Did She Just Say...

You know, sometimes you're watching a live tv event and suddenly someone says something that you have alot of trouble believing. It's amazing how stupid and insensitive people can often be, and the recent past has given us many examples of this. How about Don Imus and his ridiculously calloused and uninformed comments about the Rutgers womens basketball team. Or the infamous tirade from Michael Richards. Big Brother's British version even even kicked off a contestant for using racially offensive language. I don't even have to mention Mel Gibson and countless others whose mouths have gotten them in a lot of trouble. In light of these things, why are people laughing so hard at the hateful language kathy griffin, used in her acceptance speech for a creative arts emmy the other day? I have a feeling that these same people insisting that griffin's words were a joke, weren't laughing at Don Imus. This discussion on cnn conveys some of the thoughts that ran through my head pretty well (although the language griffin used was anti-Jesus, not just anti-Catholic). I have a real hard time understanding the double standard.