Kathy Griffin begs forgiveness for bloody head of 'decapitated Trump'
'I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong'
Published: 22 hours ago. Updated: 05/31/2017 at 1:36 PM
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Comedian Kathy Griffin is now apologizing and begging for forgiveness for a new photo shoot that features her holding the bloody, decapitated head of a figure that resembles President Donald Trump.

“I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong,” Griffin tweeted Tuesday evening.

The shoot, documented by TMZ, was with famed photographer Tyler Shields, known for creating edgy photographs.

“Tyler and I are not afraid to do images that make noise,” said Griffin in a video posted by TMZ.

“First, I’m an artist,” she explains, as she is shown holding the gory image of the Trump lookalike near her own head.

Then she clowns with Shields about the possibility of her going to federal prison for her provocative posing and the immediate need to move south of the border.

“We have to move to Mexico today because we’re gonna go to prison. Federal prison. … Because we’re not surviving this, OK?”

See TMZ video of the photo shoot:

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Reaction to the gruesome imagery has not been favorable.

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

“Since when did this kind of behavior become OK?” the Republican Party stated on its Twitter account.

Chelsea Clinton expressed her strong displeasure, tweeting: “This is vile and wrong. It is never funny to joke about killing a president.”

Jedediah Bila, co-host of “The View, noted: “And now everyone’s talking about it. Which is why she does stuff like this, even if it’s vulgar.”

Griffin herself is now pulling the plug on her own comedy, issuing a video apology:

“I sincerely apologize,” she said.

“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. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career. I will continue. I ask your forgiveness. [I’m] taking down the image. [I’m] gonna ask the photographer to take down the image, and I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong.”

TMZ posted an online poll to gauge reaction to Griffin’s photo. With about 40,000 respondents, 72 percent say the photo goes “too far,” with 28 percent indicating it’s “fair game.”

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Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway noted that Griffin had ample opportunity to back out of the pre-arranged stunt.

“Kathy Griffin did not misspeak or misstep. She plotted & posed for photoshoot. Ample time for reflection/correction,” she tweeted.

Griffin is no stranger to controversy, and certainly no fan of Trump.

Following the president’s address to Congress in March, she told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews she didn’t enjoy having to “watch this idiot for an hour and nine minutes” say “one hateful thing after another.”

“I’m a big resister and I don’t believe in compromise with this president. I also think he’s crazy, I think he’s mentally ill. He’s also an idiot.”

As WND reported in 2007, Griffin used her appearance on the Emmy awards program to tell Jesus to “suck it” and to claim full credit for the honor for herself.

At the 59th annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards, she was honored for having the Outstanding Reality Program “My Life on the D-List,” overtaking ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” after several attempts.

“I guess hell froze over,” Griffin announced. “A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this. He had nothing to do with this. … Suck it, Jesus! This award is my god now.”

Griffin also kissed the crotch of CNN’s Anderson Cooper during a live New Year’s Eve broadcast as 2012 was becoming 2013.

http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/comedian-kath...apitated-trump/


Pending trial Kathy Griffin ought to be incarcerated in the same privately run federal prison that is holding the Bundys while they await tria. She ought to be given the same special treamtent they are getting