Before Kathy Griffin won a creative arts Emmy last weekend for her reality show, “My Life on the D-List,” she joked that an award would move her to the C-list.
She was right: “C” as in censored. The TV academy said her raucous acceptance speech will be edited when the event, which was taped, is shown Saturday on the E! channel. The main prime-time Emmy Awards air the next night on Fox.
“Kathy Griffin’s offensive remarks will not be part of the E! telecast on Saturday night,” the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement Monday.
In her speech, Griffin said that “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.”
She went on to hold up her Emmy and proclaimed, “Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now!”
In America, you can be censored for so-called blasphemy.
CNN was too candyass to include the Jesus remark. I got it from Reuters.
Now we just need someone to find Jesus’ profile in the shadows cast by the camera-flash.
Personally, I applaud the fact they are going to cut it out. I personally don’t care where her faiths lie, but at least E! is applying an even standard. Too often these days we find that Jews and Christians can be insulted to oblivion while people walk on eggshells at the mere mention of Islam.
Suck it Jesus this is my God now?
OMG
Blasphemy.. Idolatry…
Throw rocks at her til shes dead… burn her at the stake..
So we’re too sensitive to the concerns of Muslims, and therefore we should treat Jews and Christians the same way? Brilliant! That’s usin’ the old brain box “your-name-here”!
Well, on the one hand it’s a lame, chicken-shit decision by ATAS and E! (and CNN). Not everyone would be offended by her remarks, and probably not even a majority of E! viewers would be offended.
On the other hand, it’s not really censorship (at least not government censorship, which is the only kind that really matters). E! can air (or choose not to air) whatever the hell they like within FCC rules — it’s their channel.
If the FCC had told them not to air it — or fined them for airing it, it’d be a whole different story.
It’s a complete joke… Muslim, Islam, Christianity, Judaism… Should be able to say what you wany about any of them… Isn’t that the whole point of religious freedom?
CNN was too candyass to include the Jesus remark. I got it from Reuters.
Sad.
How are we supposed to make informed decisions if they are afraid to give us the facts?
#2 – Personally, I applaud the fact they are going to cut it out.
Then you are a fascist who is invited by me to go and fuck yourself.
Jesus can suck it. I bet if he were alive today he would be at the airport bathroom suckin it for free (because he’s communist).
Oh BTW, Mohammad was a homosexual pedophile.
Wow!! This is great. I’m amazed it even made it to a blog post let alone to Reuters. Maybe there’s hope yet. Did AP publish it? We can guess what anything with Rupert Murdoch behind it will do.
Shame on Ted Turner for censoring it. (Shows how much I keep up with the entertainment industry and personalities that I was going to suggest that Jane not sleep with him again ’til he airs this. Then I checked and found out she’s not married to him anymore. Who knew? Everyone but me, most likely.)
If Jesus was created by God. (Immaculate conception)….then who created God?..Or did he/she/it evolve to be a god? Personally I like the Greek Gods. No one has ever proven that they don’t exist…they just fell out of favor.
With that said, I believe that people should be free to worship, or not, anything they want as long as it does not interfere with those who do not follow along the same lines.
an “even standard” would be for the Christians to blow up a few buildings, riot and drag her out in the street for a good stoning.
I like her.
She has a right to her opinion and she has a right to state that opinion.
How can such remarks be considered blasphemy? I don’t think her remarks were in the least bit offensive.
What IS offensive is the holy rollers making a fuss over it.
#2
It would seem that you are suffering an ID ten T error.
Very good publicity, Kath. Until the “suck this, Jesus” remark, she was best known among technophiles for fucking Steve Wozniak.
Now that she’s jumped on the Christian-bashing gravy train, she’ll become the darling of the pocket-protector set.
Such a popular form of xenophobia, it’s getting to be kind of passé
Sort of lame that they censored it, but wtf do you expect? You want hard-hitting potty-mouthed blasphemy, watch HBO or rent a DVD. Who would ever expect a Hollywood gossip channel to put stuff like that on? It would offend the soccer moms and their teen daughters who actually watch that stuff.
#11 – OmegaMan,
It went something like this. First, remember that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all One, else this is not monotheism, right?
So, God impregnates Mary’s mother, the immaculate conception, so that Mary will be pure enough to be impregnated, also by God, with Jesus, the incarnation of Christ. But, Jesus is God is the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Jesus is not only the ultimate motherfucker, literally, he is also the ultimate grandmotherfucker!!
That ought to keep me out of the place full of born-agains, which would be hell enough for me.
>>If Jesus was created by God. (Immaculate conception)
If you want to Christian-bash, you better learn something about Christianity. The Immaculate Conception has nothing to do with the “creation of Jesus”. What you’re referring to is the Incarnation of Christ, or the Annuciation. Please try to get your hatemongering a little more accurate.
>>an “even standard” would be for the Christians to blow up a few
buildings, riot and drag her out in the street for a good stoning.
And then in retribution, the atheists could purge the churches and execute 150,000, like that bastion of freedom, Joey Stalin.
Hate begets hate. The atheists don’t learn that any more readily than the God-fearing.
I just got off the phone with Jesus. He’s pissed. Again.
That is ridiculous! I am a religious man myself and will argue with anyone who’d say another man’s faith is rubbish just because they disagree or don’t understand it, but to take away their right to say it just dangerous! Either she has to have the right to tell Jesus to suck it, or no one should have the right to mention Jesus at all. And it’d be as stupid to outlaw public utterances of divine figures! This world has gone mad!
As for OmegaMan’s statement about the Greek Gods: that is just silly talk! Everyone knows that the Greek Gods are a bunch of big girl’s blouses compared to the mighty gods of the Northmen!
>>So, God impregnates Mary’s mother, the immaculate conception,
>>so that Mary will be pure enough to be impregnated
Close, but no cigar, Scottie. God did not impregnate Mary, she was impregnated the regular way, by fucking her husband. Contrary to what the Christian-bashers would have us believe, “sex” is not the same thing as “original sin”. Repent, sinner.
Oh, it must have been SATAN then.
CNN (and other news services) need(s) to quit editorializing and just report the news…
That’s right, hand yourself over to Jesus because you had nothing to do with your success.
They were your decisions as to where you are. Give yourself some credit.
NOBODY fucks with the THE JESUS.
er….
She’s a comedian (kind of an in your face one too..)
This outburst was probably a joke (not a hugely funny one).
#20 – MM,
The only sin lies in hurting others deliberately. If I hurt someone, I’ll apologize to them directly and leave disinterested third parties, real and imaginary, out of it.
>>If I hurt someone, I’ll apologize to them directly and leave
>>disinterested third parties, real and imaginary, out of it.
Sounds good to me, Scottie.
Jesus is Coming! Look busy…
#15 Who would ever expect a Hollywood gossip channel to put stuff like that on?
Yeah, that’s true.
Since they probably wouldn’t have a video-copy of the actual speech, one of the talking-heads would actually have to say: “Suck it, Jesus…” on-camera.
Not something they would be jumping at the chance to do. 🙂
As a Christian, I say she has a right to say whatever she wants, E! has a right to air what she said, and I have a right to think she’s a talentless wench with a foul mouth.