Pop singer Sinead O'Connor, while performing a Bob Marley song called "War" on "Saturday Night Live," ripped up a photograph of the pope as a protest against child abuse and in favor of abortion rights, shouting, "You've got to know who the real enemy is. Fight the real enemy!" NBC quickly distanced itself from O'Connor following the incident, saying that her opinions were not those of the network—NBC does not oppose the Pope. What's more, NBC claimed that in rehearsal, O'Connor had only ripped up the photograph of a baby.

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