Palin Says She's Fine with Limbaugh's Use of 'R-Word'

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Source: Think Progress / Fox News

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.

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.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/07/palin-r-word/

[Zoeisright]

1. And her head spins around 360 degrees on her neck!

What a fucking moron. I am so sick of her stupidity and hypocrisy. Just STFU, Quitter.

[cbdo2007]

2. She needs to look up what Jesus says about fucking hypocrites!

[skypilot]

3. What damned language was that?

I can't stand listening to wing-nuts spinning and rationalizing. They can't put a cogent sentence together when they're bullshitting.

[spanone]

4. palin has shit for brains...i know i just watched her on teevee...my dog has turds that are smarter

[Vinca]

5. If you look up phony in the dictionary, there's a picture of Palin.

[AndyA]

6. What else are you teaching your children, Sarah?

Are you teaching them to not lie? You certainly haven't set a good example on that, have you?

Are you teaching them to stick with what they start, even if it isn't as easy as they thought it would be? You certainly haven't shown them this with your own personal actions.

Are you teaching them to love, respect, and honor others? Your right wing bigotry, hate, and war mongering isn't showing them that those things aren't family values.

Are you teaching them that being a hypocrite is wrong?

Your actions indicate that you are not. So who the hell are you to talk about any of this?

[LLStarks]

7. Republicans are such hypocrites. They call us hypersensitive while spewing hateful language.

They do it solely to piss us off and snub their noses at political correctness.

[lpbk2713]

8. But then, what does Failin know?

Consider the source.

[rucky]

9. She almost had a valid point, then she screwed it up.

[lunatica]

10. It's OK when they do it

Not that our side doesn't suffer from the same thing.

[mac56]

11. She's scared of Limpballs.

What she's teaching to her children and grandchild is to cave in to a bully.

[Beaverhausen]

12. So, it's OK to call someone 'retarded' if you are being satirical?

[daleo]

13. She made less sense than usual

And usually she makes no sense.

[BolivarianHero]

14. I can't believe someone can make $25 million a year for being as stupid as Limbaugh...

I thought the free market was supposed to ensure that the best ideas and the best products won out.

[Joe the Liberal]

15. No, you don't get it......

It's Ok for them to say it but no one else can, same with health care. It's Ok for them to get health care whenever they want but no one else can get it. Same with with the deficit, it's Ok for them to spend, spend, spend and grow the deficit to record heights but it's not Ok for others to potentially add to it ect ect ect....