Sarah Palin's campaign against the derogatory usage of the word "retard" collided with her campaign to maintain her popularity with conservatives today, with confusing results.
A Palin spokeswoman seemed to back away from earlier criticism of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. Yesterday, when asked for comment on Limbaugh's use of the "r" word in a recent broadcast, Palin spokeswoman told Greg Sargent of the Washington Post, "Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name-calling at the expense of others is disrespectful." Today, Stapleton claims the statement was meant generally and she was not specifically referring to Limbaugh. Still, she declined to say that Palin believes Limbaugh's statements were acceptable. Sargent reprinted the email he sent Stapleton in which he specifically asked about Limbaugh's statement.
Palin's non-rebuke rebuke of Limbaugh comes after she called on President Obama, earlier in the week, to fire his chief of staff after using the word. According to the Wall Street Journal, Rahm Emanuel called liberal activists who wanted to run ads against conservative Democrats "f------ retarded" in a closed-door meeting at the White House. On her Facebook page, Palin likened Emanuel's "slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities" to using the "N-word," something she deemed "unacceptable" and "heartbreaking." Emanuel later issued an apology to Special Olympics chairman and CEO Tim Shriver.
However, Palin's conservative cohort Rush Limbaugh took offense to people, presumably including Palin, protesting Emanuel's remark. On his radio show, Limbaugh lamented that "our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards." That comment caused Greg Sargent to request a reaction from Palin's spokeswoman. It also caused confusion over whether Palin believes Limbaugh's public statements - like Emanuel's private ones - crossed the line.
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Wow, I never thought Sarah Palin would make me side with Rush on anything. Love how all her outrage turned to whimpering when the target changed from one of them libruls to a far right cohort.
Come on now, show some sensitivity to her position here. You can see why she'd be so sensitive to the public use of that particular slur, much as a black person would be to the use of the N-word or a Jew to the use of the K-word.
- wolf
My problem is not with her sensitivity to the word, it's to how that sensitivity goes away when going after Rush like she did with one of those dirty libruls would hurt her popularity.
Yes, I understand your hypocrisy argument. However, I'm afraid my attempt at humor went over your head.
- wolf
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1114
Wow, I never thought Sarah Palin would make me side with Rush on anything. Love how all her outrage turned to whimpering when the target changed from one of them libruls to a far right cohort.
Well she knows better than to pick a fight with the Dear Leader of the Republican party
OK I see it now, but the mother of a Downs kid does have reason to be sensitive to the word if anyone does, her own retardedness aside. I did almost title the thread "Retard vs. Retard."
Well folks... According to Levi from interviews he's done, she often referred to her own child as "that little retard". But Im not sure if Levi said this when his pants were on or off.---lucky guy....as much as most of us dis-like Palin`s politics....if we were all honest we would hit that....go for it Levy--all the more power to you!!!
I tend to believe him, especially considering how she "lugged" that kid around for PR coverage during the campaign. By "lugged", I mean had him in her arms for a photo shot, then passed him off to someone afterwards. Where is the Carol Burnett Show spoof when we need it? And where is Levi's tell-all book when we need one? We probably won't see one from Levi as long as Sarah is still armed and packin. I love politics!
Hulu has the videoHere's the best response I've seen to this whole thing. From last night's SNL:
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/snl-takes-on-rahm-emanuel_n_452596.html
simply fantastic TV last night with "Rahm Emmanuel's response" on SNL. LOL
"You come after me on facebook? What, are your fourteen? Here's a status update: Grow the fuck up! Poke me again, and I will write shit on your wall so obsene your computer will cry. Go back to the tundra, you fucking gimmick!"
I really don't know what Republicans see in Sarah Palin.