People with Down Syndrome Make Fun of Sarah Palin

The strangest thing occurring in the US today is the support for Sarah Palin who, by all accounts, could probably get lost in her own bathroom.  There’s a word for people like Palin, one that gets bandied around colloquially, maybe even with a touch of insensitivity now and then.  What is it?  Oh yeah, retard.  Sarah Palin is retarded.

That she has supporters is mind blowing because, you know, she’s an idiot.  It’s not that she’s a Republican or anything – if you want to support a Republican there actually are many intelligent, non-insane Republicans out there.  It’s just that Sarah Palin isn’t one of them, she’s a moron.  That this slips past so many people might indicate they too are morons.

In her quest to exploit talking points that have no substance to drum up support and use moral outrage as a tool of idiot power, Palin has fixated on “retard” in the popular vernacular and, yes, any depiction of the mentally handicapped that is not in a movie-of-the-week format.  If you use the mentally handicapped for laughs, then you are a monster, how dare you?  You should be out shooting moose with grocery lists written on your hand, or whatever.

So it’s with some degree of awesomeness that, after Sarah Palin chose to vent her disgust with an episode of Family Guy that featured a character who has Down Syndrome, the actress who played the role, who actually does have Down Syndrome, came out and gave Palin shit for being an idiot.  Scientists assure us there’s actually no funnier response that Palin could have received.

In a short letter, Andrea Fay Friedman says she thought the Family Guy joke was funny, then bitch slaps Palin with the line “My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.”

No response yet from Palin herself, but on some message boards her supporters have decided Friedman didn’t write that letter herself, her dad must have.  You know, because she has Down Syndrome and all, and we can’t explicitly say anything because this whole mess started with people making fun of people with Down Syndrome but yeah…she has Down Syndrome.

In the meantime, Funnycrave is going to organize a movement to send Friedman to any and all public appearances made by Palin so she can stand in the front row going “durrr!” as loud as she can.