Zurawik: Kathy Griffin’s Presser Was ‘Nuts,’ ‘Outrageous,’ ‘Beyond Disingenuous’

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ZURAWIK: "I thought that press conference was nuts and I thought it was beyond disingenuous. It was almost sleazy after what she did to try to paint herself as a victim. There is a large cultural moment that we’re living in, as I’ve written about, where patriarchs, people who still believe in patriarchy, who believe men can control women, are being brought down from Bill Csby to Roger Ailes to Bill O'Reilly. This is a big moment. She is not one of the patriarch slayers. She has done none of that work that Megyn Kelly or Rachel Maddow is doing. So for her to try to appropriate that after this action is outrageous. This is not political commentary, this is not First Amendment stuff. She is a shock jock. She’s always been a shock jock. She’s closer to shock jock than she is anything with political commentary, and that press conference was outrageous. I couldn’t believe they did it, either."