Kathy Griffin learned a hard lesson in weaponized outrage

"Total elapsed time from severed head to “he broke me”: Three. Whole. Days."

Do you see tears?

John Podhoretz  "What a time we’ve had with Kathy Griffin. Let’s take a nostalgic look back — first to the image of Griffin holding up the president’s severed head. Then to her panicked apology. Then to CNN and Squatty Potty (don’t ask) severing its ties with her amid complaints from Trump family members. And finally to that gloriously deranged press conference in which a sobbing Griffin claimed she was being “censored” and that Donald Trump “broke me.”

"Ah, memories, like the corners of my mind. Misty, water-colored memories . . . of the Way We Are.  

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Total elapsed time from severed head to “he broke me”: Three. Whole. Days.

"Griffin wanted the image of the severed head to go viral, and it did — along with Griffin’s perpetration of the image. If Griffin’s career is over, it will have ended due to her own suicidal act and not due to pressure from the Trumps. You live by the meme, you die by the meme." . . .

And in three months, half the people who carried virtual pitchforks in the social-media lynch mob won’t even be able to remember what had so angered them in the first place. After all, there are new outrages every day, and new scalps to claim.