There is nothing too vile for the hack journalists at ABC’s Nightline, just as long as the target is a Republican. On Monday night, the network devoted the ENTIRE show to extreme leftist “comedian” Kathy Griffin, excusing her infamous decapitated head photo of Donald Trump as okay because it only included “ketchup” and not blood.
Co-host Juju Chang spent 17 minutes on Griffin, minimizing the severed head she held up in 2017. Instead, the journalist cheered, “For decades one of the rare few, a woman in the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy. Bold, brash, unfiltered. Griffin rarely holds punches and often pushes right up to the line.”
Chang allowed that the comedian “may have crossed a line,” but spun, “TMZ published a photo of her holding a mask of President Trump covered in ketchup.” Covered in ketchup? It’s clearly supposed to be blood. But it would be hard for viewers to know as Nightline blurred the image.
Rather than focus on the actions that got her investigated by the Secret Service, Chang painted Griffin as the victim:
CHANG: The backlash was swift. Her tour canceled. Endorsements pulled. Friends walked away.
GRIFFIN: I think that emotionally that was the most painful, to have so many friends that to this day haven't called. I would like to think that I would not behave that way. I think it's sad that many Americans were quiet at a time like during my photo when it probably would have been okay to kind of take a stand.
CHANG: You received a lot of death threats.
Griffin even harassed a Trump supporter on the streets of New York City. Did ABC object to this? No, Chang seemed to delight in it.
CHANG: And there was this exchange with what appeared to be a Trump supporter.
MAN: We love Trump.
GRIFFIN: Oh, I don't believe you.
[Starts to chase Trump supporter.]
GRIFFIN: Really? You love Trump? Let's talk about it. How much do you love trump? Why do you want to talk -- come up to me and talk about Trump? What do you love about him? His policies? You think he's going to give you a tax cut, lady? You're a woman. Let me guess. You held your nose because he grabbed somebody's [bleep] And that's okay with you?
MAN: Hey, hey, hey. Relax.
GRIFFIN: Look at this guy start with me!
Seventeen minutes devoted to Griffin and ABC portrayed her as the victim. Just imagine if a comedian posed for a picture with a decapitated Barack Obama head. Think ABC would portray that person as a victim?
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A partial transcript is below. Click “expand” to read more.
Nightline
8/2/2021 [8/3/2021 on east coast]
12:39
BYRON PITTS: Comedian Kathy Griffin is not known for pulling any punches. Her tell it like it is style defines her career. An approach she's now taking as she opens up about her private battles in this exclusive interview with my Nightline co-anchor, Juju Chang.
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KATHY GRIFFIN: A little bit over a year ago in June of 2020 I tried to take my life. And I made a very serious suicide attempt. To lose all my work overnight and to be told by people in my own industry, “it's over, leave the country for five years, you've shamed our industry,” you know, on and on and on. And it definitely got to me. And so I got to the point where I kind of agreed. Like maybe it is time for me to go. And I've had a great life and I don't think there's a next chapter for me. And what I think really led to something that extreme was I had become very severely addicted to prescription pills. So I am in recovery but I'm a drug addict.
CHANG: Four years after the Trump mask photo scandal that almost destroyed her career, a stark and candid conversation about addiction, mental health, and now a shocking cancer diagnosis.
..
CHANG: For decades one of the rare few, a woman in the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy. Bold, brash, unfiltered. Griffin rarely holds punches and often pushes right up to the line. If not over. One of the things that strikes me is you know, this note in your routine where you said, “you know, Michelle Obama's great. Go high if you can. I'm down in the mud.”
KATHY GRIFFIN: [Clip from comedy tour] Michelle, I love you. Take the night off. Because I'm [ bleep ] Down in the mud with the pigs where I belong, rolling around. Rolling around.
[Clip ends.]
GRIFFIN: Where I belong.
CHANG: Yes. “Where I belong.” Why do you belong there?
GRIFFIN: We look at what's happening. In my case, censorship and First Amendment issues. And thinking you know what, sometimes taking the high road doesn't always work.
CHANG: But what is it about your background or even about your spirit that makes you want to fight dirty or be down in the mud?
GRIFFIN: Well, I think I'm a scrappy gal. And you know, it's the way I was raised. And it's the kind of family I'm from. And I think it's what folks that watch my work kind of respond to. Kind of a tell it like it is attitude.
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CHANG: But in 2017, many would say she crossed a line after TMZ published a photo of her holding a mask of President Trump covered in ketchup.
DAVID MUIR: Outrage from all sides after that video of comedian Kathy Griffin.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Kathy Griffin and that image.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Nobody wants to see this. It wasn't funny, didn't work.
CHANG: The backlash was swift. Her tour canceled. Endorsements pulled. Friends walked away.
GRIFFIN: I think that emotionally that was the most painful, to have so many friends that to this day haven't called. I would like to think that I would not behave that way. I think it's sad that many Americans were quiet at a time like during my photo when it probably would have been okay to kind of take a stand.
CHANG: You received a lot of death threats.
GRIFFIN: Oh, I mean, legit death threats. I mean, folks showed up to my husband's parents' house. They tracked my sister down when she was dying of cancer in the hospital and called her. And that was the intensity that I think I need people to know about. It's not just that I had a couple of bad days of press. It's, you know, these folks aren't playing around. They'll try to kill your family.
…
[Griffin is outside on the streets of New York City.]
CHANG: And there was this exchange with what appeared to be a Trump supporter.
MAN: We love Trump.
GRIFFIN: Oh, I don't believe you.
[Starts to chase Trump supporter.]
GRIFFIN: Really? You love Trump? Let's talk about it. How much do you love trump? Why do you want to talk -- come up to me and talk about Trump? What do you love about him? His policies? You think he's going to give you a tax cut, lady? You're a woman. Let me guess. You held your nose because he grabbed somebody's [bleep] And that's okay with you?
MAN: Hey, hey, hey. Relax.
GRIFFIN: Look at this guy start with me!
