Crude Kathy Griffin: ‘I Wouldn’t Let’ Ben Carson ‘Give Me a Pap Smear’

Scott Whitlock | November 4, 2015
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[See NewsBusters for more.] PBS is the place for crude pap smear jokes, apparently. Liberal comic Kathy Griffin appeared on the Tavis Smiley show, Tuesday, to assail several of the Republican presidential candidates. As Smiley laughed, she mocked, “Dr. Ben Carson, I wouldn't let that guy give me a Pap smear.”  In October, Griffin reversed her nasty joke: “I would love to give every single one of the Republicans running right now, including Carly [Fiorina] a Pap smear....I will do it personally.” On September 16, during a Republican debate, she predictably insisted, “These candidates all need a Pap smear right now!