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Palin Blasts Emanuel for Calling Dem Idea 'Retarded'

do you remember when the chief chump in charge thought he was being cool by offending the special needs community and got told down by the shrivers?

the dude is so FOREIGN to american ways he actually thought his joke would go over as FUNNY

Maria Shriver: Obama Special Olympics 'joke' hurts
 
Calling a person retarded is one thing, calling an idea is another. Palin is pathetic. Oooooh, everyone is directing the use of this word at me or my son! *rolls eyes*

I don't believe that's what she said at all. If you can point to anything in her statement where she said that everyone was directing it at her and her son, I would be more inclined to take your caustic commentary as something other than what it is: typical dismissal of valid points that are invalidated to you just because Palin said them and for no other reason.

What she did say was that she found it offensive that such language could be used by a public official in scolding other public officials and that she knows how hurtful it can be because of her own situation.

As a public figure, herself, who has already had a history of championing these causes from a personal inspiration in her life, it would have been odd had she remained silent on this issue.

Personally, I find the word "retarded" to have more applications in modern language. While I would never use the word in the mixed company of mentally challenged individuals and the people close to them, I find no offense in the use of the word to describe retarded ideas or comments.

For instance, I think that, in addition to being a classless and dangerous thug, Rahm Emanuel is socially retarded as evidenced by his lack of discretion in what he says and how he allows his emotions to rule his rhetoric far too often for anyone in public office.
 
Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush.......(inhale)......Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush,Bush.......

That's pretty much all I heard, too. Presented in pretty much the same childish way. :lol:
 
While I am not one who believes in policing language, I think there is a certain level of decorum that a high-ranking presidential official needs to maintain. Having such a potty mouth and using politically incorrect terms as a presidential appointee is simply not acceptable. For this reason, I think Rahm Emanuel needs to be fired. He is not a political pundit that can say whatever he likes; he is the Chief of Staff to the President of the United States. Evidently, he doesn't respect his position and ought to respectfully resign or be fired by Obama.
 
do you remember when the chief chump in charge thought he was being cool by offending the special needs community and got told down by the shrivers?

the dude is so FOREIGN to american ways he actually thought his joke would go over as FUNNY

Maria Shriver: Obama Special Olympics 'joke' hurts

Foreign? It's quite common among Americans to compare terrible playing style to Special Olympics just like it is to call someone "retarded" for saying or doing something considered unintelligent or unthoughtful.

It's just not politically correct and something the President and his staff should NOT be doing it in a public or professional forum.
 
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I don't believe that's what she said at all. If you can point to anything in her statement where she said that everyone was directing it at her and her son, I would be more inclined to take your caustic commentary as something other than what it is: typical dismissal of valid points that are invalidated to you just because Palin said them and for no other reason.

What she did say was that she found it offensive that such language could be used by a public official in scolding other public officials and that she knows how hurtful it can be because of her own situation.

As a public figure, herself, who has already had a history of championing these causes from a personal inspiration in her life, it would have been odd had she remained silent on this issue.

Personally, I find the word "retarded" to have more applications in modern language. While I would never use the word in the mixed company of mentally challenged individuals and the people close to them, I find no offense in the use of the word to describe retarded ideas or comments.

For instance, I think that, in addition to being a classless and dangerous thug, Rahm Emanuel is socially retarded as evidenced by his lack of discretion in what he says and how he allows his emotions to rule his rhetoric far too often for anyone in public office.

I didn't mean to imply that she actually said that. I inferred that from her offense to the use of the word, which I think is a reasonable inference.
 
I didn't mean to imply that she actually said that. I inferred that from her offense to the use of the word, which I think is a reasonable inference.

I don't think that is reasonable at all. It, actually, is an unreasonable attempt at making her appear irrational and paranoid rather than exploring the validity of her statement.
 
I don't think that is reasonable at all. It, actually, is an unreasonable attempt at making her appear irrational and paranoid rather than exploring the validity of her statement.

Okay. You think it's unreasonable. I think her equating his use of an idea as retarded as equivalent to calling someone by a racial slur irrational, and that's being generous. I think it's completely nuts!

In a post titled "Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?," Palin wrote, "Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the 'N-word' or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities — and the people who love them — is unacceptable," adding, "it's heartbreaking."

Obama chief of staff’s 'retarded' insult brings fallout, Palin criticism - Yahoo! News
 
This is dumb. We can't even use the word 'retarded' to describe a mentally retarded person anymore because people use it as slang. Now Palin has to go and make a big to do over one of her political opponents using the term 'retarded' idiomatically to describe what he thought was a dumb (which originally meant 'mute') So, I guess the word retarded is totally out of bounds and offensive?

Palin just wants to be in the news again, she's an attention junkie I think.

FOXNews.com - Palin Blasts Emanuel for Calling Dem Idea 'Retarded'

If Deadfish said nothing wrong....Why did he feel the need to apologize to the head of the Special Olympics?
 
Okay. You think it's unreasonable. I think her equating his use of an idea as retarded as equivalent to calling someone by a racial slur irrational, and that's being generous. I think it's completely nuts!

And I submit that you feel this way solely on the count that it is Palin making the assertion. Were it anyone else, you would be inclined to explore it a little deeper than to just dismiss it as paranoid rantings.

Tell me, dear aps, if he were talking about a "nigger-rigged" economic plan, would you still feel the same way. After all, we are just talking about an idea and not an actual negro (even if it is sans the associated dialect).
 
And I submit that you feel this way solely on the count that it is Palin making the assertion. Were it anyone else, you would be inclined to explore it a little deeper than to just dismiss it as paranoid rantings.

Tell me, dear aps, if he were talking about a "nigger-rigged" economic plan, would you still feel the same way. After all, we are just talking about an idea and not an actual negro (even if it is sans the associated dialect).

would depend on how many valid definitions there are for the word. Retarded has a few, not all refer to a person with mental handicaps.
 
Whats wrong with that way of thinking? It proves Repubs aren't Christian time and again as well as disproving certain repub Messiah's as not being Fiscal Conservatives.

Spoken like a true Lib.
 
I don't believe that's what she said at all. If you can point to anything in her statement where she said that everyone was directing it at her and her son, I would be more inclined to take your caustic commentary as something other than what it is: typical dismissal of valid points that are invalidated to you just because Palin said them and for no other reason.

What she did say was that she found it offensive that such language could be used by a public official in scolding other public officials and that she knows how hurtful it can be because of her own situation.

As a public figure, herself, who has already had a history of championing these causes from a personal inspiration in her life, it would have been odd had she remained silent on this issue.

Personally, I find the word "retarded" to have more applications in modern language. While I would never use the word in the mixed company of mentally challenged individuals and the people close to them, I find no offense in the use of the word to describe retarded ideas or comments.

For instance, I think that, in addition to being a classless and dangerous thug, Rahm Emanuel is socially retarded as evidenced by his lack of discretion in what he says and how he allows his emotions to rule his rhetoric far too often for anyone in public office.

Damn jallman just when it seems I have lost patience wth you, you come up with something so beuatiful as that statement.


Well said my friend............:applaud
 
would depend on how many valid definitions there are for the word. Retarded has a few, not all refer to a person with mental handicaps.

nigger-rigged

retarded

Sounds to me like they are pretty equal in meaning, offensive origin, and demeaning connotation.

So really? What's so irrational about Palin's association of the two within the context of how they degrade their respective groups?
 
FOR THE LIKES OF LIBERALS LIKE MURTHA, KERRY AND DURBIN:

"IF YOU CAN'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM."

hmmm odd qoute to have as 2 are War Heros. (Kerry and Murtha).
 
nigger-rigged

retarded

Sounds to me like they are pretty equal in meaning, offensive origin, and demeaning connotation.

So really? What's so irrational about Palin's association of the two within the context of how they degrade their respective groups?


urbandictionary???lol

Whats next a GOP dictionary???:rofl
 
If Deadfish said nothing wrong....Why did he feel the need to apologize to the head of the Special Olympics?

That ones out of the park.... nice hit.
 
FOR THE LIKES OF LIBERALS LIKE MURTHA, KERRY AND DURBIN:

"IF YOU CAN'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM."

hmmm odd qoute to have as 2 are War Heros. (Kerry and Murtha).

I'm sorry...did I make a wrong turn on my way back to the Palin/Emanuel thread and find myself in the wrong place?

Or are you simply deflecting from the conversation at hand by howling about someone's signature?

I think it's the latter of the two...
 
urbandictionary???lol

Whats next a GOP dictionary???:rofl

Uh, being that we were discussing vernaculars, the urban dictionary does appear to be the likely choice since it covers...derrrrr....vernaculars.

Dee de DEEEEE!
 
would depend on how many valid definitions there are for the word. Retarded has a few, not all refer to a person with mental handicaps.

So does nigger rigged. :roll:
 
Uh, being that we were discussing vernaculars, the urban dictionary does appear to be the likely choice since it covers...derrrrr....vernaculars.

Dee de DEEEEE!


Its also easy to munipulate.

Urban Dictionary: Add a definitionAll the definitions on Urban Dictionary were written by people just like you. ... Entries may be edited and become the property of Urban Dictionary. ...
 
Its also easy to munipulate.

Urban Dictionary: Add a definitionAll the definitions on Urban Dictionary were written by people just like you. ... Entries may be edited and become the property of Urban Dictionary. ...

Which does nothing to diminish the fact that it covers every day vernaculars. Are you denying the vernacular definitions I presented from it or are you simply deflecting from the actual point by bitching over the source?

If you are denying these definitions, perhaps you would like to present alternative definitions from another source.
 
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