Professional Facebook blogger Sarah Palin is calling for President Obama to fire his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The reason? Because he referred to some of us on the left as “retarded“.
Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?
I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic.
The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, “F—ing retarded,” according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
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.
A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm’s “retarded” slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm’s degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?
I think Sarah Palin needs to learn that people aren’t necessarily talking about her kid when they use the word retarded. To equate the word to an ethnic or racial slur is absurd.
It’s just a word.
What I really find to be funny about this is that she had to be told about the incident from a “patriot”. It was reported in the favorite newspaper of all conservatives, The Wall Street Journal, and Sarah Palin didn’t know about it until someone told her. If she’s not reading The Wall Street Journal, she’s probably (still) not reading newspapers.
Steve
/ February 5, 2010Also of note: So far no outraged Facebook notes from Palin over Rush Limbaugh’s repeated use of “retard” on his top-rated radio show yesterday.
Rahm Emanuel calls people “fucking retarded” in a private meeting and Palin calls for him to be fired and wonders whether he is even capable of decency, yet Rush uses the word repeatedly, on the radio, and the most Palin can muster by way of response is the following statement from a spokesperson, emailed to a Washington Post reporter:
“Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.”
And apparently even that much had to be dragged out of her.