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Horse-faced saggy-butt and out-of-work Kathy Griffin's unforgivable message to America and the world

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By SE Cupp

(CNN)In the days, weeks, months and years following 9/11, there 
were countless images, moving and still, that came into our 
collective consciousness that changed us, as much as those 
events did.

For me, a New Yorker who witnessed many of those images live, 
there are a few that are forever etched in my brain. One, still 
photos of men in suits jumping from the top floors of the World 
Trade Center, their ties whipping upward in the wind as they 
leaped from one helpless fate to another.

Many more images would follow. I was at my desk at The New York 
Times in May 2004 when news broke that a missing American 
contractor named Nick Berg had been decapitated by Islamic 
extremists in Iraq. He'd briefly attended my college, so I'd 
felt a small connection with him. I made myself watch the video 
of his decapitation that morning, and immediately regretted it.

Of course, it was grisly and shocking and awful. But that's not 
what made it such a lasting, haunting image that I can't shake 
to this day.

It's that he was one of ours, and they took his head as a 
trophy, held it up to the video camera, and with bloodlust and 
hatred in their eyes, rubbed it in our faces. I was looking at 
pure evil.

That's what came to mind when I saw Kathy Griffin's gruesome 
image. I'm not sure what reaction Griffin wanted us to have when 
she posed for a photo with a bloody, decapitated mask of Donald 
Trump. But there are no good ones to be had after looking at a 
picture like that.

In the more forgiving (but still unforgivable) metaphorical 
version, I suppose she's suggesting that comedians like her will 
symbolically take Trump down with their wit and humor and moral 
superiority. But this photo is not witty, funny or moral.

In the more forgiving (but still unforgivable) metaphorical 
version, I suppose she's suggesting that comedians like her will 
symbolically take Trump down with their wit and humor and moral 
superiority. But this photo is not witty, funny or moral.

In the literal version, she's posing as a terrorist who's 
decapitated the President. She's issued a statement saying, 
"OBVIOUSLY, I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others 
to anyone, ever!" But that isn't obvious, actually. She's 
apologized, suffered consequences and asked the photographer to 
take the photo down, but that won't undo the worst of the damage.

In addition to gratuitously playacting one of the most vile, 
grotesque and evil acts of violence one could -- against any 
human, let alone the President -- Griffin has also managed to 
weaken good arguments against Trump's intolerance and the 
intolerance of some of his supporters. There is no equivalency 
between Griffin's photo, for example, and the stabbing of three 
people on a train allegedly by a self-proclaimed white 
supremacist, but if you think the President should take more 
seriously his role in tamping down violence and hate across the 
country, as I do, stunts such as this are a serious setback.

There are good people on the left and right who are trying 
earnestly and responsibly to hold this President to account. 
There are also millions of people who elected him and think he's 
doing what's best for the country. And finally, there are evil 
people around the world, some of whom want to behead innocent 
Americans. With this photo, who does Kathy Griffin most look 
like?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/opinions/kathy-griffin-immoral-
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