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Monday, February 8, 2010

Politics / Ethics Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Exception

Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM

When can you use the word "retard"? You can use it when you're being satirical. For instance, it's not okay for Rahm Emanuel to say that liberal activists are "fucking retarded" in a private meeting because 1. that's mean and 2. he's a Democrat. But it is okay for Rush Limbaugh to describe a meeting between Emanuel and advocates for the developmentally disabled as “a retard summit at the White House," and to use the word "retard" forty times on his show because, um... I'll let Sarah Palin explain it...

"[Limbaugh] was using satire... I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards’ and we did know that Rahm Emanuel has been reported, did say that. there is a big difference there."

So... it's okay to call someone a retard if you're making fun of them, if you're being satirical, but it's not okay to call someone a retard if you simply disagree with that person. Now the allowable use of "retard" could get complicated, of course, if you're using "retard" satirically to mock someone with whom you disagree. Better to play it safe and stick to leotarded.

ALSO: Rahm apologizes...

 

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One most certainly is allowed liberal use of the word retard when referring to Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin or anyone who actually gives a crap what they have to say.
Posted by iwouldprefernotto on February 8, 2010 at 10:16 AM · Report
2
Amen, temblors.
Posted by ujfoyt on February 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM · Report
3
Drug induced Bimbaugh is the real retard...
Posted by roncharles on February 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM · Report
4
Really it's insulting to compare these ratfuckkers to our disabled brethren.
Posted by sueno on February 8, 2010 at 1:07 PM · Report
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Transcripts of Palin saying anything seem to confirm that she's fucking developmentally disabled.
Posted by Beer Batter on February 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM · Report
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And to think that I once was all for Sarah. How wrong can any one person be. I'd still do her, though. Crazy women are the best.
Posted by ujfoyt on February 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM · Report
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For my next birthday, I would like a dictionary written entirely by Sarah Palin.

She has got the most gosh darned delightful definition of "satire" since Lynndie England threw Allah's Pants Off Dance Off 2005 for all those bored terrorists she was taking care of at Gitmo. If she hadn't made sure they got their Jesus-given right to drop trou and dry hump each other at gunpoint they might have gotten really, REALLY bored!

That's when your secret prisoners of war start writing nasty letters to the Reader's Digest. And that, my friends, is headache and a half.
Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on February 9, 2010 at 4:49 AM · Report
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Palin's got her nose way too far up Limbag's ass-crack. Feel sorry for her little boy; he got it from his mommy, and now he has to live with her.
Posted by Lefty McGee on February 9, 2010 at 9:36 PM · Report

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