Kathy Griffin: Don’t blame me, blame Donald Trump [VIDEO]

Bloom spoke first and her performance was just shy of legal malpractice where tied the First Lady’s condemnation of Griffin’s photo to the House health care bill and Trump’s tweet to Vladimir Putin’s imprisonment of the feminist rock band Pussy Riot. The entire press conference looked more like a campaign kickoff for Bloom than it did a lawyer looking to protect her client.

“It should be Trump who should apologize for his blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever, disgusting comment,” Bloom said. “Which he has never done and for being the most woman hating and tyrannical President in U.S. history.”

After Bloom flipped the narrative of the press conference by presenting straw man arguments, Griffin added gasoline to the dumpster fire.

Griffin insisted that her fall from grace wasn’t her fault. However, she said over and over again that she regretted taking the picture, and that it was the fault of Donald Trump and “older white guys.”

She repeatedly touted that she has performed in war-zones, and said her apology stands. But she emphasized that she’s just an “out there, in your face comedian.”

“What’s happening to me has never happened in the history of this great country, which is that a sitting President of the United States and his grown children and the First Lady are personally I feel, are personally trying to ruin my life forever. You guys know him, he’s never going to stop.”

It’s unclear what Griffin is talking about given that Melania released one statement on the picture and the President sent out just a single tweet a day after the picture was released.

Griffin then made a series of jokes about the President that garnered laughs from Bloom and then moved from that to commenting about the death threats she received for the picture. The comedian seemed to confuse the threats, which were unjustifiable, to a personal First Amendment stance against government censorship ordered by the President.

“This President of all people, is going to come after me?” Griffin said with moral indignation. “He picked the wrong redhead… I don’t want this to happen to anybody else.”

Well if that’s the case, Griffin should tell other comics and artists not to depict the President being decapitated and outraging a majority of Americans’ sensibilities.

Griffin personally blamed Trump for “mobilizing his army and bots.” Presumably, the comedian was not referring to liberals like Anderson Cooper, Wendy Williams, and Chelsea Clinton, who all condemned her publicity stunt. When asked about the future of her career, the comedian tearfully admitted she didn’t think she’d have a career and that Trump “broke her.”

The comedian also blamed men. “This wouldn’t be happening to a guy, this is a woman thing and I’m sorry if you don’t agree with me but I live it,” Griffin said and then described how comedy is overwhelmingly male-dominated.

Griffin’s warped theory of reality is that her picture personally insulted the President who declared war on her and ruined her career. She takes no responsibility that people didn’t like her picture because they have more decency than she does.

She views herself as this groundbreaking comedian in the same light as George Carlin, Joan Rivers, and Richard Pryor, which she is not. She only talks about celebrity run-ins.

Furthermore, this isn’t an assault on the First Amendment like it was when iconic comedian Lenny Bruce, who broke barriers by mocking sex and religion, was censored. He was banned from performing in cities like Boston and was targeted by police at the comedy clubs where he was doing stand up. CNN, Squatty Potty, and the theaters canceled their contracts with Griffin because of their own will and public demand, not because of the First Amendment.

Griffin is not Lenny Bruce. She’s a less thoughtful, less talented, but more provocative version of the Dixie Chicks.