Imagine
I mentioned the other day I don’t like Kathy Griffin’s severed head photo. I don’t like threatening imagery of that kind, no matter who’s doing it and no matter who’s the target. (On the other hand if she’d released it yesterday right after the Rose Garden announcement, instead of Tuesday, I might have lost sight of that dislike.) But that doesn’t mean outrage from Trump and co is anything other than bullshit.
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
Imagine? Imagine??! We don’t have to imagine, lots of people did that to Obama. Donald Junior’s own father spent years publicly lying about Obama’s citizenship. Donald Junior’s own father demanded the execution of the Central Park 5, and he insisted they were guilty after DNA evidence had shown they were not. Donald Junior’s own father in other words called for the murder of five non-white teenagers. That’s a good deal worse than Kathy Griffin’s photo.
And also, Trump goading his accolades to beat up his hecklers and “promising” to pay the fines. Totally okay, for some. For one. THE one. Or “That one”, as they used to call Obama.
Innumerable are the examples, for they are legio.
Lock him up. Plenty of Towers.
Here is a mild blow-back from some guy in California (looks vaguely familiar? Wasn’t he that furrin governor between the two Jerry Browns? Well, he’s BAACK!)
https://youtu.be/QdZnVuw__lo
(Sorry, not handy with embeds. Or on-threads.)
I am afraid I think Kathy Griffin was extraordinarily foolish to do what she did. It was only to be expected that this would be regarded as a golden opportunity by Drumpf & Co to characterise the so-called ‘left’ as being no different from the extreme and racist right. Nooses and ‘strange fruit’ in the case of Obama, Isis-inspired severed heads in the case of Drumpf – ah, everything’s balanced itself out now and we can make the excesses of the extreme right vanish in a cloud of outrage. What was Griffin thinking of when she did this?
What was Griffen thinking? Very little at all I suspect. Personally I’ve never enjoyed her comedy much. It’s not that it’s hard edged. It’s that it relies too much on outright insults and bad taste for the sake of it IMO. Certainly not in the league of Stewart, Colbert, etc.
Sadly you’re correct that those on the right will seize on this, as they did with the black clad anarchist protestors to try and shame the huge numbers of more moderate opposition.