Okay, so there’s been this big thing about “Family Guy” versus Sarah Palin over the last couple days, and I’ve tried to avoid it because nothing sucks the funny out of TV news quite like politics. But, if you’ve missed it, here’s the rundown: Sunday’s “Family Guy” featured a character with Down syndrome who said, “My dad’s an accountant, and my mom’s the former governor of Alaska.” (Watch the scene here.) Naturally, Palin got all pissy about someone talking about her retard baby Trig, because being sensitive about Down syndrome is the hot-button issue here in the year 1989.
The story finally stopped being boring when Andrea Fay Friedman, the actress with Down syndrome who delivered the line in question, wrote an email to several different news outlets addressing the controversy:
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.”
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes. [via Gawker]
Oh, SNAP. Someone get to Western Union and send Sarah Palin a burn notice, because that retarded girl just OWNED Palin and her mongoloid loaf of bread.
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… that retarded girl just OWNED Palin and her mongoloid loaf of bread.
You could say that retarded actress has a rather rye sense of humor.
So THAT’S a “Burn Notice”?
I recommend we, as a country, let the issue drop. Not in defense of Sarah Palin and not to avoid a controversy about making fun of Down’s Syndrome. But because to continue to talk about it supports the notion that Family Guy is relevant and/or funny.
The episode didn’t offend me, and I live in Brooklyn, surrounded by retards. What did offend me is that it wasn’t a funny episode. Unforgivable.
So Sarah Palin doesn’t condone humor about retarded people? That explains the lack of self-deprecating jokes in her speeches.
/HuffPo’d
That broad will make a fantastic leader of the free world.
Get up, c’mon, get down with the syndrome.
I don’t suffer from Down’s, but one time I had a yeast infection and my mother carried me around under her arm like a loaf of sourdough.
Andrea Friedman puts the Down in Smackdown.
Agree with the comments about the bigger issue is that the episode was unfunny. My only thought when I heard the line was not that it was offensive, but that it was unnecessary. MacFarlane’s is so in the tank at this point railing against republicans and organized religion I honestly can’t remember the last episode I actually thought was funny.
Why is Palin going nuts about this anyway? I just assumed that they were talking about a different Alaska governor who passed on her retard genes.
@ Punch Rockgroin
Which broad? The retarded one, or the actress who has Down Syndrome?
I don’t wanna start a PoFlaWa, but when I see low hanging fruit like that I can’t help myself.
What’s Alaska?
What’s really retarded is naming your kid Trig.
Seth McFarlane can see old Simpsons and South Park jokes from his front law.
*lawn
Fucking retarded keyboard.
By the way, kind of read that as Sarah Palin Burns first. Old flames aren’t easily extinguished, my crazy Republican sexpot.
@Leapin_Lizards: “Trig” is actually a contraction of Tri-G, which is short for Trisomy G, which is the chromosomal disorder that causes Down’s Syndrome. No joke.
Yeah, the problem was that it just wasn’t funny.
Of all the many, many things there are to make fun of Sarah Palin for, there’s just no need to go after her kids.
Except for the one who got knocked up and is now lecturing teens about abstinence. She’s an easy target. Or so Levi said.
I just figured he was named for a math class he’d never take.
@Danger Guerrero
Which is the actress, and which has downs syndrome?
No way in hell the re-tard put together that coherent a statement.
if that water head typed that out herself without putting a wacky emoticon or drooling on the keyboard, then i’ll eat my retarded son.
Andrea is an actress and leads a normal life. Andrea CAN think for herself. She took a job judging it FUNNY.
Trig is being USED as a prop ( LIKE A LOAF OF FRENCH BREAD), Bristol is being USED being made to comment on Mommy’s sacred Facebook page.
I saw the episode and it was funny…the slow, sweet son of the Family Guy concludes that people with DOWN SYNDROME are NOT different from anyone in the end. Lighten up.
Palin whined about Rahm and I WAS WITH HER, everyone agreed with Palin, even the Liberals agreed with her…then she let Rush slither away, so $arah has proved herself to be a double standard, two stepping vaudeville act ONCE AGAIN. She has NO STANDARDS and should stop GRAND STANDING and stop being the political opportunist that she has shown herself to BE over and over and over again.
Enough IS enough…I am sick of $arah acting all indignant and double talking in that horrific donkey bray voice of hers.
GO AWAY, we SEE you, $arah.
Listen, I don’t want to get away from the point here: that a woman with Down syndrome likened a baby with Down syndrome to a loaf of bread.
@ DEO
Jeez, Ronnie James, you’ve really gotten quite political since your days with Black Sabbath. Also, you forgot how to spell your own last name.
When Sarah Palin quit her job as the Governor of Alaska, she let down each and every person who voted for her. She also ceased to be a legitimate contender for any future political position. So if she did get in as President of the United States, are we to think that she would resign once again so she could go tackle other personal issues in her life? I think not! And while it’s definitely sad to know that her (illegitimate) grandchild has Down Syndrome, she doesn’t have to keep carting around the child everywhere she goes and in the manner she’s been doing, if only to gain sympathy votes. Guess what? It’s not working!
Burn baby burn! – Disco inferno!
Burn baby burn! – Burn that mama down
Burnin’!
This just proves that you have to be a retard to find family guy funny.
goddamnit… matt i appreciate the post, but these political retards always show up…
oops… bad choice of words
Sarah’s response (on Facebook of course): “What does that retard know about French bread anyway?”
That girl retard was Corky’s girlfriend on that old Sunday night show, KING OF THE RETARDS or something close to that.
So, when anyone says something about the retard running this country…it’s a big issue. But, when personal attacks on palin occur, it’s humor? Anyone see the hypocracy in this at all?
Wow John, I’m not even sure where to start pointing out the retardation in your post.
Let’s start with the fact you can’t even spell ‘hypocrisy’ despite web browsers having spell check built in.
Oh, and no one complained about a “retard running this country”. You might want to go read up on the on-going history of this back and forth and get a sense of what’s up.
The only hypocrisy here is Palin and her insistence that it’s ok to use her kid when it’s convenient but essentially no one can talk about it.
LOL at anon, yes that’s the most valuable lesson anyone can take away from this.
What a bunch of fucked up people, posting the story and most of the comments. I despise Palin but do you think it’s funny to make fun of the girl? Let’s see you deal with something in your life more than your fucked up sense of humor.
Whoa whoa whoa! I hate Family Guy as much as the next guy, but damn that was retarded.
Look JT you pussy, be offended if you wish but there is zero chance the tard wrote that. Zero. So go cry into your pc pillow & enter it into your journal.
Damn, that’s awesome. So do this mean the phrase, “like being the coolest kid with Down’s Syndrome” is now obselete?
obvinot
“Look JT you pussy, be offended if you wish but there is zero chance the tard wrote that. Zero. So go cry into your pc pillow & enter it into your journal.”
Keep enjoying Mencia.
No matter which political side you are on, I think it is immature to say having a sense of humor is the problem. There are some people that just want to exploit and laugh at you, not with you. If you feel that someone is just laughing at you, but does not understand your pain, you are less likely to laugh at yourself. Try being exploited sometime. Of course it is better if you can laugh no matter why other people are.