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[snip] The Republican V.P. nom would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan, Bernhard said. [snip] Damon called her candidacy "a really scary thing," telling CBS News, "I think the pick was made for political purposes, but in terms of governance it's a disaster."

Sandra Bernhard issued a blistering warning to Sarah Palin during a performance of her new one-woman show. 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.

Sandra Bernhard is "terribly upset" to be dropped from a woman's shelter fundraiser following her controversial comments about US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The comedienne allegedly shocked fans at a show in Washington D.C. last month when she said that Palin would be gang-raped if she ever set foot in New York. According to reports, the star said the Alaskan Governor could expect to be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" during the on-stage rant aimed at pro-life Palin, who has said she opposes abortion in cases of rape and incest. Organisers for Rosie's Place shelter in Boston, Massachusetts subsequently...

Outspoken comedienne Sandra Bernhard has shot down earlier reports that she said Sarah Palin would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan. "I never said 'gang-raped' and I never used 'rape,' " Bernhard told the Daily News on Thursday.

Outspoken comedienne Sandra Bernhard has shot down earlier reports that she said Sarah Palin would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan. "I never said 'gang-raped' and I never used 'rape,' " Bernhard told the Daily News on Thursday. ...Bernhard's clarification comes on the heels of the announcement that she has been dropped as the keynote speaker for mid-October benefit at Rosie's Place, a women's shelter in Boston. Bernhard, 53, was asked to confirm the "gang rape" remark when first contacted by the Daily News in mid-September - and never denied it. ...Bernhard wouldn't recall the...

BOSTON - A women's shelter on Wednesday cut headliner Sandra Bernhard from its annual benefit after she said Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be gang-raped if she ever visited New York.

A Boston shelter for homeless women has dropped controversial comedian Sandra Bernhard as the marquee speaker at its annual fund-raising event because of her “gang rape” joke about Sarah Palin. Sue Marsh, executive director of Rosie’s Place, said today that she learned of Bernhard’s remarks yesterday after getting an e-mail about them. “We were horrified so we decided that we wouldn’t have her at our event,” Marsh said.

The more Obama's pals open their mouths, the less reason people have to vote for him. Democrats keep forming their firing squads in a circle. Such humor proves true as supporters of Democratic nominee Barack Obama provide help that does more harm than good. Democrats are in a state of high anxiety ... How does South Carolina Democratic chair Carol Fowler lend a hand? By saying Sarah Palin’s only qualification for vice president was not having an abortion. Thanks Carol. That was a big help. Then again, maybe she was trying to outdo her husband, former Democratic National Committee chair...

According to their site, Sandra (Gang Rape) Bernhard will continue to perform at the Center for the Arts at the DC Jewish Community Center until Sept. 28, all this week. Therefore I sent e-mails to: Arna Meyer Mickelson Chief Executive Officer arnam@washingtondcjcc.org Margaret Hahn Stern Chief Operating Officer margareth@washingtondcjcc.org Ari Roth Co-Director, Center For The Arts tellari@theaterj.org The e-mail is aimed at Roth, and I added the introductory sentence for the two women. Here is the text. If anyone wants to follow suit, each in his own words, these birds deserve all the flak they can get. TEXT I sent...

SNIP.... MINOR EDITINGMAC Cosmetics has censored Sandra Bernhard for bashing the GOP. The cosmetics giant, owned by Estée Lauder, got hundreds of complaints after it posted an online ad this week for its Plushglass lip gloss in which the balloon-lipped comic does some free-form ranting, including a riff about an "intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch." But Mac oddly didn't cut a line in which Bernhard cheekily discusses the bodily fluids of a horny barnyard bird.

Let's look at history: one Louisiana governor and his son are both serving time in federal prisons--and another governor and his son have both received substantial fines from the Ethics Commission for violations. And you wonder why Louisiana citizens are cynical and suspicious of politicians and their family members? Governor Blanco has been around politics a long time and is very aware of our colorful political history and the deals that have gone on. Is she really surprised, then, with all the attention the recent attention from the media surrounding The Shaw Group, Governor Blanco and her husband? Blanco has...

If the first 10 days of the war had been a tennis match, the score would have been 6-0, 6-1, 6-0. And yet, listening to much of the commentary about it on television and elsewhere, you’d have thought that every set had ended in a tiebreaker with the plucky Iraqi underdog pushing the pampered infidel overdog to the point of exhausted, red-faced collapse. And that was on American television. Imagine what it was like on Al-Jazeera. This war, with its multichannel, multinational perspectives, is turning out to be a moral relativist’s wet dream. (CNN is just so March 18; the...