Kathy Griffin's Jesus remark cut from Emmy show

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http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN1144512920070911

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic Kathy Griffin's "offensive" remarks about Jesus at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be cut from a pre-taped telecast of the show, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday.

Griffin made the provocative comment on Saturday night as she took the stage of the Shrine Auditorium to collect her Emmy for best reality program for her Bravo channel show "My Life on the D-List."

"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," an exultant Griffin said, holding up her statuette. "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now."

Asked about her speech backstage a short time later, an unrepentant Griffin added, "I hope I offended some people. I didn't want to win the Emmy for nothing."

The speech drew fire from a leading Roman Catholic group, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which condemned Griffin's remarks as "obscene and blasphemous."

"It is a sure bet that if Griffin had said, 'Suck it, Muhammad,' there would have been a very different reaction," Catholic league president Bill Donohue said in a statement posted on the group's Web site. He called on TV academy president Dick Askin to denounce Griffin's "hate speech" and on Griffin to apologize....more

[Submariner]

1. Griffin will be labeled un-American now....bunch of whiners

[Nomad559]

2. Griffin's Emmy Remarks To Be Censored

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x148088

:)

[Democrat 4 Ever]

3. That's Griffin's gig and she does it very well. Last year when she

didn't win at the same event she really made a scene in audience all in good fun. When the winner was announced she stood up, gave everyone the finger, threw out more than a few f*ck you, etc. She told all about it on her reality show and it was pretty funny. They had to know what they were getting when she was nominated, much less her winning.

But since Bill Donahue personally owns and controls all speak about religion, Jesus, Catholics, and/or what he deems blasphemous I guess he threw a big enough fit that she was censored. Donahue just handed Giffin enough material for another two or three shows at his expense.

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5. I wonder if Donohue watches E's "The Girls Next Door" ?

Now there's a real family values show :evilgrin:

[Annces]

4. Very funny

It looks as though she is a Catholic herself too.

"Griffin's reaction to the imbroglio, according to a statement issued by her publicist: "Am I the only Catholic left with a sense of humor?"

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6. catholic church: hundreds of millions tortured and murdered in 2000 years nt

[Rage for Order]

8. Hundreds of millions?

How'd you arrive at that number?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. Every catholic I know says God Dammit all the time...

What's the difference? :shrug:
Duckie

[baldguy]

9. I geuss comments exposing the American Taliban's choice of Mammon over God hit too close to home