CNN Drops Kathy Griffin Over Decapitated Trump Photo

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CNN has fired comedian Kathy Griffin from the network’s annual New Year’s Eve program, which she cohosted with anchor Anderson Cooper for a decade.

“CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year’s Eve program,” a network spokesperson told TheWrap in a statement.

The announcement came just one day after the comedian posed in a photo with a replica of a severed head of Donald Trump.

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Griffin’s photoshoot sparked widespread backlash Tuesday from both sides of the aisle, forcing Griffin to issue an apology.

“I crossed the line,” Griffin said in a video post via Twitter. “I went way too far. The image is too disturbing, I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career, I will continue. I ask for your forgiveness. Taking down the image. I’m going to ask the photographer to take down the image. And I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong.”

The fallout didn’t take long. Within hours, toilet stool company Squatty Potty announced it was dumping Griffin from its recent ad campaign.

Also Read: Trump Blasts 'Sick' Kathy Griffin for Beheading Photo: Comic 'Should Be Ashamed of Herself'

Anderson Cooper also weighed in Tuesday, quickly distancing himself from Griffin.

“For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in,” he Tweeted. “It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate.”

CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program.

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) May 31, 2017

8 Times Hypocrite Donald Trump Used the Kind of Anonymous Sources He Now Condemns (Photos)

On Sunday, Donald Trump derided the use of anonymous sourcing in news stories. He also said in February that news outlets "shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name." It's strange he thinks that, because he's used a lot of anonymous sources himself. Here are some examples.
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Two years after President Obama released his birth certificate, Trump said it was not believable to some people. "You know, some people say that was not his birth certificate," he told ABC in August 2013. "I'm saying I don't know. Nobody knows and you don't know either."
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Trump posted multiple tweets in 2012 citing an anonymous source, as the Daily Beast's Colin Jones noted.
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Trump said one of the sources "called my office."
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Trump took care to describe this source as "extremely credible."
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Trump so often sources information to "many people" (without naming any of them) that there's a well-worn #manypeoplearesaying hashtag on Twitter. The Washington Post wrote an article about it, which includes the examples on the next three slides.
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At a rally in September, a man in Trump's audience said President Obama was a Muslim and “not even an American,” then asked Trump to get rid of Muslim “training camps.”

“You know, a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there,” Trump responded.
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In early January, Trump said he had heard from many Republicans worried that his rival, Sen. Ted Cruz, was born in Canada.

“I’d hate to see something like that get in his way, but a lot of people are talking about it, and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport,” Trump told the Post.
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In May 2016, Trump told the Post what some "people" believe about the death of Vince Foster. “I don’t bring [Foster’s death] up because I don’t know enough to really discuss it,” Trump said. “I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder. I don’t do that because I don’t think it’s fair.”
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Soon after Trump called for an end to anonymous sourcing, The Associated Press noted, "Members of Trump's White House team regularly demand anonymity when talking to reporters."
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Surprise: Trump berates the news media for doing something he’s done himself

On Sunday, Donald Trump derided the use of anonymous sourcing in news stories. He also said in February that news outlets "shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name." It's strange he thinks that, because he's used a lot of anonymous sources himself. Here are some examples.

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