MSNBC Ignores 'Suck It, Jesus' Quote From Griffin in News Blurb

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Reporting comedian Kathy Griffin's offensive remarks at an award show set to air on Saturday, MSNBC anchor Norah O'Donnell left out the harshest line. The effect was to make it sound like the liberal former "View" guest host was being unfairly "censored" by TV producers for making a mild joke about award recipients who thank Jesus for their success, rather than blaspheming Jesus Christ directly.

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As I noted in an earlier NewsBusters post, Griffin's speech included an exclamation of, "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my God now."

Here's how Norah O'Donnell described the controversy on "MSNBC Live," at about 3:15 p.m. Eastern time (h/t NB contributor Mark Finkelstein):

These days it seems no awards show can escape controversy, and in this case, it’s the creative arts Emmy. And comedienne Kathy Griffin, she picked up the award for Best Reality Show last weekend. But when the show airs on Saturday, her acceptance speech is going to be censored. In her speech, Griffin said, quote, "A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus."

Well, according to the TV Academy and the E! Channel, Griffin remarks will be shown in a quote, "abbreviated version.


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I don't care what an

I don't care what an actress says about politics... why should I care anymore about what she says in regards to religion?  Even blasphemy shouldn't be censored... let the public know that she says what she says... let the public decide for themselves if they like her for it.

Iran is the country that censors "blasphemy," not us.

It's made to sound like what

It's made to sound like what O'Donnell is quoted will be "censored."

Maybe it will be edited out by the producers but I think they'll also edit out "Suck it, Jesus," which is the more offensive portion O'Donnell failed to mention.

Oh I completely

Oh I completely understand... O'Donnell is bailing her out by playing the "victim" card here without actually doing the right thing and uncensoring the nasty bit.  It's a fine line to walk for slanted reasons.

It's interesting that even

It's interesting that even in a story about her being censored, MSNBC is censoring her. They are reluctant to say out loud, or show what Griffin said. And yet they are protecting her...pretending that something else is what is going to be omitted. Why is that? Perhaps they know that saying Jesus had nothing to do with the award is bad enough, but even some of their liberal viewers would have a problem with the rest of what she said.

Yes another lie

pumped out for cover. One can imagine that msnbc is totally ignorant of their mistake, or not. I suspect not given the inflection and tone and delivery.

Once again, as in the post

Once again, as in the post about ABC and the MoveOn.org ad, a MSM outlet sanitizes and neutralizes the specifics of a controversy generated from the Left. I use the word "controversy" guardedly, as it's not a controversy if no one hears of it...

 

In other words

You're saying this is not censorship, it's a cover up.  I agree.

This is just the MSM protecting its Left-Wing philosophy by covering for the extremism of its most insane devotees.

JC said, "They

JC said, "They will persecute you - but remember, they persecuted me first."

If you value Peace above Freedom, neither will you attain.

Mocking God

Believer

Mocking God is a favorite pastime of many people. I pray she comes to Him before she is relegated to an eternity alone, very alone without Him.

I do not like hearing his name used in vain, but it slights Him and not me.

Why the surprise?

I know that NB is not a "Christian" website, or even a "religious- oriented" site, so I hope my comment won't offend all you sinners out there...I'M JUST KIDDING ! ! !   (Rush Limbaugh says stuff like that and everybody laughs...okay, okay...so I'm no Rush Limbaugh.)  Anyway...

Comments like this from people who have no respect for Christianity or Christians don't surprise or offend me.  Anybody who has the most elementary knowledge of biblical end-time prophesy knows full well what the scriptures say, and if one believes the holy scriptures and the words of Jesus...no surprises here!  It's been written down for thousands of years...and it's coming true...right now...as I type this. 

Paraphrased, the scriptures say that just before the rapture of the Church (yes, I know the word "rapture" isn't in the Holy Bible, but neither is the word "Bible") that scoffers like Kathy Griffin would laugh and make fun of us, wickedness will permeate our society, that God-haters will torture and kill Christians; they say there will be "wars, and rumors of wars," there will be rampant plagues world-wide, and wide-spread famines and droughts.  The nation of Israel will be in great danger.  Mountains will shake, and there will be great earthquakes; there will be "signs and wonders" in the heavens.  And when we see these things coming to pass, the scriptures say, then we are to keep our eyes upon the eastern sky, and lift up our heads...our redemption draws near.

And Kathy Griffin?  If Jesus saved me, He can save her.  I'm just a sinner, saved by the grace of God.  Nowhere near perfect...just saved.

   

You could apply those

You could apply those conditions to nearly any era in the history of religions.

Bal,I'm hardly

Bal,

I'm hardly religious, but Griffin knew when she made this comment, that she was going to get a lot of flack for it. Either she didn't care or she decided that that the payoff of pandering to her audience was greater than the ire it would cause. It was a line that was calculated to draw blood  - I don't think for a second that it wasn't. Her fans, whatever number that is, will love her more - but a lot of people will loathe her for it. I guess she has no problem with that. How sad, though, playing for applause from some - by trashing and mocking others most fervent and core beliefs. That's just wrong and it's dangerous.

I understand and agree that

I understand and agree that she knew what she was doing when she said it. But I don't think that what she did is any different than what thousands of comedians have been doing for decades, from Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor and so on. (not that she's as good as them)

No, I don't think so Bal. I

No, I don't think so Bal. I don't think either comedian had the platform that television has given second tier niche "comics" like Griffin. Any comments they made that may have been offensive were limited to the private venues they played. Besides, Griffin doesn't seem to have any point other than to hurt people she doesn't understand. There's a difference in there.

I think she understands

I think she understands religious folks. She was raised Irish Catholic. 

And Bruce, Pryor, would have had the same material even if it had had wider distribution, not to mention that Pryor had stand-up movies and albums. I don't think Griffin is trying to hurt anyone. She says things for laughs.

Even if I grant you that,

Even if I grant you that, Balboa, pointing to the fact that others do it doesn't make it right. If I stole your car, is my guilt mitigated by the fact that car thieves have been around for a long time? Why is the fact that Ms. Griffin is (or was) Catholic mean that she understands committed people of faith?

}}---> As a prank, yes, Chris

If you steal his car as a funny prank, lots of people might laugh.  Especially the chop shop you sell it to.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

Well, I hardly think edgy

Well, I hardly think edgy comedy is comparable to grand theft auto, otherwise that's a good point. I think we need comedians like that around. Some are funny, some stink, but when they're good, it's great.

Griffin is, I guess, likely to understand people of faith having been raised around them.

I don't understand why people thank God when they win awards, either. Or sporting events.

Griffin's understanding

Griffin is, I guess, likely to understand people of faith having been raised around them.

Your words seem to indicate she was all too aware she was being offensive. 

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

There you go again, picking

There you go again, picking nits. Was there any comparison I could have used other than repeating the same example of comedians mocking religious belief? By the way, for many, the theft of material goods is not nearly as bad as mocking their religious beliefs. You or I may not thank God for an award or victory, but saying what she said was just hateful, gratuitous, and beyond the "edge". No one is trying to get rid of her kind of "edgy comedy"- but do you think that makes her criticism-proof? I, too, have been around Catholics my entire life. I don't pretend to "understand" the most devout believers in my religion. If that is their chosen path, it's not for me to mock them.  

She's not criticism-proof

She's not criticism-proof at all. But I also think it's possible to take her too seriously. I think to categorize it as "hateful" is a bit much. 

"No Problem Here Balboa"

"No Problem Here Balboa" strikes again. I'm truly sorry you just don't get it.

Sorry. I just don't get

Sorry. I just don't get offended easily. Don't understand those who do.

}}---> OK, Bal

But likely it's just that you have other things you hold dear.  We just choose not to push those buttons.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

Make a racist joke and remark and see what happens

to balboa's feelers.

 He is simply doing what he always does, defend the left with his stupidity. It's always along lib lines.

 " Why is this a problem ?"

 " You're making a big deal here of nothing "

 " I agree but not to the extent you seem to think "

 " This doesn't qualify "

 " If so and such did this or that would that count too ? "

 " This doesn't offend me, so it shouldn't offend you "

 " It's ok because a lefty did it "

_________________________________

Like I said, try racism out in joke central and watch balboa suddenly remember his feelings control his microwatt of non-candescence.

Zzzz...

Zzzz...

}}---> Good one Sport

He's acting like he's asleep.  That means he doesn't have an answer.

Must've pushed a button.

Nope, just fell asleep

Nope, just fell asleep during his standard rant / spiel.

babbly

eveyone can fall asleep with your standard one line of idiocy, except that it's so stupid.

I don't get offended easily

I don't get offended easily either Balboa. But I understand that one doesn't mock and blaspheme other's religious beliefs. Mocking  someone's religious beliefs is not exactly the same as criticising someone's taste in clothes. Do you understand that?

I think that mocking a

I think that mocking a religion in an attempt to be funny can be OK. I understand that some don't think so. 

 

}}---> Mocking religion

Let's hold back our judgement.  Maybe she'll make allah jokes too.  NOT!

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

I don't think comedians

I don't think comedians have to be "fair and balanced."

balboa

macacca

roflmao

Can be ok? Exactly what is

Can be ok? Exactly what is okay? At some point is it not okay? Does trying to be "funny" excuse just everything? Who gets to decide, the comedian or those they mock? Can I use the "n word" as long as I'm trying to be funny? Is it okay to tell hateful racist jokes as long as it's "humor"?

I guess comedy is in the

I guess comedy is in the ear of the beholder.

You know when you hear a religious joke that you think is funny, and one you think has gone too far.

I'm beginning to think

I'm beginning to think that, for you, as long as it's someone like Griffith saying it, there is no "too far". It's an ugly world you're advocating there, pal.

Nah, I know there's such a

Nah, I know there's such a thing as too far. But I'm not sure I can describe exactly what it is. But I know it when I see it.

No bal

you know it when your lib feelers are raw. Slamming Jesus only makes you smile inside. Kramer and his remarks made you insanely angry, like the rest of your lib tribe.

No it is not

Ask Kramer from Sienfeld.

 I guess I should see if bably's outrage is still archived in that matter.

Chris Norman

Well, we know the libs have all but banned the Dean Martin Roast style celebrations.

 I think if we ever want to torture them in the Bush marhsal law era soon to come since it failed in 2004, we should just play the Dean Martin Roasts while they melt into a pile of self righteous hatred and throw themselves against the concrete and barbed wire. Maybe give them an ice pick so they can remove their eyes and ears and end the pain.

I just don't get offended

I just don't get offended easily

 

Yes you do, just not about religion. Also what is there not to understand about thanking God for an award ?

I don't know why you do it

I don't know why you do it on national TV, first of all. In prviate? Sure. I also don't get it because it's YOU who accomplished whatever it was.

Well bably brain,

generally speaking those people have a faith life and use prayer and their beliefs to gain strength and carry on and achieve. Maybe they made some decisions in the process guided by their understanding of morality as their faith teaches.

 I'm sure they realize from experience, when they don't or haven't done that, they wind up not winning. So, when they do have a win, they attribute it to their active faith.

 See balboa, it's not an empty bubonic shell like your noggin is. It's real life experience.

 Get a clue clueless.

I don't understand why people thank God

you can end there Bal, it won't change the meaning for you.

 Support our Troops 

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balboa

just pointing out that you don't understand why people thank God, (as you posted) the specifics of what we thank Him for don't matter either you understand that 'all good things come from the Father' or you don't.  It was just an observation akin to Chris Mathews has blond hair. (though i bet it's dyed)

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Guess the great undressing of balboa ended

while I was busy responding to another poster.

That's too bad.  I wanted to say how much I've thoroughly enjoyed this expose of balboa's soulless existence.  We're lucky to have him here, because he serves nicely as a general metaphor for the left.

Still around. I appreciate

Still around. I appreciate your input on this most pressing matter. "Soulless." That's good stuff.

Balboa

an Ann Coulter fan?

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Bite your tongue. Talk

Bite your tongue. Talk about soulless. 

"Soulless". That's good stuff.

when you said that i thought you were empathizing with Ann's book "Godless"

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Ah. Nope, sorry. Just

Ah. Nope, sorry. Just applauding RJ for his right jab.

Good for you, bal

You saw it for what it was...   ;^>

...I do wonder, though,

why you don't appreciate Annie's GREAT humor..   ;^>

From time to time I've

From time to time I've actually read an Ann Coulter column, and -- dare I say it -- I've even laughed. 

She can be funny, but she doesn't always choose to be.

Oh, good, bal, you're still here

Speaking of what's funny and what's not, I seem to remember that you didn't think it was so funny when I referred to your jumping in on (at the time) numerous threads as "humping every available leg."   

I thought it was a great joke, but you got pretty indignant, as I recall. 

I was in a difficult spot

I was in a difficult spot in my life, trying to house-break a puppy. Pushed my buttons!

I get offended, don't get me wrong, but usually not by comedians. You, sir, are no comedian. ;-)

Say goodnight, Gracie....

;^>

The classics never die. 

The classics never die. 

She isnt funny, just mean

Griffin doesn't seem to have any point other than to hurt people

 

This is her shtick, all she does is rail against others, not in a funny way, but in a mean crude way. I have seen her a few times, I love comidy, but she is to mean to watch most of the time.

I would think that some on

I would think that some on here would at least appreciate the way she skewers celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Oprah, Celine Dion, etc. 

}}---> Celine Dion etc.

Should we also appreciate how Usama bin Ladin skewers Democrats and Big business?

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

I can't stand her

so I'm not surprised the irreverant and irrelevant balboa thinks she's great. I think she's crude and flat and dulled and moronic, so of course the libs gave her an award. Sometimes I see a bit of her stuff and I never find myself laughing, but then the same goes for a lot of these slime jokers nowadays. I guess you have to be some freak to like it, or stoned out of your mind, or in some rebellious mood, or thinking of some persoanl enemy you hate you'd like to say it to or soemthing. I don't know what people are thinking, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it is just some "speak truth to power" thrill they get. Maybe they picture it being said to Bush or something. It's just "dirt" and "dirty" to me, and it isn't even thoughtful or creative dirt, it's lowbrow crude blabbing, so it's certainly the same mindset the libs function in all day and all night. Yesterday someone put up a link to the Rocky Horror Picture Show - a clip on youtube. I watched it, and noticed that the lyrics and the screen action told a STORY, there was a lot of rhyming, and effective timing. I concluded that was better than 99% of what comes out of these trash mouthed punk skumbags like this crude moronic comedian. It at least had INTELLIGENCE on display. The libs all over, and the ones here, and so many of them don't have talent anymore, they have one lined smart off mouths. "How can I be a crude smart aleck" as often as possible seems to be the idea behind nearly everything they produce. "How can I pretend to be intelligent, but make grave errors and produce falsehoods and nonsense and mix it all up with no base or sense to it. It doesn't matter if it's ridiculous and non-linear and ignorant, as long as I can laugh". But none else laughs, except mindless dolts with ADD and ADHD like them. It's like the are high as a kite on WEED, reeefer, and it's "just funny". Whatever, I can't stand her. Another smart aleck, pure smart aleck.

Well Balboa, she was also

Well Balboa, she was also tooling around with a Marine Major eye candy, does that make her wonderous too?  No, there are a few Marines out there who don't have any taste.  BTW it doesn't take much to skewer the elites you mentioned, I do it everyday and people laugh.  Maybe I need to get my own comedy show but I don't use foul language so guess it wouldn't be too popular with progressives live yourself.

I may have at one time

I may have at one time Balboa. I just think much of "comedy", along with a lot of other things today, has become too thuggish, brutal, and ugly. Our popular culture has become too coarse. What are the limits? Laughing at deformed babies? Not at the rate we're going.

}}---> Griffin's mouth

So let's all crowd around the TV and make a star of this 4th rate "comedian".

Just how she worships her god is her business.  She's one step shy of being a fool.  At least she recognizes there is a god.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

Quick reply...

Balboa said:  "You could apply those conditions to nearly any era in the history of religions."

You may be right, Bal, but this is the era in which I live, and I know what I see, hear, and read.  Anyway they're going to be applicable to only one era that really matters...and that is the one that exists the very instant that time, as we know it, ends.

Griffen: OK, so you're

Griffen: OK, so you're the great Gsus everyone on earth warned me about.... fine then, where's my reward?

 

Jesus:
Well Kathy... I'm afraid your reward does not await you behind
these gates here. You see, to enter here you must have lived your life
on earth in true humility and possess a penitent heart for the sins
that you committed

 

Griffen: Are you suggesting that I'm the reason I'm not allowed to live out my eternity with you here in heaven?

 

Jesus:
I'm afraid that is correct. I did warn you though, Kathy.... you
know.... in that "World's Best Seller" book that you so often mocked.
You probably should have spent your time mocking that MO fellow....now
THAT would have been funny!

 

Griffen: How was I suppose to know to take that s**t seriously? That is totally F'in UNFAIR MAN!!

 

Jesus: Suck it, Kathy! ...... next?

That last line is about as

That last line is about as offensive as Griffin's remarks.

Forget 911, I dial 9MM.

Griffin isn't being

Griffin isn't being censored ... Look at it as she's been "medicated" for her acute case of Asinine Narcissistic Celebrity Tourette Syndrome (ANCTS) by the TV producers.

}}---> Censorship? so what?

With words like that, I'd think she's got Other (yes, with a capital O) worries she doesn't even know about.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

  They created and need

  They created and need this controversy.  Emmy shows are lame.

Kathy who?

Perhaps I should get out more.

"I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!”- Rick Roberts

Don't feel bad

I didn't know who she was until last week either. I was channel surfing and ran across her on BRAVO, I think it was.  

A bonafided and certified member of the beer guzzling, NASCAR watching middle class.

Interesting to Ponder

I honestly pray that this liberal woman come to realize what she has done. I personally get a sarcastic smile when I think of her facing the Son of God on judgment day trying to stutter out "It was a joke", when there is no joking about the Name of God in any form.

I just feel sorry the other 99% of the time for creatures so clueless and literally so weak and in misery that they think taking a swipe at God makes them "big girl on tv".

God help her as she certainly is incapable of helping herself, in Jesus Name. Amen

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

if she'd mocked Mohammed or any gay man. . .

If she has used her acceptance speech to say something mocking about Islam and Mohammed or if she'd made a mocking comment about homosexuals, she'd be hounded by the elites who would be demanding apologies and demanding that she go into some sort of sensitivity counseling.  But she mocks Jesus and Christianity, it isn't any problem and MSNBC even edits her statement so that the average, casual viewer or reader doesn't pick up on the most offensive part. 

Indeed, had she mocked Mohammed or the Ayatollah Khomeni, some jihadist would probably be trying to blow up her car right now.

Just FYI, she mocks gays

Just FYI, she mocks gays all the time in her act. 

Balboa

The gay community adores Kathy and shows up in droves to attend her shows. She openly calls them "my gays" and was asked, by the gay community last year, to host their porn film awards. She was a hit. No doubt about it.

I saw portions of that award show and she was a riot.

She was completely without her "gay" element when performing in the MidWest last year, and was so disappointed the gays could not, or would not, openly attend her show (the perceived MidWest stigma) and bombed.

people r so weak minded that they need 2 b protected from words?

i love it when i hear people say i'm all for free speech, except...... if you have an exception then you are not for free speech. it is either on or off, no inbetween. you can't be a litl pregnant.

i absolutely practice my freedom of speech all the time, but i also know when it is tactful not to express exactly what i'm thinking all the time. even here it was brought to my attention that i slurred hillary clintons name in a way that could bring down the credibility of this site and i assure you that i heeded the suggestion, but when i do my radio show i express myself in some of the most offesive ways possible. i go out of my way to. the right to free speech is married to the right to listen to someone or something else. if you don't like it, change the channel, turn it off, or speak up against it and debate it, but never push to have it censored. that is weak minded and weak willed. as O&A pointed out today isn't it great that muslims show how strong willed they are that their women must be covered to prevent the men from turning into savages. blocking freedom of speech is a verbal burka. who here thinks kathy griffen said something offensive about christianity? in actuality she mocked the faux praise that people give thanks not for the glory of god, but to ride on gods coattails for their own benifit. that is far more offensive to me and i'm not religious. ooooh you caught a football, big deal you think god had a bet placed and made sure you grabbed it. ok i'll hit one that's close to home for me: i'd like to thank god for the fast pitstops and a flawless performance today out of my car and the power out of my engine in the sharpie, subway, checker autoparts, chevy, dodge, ford, lowes, home depot, goodyar, diehard, sunoco, dewalt 500. oh so god wanted you to win the race and said suck it to the other 42 drivers and teams. weather it is relgion, politics(the O&A condi rice fiasco) RACE(you nappy headed hos), or your favorite flavor of fish sticks, if you don't like someones opinions or comments, go away, don't listen, and i invite you to ignore mine if you don't like it. free speech brings your attention to what people think. for example everyones upset about the N word, if you don't know, that means the word nigger, so why not ban the term N word since we all know what it means. these ideas watever word you use are still understoodso how do you ban them, i mean doesn't the Nword sound more condesending that just using nigger. where will banning word and speech stop, what about banning certain political talk? that's great, drive people underground because they can't express their opinons in a public forum and then they will fester in hiding and grow to pop up in your face at the worst possible moment. neonazis, islamic terrorists, socialists. free speech allows for a release of tensions more than it encites them. for example let alec baldwin say the stooopid things he wants, at least you now know where he stands. take global warming: al gore says all debate is over, are you still for free spech....except? because that lil exception thet you want can be turned against you. free speech reveals problems before they creep up on you as a larger problem to deal with.

i think certain media outlets should maintain a certain standard to offer that for people who are easily offended, but i think all free public media should have a uniform segment reserved for full free speech with absolutely no restictions. i think it's a violation of freedom of speech that i have to pay extra for a subscrition to hear almost free speech through satellite radio. how is that free that i have to pay to hear it. although i'm a capitolist i don't agree with that.

lunaticcringeradio

Chatty Kathy

I enjoy Kathy and her TV show. The brand of humor I enjoy does tend to the extremely outrageous and irreverent, though. At the same time, I feel so very, very sorry for her.

Each and every time Kathy blasphemes our Blessed Lord and Savior (the "bleeps" on her TV show for blaspheming are in the dozens for a 30-minute show), it is on HER soul, not mine. I won't be hanging out with her, sharing a meal with her, or spending any of my money to support her.

From viewing two seasons of her show, it is more than apparent Kathy is a very poor judge of character and of people, has little common sense, and is completely devoid of any social graces.

She will always be taken advantage of by those with whom she surrounds herself. She even "jokes" her friends are the best her money can buy, a most pathetic and sad testament of her life and quality of friends.

A note of sincere do-gooding on Kathy's part: She went to Iraq and Afghanistan early last year and was a big hit with the troops (sexual jokes were the mainstay), had a rough time understanding the rules and regulations, but made it through. She visited troops in hospital, too, and was gracious and thankful for their service. Sincerely. She simply doesn't understand the war on terror and makes no reasonable or intelligent effort to do so. The big picture simply doesn't matter to her.

MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell, in usual MSM style, obfuscated for obfuscation's sake. What Kathy said doesn't matter to Norah O'Donnell, either. Just another "something" to hide from the public-at-large so Kathy can continue to make money and appearances on other programs since winning her much-wanted (and I feel deserved) Emmy.

You get what you give... Karma. That her life is so empty and sad is a direct reflection of the woman herself and the (bad) choices she has made... and continues to make.

Philippians 2:9-11

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Forget 911, I dial 9MM.

I dont care a spit what

I dont care a spit what Griffin says or does - I never thought she was funny anyway.

And I dont advocate censorship - Let her talk as much as she wants.

The bottom line is she's not hurting or offending me, I've come to expect offense from the Hollywood elite and the media, matter of fact I wear it as a badge of honor. But the day will come when she and the rest of us will have to stand in front of Jesus and give an accounting. That's where the rubber meets the road.

And "fossten" is right. She will bow her knee and her tongue will confess, not because she will be forced to under penalty of a beheading, but because she will not be able to deny it.

So carry on, Kathy, you're as happy right now as you're ever going to be.

Religious discrimination!

She's leaving out Islam! I demand equal time...with a "Suck it, Mohammed, this award is my Allah now!"

they talk and talk about how "tough" end "edgy" they are, how they're "pushing" limits for "freedom". But they never push there, do they? Only where it's truly safe.