{"id":283278,"date":"2010-02-03T19:46:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/after-liberals-sarah-palin-calls-for-sanctioning-rahm-emanuel\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T19:46:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:46:34","slug":"after-liberals-sarah-palin-calls-for-sanctioning-rahm-emanuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283278","title":{"rendered":"After Liberals, Sarah Palin Calls For Sanctioning Rahm Emanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Rahm+Emanuel+US+Chief+of+Staff_1961_19596295_0_0_7021027_300.jpg\" alt=\"After liberals, Sarah Palin calls for sanctioning Rahm Emanuel \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been in the news lately with some progressives calling for his dismissal and blaming him for trying to accommodate the conservatives. However, a new revelation has railed some GOP members. <\/p>\n<p><i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i> has recently reported that in a closed-door meeting last summer, Obama&#8217;s top aide called liberal special-interest groups that wanted to run ads against conservative Democrats who did not support healthcare reform &quot;f&#8212;&#8212; retarded,&quot; according to media reports. <\/p>\n<p>When informed about the comment, Sarah Palin, whose child has Down syndrome, posted a note on Facebook alleging Emanuel&#8217;s words amounted to a &quot;racial slur.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Rahm&#8217;s slur on all God&#8217;s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities is unacceptable,&quot; she wrote, adding that President Obama should &quot;show decency&quot; by removing the Chicago politician from his inner circle. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Emanuel reportedly called Tim Shriver, chairman and CEO of the Special Olympics, to apologize. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee urged its members not to support the former Illinois congressman if he runs for public office again. It said Emanuel allowed the Democrats to give up the public option, helped to put together deals with drug companies in exchange for their support and argued against a bigger stimulus package. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19596295-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19596295\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been in the news lately with some progressives calling for his dismissal and blaming him for trying to accommodate the conservatives. However, a new revelation has railed some GOP members. The Wall Street Journal has recently reported that in a closed-door meeting last summer, Obama&#8217;s top aide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283278","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}