Stephen Colbert calls Sarah Palin, 'Retarded'

Then why would it be "ok" for Rush Limbaugh to say it and not Colbert?

Double standards abound when one is defended for it and two others are not.

I didn't clarify well enough in my first post. Limbaugh shouldn't have used it either, no one should. No double standards there.

..and Palin. Sorry :/

Then tell that to Sarah Palin, right? Since she is certainly using them thus proving the accusation to be true

She probably feels entitled to use it because her son has Down Syndrome, because she feels like she "understands" the word beyond the contemporary. The real problem is that she is defending someone like Limbaugh, who is using it in directly to offend.

That was the whole point that Colbert was making that the problem was that she was defending Limbaugh so, it should be just the same when Colbert used it in the same way. That was the only reason he used it in the forst place.

It either proves the statement that Colbert used about her if she didn't realize the contradiction she was making by applying that double standard.

Or just highlights her hypocrisy and selfishness that she gets to choose who can use it and who can't. It only shows that she doesn't care who is offended even if her child is suffering because she only wants what advantages she can use from it to score some political points

Get over it. The word "retard" means slow. ie. The wind retarded the motion of the boat. So I don't really see what the problem is; people with mental handicaps technically are mentally slow. If you take offense to someone telling the truth, then you don't actually have a problem with the words they said, you have a problem with accepting reality.

I really like that response.

In current psychiatric practice, the term “mental retardation” is a medical definition determined by impairment and limitations in adaptive functioning in the areas of communication, self-care, social activities, academics, and many other areas of observation. The term is used so broadly in contemporary conversation that usage is no longer based primarily on assumptions about specific behaviors of people who have mental retardation – just the general assumption that retardation is bad, something to be avoided, and things, ideas or people described as retarded should be excluded from the attention of non-retarded people. When you or someone refers to something that is bad, uninteresting, not worth your time, etc and says "retarted", you share the assumption that someone who has a mental disability is bad, uninteresting, not worth your time, etc.

I'm not sure what your trying to prove here, but my point still stands. Mental retardation IS bad. The fact that some people can't see that is solely because of their feelings toward that particular individual due to him/her being your son/daughter or sibling. Just because one might have strong feelings towards someone does not change facts. This is still an acceptance issue whether you like it or not. And the reason they used retarded in mental retardation is because retard means slow, clearly.

The word implies that the mentally disabled are bad. Not just the disability, but the person who has the disability. It is not just the word that is hurtful; it is that the word implies that the person being referenced is a lesser than being. And you're right, in one definition the word "retard" it means slow, but like my previous response, it is also a medical definition. Most of the people who use the word "retard" don't refer to something being slowed, like the definition you refer to, but use it to mean ableist things.

So your saying that we're all equal?

You and others like you don't seem to get it. We (the left) want Sarah to make money with her moronic messages. We want her to be the face of the GOP and tea baggers everywhere. We want her to run for president, assuring a massive landslide victory for President Obama. Sarah Palin is the best thing to happen to liberal politics since, well, ever.

No, I think Pig is on to something there. One should never, ever, underestimate the power of stupidity...especially where large crowds are concerned. Both so-called liberals, conservatives, and various third-party wannabes have demonstrated this quite well in the past.

As my patron-saint says so eloquently, "If you act like a dumbshit, they'll treat you like an equal."

Exactly, I wish people would just stop paying attention to her.

In time though, in time. In a year or two she'll run out of media stunts and be completely irrelevant.

Apparently she is only offended when people she doesn't like use it, like Rahm Emanuel, but when Rush Limbaugh uses it then she is ok with it.

That kind of "selective taking of offense" is par for the course in her standards like saying "a charismatic guy with a teleprompter" right before she reads notes off of her hand.

Since she's so "mavericky," she doesn't have to follow rules that she says others should and she gets to pick and choose who should follow them.

I like the way you said it better.

That's a good tip, but this user clipped directly to a l ink from Comedy Central.

For me to change it, without asking or without warning, would be a violation of my own personal code of ethics ... no matter the fact that HULU seems to have an arrangement to play these segmented clips.

The real issue to me, Ras, is simply that the information he has presented to the community in the description field is false. Still, whether this user cares to change it is not up to me. All I can do is set the record straight and hope for the best.

Regardless, your actions demonstrate the very best aspect of online communities and social networking. (At least when it comes to helping others to get the information out.)

Cheers, and thanks for caring. Onward!

OMG! Did someone really vote this down?! .. Ahahahahaha!!!!

thanks for the info derk!

Cool. You should also change your description ...

Grow a set please.

wish i could vote that up 10 more times.

I think 'retarded' says more about her intelligence than 'stupid', but you're absolutely correct. All I'm saying is the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.