skippy the bush kangaroo

Saturday, July 04, 2009

just because he's on the left doesn't mean he's not an idiot

even tho we were eating everything sarah palin up w/a big, wooden spoon yesterday, we were more than happy to skip the memeorandum headline linking to huffpo's piece "palin will run in '12 on more retardation platform."

seriously. somebody on the left had the temerity to write a "humor" piece, calling gov. palin's child "retarded."

as of today, the piece has been removed and replaced w/an "apology." but if this is author erik sean nelson's idea of an apology, we hope he never apologizes to us:

i wrote a piece making fun of the fact that a trig palin joke was given as the reason that sarah palin left office. i wrote jokes that were offensive but my intent was for them to be ironic and therefore not offensive. i was wrong. within ten minutes of my post i received some emails from the loved ones of the retarded and i saw that my piece was hurtful. therefore, i removed the post right after receiving the first 2 emails.
ah, the "offensive stuff written ironically so it's not offensive any more" defense, eh?

and we are aghast that nelson would actually write that some "loved ones of the retarded" sent emails.

it's rather like saying, "i heard from some jungle bunnies, and they were upset. i apologize."

look, folks, we know the left has had an amazing amount of good luck lately, w/ensign, sanford, and palin's troubles, not to mention franken getting seated, but that's no excuse to be rude. nothing is less appealing than an ungracious winner.

firstly, as someone related to a differently-abled american, skippy is incensed that the perjorative "retarded" is being used in a top blog like huffpo.

but secondly, if the idiot who used the offensive word continues to use it in his apology, he obviously hasn't learned a damned thing about human beings.

we call upon arianna, whose house we have been in and whose shrimp we have eaten, to never, ever, publish mr. nelson's garbage again.
posted by skippy at 5:35 PM |

8 Comments:

I bet it was good shrimp, too.
commented by Anonymous Mike Goldman, 6:08 PM PDT  
actually, and i deleted this from the original post, mrs. skippy got sick from it.
commented by Blogger skippy, 6:21 PM PDT  
Jeez! What a neanderthal.

Dear Mr. Nelson: Get a clue!
commented by Blogger Fran, 7:36 PM PDT  
It was wrong to insult the mentally challenged. And it was doubly wrong to do so on HuffPo, because the mentally challenged are among the Democratic Party's core constituencies.
commented by Blogger Jason, 8:11 PM PDT  
Hey, Skippy...

Read:

http://www.politicalbyline.com/2009/07/05/for-once-the-left-shows-some-class-and-yes-some-brains-for-a-change/

Again, Thank You.

-Pat
commented by Anonymous Paleo Pat, 10:25 PM PDT  
Hey, skippy good call on the wording of that apology and what it demonstrates. Glad to see you're still going strong.
commented by Blogger reader_iam, 10:30 PM PDT  
Well said. Period.
commented by Blogger Alo Konsen, 2:42 AM PDT  
Well done, skippy -- well done!
commented by Blogger The GTL™, 1:17 PM PDT  

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