BLASPHEME!

I loved this!

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Before Kathy Griffin won a creative arts
Emmy last weekend for her reality show, "My Life on the D-List," she joked that
an award would move her to the C-list.

Kathy Griffin was pleased to win an Emmy, but her speech will likely be trimmed.

She was right: "C" as in censored. The TV academy said her raucous acceptance speech will be edited when the event, which was taped, is shown Saturday on the E! channel. The main prime-time Emmy Awards air the next night on Fox.

"Kathy Griffin's offensive remarks will not be part of the E! telecast on Saturday night," the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement Monday.

In her speech, Griffin said that "a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus."

She went on to hold up her Emmy, make an off-color remark about Christ and proclaim, "This award is my god now!"

The comedian's remarks were condemned Monday by Catholic League President
Bill Donohue, who called them a "vulgar, in-your-face brand of hate speech."

According to the TV academy and E!, when the four hour-plus ceremony is edited into a two-hour program, Griffin's remarks will be shown in "an abbreviated version" in which some language may be bleeped.

The program was in production and unfinished, an E! spokeswoman said Monday.

Requests for comment were left Monday evening by phone and e-mail with Griffin's publicist. They were not immediately returned.

The Catholic League, an anti-defamation group, called on the TV
academy to "denounce Griffin's obscene and blasphemous comment" at Sunday's ceremony (emphasis added).

I'll tell you what's obscene and blasphemous: those fucking idiots at the Catholic League who didn't call the Church on their obscene and blasphemous behavior while their priests were busy groping and raping the little kids entrusted to their care.

Don't you dare piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.