Alleged comedienne Kathy Griffin appeared on The View with an especially vapid take on Twitter posts by herself and Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) as well as the public statements and actions of CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin. Griffin has evidently mastered the neglected art form of false equivalence when she compared her foul depiction of a bloody, decapitated Donald Trump for the cameras as opposed to Gosar’s use of an Attack on Titan meme with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez depicted as a monster being slain by Gosar. However, even those two instances are more comparable than the oblique reference to Jeffrey Toobin’s Zoom call scandal that saw his termination from the network (only to see him be reinstated quietly).
Rather than lobbing an attack at Gosar, Griffin took pretty clear aim at CNN, showing a fairly serious amount of antipathy for her former employer,
“I think there’s another conversation that we’re not ready to have in this country, unfortunately,” the comedian said. “I think we’re hopefully making some strides, finally, with race. We’re having conversations, at least. But I think we really haven’t talked about the level of misogyny and ageism that went along with all that.”
“But then for me to watch Jeffrey Toobin talking about women’s choice after he masturbated on a Zoom call, which I know sounds funny, but maybe wasn’t so funny for the other ladies who worked at The Atlantic that had to see that.”
Griffin Has False Equivalent Complaints of Hypocrisy
According to ComicSands Griffin took to Twitter noting that she was once nearly charged with “conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States” after her disturbing and macabre tweet representing President Trump’s severed head in her hand, which followed months of grotesque statements about the Republican. Kathy Griffin had become the poster-child of Trump derangement syndrome.
Oh, I forgot to mention, interrogated under oath at the conclusion of the weeks long investigation in which the Feds informed me and my attorneys they were considering charging me with a crime of “conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States.”
But Gosar…— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) November 9, 2021
In the video posted to his Twitter account, Gosar’s head is superimposed on an Attack on Titan character ‘Eren Yaeger’s body from the opening credits of the first season of the show. The congressman then fights characters with Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden’s faces edited onto them. According to timcast.com
“Threats of violence against Members of Congress and the President of the United States must not be tolerated,” Pelosi tweeted. She added that House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy should “join in condemning this horrific video and call on the Ethics Committee and law enforcement to investigate.”
Naturally Ocasio-Cortez took as dim a view as possible of the Congressman’s light-hearted meme, one particularly popularized by the 2016 election.
In response, Congressman Gosar did precisely the right thing and responded to his detractors with another meme taking aim at the wokescolds criticizing him for his humor.
— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) November 9, 2021
