Pittsburgh Radio: KDKA Host Gets Heat For Meme

KDKA 1020 AM radio personality Marty Griffin posted a tweet on social media Wednesday morning that appears to make light of sexual assault and harassment.

Marty Griffin

According to the Pittsburgh City Paper, at 10:15 a.m. on Dec. 6, Griffin tweeted from his account a meme of a toy elf recording four Barbie dolls sitting in a sink filled with bubbles with “elf on the shelf being investigated for sexual misconduct.” Griffin wrote on the tweet “Where does it end?”

Four people replied on Twitter and two of them didn't appreciate the post. One wrote “not funny” and another “Are you this dumb or are you playin' us?”

Pittsburgh Action Against Rape director Alison Hall says she is “disappointed” in Griffin’s tweet. “This is not a time to try to be silly about this topic. I would expect more of him.”

Pittsburgh City Paper emailed Griffin at 4:25 p.m. for comment and the tweet was deleted a short time after. CP has reached out to both Griffin and KDKA management for comment.

Hall says the timing of Griffin's tweet is especially egregious, given that Time Magazine on Wednesday named it’s “Person of the Year” as the women of the #MeToo movement for speaking out about sexual assault and sexual misconduct. “He took today to send this and something that is this absurd,” says Hall.