Who Would Jesus Let Get Away with Using the Word “Retard?” Or, Will Sarah Be a Stand-up Gal?

Why can’t they just use a proper term like “Asshat?”  Asshat White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called a group of liberal activists “f-in' retarded” last summer for presenting  poorly conceived attack ads on healthcare reform directed at conservative Democrats.  When the news broke recently, former Governor Sarah Palin called for Emanuel’s ouster for his “slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities.”  Now we can never know for sure what Emanuel’s intent was, but we are assuming that he was advising those who have their heads so far up their own asses that they could check their fillings for mercury, to at least check their facts before presenting their views.  Emanuel has apologized for his outburst, as he will continue to do for the next three years for having no filter over his mouth, but what about Sarah’s pal Rush Limbaugh?  Limbaugh claimed that Emanuel’s remarks made it a free bonus opportunity to act like a dick, regurgitating his comments with these remarks yesterday to delight his audience:

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.

Sarah is no stranger to Limbaugh’s broadcast bile fests and has called into his show before.  Shouldn’t she call and demand an apology from Rush as well?  You can’t have it both ways, Barbie.  Our political leaders believing we can have it both ways is what has created our mess in the first place.
 They will never work together at the rate they are going now.  We can, however, demand they don’t behave like asshats.  Limbaugh, of course, spewing all hatred, all the time, IS mentally disabled, and perhaps that’s why he keeps getting a free pass.  The technical term for his illness is “dicktard.”

Update: Palin's spokesperson, via email, claims she found Limbaugh's remarks rude and demeaning.  Via email...through a spokesperson.  Say it on camera , sweetheart.