Kathy Griffin made an oopsie – and a bloody one at that.

The comedienne released a photograph of her holding the bloodied, severed head of Donald Trump and got people riled up, as you can imagine.

Comments stating how “libs” can support such acts of violence were reiterated on various posts, noting Griffin had reminded them of those awful ISIS beheading videos and that she wasn’t any better.

Some called for her to be jailed, whilst others just wrote “#BoycottKathyGriffin”.

Here’s the picture:

Ironically, in a preview video released on TMZ, Griffin had warned photographer Tyler Shields that they will have to move to Mexico to avoid federal prison. You can watch that piece of work here.

After all the horrific comments – mostly from Trump supporters – Griffins apologised, removing the image from her ‘Gram:

I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong.

A post shared by Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) on May 30, 2017 at 4:53pm PDT

As Slate pointed out:

If Griffin and Shields had wanted the picture to do more than “make noise,” they could have put it in a gallery along with a suite of like-minded images, or released it in concert with some sort of statement of purpose, rather than as a highly touted exclusive—complete with teasing “Shhh, don’t tell anyone” video—on a celebrity gossip site.

On Twitter, Griffin clarified, “OBVIOUSLY, I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others to anyone, ever!” and further added that the image inspired by Trump’s infamous remark about then-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly having “blood coming out of her wherever,” but it’s still a picture of the president’s severed head designed to look like the money shot in an ISIS assassination video, and even leaving aside the question of art or taste, that seems like a profoundly bad idea.

So yes, liberals who condemned the copious images of President Barack Obama being lynched or of he and his wife and children being depicted as monkeys should condemn this one, too.

(Conservatives who kept quiet then might, solely in the name of balance, agree to likewise sit this one out.)

If one decided to build from scratch the living embodiment of right-wing caricatures, one could hardly do better than a midlevel standup comedian and occasional CNN personality covering herself in fake blood and embracing the imagery of terrorist recruitment videos in order to make the highly sophisticated point that Trump Is Bad.

Next time just think, Kathy, think.

[source:time&slate]