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Sarah, Bristol to Family Guy: 'Heartless Jerks'

Palins use Facebook to air grievances toward Fox

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 16, 2010 7:19 AM CST

(Newser) – In a moment of restraint, Sarah Palin responded to the Family Guy controversy with a Facebook rant—except it wasn’t a rant, and it wasn't hers. In a post titled “Fox Hollywood—What a Disappointment,” Palin calls the episode that “mocked” son Trig “another kick in the gut,” and says daughter Bristol’s “conscientious reply” is “much more restrained and gracious” than anything she could say.

“People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet,” she quotes Bristol as saying. “Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them? As a culture, shouldn’t we be more compassionate to innocent people—especially those who are less fortunate? Shouldn’t we be willing to say that some things just are not funny?”

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Sarah Palin, left, waves to supporters as she holds her son Trig Palin as she arrives for a book signing at the Costco Dec. 1, 2009, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows Bristol Palin at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

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If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they’re heartless jerks.
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fancygapva

Feb 18, 2010 10:31 AM CST

@ Tran If compassion does not become more widespread the human race will not survive for long. We cannot solve our problems through insults and violence. What we hate, we become, or we experience.

fancygapva

Feb 18, 2010 3:33 AM CST

Precisely. Democrats or Independents or Liberals or Progressives don't like to be told what to say and believe, which is why that end of the political spectrum can't get its shit together even with a "super majority." The party of the left needs to get bipartisanship WITHIN the party. They need a platform that expresses broad sentiments, instead of breaking it down to Pro-Choice and Anti-Death Sentence etc. etc. etc.

fancygapva

Feb 18, 2010 3:30 AM CST

Moron and Idiot used to be diagnostic terms then they became "names" people called each other. Same with "retard" It's hard to stay ahead of ugly meanings that attach to people. In mental health the people who come for help were called clients. Now it's consumers. I don't know anyone who uses the service that doesn't hate the term.

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Sarah, Bristol to Family Guy: 'Heartless Jerks'