{"id":131060,"date":"2010-01-03T07:51:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T12:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=86425"},"modified":"2010-01-03T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T12:51:15","slug":"cnn-apologizes-for-kathy-griffin-f-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/131060","title":{"rendered":"CNN Apologizes For Kathy Griffin F-Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathy Griffin is making four-letter words a New Year’s Eve tradition at CNN. <\/p>\n

The Atlanta-based cable news network has issued a public apology after the Bravo reality star and outspoken funnywoman swore during CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve countdown for the second year in a row. <\/p>\n

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Kathy was a guest host on news channel CNN’s end-of-year program live from Times Square on Thursday when she let the F-word slip during a discussion about the Balloon Boy scandal with co-host Anderson Cooper. Kathy joked about how to pronounce the first name of Falcon Heene – the 6-year-old at the center of the hoax. <\/p>\n

“Fal– F**kin’? Falcon? How do you say it?”<\/em> Kathy asked. “You’re terrible. Really terrible,” <\/em>Anderson chided her, shaking his head.<\/p>\n

During CNN’s 2008 broadcast, Kathy fired off the foul taunt at a crowd heckler.<\/p>\n

CNN producers promptly issued a statement on Friday apologizng to viewers for Kathy’s on-screen outburst. The network says it “regrets that profanity was used during our New Year’s Eve coverage.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Kathy, on the other hand, was less than apologetic<\/p>\n

In a statement released by her publicist Friday, Griffin made light of the joke: “Like every other serious reporter covering the now infamous balloon boy hoax, I struggled to pronounce his name ‘Falcon’ correctly and have gotten a kick out of how many ways I’ve heard it pronounced by other serious reporters. Just add me to that list and happy new year!”<\/em><\/p>\n

When sked whether Griffin would be invited back next year, CNN spokeswoman Shimrit Sheetrit said planning for the 2011 celebration hadn’t yet begun.<\/p>\n

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Kathy Griffin is making four-letter words a New Year’s Eve tradition at CNN. The Atlanta-based cable news network has issued a public apology after the Bravo reality star and outspoken funnywoman swore during CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve countdown for the second year in a row. Kathy was a guest host on news channel CNN’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}