While it doesn’t excuse him, Rahm Emanuel did apologize for using the word "retarded" about liberal debt management, after great umbrage from Sarah Palin. No one with his influence should use the word, or hold a job of influence seemed to be the feeling of Palin, the mother of a special needs child. We can understand her feelings. As Margaret Carlson points out, they seem much more genuine than her pretend umbrage at David Letterman over his joke regarding Bristol. Enter stage ugly.
Rush Limbaugh seems to be on a mission to repeat the word "Retards" as often as possible. He’s said that he will not stop or apologize, and in what passes for wit stated there will be a "Retard Summit at the White House." How Palin handles this, will tell us all we need to know.
As of this time, she has yet to address Limbaugh’s inflammatory remarks. Keith Olbermann and Margaret Carlson discuss the issue, Carlson taking a mother’s side, unable to imagine
Palin letting Limbaugh’s crude, cruel remarks go unaddressed.