Chelsea Handler Receives Backlash Over ‘Vile’ Tweet After Church Shooting

Chelsea Handler, shown above at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards September 12, will get a prime-time comedy show on NBC, reports said. Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Former TV show host Chelsea Handler made a politically charged tweet in the aftermath of the Texas church shooting that left 26 people dead.

“Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God, and while doing so, get shot in killed. What country? America. Why? Republicans,” she wrote on Twitter on Sunday.