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Humorless Barney Frank slams Kathy Griffin!
I’m a far bigger fan of Kathy Griffin than I am of Barney Frank so I’ll side with Kathy on this one.
The U.S. congressman from Massachusetts has come to the defense of Republican Sen. Scott Brown over some comments our favorite redhead made about Brown’s daughters.
On last week’s episode of Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List airing on Bravo, the comedienne is interviewed by a pair of CNN reporters and when one of them displayed a photo of Brown, Griffin reacted by saying: “Scott Brown, who is a senator from Massachusetts. And has two daughters that are prostitutes.”
A disclaimer on the show is then read, saying that “Scott Brown’s daughters are NOT prostitutes!!! We now return you to our regularly scheduled negativity.”
Since Frank also appeared in the episode, he felt compelled to distance himself from Griffin and to publicly scold her: “I think it’s possible to have fun, and even to poke fun at people in my businesses, without this kind of completely unfair attack,” he wrote in a letter to Griffin. “And while I don’t usually feel compelled to comment on what various entertainers do, since you did include me in that show I wanted to make it very clear that I thought what you did was wholly unfair and inappropriate. It’s the kind of thing that makes it less likely that I or others can cooperate with you in the future.”
Kathy had gone to Washington to appear at a rally against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and in the episode tells Frank during a visit to his office: “I need [don’t ask, don’t tell] repealed by Thursday, because I’m leaving Friday.” If it’s not, she said, “That’s a bitter pill to swallow.”
Frank replied: “My guess, Kathy, is it’s not the only pill you’ve swallowed this week.”
I think Barney Frank needs a sense of humor!
I also lost a lot of respect for Frank, one of the few openly gay members of the congress, last year when he dismissed the National Equality March in Washington D.C. saying “the only thing they’re going to be putting pressure on is the grass.”
He later told Joy Behar: “I am afraid that some people will come to Washington and they will march and think they’ve done it. That’s why I said what I did. Marching isn’t a negative thing, but to the extent that people think that having marched they’ve done something effective, they wouldn’t do something that is effective.”
What’s not effective is his negative attitude!
Comments
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josie soho says:
Too bad! I thought he controlled the interview very well. He should have let sleeping dogs lie.
David says:
Hi,
I love your site but respectfully disagree with your position regarding Barney Frank. Congressman Frank is right. Marches that do not target a specific legislator are largely ineffective because legislators only care about their constituents. For example, Barbara Boxer (of CA) doesn’t care if Texans are protesting against her and her support of gay marriage. She only cares if Californians that directly affect her reelection are demonstrating against her.
Also, Barney Frank has a very sharp tongue and wit. What he said to Kathy Griffin was funny.
jacey hyde says:
I’m with humorless Barney on this one. There’s nothing funny about calling someone’s children prostitutes. She’s needs to say things like that to be funny? Running out of material?
Dennis Lonergan says:
First time I ever disagreed with you is on this Barney Frank piece. Kathy Griffin is funny, but she goes too far sometimes, and Frank as a home state colleague of Brown’s couldn’t let that remark pass without a comment. It was a stupid, unfunny remark anyway and not worth defending.
Mike says:
I’m with Barn-ey on this one, but, then again, I just don’t get Kathy’s humor at all, although, I do watch the show from time to time, only to see what will fall out of her Mom’s mouth, which is always funny.
Jay says:
Family members of public persons are not public persons, so unless they are active in public life in some way other than been in the orbit of their father children of public figures should be left alone.
KG is un-funny and boorish…recall two New Year’s Eve appearances when one was awful enough.
She didn’t learn a lesson from those? How about when Dave Letterman made the tastless remark about Palin’s daughter and the baseball player?
Attacks about politicians and their policies are always fair game…attacks on those around them because they are merely around them are not.
Latosha Fleshlight says:
Because some states and governments are tolerant and political on this issue, that does not mean it is correct and the best for Human Kind. Let respect the voice of the people and not the opinion of a Judge