Thanks a LOT, Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin has called for President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel to be fired.
My first thought was, “How can this be? Why do I actually agree with Sarah Palin?” And then I looked out the window to make sure there wasn’t some sort of giant asteroid hurtling toward Earth, or a plague of locusts on the horizon.
She wants him to be fired not for any substantive policy issue, or strategy issue, or corruption, but because behind closed doors he called a liberal strategy “f–ing retarded.” She apparently thinks that it’s not because Rahm Emmanuel is in his late 40s and people of that generation used that term pretty frequently in the school yard when talking about their friends, or a dumb idea, or a million other things. She does not believe this was meant as an insult to liberal Democrats. She does not believe that it was simply a stupid juvenile thing to say. She would like us to believes that it was an intentional by the Chief of Staff to the President as a slur used to insult and humiliate the developmentally disabled. Nice try.
And thanks a LOT, Sarah Palin. Now that you’ve opened your pie hole, we’re probably going to be stuck with him for the next seven years.
Since we’re being all politically correct, shall we prepare ourselves for a scathing Facebook post from some paid blogger Sarah Palin that decries this?
Limbaugh: There’s Rahm Emmanuel out there who’s in big trouble for calling liberals, for calling liberal activists “f-ing retards”. Sarah Palin demanded that he be fired. Instead he has apologized… I think the big news is the crackup going on. But our politically correct society is acting like some major insult has taken place by calling a bunch of people who ARE retards, “retards.” … So now there’s going to be a meeting. There’s going to be a “retard summit” at the White House.
Not to split hairs, but for what it’s worth, please note that Emmanuel called a plan “retarded” and Limbaugh called actual people “retards.” Just sayin’.
Or, perhaps she’ll be outraged over THIS?
LIMBAUGH: Oh, I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not a supporter of is liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose, and feminism has led women astray. I love women. I don’t know where all this got started. I love the women’s movement — especially when walking behind it.
Remember that Palin recently bemoaned the fact that today’s media objectifies women, and blamed the National Organization for Women for not speaking out about it. Call me a cynic, but I won’t hold my breath waiting for the outrage and the call for Rush Limbaugh to be fired.
You know, I am amazed that an adult person in public life would dare to use the word “retarded” even in a private meeting. Seems to me it holds more peril than “f—in’”.
But that said, why the f–k would someone make a big damn deal about something someone said in a private meeting IN AUGUST?????
Well, of course, the answer to my question is that someone who would make a big damn deal about it is someone who craves attention – of course.
It will be real interesting to see if she comments on Limbaugh. My money says she won’t. She’s not ashamed of being a hypocrite – after all, this is the woman who in April 2009 praised radio host Michael Reagan for defying so-called “political correctness.”
I guess it’s only “politically correct” when it’s someone else who’s offended. When it’s your pet hobby-horse, the phrase is “an outrage.”
I think at this point…she’d much rather discuss S’Pac!
And, don’t forget that Levi has been noted to say that Palin referred to Trig as her ‘retarded’ baby. It makes me sick how she continues to USE her kids on the national level.
Let’s not forget Coulter’s use of the word. Keith did a great job on this tonight. Who will back down first….Rush (apologizing to $P) or Sarah (What Rush, Coulter et all said doesn’t count).?
P.S. Can I just say Rush Limbaugh is a POS? There, I just did.
Completely OT: I just read this book review that really lays out a timeline of Sarah’s “rise” in politics. It is quite good:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23532
Volume 57, Number 1 · January 14, 2010
Sarah and Her Tribe
By Jonathan Raban
Going Rogue: An American Life
by Sarah Palin
Harper, 413 pp., $28.99
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe
PublicAffairs, 301 pp., $26.95
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
“She wants him to be fired not for any substantive policy issue, or strategy issue, or corruption, but because behind closed doors he called ….”
Huh. Ten to one she hadn’t a clue who he was until now, so all that stuff is water over the dam; she couldn’t have identified him in a labeled mug shot until she took this on.
Obama is ill served by several on his staff and cabinet. Rahm, Geithner, Summers, Podesta. With Plouffe now on board I think that we will see the discipline return. Gibbs, Axelrod, and Plouffe ran a tight ship in the campaign. The four of them together worked like a well oiled machine. If they remember what it was that won the election, Obama will lead the party to victory in the 2010 elections.
Sarah Palin calls for Rahm Emmanual to be fired from the Obama Administration.
And I call for Sarah Palin to be fired out of a cannon.
Who honestly cares what the Quitter and tax cheater thinks?
Good one AKM! I was hoping this tidbit wouldn’t get lost in all the other matter flying off the fan blades this week. The ball’s in her court.
Plan vs people: which is the insult? I happen to think it is insulting when it is applied to people. Let’s sit back and watch the BS begin. Can’t wait for the truth to come out—I was a little bummed this AM, but the day just keeps getting better and better!
@Wolf Pack (7):
Good one.
Great posts today. By the way, “Emanuel” is the correct spelling.
Thank you. I corrected the rogue typo and consistency is restored!
AKM
You have to use the word retard if you live in Alaska.
We have Don Young, Liza, Mayor Dan. All Retard’s
Is Rush-bo throwing down the gauntlet to keep the “Tax Evasion” out of the mainstream media?
Just a thought….
Sarah- the silence is deafening.
Linbaugh and you are sick and pathetic.
When Palin whined about NOW not standing up for women I guess she forgot that a couple days before her ghost writer on face book posted an accolade for NOW standing up for women. Can we say stupid? Just as phony as she always was I guess.
And to think that sister sarah fanned these flames ~ to try and hide some other dirt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/disability-advocates-acce_n_448209.html
I tell ya…. hypocrite; with or without lipstick.
Rush is a load of *&#$ lump…
AKM – Your hair-splitting is highly appropriate. Well done!
Rahm to cut PSA for R-word.org’s ‘End the Word’ campaign.
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27997
I need to adjust the timing on my old Falcon Ranchero and may need to retard the ignition. Should I beg for forgiveness before or after? And what about all those orchestra scores that call for retarding a part of the music. Lets hope the conservatives put a stop to all this at once with legislation.
19 Jerry Melton Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:57 PM
[...] Lets hope the conservatives put a stop to all this at once with legislation.
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Don’t you mean mandation? beth.
The real funny thing about this whole retarded scenario taking place is that the retards( i.e. developmentally disabled) don’t know that they are retarded. How can one be offended by being called retarded when they have know idea what retarded is. You see it is not all about the retards, they could care less. I mean if you are smart enough to know you are retarded then maybe you are not retarded at all. Point being, this whole thing has nothing to do with retarded people, it has everything to do about people using retarded people for their own devices.
Isn’t Levi on record saying $arah calls her own child, the retarded one?
know idea or no idea, I thought about correcting the grammar and then it occurred to me that know idea works better than no idea. Maybe I am retarded, I’ll take that as a compliment
Gryph pointed out that Rahm spoke “in a closed door session with a group of peers”, while Rush Limbaugh “was broadcast into people’s cars and living rooms”.
I think Sarah doesn’t know how to choose her battles. And this trick is getting old… fake outrage over some imagined insult to one of her kids, calling for someone to be fired over it. It’s lame.
The right-wing Mouths seem to be challenging the old girl:
First, Glenn Beck tells her “Bullcrap” when she offers the answer “All of them” in response to his question about her favorite Founding Father.
Now, Rush throws down the gauntlet with a “multi-retard” rant on his show….. right on the heels of her grandstanding about the use of the word “retard.” Tsk. Tsk. Forget about throwing down the gauntlet….He just slapped her smartly across the face with the gauntlet.
Genuflecting to the faux icon of real America has apparently been hard on their knees, as well as their own massive egos. They’ve bounced up with alacrity and seem to be laughing up their sleeves at her.
BTW….Andrew Sullivan has some tough words for SP about her “retard” issue:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/palin-emanuel-pot-kettle.html
I haven’t been able to find a audio/youtube of the 2 November 2000 Limbaugh program, but apparently Ms Quitty Pants should be calling for his firing (way after the fact, of course) for that day’s “retarded” comments, too [along with the gem AKM posted, also]. The windbag just never learns, does he? beth.
Here’s part of what the President of ARC had to say about the 2 Nov 2000 Limbaugh spew:
“““““
November 3, 2000
Kraig T. Kitchin, President
Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Dear Mr. Kitchin:
I am writing on behalf of The Arc of the United States, a national organization advocating on behalf of people with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families. The purpose of this letter is to protest in the strongest terms possible Rush Limbaugh’s derogatory use of the word “retard” on his syndicated radio program on November 2.
If you are unfamiliar with the episode to which I refer, Mr. Limbaugh, in an attempt at humor, referred to labor unions taking a “van load full of retards” to register to vote and that Al Gore had “locked up the retard vote.
[...]
In short, Mr. Limbaugh has grossly offended a large population within the United States and his flippant use of the word “retard” cannot be tolerated. Mr. Limbaugh would no doubt never use an epithet to refer to those of the Jewish faith, or African-Americans, or any other select group of individuals. An on-air apology would be appropriate in this instance, along with a sincere commitment to refrain from hurtful and derogatory language on future editions of the Rush Limbaugh radio program.
Karen Staley’s full letter – here: http://www.thearclink.org/news/article.asp?ID=269
more ARC responses – here: http://www.thearclink.org/news/article.asp?ID=270
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SP has kicked up some dust with her “retard” issue to divert attention from less flattering revelations about herself: She burned through SarahPac donors’ money to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars for herself.
Oh, yeah….she donated a measly $1,000 to the Downs Syndrome charity in Alaska.
Does she think that blowing self-righteous outrage all over the airwaves about “retard” makes up for that pitiful donation?
Put your money where your outrage is, Sarah. That’s how research is really funded, ya retread.
Just remember, Flatters…1) SarahPac and 2) Tax Cheat.
@ beth: I didn’t know, and obviously Sarah didn’t either, that Limbaugh had been chastised over using the word “retard” a decade ago. Funny stuff.
I posted a comment at C4P wondering if Sarah would call out Rush…..well, they weren’t very nice. One said that Rush is a private citizen and it wasn’t the same, but they didn’t say it exactly like that. They called me some names in between. Anyway, my replys kept staying up so I kept replying and it was unbelievable the responses I got. They are so violent and ignorant. But, like President Obama said, “this is fun” and it was. They are too easy and I am not that smart or good with words, but yeah they were easy.
“Limbaugh would no doubt never use an epithet to refer to those of the Jewish faith, or African-Americans, or any other select group of individuals.”
Apparently Karen Staley didn’t do her homework before she wrote that letter.
No way will Sarah or the writer of her blog slam Limpburger for anything he says..i.e…..He is still powerful enough to turn minds into mush and could make or break her. She knows who’s butt to kiss.
So, as of now she is buttering up those who will advance her and for others she will continue to drive that bus right over them.
As for taxes owed, let me miss one payment and there is a penalty and miss two and they are ready to take you to court.
What is up with AK??
If Sarah is kissing Rush’s butt, that really puts the lipstick on the pig. Pucker up sweetie then I want to watch you do some of that fancy pageant walkin’. Hey, Rush just bend over and grab your ankles…….smooooch!!!!
Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh could be twins. They both have the same filthy character.
As usual, Sarah (and her FB ghostwriter(s)) took an approach that will bring her more grief than support.
If Sarah had used Rahm’s comment to gently bring attention to the potentially offensive nature of the word “retard” and “retarded,” she would be fine. Speaking in gentle generalities would cover the comments of Rush or anyone else.
Instead, she comes out with both guns blasting and paints herself into a corner.
Fortunately for Sarah, this will probably be brushed under the rug like all the stupid and/or illegal things she has done.
Unfortunately for Sarah, all these things are beginning to add up and even the Teflon Granny won’t be able to maintain her shiny image. Eventually (hopefully sooner rather than later), all but her most ardent, wild-eyed supporters will think she’s anything other than an idiot with serious ethical and mental issues.
Lee323 @ 25
From the link you gave to the Sullivan story:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/palin-emanuel-pot-kettle.html
Almost to the end of the piece, the following words simply leapt off the page and smacked me in the face:
“The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g.”
Sarah and Rush totally missed the family values angle by ignoring the F bomb. Using the act of procreation in a derogatory way is an insult to all parents. This s a sacred act that dates all the way back to Adam and Eve. In some cultures and religions, you actually have to be married to do it.
Tri-G as in 3 copies of the Gene.
If she meant to name him after a Norse god, she should have spelled it like the Norse god, yes? She would first have to have a clue.
Well lookee here:
Palin aide: Perry adviser’s remark ‘crude’ and ‘disrespectful’
“(CNN) – Sarah Palin is criticizing a Rick Perry campaign adviser accused of using the word “retarded” – but she isn’t demanding that the aide be fired.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/04/palin-aide-perry-advisers-remark-crude-and-disrespectful/
“I love the women’s movement — especially when walking behind it. ”
He might think he’s fooling us, but he isn’t. We all know that he got busted coming back into this country with a year’s worth of stolen V1agra in his luggage, and we all know that he had been vacationing in a place that is well known to wealthy North American men as a place to go for those who have a hankering for sex with underage male prostitutes.
The truth is “retard” is a verb, therefore things can be “retarded” without having anything to do with developmental disability.
I am under no illusions that Emanuel did not mean his comment in a derogatory way, but I am certain that he was not envisioning developmentally disabled people when he said it. “Retarded” has morphed to mean “stupid” the way “gay” has gone from “happy and carefree” to homosexual, and more recently in young kids, “lame.”
“Retard” is a far more unforgivable term as there is no ambiguity about what you could mean.
Rush is not a private citizen. He’s a celebrity, and as such, no matter how regrettable, a role model. I think the C4Pers brains have turned to mush from all the spinning they’ve had to do lately.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
Sorry Sarah (er, Rebecca). This latest distraction isn’t going to work.
Granny Palin is not the Chief of the Word Police.
This ‘outrage’ coming from her is the sheer definition of hypocrite.
1. This information came to her second hand. She didn’t hear him say it. It was in a private conversation.
2. Levi said she did the same thing.
3. She basically named little Trig “Down’s Syndrome”. Trisomy-G is Down’s Syndrome. It is abreviated Tri-g.
This woman is sick and dangerous.
Create a PAC to get Levi to talk. Money talks, get him enough of it and he will sing like a canary.
What’s really f…king retarded is that she used her one and policy ‘speech’ during the campaign to mock and ridicule the very research the developmentally disabled she now claims to care so much about need. I wrote about it at the time here: http://mickeysmusings.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/dear-governor-palin/
Re: Rahm Emanuel, his foul mouth is legendary, with the president himself once quipping that Emanuel’s accidental loss of half of one of his middle fingers in a deli accident ‘rendered him essentially mute.’ The real news story would be if he refrained from saying something inappropriate.
Where has Sarah attacked Rush, demanded his job for his use of “retards” about 10 time yesterday? Oh, she hasn’t? I guess hell hasn’t frozen over yet.
Lee…quite so. It’s time to keep your eye on the ball….SarahPac & tax evasion. Don’t think being a Fox commentator was a good idea, the “men folk” seem to becoming increasingly threatened & hostile.
I look forward to Sarah’s (aka Ms. Mansour) rants to become more & more hostile. With the tax info out Becky must realize she is getting paid minimum wage or worse. Yep, even Becky’s been grifted by the grifter. It’s just amazing, she does it on all levlels & in all ways.
It’s becoming more and more clear that Palin will take every opportunity to use her youngest son as a political prop. She’s basically saying “Look at me – I didn’t have an abortion!”
It’s pathetic.
A bit late getting to reading all this, but thanks WolfPack for the Sarah-shot out of a cannon line. Nice to start the day with a grin!
I, personally, have to give SP a gigantic “pass” on the naming of her youngest child. She had already given 3 of her 4 children ‘mavericky’ names, so the 5th child having an ‘explanation needed’/'odd’ name, follows her pattern.
Yes, Tri-g is a ‘shorthand’ for [the condition of] Down Syndrome, but I think it wrong [of us] to retroactively attribute the choice of the child’s name to the child’s condition. Just because ‘we’ have discovered an alternate ‘explanation’/definition for his name, doesn’t mean that that was the intention of/for its being given the child.
Call me naïve, but I simply can’t believe anyone would be so crass and vindictive that they’d intentionally demean their child by constantly pointing out –to their self and to the world– the child’s limitations [as announced in the child's name.] No matter what else SP is, I refuse to believe she could be that malicious; being a royal bi**h towards others is one thing, being pure, unadulterated evil towards one’s own, is something else, entirely. It isn’t her ‘style’. beth.
Limpaw will undoubtedly spin this into the fact that he was ‘impersonating’ Rahm using Rahms own words against him. I’m sure with a bit of research one could find many uses of the ‘R’ word over at faux not-so-much news in the last year alone. Used maliciuosly it’s an unfortunate choice of wording. But trying to remove the ‘R’ word will not be the same as trying to remove the ‘N’ word from society. Sure, it would be better to use the Thesaurus alternates of cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, or simpleton… but they just don’t have the same shock value. Her ‘ness will continue to play the ‘retahd cahd’ only in situations that will benefit her and her purse. Inasmuch as the multiple ’0′ value structures on her remote property are concerned, if lightning (or two bears rubbing two sticks together) caused a fire that burned them to the ground, how would she explain that to her insurance company while she tries to collect monies for the value of the buildings? Oh wait! That’s right… they are worth ’0′ so there will be no such claim! Yeah… right!
Charlatan. (Thesaurus… beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, cheat)
The fact that Emanuel’s use of the word took place not only in a private closed session but also IN AUGUST, over three months ago makes it quite obvious Sarah’s just playing gotcha.
Can anyone imagine a world leader, Commander in Chief, who’d react that way?
The fact that Emanuel’s use of the word took place not only in a private closed session but also IN AUGUST, over three months ago makes it quite obvious Sarah’s just using whatever she can to slam the Obama administration.
Her statement reveals that she’s pretty much phoning it in.
“Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces….”
it wasn’t “recent”, it took place in August. She probably didn’t even bother to read past the headlines. Or at least, her ghost-blogger didn’t.
Can anyone imagine a world leader, Commander in Chief, functioning this way?
Beth is right. In order for SP to have deliberately named her child after Down’s Syndrome, she would have had to READ about it somewhere. Case closed.
I just saw a piece on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell. She reported that in a Glen Beck interview, Glen used some permutation of ‘disabled’ in derogative way and asked Palin if that offended her. With a slight giggle, Palin replied no, not at all. It was part of that inane discussion on political correctness. I believe that is also the context in which Ann Coulter used the term repeatedly and in a derogatory way (all in a single breath it seemed).
The hypocrisy remains stunning.
People who walk behind Limbaugh have to hold their breath while trying not to look at that movement… but I digress. It’s his better side. And end.
Well I REALLY hate to say this but Palin succeed…once again.
This was for 3 reasons…
1: to distract from the immoral/illegal disbursements of SarahPac
2: these disbursements reveled that Rebbeca Mansour, one of the founders of
C4P, most likely coordinated the “grassroots” beggathon between the Alaska
Fund Trust, C4P AND $arah Palin…. remember live on rice and/or Ichiban
noodles do you can give give give…till it hurts hurts hurts? The one where
Palin was not AT ALL INVOLVED!
3: Mansour had been an unemployed, self declared screen writer (try to find
ANYTHING she wrote I double dare you)……so is most likely not ONLY Palin’s
Fakebook key puncher, but author as well. I refer back to comments Palin
made on FOX condemning her own Fakebook edict.
We knew all along that Palin doesn’t write her own Fakebook nonsense, but
NOW we know who is and …………so does everyone else.
That is unless you can come up with a big enough distraction…… to bury the
REAL story AND see if the media will continue to attribute the Fakebook
edicts and ravings to Palin.
If Palin isn’t writing this than who would report it? If a “screen writer” is
“makin’ stuff up” …why pay attention?
The media bought this hook line and sinker………NO ONE is paying attention
to the real story here……..sigh………way to go Palin, way to go.
The media are as intelligent as the teabaggers!
14 Ratfish Says: February 3rd, 2010 at 10:09 PM
Sarah- the silence is deafening.
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Her remaining silent from this point forward would be golden.
Oh silly Rush. We know it’s not women, or their movement that you love.
Do you know what a “beard” is? Nice try, though.
Thanks for connecting Rush to Emmanuel, Hey; apparently you agree on something with Sarah AND Rush and Emmanuel agree on something. Now I am looking for the giant meteor heading for earth.
She apparently thinks that it’s not because Rahm Emmanuel is in his late 40s and people of that generation used that term pretty frequently in the school yard when talking about their friends
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Doesn’t Sarah fit this category too? You mean to tell me that no kids on Alaskan playgrounds in the 70′s used the word retarded? Including Sarah?
Not buying it….the word was pervasive when I was little.
1) I think she has had extremely good luck picking fights that have given her plenty of press…now she seems to be losing her touch (much to our enjoyment).
2) She’d be an idiot to pick a fight with Rush, he’d crush her! I’ve always thought that her real goal was not to replace Obama, but to replace Rush.
3) I hope McCain loses….he has disgraced himself beyond all belief.
4) again….Sarah use your considerable platform to raise money for Down Syndrome….how about a PSA….how about participating in special olympics?
How about therapy & a coat for that poor baby?
P.S. has she said ANYTHING about Haiti?
The whole issue seems fake, off-message for the Sarah brand, and RAM-generated. Not the Sarah her bots “know” and love. She LOVES being politically incorrect, sayin’ it like it is, one of the good ol’ boys, jeez she grew up with Papa Heath, and have you heard Todd? She loved those guys from Orange County Choppers. Rush personifies her supporters, he can’t speak without saying “retard” in some context. Her resignation tweet promised “10 dys til less politically correct twitters fly frm my fingertps”!
I think she, as Levi indicated, is far more at home with a “retard” sensibility than any crook-fingered politically-correct nomenclature. The irony is she and Rahm have more in common as tough-guys than poor RAM with her drummed-up controversy bein’ all offended and girly and huffy.
Not that I personally think it is an appropriate label for any disabled kid, this is all about the posturing done on behalf of the half-Gov.
Great stuff. Palin is so far gone in her bid to cash in, it does’nt matter how foolish anything she says is. It only has to keep her name in the headlines. Now, to get some major media to print these sorts of observations.
On second thought [ref my posting @ 44] and with a disclaimer that I am NOT a psychologist/psychiatrist (I don’t even play one of TV) …
Knowing what we now know about the timeline of the pregnancy**, she might very well have chosen the name she did because she was so resentful of carrying/having [to have] a child that would demand time and care of her. Resentful to the core that this child wouldn’t be one she could leave to its own devices; one that could not, as her other children had done (and were essentially doing), ‘raise’ itself.
The bile rises in my throat to even think the above would be a reason she’d name the child its condition…but, sadly, knowing how difficult it is for a narcissistic personality to not do *exactly* as they want to do, she might have specifically chosen the name she did to ‘vent’ her resentment on an on-going, daily basis. In her own (twisted?) mind, the role of “martyr” –because of being saddled with a Down child – *not* for any other ‘reason’– was one she did not (and would not) suffer lightly. If the child was going to hurt her (by being Down Syndrome), she would hurt the child right back (by naming it a ‘shorthand’ for the syndrome: Trig.) I’m sure modern-day (legitimate) Freuds are having a field day with her. beth.
**[her 'thinking about' terminating it in New Orleans; her not telling Todd about being pregnant until she was, what 3-4 months?; not telling (IIFC) Todd the baby was Downs for a loooong time after she found out; her not telling anyone, not even her children and parents, about the pregnancy until she was what, about 6 months?; not telling anyone, not even her daily-contact coworkers, that she was pregnant until she was 7 months; not telling anyone, not even her other children!, that the baby had Downs. Methinks the lady (and I use that term advisedly) was resenting the child --and more to the point-- his condition, from the get-go. b.]
when Rham apologized b/c of palin’s hissy-fit, then wasn’t creedence just bestowed upon her?…btw, according to an tv interview, Levi said she called her own baby the “R” word.
we need to STOP this vicious cycle of reading what she spews and circulating it around…she’s not significant enough.
ooops – (IIFC) would be (IIRC). beth.
Beth: I too doubt that the origin of the name was TRI-G. But, you’ve got to admit that every single time she refers to him in public, she prominently states “my special needs” baby, not just my baby. Of course when Levi was there in the privacy of her home she said “my retarded baby”, according to him. Point being that she NEVER fails to try to get publicity for having a “special needs” baby. Although that never stopped her from carrying him around at those night rallies with people screaming, flashing cameras, wind, and so forth. Aside from her, and aside from the above, I don’t think it makes any sense to keep sanitizing all these labels, as we end up with “challenged” people….which can mean literally anything at all, or “special needs” people…..which also can mean literally anything at all. That organization ARC that someone mentioned before…..guess what the letter “R” represented until the mid 90s? I had a cousin who was referred to as “retarded”, she was. And everyone loved her. Getting rid of the word “retarded” is NEVER going to stop kids from ridiculing each other over some perceived deficiency.
” … as a slur used to insult and humiliate the developmentally disabled.”
Actually it seems that she see the “slur” as directed at her, as is every other word uttered in the world.
Lainey~
“…we need to STOP this vicious cycle of reading what she spews and circulating it around…she’s not significant enough.”
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I could not agree more.
It’s all about the context…..”retarded” is not a bad word, but a descriptive one…..when it’s not used in insulting way. I taught high school for a quarter-century and responded like this: “Retarded means slow to learn or delayed. It hurts me when I hear you use it as an insult, because my son is retarded, and someday it might hurt him.”
I’d insult Sarah, but I am so tired of her.
I would NOT put it past her mean-spirited, selfish persona to name Trig that way…also too, she is neglecting his “special needs” by not supplying him with glasses or a hearing aid or whatever it is he needs to develop…she is setting him up for failure and (imo) possible commitment into a facility, so SHE doesn’t have to take her time to care for him…she is so used to leaving her other kids to ‘raise’ themselves…look what a good job they’ve done so far. where is todd the tool in all of this? aren’t they his kids too? maybe he has doubts by her past behavior.
By some accounts Palin refers to her own child as “my little retarded angel”. I know people say Levi is not a credible source, but frankly, I don’t think the kid has the imagination to LIE about this. I think he kind of chuckled a little when he heard it and then later said, “WAIT A MINUTE….”.
Apparantly it was a slow FACEBOOK day for Sarah, the hypocritical grifter extroadinaire.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/04/2010-02-04_rush_limbaugh_on_rahm_emanuel_retarded_comment_liberal_activists_are_retards.html
so far 79% think she should make limbaugh apologize…….everyone is waiting, Sarah
Lainey@56 – Rahm apologized LAST WEEK. palin’s hissy fit had nothing to do with it. palin is chasing the story here.
DEO, clearly Levi is not lying, for exactly the reason you mention. Same with her not knowing how to shoot a gun. Can’t want for THE book.
txindygirl, I know that he apologized first. Then, she glommed onto the apology to exploit it, making it her own.
If Sarah doesn’t blast Limpbaugh then she needs to fold her cards and keep her yap shut, and leave the world alone.
@txindygirl
so you’re saying Rahm apologized without pressure from the media frenzy over the letter she wrote? I didn’t know that…then why is this a story connecting the two?!
btw, was this an actual letter or was this a brain fart of hers on her FB page?
Has our society lost its moral compass? Are we sliding into that morass of bad manners and crossed boundaries? Members of our media and political arenas are beginning to look and act like characters from that horrid movie “Idiocracy”
What’s the difference between playground bullies and Rahm, Rush and Sarah?
Publicity.
I am beginning to feel like a Dixie Chick.
Rahm said the health care was retarded, not an individual, and it is. He meant no offense to any one, but the plan is flawed, and that is what he meant. We are making too big of a deal over the word he used.
Palin and Limpbaugh, they used is to describe people and children, that is wrong, very wrong. They need to be called on that, not Rahm. And Rahm apologized way before Palin got her panties in a wad.
“Rebiblieans” love their new puppet. When LIM and FOX NEWS
need a SPIN, there is $arah.
You guys just aren’t being fair! Clearly there is a huge difference between a political staff person using a rude slang word behind closed doors, with a group of seasoned politicos, six months ago, and a mere radio-show host who only reaches, by his own esitmation, one hundred million people using a variation of the same word three times in a recent diatribe. It isn’t right to expect Palin to hold the national radio-show host to the same standards we would hold a well-known foul-mouthed guy in a private meeting.
Rush liken the view from behind women, that’s a good one…Has any one EVER seen him with a woman? I think its pretty clear which way he leans !!! and it ain’t to the right.
How did calling a retarded political “program” retarded, translate into calling Sarah’s “special needs” baby a name — 3 months after the fact? It doesn’t compute and she doesn’t even know that.
She milks that kid for all she can, by God the kid is going to pay, we are going to pay, everyone is going to pay for her having to rear an unwanted child that can’t leave his mother…ever.
She was not prepared for God’s opening this “door” that she plowed through and lo, a Downs Syndrome life-long anchor. She’ll find a way to relieve herself of this unfair-to-Sarah-burden, just wait and see.
If she cared anything at all for the fate and future of these special children, we would have seen her on PSA’s calling for research and better forms of treatment. When she can get them to pay her to “appear” and help, then she will show up.
Doesn’t it look like Rush is calling Sarah out? Right on top of the issue, he comes out and intentionally pushes the word over and over. Its as if to say, you think that anyone can’t use that word just because you have a baby that you call retarded? Come on Sarah, bring it on.
Sarah, your baby isn’t retarded, he has Down Syndrome, he’s a “special needs” baby, not retarded. Shame on you for thinking of your baby as a retard…and then have the gall to go and call for Rahm’s firing for using it to describe Dem’s retarded program
Hell, Sarah would have called it retarded too, if she had been there and thought of it first.
With the tax man barking at your heels, you’ll need to dance faster than this, he is fast gaining on you.
Tsk. Tsk. How does Palin respond to Limbaugh’s throwing down the gauntlet on “retard?”
I know! Let’s get Mikey to do it!
Mikey (aka Meg Stapletongue) responded thusly to The Plumline’s inquiries:
“I asked Palin spokesperson Meghan Stapleton for comment on Rush’s rant, and she emailed me this:
“Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.”
It hardly has the passion of her response to Rahm, and there’s no call for him to step down. But given Rush’s stature among conservatives, it’s pretty interesting that she went this far, denouncing his on-air rant as “crude and demeaning name-calling.”
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-media/palin-camp-rips-limbaugh-hits-his-retard-comment-as-crude-and-demeaning/
Yes, Sarah….where’s your personal outrage on Fakebook? When can we expect Rush to quit his eleventy zillion dollar job in deference to your mandations?
I assume it’s too much to hope for that these two high-principled behemoths will take their disagreement to the cage-fighting level…..
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/020410dnmetpalinperry.e628ea79.html
What a complete A&* she has become…along with all her family and support staff and everything she touches…. amazing…
Remember this the next time you hear their favorite word “libtard” used… or come to think of it, any of the other legitimate descriptions of lower IQ: idiot, imbecile and moron.
And then there’s just plain stupid.
FINALLY, cabingate makes Huffpo’s front page!
#59 pinhead (you do know that’s a little iffy, don’t you, Zippy?) –
Excellent observation on the Limpbo beard.