Sarah Palin Now Supports Calling People "Retards"

... or she is willing to lie about when it's okay to do so.

From Greg Sargent at The Plum Line:

Case in point: On Fox News yesterday, Palin explained why it’s okay that Rush Limbaugh used the word “retard” even as Rahm Emanuel’s use of the term “retarded” constituted a firing offense:

PALIN: I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards’ and we did know that Rahm Emanuel has been reported, did say that. There’s a big difference there. But again, name-calling, using language that is insensitive, by anyone, male, female, Republican, Democrat, is unnecessary. It’s inappropriate. Let’s all just grow up.

So Palin’s claim is now that Rush didn’t refer to people he disagrees with by using the R-word. But of course, Rush did exactly that:

LIMBAUGH: Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney tunes.

Naturally Chris Wallace, who was conducting the interview, immediately called her out for her blatant misrepresentation of what Limbaugh had said ... okay, okay, stop laughing.

As Sargent points out, Palin's lies are "growing increasingly blatant, casual and even effortless," but when you restrict yourself to appearances on Fox News, that's obviously not a problem.