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Palin Blasts Emanuel for Calling Dem Idea 'Retarded'

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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'

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is calling on the White House to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for using the word "retarded" in a strategy session last year.

In a posting on her Facebook page Monday, Palin blasted Emanuel for calling an idea from some of President Obama's supporters "f---ing retarded" during an August meeting with liberal groups and White House aides.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Emanuel made the remarks after some participants said they planned to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were critical of Obama's health care agenda.

Palin, whose youngest child, Trig, has Down Syndrome, wrote that Emanuel's expletive was "heartbreaking" and said his "degrading scolding" has been "completely ignored by the White House."

"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, and it’s heartbreaking," wrote Palin.
 
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'


Hm. Palin's a retard. :mrgreen:
 
Not just "retarded", but "f***ing retarded."

Chicago politics at its finest.
 
Can't really fault her. People with special needs children tend to be sensitive about these things. No biggie.

So, she uses it for political hay.

I'm sick of the word Nazis. I think people ought to quit feeling like victims and get over themselves. No one was talking about her child, 'retarded' has been a part of everyday speech for a long time. That's why we all have to say 'developmentally delayed' now. :rolleyes:
 
So, she uses it for political hay.

I'm sick of the word Nazis. I think people ought to quit feeling like victims and get over themselves. No one was talking about her child, 'retarded' has been a part of everyday speech for a long time. That's why we all have to say 'developmentally delayed' now. :rolleyes:


Sarah Palin sure finds alot to whine about. She's a professional victim.
 
Sarah Palin sure finds alot to whine about. She's a professional victim.
I can't believe anyone considers her a serious contender. I think she's really a Democratic plant. She was groomed early on and is really a political double agent designed to make the Republicans look silly.
 
Face it.

If someone on the right called any of the many retarded ideas from the socialist left "retarded", the socialists would be up in arms (not that they believe anyone should have weapons to defend themselves from the socialists, but that's a different bit of socialist hypocrisy) of the "insensivity" of the speaker and they'd lambaste the poor speaker out of public office.

So **** the liberals if they're upset that Palin, who has a retarded child, speaks out against some flaming libtard who used the word "retarded".

If you friggin' liberals don't like getting caught doing it, quit being the damn Grammar and Idea PC Police attacking everyone else.

Your hypocrisy stinks, just like your ideas.
 
One definition for Retarded is:

Occurring or developing later than desired or expected; delayed.


Palin is just being a typical Republican and trying to play the victim card.
 
I can't believe anyone considers her a serious contender. I think she's really a Democratic plant. She was groomed early on and is really a political double agent designed to make the Republicans look silly.


I think Bill Kristol deserves much of the blame. :mrgreen:

She is very good at making Republicans seem unserious, though. :cool:
 
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'
that's just retarded.
 
Face it.

If someone on the right called any of the many retarded ideas from the socialist left "retarded", the socialists would be up in arms (not that they believe anyone should have weapons to defend themselves from the socialists, but that's a different bit of socialist hypocrisy) of the "insensivity" of the speaker and they'd lambaste the poor speaker out of public office.

So **** the liberals if they're upset that Palin, who has a retarded child, speaks out against some flaming libtard who used the word "retarded".

If you friggin' liberals don't like getting caught doing it, quit being the damn Grammar and Idea PC Police attacking everyone else.

Your hypocrisy stinks, just like your ideas.

I'm not a Liberal though. I actually voted for McCain in the last election.
 
Palin is just being a typical Republican and trying to play the victim card.

LOL. Without the victim card, the Democratic party would be reduced to balloon animals.
 
Please people the politically correct term is "'tard".
 
:rofl

are you making fun of people with cerebral palsy?
 
as chief of staff and liason between white house and congress, rahm the ram was responsible for passage of health care

white house relations with congress concerning health care have been nothing short of disaster

rahm the ram's days are numbered

the leadership team needs serious shaking up and would be far better off without him

knowing observers have seen rahm's terminus coming for quite some time

also, eric holder---not long for his position

utterly incompetent AG who has done his boss a world of political hurt, on his oblivious boss' explicit orders

but the AG will take the fall

geithner, tax cheat in charge at irs, author of the obscene aig bailout and the might-be felon who ordered the too-big-to-fail insurer to keep its dealings secret from the sec, is another who's gotta and is gonna go

gibbs, too, in time---the single stupidest press secty i have ever seen

bernanke survived but it was ugly

bernanke survived cuz REPUBLICANS did not want to free up obtuse obama to pick a replacement, having seen the president's complete incompetence when it comes to personnel

napolitano is another embarrassment, the dhs secty who thought mutallab went down like clockwork and was never consulted when the POLITICO's in the white house decided to mirandize the jingle bells jihadist with NO CONCERN, not even a QUESTION, about security ramifications

this most incompetent politician in american history, obama, sure knows how to pick em

a complete cabal of keystone kops

and we haven't even touched upon his CZARS

when is enough going to be enough, obamites?

you must be exhausted
 
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Can't really fault her. People with special needs children tend to be sensitive about these things. No biggie.

My brother is mentally retarded, and I think her bitching about this non issue is ****ing retarded.
 
Sarah Palin sure finds alot to whine about. She's a professional victim.


I see you ascribe to this:


"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

Saul Alensky


j-mac
 
I see you ascribe to this:


"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

Saul Alensky


j-mac


I know you love me, macaroni, but this thread ain't about me.
 
I see you ascribe to this:


"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

Saul Alensky


j-mac
who is saul alensky? at least get his name right.
 
as chief of staff and liason between white house and congress, rahm the ram was responsible for passage of health care

white house relations with congress concerning health care have been nothing short of disaster

rahm the ram's days are numbered

the leadership team needs serious shaking up and would be far better off without him

knowing observers have seen rahm's terminus coming for quite some time

also, eric holder---not long for his position

utterly incompetent AG who has done his boss a world of political hurt, on his oblivious boss' explicit orders

but the AG will take the fall

geithner, tax cheat in charge at irs, author of the obscene aig bailout and the might-be felon who ordered the too-big-to-fail insurer to keep its dealings secret from the sec, is another who's gotta and is gonna go

gibbs, too, in time---the single stupidest press secty i have ever seen

bernanke survived but it was ugly

bernanke survived cuz REPUBLICANS did not want to free up obtuse obama to pick a replacement, having seen the president's complete incompetence when it comes to personnel

napolitano is another embarrassment, the dhs secty who thought mutallab went down like clockwork and was never consulted when the POLITICO's in the white house decided to mirandize the jingle bells jihadist with NO CONCERN, not even a QUESTION, about security ramifications

this most incompetent politician in american history, obama, sure knows how to pick em

a complete cabal of keystone kops

and we haven't even touched upon his CZARS

when is enough going to be enough, obamites?

you must be exhausted


So, Emanuel, Geithner, Holder, Gibbs, and Napolitano are all on the way out?
 
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