Sarah Palin Upset Over Family Guy Down Syndrome Jokes
Family Guy this week poked a little fun at Sarah Palin. Add them to the list of people that do (ie. most everyone). IF you haven’t seen the Family Guy episode (I don’t blame you as I’m tired of the show too actually), Chris goes on a date with a girl who has Down Syndrome. While he is getting ready for his big date the talking baby of the show, Stewie does a performance of “Down Syndrome Girl.”
Then on the date when Chris asks about her family she replies her father is an accountant and her mother is the former governor of Alaska. An obvious dig at Sarah Palin’s family.
Palin of course is going to respond to this. On Palin’s Facebook page, she says the show “felt like another kick in the gut.” Much deeper than maybe you find on Facebook most days like diets that work.
Her daughter Bristol, also responded with “insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges many of us will never confront. . . . Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them?”
The oddest thing is that Family Guy is a Fox show, and Sarah Palin has just started working for Fox News. Obviously they would talk about it on air.
Nobody can possibly fault Palin for being upset in my opinion, but of course you have to watch her to see if she is going to make a fool of herself over it anyways.
On the O’Reilly Show he asked Palin why she’s calling for Rahm Emanuel to step down for Emanuel’s use of the word “retard,” while she continues to defend Rush Limbaugh, who has used a variation of the word at least 40 times.
Palin: “As I have explained, he was using satire — using the R word so he could bring to light what it was that Rahm Emmanuel was calling other people . . . “
