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Is Kathy Griffin Going Too Far Targeting 16-Year Old Willow Palin?
Fox News ^ | 4 Jan 2011 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 01/04/2011 10:17:02 AM PST by mandaladon

Kathy Griffin announced her New Year’s resolution to continue a verbal assault on the Palin family. Only in 2011, the comedian said she intends to target Sarah Palin’s 16-year-old daughter, Willow.

"I've already gone for Sarah, Todd and Bristol obviously," Griffin told The Hollywood Reporter. "But I think it's Willow's year to go down. In 2011, I want to offend a new Palin.”

Could Griffin be switching to a younger, easier Palin target following her Bristol backfire in December?

On a special that aired Dec. 5, Kathy Griffin was jeered by the audience after attacking Bristol Palin for being “fat” while hosting the VH1 Divas “Salute to the Troops.” Griffin called the 20-year-old to “the white Precious,” based on Gabourey Sidibe’s role as an obese and abused teen mother in the 2009 Lee Daniels drama.

The incident provoked widespread criticism. “Calling Bristol Palin fat is inappropriate and distasteful, even under the guise of humor,” body image expert and author of “Love Your Body Love Your Life,” Sarah Maria told Pop Tarts at the time. “The problem is that people, and particularly young people, easily absorb the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes that are presented to them."

Bristol Palin herself responded, telling Pop Tarts that “The audience's reaction to this ‘comedian’ spoke volumes, and the decent people I know would probably have booed her, too.”

Hollywood publicist Angie Meyer says Griffin’s targeting of Willow, a minor, is even worse.

“To attack a young girl solely because of her last name seems rather contradictory of the types of justice she champions for others,”

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Meyer said. “A 50-year-old woman who chooses to attack a 16-year-old girl publicly at a time when cyber-bullying and teenage suicide are at their highest reported rates, not only sets irreconcilable example for others, it’s tasteless, immoral, and frankly – classless."

Of course it's tasteless,immoral and classless...but the left loves it.

1 posted on 01/04/2011 10:17:04 AM PST by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Something tells me Willow, if confronted, could handle the skank.


2 posted on 01/04/2011 10:18:46 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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To: mandaladon
Of course it's tasteless,immoral and classless...but the left loves it.
3 posted on 01/04/2011 10:20:35 AM PST by skeeter
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To: mandaladon
If the comedienne were to meet with a terrible accident she would become a martyr for the anti-American cause. We don't want that.
4 posted on 01/04/2011 10:20:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: mandaladon

if they’re claiming that “Willow Palin is fari game” is true, doesn’t that mean that mahalia and sasha are also fair game?


5 posted on 01/04/2011 10:21:00 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: mandaladon

I get the impression that Kathy Griffin has been “going too far” since she was about 12.


6 posted on 01/04/2011 10:21:33 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: mandaladon

Stop giving this whore Griffin the publicity she craves in making jokes like this.


7 posted on 01/04/2011 10:23:27 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: mandaladon
Kathy Griffin trying to look "butch" looks more like Richard Simmons.. in feminine pique..
But Richard is more feminine..
8 posted on 01/04/2011 10:24:35 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: mandaladon

She is also the Arby’s spokesperson


9 posted on 01/04/2011 10:24:46 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: mandaladon
There was a time when you got your @ss kicked for threatening folks children or definitely a good talkin’ to.
10 posted on 01/04/2011 10:25:30 AM PST by poobear
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To: stainlessbanner

I knew there was a good reason not to go to Arby’s.


11 posted on 01/04/2011 10:25:45 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: mandaladon
Willow is a minor. Publicly attacking a 16 year-old girl could be construed as child abuse. If Kathy really wants to follow through on this threat, she might want to lawyer up.
12 posted on 01/04/2011 10:26:00 AM PST by JPG (YES SHE CAN!)
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To: mandaladon
Of course it's tasteless,immoral and classless...but the left loves it.

Then, one could, Kathy Griffin is giving her audience what it wants, no?

And yes, I've found her tasteless for years, and now add
"despicable" to the list for her to go after a 16 year old, that as
far as I know, hasn't done any thing to merit being an object of
fodder for a so-called comedienne.

I was in b-school when Clinton took office, and I was shocked at
how catty the women were about (then 14yo?) Chelsea Clinton.

13 posted on 01/04/2011 10:26:00 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: mandaladon

Two questions. Who the hell is this Griffin person? And why does anyone give a damn what she thinks?


14 posted on 01/04/2011 10:26:32 AM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: mandaladon

Anyone seen Griffin without her makeup? Good Lord! She looks twenty years older than she really is.


15 posted on 01/04/2011 10:26:38 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (My baloney has a first name, it's DEMOCRAT; my baloney has a second name, it's PARTY)
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To: mandaladon

She has learned what thousands of “journalists” have learned, which is that if you want to be noticed, stick “Palin” in the headline. People are drawn to all things Palin who would never click to find out what a Kathy Griffin thinks.


16 posted on 01/04/2011 10:27:25 AM PST by marron
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To: mandaladon

Stupid no-talent liberals like Griffin, Bill Maher, Jeanine Garafalo, are just smart enough to know that they would be getting ZERO PERCENT TV face time unless they spout their liberal nonsense.


17 posted on 01/04/2011 10:27:25 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: mandaladon

what did Willow do to deserve being made the butt of public crude jokes?

being born Palin

Why should Griffin stop there, there are still 10 yr old Piper and 1 yr old Trig... go for it Kath, show us what real D-listers are made of


18 posted on 01/04/2011 10:27:44 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: mandaladon
“The problem is that people, and particularly young people, easily absorb the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes that are presented to them."

I seem to recall that a music reviewer once referred to Karen Carpenter as "Richard's chubby sister", in print.

About 10 years later, she was dead from anorexia nervosa.

Words mean things. What's more to the point, words mean things to people. Don't forget it.

19 posted on 01/04/2011 10:28:12 AM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: mandaladon

Kathy Griffin is doing EVERYTHING possible to earn ‘street cred’ with the leftist Hollywood elite crowd by attacking a teen girl whose mother is a leading conservative.

Kathy Griffin has no idea that the elite crowd sees her as nothing more than an useful idiot and a court jester for their amusement.

Griffin’s career is pretty much finished as far as Hollywood is concerned and she doesn’t even know it.


20 posted on 01/04/2011 10:29:11 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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