{"id":281131,"date":"2010-02-05T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65269"},"modified":"2010-02-05T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:46:12","slug":"early-morning-swim-keith-olbermann-and-richard-wolffe-discuss-palin%e2%80%99s-selective-%e2%80%9cretarded%e2%80%9d-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281131","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann and Richard Wolffe Discuss Palin\u2019s Selective \u201cRetarded\u201d Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"283\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fzpeD0H3Sjk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fzpeD0H3Sjk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"283\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still pretty much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/blogs\/robert-schlesinger\/2010\/02\/04\/palin-denounces-limbaugh-over-retard-cracks-glenn-beck-next.html\">OKIYAR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Greg Sargent reported this afternoon that Palin&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;\"><span style=\"color: #005497 ! important; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;\"><\/span><\/span> spokeswoman had tough words for Limbaugh (<strong>though less tough, of course, than she had for Emanuel<\/strong>). Asked for a comment about Limbaugh&#8217;s rant, Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton emailed Sargent, &#8220;Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rush was at least the second Republican to come under\u00a0Palin fire on the issue. Perry&#8217;s top political adviser got an admonition from Stapleton for &#8220;crude and demeaning&#8221;\u00a0and &#8220;disrespectful&#8221;\u00a0and crude remarks. (He apparently repeatedly used the &#8220;r-word&#8221;\u00a0during a conference call with an opposing campaign.)<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s Beck, who is himself the father of a special needs child. He was speaking on his radio show last month to actress (and, apparently, artist)\u00a0Mary Lynn Rajskub (of <em>24<\/em> fame) and asked her about paintings she does. When she says she particularly enjoys painting &#8220;retarded children and paintings of the insane,&#8221;\u00a0laughter can be heard on Beck&#8217;s end of the line. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>So is Beck, who like Limbaugh Palin thanked in her book, next on the ritual condemnation list?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nope. The &#8216;Cuda&#8217;s already backing off <a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/02\/04\/palin-camp-fires-back-at-washington-post\/?test=latestnews\">El Rushbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65269&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_65269\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still pretty much OKIYAR. Greg Sargent reported this afternoon that Palin&#8217;s spokeswoman had tough words for Limbaugh (though less tough, of course, than she had for Emanuel). Asked for a comment about Limbaugh&#8217;s rant, Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton emailed Sargent, &#8220;Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}