CULTURE: Scott Brown to Kathy Griffin: Lay Off My Daughters!

Scott Brown is fuming at comedian Kathy Griffin over a crack she made on TV about his two daughters being "prostitutes." (See video here.) The Massachusetts senator (who embarrassed the girls during his victory speech by joking they were "available") fired off an angry statement to Griffin and the Bravo network, notes Ben Smith's blog at Politico.

“People can call me any name they want, but families are off limits," said Brown's statement. "I love my daughters Ayla and Arianna very much, and any parent would be proud to have them as children. Kathy Griffin and Bravo ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

Stop being a Hypocrite, Scott!

Later. Representative Barney Frank  came to Senator Scott Brown’s defense, joining the Massachusetts Republican in criticizing comedian Kathy Griffin for comments she made calling Brown’s daughters “prostitutes.”

Frank, a Newton Democrat who also appeared on Griffin's show, wrote a letter this afternoon to Griffin saying her comments were “wholly unfair and inappropriate" and that he "was particularly disappointed in the terrible comment you made about Senator Scott Brown’s daughters.”

“I think it’s possible to have fun, and even to poke fun at people in my businesses, without this kind of completely unfair attack,” Frank wrote. “And while I don’t usually feel compelled to comment on what various entertainers do, since you did include me in that show I wanted to make it very clear that I thought what you did was wholly unfair and inappropriate. It’s the kind of thing that makes it less likely that I or others can cooperate with you in the future.”