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'
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.
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.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.
that's just retarded.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'
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.
that's just retarded.
Palin is just being a typical Republican and trying to play the victim card.
:rofl
are you making fun of people with cerebral palsy?
Can't really fault her. People with special needs children tend to be sensitive about these things. No biggie.
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
who is saul alensky? at least get his name right.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
muslim, i believe. ;-)His name sounds Jewish if ya ask me... :2razz:
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