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Sat 02 Feb 2010A 'kick in the gut' for Palin
AFTER THE n-word, the r-word. Politicians, commentators and officials in the US have been drawn into a war of words over the use of the offensive term “retarded” in the last few weeks.
It began when president Obama’s chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuel, told a group of liberal activists that they would be “fuckin’ retarded” if they planned to run negative advertisements about Democrats who opposed Obama’s healthcare reform package. The comments were made at a “closed door” meeting last August but only became public earlier this month.
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