Has Kathy Griffin been banned from CNN?
Popeater’s Rob Shuter is saying she has, writing yesterday that a CNN “source” claims “She was a total embarrassment to the network that calls themselves ‘The Most Trusted Name in News.” The article also adds that spokesminions for the network have also chimed in with “No decisions have been made yet regarding next year’s show”.
Translation: CNN‘s going to look at the complaints (outrage!) and compare it to their ratings.
On a sidenote, why all networks don’t just cop to doing so when anyone with half a brain knows this is how it goes down is beyond me. Guess it’s all just part of the game. Moving on.
In a spectacular New Year’s Eve special along with Anderson Cooper and her BGFF (best gay friend forever) Lance Bass linked in from Las Vegas, Kathy alluded to cocaine use, asked Cooper if he masturbated in front of a mirror and managed to drop an F bomb. In doing so, Griffin apparently has incurred the wrath of the suits at the network, who were under the delusion (or at least pretending to be) that she would behave herself.
CNN is trying desperately hard to re-market itself as impartial and balanced (the way news used to be broadcast years ago) viable alternative to MSNBC and Fox News. In doing so, they’re also in danger of becoming boring. These days, people are looking to be entertained by “personalities” as well as informed, be it from right wingers like Glen Beck, moderates like Bill Maher, or liberals like Jon Stewart. The thing is, every time Griffin is on CNN, either as a foil to “straight” man Anderson Cooper, or filling in for the increasingly geriatric and out to lunch Larry King, ratings soar and it makes the news in media outlets around the world. CNN may very well ban her but they’ll be shooting themselves in the foot in doing so.
Kathy Griffin bless her, is liberal, opinionated, and completley inappropriate. Like the bit on her show where she married a couple after becoming an ordained minister, wasn’t supposed to say the word “tits”, but somehow managed to say it 60 odd times during the ceremony.
Whether or not she gets banned or invited back is probably irrelevant to her at this point. Either way, Griffin will use the brouhaha in her stand up routine and on her show, the now somewhat ironically named “My Life on the D-List“.
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