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Sarah Palin Apparently Prefers N-Word to ‘Retard’

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Despite her complete misunderstanding of the First Amendment, you almost have to admire the mavericicity of Sarah Palin‘s Dr. Laura Schlessinger defense, especially in light of the fact that Schlessinger trashed Palin on her blog during the 2008 campaign. That’s some remarkable consistency, isn’t it?

Things get a bit confusing, however, when you throw Palin’s reaction to Rahm Emanuel’s use (in private) of the word “retard” earlier this year.

Palin has thrown her support behind Dr. Laura, who quit her radio show following her uncensored use of the n-word on a broadcast last week. While Palin supporters might point to this as courageous adherence to a principle, even an imaginary one, her earlier demand for Rahm Emanuel’s firing belies that.

Her crusade against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque also indicates a less-than-steely adherence to the First Amendment, unless she’s simply separating the religulous clause from the “right of every citizen to a radio show” clause. Taken together, her acceptance of Dr. Laura’s n-word rant, lack of same for Rahm’s use of “retard,” and disregard for the religious freedom of Muslims could be interpreted as an inability to get worked up over anything she can’t see from her front porch.

The real answer, though, is probably much simpler. After Palin called for Rahm Emanuel’s head, she gave a total pass to Rush Limbaugh for the same offense. In forgiving Limbaugh, and defending Dr. Laura, Palin is just supporting “the team.”

While it was jarring to see Palin retract her mama grizzly claws and choose Limbaugh over special-needs children everywhere, she was arguably put on the spot there. In the case of Dr. Laura, Palin’s ride to the rescue was entirely voluntary, and superfluous.

While it is unclear what Palin hoped to gain by this, it’s a safe bet that she didn’t see herself having much to lose. Her supporters’ bulletproof loyalty notwithstanding, however, a double standard like this doesn’t look good for conservatives. One of them ought to come out and refudiate Palin’s unwise defense of Dr. Laura.

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  • CaptainAmerica

    Tommy Boy just can’t grasp even simple concepts.

    Rush and Dr. Laura used the words to make a point.

    Rahm used the word in a derogatory and offensive manner.

    As to the 1st Amendment and the Mosque, what part of CONGRESS SHALL PASS NO LAWS doesn’t he understand? The Fed’s can’t stop it But others can. But then most liberals don’t understand the 1st Amendment.

  • NORBIT

    So Tommy, you would appear to be all for Constitutional principles when it comes to putting a mosque at ground zero – without deference to the sensitivity of those agrieved; but not for the Constitutional principle of free-speech in censoring a spoken word which might agieve other people.

    So, is it SELECTIVE SENSITIVITY you’re advocating?

    Groups that support Liberal Democrats are “protected”, while those who don’t are branded asBigots, and the Left’s favorite Go-To – (evryone now, on cue) RACISTS!

    Does that about sum it up?

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Tommy Christopher – You are one sick son of a bitch . Go straight to hell .

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    I wonder how many Palin supporters use the word “libtard” in describing the opposition?

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    This piece of shit is even worse than you are , Christopher .

    J

    Jelperman said:
    You know what the difference is between Sarah Palin’s mouth and her vagina? Not everything that comes out of her vagina is retarded. http://tinyurl.com/2b9y9oz

  • Constantly

    tommy you are a fat fuck, not a phat fuck…get it?

  • Constantly

    Publius219 said:
    I wonder how many Palin supporters use the word “libtard” in describing the opposition?

    i prefer to call you libpussies, cuz you are.

  • Jelperman

    Apostrophe jones said:
    This piece of shit is even worse than you are , Christopher .

    J

    Can’t take it, can you!

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Go look in the mirror , you filthy subhuman piece of garbage . Awful , isn;t it ? Go cut your goddam throat .

    Jelperman said:
    You know what the difference is between Sarah Palin’s mouth and her vagina? Not everything that comes out of her vagina is retarded. http://tinyurl.com/2b9y9oz

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Feldman/1158574704 Josh Feldman

    I defer to the wise words of George Carlin on offensive language: words are meaningless until we give them meaning.

    (Which reminds me: shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd twat)

    I agree that Palin is being a hypocrite, but from the other side. If Dr. Laura wants to say “nigger” (and yes, this is my way of showing that I don’t believe in censorship), that’s her right. Compare Dr. Laura to NJ-based radio host Hal Turner. He actually encouraged people to kill judges. In the grand scheme of things, his offense is bigger than that of some old woman shooting her mouth off.

    It’s just like the Don Imus incident: I may detest what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Josh Feldman said:
    I defer to the wise words of George Carlin on offensive language: words are meaningless until we give them meaning.

    (Which reminds me: shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd twat)

    I agree that Palin is being a hypocrite, but from the other side. If Dr. Laura wants to say “nigger” (and yes, this is my way of showing that I don’t believe in censorship), that’s her right. Compare Dr. Laura to NJ-based radio host Hal Turner. He actually encouraged people to kill judges. In the grand scheme of things, his offense is bigger than that of some old woman shooting her mouth off.

    It’s just like the Don Imus incident: I may detest what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

    Did Dr Laura get arrested for saying it? Did the government come down on her? Yes it’s her right. But if sponsors don’t want to support her show anymore that’s their right also.

  • Jelperman

    Apostrophe jones said:
    Go look in the mirror , you filthy subhuman piece of garbage . Awful , isn;t it ? Go cut your goddam throat .

    Awww, did someone just rub sand in your pussy? Does your pussy still hurt?

  • lonestar77

    Captain America beat to the punch with the difference between using the word in a derogatory sense and using it to make a point.

    I know Tommy has a hard time grasping reality but the reality is 70% of the American people think it’s insensitive to build the mosque near ground zero, 62% believe it shouldn’t be built but 65% believe they have a right to build it. Those Jonesboro nuts have a constitutional right to protest at military funerals but that doesn’t mean I have to believe they should. That doesn’t mean neither I nor Palin have a hard time grasping the 1st amendment.

    Face it Tommy, a tiny minority of the public supports the building of the mosque. That puts you out there with the far, far-left crazies. Hell, even Governor we’re going to South Dakota, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Ohio woohoo Dean believes is a dumb idea.

    I know it’s a lot easier for you to just vilify people than attempt to understand the nuances of someone’s positions, but you should at least try. Otherwise, you’ll continue to be a punchline.

  • lonestar77

    Also, since you’re suddenly concerned with what you perceive as hypocrisy, I’d suggest you take a moment to analyze the hypocrisy from politicians and media folks on the left. But, that would be a never ending project and I know you have more important things to do like make up stuff about conservatives. BTW, what’s your position on Beck’s 8/28 rally? Are you in lockstep with every other lefty who thinks he shouldn’t hold it at the site he’s holding it on, on the date he’s holding it on?

  • kit9

    First, Tommy stop trying to be funny….mavericicity? Painfully, embarrassingly guilty of trying too hard. And failing miserably.

  • Raygun

    It’s only because she has no personal connection to the “N-word.” If she was a black woman, she’d feel a lot differently about how much that word hurts.

    Remember back in the day? “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,”

    If a liberal had said something like this, she be in the front line demanding his resignation.

  • Raygun

    NORBIT said:
    So Tommy, you would appear to be all for Constitutional principles when it comes to putting a mosque at ground zero – without deference to the sensitivity of those agrieved; but not for the Constitutional principle of free-speech in censoring a spoken word which might agieve other people.

    I’m gonna use the same style conservatives use with the adjacent-to-Ground Zero-mosque: “I don’t disagree with her right to do it, I just think if she does she doesn’t deserve a national platform on radio.” I’m all for Laura screaming the N-word down the street some where.

  • TfT

    Tommy apparently doesn’t know how to process information.

    Still auditioning for a position on MSNBC, I see.

    Once again, Tommy embarrasses Dan (or at least Dan should be embarrassed for hiring this level of hack).

  • Hugo Daun

    Jelperman, that little riddle never gets old.
    Truth is funnier than fiction.

  • BatBoy

    Tommy, you need to start submitting your own work instead of your “gal pal” Helen’s writings.

  • More Liberty

    Tommy wrote:
    “Her crusade against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque also indicates a less-than-steely adherence to the First Amendment, unless she’s simply separating the religulous clause from the “right of every citizen to a radio show” clause.”

    So let me get this straight Mr. Christopher, people don’t have the right to protest the Mosque? Does Palin have the right to voice her outrage? So it’s ok for people to be upset at what Dr. Laura said, but it’s not ok for people to practice their 1st Amendment right and voice their opposition to the Mosque?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

    Rush and Dr. Laura used the words to make a point.
    ________________________
    yeah, that’s right…it’s “SATIRE”!

    $arah Palin/Tonya Harding 2012!

  • shootfromthehip

    Sarah Palin is an opportunist nazi cunt who calls her own son retarded in private (SATIRE)

    Rush Limbaugh is a deaf, lying fat fuck who fucks prostitutes in the Dominican Republic on Viagra because he can’t get it up (SATIRE)

  • alamo2

    There are some really nasty people posting comments. They need to have their parents wash their mouths out with soap. Obviously, intelligent dialogue does not register with the folks above.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Watching angry White Conservative posters defend and justify angry White Conservative Talk Show hosts and failed angry White Conservative politicians over the use of RACIAL SLURS is beyond priceless.

    It’s almost surreal. As late as 2008, most White Conservatives who wanted to be taken seriously would at least use code words to voice their contempt for Black people, like “states rights,” “school choice,” or “traditional Southern heritage”…etc. Not anymore. Aryan Nation and Stormfront has nothing on some of you folks anymore. But hey, I will commend many of you for finally coming out of the closet about it. The truth is the light.

    As a registered Democrat, I sincerely hope you continue this campaign of having Republican politicians endorse the use of RACIAL SLURS.

    –Cobra

  • alamo2

    Cobra said:
    Watching angry White Conservative posters defend and justify angry White Conservative Talk Show hosts and failed angry White Conservative politicians over the use of RACIAL SLURS is beyond priceless. It’s almost surreal. As late as 2008, most White Conservatives who wanted to be taken seriously would at least use code words to voice their contempt for Black people, like “states rights,” “school choice,” or “traditional Southern heritage”…etc. Not anymore. Aryan Nation and Stormfront has nothing on some of you folks anymore. But hey, I will commend many of you for finally coming out of the closet about it. The truth is the light. As a registered Democrat, I sincerely hope you continue this campaign of having Republican politicians endorse the use of RACIAL SLURS. –Cobra

    Cobra, stay on this website and you’ll find all sorts of sick and disgusting comments. The filthy potty mouth talk comes from both sides of the aisle, but I think the conservatives have a lock on the racist commentary….

  • CynK

    Idiot commenters are everywhere.

  • shootfromthehip

    I apologize for my foul language, everyone, but I was trying to make a point that Rush and Palin cannot hide under the banner o “satire” when they both full well know what they say is not.

    Are they billed as comedians?

    NO.

    They expect us to take them seriously as news casters and politicians.

  • Drew

    Sarah Palin did not give a pass to Rush Limbaugh for using the word ‘retard’ and why she finds that word so offensive is because people who are handicapped like her son Trigg are made fun of and sometimes you can’t help but feel bad for them and I don’t blame her. I’m not offended by the word but I don’t use it to offend others

  • Drew

    there is a list of words people will find offensive though I advise them not to use them. http://www.noswearing.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs for starters

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    CaptainAmerica said:
    Tommy Boy just can’t grasp even simple concepts. Rush and Dr. Laura used the words to make a point. Rahm used the word in a derogatory and offensive manner. As to the 1st Amendment and the Mosque, what part of CONGRESS SHALL PASS NO LAWS doesn’t he understand? The Fed’s can’t stop it But others can. But then most liberals don’t understand the 1st Amendment.

    As Jackie Trehorn correctly stated…Dr. Laura didn’t get arrested. She didn’t get fined by the FCC. According to her, she CHOSE to quit her radio show.

    She is being CRITICIZED. Criticism is ALSO protected by the 1st Amendment.

    But most of the right wingers in here aren’t concerned about “freedom of speech.” What they REALLY want is “freedom FROM criticism.”

    It just doesn’t work that way.

    –Cobra

  • Raygun

    All the white guys talking about how it’s ok to use the n-word to make a point, I’d like to see you go tell that to someone black.

  • sarainitaly

    i think there is a huge difference between using a word to make a point, and calling a group of people a hurtful name in a derogatory and offensive manner. Everyone has the right to use either word, the question is, should they?

    I also think there is a huge difference between the Chief of Staff, the right hand man to the President of the United States and some shock jock/talk radio personality.

    It is ridiculous to tell anyone they don’t have the *right* to use the n-word – they do. Most just choose not to, out of respect (because it is hurtful and ugly). But the crazy thing is some black people use the word themselves, and other colorful words like cracker, ho and bitch, freely. Which I do believe was Dr. Laura’s point. And Palin’s.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Why would powerful, prominent, popular, prestigious Sarah Palin waste a Tweet on old Dr. Laura? Feminist principles? First Amendment issues? Fun & games to get loony lefties all wee-wee’d up? You decide.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    sarainitaly said:
    I also think there is a huge difference between the Chief of Staff, the right hand man to the President of the United States and some shock jock/talk radio personality.

    Sarah Palin DEMANDED that Rahm Emmanuel be FIRED for allegedly using the “r-word” in a private conversation (no audio or videotape is available of Emmanuel actually using the word, for all of you Breitbarters out there.)

    Sarah Palin not only cuts Limbaugh a break for the “r-word”, but ENDORSES and CONDONES Dr. Laura for using the “n-word” ELEVEN TIMES on the public airwaves.

    You don’t see a problem in your conclusions, Sarah in Italy?

    sarainitaly said:
    It is ridiculous to tell anyone they don’t have the *right* to use the n-word – they do. Most just choose not to, out of respect (because it is hurtful and ugly). But the crazy thing is some black people use the word themselves, and other colorful words like cracker, ho and bitch, freely. Which I do believe was Dr. Laura’s point. And Palin’s.

    Sarah, so…using the Palin/Schlessinger argument, the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Christian Identity Movement and various White Power, neo-nazi and skinhead groups are simply using the wrong public relations strategy. Whenever they shout racist, or anti-semitic slurs, they should simply PREFACE their rants by saying, “some of those people use these words themselves.”

    Is that the point that Dr. Laura was trying to make that Sarah Palin endorsed? Do YOU subscribe to that point of view?

    –Cobra

  • Haimerej

    So, I guess “nigger” is the new “fuck”?

    Sticks and stones people.

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