What blew up the liberal and conservative media bubbles this week – USA TODAY

Kathy Griffin is under fire for a photo shoot where she held a mock severed head of President Trump.(Photo: Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY)

Media bubbles. Everybody's got one and everybody thinks the other side's stinks. For those of you who may lean liberal and not know what's trending on your conservative brother-in-law's Facebook page or vice-versahere's a look at what was hot from both right and left-leaning media and commentators this week.

And here's what had everyone fired up last week:

What really fired up conservatives this week?

What really fired up liberals this week?

Of all the posts about comedian Kathy Griffin'soffensive photo shoot with decapitated Trump head,this one from Fox News Entertainment, about Griffin losing her new Squatty Potty gig, made the biggest social media splash.

"We were shocked and disappointed to learn about the image Ms. Griffin shared today, it was deeply inappropriate and runs contrary to the core values our company stands for," Squatty Potty CEO Bobby Edwards in a statement, according to Fox News. "In response, Squatty Potty has suspended its ad campaign featuring Ms. Griffin. We have acted swiftly and decisively to demonstrate our commitment to a culture of decency, civility, and tolerance."

Not familiar withthe Squatty Potty? I'll just leave this here ...

"I know its theoretically wrong for a Republican candidate to smack around an annoying liberal journalist, but that still doesnt mean that I care," writes Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter about Greg Gianforte's alleged assault of Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs on the eve of Montana's special election for its open House seat. The fact that he and other conservatives don't care about the assault is the fault of liberals who "have chosen to coarsen our culture,"Schlichter says.

Their validation and encouragement of raw hate, their flouting of laws (Hi leakers! Hi Hillary!) and their utter refusal to accept democratic outcomes they disapprove of have consequences. What is itself so surprising is how liberals and their media rentboyz are so surprised to find that we normals are beginning to feel about them the way they feel about us and that were starting to act on it. If you hate us, guess what?

Were going to start hating you right back.

National Review critic Kyle Smith was less than kind in his assessment of a recent New York Magazine interview with Hillary Clinton:

The funniest episode in the protective yet revealing new Hillary Clinton profile arrives when we learn that this sad, unemployed, 69-year-old lady is so desperate to keep her self-image alive that she still employs flunkies and retainers to treat her as though she actually were the president, or the secretary of state, or a president in waiting, or at very least the leader of the opposition.

Smith was particularly disgusted with what he says is Clinton's refusal to accept any blame for the election outcome.

"Every time she draws attention to the Trumpian flaws that were conspicuous to all during the campaign, she doesnt hear the obvious rejoinder echoing in every Americans mind: Then why couldnt you trounce him?" Smith concludes.

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And in other Hillary Clinton news:

"Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that her loss to Donald Trump might suggest that Democrats have to start learning how to twist the truth if they're going to start winning elections," the Washington Examiner'sPete Kasperowicz writes. Kasperowicz refers to remarks Clinton made at a tech conference in California, where she attributed part of her loss in the 2016election to what she considers the Trump team's open embrace of "falsehoods, fake news" and "lies."

"The other side was using content that was just flat-out false and delivering it in a very personalized way, both above the radar screen and below," Clinton said.

Kasperowicz said at one point Clinton appeared to reconsider the wisdom of not using the same tactics against her opponent. He said she implied that future candidates might have to resort to lying if they want to win when she said, "I'm not rethinking it, but everybody else better rethink it, because we have to figure out how to combat this."

Citing CNBC, this post on Sean Hannity's website celebrates the private sector jobs report for May, which came in at a robust 253,000 after forecasts of 180,000.

"The Trump administration has made job creation the cornerstone of its economic plan, slashing regulations and rescinding burdensome government policies that inhibit growth," the Hannity post reports.

"Many economists believe its now possible to achieve the White Houses goal of 3% GDP growth per year," the report concludes, without providing specific examples.

President Trump dealt a "devastating setback to international efforts to curb global warming" when he announced Thursday that the US. was pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement, which the Obama administration had taken a big role in brokering, the Huffington Post reported.

The move is a particularly egregious repudiation of the international community because the Trump administration could have negotiated for lower emissions targets under the Paris Agreement, officials and the pacts advocates said. Because of that, the diplomatic fallout will likely be harsher than when President George W. Bush rejected the 1997 Kyoto climate agreement.

President Donald Trump has announced the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. USA TODAY

"We don't need additional information about the Russian covert scheme to undermine the 2016 campaign, or about the curiousinteractions between Team Trump and Russia, or about Trumppressuring and then firingFBI Director James Comey, to reach the judgment that the president of the United States engaged in wrongdoing," David Corn writes forMother Jones.

Explicit collusion may yet be proved by the FBI investigation overseen byspecial counsel Robert Muelleror by other ongoing probes. But even if it is not, a harsh verdict can be pronounced: Trump actively and enthusiastically aided and abetted Russian President Vladimir Putin's plot against America. This is the scandal. It already exists in plain sight.

The newly elected president of France, Emmanuel Macron, promised to be "demanding" in his dealings with Russia and denounced state news organizations like Russia Today as "fake news" and "propaganda" during a news conference alongside Putin on Monday. "Two weeks into his term, the 39-year-old Macron struck an assertive, principled tone that you would have expected from an American president meeting with an increasingly assertive adversary," wrote Elliot Hannon for Slate.

Macrons assertiveness is noticeably absent in American interactions with Russia, which have melted into a bizarre sycophancy. Macron, like an increasing number of European leaders, seems to have sensed the softening in Washington and has indicated he will strike an equally tough pose in his dealings with the Trump White House.

French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Russia's Vladimir Putin at the sumptuous royal palace in Versailles on Monday to talk about cooperating on fighting terror. Time

There is "glaring hypocrisy" in the Trump family's outcry over Kathy Griffin's photo shoot because of their embrace of right-wing rock star Ted Nugent, writes Aaron Rupar for Think Progress.

"Just last month, Trump invited rock star Ted Nugent to the White House for dinner, despite Nugents repeated calls for the deaths of then-President Obama and Hillary Clinton," Rupar writes.

During Trumps presidential campaign, Nugents well-documented history of racism and violent threats didnt deter Trump fromfeaturing him in his campaign adsand at his rallies.

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters could not be more clear on his 2017 U.S. tour: He does not like President Trump. At his shows, images played on a massive screen above the stage show Trump wearing lipstick, a wig, in dominatrix leather and naked, the Daily Kos reported. There are also anti-Trump messages that flashon the screen and agiant inflatable pig with Trump's face on it that hovers over the audience. Some fans at were not thrilled at the opening show in Kansas City, according to the Daily Kos.

The fans who didnt like the anti-Trump message must have beensuper bummed out to see children on stage, sporting Resist t-shirts during Waters rendition ofAnother Brick in the Wall. I mean, the guy wrote"The Wall" for Christ sakes. What did you think that was about?

Roger Waters dedicated some of his performance to ridiculing Donald Trump at Desert Trip in Indio, Calif., Oct. 9, 2016.(Photo: Jay Calderon, The Desert Sun)

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