Ed Show: Cenk Rips Sarah Palin and Dr. Laura (Obama, Race, Feminism, Gays & Autism)

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Run time: 02:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfAh-Ryaido   Posted on YouTube: August 20, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 19177   Posted on DU: August 22, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 939

 
Summary: Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC rips Sarah Palin's defense of Dr. Laura after her infamous n-word rant. He goes on to share some devastatingly offensive Dr. Laura quotes on homosexuality and an autistic child.

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1. K&R What about what Dr Laura said about Palin in 2008?

Sarah Palin and Motherhood

September 2, 2008 on 1:35 pm | In Children, Election, Motherhood, Sarah Palin, Working Women

I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party. I will still vote for Senator McCain, because I am very concerned about having a fundamental leftist, especially one who is a marvelous orator, as President.

At first, I thought it amusing that McCain picked a pretty, smart, and tough female to counter the racist/sexist accusations going back and forth between parties. I remember how Oprah Winfrey got caught in the cross-fire as she stepped up to the political table to support Obama with pride that a black man could rise to such heights in the USA, only to get slammed by feminists who told her it was gender, not race, that she should back. Understandably, Ms. Winfrey pulled back from it all.

Forget gender and race. I’m frankly and sadly caught in the dilemma of having to balance policy versus example in touting a candidate for the office of the First Family. I was ferociously attacked (what’s new?) when I spoke out strongly against Bill Clinton’s dalliances in the Oval Office. That situation quickly turned into a debate whether “private has anything to do with public.” Nonsense. Role models are very important. Children and young adults look to those who are visible and successful as a road map of what is acceptable behavior and emulate those actions over the morals and values their parents and churches have taught and tried to reinforce. It’s a tough go these days, when the “bad that men or women do” is used for entertainment purposes without judgment, or is excused because of political or financial considerations.

I’m stunned - couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age. But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?

Not posting the direct link here for the rest, but this is the google search which will take you there: http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q=dr+laura++sarah+palin+motherhood+2008&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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2. K&R. I hate when these losers get publicity...

But Cenk is excellent on this... :applause: This says all we need to know and should be the last word... x(

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3. Palin also threw a fit over Rahm Emanuel's use of the word 'retard.'

But Palin has no problem with Dr. Laura spewing nigger-nigger-nigger several times on the radio.

Palin's so stupid, I don't think she knows if she's coming or going.

[agentS]

4. Well Cenk, Palin's not exactly good a fact checking

She's so dumb she probably thinks research is when you search again after you lose your keys.

Of course, Dr. Dumbass ain't much better. Who the hell calls an evil shank like that for advice?