Kathy Griffin Thanks Bill Maher for Being One of the Only People Who Publicly Supported Her

[question everything]

On Friday night, Kathy Griffin sat down with Bill Maher, one of her first major interviews since she had that infamous photoshoot of her holding up President Trump‘s severed head last spring.

Before being asked anything, Griffin began by thanking Maher for “being one of the first and only people to publicly support me and say what happened to me was bullsh*t.”

“Because I got texts from celebrities that were like, ‘Um don’t tell anybody I sent you this text, but I support you all the way, I love you’…. Jerry Seinfeld,” Griffin said.

After the audience gasped, Griffin clarified that she was “kidding” about Seinfeld.

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This was scary, the way she described the harassment.

[Gothmog]

1. The harrassment is really scare

[applegrove]

2. Glad she is back with shows. She's a comedian. It was never a serious

threat. I mean look at the NRA. Now that is some terrorist inspiring **** with "your time is up". And those supporters are gun nuts unlike Kathy's who are, as she said, gays and soccer moms.

[oberliner]

4. Same reaction if it had been Barack Obama's head?

And a RW comedian?

[JI7]

7. Obama isn't the vile piece of shit that Trump is and worse has happened to Obama

and those outraged over kathy griffin didn't give a shit.

[CentralMass]

30. That s not true. Ted Nugent is an a$$hole, but anyonr who did what she did is one as well.

[still_one]

32. What isn't true? President Obama was is called every vile name in the book, on our public airwaves

and it extended to his daughters, wife and family.

Eastwood mimicked slitting President Obama's throat at the republican convention.

That does not in anyway excuse Griffin tasteless and not funny garbage she did, but that was rightfully condemned by both sides of the aisle

The insults and harassment that President Obama received was mostly condemned from Democrats.

The double standard that exists in this country is a disgrace.

One thing the trump presidency has demonstrated is that the country has a lot of sexists, bigots, and racists, and unlike the media coverage of George Wallace, and his racist campaign where the media then largely condemned it, this time the media gave it mostly a free pass, and by doing so have legitimized it.

I am not a fan of Griffin, and I thought what she did was bad taste, and stupid, but the double standard that exists in the country is outrageous

[betsuni]

9. Kathy Griffin was condemned from all sides, that's the point.

She said she was left with about three friends. If a RW comedian would've done a photo with Obama's head, Republicans wouldn't have reacted in the same way and the comedian wouldn't have been put on the No Fly List and INTERPOL's watch list and investigated for two months. Who doesn't know there's a double standard?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. Nugent threatened both Obama and Hillary

And he sits on the NRA board and gets invited to the WH by Trump.

If he gets to continue with a career, so does Griffin.

[still_one]

33. Hell, Clint Eastwood mocked sliting President Obama's throat, and that action was mostly

brushed off by the press.

Whether someone continues a career or not, the public determines that, but the media has a lot of influence in that.

I personally won't see anything that Eastwood has his footprints in

[Cha]

52. I didn't know that

about eastwood and the mimicking.. what a stupid tool.

It's like ben carson and the brain surgery; when he's such a greedy moron in all other areas.

[still_one]

53. It was part of the discussion here for quite a few days, in multiple threads

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10021249773

[Cha]

54. OMG! Let me amend that to..

I totally freaking Forgot that!

Omg.. Busted! Sorry, so much water under the bridge since then.



gawd.. he is a freaking tool.

I can imagine what President Obama thought.. maybe.. "oh clint..you really are stupid."

HaHa.. poor clint.. we Kept Obama!

Hey, I said it was "stupid" back then, too.. lol

Mahalo still_one

[still_one]

56. It is easy for things like this to get lost because are so many vile and outrageous

coming out from the right

[Cha]

57. Too true.. I don't waste

much time on their stupidity.

Who knew I would loathe Rowdy Yates.. all these decades later?

[applegrove]

11. Oh she was wrong. I don't think she deserves to be on interpol's flagged

traveler's list and stopped and questioned every time she flies. She crossed a line. Comedians do that. She was wrong. She got denounced and scolded and lost jobs. She is not a threat.

[oberliner]

25. Those are my feelings as well

What she did was wrong - but she is not a security threat.

[MichMary]

38. I think she

made her own situation worse, with her apology, then her unapology with Lisa Bloom at her side. If she had just stuck with the apology, it would have been over and done with, but she chose to draw it out.

[Stonepounder]

13. How many times did we see photos of Obama:

Dressed in a primitive African witch doctor's costume
Depicted as a gorilla in a suit
Hung in effigy

And nobody nobody got ostracised and the Right Wing cheered.

[oberliner]

26. We are not the right wing

I expect nothing but the worst from them.

[still_one]

34. Mostly agree Obe, but it isn't just the right wing, the media has a double standard in the way they

cover it.

[bitterross]

14. As a matter of fact, yes. I have defended RW idiots right to be idiots here on this site.

I can say, honestly, because I have defended the right of right-wingers to have an opinion even if I disagree with it. I would have said it was vile and in bad taste. Like I said the nooses and the pictures of Obama dressed up like a native off Gilligan's island were in bad taste and vile.

Now, I did think it was okay for Ted Nugent to get a call from the Secret Service because his rhetoric was pretty much a call to arms for some people. There is a difference between being vile and in bad taste and saying things that you know damn well some person will take seriously. So I take issue with comment from people who say 2nd Amendment remedies are appropriate. That is a thinly veiled call to arms.

No one could possibly take the picture she made as a call to behead 45.

[Generic Brad]

41. Yes. Same Reaction

What she did was tasteless, but it did not warrant exiling the poor woman from society.

[BigmanPigman]

3. People in this country are raving hypocrites.

What she did was a fucking joke! Meanwhile people are shot and killed by MEN WITH GUNS everyday and that is defended and excused?!?

[betsuni]

5. Bill Maher doesn't care what people think, one of the reasons I love him.

The show discussed the weaponization of offense-taking, including using it as a route to political power; the narcissism of small differences and perversion of priorities (you might agree with someone 95% of the time but become enraged by the other 5%); you can compliment a sunrise and get angry comments about why you aren't talking about the sunset. Sigh.

[Awsi Dooger]

8. Likewise

Our side has too many standard fare types, particularly on MSNBC. That doesn't accomplish anything. You need people who are unpredictable every time you turn them on, like Maher or Jon Stewart.

[mentalslavery]

19. Bestuni....im so angry at you right now.....

[betsuni]

21. Uh oh, what did I do now.

[mentalslavery]

22. oh....nothing...

but im just so offended

[betsuni]

23. Ah, I get it!

Heh. Thing is, if I posted something nice about Bill Maher in some places, I WOULD have people mad at me. It makes a person a little paranoid.

[mentalslavery]

24. I completely agree....love the guy too...

so many points in that show! Sorry...hope I did not trigger you too much

[still_one]

37. Yeah, and he defended Clint Eastwood pretending to slit President Obama's throat. Here is the

problem, how do you distinguish between "free speech", and someone influencing or inciting someone to do violence against someone else?

Limbaugh, Hannity, Nugent, and a lot of others do that everyday through their 90% control of hate radio.

[betsuni]

40. When did he defend Clint Eastwood pretending to slit Obama's throat?

[still_one]

42. He praised Eastwood's performance and his decision to go off-script

https://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/09/bill-maher-eastwood-killed-it-134038

While he didn't agree with the content of what Eastwood was saying, he sure as heck praised him for its delivery

To some Maher has gone off the far end for such things as coming very close to anti-Muslim rhetoric with his broad based generalizations, his use of racial epitaphs, anti-vaxer positions, and for some the last straw was when Maher promoted the HIV Quack, Samir Chachoua on his show.

In the end it will be the public who determines who they will watch, but without a doubt the media, fairly or unfairly influences that decision

[JI7]

6. what happened to Kathy Griffin was so fucked up. but society loves to beat up on Women

while repulsive bigoted white men that run for president and ARe president don't get anywhere near the same level of judgement and criticism.

[milestogo]

12. She is a gutsy lady.

[YOHABLO]

15. Unlike Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Here's the video of her on with Bill Maher:

I posted the thread for this week's show: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017483478

[Upthevibe]

17. It was great to see her!

And thanks to Bill for having her on his show..

[Azathoth]

18. If Sean Hannity had posed ISIS-style with Obama's severed head

liberals across the country would have lost their ever-loving shit. Rachel Maddow would have needed to be hooked up to an IV bag full of sedatives just to get through her hysterical coverage of it.

What Griffin did was way beyond the pale. It was only half a step away from posing with a Ryder truck full of explosives next to a Republican daycare center. She earned every last bit of condemnation and harassment she got.

[Blue_Adept]

31. That's some pretty massive false equivalence there

[Azathoth]

49. What's "false" about it?

Or is it just OK because Griffin is a liberal?

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Rachel Would Do Hysterical Coverage?

The highly educated, focused commentator would go hysterical? You ever actually watch her show?
Your comment is ridiculous!

[Azathoth]

48. Oh please. Rachel is borderline histrionic on a slow news day

That's her shtick -- over-caffeinated and mugging for the camera. That doesn't make what she reports any less true, but please don't pretend she has the same demeanor as Walter Cronkite.

[ProfessorGAC]

58. Continue Being Wrong

No skin off my nose. But, you're still a light year off base.

[Skittles]

46. sexist crap

[Azathoth]

47. Huh?

[Skittles]

50. calling Rachel Maddow HYSTERICAL

it is SEXIST CRAP

[JI7]

20. Trump called for Innocent black and hispanic men to be put to death

[no_hypocrisy]

27. If Seinfeld sent her a secret text, it wouldn't surprise me.

Seinfeld canceled an appearance at an Eric Trump Foundation charity golf event a few years back when Donald Trump got caught doing something bad. DJT went on a rampage and trashed Seinfeld in the press, saying that he let down a bunch of kids dying of cancer.

You don't easily forget stuff like that.

[HipChick]

28. What happened to the photographer that setup and took the picture?

Not a goddam thing ....he was male...Kathy was bullied and made a scapegoat...

[Paladin]

29. I've been on Kathy Griffin's side from the beginning, and I remain there.

Those of you who are advocating goody-two-shoes behavior by Democrats can just piss off. Snap yourself out of it and take a clear look at how the political landscape has changed. Playing by good conduct rules that the right wing discarded decades ago gets us absolutely nowhere.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. +1

I wish I could rec your post! Fire with fire!

[HipChick]

43. Exactly...all this goody-two BS

gets us no where...

[Trumpocalypse]

39. Sorry can't defend Griffin

If she or someone else did the same thing with a fake head of President Obama I doubt anyone would be defending her.

[question everything]

44. OK. But to constantly stop her and interrogate her

and threatening her... Just watch the clip, above.

[Trumpocalypse]

45. Not saying that is right

But not going to defend her. If Dennis Miller had done the same with Obama or Clinton, every one here would be going nuts.

[doc03]

51. I can't stand Trump but she is a vulgar mouthed no talent POS. I rate her with

with some of the black so-called comedians that have made a career out of using the N word and other disgusting language.

[kentuck]

55. I felt sorry for her.

She seemed fearful and traumatized by it all.