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Sarah Silverman: “It Wasn’t Funny For Me To Talk So Casually About Abortion”


Considering some recent instances of public outrage getting blown out of proportion and turned into gladiator-esque spectacles, it comes as no surprise that comedian Sarah Silverman would bow her head and say sorry about a recent abortion “joke” she made that caused a stir.

Last week, the “School of Rock” actress tweeted a poorly received gag photo, which she sarcastically joked was a picture of herself “before and after” an abortion. Silverman apologized via Twitter last night but added that she wasn’t kidding when she said Roe vs. Wade could be overturned if women’s health issues continue to face threats, “It wasn’t funny for me to talk so casually about abortion. But when they take our right to choose away it will be HILARIOUS!”

The joke was twisted, even for a non-PC lady like Silverman, but like other things that happened last week, the explosion of anger over what she said got way out of hand. As Howard Kurtz put it yesterday, our culture of perpetual outrage is becoming a little embarrassing, and the more we constantly shame people into apologizing for every silly comment they make, the more watered down our national dialogue is going to become.

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  • Anonymous

    I think part of the tendency for outrage is the ideological divide of liberal media and their supporters and conservative media and their supporters.  It used to be if something bad was done the public may simply say don’t do that, and that’d be the end of it unless its sensational or illegal.  These days, almost anything that happens that someone gets criticized for you have a whole group of media and supporters who irrationally defend them, refusing to admit what was done was inappropriate.   This morning’s example (in the news) seems to be the outrage and counter outrage, about the GSA public funded vacation extravaganza.

  • Anonymous

    It’s bad enough that in this country you can legally kill a baby, but to joke about it is beyond disgusting.  Of course, this is par for the course with  Sarah.  She’s repulsive.

  • http://www.melissanibbles.blogspot.com/ MelissaNibbles

    I think part of it is that there SO many mediums for people to express their opinions and all of it is instant and so is the reaction.  You can post something to Twitter and have a thousand people respond right away whereas then years ago, you could say something in a comedy act and it could take months before word of it reached the press.

  • Anonymous

    How old is that hag anyway? Did she first have to get fertility treatment so she could have an abortion?  Is that edgy enough for you Sarah? Hope she sees this.

  • Tricia_evulet

    She never was funny….she was always dorky, now she seems a little desperate and would say ANYTHING to get on our radar,and for us to react to her…any reaction will do…pathetic.

  • http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html Mr. Picatinny™

    She never even made it to the “C-List”…well on second thought…..maybe she did!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1353811990 Jeremy Carbone

    You can’t legally kill a baby. You can, however, legally remove a small collection of cells leeching on your body. 

  • Anthony Neves

    +1

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  • Anonymous

    There was this group of “cells leeching on [a] body, and they grew up to become Jeremy Carbone!

    Jeremy, glad you made it!

  • Silverman Fan

    Sarah Silverman is a bold, brilliant comedienne who pushes the envelope. You either get her raunchy sense of humor or you don’t. But the important thing to point out is that she didn’t actually have an abortion. It was just a joke! The critics on this forum have never laughed at an off-color joke before? Some jokes are funny *because* they would be so horrible *if* they were true.

  • Kmeurer

    Her status makes no difference. Her ability to be funny or not makes no difference. The fact that people think abortion is funny at any point blows me away. We wouldn’t laugh if our friend, mother, sister, brother were killed by someone. The media blew up over Trayvon Martin being shot and killed…but jokes are made over babies being torn apart, burned alive…the pain the babies endure is unimaginable! If you are pro choice I challenge you to watch an abortion informative video and tell me if babies are cells clumped together or are they what I KNOW they are…living, breathing humans like you and me! Unless I am a clump of nothingness sitting here typing this then a baby cannot be nothingness in a mothers womb! I watched a video with my mom and sister when I was young showing all the forms of abortions and what the baby went thru….never could I think of abortion as anything other that murder.

  • Hawt Mess

     If Jeremy hadn’t made it, Jeremy would not care, and his mother might not even remember, given that the majority of pregnancies end in miscarriage anyway. 

    Quit romanticizing everything.  It’s stupid.

  • Hawt Mess

    Fetus.  Not “baby”.  Zygote.  Not “child”.  Not “family member”.  A small collection of cells, and not even *your* cells.  You’d do well to mind your own business. 

    That’s really what it’s all about.  People have a real tough time these days minding their own business.  That is, until someone has an unwanted baby.  Then your back is turned, and you stop caring so much about that “child”. 

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps your definiton of “romanticizing” something is “stupid.”

    Glad you made it too! 

    Or, maybe the removal attempt of the “leeching” cells just failed!  Maybe you’re a “product” of failure?

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