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GOP figurehead Sarah Palin is calling on the White House to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and, in so doing, inadvertently and ironically coming to the defense of a group of liberal activists to whom he referred as being "f---ing retarded."
Last week, the Wall Street Journal
reported that Emanuel, known for his penchant for backroom profanities, let loose with the politically incorrect rebuke during a meeting with representatives of the liberal groups over the summer.
The next day, prompted by a letter expressing disappointment from Tim Shriver, the CEO of the Special Olympics, Emanuel called Shriver and apologized, according to the Washington Post. Shriver and the Special Olympics have launched a campaign to eradicate the use of the word.
Palin, whose son, Trig, has Down Syndrome, is asking the White House to go further. In a scorching Facebook entry, she wrote that Emanuel should be fired.
"Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the 'N-word' or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities -- and the people who love them -- is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking," Palin wrote.
Meanwhile, the Journal article focused on the growing tension between Emanuel and Obama's more liberal supporters. Some, like Palin, have called for Emanuel's head, though for entirely different reasons.
One of them is Matthew Rothschild, editor of an antiwar magazine called the Progressive, the Journal reported.
Obama, he wrote, "needs a chief of staff with the wisdom to help point him down a bold, progressive path."
