{"id":63350,"date":"2017-06-02T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63350"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:06:31","slug":"open-letter-to-kathy-griffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63350","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Kathy Griffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Kathy Griffin, Comedian-Turned-Not-Very-Intelligent Political Satirist<br \/>\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0I Don&#8217;t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Griffin,<\/p>\n<p>I say this as someone who actually used to enjoy your standup routine, until you decided you had to be Culturally Important. \u00a0Please take it in the spirit intended.<\/p>\n<p>You <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/02\/entertainment\/kathy-griffin-trump\/index.html\">are not being\u00a0&#8220;bullied&#8221;.<\/a> \u00a0 The people you (and people like you, including your former employers and most of your fellow A-through-D-list &#8220;entertainment&#8221; figures) have been bullying punched you back.<\/p>\n<p>Like most bullies (cultural or physical), you don&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>Waaah, waaah, waaah. \u00a0There. \u00a0That&#8217;s my sympathy for you, like all bullies.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. to those of you who call yourselves &#8220;the Resistance&#8221; to Trump: \u00a0 While you are a demographic minority, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63101\">you have vast, disproportionate control<\/a> over this culture&#8217;s news, entertainment, culture, style, and national conversation. \u00a0You were the occupiers; the Trump voters were &#8220;the resistance&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Kathy Griffin, Comedian-Turned-Not-Very-Intelligent Political Satirist From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: \u00a0I Don&#8217;t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means Ms. Griffin, I say this as someone who actually used to enjoy your standup routine, until you decided you had to be Culturally Important. \u00a0Please take it in the spirit intended. You are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63352,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63350\/revisions\/63352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}