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   From: slut.kathy.griffin@msnbc.com   
      
   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.   
      
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