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Queen of saddlebags Kathy Griffin sorry for decapitated Trump head photo after igniting fierce outrage; 'I crossed the line'

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Thank you Kathy Griffin for the indisputable evidence of your 
liberal bigotry and ignorance.

Comedian Kathy Griffin apologized Tuesday hours after posting a 
horrific and shocking photo of her posing with a bloody mask 
representing a beheaded President Trump.

After outrage poured in from both sides of the political aisle, 
Griffin admitted that her unfunny stunt went too far.

“I sincerely apologize,” Griffin said in a video. “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.”

Even Trump’s toughest critics were turned off by the offensive 
display, which features a stone-faced Griffin holding aloft the 
fake Trump head like a terrorist inspiring her twisted troops.

Earlier, Griffin cluelessly defended the display as nothing more 
than “art,” but the Secret Service took it seriously enough to 
weigh in.

“On it!” the agency tweeted. “@SecretService . . . monitors open 
source reporting & social media to evaluate threats. "Threats 
made against @SecretService protectees receive the highest 
priority of all of our investigations.”

Neither does shamelessness. After posing for photographer Tyler 
Shields and posting the slow-motion video on her Twitter feed, 
Griffin followed it up with an insensitive social media screed.

“I caption this ‘There was blood coming out of his eyes, blood 
coming out of his. . . wherever,’” Griffin tweeted. “OBVIOUSLY, 
I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others to anyone, 
ever! I’m merely mocking the Mocker in Chief.”

But the damage was already done, and the retribution was fierce.

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

2/ OBVIOUSLY, I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others 
to anyone, ever! I'm merely mocking the Mocker in Chief.
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 30, 2017
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Trump’s opponent, Hillary 
Clinton, also condemned the image.

“This is vile and wrong,” she tweeted. “It is never funny to 
joke about killing a President.”

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Anderson Cooper, her CNN New Year's Eve co-host, responded late 
Tuesday night.

"For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin 
took part in," he tweeted. "It is clearly disgusting and 
completely inappropriate."

CNN said the network is "evaluating" the future of her annual 
special.

"We found what she did disgusting and offensive," a spokesperson 
told the Daily News. "We are pleased to see she has apologized 
and asked that the photos be taken down."

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Griffin was trending on social media for much of the day, and 
her reviews were not good.

“What Kathy Griffin has done here is shocking and wrong,” wrote 
Evan Siegfried. “It’s behavior that should be condemned by all.”

Another person compared the photo to radical terrorism: “Kathy 
Griffin shows her support for ISIS by holding a mock-up of 
President Trump’s decapitated head.”

The gruesome image united the left and right.

“Not a trump fan at all,” one account tweeted. “But this is 
disgusting.”

Shields, who shot the shocking photo, also defended the image as 
“art.”

Shields said the photo was mostly Griffin’s idea.

“She came to me,” Shields said. “She said she’d like to do 
something political, that she’d love to do something that makes 
a statement. It’s always a collaboration. It wasn’t completely 
her, but it wasn’t completely me either. Without Kathy, I would 
have never done a photo like that. .”

Griffin’s controversial photo surfaced more than a year after 
comedian George Lopez tweeted a picture of a drawing depicting 
Trump’s detached head held up by Mexican drug lord Joaquin (El 
Chapo) Guzman.

Musician Marilyn Manson, meanwhile, beheaded a character in a 
dark suit and red tie — both trademarks of Trump — in his music 
video for the song “SAY10” last November.

In March, Trump himself decried a Snoop Dogg video featuring the 
rapper aiming a gun at the head of a Trump look-alike.

“Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing 
career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? 
Jail time!” Trump tweeted.

Griffin has been an outspoken critic of the President and 
includes bits about him and his family in her standup shows.

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