Keith Olbermann: Sarah Palin Calling For Rush Limbaugh's Firing?

[Tx4obama]

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Refresher: Rahm Emanuel only said "... the PLAN is retarded ..."

But Rush went way over board, Rush used a different form of the word, and Rush misquoted Rahm and Rush outright lied about what Rahm said.

The text below is from Media Matters:

Saying that many people in the administration are apologizing this week, Rush began his second hour by commenting on Rahm Emanuel's apology for his use of the word "retarded." Limbaugh mentioned that Sarah Palin demanded that Emanuel be fired. Perhaps not wanting Emanuel to hog the spotlight for offending people, Rush offered some offensive comments of his own:

LIMBAUGH: Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people -- these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney-toons.

Now I'm not going to apologize for it, I'm just quoting Emanuel. It's in the news. I think their big news is that he's out there calling Obama's number one supporters "effing retards." So now there's gonna be a meeting -- there's gonna be a retard summit at the White House.

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LIMBAUGH: If you want to look at how this is broken down, Emanuel compares Democrat activists to retarded people, then apologizes to retarded people, not to the Democrats. Normally if you call somebody a retard, you apologize to them for calling them a retard. But he has apologized to the retarded people for daring to lump them with Democrats. It's hilarious.

Rush proceeded to repeat the phrase "retard summit" and to call people "effing retards" and "retards" several more times during this segment. He later said that his focus on Emanuel's comments "demonstrates the power of Sarah Palin."

Edited to add:

Later, Rush spoke with a caller who said her child is developmentally disabled and challenged Rush on his repeated use of the word "retard" today. After a few minutes of conversation, Rush attempted to defend himself:

LIMBAUGH: Well, maybe I didn't express it right, but the point is I just found it funny that while Rahm Emanuel is -- he compared -- the first thing he did was compared liberal activists to retarded people and then apologized to the retarded people for doing that as though it's an insult to be called a Democrat.

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LIMBAUGH: You've gotta cut me some slack -- you got -- you've got -- I've been here 20-plus years. You've got to know that I don't -- that I know that that's a pejorative comment. It's -- the reason I kept repeating it is to never let people forget that it was Rahm Emanuel who said it.
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p.s. I know that the above is more than four paragraphs but I am assuming that the 'quotes' don't count in the count ;)

[opihimoimoi]

1. I repeat: Bullies rarely apologize: instead they shift blame or make excuses: That is all

[Tx4obama]

2. Here's the LINK to 'part' of the audio from Rush's radio show

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002030032

[mwb970]

3. Endless hypocrisy from the right wing.

There is no limit to the dishonesty and duplicity of conservatives. Everything they say and do is phony in some way. They will be the death of America, and much sooner than we think.

[tsstranger]

4. She won't

More conservative hypocrisy.

[activa8tr]

5. Rush, yeah, Sarah will want him fired, sure!

When pigs fly!

[izquierdista]

6. Yes, you are a sap and gullible

Discussing consistency among Republicans is like discussing virginity in a whorehouse.

[vanbean]

7. I remember when "retarded" was socially accepted as a polite term, but

when insensitive people started calling people "retards", it followed that "retarded" also became offensive. Rahm said a plan was retarded, but Rush was so much worse because he used the word "retard" as a moniker. Do I have that correct? I think I do.

[Tx4obama]

8. Palin responds ... SORTA

From The Plum Line:


Palin Camp Rips Limbaugh, Hits His “Retard” Comment As “Crude And Demeaning”

Palin believes Limbaugh’s repeated use of the word “retard” yesterday was “crude and demeaning,” her spokesperson emails.

In the wake of Palin’s demand that Rahm Emanuel be fired for saying the liberal activist strategy on health care was “f–king retarded,” a bunch of people have been asking how she’d react to Limbaugh’s tirade on the air yesterday.

“Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards,” Rush said, adding that Rahm’s meeting yesterday with advocates for the mentally handicapped was a “retard summit at the White House.”

I asked Palin spokesperson Meghan Stapleton for comment on Rush’s rant, and she emailed me this:

“Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.”

It hardly has the passion of her response to Rahm, and there’s no call for him to step down. But given Rush’s stature among conservatives, it’s pretty interesting that she went this far, denouncing his on-air rant as “crude and demeaning name-calling.”

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