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My guess, no one thinks she was making fun of retarded people and everyone knows she was making fun of Sarah Palin and her campaign to neuter the english langua
by fnid2 17y ago
My guess, no one thinks she was making fun of retarded people and everyone knows she was making fun of Sarah Palin and her campaign to neuter the english language.
- dwwoelfel 17y agoI think that she was making fun of both people like Sarah Palin and retarded people. See this quote: "The only problem with adopting a retarded child is that the retarded child, when you are 80 is well, still retarded"
- skybrian 17y agoHow is that making fun of anyone? It's true, and people who actually take care of retarded children and adults have to come to terms with it. Who's going to take care of them when you can't anymore? The shock comes from finding selfishness in something that isn't selfish at all. How many people would volunteer to take care of retarded children they don't know for even a day?
- dwwoelfel 17y agoIt's making fun of them because she's doing it in the context of a comedian on a stage telling jokes.
- GHFigs 17y agoThat's the set-up. The joke is that to fix this "problem", she is only going to adopt a "special needs" child who is also expected to die soon, thus negating the "problem" (that the child will still have "special needs" when you are 80), while being in our paradoxical cultural calculations even more praiseworthy than adopting a "special needs" child who is going to continue to be just as needy for much longer. It can't really be parsed as mockery of "retarded people" unless you believe she was being earnest and sincere in her calculation and really believed what she was saying. She wasn't. She is a comedian.
- pistoriusp 17y agoI'm not from North America and as such wasn't aware of Sarah Palin's campaign against the word "retard." In fact, we happen to find Sarah Palin a bit of a comedian herself... And don't take her seriously.
- elblanco 17y agoYes, she's a joke. But you won't be laughing when/if someday she ends up President with the nuke codes on her desk.
- sethg 17y agoIn a poll taken earlier this month, 55 percent of the people surveyed had an unfavorable opinion of Palin, and 71 percent said she was not qualified to be President. I don't know why the media still treats her every tweet as newsworthy, because as a national political figure, she's a joke. And I'm not sure she wants to become President. She can continue to have a lucrative career on the lecture/pundit circuit, playing to that sliver of the population that does consider her to speak for Real True American Common-Sense Values. Why ruin such a good thing by seeking votes from more moderate voters or, heck, actually trying to run a country?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoI hate to write a political comment, but looks like a slow day on HN. Palin is like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Pat Robertson. She is famous and popular among a measurable slice of voters, so she speaks to/for those voters. I strongly doubt she has a future as a presidential candidate. But as a political figure and news magnet? She's probably just getting started. One of the interesting things about Palin is that the more she is trashed, the more she is loved by her supporters. So there's a feedback loop going on there. If you really don't like her the best thing to do is simply to stop talking about her.
- fnid2 17y agoMy grandmother absolutely loves her and I fear if I discuss Palin with her, she'll just like her even more!