Just picking a post at random in agreement. I can’t understand how anyone doesn’t understand this. Whether or not it was pre-planned, it was all intended. There’s no controversy here.
Everyone did everything right. It was not unwelcome, and the occasion and Griffin’s reputation and behavior made it a very safe play.
That’s the thing - we humorless bitches aren’t entirely humorless. Unwanted sexual comments are condemned because they’re unwanted. Not because they’re sexual comments. It’s not difficult to grasp.
Really? They always put mine on my bra strap, because my brastrap is thick and sturdy. On the thinner material of the skirt, the weight made it pull out awkwardly in the back. Were they being creepazoids? It seemed legit.
I’m not saying it wasn’t planned. It may well have been; Cooper didn’t seem really all that surprised. Then again, after so many years with Griffin, he’s probably developed a good poker face. But now you’ve got me wondering about the sound crews I used to work with.
Yes, it is a thick “molded cup” bra. Love those things. They hold everything in place like a well trained soldier.
I’d tap that.
Well probably not because I would highly suspect that is the crazy and we all know about tapping the crazy…but still.
I think your experiences are common. On the series Face Off, you can often see the bulge of the sound equipment in the middle of their back where the bra strap would be.
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Yeah really. Some people seem to believe there is a goal to utterly and completely render any such expression unthinkable and unspeakable under any circumstance whatsoever. Og help me that would be a dreadful world. Griffin was probably looking to see if anyone *would *dare to make a comment in that general vein.
Gee. To middle-aged, mind-ajar guy, plays like: lewd compliment responding to lewd bid for attention designed to solicit such. She has no grounds for offense, and since the whole thing was a broadly-scripted show using one bawdy comedienne with three purported journalists as paid talking props, neither do the props. Viewers have a right to expect better, maybe, but if they’ve been watching CNN at all lately, they shouldn’t.
Given that her response to the comment was to grin broadly, clap her hands, say “Thank you!”, and jiggle her “assets,” it’s a very safe bet that she was pleased.
Typical of TV – no. Typical of New Year’s Eve with Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper – absolutely.
I look forward to watching their show every year. The entire point of the show is to be as inappropriate and embarrassing as possible, and hopefully to make Anderson collapse in giggles. Kathy spends most of the show making rude comments about seducing Anderson. This year it was all about whether they should use tongue for their midnight kiss. In that context, Don Lemon’s remark fit in perfectly with the rest of the show.
Whether people who are supposed to be functioning as serious newscasters for the rest of the year should behave like drunken frat boys on a live New Year’s Eve broadcast is a separate question. I enjoy it, and CNN clearly finds it worthwhile, since they’ve been doing it for years.
No, but the part about figuring out whether it’s welcome or not does seem to be a problem for a lot of people. They claim they thought such comments would be welcome when they weren’t. So they want a hard and fast rule.
“Never go first.”
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Don Lemon looked a little drunk. I believe Lemon was complimenting Griffin’s plastic surgeon’s work. Without saline, suction, and sutures, Griffin wouldn’t be working the CNN New Years show.
It’s their shtick. Griffin is the wacky out of control comic. Cooper is her exasperated partner who can’t control her wackiness. Don Lemon seemed to be taking the role of the gay guy who has a free pass to talk about how a women looks. It would be completely unremarkable except that it’s supposed to be a serious news organization. I could never see Edward R. Murrow saying nice rack. Maybe at the bar after a few slugs of scotch but not on air.
Due to her multiple plastic surgeries.
I fail to see how it could be an insult. Just because a compliment might be rude and/or inappropriate does not make it an insult.
Works for me.
The second part of the comment makes it a bit of a backhanded compliment.
I vote “compliment, but Don was much too drunk for anyone to reliably say what he was going for.”
Really? What’s your problem with Don Lemon?
For 55? Very nice. Bordering on spectacular!
OK, I can see that. Thanks