June 7, 2017
By: Linda Case Gibbons
It's one way of doing it. Just rewrite history.
Haul down the statue of Robert E. Lee.
Sob and claim, "He broke me."
But everyone knows the Civil War happened. It's history. And everyone knows it was Kathy Griffin who "broke" Kathy Griffin, not Donald Trump.
Bad choices. They're easy to make and hard to forget. Blaming others is not a dignified choice, but it's the one Hillary Clinton and Kathy Griffin chose. Both misread the mood of the people. Now both are kicking and screaming that they have been treated unfairly.
If holding up the bloody, severed head of our president had gone over well, you know Griffin would be crowing with delight, counting up the new job offers that were pouring in. But it didn't work out that way.
If Hillary had won the election, you know she would never have sent John Podesta to the Javits Center on election night. She would have taken the stage that night and pointed proudly at the glass ceiling she had broken.
And there would be no mention of anyone messing with the election results, or any criticism of FBI Director James Comey.
But the election didn't go Hillary's way, and now, like Griffin, Clinton sees herself as a victim, and has embarked on a "Blame Everyone Else Tour."
For Hillary, "Everyone Else" is a laundry list, including the FBI, Facebook, the Russians, and even the Macedonians.
For Griffin, her lawyer, Lisa Bloom, has helped her realize "old, white men" are to blame for trying to take her down because she's a woman.
Clinton and Griffin thought they'd get a pass on their bad behavior. After all, Liberals always favor Liberals who hate Trump.
Instead, people, even Democrats, former staffers and supporters laughed at Hillary, and people, even Democrats had no time for Griffin's antics. They were disgusted.
Yet Clinton is still telling everyone who'll listen that she should have won, until even the DNC got sick of her, while Griffin back-pedaled, insisting she never intended to hurt Barron Trump, even though in December, 2016 she had tweeted, "A lot of comics are going to go hard for Donald. My edge is that I'll go direct for Barron. I'm going to get in ahead of the game.
Granted, Trump's son is a tall boy who looks older than his 11 years, so it's easy to forget he's a little boy. But he is a little boy. And when he saw Griffin and the
gruesome sight on TV, this child thought his father had been murdered.
Griffin's lawyer sees it differently. She doubts Barron was really upset, and believes the Trump family is lying about it for political reasons.
There is a back story to Barron's distress. A few months ago, a Secret Service laptop containing the floor plan of Trump Tower was stolen. An SUV loaded with guns was discovered parked outside Trump Tower. And Madonna threatened to blow up the White House.
The Secret Service took these threats against the life of the president seriously. And so did his family. It's a shadow they live under, and it is anything but a joke.
So when Kathy Griffin knowingly and personally planned and posted her little caper, joking with her photographer and staff, that after it became public, she'd "have to move to Mexico," she knew what she was doing and the impact it would have. She didn't regret her decision until it hit her in the pocketbook.
In Liberal America, people like Hillary Clinton and Kathy Griffin think they are entitled to a pass if the president they attack is Donald Trump, Griffin herself calling the president "President Piece of S***."
This week other liberal comedians, Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Baldwin defended her. "It's no big deal," Jerry said, "It's just a bad joke." And Baldwin tweeted,
"F*** them all, Kathy. No one believes you meant to threaten Trump. Trump is such a senile idiot, all he has is Twitter fights. Ignore him. Like all the leaders of the other countries in the world ignore him."
Good for Jerry and Alec.
One question, though. I wonder how Jerry's wife, Jessica, would feel if their youngest, Shepherd, who is about Barron's age, saw his father's bloody, severed head, prominently displayed on TV.
Or how Alec's wife, Hilaria, would react if their four-year-old Carmen saw the image of her father, severed head and all, on TV while she was having milk and cookies.
And finally, one can only imagine how funny Griffin's "comedy skit" was for James Foley's family. Their son was a journalist helping people in Syria when he was beheaded by Jiihadi John in 2014.
As I recall, ISIS did offer to swap his headless body in exchange for $1 million.
But that doesn't seem to be the stuff comedy is made of.
Hold the line, America.