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Political Correctness: The Last Refuge of a ‘Retard’
Mr Curmudgeon:
During the third and final presidential debate held in Boca Raton, Florida, conservative columnist Ann Coulter Tweeted, “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.” Many among the media elite were highly offended that Coulter would use ‘retard’ to describe the man they consider the savior of America – President Barack Hussein Obama.
Mitt Romney, who bested the president in the three-game series – as evidenced by his post-debate rise in the polls – proved to the American people, if not the media, he is knowledgeable and, more importantly, the only serious candidate of the two men running for the highest office in the land.
Many conservative pundits thought Romney went easy on the president regarding the cover-up surrounding the deaths of four American diplomatic personnel in Libya. This explains Coulter’s reference to Romney being “kind and gentle” in the last debate. But it was the “retard” reference that a week later still rings in the ears of the president’s dwindling media followers.
“Why call President Obama a ‘retard’?” asked CNN’s outraged Piers Morgan.
“Because it’s a synonym for looser … I am angry at the word police. I need an Encyclopedia Britannica to see what words are appropriate and which ones aren’t.”
“No you don’t,” insisted Morgan, “No you don’t.”
“Okay,” said Coulter, “explain to me why retard is inappropriate.”
“I heard you say … ‘What if I said imbecile, idiot, cretin or moron.” Any of those four words, as you know, has not become in the last decade or so a word that is synonymously offensive to people with disabilities, and is used in a offensive way about them by people. That is the difference.”
“No one would call a child with Down Syndrome a retard. It is synonymous with loser. You know perfectly well no one would use that … I was not referring to someone with Down Syndrome. I was referring to the President of the United States … everyone is fed up with the language police.”
Coulter’s Tweet unwittingly hit a collective raw nerve lying near the surface of the mainstream media’s (read “the left’s”) very thin skin. The moral arbiters of the “mainstream” have lost all credibility. The reason is simple – they have overplayed Political Correctness. People are tired of being handled, of being told what is “extreme” and what is “acceptable,” of what can or cannot be said, of the left’s endless agenda to redefine American society, whether it pertains to the definition of marriage or government-funded abortion and contraception as the highest secular sacraments.
That role was once the soul domain of America’s “mainstream” religious institutions and the conscience of the individual. But people are losing faith in the religion of big government and, more importantly, its media high priests – what Coulter calls the “thought police.”
According to the George Soros-funded Media Matters, “The stigma attached to the word prompted Congress to pass ‘Rosa’s Law’ in 2010, banning the use of the words ‘retarded’ and ‘retardation’ in all health, education and labor laws, and replacing the terms with ‘intellectual disability.’” It’s worth noting that this occurred under the Pelosi P.C. Congress.
As Coulter noted, the left – and the media who represent them – use the mentally challenged as “human shields” to defend their wrongheaded policies and their chief advocate – President Obama.
That’s a disservice to the mentally handicapped whose medical condition is the result of nature’s cruel verdict.
As Coulter clearly illustrates, in the case of the mainstream media and the president they serve, they are self-made men.
mrcurmudgeon
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Sandy
October 29, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Well, I can say my granddaughter has Downs Syndrome and I found it offensive.My daughter was put out by the remark..Ann Coulter may have some facts right but does she have to be so hard? She is an adult and being in the public eye she should be more careful with words. Why give others ammunition? Rightly so they called her out on it.Are we over sensitive to remarks like this since our family has experienced this.Yes! It hurts our hearts knowing the struggles these dear ones have everyday. Takes more class to not name call.Ann you can change your meaning around(like the other side does)but we all know what you meant.
abigdoosh
October 29, 2012 at 1:14 pm
you're a retard.
Hamma
October 29, 2012 at 1:03 pm
I am offended that Piers Morgan and the crew of CNN covers very little of what happened at Libya and refuses to inform me about why our brothers and sisters were slaughtered needlessly over there. Ann cannot harm me or my family. This President has shown us he does not care and this "news organization" does not care either. That is more offensive than a pundits word choices. Maybe if Piers called Ann a c&%t like Bill Mahr called Sarah Palin (and who donated 1 mill to Obama who has not returned the money) all would be square? Spare me- PC police.
Steve
October 29, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Get over yourself, Sandy. It sucks that a member of your family has Downs Syndrome, it really does and I feel for you. But you know dang well that isn't the meaning that she was referring to. Go be PC someplace else and grow some thicker skin. Learn how to manage your feelings like a big girl and stop trying to tell the rest of us how we should act and behave.
tiffany
October 29, 2012 at 1:08 pm
How often has anyone called a person with disabilities a retard? Never. If you or you're mentally challenged kin are offended, you're only offended because you want something to be upset at NOT because it means a person with disabilities. I can guarantee that every person has said retard or gay or stupid and not meant it to be an insult to either of 3 classes of people!
abiggerdoosh
October 29, 2012 at 1:15 pm
You can't offend a retard….they don't know they're retarded!!!
Bat
October 29, 2012 at 1:23 pm
I occasionally use the word "idjit" in these situations. Of course, the idiots find that offensive, too.
grp1953@gmail.com
October 29, 2012 at 1:36 pm
People who take offense at speech are offensive to me. Grow up, grow a spine and learn how to move on.
cecelia horn
October 29, 2012 at 1:55 pm
so how come NBC CBS and ABC never made a comment about Obama calling Romney a LIAR numerous times during the debates on issues that were totally untrue?????
TarHeelMoe
October 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm
The Tea Party seems to stand for nothing but is against Barack Obama. If he were not an African American there would not be a Tea Party. It seems that you do not really like Mitt but are probably in love with Ryan. He professes to be a great economist with intent on downsizing the Fed Gov but he refuses to articulate ideas. I think he knows twenty or thirty budget words but has no real knowledge of the budget. You Tea Baggers seem to have no real ideas and just promote slash and cut ideas to every problem. Soon you will go down the drain because the crap you promote don't float.
Guest
October 29, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Have you ever had an original thought or is repeating liberal rhetoric the best you can do? The race card has been worn out many times over, get a life.
SDH
October 29, 2012 at 3:45 pm
He does have a point. Where was all this outrage over debt and spending when Bush was in charge? Paul Ryan was happy to vote for all these deficit busting spending and trumpet war propaganda when Bush was in charge. Why didn't the conservatives hold him accountable? However, I wouldn't say because conservatives are racist. I would say, they are retards.
Timothy Willoughby
November 2, 2012 at 12:22 am
It took Bush 8 years to spend 71% of what Bama has already spent as of today!!! Not 5 years from now! But in less than 4 years while doing nothing you can state for the economy. While Bush had consistent, far better, unemployed numbers and spent most of that money on a war of Bi Partisan origin that we didn’t start. You have little to say of meaning that I can tell.
Timothy Willoughby
November 2, 2012 at 12:10 am
He is not African American. African Americans are from west Africa. The Boma is from east. He and Martin Luther King Jr. ancestors are from totally unrelated gene pools. He is, however, a Kenyan immigrant with a falsified Birth Certificate!
Don
October 29, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Retard, retard, retard, retard, retard, retard….
SDH
October 29, 2012 at 3:38 pm
The real retards are the ones who think Romney will actually be a conservative. He doesn't have one conservative bone in his body. I live in MA and can feel first-hand how "retarded" Romney's health-care fix has been. He banks on medicare money to help insure everyone. How is that for conservatism, retards?
Guest
October 30, 2012 at 6:03 am
http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/…
Edouard D'Orange
October 30, 2012 at 7:07 am
Should a comment by a Conservative pundit who holds no office, has held no office that I know of, has no real influence in government and has no regular show on any network garner more scorn than the Commander in Chief, the titular head of the U.S. government and leader of the (somewhat) free world? Where's the outrage when the messiah Obummer while on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," President Barack Obama assesses his bowling abilities and claims "It's like the Special Olympics or something"? Huh? Waiting… Thought so. MSM ignores it.
Timothy Willoughby
November 2, 2012 at 12:13 am
Love it!!!