EMILY's List slaps back at Sarah Palin: "Who Are You Calling A 'Radical?'"

EMILY's List, the political action committee aimed at electing pro-choice Democratic women to public office, is launching a new ad taking aim at former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her comments calling its supporters a "cackle of rads."

The ad is the second in the group's "Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me" series.

Sarah Shakespeare insults Muslims, New York and English

Governor Quitter was at it early this morning, Tweeting the following:

Never mind the religious bigotry inherent in telling "peace loving Muslims" what they should think....REFUDIATE???!! Oh dear. How did Wasilla not beat out Scranton? And since when is Alaska American's "heartland"? The woman loves word props.

Not enough to let it go, she doubles down:


On the facts of the issue, it's not a "Ground Zero" mosque. Quoting LGF: "It should be pointed out (again) that the “Ground Zero mosque” these idiots are ranting about is actually a proposed community center with an auditorium, swimming pool, and restaurants, in addition to a mosque. It would be housed in an existing 13-story building that’s two blocks away from Ground Zero and has no view of the area; there are two very big buildings in between the proposed community center and Ground Zero."

The facts be damned in ZombieLand, the head zombie goes right at it again:


It's becoming a firestorm of controversy. She apparently refudiates her original Tweet and deletes it. Apparently pride in one's own stupidity has its limits. At this point, the refudiations are all over Twitter.




Now she's getting doubly-dumped on. Not just for her religious ignorance but for her Bushian abuse of the language:


Does she take the criticism humbly? Does she deflect it with an "I'm not perfect"? A "sorry"? I'd say not:


SHAKESPEARE! SHAKESPEARE! She just compared herself and her (losing) wrestling match with the English language to Shakespeare.

Cue Olbermann and Ebert:




This woman wants to be a serious candidate for the Presidency? Do we really want to go back to Stupidville so soon?

In a positive development, CBS and NBC have refused to air this bigoted, vulgar, racist, fear-mongering video.



screencaps from PalinGates

Racism? What racism? No racism in Sarah Palin's tea party world.

On tuesday, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning the racism it sees as coming from certain elements of the Tea Party.

Of course, Mrs. tea Party Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin has derided the resolution and denied any hint of racism coming from the movement she's trying to turn into her own campaign committee. "I am saddened by the NAACP's claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America's Constitutional rights are somehow 'racists,'" Palin wrote in a Facebook note.

To Palin, Teabaggers aren't racist because they don't shout "Nigger!". Most of them don't, anyway. But don't forget this guy at a Palin rally in PA in 2008. (h/t Cesca)

But it's not about screaming the N-word anymore. Flashback to Lee Atwater's comments about race. About how it's not necessary, or wise,to shout that anymore. Now they use code words. They all know what it means.

You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger"

And the Tea Party uses code words. We want to "take our country back". From whom? Who has the country now, and why aren't they American?

So Palin sees no racism. Then how about Erick Erickson, founder of RedState.com, CNN contributor and known race-baiter? today, Erickson suggested a return to the Nixon/Atwater Southern strategy of using code words to appeal to Southern whites, and their like-minded brethern by bringing back the Willie Horton ads.

Media Matters

"King Samir Shabazz Should Be 2010's Willie Horton," CNN contributor and RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson wrote of the manufactured scandal over the Justice Department's handling of the New Black Panther Party case: "Republican candidates nationwide should seize on this issue. The Democrats are giving a pass to radicals who advocate killing white kids in the name of racial justice and who try to block voters from the polls."

Erickson added: "The Democrats will scream racism. Let them. Republicans are not going to pick up significant black support anyway."

Who is King Samir Shabazz? He's the Black Panther who showed up at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 and launched cries of voter intimidation. The Department of Justice investigated, found he was engaged in improper intimidation activities and acted. They placed an injunction banning him from any Philadelphia polling place for the 2012 elections.

The conservative Smear Machine has picked up on this, accusing the DOJ of not doing enough and blowing the racial dog whistle.

Here's Fox News' Megyn Kelly working herself into a lather because one of her guests was not vetted well enough and had the temerity to suggest that Kelly was perhaps overeacting.

ThinkProgress
This afternoon, Kelly invited New York Post columnist — and regular Fox contributor — Kirsten Powers to debate the importance of this story. Kelly bemoaned that “no one seems to give a darn” about the allegations promulgated by former Bush DoJ lawyer J. Christian Adams. The conservative activist claims that the Obama Justice Department dropped voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party due to racial considerations. Contrary to the claims, the Obama DoJ has issued an injunction against the member of the NBPP who was seen engaging in voter intimidation tactics, prohibiting him “from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of any Philadelphia polling place through 2012.”

Powers effectively dismantled the faux scandal for what it is, telling Kelly, “You can put me in the same category of people who don’t really give a darn.” “You don’t seem to know what you’re talking about,” Kelly immediately responded, growing more enraged as the two wrestled, jabbed, and bickered over the facts:

POWERS: The minute I challenge you, you tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about?

KELLY: Because you don’t.

POWERS: You just want people to come on and just agree with you –

KELLY: No, I want informed people.

POWERS: — that what you’ve been doing and the way you’ve been completely doing the “scary black man thing.”

Powers told Kelly, “I don’t remember people screaming” about the Bush administration’s miscarriages of justice in the Civil Rights Division. “Don’t make me cut your mic,” Kelly threatened at one point. Watch the showdown:

What racism? What code words? What dog whistles?

Olbermann deconstructs.

Sarah Palin makes word salad, criticizes Obama for doing exactly what she claims she did

via Cesca
This could be the biggest word salad Sarah Palin has ever delivered. It's literally all over the place. She explains how she, as governor, personally forced Exxon to pay victims of the Valdez but then suggests that the president's BP escrow fund is "government overreach."



And the location of the the speech? The Texas Oil Palace.

Favorite salad quotes:

"Such oversight is in the best industry of our nation and the public and industry."

"I want this most exceptional country in the nation to be free, to be prosperous..."

"...I think Obama is kind of flirting with also, some government overreach. We are a rule of laws, not a rule of presidential fiats that I think President Obama would rather have sometimes, it seems."

We are "a rule of laws?"

Oh, the irony....

Sarah Palin in front of the Latin word for "truth".

* facepalm *

Sarah Palin is a lying idiot

Sarah Palin is lying through her teeth about Drill Baby, Drill. In the wake of the largest poil disaster ever, she now claims that DBD was about "safe" on-shore drilling, not about offshore drilling. She tweeted:



My question is, hasn't she ever heard of the internet? Your old quotes are out there for everybody. Like this one from October 21, 2008.

And we will safely drill for the billions of barrels of oil that we have underground, including off-shore.

(APPLAUSE)

We will drill here, we'll drill now, and that's when you start the chant. Yes.

AUDIENCE: Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill!

And this one from the day before.

PALIN: And whether Joe Biden approves it or not, we will develop clean coal technology and we will safely drill for the billions of barrels of oil that are warehoused underground, including our offshore sources. We will drill here and drill now. (Cheers, applause.) Drill, baby, drill. Drill, baby, drill.

And this one from three days before that.

PALIN: Drill, baby, drill. That's right.

(APPLAUSE)

AUDIENCE: Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill!

(APPLAUSE)

PALIN: It also means safely tapping into our offshore sources, safely, environmentally safe.

The woman is a hypocrite, a liar and an idiot. Does she think we are also?

Palin endorses anti-government Tea Partier who took $270K in subsidies

Seattle Times

A former NFL player turned farmer, (Clint) Didier has repeatedly called the federal government "a predator." He vows to oppose the "Marxist utopia" he says Democrats want to create -- "where everyone is taken care of from womb to tomb."

But Didier himself has cashed in on one big government aid program. He has received nearly $273,000 in federal farm subsidies since 1995, according to a database of U.S. Department of Agriculture subsidies maintained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

On her Twitter account, Sarah Palin described Didier as a "patriot running for U.S. Senate to serve his state & our country for all the right reasons!" She didn't mention his farming subsidies.

Ah, logic.

Yeah, like watch out if he becomes President or something

Watch out if Obama ever gets in a position where he can, you know, do something.

She's the Baskin-Robbins of stupid. 31 Flavors.

Sarah Palin is a stupid, stupid idiot.

Benen via Cesca

On Fox News last night, Bill O'Reilly and former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin (R) discussed their belief that "America is a Christian nation." Palin -- who I'd swear is getting dumber -- offered viewers this gem:

"[O]ur Constitution, of course, essentially acknowledging that our unalienable rights don't come from man; they come from God. So this document is set up to protect us from a government that would ever infringe upon our rights to have freedom of religion and to be able to express our faith freely."

First, "inalienable" isn't in the Constitution; it's in the Declaration of Independence. Second, the Constitution makes literally no references to our rights "coming from God." In fact, the Constitution doesn't mention God, Christianity, the Ten Commandments, or Scripture at all. Palin doesn't have any idea what she's talking about.

Specifically defending the practice of the federal government encouraging Americans to engage in worship, Palin went on to argue:

"I think we should kind of keep this clean, keep it simple, go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments. It's pretty simple."

Perhaps "simple" in the idiotic sense, but not in reality. For one thing, if we take Palin's advice and honor what the Founding Fathers thought, we wouldn't have a National Day of Prayer. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison explicitly rejected state-sponsored prayer days. Palin has this backwards because she doesn't know what she's talking about.

The worst thing that could happen to Sarah Palin is for John McCain to die in the next 18 months. The collective shudder down the backs of mainstream America will be palpable. It's one thing to have an idiot for a vice-president. But for Americans to internalize that this nudnik could have been in the Oval Office during this time of tremendous change and risk?

McCain dying in the next year or so will put a dagger in the Palin Tea Party's (somehow still slightly breathing) hopes of being taken seriously.

Speaking of seriously, Keith Olbermann Tweeted this recently. It's a chat from the Washington Post with Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips.

Check out the last question/response:

Maryland: I am sorry but your answer of "I think the political class is afraid of the Tea Party movement. After all, we get people out as volunteers and get them to the polls. For them, it cannot be the same as usual in D.C. A lot of them are going to be unemployed after the first of the year and that does scare them" is really offensive. This us vs. them mentality is really repulsive to me. I am a hard-working middle class American and I don't agree with anything you are saying, and I have a right not agree with you. But you splitting the citizenry into classes of "elites/political class/Washington insiders/liberals" vs "real Americans" is just plain wrong! and that's the problem with your movement.

Liberals are just as American as you are and you and your movement has no right to question people's patriotism or Americanness just because they disagree with you.

Judson Phillips: Yes we do. You folks in the left do far worse. Patriotism is not something that cannot be measured. It can be. And you folks on the left, as a general rule are not patriotic. You do not love this country. You are embarrassed by us.

I hate to tell you this, but those of us in fly over country are the real Americans.

There's the Tea Party vision of America folks.

Sarah Palin is an idiot. Inadvertantly calls Fox "lamestream media".

Just to clarify, calling Fox News stupid doesn't make her an idiot. Her lack of comprehension makes her an idiot.

via Cesca

"This is the problem with that lamestream media throughout our country, it's not just this issue but so many. One of the media outlets the other day just, ah, just was killin' me on this one, Sean, where they had a caption across their screen that said this Arizona law will make it -- it will make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant -- some bizarre type 'a headline like that where it was just this illustration that they just don't get it."

Sarah Palin on the Hannity Show last night

Uh, Sarah?

Hey Sarah Palin, how's that hypocritty fraudy thing workin out fer ya?

Tea Party - It's a MOVEMENT!

3000-5000 in Boston, a city of 5 million. At best 0.1%.

It's a movement.

It's a phenomenon.

Of course the Tea Party lied their asses off, placing estimates at 13,000 - 16,000.

Photos from Chicago provided via Roger Ebert. When will the media stop pretending this is significant?

Sarah Palin expresses support for Obama tax cuts at Tea Party rally

At a Tea party rally today in Boston, Sarah Palin cma eout in enthusiastic support of President Obama's tax cuts to 95% of working Americans.

MSNBC

"We need to cut taxes, so that our families can keep more of what they earn and produce and our mom-and-pops then, our small businesses, can reinvest according to our own priorities, and hire more people and let the private sector grow and thrive and prosper."

It's refreshing that the governor, who has criticized President Obama on taxes, can now embrace the sweeping tax cuts that he's made.

PoliticFact checked Obama's claim:

"We cut taxes. We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families. We cut taxes for small businesses," Obama said. "We cut taxes for first-time homebuyers. We cut taxes for parents trying to care for their children. We cut taxes for 8 million Americans paying for college."

The key word in his statement is "working." Obama's claim is based on a tax cut intended to offset payroll taxes. Under the stimulus bill, single workers got $400, and working couples got $800. The Internal Revenue Service issued new guidelines to reduce withholdings for income tax, so many workers saw a small increase in their checks in April 2009.

During the campaign, the independent Tax Policy Center researched how Obama's tax proposals would affect workers. It concluded 94.3 percent of workers would receive a tax cut under Obama's plan based on the tax credit to offset payroll taxes. According to the analysis, the people who wouldn't get a tax cut are those who make more than $250,000 for couples or $200,000 for a single person.

CBS News highlights a problem: although 95% of working families got tax cuts, very few know about them

Here's the poll question: "In general, do you think the Obama Administration has increased taxes for most Americans, decreased taxes for most Americans or have they kept taxes the same for most Americans?"

The answer:
• 24 percent of respondents said they INCREASED taxes.
• 53 percent said they kept taxes the same
• And 12 percent said taxes were decreased.

Of people who support the grassroots, "Tea Party" movement, only 2 percent think taxes have been decreased, 46 percent say taxes are the same, and a whopping 44 percent say they believe taxes have gone up.

So why don't more people know about them? Go back to the top of the story. Or listen to the rhetoric:

MSNBC

"Is this what their 'change' is all about?" Palin asked. "I want to tell 'em, nah, we'll keep clinging to our Constitution and our guns and religion — and you can keep the change."

The change is here, some are just willfully ignoring it.

Woman-of-the-people Palin demands Lear Jets

MSNBC

Sarah Palin will get first-class airfare for two and three rooms at a luxury hotel when she gives a speech in June for a university foundation.

And organizers better not forget to stock her lectern with two water bottles and bendable straws.

The details of Palin's contract with the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation were contained in five pages of the document retrieved from a campus trash bin by students who heard administrators might be shredding documents related to the speech.

She demands pre-screened questions (it's hard to write the answers to questions you don't know yet on your hand), first class airfare or a private jet ("The private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger"), 3 luxury hotel rooms, a fleet of black SUV's or Town Cars, no spotlights or autographs, unopened bottled still water (2 bottles) and bendable straws in the wide wooden (not thin or plexi) lectern.

Plus, though she's not getting it in this case) a speaking fee of $100,000.

She's already made $12 million since she quit as governor.

Very populist.

Wingnuts tout the awesome power of Palin's FULLY OPERATIONAL battle station

The racists-posing-as-Patriots over at Confederate Yankee have gone farther over the deep end. Now they're jumping on board with David Vitter ("I'll take a TV personality over a community organizer every day") and Sarah Palin in endorsing Palin's "nuclear experience" as the governor of Alaska over Obama's experience in crafting legislation limiting loose nukes.

He simply doesn't know when to shut up.

Palin's view of nuclear weapons was shaped by her stint as the commander in chief of the Alaskan National Guard, our first line of defense against Soviet nuclear weapons. Obama has held his same views since he was a stoner college student and has showed no signs of maturing.

Which of the two would you trust?

Update: I stand corrected. Palin does not have any experience with the AANG. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion AANG, Fort Greely is (literally) the first line of defense against Soviet nukes with 25-30 anti-ICBMs, but they do not report to the governor.

Obama? Still utterly untrustworthy, and getting more so every day.

So first Bob Owens (CY) says that Palin has more nuclear experience because of the Air Alaska National Guard. That in itself is hilarious.

THEN, he corrects himself because he was wrong - Palin was not in command of the AANG. But Obama is still untrustworthy. Prolly cause he's black.

So first, the President has less experience than the governor of Alaska and then, when it turns out the governor of Alaska has no experience, Obama is still less experienced anyway.

If these nuts even get 20% of the vote, we're in trouble as a nation. Willfully dense ignorance of basic facts is worse than stupidity.

I'd like to point these guys to:

The Lugar-Obama Proliferation and Threat Reduction Initiative, signed into Law on Thursday, January 11, 2007 by President Bush.

Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department’s ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.

Loose nukes, boys. As a senator, Obama worked with the Republicans to secure loose nuclear material that can fall into terrorsit hands.

'Course them confederate boys don't need none'a that there thinkin' stuff.

$100 says they say nookyuhluhr too. Just like Sarah from Wasilla.

Drilling response shows GOP doesn't want solutions, only wants to harm Obama

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, one of Sarah Palin's rallying cries was "Drill baby, drill" - a call to open up the U.S. coastline to oil exploration and drilling.

This is a reversal of a 2008 campaign promise to protect our coastline. So, isn't this a win for Republicans? Shoudln't they be thrilled?

Politico

Sarah Palin is blasting President Barack Obama’s oil drilling decision as a “stall, baby, stall” plan that is little more than a cover for enactment of climate legislation now pending in the Senate.

“I’ve got to call it like I see it,” she wrote. “The administration’s sudden interest in offshore drilling is little more than political posturing designed to gain support for job-killing energy legislation soon to come down the pike. I’m confident that GOP senators will not take the bait.”

Then there's this whopper from John Boehner where he criticizes the President for DELAYING energy production.

The Hill via Cesca

Obama's decision "continues to defy the will of the American people," Boehner said in a statement, pointing to the president's decision to open Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters, while leaving Pacific and many Alaskan waters largely closed to exploration.

"It's long past time for this Administration to stop delaying American energy production off all our shores and start listening to the American people who want an “all of the above” strategy to produce more American energy and create more jobs," the House GOP leader added. "Republicans are listening to the American people and have proposed a better solution – the American Energy Act – which will lower gas prices, increase American energy production, promote new clean and renewable sources of energy, and encourage greater efficiency and conservation."

Are you kidding me? According to Republicans, there is literally no good solution to any problem, save Obama killing himself and leaving the Presidency to Zombie Ronald Reagan.

Drilling: Repubs criticized Obama for being opposed. Now that he's opened it up, he gets blasted.

Health care: the 2010 HCR Act is based in large part on Mitt Romney's Massachusetts plan which was based largely on the Heritage Foundation's counter-proposal to the Clinton health plan.

They're getting much of what they want, and it's not enough. What they really want is Obama's hide, the good of the country doesn't even finish a close second.

Bastards.

Wingnuts WAAAY off the reservation, deep end and other sanity metaphors of your choice

For the second time this week, I'm addressing the topic of the growing trend of right-wing terrorism. It's real.

Daily Beast

On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he's a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say "he may be the Antichrist."

Ezra

There is a danger to the sort of rhetoric the GOP has used over the past few months. When Rep. Devin Nunes begs his colleagues to say "no to socialism, no to totalitarianism and no to this bill"; when Glenn Beck says the bill "is the end of America as you know it"; when Sarah Palin says the bill has "death panels" -- that stuff matters.

And the stuff on talk radio, of course, was worse. So take the universe of people who really respect right-wing politicians and listen to right-wing media. Most of them will hear this stuff and turn against the bill. Some will hear this stuff and really be afraid of the bill. And then a small group will hear this stuff and believe it and wonder whether they need to do something more significant to stop this bill from becoming law. And then a couple will actually follow through. And one will cut the gas lines leading to house of Rep. Tom Perriello's brother after seeing a tea partyer post the address online.

And then a local Tea Party leader will write: "Oh well, collateral damage." Of course, he'll later remove the comment, when called on it.

Then there are the real nutcases at sites like Confederate Yankee who have gone as far as to suggest the military turning their guns on their fellow countrymen because of the boogeymen created by the wingnuts.

We live in a nation full of freshly-experienced combat veterans and graying patriots alike that still remember their oaths to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The taste of liberty is much sweeter for them, having been to parts of the world where such things cannot be taken for granted. Pray that we are not required to call upon their service in a struggle against our own countrymen. God protect us all if we are forced to such extremes by a power-mad clique intent on transforming citizens into dependent subjects.

I have some hope that the courts will respond favorably to the many states suing to eradicate this unconstitutional scheme, or that November's elections will destroy the Democratic majority and lay the ground for a full repeal of a bad law designed purely for one party's political gain.

The thought of the morally-required alternative is almost too much to bear.

Some of the commenters have suggested armed revolution, disclosing the home address of congresspeople who voted yes on HCR, assaulting congresspeople.... it's insane. Literally. These are domestic terrorists.

Sarah Palin is identifying legislators who voted yes on a map marked with GUNSIGHTS.

Glenn Beck is repeatedly using violent rhetoric to oppose health care.

Don't forget the noose fax sent to Congressman Clyburn, and the disgusting voicemail messages left for Bart Stupak. But the right takes one of two approaches. One, "We don't know for sure who did it. Maybe progressives did this to blame us". Or two, "This is what happens when you take our liberty, enslave us and kill America".

Lunacy.

Madness.

Criminal.

Terrorist.

Hypocrite watch: Palin part 624

Huff Post

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system.

"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska. "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"

The irony, one guesses, is that Palin now views Canada's health care system as revolting: with its government-run administration and 'death-panel'-like rationing. Clearly, however, she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska.

Gran'baby Palin has gov't-provided health insurance

via Shannyn Moore

The dangers of "death panels" were explained to Americans on Sarah Palin's Facebook page. Oh, sweet Lord, she must not sleep at night...her grandson could be the next victim of "socialized medicine".

Recently released documents from the custody battle show clearly Tripp Palin Johnston has socialized health care through Indian Health Services and the Alaska Native Medical Center.

Palin's family has federally funded health care afforded to them...but if you had it Barack Obama might kill you. Put this on the list of Palin's Greatest Hypocritical Hits...volume 97.

BURN! "Family Guy" actress with Downs hits back at Palin

My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the "Extra Large Medium" episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine's day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in " Smudge" but I was a blonde in "Life Goes On". I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line "I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska" was very funny. I think the word is "sarcasm".

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.

Ouch.

Two questions: 1) Doesn't Seth McFarlane get credit for using a Downs actress to voice a Downs character? He could have easily used any voice actor, but it brings some real depth to it to use an actor with Downs. And one who understands humor, sarcasm and satire to boot.

2) Why does Rush Limbaugh get a satire pass for using 'retard', but an actual diabled person doesn't get a satire pass when giving voice to her own disability?

Sarah is such a hypocrite. She stands for nothing other than feathering her own nest.

2/20 UPDATE*****
Seth McFarlane discusses the controversy on the season premiere of Real Time with Bill Maher