Huffington Post Article Attacks Palin's Son Trig

If they weren't afraid of her, it makes no sense to spend so much time trying to discredit her. I think the point is to try to discredit and embarrass her so much that people will never take her seriously. This kind of article though, HAS to make people see that she's not just paranoid, these guys are fighting dirty. I haven't heard anyone call for his resignation or for his firing. I am waiting to see who will defend this cowardly attack.

I posted on the media bias against Sarah Palin a few days ago. I cited the fact that the very liberal National Organization of Women paid big bucks to get Don Imus fired for his poor choice of words (if they can say Letterman's joke was only a poor choice, why can't I say the same for Imus?)...but said not one word of condemnation concerning Letterman's 'joke' about the deflowering of a 14 year old child. R*p* is no joking matter to most women! N.O.W. is supposedly a media watchdog that claims to protect the rights of women in the public sector. Yet they would not come to the forefront to defend a woman govenor and her daughter. We hear how much the liberals are for the downtrodden and the vulnerable....social WELFARE programs are their favorite pastime...but a 14 year old child and now an disabled infant are fair game for the hatefulness running rampant in our society against conservatives. It has passed idiocy and is quickly entering insanity. The dogs have been let loose...it merely saddened our president that a soldier outside a government building is murdered by a terrorist (an act of war!)....yet our President is OUTRAGED that an abortionist is murdered in church. While I was outraged at the murder of the abortionist as well...no one had the right to take his life...I am equally, if not more outraged that an American soldier can be killed in an open act of war on OUR SOIL...and it only saddens the president...and goes unnoticed by most of the country. INSANITY!

Well this is what our society is coming to, it is not only going on here, but the game rooms that I play in on here. Once someone get piss*ed at someone else they start making remarks about the kids. And saying they should die. I can not believe what our society is becoming. I think Obama is saddened by a lot of things that he should be more concerned about what is happening in this world of ours here at home instead of beating a path overseas every chance he gets. I think he should of made a statement that what Letterman said was uncalled for and that it would not be tolerated by the tv shows and news and mags or what ever. I think Letterman should of been repremaned for the remark and this guy that wrote the article making fun of her baby should of been fired. As long as we sit back and let them get away with what they saying, when it involves a child they will do it.

I am rather afraid that a sense of decency is now officially considered a relic of the past. I haven't seen much evidence of it lately, that's for sure.

Rollo, I agree completely, if I had a website and this guy submitted something for publication it would first be looked over with a fine too comb IF I'd even give it any consideration at all. There are so many of these internet blog sites or whatever they're actually called these days and I have no idea how each of them actually operate. I know I've seen several people on various TV shows who have been introduced as "Huffington Post contributors" and I've found some of them to be intelligent and thoughtful and others haven't been as much to my liking. I think that can probably be said about any of these types of sites. I really can't understand how anyone could have found humor in that article to begin with and I'm one of those evil liberals. I appreciate irony and satire as much as anyone but this isn't either, it's mean and vile and has no place anywhere. Annie

Thank you, Annie. I confess I do not know either whether the contributors at HuffPo are actually employees or if they just post their articles. However, if this guy wrote for my website, I would at the very least ask to see the articles he writes for pre-approval before publishing. He wrote an apology but there's obviously a little gap in his understanding of how far is too far. There's no place in the press for articles that deride and ridicule the disabled.

Arianna Huffington is a well-known and prominent force in politics and her site shouldn't have this kind of stuff on it. Satire and spoof, even if it's a bit edgy or mean is to be expected when it's aimed at adults. But I do hope she is careful in the future about this writer, he will damage her reputation.

The author put in a little apology in which he said he got letters from some "loved ones of the retarded" and they thought it was hurtful so he decided to pull it. Great, but I think he already knew that at least one loved one of the retarded was also going to be unnecessarily offended in a way that reflects not in any way on her politics but only on her personal life and uses a child to make a poor joke. I would certainly not let this guy post on my website again without first proofreading his posts before publication. This was a serious lack of judgment and very unfunny.

This is a simple case of bigotry towards this group and it's so far out there that it's hard to see the humor in it. I certainly wouldn't see the humor in it if I had a Down's syndrome child.

I think that they are going to hope that not too many people noticed it and assume that because it's gone that many fewer will know what it said. But the text is out there, it was recorded before they took it down so there will be those who do know.

Well, I didn't even mention his very improper grammar which screams out to me from one particular sentence... but, that would be off the point. I can't say he's stupid, since I don't know him, but I will say he shows an appalling lack of good taste and sensibility.

The real problem (aside from the lack of class it shows to personally attack people) is that all this focus on personalities, family crises, the appearance of one's children and even their disabilities, takes focus away from the real issues. People shouldn't be deciding their political future based on such ridiculous criteria. The news media is responsible for buying into the short, snappy, byte-hungry appetite of the masses and neglecting the important issues at hand. I posted a discussion asking people for the reasons they hate Sarah Palin based on her stance on issues. I don't really have any responses yet... I don't know if I will get any.

But tell us how you really feel, Kitty, LOL. I have to agree that anyone who uses a baby as a weapon in a political war is just the lowest form of humanity.

This kitty ain't one to "pussyfoot" around things. LOL

I agree, hate is hate, no matter who it comes from or is directed at. I know that grown men and women who enter public life must deal with some scrutiny of their personal lives and realize that there will be jokes both good and bad. But a baby is a baby, and should not be a casualty of political warring.

Sorry for the typo "now" should have been "no" LOL I did an oops!