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Silverman's World Hunger Plan: Sell the Vatican

By John Johnson| Posted Oct 10, 09 3:24 PM CDT|

(Newser) – Sarah Silverman last struck viral video gold with her "I'm fucking Matt Damon" musical ditty. On Bill Maher's HBO show last night, she debuted her newest effort: a proposal to end world hunger by selling the Vatican, which she figures is "worth, like, 500 billion dollars." And "who is more primed to be our hero than the pope? He's literally a caped crusader." Sell, move into smaller digs, and use the money to feed the poor. He'll be a hero, and "any involvement in the Holocaust—bygones."

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riffran
Oct 10, 09 3:26 PM CDT

? Reply

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DontLikeYou
Oct 10, 09 4:15 PM CDT

Silverman is another example of how leftist hollywood props up talentless air heads even when they can't pull a decent rating on t.v. Her wit (so called) bores the hell out of me. I find saran wrap more entertaining than sarah silverman.

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DontLikeYou
Oct 10, 09 4:19 PM CDT

Point of interest, in 1980, in the USA, the wealthiest 1% held 8% of the wealth in our country. Today, the wealthiest 1% hold over 20% of our nations wealth. I am a capitalist but this is clearly out of control. For the record, Obama has contributed to this by bailing out the wealthy but not doing a thing for middle America. You leftists can pretend Obama is on your side while he smiles and winks, but he is with the same elites that George W. Bush was with. Wake up America.

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Gooner82
Oct 10, 09 4:24 PM CDT

dontlikeyou, you realize Bush bailed out the banks before Obama was even in office don't you?

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Reader64481089
Oct 10, 09 8:00 PM CDT

@ Gooner82, said it before and shall say it again, PLEASE do not encourage dontlikeherself to have thought, much ike monkeys in the zoo, interaction with that one only confuses and then angers them. Next they become erratic and begin to toss their own excrement at the innocent ..Remember, limiter interaction at feeding time only, avoid the toss of the dung

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Shannonals
Oct 11, 09 12:09 AM CDT

Your sounding a bit like Michael Moore dontlikeyou

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BoZo
Oct 11, 09 12:30 AM CDT

dontlikeyou, I don't like you anymore. Silverman is awesome! oh and on that other note: The rich are only rich as long as the poor masses allow them to be. You're dead on with it being out of control and about obama yomama.

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pete_ess
Oct 12, 09 1:20 AM CDT

What an EXCELLENT suggestion! AMAZING that not everyone will say YES!! Get an apartment, Mr Pope and stop sucking up money like a leech! Put your money where your mouth is and start actually DOING SOMETHING for the poor! (Problem is, Mr Pope actually farms poor people for profit, so he needs MORE poor suckers, not less).

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SemperFI
Oct 10, 09 3:37 PM CDT

she's got my vote. The Vatican always telling us they have no money.How we have to save the poor. That we dont do this right. Or that right. And they have the have the most crooked bank in the world. Good idea Sarah. Everytime the Pope speaks I can hear St Peter spinning in his grave Reply

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BoZo
Oct 11, 09 12:32 AM CDT

How DARE you?! The pope needs gold lined bathtubs and marble floors to pray to bob better.

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riffran
Oct 11, 09 2:49 AM CDT

Bozo....you forgot (sarc)...so others wont say you are trollinh

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Rocket448
Oct 10, 09 3:41 PM CDT

I saw her make this presentation on Maher's show, complete with obscenities. She makes a good point, but crudely. There were some nice touches about the advantages to the RC church in her presentation, too, not just to the poor of the world. Reply

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Dr.Y.Dino
Oct 10, 09 3:44 PM CDT

Better yet, why not sell Israel? I'd think the Arab world would be willing to pay several trillion dollars, and Obama could earn his Nobel prize by ending the mid-east crisis (no Israel no crisis, right?) Reply

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SemperFI
Oct 10, 09 3:52 PM CDT

You got a point Dino. How come you dont run for Sec Of State? But can we fit all the Jews into the Vatican w/o it looking like the Warsaw Ghetto Reply

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Toon
Oct 10, 09 3:58 PM CDT

Its seems to be unfortunately true that people are more willing to give money to those who look like they are already wealthy. The pope and televangelists and scammers like Murdoff or Enron all know that displays of wealth are important when trying to part people from their money. Reply

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Gooner82
Oct 10, 09 4:00 PM CDT

Howabout if you're not Catholic don't worry about the Vatican. We no longer live in a world where the Pope dictates how leader run their countries, so why is it anyone's business what they do? Reply

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Rob
Oct 11, 09 3:32 PM CDT

Excellent point. How many folks bitching about the Catholic Church are ok with the Nobel committee because "it’s their committee and they can do what they want?"

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MarkFL
Oct 11, 09 7:49 PM CDT

Gooner and Rob, I hope that you read your posts back to yourself and realize that you are total gibberish. None of our business? The Catholic sheep will not criticize Pope Beingadick so, Silverman must step in. Catholic church is in no way private and it absolutely is totally unrelated to Nobel. Please stop and think before you post.

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SemperFI
Oct 10, 09 4:15 PM CDT

I guess I broke the taboo. Never say nothing bad about the Catholic Church. Their hands are always perfectly clean Reply

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Gooner82
Oct 10, 09 4:19 PM CDT

Did I say that? I said that if you're not involved in the Catholic church then you should mind your own business. The Catholic church certainly does not have clean hands, but that has nothing to do with this article. Reply

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my-name-here
Oct 10, 09 4:38 PM CDT

@Gooner, wait a minute. "If you're not involved in the Catholic Church you should mind you own business."? Since when has the church confined itself to minding it's own business? Sounds like a one way street. It doesn't work that way.

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Gooner82
Oct 10, 09 4:22 PM CDT

We could sweep across the south and sell all the mega-churches. I don't think people who belong to those would like that idea. Silverman was obviously making a joke since that's what she does so I'm not upset about it. I just think it's funny how everyone thinks it's their business what the Vatican does and how much money they have. Reply

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my-name-here
Oct 10, 09 4:56 PM CDT

@Gooner, And here it sounds as though you are trying to re-direct the conversation by changing churches. The mega-churches in the south you are referring to are Protestant. Though I don't take issue with the idea of your "sweep", I have to with the idea you find it funny that someone who is not Catholic would question the Vatican. The Catholic Church, since it's beginning, has made it their business to interject into anyone's lives that they can, as have ALL denominations of Christianity. Name one, just one, that does not seek to "spread the word of God." When the Vatican does so much to influence governmental policies around the world, they open themselves to criticism and comment from anyone. As do all evangelistic religions. When they make everyone else's business their own, their own business is everyone else's.

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BoZo
Oct 11, 09 12:34 AM CDT

Great idea! Sell ALL the churches and feed the poor and house the homeless.

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srkenny
Oct 10, 09 4:24 PM CDT

The Pope's Iron Cross alone would bring in millions. Reply

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Derni
Oct 10, 09 5:10 PM CDT

I don't expect the Vatican to sell everything-sounds like see viewed the old movie: Shoes Of The Fisherman.-but they really need to change- the curbs they have-priests having maids-cooks-the cars they drive vs what the people they serve drive and so on-not exactly what the founder JC had in mind-ya think? Reply

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pete_ess
Oct 12, 09 1:24 AM CDT

Sarah is absolutely correct! The Pope should have a garage sale, give the money to me and the other poor, and I PROMISE I will give him five loaves and five fishes PER DAY for him to get fat on.

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Thinker
Oct 10, 09 5:40 PM CDT

You guys are COMPLETELY missing the point. Sarah Silverman is one of the most irreverent comedians on stage (did you see "Jesus is Magic?") and she uses comedy often to expose hypocrisy and absurdity in what humans hold most dear. She is merely pointing out that the Vatican is the richest group of individuals to ever take a vow of poverty, and that fact alone makes their so-called mission to help the poor of the world seem insincere at best, criminal at worst. Again, someone tell me, why why why should any church be tax exempt today??? Reply

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divetrader
Oct 10, 09 5:54 PM CDT

Now everybody settle down. When the Vatican suggests a vow of poverty, they mean for their parishioners to take that vow. Not themselves. The priests took a vow of chastity or not to get married. That is why they have 22000 pedophiles out there or so. Reply

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my-name-here
Oct 10, 09 6:11 PM CDT

LOL...funny, but seemingly true.

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SemperFI
Oct 10, 09 7:58 PM CDT

Srkenny. Ya got the wrong Pope w/the Iron Cross. Thats our beloved Pius XII. Who we are now making into a saint cause he did so much to protect Jews,priests,and nuns during WW2. Would you like to buy the Sears Tower from me? Reply

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Antiks
Oct 11, 09 1:48 AM CDT

Stop giving Israel 3 billion a year in aid too. Reply

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paul123
Oct 11, 09 8:14 AM CDT

Sam Kineson had a pretty good plan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA Reply

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youngblood
Oct 11, 09 9:55 AM CDT

I'm all for selling the Vatican to ease World Hunger as long as the synagogues sell their riches too! Reply

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pete_ess
Oct 12, 09 1:27 AM CDT

Now, now, no conditions! Let's start with Mr Popey (the auction of his dresses alone will cause a riot in London Soho and SF, and then we'll move on after that.

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youngblood
Oct 12, 09 10:27 AM CDT

Why not conditions if Silverman wants to put conditions on her ideas, then I do too!!

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chrisb01
Oct 11, 09 10:37 AM CDT

Silverman is a very disrespectful person. She should wash her mouth out with bleach before mentioning the Catholic church, which does help a lot of people with their electric bills and give out groceries to the homeless shelters as well. But I gues you leftist, democrats and pinheads are all about the gossip. Reply

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my-name-here
Oct 11, 09 12:04 PM CDT

@Chris, Yes, the church does do those kindly things and certainly more. But are they deserving of only respectable comments? Come on, they can be, and often are, as hypocritical as anyone else. Try to keep in mind she's a comedian. No one is looking at this as though it could possibly happen.

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MarkFL
Oct 11, 09 7:52 PM CDT

chrisb, you are almost as funny as Silverman.

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pete_ess
Oct 12, 09 1:30 AM CDT

MY NAME! Don't you dare try and stop this! We are going to get Popey to live in an apartment (quite a big one, OK!) and sell his popemobile and his rings and his dresses and we are going to MAKE them give their money back to the poor (who they stole it from). This is now an ustoppable movement.

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smartyMcSmartsmart
Oct 11, 09 1:35 PM CDT

hey dontlikeyou, i dont like u. Itd an honest notion. Religion is DEAD and its the least they could do since THEY SOLD INDULGENCES you prick. Reply

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chrisb01
Oct 11, 09 2:05 PM CDT

Wait one minute monkeygay1890. Religion is not dead. Why do you think muslims are killing each other and his brother. By the way, they just called from the Bronx Zoo, your mother is desperately looking for you.

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pkmac4
Oct 11, 09 3:27 PM CDT

Yeah, religion is dead. NOT.

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pkmac4
Oct 11, 09 3:23 PM CDT

Sarah Silverman, not funny at all, attractive, yes. I think she should liquidate HER assets and give it to the poor. Reply

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Reader65069154
Oct 12, 09 10:22 AM CDT

Bingo.

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youngblood
Oct 12, 09 10:29 AM CDT

I believe in a man in the sky floating on a cloud as much as i believe in Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny and I also believe that all religions should give there spoils to help against World Hunger, ALL RELIGIONS!!! Reply

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