Update: Bernhard Says Palin Gang-Rape Taunt Is Part of 'Much Larger, Nuanced' Piece

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Sandra Bernhard has responded to the unfolding controversy over her gang-rape warning to Sarah Palin in her D.C. theater show. So have Democrats: Ari Roth on the Theatre J blog reports "even some democrats right here in DC are upset by the excerpts they’ve read." Bernhard told the New York Daily News it was part of a "much larger, nuanced" whole:

The Republican V.P. nom would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan, Bernhard said. Palin is said to be making a campaign stop in New York next week.

"[The gang rape comment] is part of a much larger, nuanced, and yes, provocative (that's what I do) piece from my show about racism, freedom, women's rights and the extreme views of Governor Sarah Palin, a woman who doesn't believe that other women should have the right to choose," Bernhard told the Daily News today.

"Women deserve better," she continued. "I certainly wish Governor Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views -- and then go back to Alaska."


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The right to "choose" what?

The right to "choose" what?

Good question, but I think

Good question, but I think we know what she means by "choose". Problem is these women who want the right to choose already made a choice that put them where they are. They just want to be able to get rid of an "inconvenience," 9 times out of 10 (or 9.9 out of 10).

I think it's more like 9.9

I think it's more like 9.9 out of 10 -- the vast majority of abortions are for this reason.

Yes, we may all know what they mean by "choice," but it is important that we always follow up with "choose what?" so we are absolutely clear about the choice we are talking about.  As you have pointed out, being pro-life does not mean "anti-choice," as nobody here is advocating the mandatory impregnation of women.  A couple months ago, Laura Ingraham was subbing for O'Reilly and she had a guest on who, during a rant, said something along the lines of "anti-choice," to which Laura quickly interrupted "Are you talking about abortion?"  It was precious.

Outrageous views....hmmmm

Outrageous views....hmmmm...like the view that BLACK MEN ARE WATING TO RAPE SARAH PALIN?

The silence from the Axis Media on this one and Queen of the Bath Houses Bill Maher is deafening.

The answer to terrorism IS war. Next Please!

What I find sad is that because this loser...

said this about Palin (a Republican) some of my folks won't say a damn thing about it, it will just logged under a "misunderstanding."

"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."

I am glad my life and

I am glad my life and deeds do not revolve around abortion. 

 

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Another take on the right

Another take on the right to choose, replace that with the right to terminate a life, or the right to murder a baby.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

What a liar and hypocrite

"[The gang rape comment] is part of a much larger, nuanced, and yes, provocative (that's what I do) piece from my show about racism, freedom, women's rights and the extreme views of Governor Sarah Palin, a woman who doesn't believe that other women should have the right to choose,"

That aint nuance they is pure hate.Lets not forget racist as well.

"Women deserve better," she continued. "I certainly wish Governor Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views -- and then go back to Alaska."

Excuse me?This woman is pathetic.There is some other things I could say but it might offend some folks.

That hate I have for this woman right now..

is beyond comprehension.

"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."

Didn't Sarah Palin

Didn't Sarah Palin "choose"?  I do believe she chose to keep little baby Trig.  Of course, the left is having a collective conniption fit about that.

I'm awaiting the Rev. Al and Jesse news conference

Surely they'll have one to denounce this racist statement.

What's that you say? There won't be any such news conference???

Oh, ah, nevermind. I forgot this was a wacked out Liberal statement. I'll leave.

"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain

Al and Jesse...

... are too busy calling Republicans racists, along with everyone else... welcome to Racism Week:


- Tues:
Kathleen Sebelius:
http://hotair.com/ar...
and
Jack Cafferty:
http://newsbusters.o...

- Wed: 
Rush Limbaugh Ad:
http://hotair.com/ar...

- Today:

NYT on Raines ad:
http://newsbusters.o...
and

2 Ohio Obama Surrogates Say Not Voting For Obama= Racist:
http://www.wytv.com/...

Hmmm...
ya think it's a coordinated attack? naaaa... couldn't be. I mean we're
talking about the post-partisan, post-racial, Lighworker, right? It not
like he's ever played the race card...much... errr.. nevermind.

Sandog's "brothers" are

Sandog's "brothers" are probably waiting in Manhattan for Palin to show up. Is 2 a gang?

No O, NO!!!

I, for one, find Sandra

I, for one, find Sandra quite funny.  Then again, looks aren't everything!

Tim the Enchanter, but who is uglier?

Sandra Burnout or Joyless Behar?  And why is it that left-coast, bleeding-heart, 'do as I say, not as I do' liberal women are so d*#@ ugly to begin with?

"The sun's not going down, the horizon's moving up!" - Firesign Theatre

I met her in person once

I met her in person once when I used to work in airport security.  She is much uglier in person.  She also had an very "elitist" attitude.  There were a couple of other screeners that recognized her and started asking, "Weren't you on TV?" 

She was acting like it was so annoying and she was way to busy and important to be bothered by normal people and was ignoring the questions. 

So I replied, "Yeah, she had a bit part on Roseanne." 

She gave me a dirty look, grab her bags and walked away.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. - Ronald Reagan

Elyas, that's ALL she did?

As the saying goes: "If looks could kill..."

This was Sandra Burnout - with her bubbly personality and knock-out looks I am surprised she didn't give you the one-finger salute!

Wish I could have been the fly on the wall when you said that to her - that would have been one for the highlight film!

"The sun's not going down, the horizon's moving up!" - Firesign Theatre

 

Oh it's Sandra, no contest.

Not that Joy is any great shakes in the looks dept, but Sandra is 40 miles of bad road inside and out. Joy is just not anywhere near as intelligent as she thinks she is. She fancies herself the intellectual of "The View" which may in fact be true since the rest of the cast is severely challenged.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed woman is Queen.

Tinman

Sandra's external appearance reflects the rotting internal soulless, infinitesimal, hateful spark of her being. Both Sandra and Joy truly think they are superior, in intelligence and lifestyle, than any Conservative in the universe. This attitude, of course, assures that they are the opposite.

She's just 'riffing'...

... actually, it's spewing, but who cares? 

"Nuanced", the new excuse for ANYTHING. Regular folks can't hope to know what it means.

But the DC Jewish community thinks it's just wonderful, tho, and are happy to fork over $50+ for the opportunity to get "nuanced" by this gap-toothed has-been horror.

S-F-B

This is the world of Barack Hussein Obama.

Get used to it America!

Vote for him and this is the CHANGE we'll be living and dieing with!

Washed-Up

Look, people, calm down. Sarah BurnHard burned up a long time ago. She has been trying to resurrect her career for a decade. She can't act as an actor and she's not funny as a comedian, and those are the only two things she was "good" at. So she saw a lot of action going on in politics and figured out if she honked off some conservatives, she'd earn some free publicity. Along comes Sarah Palin, and she knows she has a winner. Throw out the words "black" and "rape" and she is guaranteed to receive the attention she craves.

She is probably sending you a Lobstergram right now, Tim Graham. Way to go.

Agreed

Total agreement. She's a washed up marginally talented B list semi-celebrity twit who also just happens to be a sexually ambiguous New York liberal idiot with a really, really big mouth. What more should one expect from her?

What I WOULD expect is that the news organizations would heap the same kind of scorn and ridicule on these comments as they did the revelation that George Bush still eats peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Chuck Norris still kicks ass.

Part of "Much Larger, Nuanced" Piece...

Of course it is...

"Nuance" you, Sandra.

Perception is reality.

It is these type of comments which alienate voters from the Democratic party.

The perception is that visible Hollywood elites back Obama in the presidential race.  The reality is vocal Hollywood elites are supporting Obama.

Her comments are thus preceived, even if unintentionally, as a criticism of the Republican party nominee for Vice President.

Of course, all Democratic Party leaders and associates of the party, denounce such inflammatory statements.  But, again, the perception is reality. 

Obama should approach this comment like Clinton did with Sister Soulja.  But, I doubt Obama or any other Democratic party elite will touch the subject.

Again, perception is reality.  Take a cultural stand and denounce such statement.

 

 

Double Standard

Don Imus= Racist

Dog the Bounty Hunter= Racist

Mel Gibson= Racist/ Antisemite 

Michael Richards= Racist

vs. 

Sandra Bernhard= nuanced

Jesse Jackson= advocate

Al Sharpton=  community organizer

Jack Cafferty= commentator

Kathleen Sebelius= surrogate/ governor

Barack Obama= Presidential Candidate

 

I guess racism, sexism, slander, libel and hate are ground for termination and public scorn for some, grounds for praise for others. 

The only extreme views are

The only extreme views are yours Sandra you big-mouthed slime-ball...by the way, that is all you have ever been since day one.. I do not know how anybody can stand this over-rated piece of trash...let alone pay to see her. 

Now, what the heck happened to the video Tim...I wanted to see that...tried all morning. Now I see it isn't on your other blog post, which hasn't worked for me since I logged on a couple of hours ago or so....does anybody know where you can find this?

 "America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Bigtimer, here is some of what Bernhard said about Palin

I found this on youtube.  Couldn't find the reference about the black rape on Palin but here is some other foul drivel from this piece of trash.  You can see just what a miserable person this woman is.  

Caution...bad language.

http://www.youtube.c...

Jeff Lebowski

www.angrywhitedude.c...

Hey jeff... Thanks...I am

Hey jeff...

Thanks...I am kind of chuckling now because that is where I have been and elsewhere, Hot Ait, Breit TV ect...they all lead back to Tim here with his earlier post...looks like that Youtube must of edited out the gang rape part eh? That all I can figure...the msm doesn't want this out there...meaning the Obama crew.

Talk about putting lipstick on a pig...she fits the bill to a Tee.

I am being very polite to-boot...if I said what I really wanted about pure trash like her, along with Anderson, and this Mallick creep...I would not be allowed to post, nor should I be. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

In the "nuanced' version...

...Bernhard does point out the rapists were wearing condoms.

What the hell is this

What the hell is this ignorant Bernhard talking about? In one big mouthful she's spouting women's rights--which we all know by now for moonbats means the right to abort babies--and the hope that a woman she doesn't agree with gets gang-raped?

Yes, Grand Canyon-mouth, women do deserve better--better comediennes than you out representing them!

Who has the more extreme and outrageous view? Bernhard on the hope that Palin gets gang raped, or Palin and her view that life is precious?

This cretin is pissing me off more than anything I've seen this election year!

 

...exactly suzy...and as

...exactly suzy...and as usual the so-called womens right group NOW is silent about the gang-rape by big black brothers comment...as usual, because we know they are the same sleaze as she is...I was sickened by Anderson this week, with her suck it comment...then Mallick from Canada yesterday and her filthy tripe..now this really takes the cake...

Anybody that ever thought that women aren't far more vicious than men ought to be learning a lesson here just this week alone.

..and of course the majority of the msm with the exception of Fox has been silent about these raving lunatics.

 "America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Big Timer, you really should

Big Timer, you really should look up Rudyard Kiplings, "The Female of the Species".  It will enlighten you as to who is more vicious. :-)  And yes, I resemble that remark, so I'm not being sexist, people. ;-)

Ah yes, the old Lib 'nuance' stand-by

Can you smell the nuance, Democrats?

Well you will on November 5th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdKno60jFlw

Count On It!

WAY off Broadway

who cares, she's so 80's anyway... next thing you know she'll be hitting the theater circuit in Juneau

 

- PS

Why would anyone care???

Sandra Bernhard is an extremely ugly lesbian with a foul mouth and temper.   Why should anyone care what she thinks?   Comedian?  I always thought comdians were supposed to be funny.  She is not.  She is just vile and repulsive!

In what context

is freakin gangraping a woman with a bunch of 'big black guys' considered acceptable or part of a long point?

If I spoke about shooting Obama through the head to make a political point I'd be skewered and rightfully so. There's no proper context for this crap!

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it - Voltaire

Just as NOBama Said!

Just like her messiah, 'The One' said,

 "I don't want to saddle her with a baby.."

But we won't know 'The One's real answer.  It is above his pay grade...

Of Course Why Is She So Demented and Upset?

Abortion is the central platform of the Democratic Party.

I think I'm onto something here, the right to murder one's own baby is
the very central platform of the Democratic party. That's why they hate
Sarah Palin so much, because she is against killing the unborn. How
dare she!!!

Democrat
and Hussein Obama supporter Sandra Bernhard said today when Palin comes
to New York, she'll be gang raped by some black dudes. So now they're
dehumanizing her, real class act liberals, class act. All because she
opposes the murder of innocent babies, how about their choice to live?
What about them morons, how about the people that don't have voices,
don't they have rights too, you stupid idiot moron Democrats?

Here's
why Sandy is so upset: ""[The gang rape comment] is part of a much
larger, nuanced, and yes, provocative (that's what I do) piece from my
show about racism, freedom, women's rights and the extreme views of
Governor Sarah Palin, a woman who doesn't believe that other women
should have the right to choose," Bernhard told the Daily News today."

Oh,
so because of her viewpoints on protecting the unborn, she deserves to
be gang raped? Democrats are the scariest people on this planet.
They're fanatical loons and they're evil and they're demented and
twisted people to make comments like that.

"so because of her

"so because of her viewpoints on protecting the unborn, she deserves to
be gang raped? Democrats are the scariest people on this planet.
They're fanatical loons and they're evil and they're demented and
twisted people to make comments like that." by 555-5555

 

Finally, somebody who gets what kind of a fight we're in! This is how they really feel about us! Stop looking for fairness at their hands! Stop being surprised when they lie, slant, or neglect to make our arguments for us! 

So Bernhard is saying blacks

So Bernhard is saying blacks gang-rape a lot?  I did not know that.  I have never heard that before.  Why is Bernhard picking on black people?  :-)

»→ Bernhard

All we can say for sure is that Sandra Bernhard's opinion of black men is that they are incapable of controlling themselves in a civil manner.  The rest is implied.

Pretty sad indictment she makes of these men, many of whom she does not know.

Obviously she thinks this is how any typical black man acts.

"Us white folk will take care of you" - Barbara Walters

She sounds like a horrible

She sounds like a horrible bigot.  I am really sick of this "selective outrage" that the black "leaders" of America practice.  Jackson and Sharpton should be all over this.

mm...So should Imus and

mm...

So should Imus and especially his lovely wife Deidre...all the while he reminding the msm of this...especially msnbc.

He sponsors Fox now on his show every single chance he gets..it is hilarious.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Democrat dishonor

The video has Bernhard calling Palin "Uncle Women," a "turncoat b—h" and a "whore."

Hey, wait a minute.  Isn’t this the kind of trash talk that the Dims – and particularly Obama himself – said that Republican were going to use on the big O?

Bernhard is behaving similar to Jesse Jackson calling people he dislikes “racist.”

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

»→ needle

There is only the similarity that both Jackson and Bernhard are fixated with genitalia as a source of punishment.  Next we'll be hearing that babies are "punishment".  Nahh! 

"Us white folk will take care of you" - Barbara Walters

"I certainly wish Governor

"I certainly wish Governor Palin no harm. "

Only in the mind of someone like Sandra Bernhardt could gang rape, equal.... "no harm". Consider the source. 

That's the funny thing

That's the funny thing about evil, it trys to make itself look good and good look evil. The only "right" that the left cares about is the right to kill babies. That is my humble opinion.

Bernhard

The Democrats are terrified they will have to explain their their Pro Choice position which is in itself a lie. Theirs is a pro abortion position and abortion is the murder of a human being in his mother's womb. It is not a choice about her body - it is a choice about somebody else's body and mind. The abortion lovers' pitiful self deception about being unclear as to when human life begins will collapse under the slightest examination. Women and men of conscience need to speak up and make them answer questions. Abortion lovers like Bernhard have successfully managed to make most everyone afraid to even mention abortion in order to keep a fragile peace. This will end. No one with a half way friendly attitude toward women will encourage them to murder their child. Only the sickest, most depressed, angry, miserable women cling to abortion. If only they could abort their own misery.

WCB... If only they could

WCB...

If only they could abort their own misery.

Ahh, but they never will.

The devils in the details...isn't it..

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

I hate to have to say this

I hate to have to say this and I am going to feel very ashamed but here goes. When you read blogs like Newsbusters and all that, and you come across stories like this, from regular lefties to more dumber celebrity lefties and when they say vile hateful things like this you really start to wonder about the first amendment. I am for freedom of speech but when you hear disgusting stuff like this, especially from that vile woman, this is just ridiculous. Why Do I think that freedom of speech should be limited? I am truly sorry to say that.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.- George Santayana

Why are you sorry, KT? 

Why are you sorry, KT?  Don't you have freedom of speech just like anyone else?  Anyway, the first amendment kinda mentions, "Congress shall not make any law...".  Speak away!

I am sorry

tomnkiki, I am sorry because I said there should be limits on the freedom of speech. and the first amendment

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.- George Santayana

Can't Get Any

Sandra (aka Medusa) is just jealous because:

- Sarah Palin has received more media attention in 5 minutes than Sandra has in her entire  life

and

- Sandra couldn't get a man to rape her  if there was an open bar and she was tied spread eagle naked in a men's prison with a bag over her head. Yikes!

Good luck with all of that.

Well she'd

probably do OK in prison. I mean, the convicts would think she's a guy and just take her from behind. And with a mouth like that, she could probably take care of half a cell block without missing a beat.

Oh and I could throw out some sort of sterotype BS about black men lovin white women, but that might make me a racist. 

Oh I forgot, I'm a racist already cause I'm votin for McCain. :-}

 

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love youBut if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

Why we will win...

Decent folks side with Sarah Palin.  Indecent folks side with Sandra Bernhard.  America is still a place where the decent folks outnumber the indecent folks...I hope.  Jim Webster