Alec Baldwin
Defends Kathy Griffin after Photo Firestorm: ‘F*ck Them All’
by Daniel Nussbaum 4 Jun 2017
Alec Baldwin has come to the defense of Kathy Griffin following
the widespread backlash over a photograph in which the comedian was pictured
posing with a bloodied, decapitated head meant to resemble that of President
Donald Trump.
Writing on his Twitter account Friday, the 59-year-old
actor and Saturday Night Live Trump impersonator reminded Griffin of the
backlash he experienced after he made fun
of then-Republican lawmaker Henry Hyde during a 1998 appearance on Conan O’Brien’s late-night show.
“Dear Kathy Griffin,” Baldwin wrote in a series of five
Twitter messages. “Kathy…baby…I’ve been there. The whole Henry Hyde thing w
Conan, where we bring out an oxygen mask at the end? A joke. That’s what I
thought. That’s what we intended. No one walked out of the studio and said,
‘No! We’re serious!’ No one.”
“Kathy…F*ck them,” Baldwin continued. “F*ck them all. No
1 believes u meant 2 threaten Trump. Trump is such a senile idiot, all he has
is Twitter fights.”
The photo of Griffin sparked widespread backlash after
its publication by TMZ on Tuesday. The 56-year-old comedian was fired from her
role on CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve Live broadcast, which she had
co-hosted for ten years, and saw the cancellation of at least five scheduled
performances on her cross-country comedy tour.
An emotional Griffin apologized
in a press conference Friday morning alongside her attorney,
Hollywood powerhouse lawyer Lisa Bloom, saying that she had not intended
to threaten the president but vowing she would continue to make fun of Trump in
the wake of the controversy. The comedian also said the backlash would not have
been as intense had it been a man who had posed for the photo, and accused the
Trump family of “bullying” her and trying to ruin her life.
Baldwin wasn’t the only celebrity to stand by Griffin in
the wake of the controversy.
Last week, actor Jim Carrey said people
shouldn’t “worry” about Griffin’s joke, and advised the comedian to double down
by holding up the president’s “severed leg.”
“I think what happens is, when these extraordinary times
politically happen, and we’re going through terror and the fear of the end,
comics are the last line of defense,” Carrey told an
audience at the premiere of his Showtime series, I’m Dying Up
Here. “We tell them the truth, and we make something beautiful out of it.”
Jim Carrey
Jim
Carrey is an actor in The Cable Guy.
Note: Kathy Griffin is
an actor in The Cable Guy, a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and her attorney is Lisa Bloom.
Bill
O'Reilly is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client, and was a reporter for the CBS News.
Lisa
Bloom is a legal analyst for
the CBS News, and Kathy Griffin’s attorney.
Conan O'Brien is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and was the host for Late Night.
Jon
Glaser was a writer for Late Night, and is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client.
Jeff
Ross was a producer for Late Night, and is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client.
Barbra Streisand
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, the founder of the Barbra Streisand Foundation, and was a trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Margery Tabankin
is the treasurer for the Barbra
Streisand Foundation, and a director at the People for the American Way.
Alec
Baldwin is a director at the People
for the American Way.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the People for the American Way, and the Sundance Institute.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Norman
Lear is a director at the People for
the American Way, the president of the Lear
Family Foundation, and married to Lyn
Davis Lear.
Lear
Family Foundation was a funder for the People
for the American Way, and a donor for the Movement Resource Group.
Movement
Resource Group was a funder for the Occupy
Movement.
Occupy Wall
Street is the initial protest for the Occupy
Movement.
Lyn Davis Lear
is a director at the Lear Family
Foundation, married to Norman Lear,
a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and a trustee at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art.
Barbra Streisand
was a trustee at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, is the
founder of the Barbra Streisand
Foundation, and a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Margery Tabankin
is the treasurer for the Barbra
Streisand Foundation, and a director at the People for the American Way.
Alec
Baldwin is a director at the People
for the American Way.
Kathy Griffin is a
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and an actor in The Cable Guy.
Jim
Carrey is an actor in The Cable Guy.
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