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One man’s mistake is Sarah Palin’s opportunity to score political points.Let me say right off the bat that I do not have a lot of expertise in the area of the learning disabled. I do not work in the field professionally, and I do not have a social connection to anyone who is developmentally impaired. (Well, I take that back. I have a few friends who happen to be attorneys and you could make a pretty good argument….never mind.) But I do know that the word retarded is offensive, and it should not be used by people who should know better.

So I was surprised to learn that O’s right hand man, Rahm Emanuel, used the word when referring to some left wing groups last summer. Seems my man was pretty ticked off that they were going to fund some ads against some blue dogs, and old Rahm let it fly.

“Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Emanuel, exasperated upon learning that liberal special-interest groups were planning to run ads against conservative Democrats not supportive of health care reform, blasted the plan as “f—— retarded” over the summer..”

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Shame on you Rahm, be more careful with your language next time. And apologize to all the folks who are involved with the learning disabled here in A-merry-ca, be it professionally or personally.

Now, having said that, I have to get with our girl Sarah again. Apparently she sees a political opportunity here, and she isn’t wasting anytime before taking advantage of it.

“Naturally, some outrage ensued after Emanuel’s words came to light, with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin taking to her Facebook page to call on President Obama to fire him for what she saw as the equivalent of a racial slur. Palin, whose son Trig is afflicted with Down syndrome, said she was informed of Emanuel’s comment by a fellow parent of a special-needs child and pleaded with the president to “show decency” to the political process by “eliminating” the Chicago native from his inner circle. In a post titled “Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?,” Palin wrote, “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,” adding, “it’s heartbreaking.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Deosil/ Deosil

    I know! Palin is some phony…she took her TIME to get outraged. she waited until after Rahm apologized…she had a slow newsday on FACEBOOK so she chose to make a stink about it.
    By many accounts she calls her own kid RETARDED…”my little retarded angel” is what she calls him…I bet the word “N word” has passed her painted on lips many times, too….I mean, ALSO TOO (in PALINESE).

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Hmmmm well uhm idk what else to say.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    This is nothing more than a politician short on substance, trying to win points with her “fans” who are also short on substance. It’s funny how they all want to excuse SC Gov Sandford for leaving the country with his mistress, while his own Lt Gov didn’t know where he was (or so he claimed) yet she wants Rahm fired for foolishness. It amazes me, that more people can’t see this political process for what it really is.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/littlebabymia/ littlebabymia

    The word is used daily just because. It actually mean slow so because Rahm who could give 2 s**ts less of Palin said it he should be fired, yeah right! She needs to sit her old ass down some where and help figure out why those kids got super f’ed up names.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blaXXX/ blaXXX

    N-word?

    I thought it was the R-word she’s pissed about?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blaXXX/ blaXXX

    the title of the article says n-word…when the dilemma with Palin is regarding the R-word

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/new_vision_89/ new_vision_89

    The word retarded is not offensive its just a word. No way in hell can you compare it to N_Word. If your child is really retarded most people would say “he or she is slow” if your in a Med office I’m thinking they would use retarded. I call my kid ‘A RETARD” every damn day. LOL Most days she call me one back.

    Fuk Palin! like she give a crap about me being call a ni$$er. its all part of the silly season to take down Obama

    PS my kid just graduated with honors as a Engineer and off to Law School this fall.

    Knowledge Is Power

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/N0RthSiDe_L0LitA/ N0RthSiDe_L0LitA

    sigh.. why is this sea cow still a topic of discussion?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gatekeepa/ Gatekeepa

    I feel sorry for the poster who calls his or her child a retard every day and feel even WORST for the child..if that is not a form of verbal ABUSE what is? Calling your child RETARD..and if your child calls someone else the same and get sent to the principle’s office for it because the WORD is OFFENSIVE as the n-word.. the word RETARD is OFFENSIVE to disable individuals..a nd is offensive as the N-word to INTELLIGENT AFRICAN AMERICANS..basically the word RETARD is saying that you as a disable person are below average intelligent and as a adult with a mind of infant..what a way to build shelf esteem in a child by calling your child retarded..children believe what their parents tell them..especally if you say it enough and the child begins to believe it and acting like a retarted(get a clue) .. I would NEVER lower my child shelf esteem and a way to do it is by calling my child abusive names.. I only praise and give to my child hopeful comments and this is why my child is on the honor roll..its amazing what I read on this site WITH our people.. then we wonder why we have the problems in the black communities acoss this nation..its not white folks..red folks.. yellow folks who treat our OWN terrible its US as BLACK people who treat each other the worst like calling our children retarted for starter..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/phenomeNELL/ phenomeNELL

    ppl fail to realize how powerful words are. i think that it was prolly inappropriate to call the plan f’in retarded especially in a work atmosphere. However, i do think that words change with time and become something else to ppl rather than the hatred the word may have originally been intended. everyone knows how the n-word has evolved so much. some ppl are no longer offended by the word depending on who is using it of course and how they are using it. I don’t think Rahm was hating all the mentally disabled ppl. we all know he just thought the plan was stupid. if he said stupid would that make us feel better or then are we discriminating against stupid ppl. *sigh* i hate when ppl make a huge thing on something and don’t consider the intentions of ppl. seriously rahm is sitting at home hearing all the flack from his comment like, “i have a family member that is retarded. my sister’s boyfriend’s lil sister’s best friend is retarded and we love her, i didn’t mean it like that!” or some s**t. give the dude a break. I call things, situations, and sometimes ppl retarded all the time, but never someone who is actually mentally disabled, i know they can’t help it. Its the retarded ppl who make big deals about small things that are going to be called retarded by me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/can_i_massage_u_love/ can_i_massage_u_love

    Lord people always want to take the pain that black people have gone through and use it to compare with their plight! I am soooo tired of it. I am tired of Gay people comparing their issues to black civil rights! I don’t have a problem with gay people and I think don’t ask, don’t tell is “retarded” but come on! Now this fool is saying that using the word retarded is the same as calling someone n****r. Ummmmm last time I looked N****R has always been a negative word, where as Retarded was an accepted word up until recently. Just crazy! Who cares about Palin anyway. I wish Dems would stop being punks and call people like Palin out on their BS! When Palin says something stupid then jump on her case! Don’t let her dumb butt slide!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/titoalfonso/ titoalfonso

    yeah look at where shes govenor at??…ALASKA!! not alot of us there. its a wildlife, hunting, outdoor…pretty much a white folks, racist breeding station and then she’s on the REPLUBLICAN side so you know the N word has salivated her tongue b4. i’m not astounded by it. like someone wrote earlier. its just something to take down the BIG O in 2012. a retard is a retard, so what? when you demonize your mentally handicapped kid with the word then ur wrong about it but in daily public most ppl are “TARDS”, and its the truth. we all have some minor mental setback. aint none of us bill gates or flying to the moon. in closing, i think politicians need to go sit down somewhere and evaluate those degrees and honors they got in a lifetime. if they were so edumacated then they wouldnt bicker like children all the time, fuss, cuss , and carry on. i commend rahm!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/titoalfonso/ titoalfonso

    i noticed an error….”was govenor at”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/producer6tray/ producer6tray

    who care what that goofy b***h has to say in the first place.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Zeru25/ Zeru25

    The American Political system is a joke. They have turned it into a soap opera for the world to see. Idiots running against Idiots for the Presidency of the most powerful position on earth. Popularity contest over qualified people. Fixed and overthrown elections. Political Seats being sold for contracts money and endorsements… lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/barnboy/ barnboy

    Whatever…this whole country is too Politically Correct. Some people do act retarded, that don’t mean you talking about retarded people, you are talking about the condition. Palin is just trying to stay relevant.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IvanRoss/ IvanRoss

    First of all this once again here is a misleading article…it would have you to believe that S Palin used the N word and is now crying over it.

    Secondly the if retarded is a bad word or not or if it is equal to the N word is to be debated, certainly not by S Paline.

    The issue at hand is for an administration that think it is politically incorrect to call radical islamic terrorist “Terrorist” does not have the same sensativity for disabled citizens.

    I don’t think the argument has anything to do with political correctness, more so than it does hipocracy.

    Just my opninion

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Check the hypocrisy NOW. RUSH Limbaugh made this comment yesterday “our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards.”

    The Washington Post asked Palin’s camp for reaction, and she gave some general statement. When it came out that it appeared that she was speaking to Rush personally, her camp backed off. So basically, she wants Rahm FIRED for using the term in a private meeting, but its ok for Rush to use it on public airwaves to 30 million people. Got to love the hypocrisy. And don’t fool yourself, this type of hypocrisy is rampant among democrats as well! It’s all the same BS games being played by both parties! Please realize, no party is better than the other, they’re all the same. WAKE UP!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    @_A_ yeah you pretty much nailed it on the head. Both parties pretty much need each other to maintain the “status quo”. Palin isn’t going to call Rushg out because he the mouth of Republican party and it would be a huge conflict of interest and would make them look bad. Keeping it real as politician is not gonna happen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IvanRoss/ IvanRoss

    @ _A_ and Sub-Negro

    I am with both of you, I agree…

    Because repubs do it, does not mean the dems don’t do it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GiGi_Ambition/ GiGi_Ambition

    OMG why is she even speaking? Look that word was created by the Whites and they use it everyone uses it! there are a lot of words that should not be in our vocabulary but they are there! Call her out about speaking to Rush and put her in the spot light that will shut her up. Come on people lets stop just typing about it lets do something about it. And watch how things change.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/heedra/ heedra

    Remember what the waitress in the reaustarant heard palin say the n word and called obama sambo so who care’s weather she cries she is a crook that’s why she quit here job taking all these vations exspensive clothes at the taxpayer’s expense even hillary clinton was all proud and stiff necked with that racist mentality bottom line all of them are racist the party crasher’s that got into the white house CIa ain tightning security they want him to die we need to wake up why u think so much racism has been happening with the new’s and the rupublican’s as well as the democrat’s !!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/illpoetic/ illpoetic

    She is seriously a problem. Everyone knows how wrong she is on every issue, and how she’s knows nothing about politics or the world, yet they still listen to her. I don’t get this. People in this country are so stupid because we’d not be hearing anything from her mouth if dumb people didn’t support her. And to think, she wants to run for President.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lavenderga/ lavenderga

    I just wish sara would take her retarded A**back to Alaska and stay there with her mouth close. She needs to stay home and hope her other daughter doesn’t get pregnant without the benefit of a condom, marriage,etc.since neither mom or dad knows what their children are doing. Because they don’t stay home.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ALEXANDERMEGAS/ ALEXANDERMEGAS

    im tellin ya.. it iz a war.. we need 2 vote on alll levels..house of rep.. sen. mayor, sheriff.. we got 2 pull our percentage up.. not just vote when a black man iz in office.. a bullet counts..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/german_cutie_13/ german_cutie_13

    Hahahahahaha this woman is something else. She keeps being unloved, shes doing a great job at that, lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bmo69/ bmo69

    Shes stupid as Hell! She reminds me of “Barney Fife”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Edster2/ Edster2

    she’s a total and complete idiot. her stupidity couldn’t be more obvious. it says something really sad about our political system that she’s an unserious-serious candidate for the republican presidential ticket. she’s just an idiot stooge. i like to think that i’m a sober, serious person, not given to conspiracy theories; but she just looks like someone being controlled by puppet masters and w***es in the media who love her because she’s being becoming a money making/raising rabble rouser who can get a certain portion of the population, er, roused (me included). i think it’s the duty of everyone who interviews her to conduct a fitness test, just so that she can be exposed as the charlatan she is. i mean really, can you imagine her doing to any group of people what obama did to the republicans in b-more? it’s gone surreal: while she was railing about obama using teleprompters to the tea baggers, she was referring to notes written on her hands. come on, AMERICA, the empress is buck naked!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    This article is retarded….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jardona57/ jardona57

    WHY DOES ANYONE PLAY THAT DUMB ASS RETARDED BROAD ANY ATTENTION. SHE IS AS STUPID AS THE DAY IS LONG. EMANUEL SAID THE PLAN WAS “RETARDED” NOT A PERSON. HOW STUPID IS SHE. I WOULDN’T VOTE FOR HER IF SHE WAS THE ONLY CANDIDATE RUNNING. I AM SURPRISED SHE CAN GET OUT OF BED AND DRESS HERSELF. SHE IS TRYING TO PRETEND THAT SHE REALLY CARES ABOUT BLACKS BEING CALLED THE “N” WORD. REALLY NOW. SHE IS SO FULL OF S**T I CAN SMELL HER A MILLION MILES AWAY. SHE NEEDS TO GO HOME AND SIT DOWN AND TAKE CARE ALL OF THOSE DAMN KIDS SHE HAS INSTEAD OF RUNNING AROUND LIKE SOME DERANGED CRAZY PERSON THAT SHE IS. I AM SICKING OF HEARING ABOUT WHAT SHE DOES AND SAID. WORSE IS SEEING HER UGLY ASS.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Butterfly9481/ Butterfly9481

    That’s the American way. That’s why she’s getting all this attention. The news media can make or break you and ‘they’ promote their own. As long as ‘they’will pay $596 to flock to see her, she will stay in the news. Then again, what else do the Republican’s have going for them, but Palin? Well, now Brown that won Kennedy’s senate seat. They won that because the Democrats are too busy infighting instead of sticking together for the good of the American people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/princesr/ princesr

    so what if someone uses the word retarded. Words can be used outside of their dictionary meaning. Your acting gay does not mean “you are gay” nor that I hate gay people”. It is a figure of speech. We are way to sensitive in this country about perceived slights but ignore “the whole system is set up to keep those with money and power in their positions and to pave the way for their children to continue in the tradition”. Its so obvious that most of the republicans have the superiority complex and how dare anyone try to change what is right and good an “american” (well so was slavery at one time) . All this mess is retarded.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/texast21/ texast21

    hell, her own daughter’s baby’s daddy said that Palin called her own son retarded. He said when she came home at times she would ask, where is my retarded baby? Of course the retard denies it!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shoutout13/ Shoutout13

    Palin and most Republicans choose to be “conveniently offended”. When it suits them, they can criticize President Obama using a teleprompter but overlook or downplay Sarah “kickin the teleprompter ol’ school style (using her hand as a cheat sheet.) The same people who said nothing when Bush passed a bailout for irresponsible businesses (by the way, since it’s taxpayer money, shouldn’t taxpayers get to “vote” on it? Just a thought.) overlook the fact that many of those same people who helped cause the financial mess used taxpayer money to throw expensive parties disguised as “business gatherings” or pay out massive bonuses while the unemployment status of many other Americans grew.

    Now that the hard job of fixing the mess is being addressed, suddenly a tea party (covert republican strategy to try to make President Obama appear to be a bad President by throwing up obstacles and marketing themselves as supposedly being neither Democrat nor Republican. Just “outraged” ordinary Americans with no ulterior motives) shows their true republican roots by forgetting that Bush was the original person who started the Corporate Welfare line by initiating the bailout’s resulting taxation without the taxpaying voter’s representation.

    It would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic but at tea party rallies they even draw a Hitler mustache on pictures of President Obama. Those same people’s “amnesia” allows them to forget that Hitler stood for the opposite of what President Obama stands for (does anyone with an IQ above that of a 3 year old think that Hitler would tolerate a man of color in office? If anything, these covert racists are revealing their own fears of a black man in office disproving the stereotypes and lies that keep racism going. After all, until now, signs like swastikas were used to try to intimidate blacks. Now, conveniently, they are being used in an ironic comparison. And if this weren’t about race, why such a dramatically racially opposite person as Hitler in comparison to the President?)

    It’s a safe bet that Sarah’s convenient offense was simply an excuse to continue to try to chip away at the President’s effectiveness by removing those who are working with him. She’s offended when Rahm uses the same word that Limbaugh did but now it’s supposed to be ok because of the context in which Limbaugh used it.

    Makes you wonder what happened to the philosophy of whether you agree, he’s our President and deserves respect. Where’s the respect or, even if you truly disagree with the President, at least civility? Just goes to show that “All men are created equal” has a long way to go in actual practice. This was not about Rahm, or what he said (by the way, I think he should have been reprimanded for using the “R” word but being fired is overkill) this was about who he was associated with and a hypocritical political opportunity to stage yet another “convenient offense”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mr219/ mr219

    i don’t think sarah palins son is a retard,he just happens to be the son of a very dumb b***h.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/deshawzn/ deshawzn

    Ok this is weak news that doesnt affect the lives of black communities. No one cares about Sarah Palin or her family. This guy let retard slip out his mouth and this chick gets offended like he directed that s**t to her family or special needs individuals with learning disabilities. I never read about her having President Obama’s back. Our president is too busy dealing with real issues to help the ppl then deal with this b***h being mad cause someone said something insensitive deal with it and get over it b***h! Thats what bush told everyone when he left this country in dismay.

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