A Boston women’s shelter cut Sandra Bernhard’s act from its annual benefit this year because of an offensive “rape” joke she made about Sarah Palin recently. Sandra has decided to say that it was taken out of context and would like to explain the joke for them to defend herself.
Here is what the “joke” was about originally:
Bernhard said Palin would be “gang-raped by my big black brothers” during a diatribe in her one-woman show in Washington last month in which she also criticized Palin for opposing abortion rights.
Bernhard says the comment was taken completely out of context and was part of a tirade about “women, racism, freedom and the extreme views of Governor Sarah Palin”. Some show she was putting on for people that for some reason find her funny, and maybe even go to Amazon books and buy what she writes. Your guess is as good as mine.
Many guests at , have been victims of violence, public relations director of Rosie’s Place, a Boston shelter, Leemarie Mosca said in response to the comments:
“In light of our mission, we don’t think violence against women is a laughing matter,” she said.
Mosca said the shelter expected to book a replacement before the Oct. 16 luncheon “Funny Women … Serious Business.”
“Right now, our main focus is our event and making sure the event is a success,” Mosca said. “And for us, that means not including Sandra Bernhard at this time.”
Yeah…I’m really not sure how the “joke ” could be taken out of context really. I guess you had to be there
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