Kathy Griffin Calls on CNN on ‘The View’ to Shoot Her, Keep Jeffrey Toobin

When comedian Kathy Griffin returns To watch give for the first time in more than three years on Thursday, she has a lot to say. Had lung cancer surgery that temporarily changed her voice to sound like Minnie Mouse — her words — and the suicide attempt stemmed from her. ongoing legal troubles around her anti-Trump rhetoric on social media.

And of course, there’s still fallout from Griffin’s photo with a severed fake head of Trump.

At one point during her appearance on Thursday morning, co-host Ana Navarro asked Griffin how it feels to see Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) “get a ticket” from his party after tweet violent images directed at his Democratic colleague, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

But rather than take the opportunity to attack Gosar directly or more broadly, conservative hypocrisy, Griffin decided to go after her former host company, CNN, for “double standards” when it comes to content. women like you.

“I think there’s another conversation we’re not ready to have in this country, unfortunately,” the comedian said. “I think in the end, we hope to make some progress with the race. At least we’re having conversations. But I think we haven’t really talked about the level of fallacy and ageism that comes with all of that. “

Griffin kept saying it when she had “Canned” from the co-host of the CNN New Year’s Eve special, it hurt her “personally” because she loved that show. “But then it was for me to watch Jeffrey Toobin talk about women’s choices after he masturbated during a Zoom call, which I know sounds funny, but perhaps not so much fun for those Other women work at Atlantic that must see that. “

Toobin is fired by New Yorkers-Not Atlantic—After he was caught revealing himself in a video call with colleagues there. But after a brief hiatus, he back to his broadcast role as chief legal analyst for CNN, a decision people in the network are called “Awkward”, “out of mind” and “somewhat inappropriate”.

When Joy Behar pointed out that Toobin said the embarrassing incident was “accidental,” Griffin replied, “Well, okay, good for him,” before adding, “I just think it’s easy when a guy does something, we joke about it, and I believe there is a double standard.”

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