Kathy Griffin Effigy Mirror Image Of Clinton Obama Effigies

By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2017Effigy: A roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger. – Google Dictionary Comedienne and actress Kathy Griffin is receiving a lot of heated attention for performing an act of protest on an effigy of Donald Trump – an action which essentially is a mirror image of similar acts performed by Trump supporters on effigies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.The apparent message from America’s corporate media? It’s fine to desecrate, mistreat and abuse effigies of black or female politicians – but it’s a sheer atrocity to do such a thing to an effigy of a wealthy white man.Was Griffin’s protest tasteless? Perhaps. But if that’s so, then publicly hanging an effigy of Hillary Clinton next to a well-traveled interstate in Oregon is just as disturbing. A man named Billy Pitner did just that last September during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Pitner apparently felt that Clinton was guilty of “treason,” and brazenly hung an effigy of Clinton from a large crane to express his feelings. The Trump supporter dressed the effigy in a pink bra and a blonde wig, and next to it hung signs which said “Vote Trump,” “Uranium One” and “Treason? Ask Her.”When local reporters asked Pitner about his action, he crowed:“I’m allowed to have my feelings, right, wrong or indifferent. Here you are. Got your attention didn’t it?”Uranium One is a company that, according to Scopes, controls up to one-fifth of all U.S. uranium production. A number of Russian business-people became interested in the company and bought a controlling interest in the firm then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved of the deal. Her Clinton Foundation also received generous donations from Uranium One’s chairman and others connected to the company. The donations totaled well over $2 million, according to the New York Times.It’s not known what Mr. Pitner thinks of Trump’s Russian ties. Regardless, no one seemed immediately interested in punishing the Trump supporter for his public hanging of the Hillary Clinton effigy.“Neither the U.S. Secret Service [nor] the [local Oregon] police department have yet responded to our request for comment,” stated Snopes.Then last October – just days before the presidential election – Trump supporters gleefully provided American citizens another tasteful protest via effigy.“An effigy depicting Hillary Clinton with a noose around her neck dangled above the crowd cheering on a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina on Wednesday,” declared NBC News.“The effigy is just the latest example of the violent imagery and anti-Clinton sentiment emerging out of the presidential election,” added the news source.“Earlier this week, Trump supporters took a model of Clinton’s head and mounted it on a stake,” continued the October 2016 report from NBC News.“A separate poster found in the crowd at Virginia Beach depicted a bull’s-eye trained on the Democratic nominee’s face,” stated the news report.But when a reporter asked the lady at the North Carolina rally – Trump supporter Ginger Glover – if she really wanted Hillary Clinton killed, she said no.“It’s just for effect,” admitted Glover.And let’s not give readers the impression that Trump supporters and similar right-wing storm-troopers have wasted all their charm on America’s ladies. Oh no, during the 2016 election they revealed a similar readiness to use effigies of then-President Barack Obama to vent all the pent-up anger that comes with the occasional dashed expectation of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant privilege.Observe this image from a delightful punishment of an Obama effigy – before a church, no less – which interested parties may watch on YouTube, entitled “Nationwide Burning of Effigies and Images of President Hussein Obama.”And you know what’s best about such displays? They in no way remind decent people of the lynchings the forefathers of these protesters almost certainly employed on black Americans. So Trump supporters are happy to employ violent and intimidating images to express their personal feelings, but absolutely refuse to offer that same freedom to anyone else. But that’s expected. After all, that is always the position of hypocrites. We at the American Spark have no real problem with people declaring white-hot outrage at the images produced by Ms. Griffin’s protest. But we do insist that our corporate elites in the media and in the White House apply the same standard for free expression that they happily employ for Trump supporters. No double standards, boys and girls. One standard will do just fine.