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Can't really fault her. People with special needs children tend to be sensitive about these things. No biggie.
she seems to be rather selective in her sensitivity:
Palin: When Limbaugh says ‘retarded’ it’s fine | Raw StoryConfronted with the fact that Palin's fellow media star Rush Limbaugh has repeated used the word "retarded" to describe those he disagrees with, Palin's spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton emailed a response to The Plum Line's Greg Sargent.
"Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful," she wrote.
While some took this to mean she was criticizing Limbaugh, Palin later clarified that she was not, and explicitly defended Limbaugh's use of the word "retarded" in a similarly crude context, while appearing on Fox News Sunday. The Huffington Post reports:
But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.
"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."
somebody, please point out the big difference there