It's a lazy Sunday afternoon, I'm far too unmotivated to do any homework and it's snowing outside, so what's a bored college kid to do? Sounds like it's time to turn on good ol' Fox News for some shits and grins. Watching the O'Reilly Factor is always a trip. Who's on the show today but Sarah Palin!
I didn't catch the entire discussion, but what I gathered from what I did see is that Seth MacFarlane, via Family Guy, made a joke about the disabled community on the show. This is nothing we (fans of the show) haven't seen before. It's like reading The Onion. That's the point. It's meant to be offensive, but you're only going to be offended if you can't take a joke. And of course, we all know that most conservatives can't take a joke, so it's always struck me as ironic that Family Guy airs on Fox. Go figure. So anyway, here comes good ol' Moral Sarah Palin to the rescue to bitch him out. She's going on about how inappropriate the joke was, and how we need to draw a line about how much people can say (censorship? aren't the republicans against that?), and blah blah blah, and they went on to talk about Rahm Emanuel, who recently apparently used the phrase "fucking retard" (don't quote my source, I'm quoting Mr. O'Reilly) and how inappropriate that was. THEN, they brought up Rush Limbaugh, who apparently used the phrase "retards" to refer to a group of people listening to his show. Sarah Palin, O Alaskan Genius, defended his use of the word. Defended it. This is the woman who has a son with Down's Syndrome, defending Rush Limbaugh for his use of the word "retards" when mere seconds before she had lambasted Seth MacFarlane and Rahm Emanuel for it. Buhhhwhat? Her excuse was that "Limbaugh was using the word in satire to make a point."
Earth to Sarah Palin: You can't have it both ways. And no, he wasn't using it in satire. He was using it because he's a bigot and an asshole. Furthermore: if Keith Olbermann had said the same kind of thing, using the same exact words, Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly would have had a field day about how hateful his language was. The hypocrisy is mind-numbing. And it only seems to work for the Right.
21 February 2010
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