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Child sees the severed head of his father on TV

RobertKK

The child named Barron was watching TV when he screamed out in horror as he saw the severed head of his father on TV. Barron aged 11 saw the bloodied head of his father named Donald being held aloft by known 'comedy' terrorist Kathy Griffin.
TMZ reported Barron was terrorised as he believed it was the severed head of his father.
Kathy Griffin has lost her job at CNN for beheading Donald, as Barron's family ask 'what kind of sick and twisted person does this?'
Kathy has apologised for her actions.

The media is being accused of exploiting the child by putting this into the media. Most people would argue that children are off line when it comes to being used in the media.
Whether the story is true or not, the child has been made out to being very stupid.
Would you sue someone if they put an effigy of a family member on TV with their head being severed?
Should it come under the term 'hate crime'?
Incitement to violence?

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RobertKK

pilly wrote: »

Think you should change the thread title OP. Ridiculous click baiting.

But that is what we are told the child saw, and it did lead to both his parents coming out and condemning it.

ohnonotgmail

Help!!!! wrote: »

So do you think an 11 year old kid was never going to see it? you know with the internet & everything

there are much worse things for a kid to see on the internet. perhaps his parents should take some responsibility for what he looks at. well his father cant because he is never around.

pilly

RobertKK wrote: »

But that is what we are told the child saw, and it did lead to both his parents coming out and condemning it.

He did not see the "severed head of his father" obviously or we'd be talking about a murder.

ohnonotgmail

RobertKK wrote: »

But that is what we are told the child saw, and it did lead to both his parents coming out and condemning it.

well perhaps the tv station shouldn't have shown it?

pjohnson

OP if you dont already apply to work for The Sun. That level of clickbait would guarantee you a job.

ThisRegard

It was Kathy Griffin FFS, hardly main stream media, and it appears this is many people's first introduction to her. She's done worse, probably.

One of her shows just dropped onto Netflix, so job done by her, couldn't have bought this publicity.

RobertKK

pilly wrote: »

He did not see the "severed head of his father" obviously or we'd be talking about a murder.

That is what the child believed, so for a period of time, however short, he believed it was the decapitated head of his father.

pjohnson

RobertKK wrote: »

That is what the child believed, so for a period of time, however short, he believed it was the decapitated head of his father.

The child probably believes Santa is real. Hes in for a fair few more shocks I'd say.

wakka12

It was a prop, bit overly dramatic with the title don't you think. And I highly doubt the child thought it was his father when he saw it, or that he happened to be watching whatever comedy show it was on before it went viral on the internet
I didnt even recognise the face as donald trumps, its completely covered in blood

ohnonotgmail

pjohnson wrote: »

The child probably believes Santa is real. Hes in for a fair few more shocks I'd say.

he's going to get a shock when he finds out what his father is really like.

wakka12

http://cdn.washingtonexaminer.biz/cache/1060x600-0e681e996c50dccb68b493e92fdf19f7.jpg
Doesn't look anything like donald trump. And this child is 11, I think he's mature/old enough to know this is obviously not real

kunst nugget

wakka12 wrote: »

http://cdn.washingtonexaminer.biz/cache/1060x600-0e681e996c50dccb68b493e92fdf19f7.jpg
Doesn't look anything like donald trump. And this child is 11, I think he's mature/old enough to know this is obviously not real

Ah, to be fair, I'm sure Barron's seen him looking like that the whole time while he's waiting for Donald to wash off the fake tan he applied.

GerryDerpy

Thought this was going to be about Arya Stark seeing auld Neddy getting the chop.

kylith

wakka12 wrote: »

http://cdn.washingtonexaminer.biz/cache/1060x600-0e681e996c50dccb68b493e92fdf19f7.jpg
Doesn't look anything like donald trump. And this child is 11, I think he's mature/old enough to know this is obviously not real

Exactly. He should have been given the 'Things on TV =/= real' talk years ago.

lawred2

and who went out of their way to direct the young boy's attention to a rather obscure adult entertainment show?

lawred2

why did she lose her job exactly?

so much for the American ideal of the right to free speech... Is everyone a craven hypocrite at this stage?

wakka12

lawred2 wrote: »

why did she lose her job exactly?

so much for the American ideal of the right to free speech... Is everyone a craven hypocrite at this stage?

Yeh but some things just don't go down well with the public. Its not like it was illegal, but you don't always have to do illegal things to get fired. Whoever she worked for obviously just didnt want to be associated with the bad publicity.
Anyway I think the joke was immature and stupid and tasteless and I dont feel bad for her

sunny2004

lawred2 wrote: »

why did she lose her job exactly?

so much for the American ideal of the right to free speech... Is everyone a craven hypocrite at this stage?

Free speech ? guess you think thats something real ?

Try googling Brandenburg V Ohio.. as an example.

or this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_the_United_States

or this..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial

time to educate yourself on the matter and stop referring to free speech

20Cent

Disgusting that the Trump family are using their child to shut down an artist.

Bet he never even saw it they just made it up. Fake news.

wakka12

20Cent wrote: »

Disgusting that the Trump family are using their child to shut down an artist.

Bet he never even saw it they just made it up. Fake news.

Is this art nowadays, if she was a talented artist Im sure she could do a bit better than that

AllForIt

Kathy Griffin is a very funny woman. That's all I've got to say on the subject.

Galwayguy35

wes wrote: »

The alt-right seem to be getting "triggered" an awful lot lately.

BTW, this doesn't compare to the crap Obama got, and Trump even invited Ted Nugent to the White house, who joked about killing Obama.

The whole thing is hypocrisy of the highest order. The most sensitive snow flakes are Donald Trump and his supporters.

You seem kinda triggered there yourself.

pilly

lawred2 wrote:

why did she lose her job exactly?

Ah come on now. I'm no fan of Trump but if that was Obama or in fact any black person she would lose more than her job.

She'd probably be locked up.

20Cent

pilly wrote: »

Ah come on now. I'm no fan of Trump but if that was Obama or in fact any black person she would lose more than her job.

She'd probably be locked up.

Ted Nugent said he wanted to put a machine gun in Obamas and Hillary Clintins mouths
Presumably to pull the trigger. He was recently photographed in the oval office with trump.

Capt'n Midnight

Barron Trump is 11.

If he was watching TV after the watershed then it's likely to be inappropriate and perhaps it's time to call social services.

How come no one is going after the news channel that decided to show the picture ?

On the subject of inappropriate TV
The typical American child will view more than 200,000 acts of violence, including more than 16,000 murders before age 18.

PressRun

If wee Barron lived in the same house as his father or indeed saw or spoke to him on a regular basis, he would know that he wasn't really beheaded on national television.

wally1990

Harry Palmr wrote: »

What the holy fvck are you on about?

Hahahha

mcmoustache

To be fair to liberals (the american kind), they rounded on her.

Son Of A Vidic

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Griffin has rightly been punished for her inappropriate actions. Although in her defence I've heard she suffers from her nerves, to put it politely.

Or to put it more bluntly, I believe she suffers from being a bit of a bollocks.

lawred2

sunny2004 wrote: »

Free speech ? guess you think thats something real ?

Try googling Brandenburg V Ohio.. as an example.

or this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_the_United_States

or this..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial

time to educate yourself on the matter and stop referring to free speech

Yeah. Great stuff altogether.