Palin Says Rahm Emanuel Should be Fired for 'Retarded' Remark
- David Sessions, Contributor, Posted 02/2/10
A week after the Wall Street Journal reported that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called liberals planning to run attack ads against Obama "f---ing retarded," Sarah Palin caught wind of the statement. Saying she heard about it from a "patriot" in Andover, Massachusetts, Palin excoriated Emanuel on her Facebook page and called for his resignation.
"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," Palin wrote.
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Emanuel apologized to Tim Shriver, the head of the Special Olympics, for the remark.
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She is completely right, Its insenstive and wrong. The correct term is, however, mentally retarded, that doesn't mean your stupid just that your development has been retarded. That doesn't mean they should be insulted. They have feelings too. What an idiot