Sandra Bernhard

Sandra Bernhard

Sandra Bernhard

Sandra Bernhard Gripes About Lost Gig Over Palin Attack on Abortion, Rape

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Comedian Sandra Bernhard isn't laughing about a woman's shelter in Boston canceling her speaking engagement over an attack she made on Sarah Palin. Bernhard made a crude remark about Palin becoming a victim of rape but she insists her comments were only about abortion and taken out of context. Bernhard's initial 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. The Boston-based Rosie's Place, a domestic violence shelter for women, had planned to feature the comedian at an October 16 fundraising event but canceled. Now, Bernhard says her comments were taken out of context and that she had meant them as an attack on Palin's pro-life views, including opposing abortion in the very rare cases of rape or incest. She tells the Associated Press they were intended to ask a question of what Palin would do if she found herself sexually assaulted by black men and became pregnant.
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