Ugh, Joan Rivers opens her big mouth again.....regarding the POTUS and FLOTUS

[a kennedy]

Joan Rivers’ Shocking Comments About Barack and Michelle.....“Do you think the United States will see the first gay president or the first woman president?”

The answer to that question posed to Joan Rivers by a cameraman on the streets of New York has the 81-year-old comic in hot waterWhat did she say?

“We already have it with Obama, so let’s just calm down.”

But she didn’t stop there: It’s what she said next that’s caused particular outrage.

As Rivers continued walking past, she turned her head and added, “You know Michelle is a tranny.”

The cameraman responded, “I’m sorry, she’s a what?”

“A transgender. We all know,” Rivers said as she walked toward a building.

There's video here:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/04/joan-rivers-shocking-comments-about-barack-and-michelle/

[FarPoint]

1. Joan is senile.

Worthless entertainer. Her time has passed as being a respectable comedian.

[betterdemsonly]

2. She has a black sense of humor

but she has also given much evidence of being a republican. If Michelle was transgender, she wouldn't have had babies. Technology hasn't progressed that much.

[Agschmid]

44. Who says the babies are Michelle's?

Just in case...

[Shrike47]

3. As she gets older and more out-dated, she says more awful things to get attention. Like Coulter.

[betterdemsonly]

4. Her paychecks are coming from the Donald and that probably

scews her view.

[Shrike47]

5. It would be in the Blaze, of course. I bet Limbaugh jumps on board, while denying HE said it.

[otohara]

40. I Thought Drudge & The Blaze

were not worthy of a thread on DU.

[senseandsensibility]

6. Between this and the comments about the kidnapped girls

she's past her due date.

[Dawson Leery]

12. +1

[joeybee12]

7. She was being a smartass...she's always wanted to shock...

I wouldn't put much stock in it.

[Fred Sanders]

10. True, she stirs the pot, age makes it only more likely she will.

[BainsBane]

8. Don't worry about Joan

She jokes about everything. She's not aiming at Obama particularly. In fact, my guess is she's a Democrat.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. I think the same thing. We could be wrong though.

This sounds like her same old schtick to me. What? They expected something else?

[Jefferson23]

34. Republican/Democrat:

snip*In 2002, Rivers told the Montreal Mirror that she was a Republican.[54] However, on a 2013 episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, Rivers stated that she was a Democrat. Then on January 28, 2014 during a conversation with Reza Farahan she announced that she was in fact a Republican.[55]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Rivers

snip*TOC: Let’s get into politics for a minute.
Joan Rivers: They bore me.

TOC: You voted for Obama, but you’ve been a lifelong Republican, right?
Joan Rivers: I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken’s vote.

TOC: No matter what else comes along with it?
Joan Rivers: Who cares?

TOC: What about Bush Junior—did you actually vote for him?
Joan Rivers: I voted for him, I think, the first time. Second time, I didn’t. But again, he promised me lower taxes, that cutie pie.

TOC: But he was dumb as dirt, Joan.
Joan Rivers: Oh, so what! Why? You think Carter was smart?

TOC: Comparatively, my pet rock is smart.
Joan Rivers: They’re all stupid, doesn’t matter.

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/comedy/joan-rivers-interview

Rivers says she doesn’t like to talk about politics, but she couldn’t hide her contempt for the presidential race in 2012. She called Obama and Romney both “idiots,” and said she thought the money and time spent campaigning was horrific:

How dare you spend two years campaigning. They should do what England does. Six weeks to find out what everyone thinks before they vote for them for Parliament. That makes sense. . . . I find the whole thing disgusting, both sides disgusting.6

But nonetheless, she went out and did her civic duty on election day.7 And even though she has stated she is a Republican, she said she voted for Obama because she thought the president would lower her taxes.8 She also retweeted the Human Rights Campaign’s celebratory post-election tweet in 2012.9

snip* Rivers’ campaign finance contributions, while leaning right, weren’t exclusively dedicated to Republicans. Of her $6,750 in donations, $500 was to a Democrat, $3,000 to Republicans, and $3,250 to a pro-Israeli political action committee.10 Like many Jews, she’s an outspoken supporter of the Israeli state and doesn’t approve of the president’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She said,

I think the Obama administration’s treatment of Israel is outrageous. Outrageous. When we are the only sane nation in that part of the world.11

But one issue Obama has pushed in his presidency, gay rights, is one Rivers is proud to support. She even used her TV show Fashion Police as a platform to support a campaign to change an Israeli law banning surrogate pregnancies for gay couples.12

http://hollowverse.com/joan-rivers/

[Fred Sanders]

9. Transgender females having babies, Rivers needs to lay off the Geritol.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Remember she wrote and directed "Rabbit Test"

[conservaphobe]

11. The old bat should either expire or retire...

Whichever is most effective at shutting her up.

[Drunken Irishman]

13. Offensive comedy works when it's, you know, funny.

Fuck her.

[Cha]

19. I hate fucking offensive comedy anyway.. like when they do at the Academy Awards.. it's embarrassing

to me. But, this is just stupid.. poor joan.. going down in blaze of dogshit.

[GeorgeGist]

15. White trash.

[newcriminal]

21. I hate when anyone uses this stupid slur.

No one ever says black trash. Because blacks are already considered trash, right? It's a stupid racist slur that insults both blacks and whites. Just my $.02.

[VanillaRhapsody]

16. Joan's got a helluva nerve....she's had so much plastic surgery she is hardly human...

much less an 81 yr old woman. Who the hell is she to judge what anyone is or isn't...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. Bingo

Too many face lifts. Amazing she can still move her mouth.

[mnhtnbb]

43. +++++

[geek tragedy]

18. Joan Rivers talks like ... Joan Rivers. nt

[KinMd]

20. Not hard to figure why her husband killer himself

[Jenoch]

22. I don't know why anyone gives

a rat's ass what Joan River's thinks, says, or does. As a matter of fact, just glancing at the first several replies to this post and the effort I used to write this pist is much more effort than this thread deserves.

[mfcorey1]

23. Comedy or no comedy, that botox queen was out of line, forgetting that one false smile and

her entire face might collapse.

[Inkfreak]

24. Joan always says outrageous stuff. Her show on E! showcases it. (nt)

[otohara]

25. Isn't The Blaze Glenn Becks

why are you posting links to that POS

BOOOOOOOO

[quinnox]

28. lol, I have always liked Joan Rivers type of humor

[Inspired]

31. Me too.

And I find Don Rickles extremely funny too. I can't help myself.

[quinnox]

35. Yup, Rickles is wickedly funny

Political correctness can go fly a kite when it comes to comedy as far as I'm concerned.

[Inspired]

42. Political comedy and satire are the best!

Being outraged over something Joan Rivers, or any comedian, said is such a waste of, well, a waste of outrage. Such silliness.

[Inspired]

29. Oh, the outrage!

Good grief. She was trying to shock and be funny. Who cares.

[MohRokTah]

30. So Transphobic Joan Rivers gets to use a transgender perjorative term and gets away with it?

Seriously, the woman is a fucking bigot using that vile and nasty term.

[MohRokTah]

32. Just watched the video, she was NOT making a joke.

She was being serious. This was not a attempt at humor.

[alphafemale]

36. She's always been outrageous. If you are not outraged she's disappointed in herself.

At DU we said horribly mean things about both Barbara and Laura Bush's looks.

In my opinion Michelle is stunning so these comments on her looks fall flat.

The comments on the looks of Barbara and Laura were crueler in a way....because they WERE rather awkward looking sometimes.

[woodsprite]

37. Even if what she said was true (which it isn't), Michelle is more of a lady

than Joan Rivers could ever hope to be.

It could be she's jealous of Michelle's natural beauty, whereas all that Joan's 50 bajillion face lifts have done is make her look like one of Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummies.

[3catwoman3]

38. This sort of verbal dreck seems a lot like marginal musicians...

...and crotch grabbing. It what you do when that's all you've got, and you ain't got much.

[LynneSin]

39. She is a wretched woman who destroyed her body...

With plastic surgery. I have no problem calling her ugly because of how judgemental and rude she is towards others. Her absolutely rude comments towards actress Lena Durham, an actress who refuses to starve herself or slice up her face, shows how out of touch Joan Rivers is .

[Botany]

41. It is a very old act where she tries to get people upset

..... she has been doing it for years.

[lunatica]

45. So what?

It's Joan Rivers. Does anyone expect differently?

[goldent]

48. That's what's most funny about this thing - the reaction, and this

is from people who know her routine!

I watched the video, and it was interesting how Joan went from a private person trying to get somewhere, to a comedienne going into her act.

[iloveObama12]

46. Oh No She Didn't

2 Bit Ho!

[hughee99]

47. Holy shit, Joan Rivers said something offensive AND unfunny? I'm shocked.

She hasn't even approached being funny in 30 years.

[LLD]

49. Another joke where you say "I'm kidding. It was just a joke"

Anything is alright if you add "I'm kidding". Which Rivers is good at saying.

[onecent]

50. Consider the source...she's a nutjob....

end of story.

[randys1]

51. She is a comedian, so I dont care about the jokes, i do care that she says she will vote

for anyone who will lower her taxes

Another rich person who once they got theirs, fuck everybody else...

Jesus, I had much higher opinions of her, I assumed she was a good liberal...

guess not

[liberalmuse]

52. I don't get her...

or Don Rickles. What some call "humor" I call "plain 'ol meanness". They say stuff little kids blurt out before they are taught that other people have feelings. I guess some find it charming, but it makes me cringe. I love dark humor that exposes corruption and makes you think about silly things we humans do without realizing it, but I think there's a difference between dark humor and cruel "humor".

[Smarmie Doofus]

53. Silly stuff. It's what she does. n/t

[giftedgirl77]

54. Since when is that fucking psycho's website

considered an acceptable source? Fuck Glenn Beck & any nonsense that spews from him or his entities.