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.

It's worse than tasteless. Think about it, is a comment about a grown woman the same as one about a baby? Do you think that all Down's syndrome people and all mothers of Down's syndrome children will say "this is okay, it was only a joke". Aren't the liberals supposed to be more politically correct than the conservatives they practice their sharp wit on?

Just can't admit that this is over-the-top. Have to point out that once upon a time a conservative said something nasty about someone. There is always an excuse.

Sorry, babies with disabilities aren't acceptable fodder for political comedy. Not funny.

And they only pulled the article after someone pointed out to them that it was vile and disgusting.

Rollo, I think you need to read what I posted a little more carefully. I did not say it was excusable- in fact, I said the opposite.

Are you taking the stance that all women who have unfaithful husbands deserve whatever criticism they get? That it is justified because of their age? Does that also extend to Mrs. Sanford, or Mrs. Craig? Or is it just that Elzabeth Edwards is the wife of a Democrat, so that makes it okay?

By the logic that there is a difference between insulting an adult, and insulting a child, is it then okay to mock an adult with Downs?

Okay, here's the thing. The discussion has nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh. You've assumed somewhere along the line that what Rush Limbaugh said some time ago (something I never heard anyway since I don't listen to Rush) has some magical healing quality that equalizes the bad and neutralizes the poison.

The logic that you use escapes me totally. Now you want to turn it into a discussion about what jokes should or could be made about adults with Down's syndrome... huh?

Saying that because some person made a joke about some Democrat's wife once is an excuse for someone else ridiculing a developmentally disabled baby because it's all comedy, is a lot like saying that I knew someone who littered once, and that's against the law, so I guess it's okay for me to murder someone, cause it's all about the law.

It would be possible for me to say that Rush's comment was vulgar and uncalled for without qualifying that by mentioning that Jay Leno told a joke about some Republican so it was okay. In fact, I had never heard this comment by Rush, as I said, but it's pretty vile. I think Elizabeth Edwards had some wacky ideas but I would prefer to attack her policies than her personal life. So, Rush's comment was wrong, tasteless, vulgar and unnecessarily so, without qualification.

All I wanted to know was if any liberal would come in and denounce this despicable attack on a baby without making any excuses for it. I guess the answer is no, they won't.

And Huffington Post went farther than whatever station puts Limbaugh on the air, didn't they? And let's not pretend that Limbaugh made a comment one time and Democrats are holding a grudge- he makes it a point to insult whatever Dem is in the news on a daily basis.

Pretty obviously, you are hearing what you want to hear from what I post. I will refrain from wasting anymore of my time.

You're still talking about Limbaugh... I can read just fine.

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.

How that writer could possibly have not known his article would be offensive is beyond my comprehension but I'm glad he removed it quickly. Rose, go ahead and call HIM all the names you wish, that's fine, he "earned" it. But for you to write, "Left wing liberals are filthy immoral creatures they stand for nothing wholesome or good and nothing what so ever is off limits," is as bad as what he wrote. I know that as far as you're concerned I'M a "left wing liberal" and I can assure you I'm not filthy or immoral and none of my friends and relatives who would also meet your criteria for "left wing liberals" are either.
Annie

He wrote an apology but there's a certain mean-spiritedness that one must suffer in order to consider writing this in the first place. There are many Down's syndrome people in the world, adults too, who hold jobs and succeed despite their challenges. To ridicule them is unconscionable.

I came back to this discussion, I hadn't read your response before Kennyrose, but I read it now and like annie said, I too am a 'left wing liberal" but if i ever met this guy who wrote this on the street, I would give him hell and rip him a new one because I have a best friend who has Down Syndrome, so how can you back up your blanket stereotypes now?

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.

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

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.

Will stand by my belief what goes around comes around! I have worked with many down syndrome inividuals and I will only say this they are labeled as being mentally challenged and I believe this is so wrong for them. They have the ability to love unconditionally ( most do) They have the true happiness to life. They know right from wrong, they have dreams and can obtain them. They can do things that a "regular person" can not do. In my honest opinion they are true genuses that are not able to put it all together.

Remembers when I was teaching a young child with down syndrome his name was David he was only three years old. We were doing the ABC's he could not say then right, but he did so oh ya can you do this? He recited them backwards!!! Well I can not do that so does that make mentally challenged? They can figure things out that you and I could never figure out. PERHAPS THEY JUST DONT UNDERSTAND THE EASY THINGS IN LIFE! They are more complex and we can not figure it out because WE are actually the mentally challenged.

I SAY FIRE THE JERK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spent my summers as a teenager working with the parks and recreation department at a summer day camp for special needs kids. It was a wonderful and rich experience. It also prepared me for my, then unknown, special child of my own.

I agree with both of you, gramma and irish. Down's syndrome children have wonderful personalities and abilities. Who would know this more than a mother of a Down's syndrome child? Sarah Palin said that Trig teaches her life lessons and I am sure that he does. To take that statement and try to twist it into something hateful has to be very painful for a mother. I don't blame her for wanting to step away from this media blitz of insults to her children. Mothers are naturally protective of their children, and how much more so if their children need more protection than others?

I've also known a number of children and adults with Downs Syndrome as well as autism and I agree, these people are "special" in a good way. They do have things to offer that the rest of us don't.

My problem whenever there's a topic like this is when a poster like kennyrose says things to the effect that "everyone" on the left is evil, immoral, hateful or whatever other words are thrown around all the time. Anyone who would make cruel jokes or attack, mock or "make fun of" someone like little Trig is full of ignorance and mean-spirited cruelty, NOBODY thinks that any more than I do! However, no matter what any of our views are about political issues or people in politics, there are those from both sides who are ignorant and cruel. Because some liberals or some conservatives say or do some indefensible things doesn't mean ALL within that group are like that. I may be a liberal but I'm not evil, immoral or mean-spirited and I sure don't agree with attacking little kids!
Annie

Rollo, Irish, and Annie are so right in the fact that people with Down Syndrome are extaordinary people, and they are also in many ways like us. My very close friend with DS has all of the same interests in wanting to dress good, and she is trying to have a long relationship and thinking about the future, she stresses about little things more than I would and she is much much more sensitive than "other" people....but she also will always have this wonderful,innocent quality to her that is PRICELESS, and so I too hope that Arianna puts this idiot in his place and states how wrong, offensive, and degrading his statements were.

"Oh My". I couldn't have said it better.. it just leaves you kind of speechless.

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.

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.

Did you read it at all? Do you realize that this man is making fun of a mentally challenged baby? Do you realize he insulted everyone with a developmental disability? Since when did we decide that real-life Archie Bunkers were acceptable.

I don't know one red-blooded American service man or woman who wouldn't punch you right in the face for being a grown man making fun of a baby, so I wouldn't hope that Erik Sean Nelson is out thanking any of them for his free speech rights on this 4th of July.

People didn't realize it was a bad joke, they got very upset and the author took the post down.

By the way there is no outcry from the mainstream media, they didn't even notice it. So trust me, it isn't a partisan thing. It's about common decency and picking on someone your own size.

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

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.