This story is an excellent example of making up a headline to fit one’s template. Here is the headline:
Palin Camp Rips Limbaugh, Hits His “Retard” Comment As “Crude And Demeaning”
here is the actual quote:
I asked Palin spokesperson Meghan Stapleton for comment on Rush’s rant, and she emailed me this:
“Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.”
What is missing from this sentence? Does Governer Palin think that Rush Limbaugh’s “rant” as Mr Sargent refers to it amounts to: “crude and demeaning name calling”?
Do you get that from that statement? I don’t. Do you see Rush mentioned in that reply? I don’t. Do you see an attempt to make a fight between Palin & Rush where there isn’t and to take the heat off Rahm Emanuel? Yup.
This is the same type of wishful thinking reporting that allowed the Boston Globe to believe that Martha Coakley was 15 point up 9 days before the election. And apparently the wishful thinking is not confined to the left.
Guys I don’t get paid to report (but feel free to kick in here). I expect better from people who do.
Oh and by the way, lets quit this “R” word idiocy. The word people were talking about was retard. r-e-t-a-r-d. It is a perfectly good word and is defined in the dictionary here. We should as a rule treat people with respect and not be crude and insulting to others, but lets also not be afraid of words nor treat ourselves with such fragility that we can’t cope with them.
The weaker we make ourselves the weaker we will be.
Update: If I’m reading Ann Althouse right she is with me on the Palin camp rips Rush nonsense.
Update 2: Rush says the same.
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I heard it all. This is much ado about nothing. Rush was using retarded over and over but only in describing what Rahm Emanuel had done which is really much ado about nothing as well. It is nit picky to get that upset over a word no matter who says it.