What Gang Rape???

Comedienne Sandra Bernhard is denying reports that she verbally attacked Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin.

Bernhard is denying that she said Palin would be “gang-raped by my big black brothers” if she enters Manhattan.

Ouch.

This supposedly happened during her opening monologue during a show last month in Washington, DC.

But Bernhard told the Daily News on Thursday, “I never said ‘gang-raped’ and I never used ‘rape.'”

The “funny” woman is speaking out after an announcement was made that she was dropped as the keynote speaker for a benefit in mid-October at Rosie’s Place, a women’s shelter in Boston.

But when first contacted by the Daily News in mid-September to confirm the remarks, Bernhard never denied it.

In an email at the time, she said “That 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.”

Inneresting.

As for Bernhard, she said she had waited to set the record straight because “as a performer, I’m not in the business of explaining myself to ill-informed critics. However, once this caused collateral damage to an innocent charity which does great work, I needed to correct things for the record.”

And although Bernhard said she couldn’t recall her exact words, since she said it’s very improvised, she did say she “addressed the issue [that] if Sarah Palin had, God forbid, been violated, would she be willing to care for the baby?”

As for the cancellation, Bernhard claims she has no hard feelings and plans to make a donation to the shelter “immediately.”

She added, “I understand the predicament they’re in.”

What do U think of her comments?

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