump fan at all,” one account tweeted. “But this is
    disgusting.”

    Shields, who shot the shocking photo, also defended the image as
    “art.”

    Shields said the photo was mostly Griffin’s idea.

    “She came to me,” Shields said. “She said she’d like to do
    something political, that she’d love to do something that makes
    a statement. It’s always a collaboration. It wasn’t completely
    her, but it wasn’t completely me either. Without Kathy, I would
    have never done a photo like that. .”

    Griffin’s controversial photo surfaced more than a year after
    comedian George Lopez tweeted a picture of a drawing depicting
    Trump’s detached head held up by Mexican drug lord Joaquin (El
    Chapo) Guzman.

    Musician Marilyn Manson, meanwhile, beheaded a character in a
    dark suit and red tie — both trademarks of Trump — in his music
    video for the song “SAY10” last November.

    In March, Trump himself decried a Snoop Dogg video featuring the
    rapper aiming a gun at the head of a Trump look-alike.

    “Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing
    career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama?
    Jail time!” Trump tweeted.

    Griffin has been an outspoken critic of the President and
    includes bits about him and his family in her standup shows.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/kathy-griffin-sparks- outrage-decapitated-trump-head-photo-article-1.3207184
     

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