Sarah Palin Calls on Obama to Fire Rahm Emanuel for Offensive Comment

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Source: CBSNews

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"Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Monday called for President Obama to fire his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, because of an offensive comment he reportedly made.

At an August strategy session of liberal groups and White House aides, the Wall Street Journal recently reported, Emanuel told liberals they were "F-ing retarded" for planning to air attack ads against conservative Democrats opposed to health care reform.

Palin, whose youngest child has Down Syndrome, said in a Facebook note that "our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm's recent sick and offensive tactic."

"I would ask the president to show decency... by eliminating one member of inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm's continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts" to debate important issues, she wrote."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/02/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6166034.shtml

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Emanuel apologizes for 'retarded' remark

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"White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has apologized for referring to liberals as "retarded" during a strategy session last summer.

A White House official said Emanuel called Tim Shriver, the CEO of the Special Olympics, last week after his comments were reported in a Wall Street Journal article.

"Rahm called Tim Shriver Wednesday to apologize and the apology was accepted," a White House aide said. "The White House remains committed to addressing the concerns and needs of Americans living with disabilities and recognizes that derogatory remarks demean us all."

The apology came to light just hours after former Alaska governor Sarah Palin posted a scathing critique of Emanuel's comments on her Facebook page and called for President Obama to fire him. Palin's son, Trig, was born with Down Syndrome."

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[driver8]

1. Perhaps he should have picked more appropriate words, but...

Eff Sarah Palin!

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Agreed....That woman has no limits to using heer children to advance herself and gain

publicity.

The way she toted that poor child around during the campaign should have been prosecuted as child abuse!!!

[tblue]

12. "I apologize to the retarded. 'Dumb as Sarah Palin' is what I meant."

There. I apologized. Ya happy now, Sarah?

[bluestateguy]

2. Only Sarah Palin could make DU rally around Rahm

If Palin said she was for vanilla ice cream, I would never eat it again.

[leftofcool]

3. STFU Sarah!

I don't care for Rahm but this is a matter for Democrats, not for you or your repuke teabagging idiots. BTW, you are RETARDED!

[thereismore]

4. Why does sister Sarah think her son is retarded? Is everything about her? nt

[movonne]

6. Why should this be headline message of the day...

[Cant trust em]

7. There's got to be a better reason to fire Rahm than this. nt

[Andy823]

8. I don't understand.

This happened back in August of last year, and she is just now demanding he be fired? Am I missing something? I just saw this on another board where yesterday I posted about Palin using $63,000.00 dollars of her PAC money to buy her own books, and the right wingers defend her to the max, and attacked me for even posting such a thing. Now today they are posting this! I think Palin is just trying to start more trouble, and get the press off of her use of PAC money to buy her own books!

[leftofcool]

10. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner, folks!

[tblue]

15. +1

[Roland99]

13. She's projecting

[deek]

29. Buzz up the PAC book story on Yahoo

It's not showing on the top 10 at all.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:huffington_post:d6d57405aa9b4839f1df872a4387e9fe/Sarah-Palins-PAC-Spends-Thousands-On-Copies-Of-Her-Own-Book

[onehandle]

9. Who cares what the rape kit denier says? Talk about a 'sick and offensive tactic.' nt

[WheelWalker]

22. +1

[T Wolf]

11. "Special" children is what you get when fathers impregnate daughters. That is why Caribou Barbie

is so sensitive about this subject.

[DJ13]

14. So the PTB think getting Palin to lambast Rahm will make

Liberals rush to his defense, diffusing the outcry to get him out of the WH?

Devious, very devious.

[lunatica]

16. Breaking: pot calls kettle black

kneejerk word salad.

[Blue State Bandit]

17. OMG! Palin Defends Liberals? From Rahm!?

Teabaggers (a.k.a. those who call liberals retards) are going to love this!

In other news...

Rahm Emanuel and Teabaggers get a room.

[David Zephyr]

18. Ahem...Sarah, your own family says you use that vulgar term yourself.

This woman is depraved. Seriously, she is batshit crazy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. Thanks but no thanks, Sarah!!!! We don't need your input!

As much as some people might have have issues with Rahm, it is SEVERELY stretching it to claim that what he said should be construed as a slur against individuals whom have various handicaps and that he needs to resign/be fired over THIS.

:wtf:

[deek]

26. Actually, it is a painful slur

I don't agree he needs to be fired over this, though.

I noted you sport a rainbow flag. I'm sure you don't appreciate people using gay slurs in the same manner?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. I honestly didn't realize that "retarded" was an obvious slur against handicapped individuals

My humble apologies for any offense my ignorant comment may have caused. :blush:

[deek]

30. Education is never anything to be embarrassed about

One person at a time. Yes, since "retarded" is used by many to demean others as being "stupid", it has become archaic as a medical/educational/social term.

Actually, at one time, the medical term for cognitive delay was "idiot". Times change. Now the preferred appropriate terminology includes "developmentally delayed".

[No Elephants]

35. Moron, cretin, etc. were also once "technical" terms.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Go away, you loony old bag.

[CakeGrrl]

21. Yeah, they'll get right on that, Mooseburgers.

:rofl:

You have to give it to the GOP - they'll use any tactic, every excuse, and deploy any mouthpiece to go after Dems.

[Arkana]

23. Bite me, Sarah.

And I'm sure Rahm would say the same.

[HopeOverFear]

24. Grandma Palin's got her marching orders from the GOP: Divide and Conquer

don't think this isn't planned, folks. It is.

[BreweryYardRat]

25. Using her own kid as a club to beat people with.

Such a caring mother.

[Saphire]

27. Oh, does her son have Down Syndrome???

I would never have known. :sarcasm:

Seriously though, she has used his condition for her personal gain over and over. What she has done sickens me more that what Rahm said.

[Splinter Cell]

31. Fuck Palin

She's such and idiot that she doesn't even realize that retarded is not just used as slang for someone with a mental handicap. It is a term that means slow. We used it when I played the violin, as a mark to slow the tempo of the music.

She'll use her family in any way possible to get her name thrown around. She is a parasite, not only on society, but her own family. It's sad.

[win_in_06]

36. I'm pretty sure that when Rahm used it he had your former definition in mind,

not the latter.

[classysassy]

32. Hello alaska

call home your dumb daughter.

[zulchzulu]

33. Sarah should rename her child Prop

She is a disgusting swine on many levels, but using her "child" (who really isn't, but that's another story) as a prop to get headlines is indeed sickening.

[jenmito]

34. She constantly uses her own child for political gain. I wonder when she'll stop carrying him around

wherever she goes.

[marshall]

37. "That's retarded" used to be a very common phrase when I was young

Nobody thought a thing about it. Nowadays the kids are using the phrase "That's so gay" in the same meaning. It offends some, but that's probably the intent.

[blueworld]

38. Will someone please explain why Rahm apologized after her nutty comments?

He doesn't seem terribly moved by the opinion of progressives & liberals, but he apologizes after she spews?