{"id":652,"date":"2007-10-10T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-06-21T18:21:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T01:21:19","slug":"good-for-you-you-freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Good For You, You Freak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just caught this this morning on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/religion\/griffin.asp\">Snopes<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t catch the story as it rolled off the lot, because I would rather French-kiss the condenser grille for my refrigerator than watch the Emmys, so forgive me if this is old news to any\/everyone. It&#8217;s new to me. If not exactly news.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Executive Producer and star of the series, Kathy Griffin accepted the Emmy won by the show. Her remarks upon receiving the award were: &#8220;Now, look, a lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn&#8217;t help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is suck it Jesus, this award is my God now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As might be expected, she is catching a\u2014ahem\u2014holy shitload of negative publicity about this.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t personally care for Kathy Griffin. I find her comedy annoying, her escapades tiresome, and her apparently massive popularity in certain gay circles totally perplexing. On the other hand, I really have to give her credit for not backpedaling after everyone started bleeding from the eyes over her comments, the way so many public figures seem to. I think she struck exactly the right note with her replies to all the hullaballoo; after all, does anyone think that the hard-core God-fearing segment of the populace was going to be spending any money on tickets for her next tour anyway? Or watching reruns of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/\">Bravo<\/a> program, &#8220;My Life on the D-List&#8221;? (Does <em>any<\/em>one?) Fact is, her fan base is likely about as devoutly Christian as that of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marilyn_manson\">Marilyn Manson<\/a>, so she has nothing to lose by standing up to them.<\/p>\n<p>So good on ya, Kathy! Though it&#8217;s kind of sad to think that in the celebrity spine department, it&#8217;s basically down to you and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dixie_Chicks#Political_controversy\">Dixie Chicks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just caught this this morning on Snopes. I didn&#8217;t catch the story as it rolled off the lot, because I would rather French-kiss the condenser grille for my refrigerator than watch the Emmys, so forgive me if this is old news to any\/everyone. It&#8217;s new to me. If not exactly news. As Executive Producer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}