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[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Griffin recanted. She's still classless.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kath...ry?id=49506224

You may find it tasteless, but it was an artistic expression of her (well-founded) contempt for Trump and not a threat, whereas Kilmeade's picture was part of a larger effort by Trump and his minions to foster violent threats against the judge and the FBI agents involved with the search of MAL (resulting in an attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati).

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by whell

Griffin recanted. She's still classless.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kath...ry?id=49506224

Come on man, you are equating (and no one is buying it unless you go on Liars Social ) a tasteless act versus a mindless commentary with a dangerous graphic. Kathy may have been tasteless and is a well known comedian, Trump is not a favorite of comedians. Kilmeade is a mindless an obnoxious flame thrower and who got the death threats? Trump? No. Ms. Griffin? Yes. The Judge (not going to repeat his name)? Yes.

Recanted???
A comedy skit is like a sworn testimony?

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by whell

Griffin recanted. She's still classless.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kath...ry?id=49506224

And you are utterly clueless, as you prove again and again.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Griffin recanted. She's still classless.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kath...ry?id=49506224

Retracted is the correct word, not recanted. She shouldn't have retracted her apology though. I had forgotten the caption of the picture was "there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his ... wherever" in reference to an exchange between Trump and then–Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly during the presidential primary season. That's indeed a well-deserved humorous barb for which she needn't have apologized. He deserved much stronger criticism than that.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

. That's indeed a well-deserved humorous barb for which she needn't have apologized. He deserved much stronger criticism than that.

Yup, you're worse off than I thought.

Question - if it was so damn funny, why did CNN fire her, and issue the statement: “We found what [Griffin] did disgusting and offensive. We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down." Why did Anderson Cooper specifically call her Trump photo / video repugnant? Why did Griffin claim that all her lefty friends - including folks like Chelsea Clinton - told her it was horrid? Why did a number of venues immediately cancel her scheduled performances and issue refunds?

Because no one, with the exception of you guys apparently, found it funny. Nor did she intend it as a joke. She intended it to be as shocking as possible.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...shoot-1008645/

" image, published Tuesday by TMZ, is from a new project by controversial photographer Tyler Shields, who routinely shoots A-list celebrities in shocking poses, including Lindsay Lohan, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts, Demi Lovato and many more for his 2013 book The Dirty Side of Glamour."

She knew exactly what she was doing, and who she was doing it with. She simply misjudged the blowback that she'd get.

"Following intense online backlash, Griffin apologized for the images, despite initially defending them. “I sincerely apologize,” she said in a video on Twitter. “I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people, it wasn’t funny, I get it.”"

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

Yup, you're worse off than I thought.

Question - if it was so damn funny, why did CNN fire her, and issue the statement: “We found what [Griffin] did disgusting and offensive. We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down." Why did Anderson Cooper specifically call her Trump photo / video repugnant? Why did Griffin claim that all her lefty friends - including folks like Chelsea Clinton - told her it was horrid? Why did a number of venues immediately cancel her scheduled performances and issue refunds?

Because no one, with the exception of you guys apparently, found it funny. Nor did she intend it as a joke. She intended it to be as shocking as possible.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...shoot-1008645/

" image, published Tuesday by TMZ, is from a new project by controversial photographer Tyler Shields, who routinely shoots A-list celebrities in shocking poses, including Lindsay Lohan, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts, Demi Lovato and many more for his 2013 book The Dirty Side of Glamour."

She knew exactly what she was doing, and who she was doing it with. She simply misjudged the blowback that she'd get.

"Following intense online backlash, Griffin apologized for the images, despite initially defending them. “I sincerely apologize,” she said in a video on Twitter. “I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people, it wasn’t funny, I get it.”"

So much for Christian charity, eh Mike?

[Oerets]

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[whell]

Apparently you all need language lessons too:

Recant: to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/...english/recant

Retract is also a synonym of recant.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by whell

Apparently you all need language lessons too:

Recant: to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/...english/recant

Retract is also a synonym of recant.

English 101?

I once took a course in American Rhetoric (not kidding) and IIRC, a person retracts a comment/statement and recants a testimony/affidavit.

Disclosure: I took this course before Nixon coined the term mis-spoke, so perhaps Ms. Griffin mis-spoke in which case, lets skip Cambridge.

Just funning ya, Whell.

[finnbow]

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Originally Posted by finnbow

I suspect this is in reference to the recent IRS job postings, that originally stated that IRS agents must carry firearms and "be willing to use deadly force".

https://www.newsweek.com/irs-deletes...-force-1733352

IRS Special Agents have always carried weapons because they deal with some unsavory scum (drug dealers, money launderers. My cousin from Atlanta retired from a ~30 year career as an IRS Special Agent. She was armed at all times.