Kathy Griffin: 'Suck It, Jesus!'

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By Ken Shepherd | September 11, 2007 - 10:37 ET

At the risk of giving third-rate left-wing comedian Kathy Griffin more than her due of publicity, I thought I'd pass along something I saw over at Brutally Honest. The one-time 'The View' co-host prospect making light of award winners who thank Jesus or thank God for their accomplishment at the podium:

Here's an excerpt from a September 9 blog entry titled "Kathy Griffin speaks to Jesus" (emphasis mine):

Well... sort of:

... the Bravo network's "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," won the prize for best reality program, prompting one of the more colorful speeches of the night from the star and executive producer.

"A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this. He had nothing to do with this," Griffin said. "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my God now."

Nice eh?

I'd like to see Ms. Griffin take on the Muslims with her shock attempts to offend and ask Muhammad to suck it. Takes a little more chutzpah to do that I'm thinking, chutzpah I'd say she possesses not.

Mocking religious faith is far from Griffin's only foray into controversial statements (a quick search for Griffin on NewsBusters bears that out). Griffin delighted the audience of a June taping of 'The View' with her thoughts on how Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is essentially a sell-out to women and blacks by serving as a high official in a Republican administration. As you can see below, it was a bit much for host Barbara Walters:

GRIFFIN: But when people say I want a woman – ‘maybe Condi Rice.’ That’s not a pro-woman woman. Let me tell you something. Condi Rice is not a woman's woman.

HASSELBECK: Why? Why?

GRIFFIN: Because she follows everything white men say. She does what ever the white man does. .

HASSELBECK: What's wrong with the white man, a black man?

GRIFFIN: Let me tell you something. Any African American woman who is a Republican does not understand that she's not a part of their agenda. Wake up!

HASSELBECK: Are you kidding me?

GRIFFIN: But she’s smart. She’s very smart.

HASSELBECK: I think there is a reverse sexism –

BEHAR: One at a time.

HASSEBLECK: There is reverse racism and reverse sexism going on right now, and it is going on against the white man. Apparently, the white man’s going down, because everybody’s against –

GRIFFIN: Poor white man.

BEHAR: I feel bad for them. They just run the world.

HASSELBECK: I'm saying be fair about it. If women were to take power and then they said those white women or black women have too much power --

GRIFFIN: If they say that, I'll rescind all of that.

WALTERS [to Griffin]: You know I love you a lot, but what you just said is so bigoted.

GRIFFIN: Why?

WALTERS: She shouldn't be republican because she's black and not a good example for women because she’s black – . .

GRIFFIN: I didn't say that. I don't think that's who the Republicans care for in their agenda.

WALTERS: – Because her boss is a white man.

HASSELBECK: What agenda?

GRIFFIN: I think the Republican agenda doesn't look out for women and minorities. I’m sorry. That’s what I think.

—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters

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my goodness..

I used to like that plastic-faced cretin but after reading this, she really is nothingmore but a pawn for idiotic liberals.

 I am a black woman. A Conservative black woman who finds it both humorous and disgusting that a white person can tell me that I am a sell-out to my race because I don't support the Democrats or liberals. I don't even take that crap from other black people!

 And her comments about Jesus (my Lord and Savior) puts her lower than scum. One day she will pay for her words.

ksimm, for my money, you

ksimm, for my money, you are one of the enlightened, one who walks on her own, not following, but leading.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

well, ksimm81,

In all fairness, her words reflect the natural state of opposition man shows to the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. She is above all to be pitied and prayed for for salvation.

There but for the grace of God go we, who too once spat in our Redeemer's face and rejected His grace.

 

ken

Thanks, your words were encouraging. Unfortunately she is only stating the basic views of today's world.

ksimm - take solice

Take solice in knowing that when you pass from this earth an enter the "Pearly Gates" you will not be greated by the likes of Ms. Griffin and those who share her warped beliefs.

 Blessed be those who ridicule the Lord their God for their path to heaven will detour sharply ... downward.

Gospel according to common sense!

Jesus loves Kathy will all

Jesus loves Kathy will all of His heart:)!

whatta guy...

...died trying to save her life...He is her hero!

Kathy's gonna feel kinda bad later on - these things happen...

Amen, Ken Shepherd.  She

Amen, Ken Shepherd.  She needs prayer above all.  I think of Paul (then Saul) on his road to Damascus to kill Christians when Jesus radically intervened in his life and changed him to the point that he was willing to sacrifice his own life for the gospel.  I have a short prayer list of celebrites I pray for:

Alec Baldwin --because I am a huge admirer of his brother Stephen, who is a born again Christian.  I am sure he is daily bringing him before God in prayer.

Bill Maher---because he is so angry.  I don't know why my heart is touched for him, but I truly want him to know the grace and mercy of Jesus.

 I need to add Kathy Griffin to that list.  I always find it amazing that it is Christianity that is insulted and really no other religions.  I think that it is because deep down people know it is the truth (See Romans 1)

 

...the crucifixion is still

...the crucifixion is still going:)

Yeah, Lily. How it would

Yeah, Lily. How it would redound to the glory of God if he radically transforms her heart for the sake of His glory and the furthering of the Gospel.

He did it to Paul. He did so for Kirk Cameron. He does so every day. We're all the worst sinners we know, because we alone know the depths of our own depravity.

But enough of my preaching. Thanks for your comment. :)

 

This is the modern-day

This is the modern-day trial of our Lord and Saviour. Never changed a bit in 2,000 years.

Well Griffin, I am an immigrant and a minority. Black, brown, yellow and white people who works for me, do whatever I tell them to do. It's not about race, it's called work- teamwork to achieve a common goal! And our line of work is to kill and destroy our enemies. Are you one of our enemies, Griffin?

 

The path to insanity

Ignorance leads to Idolatry which leads to Insanity.

Griffin's well on her way...

Just reading the headline hurts!

Just reading the headline for this thread was like getting a blow to my stomach. It is hard for me to read it because even though it is a quote, it still is so blasphemous that I can't bear to have it in my brain even temporarily.

Jesus is my Lord and to hear or read someone say something like that makes me cringe.  She may think she's being bold and daring but as Ksimm81 said, it is going to come back to haunt her one day.  

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

The irony of "Liberalism"

Griffin is just another intolerant lefty. This is the ultimate irony of the "liberals". "Liberal" is a misnomer. They are a bunch of close- minded, ignorant fools.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

"What fools these mortals be" --Shakespeare

3-2-1-poof!

exault self = self destruction 

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A (wo)man reaps what (s)he sows. The one who sows to please (her)his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction - GOD (Gal 6:7-8b)

v

I know what you mean,

I know what you mean, HelenS.  I almost couldn't read it because my mind would have to literally "say" the words.

...they know no what they do...

...its just a little taste of how Jesus felt as He stood trial, was whipped bloody, dragged the cross up the mountain, and then the feeling of the nails being hammered through his hands and feet as the people taunted him and spat on him...

Forgive them Father, for they know no what they do...

Agreed, Helen: Perhaps Mr.

Agreed, Helen: Perhaps Mr. Shepherd should have had &*$# it Jesus and a "blasphemy alert".

That is the most disgusting reference to Jesus Christ that I have heard in a very long time. Why the heck is it that liberals are allowed to insult Christians with impunity, and we are supposed to "tolerate" it??? Frankly, I am sick of it.

I wish I had a way to get back at her. I don't subscribe to cable premium channels so I can't cancel my subscription. What recourse do we have, except to put up with it?

motherbelt

Don't waste your time wanting to get back at her.  Remember,

Matthew 5:11-12

11 "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

 When my Jesus is pesecuted, I feel persecuted too.

  Typical liberal dem

  Typical liberal dem evaluation of a person:

  First, race (or just skin color if of mixed race). 

  Second, gender (according to genitalia or persons choice).

  Third, political preference. (There's only one correct answer)

   Fourth, persons character. (skip if first three are answered correctly)

Comedian? now that's a joke.

"Suck it, Jesus. This award is my God now."

This should come as no surprise. Griffin is an avowed liberal who has on more than one occasion tossed Christianity under the bus for a "laugh." Real deep, funny comedian. Right.  

Her routine, like many of her peers, is predictable, relies on vulgarity and has often already been done in one form or another.  

 

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.  ~ Unknown

WOW!! That sort of rivals

WOW!! That sort of rivals the scene in "The Exorcist" ... You know, with the possessed little girl and the Crucifix on the bed ...?

Yeah ...

Thank you, Kathy Griffin, for finally spilling the proverbial beans  about how Hollywood REALLY feels about Christianity ... and G-d, in general ...

By the way, you're not much more than an uncouth pig.  And even in that I may possibly be giving you way too much credit.

Drillanwr, kind of insulting pigs

Drill. kind of insulting pigs, even uncouth ones to compare them to her.  You may hear from PETA!

v

drill... I like the pig

drill...

I like the pig more! 

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Ct -

The pig has a hell of a lot more talent.

I can't believe I just

I can't believe I just wasted a minute of my life reading about what Kathy Griffin thinks.  I should have stopped at the main title and used my time for something worthwhile.

Ms. Griffin has embraced

Ms. Griffin has embraced the decadent, the amoral, and the profane. Her shows celebrate her ego, narcissism, and shallowness of celebrity. She mocks religion, middle class values, and any tradition she can think of.  She embodies much of what's wrong with society and the media in one nasty package. I don't understand how she lives with herself and I really don't want to...

Well, she is a comedian.

Well, she is a comedian.

Well...

I guess you and she have just majorly re-defined "comedian".  Nothing about what she said was entertaining or funny.  What's left? Stupendously and abyssmally stupid? Is that what comedy is now?

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Judging by the 1/2 Hour

Judging by the 1/2 Hour News Hour, or whatever it is, yes.

I just wouldn't take anything too seriously that a comedian says who likes to be outrageous.

No surprise there

"I just wouldn't take anything too seriously that a comedian says who likes to be outrageous."

Of course you wouldn't, and that's symptomatic of the whole discussion!  You don't have anything you hold sacred, nothing that is holy or deserves respect.  Anything for a reaction. is your standard and like it or not, that spinelessness and moral vacuum is what defines you.   

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

Gee, I didn't think it was

Gee, I didn't think it was possible for you to be so wrong.

But nice try, Helen. I appreciate the cheap shots.

Nothing about what she said

Nothing about what she said was entertaining or funny. What's left?
Stupendously and abyssmally stupid? Is that what comedy is now?
-HelenS

Indeed it is, Helen when it involves liberals. They generally just spew hate speech and insults at conservatives. They think it's funny, so they think that that constitutes actual comedy. That's why I keep saying there really is no such thing as "liberal comedy." They think hate is comedy because it comes out of the mouth of someone who calls himself/herself a "comic." Kathy Griffin is just raising the pot with this crap.

Don't you mean

Don't you mean comedienne?

That being the dictionary definition of a female comedian.

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...Kathy's comments are

...Kathy's comments are officially hate speech, actually - consequently not funny:(...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

TM -- she's just a cliched

TM -- she's just a cliched offensive liberal jerk, ginger-whinger.  So what else is new?

You might think she'd have a smidgeon of self-awareness at lecturing on what a black woman should think, and then cringe with shamefaced embarrassment. Apparently not.

But... I have to admit I have laughed at her non-political schtick in the past.

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Hey Jack

...posted this below - she's exhibiting the bully mentality that liberals are supposed to loathe so much - as usaul the irony and hypocracy on the left is the real comedy with these people....

Anyway:

...these rabidly anti-Christian liberals are all severely injured people...severe childhood loss of some sort...never grew up really...just like a bully - the tough, cocky adult exterior hides a quivering little child...

"suffer the little children to come unto me"

You're right; substitute the

..Kathy's comments are officially hate speech, actually -TruthMonger

You're right; substitute the phrase "you Jews" where she had "Jesus Christ" and you'll see why.

Still open for further review

"Don't you mean comedienne?"

Gee Jack, I don't know. Judging by the look of her mug shot, I'd say that Ms. Griffin may have participated in another one of the sacred activites of Liberals...the sex change.

 

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.  ~ Unknown

She could someday be a good

She could someday be a good comediane by not opening her mouth...

She is? I have never

She is? I have never derived any humor from her comments. I've watched her classless show and have failed to laugh. Have you labeled her a comedian because we wouldn't know otherwise?

Griffin is about as funny as Norma Bates

She's about as attractive and has about as good of a sense of humor as Norma Bates. 

 

"I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing."  Norman Bates

Her long and drawn out

Her long and drawn out stories (without any apparent points or punchlines), on the surface, are catty - but not funny. However, they do seem to show an almost pathetically pathological obsession of being accepted as a "star" - right down to the title of her show, "My Life on the D List". Since gays have embraced her as a minor heroine, she panders to them. Which is where her anti-religion schtick kicks in...

Even the comedienne she

Even the comedienne she played in the Seinfeld episode (Jerry Seinfrld is the devil!!!) didn't have a single funny line. Her entire act was a typical liberal rant; it consisted entirely of attempting to embarrass Seinfeld with details of his personal life. This she thought was hilarious. Griffin must have written her own dialogue.

balboa

So are saying it's alright to mock Christ because she is a comedian and doesn't really mean it and is just trying to be funny(unsuccessfully) and you are just making excuses for her. Tell you what why don't you invite her to go on TV and mock Mohammed or even do it yourself and see how funny you find it as some Islamofascist draws a knife across your throat 

Tom... Great idea! I

Tom...

Great idea! I would love to hear some Mohammed jokes. 

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Unbelieveable

You know, my church has nearly 3,000 people in attendance every weekend. Our congregation is made up of probably every kind of person that God ever created. And you know what, that fact rarely crosses anyone's mind. We are all just Christians, God's imperfect children, born imperfectly, into a fallen world, filled with sin and sinners, of which I am the worst.

Our Church is a bastion of refuge. There are no clicks, racial divisions or financial separations. The Church Leadership is as diverse as the congregation. I want to believe that my church is not unique and that most of God's Holy Church is the same way, regardless of denominationalism. 

We try very hard to become more like Jesus Christ every day and we fail every day; but we keep on trying and sometimes we can see progress in others and even ourselves. This life is a dress rehearsal for eternity.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect, kind and loving being that ever walked the face of the earth and the author of all life and all things. And this ill-informed lady, speaks of our precious Lord, Jesus Christ in this way.

I should not feel this way but I am a flawed person. I want to be standing off to the side at the judgement. I want to here her explanation to Our Lord, as to what she meant by that comment. 

No class at all

If you knew that someone wasn't going to hit you back, would you take a cheap shot? You might, but then everyone around you would know that you had no character, and no class. In short, that sort of cheap shot would reveal you to be a coward. But that depends on who surrounds you. If you surround yourself with fellow cowards, who also have neither class nor character, they may think you're innovative and trendy.

I pay no attention to Griffin's "please world, notice me" neurosis. However, the fact that she felt comfortable saying that in front of that crowd ... says everything about the crowd.

Right, KC. The Democrat

Right, KC. The Democrat party shows its admiration for those who confess to a desire to "slug" the President. Kathy Griffin apparently wants to go several levels better...big deal, Webb, you only told off the President, look who I'm telling off!!

This is what passes for courage in the Democrat party and liberalism in America today.

Kathy,Kathy,Kathy, You

Kathy,Kathy,Kathy,

You ignorant SLUT! Look, you've got it all wrong. If you want to be taken seriously for once in your pathetic and useless life,try doing things in this order,.....Keep your mouth SHUT, and your legs OPEN.

Why is it that EVERYTIME a liberal opens their mouth, I feel a sudden urge to hand them a roll of toilet paper?

Kathy Griffin

This so-called comedian has pretty much sealed her fate with a comment like that and I pity her when she stands in Judgement before the same Jesus that she so freely ridiculed and mocked, on that day I do not believe she will be so bold but instead will be begging for forgiveness and will be shaking with terror at the very thought of spending eternity in Hell, but to no avail, her pleas will be too late and will be ignored by the Lord. The only chance she has is now to ask for forgiveness and invite the Lord into her heart. I have to put aside my anger towards her and instead pray for her, I can only guess that satan has a powerful grasp on the woman and unless she repents, one day she get to know satan very intimately.

Ugly, loud, obnoxious,

Ugly, loud, obnoxious, unfunny "comedienne".  Her advice to Jesus is from the heart because "suck it" is the only way she managed to get a job in the first place.  A D-List award...wow, she has a really low threshold for her God.

What else could you expect....

....from someone who would agree to emcee an "awards" show for gay/lesbian XXX-rated movies?

I wonder what her parents think of her career path.

You'll be happy to know

You'll be happy to know that they're censoring Kathy's comments from the broadcast.

too bad its for the wrong

too bad its for the wrong reasons - we'll take it anyway

What wrong reasons?

What wrong reasons?

Finance - loss of

Finance - loss of business, rather than Decency - basic respect for people of faith...

Pop quiz! Who is more

Pop quiz!

Who is more intelligent?

A. Kathy Griffin

B. Peter Griffin

C. Stewie Griffin

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Oh I say Tom ... has to be

Oh I say Tom ... has to be Stewie.

Damn you, vile woman! Blast! What the deuce!

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Peter

I'll even venture that Peter has more intelligence than her...

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?

She's about the equal of

She's about the equal of Brian Griffin, the irritating, perenially drunk, know-it-all dog.

Suck Budha's you-know-what

Suck Budha's you-know-what Griffin! So, what's the republican agenda you're referring to? What's a white man's conservative agenda? And what's your agenda? What is a moron, Griffin? Yeah, you!

The lost

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. I think Griffin qualifies. He can save even her. I thought God did a pretty big job when He saved me. He can do the same with her. Pray for her, but "contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints."

Curt

The bully mentality...

...these rabidly anti-Christian liberals are all severely injured people...severe childhood loss of some sort...never grew up really...just like a bully the tough, cocky adult exterior hides a quivering little child...

"suffer the little children to come unto me"

Look out for lightning

Look out for lightning strikes and falling anvils, Kathy.

Griffin nonsense

 

I'd be more impressed if she said "Suck it Mohammed" - any fool can stand up and insult a religion that does not fight back - it takes more comedic guts to bad mouth Islam, however.

Filling In The Nasty Details

Earlier today, well before I read this article, I was flipping through the channels on TV and Ellen DeGeneres was talking about and showing clips of Kathy Griffin.  DeGeneres was saying how Griffin was blacklisted from a variety of show, including her own "Ellen" show.  But today, Ellen was having Griffin back on the show.

Now I know precisely why.

I'd like to say a 'pox on both their houses', but that wouldn't be the Christian thing to do.

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.