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  • 2019-12-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Comedian Michelle Wolf Joke That Her Abortion Made Her Feel 'Powerful' and Godlike? (en)
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  • In December 2019, readers asked us about the accuracy of articles that claimed stand-up comedian Michelle Wolf said in her 2019 Netflix special that having an abortion made her feel powerful and akin to God. On Dec. 18, the right-leaning website The Daily Wire published an article with the headline Anti-Trump Comedian Michelle Wolf Says Having Her Unborn Baby Killed Made Her Feel 'Powerful' Like 'God.' The story reported that: The right-leaning NewsBusters website had earlier published a similar article that carried the headline Comedian Michelle Wolf Jokes Abortion Made Her 'Feel Very Powerful,' Like 'God.' The remarks came around 25 minutes into Wolf's 2019 stand-up comedy Netflix special Joke Show. She reflected on the issue of abortion, broadly presenting a permissive attitude towards it and musing that If it's a big deal to you, it's a big deal. If it's not, it's not. Both are correct. Switching between the wider political and moral issue of abortion, and her own personal experiences, Wolf described her own abortion as not a big deal. She then moved on to the segment that formed the basis of the Daily Wire and NewsBusters reports: Both the Daily Wire and NewsBusters accurately quoted what Wolf said, and both acknowledged that her comments came in the context of a stand-up comedy performance. NewsBusters reflected that by specifying, in its headline, that Wolf had joked. Both websites have, in the past, defended other comedians against similarly outraged responses to jokes that some observers found offensive. In August, NewsBusters reported that lefty media can't take a joke, writing of the response to a series of jokes about trans issues by Dave Chappelle: Here we go. In the latest episode of 'Comedians In Heresy Getting Blacklisted,' legendary stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle has once again ran [sic] afoul of the politically correct crowd with jokes that refuse to kiss the ring of every insane progressive cause on the market. Leftwing sites like Vice and Slate couldn’t handle Chappelle’s jokes on trans people and cancel culture, recommending that viewers 'skip' his latest Netflix outing. That NewsBusters article was written by the same author who later condemned Wolf's abortion joke. In a similar vein, the Daily Wire in December defended Ricky Gervais against what it described as the guardians of cancel culture, publishing an article with the headline Woke [Social Justice Warriors] Are Now Blasting Ricky Gervais For Making Another Trans Joke. (en)
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