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> http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/07/palin-r-word/
>
> Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
>
> This morning on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked Sarah Palin about
> her public call for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to resign
> after reports surfaced that he called a group of liberal activists “f—
> ing retarded.” Palin reiterated her call for Emanuel to “step down”
> and explained that while she’s not “politically correct” or “one to be
> a word police,” she was committed to “reaching out and to helping the
> special needs community.” But when Wallace asked Palin about Rush
> Limbaugh’s endorsement of the language, Palin said she was fine with
> Limbaugh’s satirical comments. “I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a
> group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards,’” she said.
> “There is a big difference there”:
>
> PALIN: I agree with Rush Limbaugh. He was using satire to politically
> correct —
>
> WALLACE: He used the “r” word.
>
> PALIN: He used satire. Name-calling by anyone, I teach this to my
> children and you teach it to your children and grandchildren, too.
> Name calling by anyone is just unnecessary. It just wastes time. Let’s
> speak to the issues and — [...]
>
> PALIN: 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
> has been reported, did say that. there is a big difference there.
> Again, name-calling, using language that is insensitive, by anyone,
> male, female, Republican, Democrat, is unnecessary. It’s
> inappropriate. Let’s all just grow up.
>
> Watch it:
>
> (Video at link)
>
> Emanuel, who has apologized for the remark to Special Olympics CEO Tim
> Shriver, now plans to host “a delegation of advocates, including two
> people with mental disabilities, at the White House” as part of his
> effort to make amends. Limbaugh, meanwhile, gleefully used a
> derivative of the word “retard” at least forty times, saying that
> “there’s going to be a retard summit at the White House. Much like the
> beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.”
Typical R'tard hypocrisy. It's OK for Rush because it's "satire" but
it's not for Rahm.
Big J
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