The CNN article says that Graham was taped without his permission cutting jokes at his own expense sounding like a complete asshole while speaking at a gathering of the all-male Irish-Catholic Hibernian Society, which makes sense, because even a proven neo-clown like Graham wouldn't be so dense as to say such a thing in public where it could be witnessed by actual journalists with pencils and notepads and microphones and cameras and stuff.
No, of course he wouldn't.
Please read on for his, er, "defense"...