Kathy Griffin’s Emmy speech
Posted by Moonage on 11 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Idiot of the day, Media, Opinions, Shock and Awe, The Media
Kathy Griffin won an Emmy for making people laugh. Well some people anyway, I don’t have a clue who she is. However, she felt compelled to undo that laughter with her acceptance speech:
Yet another shooting star who feels compelled to use the limelight of their industry’s honoring them to push their own personal political rhetoric. My guess is she’s going to get a lot of flack over this. And she should. This was no place for politics, period. We reward these people for entertaining us. If we wanted their politics, they should be running for office. But they don’t, and they won’t, they don’t have the guts to put their butts on the line where it only really matters. And, they know that unlike the media driven industry they dwell in, the average person doesn’t have to accept their BS and they would never get elected with opinions like that. She may get a seat on The View, but she’ll never be in a position to push the rhetoric in any realistic way. Stupid move, Kathy. Very, very stupid.
2 Comments »
on 13 Sep 2007 at 12:47 am 1.mw
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I’ve caught her act on cable. A stand-up insult comic that primarily makes fun of celebrities - kind of in the Don Rickles tradition, only more cynical, very blue, and much funnier. Also the “shooting star” reference is off-target, as she bills herself as a “d-list” celebrity and much of her humor is self-deprecating. The comments at the award show is very much in keeping with the “nothing is off limits” nature of her act.
on 13 Sep 2007 at 7:33 am 2.Moonage
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When people pay to see a show, then the “nothing is off limits” should apply, if that’s what they pay to see. She wasn’t paid to perform at this show, she was being honored for what she had done. To turn an honor into a hate-sounding attack on religion was just stupid. However, she’s not the first, and won’t be the last. She’s fallen into that same trap a lot of celebrities do in that they think because they can tell a joke they become wise and all the people of the world should listen.
She may be hot on the d-list right now, however, as of this week, I’ll stick with my shooting star comment. I’m sure she’ll be on the MTV awards next year, but that’s about it.