Sarah Palin vs. Family Guy (Or, Liberals Hate Disabled People, Part II)

First Things is reporting on Sarah Palin's response to a Family Guy episode that makes fun of people with Down's syndrome, and in particular, her child.

Family Guy is one of those shows that pretends to be equally offensive to everyone yet always ends up slyly, sarcastically endorsing liberal ideas. The creators of the show are the type of Cheeto-eating, fat-ass Generation Xers who deride anyone who finds their humor offensive as "oversensitive" or "paranoid". They get away with both making political/social statements through their work while simultaneously claiming that they are not doing so and that anyone who takes them seriously is too uptight.

Family Guy sucks, as a show. Occasionally it features a funny moment or two (I laugh at Herbert the Pervert's teeth whistle). However, tangential gag writing, shitty animation, and an overuse of truly obscure pop trivia bog it down severely. (For what it's worth, Fox's King of the Hill is three times as funny and contains actual character development, stronger animation, and surprising thematic depth.)

Anyways, you can chalk this up as yet another example of liberal hatred towards the disabled, the likes of which I cited recently.

It's All About the Tea Party

The recent Tea Party convention, and its keynote address by Sarah Palin, loom large over the national discourse today. I will have more to say later, but I think it's fascinating that the conservative stalwarts of 2008 are now being pushed askew in 2010. Is the country banking hard right all of a sudden?

Orangutuan Picks Colts

I know which team I am putting my money on today. Kutai the Orangutuan, a zoo-dwelling primate in Oregon, has picked the Colts. This hairy, orange little fellow has correctly predicted four out of the last five Superbowl victors.

Snivelling Patrick Kennedy Gets Snarky When His Party Loses

Representative Patrick Kennedy has called Scott Brown's election "a joke". Way to treat your new colleague(who, by the way, outranks you by virtue of his seat in the Upper House).

This is a classless, juvenile display from a spoiled, egotistical little prince who can't stand the fact that his worthless ideology is losing traction in the public eye.

Good Riddance, Paul Kirk

Interim U.S.-Senator Paul Kirk (D-MA) is a Senator no more, and Scott Brown has taken his place. Good riddance, Kirk.

I find it both telling and humorous that nobody came to his final Senate speech, which was about bipartisanship, of all things (as if he knows anything about that particular concept). You would be hard-pressed to find a more boring, career left-wing bureaucrat than this guy. They'll always remember him in D.C. as a guy who sure knew how to clear a room.

Congratulations to Scott Brown, on his swearing in.

Rahm's "Retarded Democrats" Remark

Those loving, caring, social justice-promoting Democrats have shown a real disdain for the mentally handicapped lately. First, there were the pro-abortion propagandists who made posters that depicted fantasy images of Sarah Palin aborting her son Trig, emphasizing the child's Down's syndrome as a major selling point for the wonders of infanticide. Then, there was President Obama's "Special Olympics" remark. Now, liberal guru/White House advisor Rahm Emmanuel is apologizing for referring to some Democratic lawmakers as "retarded".

There is something afoot here. The left wing of the U.S. has promoted and presided over what essentially amounts to an extermination of disabled babies, after all.

Do I believe that Obama, Emmanuel, and lefties of their ilk are intentionally attacking the handicapped with their gaffes? No, because such gaffes are politically dangerous, and a politician stands to lose much by making derisive statements about the disadvantaged. However, perhaps, on a subconscious level, the callousness of America's current attitude towards Down's syndrome children (roughly 90% get aborted) is beginning to filter into public speech. It's an interesting trend, at the very least.

Common Sense Proposals

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) has outlined some basic proposals that, he maintains, could be enacted to alleviate U.S. economic woes. These are non-inflammatory, essentially apolitical ideas that both Republicans and Democrats can get behind. The outcome would be an enhanced environment for economic growth.

I fear that good stuff like this will be passed up in favor of the usual party-driven, hackneyed, talking point BS that elected officials resort to in times of crisis. Common sense proposals like these would do much for our ailing economy, but will they fall on deaf ears?