Sarah Palin had every right to be upset with Rahm Emanuel.  As mother to a baby with Down Syndrome, she was naturally upset when word reached her that the President’s chief of staff had uttered the words “f–king retards” to refer to left wing bloggers who wanted Obama to fight harder for passage of his health care plan.

She was so upset with Rahm, she demanded he be fired on the spot!

The comment, which was made in August, was first reported last week in the Wall Street Journal.  Sarah Palin, the GOP’s superstar, seized on the comment and urged that Emanuel be fired for insensitivity. Palin, a former Alaska governor and now a Fox News Channel analyst, has a son with Down syndrome.

Now, we hear from Texas, where during a particularly brutal primary campaign for the GOP Gubernatorial Nomination, Kay Bailey Hutchison accuses a Rick Perry supporter of using the “R” word.

Sarah was upset of course… but she didn’t call for him to be fired.

Palin spokesman Meg Stapleton condemned the language as “disrespectful,” but did not say that Carney should lose his job.  “While it seems few can comment on the veracity of the conversation, Gov. Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful,” Stapleton told CNN in an e-mail.  Palin, whose youngest son Trig has Down Syndrome, wrote on her Facebook page Monday that the word “retarded” is “a slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities.”  She said Emanuel’s use of the term, first reported in a Wall Street Journal article last week, was “heartbreaking” and merited his dismissal from the president’s inner circle.”

So… she wanted Rahm fired for saying the “R” word once, she SCOLDED a Perry aide for saying the word TWICE!  Imagine how PISSED she would be if some national radio commentator said it FOUR times!

LIMBAUGH: Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney tunes. And I’m not going to apologize for it, I’m just quoting Emanuel. It’s in the news. I think their big news is he’s out there calling Obama’s number one supporters f’ing retards. So now there’s going to be a meeting. There’s going to be a retard summit at the White House. Much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.

So, Sarah?  We’re waiting for your outrage.  Are you going to call for Rush to be fired for using the word?  Are you going to call what he said disrespectful?  I mean, MILLIONS of people heard what HE said, where Rahm and the Perry aide said what they said behind closed doors.

Now’s the time to show America that you are NOT living in terror that Limbaugh might say something mean about you, Sarah!  Now is the time to show that your indignation over the besmirching of your son, your precious child, and prove it’s offensive — offensive even when the titular head of your party does it!  Other Republicans have found it necessary to crawl on their bellies to the altar of Limbaugh, Sarah.  DISTINGUISH yourself from them.  Show some GUTS!  CALL OUT Limbaugh for MAKING FUN of YOUR BABY!!!

You ARE going to call for Limbaugh’s scalp, right Sarah?  Because to do otherwise would show your selective indignation — which is another way to describe “hypocrisy.”

Maybe you didn’t hear him say it, Sarah.

Here. Consider it a public service.

Now, get ANGRY, Sarah! Get VERY angry!

(On a side note:  Anyone ELSE think it’s odd that neither CNN or Faux News even MENTIONS that Limbaugh used the word four times?  Not a WORD?  Odd, that…)

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