On Feb 7, 2:05=A0pm, edonline wrote:
> http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/07/palin-r-word/
>
> Palin says she=92s fine with Limbaugh=92s use of the =91r-word.=92
>
> 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 =93f=
=97
> ing retarded.=94 Palin reiterated her call for Emanuel to =93step down=94
> and explained that while she=92s not =93politically correct=94 or =93one =
to be
> a word police,=94 she was committed to =93reaching out and to helping the
> special needs community.=94 But when Wallace asked Palin about Rush
> Limbaugh=92s endorsement of the language, Palin said she was fine with
> Limbaugh=92s satirical comments. =93I didn=92t hear Rush Limbaugh calling=
a
> group of people whom he did not agree with =91f-ing retards,=92=94 she sa=
id.
> =93There is a big difference there=94:
>
> PALIN: I agree with Rush Limbaugh. He was using satire to politically
> correct =97
>
> WALLACE: He used the =93r=94 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=92s
> speak to the issues and =97 [...]
>
> PALIN: I didn=92t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he
> did not agree with =91f-ing retards=92 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=92s
> inappropriate. Let=92s 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 =93a delegation of advocates, including two
> people with mental disabilities, at the White House=94 as part of his
> effort to make amends. Limbaugh, meanwhile, gleefully used a
> derivative of the word =93retard=94 at least forty times, saying that
> =93there=92s going to be a retard summit at the White House. Much like th=
e
> beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.=94
Didn't Levi say Palin refered to her Downs Baby with that same word? |
