Palin-basher Sandra Bernhard loses gig over gang-rape joke
Lesson for “comedian” Sandra Bernhard:
If you joke about Palin being gang-raped by black men, you might turn off even your most ardent supporters.
Actions have consequences, via Life News:
Comedian Sandra Bernhard has lost her slot as a keynote speaker for a women’s shelter in Massachusetts after attacking vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on abortion. In a monologue criticizing the Alaska governor, Bernhard made crude comments about rape that cost her the gig.
The comments came in a one-woman stand up show Bernhard did last month in Washington, D.C.. During the event, Bernhard said Palin would be “gang-raped by my big black brothers” and the comments came in a diatribe against Palin’s pro-life views.
Bernhard was supposed to be a featured speaker at the October 16 event “Funny Women … Serious Business” put on by the Boston-based Rosie’s Place, a domestic violence shelter for women.
Public relations director Leemarie Mosca told AP about the cancellation and said the comments were offensive to many of the victims the shelter helps as well as its staff and volunteers.
“In light of our mission, we don’t think violence against women is a laughing matter,” she said.
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She and Kathleen Parker … part of the sisterhood/victimhood that were victimized by those mean, Stalinist conservatives … sigh.
Perhaps it’s a tune she should put in her IPOD. Joking about Rape is not cool. That goes for Mr.Franken as well.
Do we have contact info so we can show our gratitude to the womans group?
This pig will wear it as a badge of honor.
You just can’t make jokes about gang rape like you used to anymore. Unless you’re a liberal “jokester” (ala Franken) and can thus claim that you are the real victim because people didn’t think your “joke’ was funny. Then you’re a cause celeb.
Lost her “gig” at some shelter. Is that all? If she was a conservative talking about Biden or Obama, the “hate speech” trial would be a MSM circus, like the original OJ trial.
https://www.rosies.org/cultures/en-us/contact/
I volunteer and fundraise for Rosie’s place and couldn’t be any more proud about this decision.
What! A liberal suffering CONSEQUENCES! Call Obamassiah! This is SEXIST RACIST STALINISM!
Call the sheriffs in Missouri! To arms! To arms!
This seems to be their website and it’s contact page:
Rosie’s Place
Alright! Snake eyes.
I sent them a donation and wrote a comment thanking them for dumping this hateful, bigoted woman.
Now that’s funny.
Ya beat me to posting the link, Mooks. But at least mine used the nifty message-box link capability instead of just pasting the naked, unbecoming URL. So there!
Sometimes, ( Not often ) I’m proud to be from Massachusetts.
Purplepeep, Mookie posted the link.
I’m lazy as hell today.
Need more coffee.
Rosie’s Place 889 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02118 USA.
Sue Marsh
Executive Director
Phone 617- 442-9322
FAX 617-442-7825.
E-Mail smarsh@rosies.org
What?? She lost a gig for that??? I can’t imagine why. I mean what’s funnier than joking about someone suffering through a horrific violent crime that can scar someone for life?
Some people have no sense of humor at all.
Harrr…
hopefully the first in a long list of cancellations.
“Hey, did you get the license number of the truck?”
“Truck? What truck?”
“The one that ran over your face!”
ba-da-bump
Rape isn’t funny, and paying for a rape kit isn’t right either.
Entertainers need to stay out of politics. I really don’t care what they think. Thanks to Berhard, I care even less.
Maybe now she’ll try to entertain instead of spewing hate.
Good for you and good for them! Like too many modern comedians, Bernhard is more crude, foulmouthed and obnoxious than funny. Do you have to be stoned or drunk to appreciate them?
How I miss the old comedians, Benny, Hope, et al. When they took jabs at politicians (and both parties were fair game for them), at least they kept it clean on stage when they performed in public.
She may have lost this gig, but she will probably pick one up at the 2012 Democrat National Convention.
Silky Drawers…read the post about the rape kits. The HOSPITALS charge for rape kits not the CITY.
When have you ever been billed by a CITY for medical costs…. check your facts DUDE.
Hospitals make ALL patients sign a disclaimer that they are personally responsible for medical costs. ALL. Regardless of if they have insurance coverage or not. Hospitals then bill the insurance company (if proof was given at the time of treatment) OR to the patient.
Cities have NOTHING to do with this. Its poor billing management on the part of the hospitals.
I have had several billings from hospitals and doctors that went sideways.
Next….
Any time Sandra BurnHard is removed from a public venue should be declared a holiday for all to rejoice in.
Everytime I see, hear, or read about this Troglydite, I become in great need of an airsickness bag and a commode.
the only way she’d be an ‘entertainer’ is if she went up in flames. I’d be entertained.
Sounds like resume fodder for her application to co-host the
SpewView.Epic fail sandra. When will you learn that for every action there a equal and oppsite reaction.
P.s. Go sarah i believe in you.
To be transparent I have to confess I did enjoy her 1990 cable series “Reel Wild Cinema”, JD. (I think it was on the USA Network)
But that’s just cuz I’m a big fan of really bad B movies, not a fan of hers.
If I were going to work a nasty sexist joke into here re: her it would involve at least three triple-ply grcoery bags and at least 2 dozen beers. But I’m above that type of thing.
Who paid for a rape kit? Names and sources for this accusation please.
Sandra Bernhard is a woman? who knew?
Thank you, Mookie. One of the biggest surprises to the leftists in this country is that not everyone thinks and believes the same way they do. It’s the product of their group-think mentality and it shocks them to learn others disagree. They have been trained, as we know so well, to vilify any opposing views and those that hold them.
The women of Rosie’s Place are better off because of your contribution on their behalf. Keep up the great work!
My understanding regarding the rape kit fees is that if the victim presses charges, then the State will pick up the fees. If not, then the victim pays (if she is indeed a victim).
Just recently in my town, a young woman claimed to have been raped. She was taken to the hospital and a rape kit was used. The police were all involved and a description of the attacker was released. A few days later, the “victim” recanted, saying that she had not been raped, but made up the story so her parents wouldn’t be angry for her coming home way past her curfew. She was out partying and had consensual sex with a peer.
So, who should pick up the bill in this case?
feebiebabe:
And does it matter if a person was charged for a rape kit, or does it matter that the policy existed at all. To me the policy would be the issue, but lose yourself in nonsense if you’d like.
Depends. If the victim is a conservative woman, she’s a sexless prude anyway and deserves it. Which was Bernhard’s point, I think. And which, no doubt, is the argument certain individuals will use to defend those deplorable remarks.
Almost anything can be made funny with artistic wit and timing. However it’s a delicate line. It does make sense for the shelter to cancel the appearance considering the # of women there who are victims of violence.
The 1rst Amendment prevails on this topic all around. Woohoo. Next.
Mommy and Daddy. They can take it out of her allowance. If she has/gets a job, 50% can go for restitution.
What, NDgal? Do you mean to imply Silkyinfamous’s feelings about something do not = fact? Doncha know the Dem party line is “Facts be damned”?
hhahahaa.. haaahahahahhaa
you can only hope that the consequences will hit them in the pocket book, cause they don’t care about their reputations.
What if it was done by a clown with big shoes?
“Wasilla police department does charge the victims of sexual assault for the tests”
Categorically false, and a retraction had already been requested when you wrote that. Police departments don’t issue bills, hospitals do.
purplepeep:
Well done on the sarcasm. I just found out that rape victims all over the country have to pay for rape kits, and there is an actual law going into effect which would ban charging them for the forensic exam.
That would be truth. No Pelosi filler.
purplepeep:
Well done on the sarcasm. I just found out that rape victims all over the country have to pay for rape kits, and there is an actual law going into effect which would ban charging them for the forensic exam.
That would be truth. No Pelosi filler.
I have a question:
What was Rosie’s Place thinking to to schedule this rabid, angry, hateful woman to speak to begin with?
It’s not like her reputation doesn’t proceed her?
Quote:
She works for a woman’s shelter, and she thought they might think gang-rape was funny? This skank needs to be unemployed!
I think I may somewhat agree with you, MsJustice, if you are excluding deramged, frothing hatred in your definition of “art”. I would suppose that many of us have derived at least a smirk from some bit of Nat’l Lampoon style (Old School, old days) of “That’s not funny, it’s sick” type stuff. Stuff that’s not personality-driven,i.e. “I hate this perosn so I attack in the foulest possible manner.”.
Sandy “Torch” Bernhard…..a has been is a has been is a has been.
Gang rape is fun and games to the “all is fair game” lifestyling of the moon loon left.
Scum rises to a new high in the pond. Call the media! LMAO
“Wasilla police department does charge the victims of sexual assault for the tests”
The hospital bills the police department for the cost of the exam and then it is passed on to the victim or is paid by the department. What’s the argument?
Lenny Bruce could be rather nasty, yet funny. The same goes for Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, George Carlin, and many others too numerous to mention.
Today look no further than South Park which can be pretty brutal and nasty to those on the Left and the Right. Funny is funny IMHO, and sometimes crude and hateful can hit, and other times it will miss. You won’t see me make any political viewpoint distinctions on this issue, ever, Period.
How’s this for possible irony? I think the sponsor of that bill is Joe Biden. I’m not 100% sure, though. I’ll dig.
No woman or man (it does happen) should ever have to pay for a rape kit. It’s absolutely abhorrent for any state to do this.
Is charging for a rape kit a lousy policy? Yes and it should be changed. But if it’s happening all over the country why are people trying to nail Governor Palin for it? I do think it matters whether or not anyone in Wasilla was charged because if no one was,this is just a lame attempt to find a controversy where there is none.
Excuse me, but doesn’t someone have to pay for it?
I think there’s a distinction wherein we part, MsJustice. When hatred is the “comedic” M.O. it only plays to the “haters”, as it did in this case. It’s would be the same as Aryan Supremist “comics” telling “jokes” about black folks and Jews.
Bruce wasn’t all that funny, to be honest. By the time he ODed his “comedy routine” consisted of reading boring court transcripts. You mention his name to most folks and you get a blank stare – Lenny Who? Kravitz, maybe? The guy with “Squiggy”??
Carlin, OTOH, (who was a fan of Bruce) was able to take everyday life and things that folks are familiar with and make people laugh. “Where are the good scissors?”. Though he took off on politicians he never went frothing-spitting-psycho crazy ala Olbermann.
Where I think we disagree is that comedy can be brutal and honest, but I’d say never hate-filled or hate-driven. In fact, I’d apply the term “detached” to good comedy.
South Park is rarely humorous, after a dozen wink-nod cool-kid jokes about passing gas, the novelty of being “edgy” wears off fast. Even then we are talkin’ about PC (i.e. liberal) edgy, which means that while imagery of a defecating Jesus Christ is considered daring haute comédie, depicting Mohammed in the same way is absolutely verbotten and subject to intense self-censorship.
And for some reason, I just need to point out I managed to slip two foreign terms in the above last, elongated sentence. Furðulegur, eh what?
To clarify, I meant that charging the victim for the rape kit shouldn’t happen.
Let me rephrase the obvious: no victim should have to pay for a rape kit. The cost should be covered by law enforcement as it’s used as evidence.
“Sarah Freakin Palin” has her own song and it’s free for download.
http://www.myspace.com/jayspeight
The argument is “is passed on to the victim” is categorically false. Because you obviously missed it the first time:
Maybe mistressjustice can enlighten us as to how a woman wishing gang-rape on another can ever be “funny”.
she (lgm’s avatar) said further:
How many times do we have to explain it? The First Amendment has NOTHING to do with issues of private employment. NOTHING. The First Amendment freedom of speech pertains only to the government not being able to punish free speech.
Bernhard could have said “I love Sarah Palin” and her hosts could have legally fired her for THAT, too.
Rape kits are evidence collection kits so the prosecution and/or investigative service should actually pay for this. Who pays for fingerprint collection/identification?
Wouldn’t simple logic dictate?
If I may so boldly interject… (ahem, cough)
Cant prove it….
I am SOOOOO happy she’s GONE! The sponsors include my very own health care provider, Harvard Pilgrim. Pioneer investments is also sponsor too. I’m certain NEITHER of them appreciated getting irate calls about them endorsing someone who thinks jokes about gang rape are ‘funny’.
KUDOS to Reese Hopkins for hammering Sicko Sandra on his morning show today. Thanks Reese!
She’ll never be unemployed as long as she can shave her head and do her Eliot Spitzer imitation.
Believe it or not, Goldtooth claims to be a…wait for it…lawyer!!!
I’m not a comic, but I’m sure that somebody with great skills could make the topic funny.
Sam Kinison has made me laugh about a true story featuring sex with a dead corpse. South Park has made me laugh about topics such as the selling of aborted fetuses and child molestation. These topics are horrific, but they can be joked about in a funny way. Anything can be done in a funny way, but my sense of humor likely differs from yours.
The government can’t censor Bernhard’s speech, and nor could it force this organization to book her. I don’t disagree with your statement in anyway, on this issue, but the distinction isn’t always obvious. Perhaps my initial post was broad and unfocused, but I’m just stating that both sides are exercising their rights.
What sarcasm? You posed an totally emotion-based “question” based on nothing.
NDgal simply asked for names:
“Who paid for a rape kit? Names and sources for this accusation please.”
You haven’t delivered on that account, Silky. It would be the same as if you asked: “What are we going to do about all the pygmies who are suddenly turning into ripe bananas??”.
What you did offer was an old MSN-NBC link (insert eye roll here), which, if correct would seem to show this is a 50-state practice, including Illinois. The question then is – “Why does Senator Obama insist that his state charge victims for rape-kits?”. If someone chooses to play ganes with words, it works both ways.
Had the question been posed “Why are Americans being victimized by illegal aliens?” and you were to ask “What Americans?’, you would not lack for an answer due a dearth of specific who, what, when, where and why ( sans political feelings, just the facts).
That’s where you failed on the question tossed your way by NDgal asking for names. I’m not raggin’ on you here, more like just sayin’ you can always find some web-link for a cover-all political attack. Specifics are a whole ‘nother animal, tho.
And even if a person can come up with a specific – no matter the topic – there’s almost always a partisan motive-story behind it. Just so much grinding of the axes – politics as usual, y’know.
Another bloated tick temporarily removed from the bewtocks (sic) of society. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer skank!
There you go with facts again…
Someone close to me was raped and the Police (who were terrific) told her they get many cases of false accusations (more than actual rapes). Those kinds of laws (which are in many jurisdictions nationwide) are probably designed to help deter false accusations. No one to date has been able to show that Wasilla charged any victims, but the false accusation keeps getting bandied about. It’s not a laughing matter, but some dishonest people on the left are using the heinousness of the crime to attack Palin.
I never want Sandra the moron to be the victim, but if she had been, I can assure you she wouldn’t be talking this way. Can I rinse and spit now?
On October 1st, 2008 at 6:28 pm, St. Louis Blue said:
What did you do to the guards, or let the guard do to you to get computer access for MM, sicko?
Relax, mj or you’ll bust your other grape.
Was that you at the end of the video you linked to? Congrats, if it was.
Sandra Bernhard reminds me of a butt.
Just sayin’.
I’m not sure who that was at the end of the video. I was wondering the same thing. It kinda looks like Simon Adebisi from OZ. I would like to know why jail officials would grant you computer access. It’s usually $, but sometimes it’s other “favors”. I am consistent on the death penalty, so I hope you eventually get a life sentence in some type of SuperMax facility.
To some I’m going to sound insensitive, but if I have to pay for a rape kit I’ve become a rape victim too, albeit by proxy.
Maybe we should make the first dollars in drug money confiscations pay for rape kits instead of toys for cop shops. I’m sure there is going to be plenty of money left over for the toys.
Oh honey,
Ani Difranco’s “Letter to John” helps.
Dear, poor, sweet Joy.
Good on Rosie’s Place! It’s been a beacon for abused women in the Boston area for many years now – someday, God willing, the need for such places will disappear.
For now, I’ll be content that Bernhard has (for the purposes of this event at least) been disappeared, and will hopefully remain so.
On October 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm, Mookie said:
Good on you too, Mookie!
This is the way things should work. I definitely understand “edgy” comedy, but I think that definitely crossed the line. Why? Because I really believe Ms. Bernhard wished something like that would happen. If you watched the clip of this, you could see the venom and hate in her face. I don’t think it was a joke at all.
I still ask why Rosie’s Place would have booked suck a scummy woman to begin with.
It’s not like she wasn’t known to be vile and hateful prior to this incident.
It looks like someone tried to put out a fire on her face with an ice pick…
Old joke.. but fun to use it.
I admire your knowledge of prison lore. Given your legal skills, you must spend a lot of time in prisons visiting your ex-clients…then hanging around for conjugal visits.
Conjugals are for opposite sex spouses, and that’s not by scene. I do have a lot of ex-clients and current clients in prison. It comes with the territory for representing the worst of the worst. I’d even represent you Blue, despite your evil tendencies and strong feelings regarding small children. Good luck getting a life sentence. I mean that.
Sorry about your failed hockey career, too. I know, I know, the coach screwed you over. Sicko.
I’m going to bed now. I’ll go at with you another day, unless you quit giving it up for computer access.
The other members of this site can debate whether these insultfests are entertaining or not. I obviously didn’t start it today either.
Nite, nite, St. Louie blew.
Dixiechicked
Proof is for mathematicians and TV court dramas. I can make a basic case for the position, as follows:
The Bill of Rights are statements about matters the federal government can’t do or interfere in, and must leave alone They have no application to private action.
The First Amendment says “Congress” shall make no laws abridging the freedom of speech or the press.
Originally states could abridge free speech, and some did.
But during the last half of the nineteenth century the courts applied the Bill of Rights to the states via the 14th Amendment.
From then on, the states couldn’t abridge free speech either.
But private action ain’t state action.
If your boss thinks the Palin tatto across your forehead is inappropriate he can tell you to clean out your desk and go home. You cannot assert free speech rights to keep your job, nor can you remove the tattoo and demand your job back.
If you can find a case where private party A successfully sued under the 1st amendment for having his free speech rights abridged by private party B, we would like to see the case, and how it has been applied.
Clue: libel and slander are civil actions not protected by the First Amendment. The assclowns in Missouri who tried to invoke “criminal libel” statutes to frighten Obama foes were talking from orifices generally capable of only limited communication (excepting, I suppose, well-timed squeezes that might communicate quite a lot)
Yes MJ, it was entertaining to see you get Pwned by your own extremely lame video link.
MJ – you start it everyday just by showing up and spewing your vile beliefs. You calling anyone else a ’sicko’ is quite surreal.
Butt ugly AND stupid.
Awesome example of an Obama supporter.
As long as the left continues to court Islam, there will always be a need for these places. Islam, which violently supports the oppression of women would love to close these places down. I still do not understand why the left, who supposedly supports women’s rights consistently downplays the fight against terrorism, which is ultimately the fight against Islam. Liberalism is an ultimate suicide.
Good job, Rosie’s Place.
Rosie’s Place is a nonprof, so maybe they couldn’t afford real entertainment….
Yeah – except it doesn’t prevail on, say, folks who criticize Barack Obama. Or talk radio. Or freedom of religion.
What, exactly, do you see when you read the First Amendment?
Funny how it’s a liberal woman who minimizes a joke about raping another woman. Disgusting.
EQ – I’ve known people like this. They are so screwed up, they don’t feel alive unless it hurts and they spend a life time trying to make it not hurt. HOWEVER, lesson #1 – if you stand in front of a train and get hit..it’s gonna hurt…
IMHO, disgustingly counterfeit. It’s reminisant of people who become “christian dysfunctionals.” In other words, they use a “noble” cause to practice their dysfunction. I do believe MJ falls into this category but she serves her vision of “JUSTICE” (do not make me laugh), and I don’t say that lightly. This will be the last time I address anything she says about anything…complete total waste of my time to even acknowledge her issues, which go a lot deeper than the issues found on a blog..if you know what I mean.
She can come on here and respond to my post by spewing hate in her “ugly” competition – tools of the trade I guess. Poor girl, she thinks she’s got it covered..she doesn’t have a clue. Over and out.
You all must be mistaken! Sandra Bernhard finds being gang banged by her Big Black Brothers enjoyable. She was just suggesting to Palin what she desires the most.
Doesn’t Sandra look like Eddie Izzard in this photo?
On October 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 am, frontierguy said:
Yes, and conservative and religious groups that have for many years now been on the front lines in the fight to improve the lives of women in Islamic countries (and elsewhere) are derided as repressive (or worse).
It boggles the mind.