Kathy Griffin’s Severed Trump Head Stunt Is Just Plain Wrong
(And Why Give Our Opponents Ammunition?)
I think Kathy Griffin is funny. I loved her Bravo TV show, and her early support of LGBT civil rights has been very welcome.
But Kathy Griffin has just made it a little bit harder for liberals to claim the moral high ground in the never-ending battle that is America. The stand-up comedian who may be best-known for standing with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in Times Square every New Year’s Eve just recorded a short video and posed for a photograph of herself with what is supposed to look like the dripping, bloody, severed head of President Donald Trump.
TMZ posted the video, which NCRM will not post here. The image is also all over Twitter, but we will not post it here either.Â
Whatever her reasoning for pulling this unacceptable and tasteless stunt is, it doesn’t matter.
Regular readers know that for the past 18 months, the vast majority of NCRM’s articles are anti-Trump. We’re proud to be that voice, to inform our readers of the latest destructive attacks on America this President and his administration have made. (And in fact, we do it exceptionally well.) We do it to help make it stop, and to help move people to informed action.
But it’s time Americans draw a line, and say our political discourse has become unacceptably destructive. It’s perfectly acceptable and patriotic to attack Donald Trump’s policies, his ridiculous remarks, his offensive behavior, and attacks on our allies and on America and Americans. It’s also vital that as Americans we respect the Office of the President, even if our own President will not. And that means saying “no” to a bloody severed “head” of Trump.
It means that just as we denounced the attacks on President Barack Obama, the disgusting memes, the birtherism, and the grotesque images of him being lynched, we also must denounce this vile assault on Trump. Yes, even Trump.
Donald Trump Jr. posted to Twitter a link to the Drudge Report’s story including the image, saying, the left considers this acceptable.
Disgusting but not surprising. This is the left today. They consider this acceptable. Imagine a conservative did this to Obama as POTUS? https://t.co/QdghcbIjS7
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 30, 2017
He apparently hasn’t seen the countless, vile, disgusting images of Obama with a noose around his neck.Â
Of course, Griffin is just one person, and as much as I often find her funny, I can say this does not represent me or my beliefs, and based on the responses to this tweet I posted, I can say it seems the vast majority on the left don’t think it’s acceptable either.
Kathy Griffin’s disgusting effort to get attention by posing with a fake severed head of Donald Trump is offensive, wrong, and unacceptable.
— David Badash (@davidbadash) May 30, 2017
Every once in a while we need to take a stand, even if it’s unpopular, just to ensure we’re not blindly playing follow the leader.
This one should be easy.
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