{"id":73984,"date":"2017-06-03T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73984"},"modified":"2017-06-03T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T11:56:39","slug":"now-you-know-she-works-for-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73984","title":{"rendered":"Now you know she works for the CIA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Flashback \u2013 Kathy Griffin: \u2018Happy to Deliver Beat Down\u2019 to Barron Trump<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_73985\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/KathyGriffinFlashbackTrumpBeatDown-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73985\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/KathyGriffinFlashbackTrumpBeatDown-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/KathyGriffinFlashbackTrumpBeatDown-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/KathyGriffinFlashbackTrumpBeatDown-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-73985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick M. Brown\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by DANIEL NUSSBAUM<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h3>During Kathy Griffin\u2019s press conference to discuss the firestorm surrounding her Donald Trump \u201cbeheading\u201d photo Friday morning, the comedian was asked about an <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/12\/kathy-griffin-comedy-should-go-hard-on-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview she gave to Vulture<\/a> in December in which she said was happy to \u201cdeliver a beat down\u201d to Trump\u2019s youngest son, 11-year-old Barron Trump.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about trying to be an equal-opportunity offender anymore because Hillary got such a beat down. It\u2019s his turn. So I\u2019m happy to deliver beat down to Donald Trump \u2014 and also to Barron,\u201d Griffin told Vulture at the Equality Now Gala on December 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know a lot of comics are going to go hard for Donald, my edge is that I\u2019ll go direct for Barron. I\u2019m going to get in ahead of the game,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kathygriffin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kathygriffin<\/a> admitted in December that she was going after Barron Trump. Now she&#39;s crying misogyny at the direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaBloom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LisaBloom<\/a>. Moron. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UBY3ueb9Zc\">pic.twitter.com\/UBY3ueb9Zc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Cardillo (@johncardillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johncardillo\/status\/870679769037152261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the quote Friday morning, Griffin\u2019s attorney, Lisa Bloom, said it had been given \u201cyears ago,\u201d while Griffin said it had been a part of her act, when in fact, she said it in an interview with Vulture less than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about something from a comedy act years ago, I think,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cWe can have edgy comics in America. Comics can say things that are not appropriate for children. Comics can create images that are not appropriate for children\u2026 it is not the job of a comic to filter everything down to the level of an 11-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin later said during the press conference that she \u201cwould never want to hurt anyone, especially a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TMZ reported this week that Barron Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2017\/05\/31\/report-barron-trump-panicked-seeing-kathy-griffin-beheading-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">panicked<\/a> after he saw the image on television, because he did not know who Griffin was or the context in which the photograph was taken.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Friday\u2019s press conference, read Breitbart\u2019s coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2017\/06\/02\/kathy-griffin-triples-down-on-beheading-photo-im-gonna-keep-going-after-the-fool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2017\/06\/02\/flashback-kathy-griffin-happy-deliver-beat-barron-trump\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2017\/06\/02\/flashback-kathy-griffin-happy-deliver-beat-barron-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashback \u2013 Kathy Griffin: \u2018Happy to Deliver Beat Down\u2019 to Barron Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}