‘Family Guy’ actress Andrea Fay Friedman defends Palin jab
In this Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 photo, former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. On the palm of her hand are seen some handwritten notes. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
This past Sunday, the FOX animated comedy “Family Guy” took a swipe at former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her mentally handicapped son. A scene involved a character named Ellen, who was suffering from Down syndrome, making a remark about her mother being the former governor of Alaska. The actress who voiced the character on the show, also suffers from Down syndrome.
Andrea Fay Friedman came out saying that Sarah Palin did not have a sense of humor about the show. She was defending the remark after Palin said that the work was done by “cruel, cold-hearted people.” Despite the outrage many have had about “Family Guy,” Andrea Fay Friedman does not see things that way.
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I am thinking this very nice young lady did not realize the song that played about 20 minutes in to the skit..was disgusting
“You’ve got to look your best tonight, you tubby little parasite
‘Cause there’s a lovely lady and she’s waiting for you.
And though her pretty face may seem
A special person’s wettest dream
Before you get to see it there are things you must do.
We’ll try a tie, and boutonniere of yellow.
A rose that shows that you’re a classy fellow.
With a posh panache of Jefferson at Monticello,
Busting out a mile with style.
I know you just can’t wait to stare
At all that luscious orange hair
But boy before you touch a single curl
You must impress that ultra boomin’,
All-consumin’, poorly groomin’
Down syndrome girl.
On any normal day you reek
As if you’re on a farting streak,
Your fingers up your nose and you are dripping with drool.
But if you want a lady’s love,
You’re better off by smelling of
A gentleman’s cologne instead of sneakers and stool.
A squirt, a spurt of something just for Ellen
And you’ll see that she will find you so compellin’.
And she does because the only smell that she’ll be smellin’
Won’t be comin’ from your bum.
You want to take that little whore
And spin her on the dancing floor
But boy, before you do a single twirl –
You must impress that effervescing,
Self-possessing, no-BS-ing
Down syndrome girl.
Her eyes are emerald portals to a secret land of love
And her smile is like the sweetest summer flower.
Her kiss is so inviting, and her hugs are so delighting.
And what makes them really nice is that they’ve got a little spice
Because they’re tighter than a vice and they go on for an hour.
My boy, between the two of us we’ll get you on that shorty bus.
And then you’re going to take it for a whirl.
Now go impress that super-thrilling,
Wish-fulfilling, Yoo-Hoo-spilling,
Ultra-swinging, boner-bringing,
Daily singing, ding-a-linging
Stupefying, fortifying,
As-of-Monday-shoelace-tying,
Stimulating, titillating,
Kitty-cat impersonating,
Mega-rocking, pillow talking,
Just a little crooked walking,
Poorly pouting, boobies sprouting,
For some reason always shouting,
Fascinating, captivating,
Happiness and joy creating
Down syndrome girl
You all seem to forget that Rush Limbaugh called Chelsea Clinton the white house dog. The selective memory of some of you republicans truly sickens me. You sit there and post that this is because she’s a republican so thats why this is happening. What a bunch of whiners. How many of you have actually seen the episode? It was actually quite tasteful. I never heard the word retard. A word that I am not very fond of at all. Sarah Palin continues to show why she has no place in public office because every time someone says anything shes gets out there like the media whore she is. She pulled this same crap with Lettermann and it backfired and it looks like its about to repeat itself. And dont give me this family dont mess with her family crap. I understand her taking the kids on the road I do. But everytime she was out on the stage she made sure to throw those kids right in front of the camera. Please conservatives, if you even are conservative, pick a new wagon to hitch. Someone who is a true conservative that Fox News lambasted. Ron Paul!
Ron Paul? Ron Paul would slap you along side your head for even hinting that that show was “done in good taste”. I’m not a Ron Paul fan, but I know he’s a decent man and wouldn’t want you using his name to call anybody a whore or to say that sometimes it’s ok to make fun of Down Syndrome children as long as you don’t agree with their mothers’ political agenda.
And, btw – according to your assessment, we can now go after Michelle and her kids because she has , once again, brought them into the political spotlight?
I thought $arah said it was OK when there’s satire, like when Rush used the term over and over?
Christian Knoell wrote:
Here’s something you forgot, if you ever knew it: After Rush apologized, SNL went after Chelsea twice, and then apologized.
There has never been a “tasteful” episode of Family Guy. Bad taste is the point of the show.
But you ARE a fan of another word …
OK, so we understand: “Retard,” bad. “Whore,” good. Got it.
It didn’t backfire on Palin. She stuck to her guns. Letterman was the one who looked like a jerk and had to make an apology. His venomous sniping at Palin was a preview of other personality flaws revealed in his extortion episode.
This is among the weakest points all you Palinphobes trot out regularly. I addressed this at 2:51 pm.
Oh, yeah, you want Ron Paul. The guy who said he didn’t write any of the volatile race-focused stuff in his own newsletter during the nineties. Yeah, guys like you wouldn’t have a problem with him at all. He’s a safer bet.
You say don’t throw you into that briar patch?
thats right I said media whore and Ill stick by that. If you want to say thats as bad as using the word retard to describe a person will downs than maybe you can explain that contrast to Sarah Palin. And if you dont think it backfired on Palin when she went after Lettermann than you arent paying attention. The fact that she would stoop to a level of attacking anyone that says anything derogatory about her shows she’t not suited to be in public office. When was the last time you saw Bush going after everyone that make cheap attacks against him. And the reason I brought up Ron Paul is because he should be the one leading the charge on the conservative movement. Not this media whore as I put it earlier. Unfortunately the American people dont want to hear the truth, they want someone like Palin telling them how great they are and how bad everyone else is. They want Palin to go to their small town and trash talk people from big cities. Wake up conservatives. Its time to evolve
Christian Knoell wrote:
Well written.
Yeah, but Ron Paul doesn’t support occupying half the world. What kind of “conservative” is that?
Christian Knoell never gets tired of looking like an idiot..LOL there is a small group of trolls in these rooms that just seem to have the Allen Combs syndrome. They will oppose any issue while senselessly spewing crap!
No one protected Rush Limbaugh for saying that either..It was not appropriate at all…but just to clear this up…are you calling Chelsea Clinton mentally retarded?
Yeah, Palin did defend Rush, the ole double standard.
Palin didn’t defend Limbaugh over the Chelsea Clinton episode, and he didn’t defend him over the use of the word retard either. I swear, the fascination the left has with Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin is absolutely insane. We could be talking about soy futures on the commodities market, and some idiot on the left would feel the need to bring up Rush Limbaugh.
“You all seem to forget that Rush Limbaugh called Chelsea Clinton the white house dog. The selective memory of some of you republicans truly sickens me”
We dont have selective memory. You have a problem with remembering things that didnt happen. Rush did NOT call Chelsea the white house dog. Yes, I am aware of the sources that claim that, but they are untrue.
Please tell me what Rush Limbaugh said about Chelsea Clinton almost 20 years ago has to do with this in any way. Furthermore, you have no way of knowing how anyone here reacted to that insult, so please take your absolutely irrelevant accusations concerning Rush Limbaugh and Chelsea Clinton and cram them. The following quote from you proves what an idiot you are. Here it is:
“And if you dont think it backfired on Palin when she went after Lettermann than you arent paying attention. The fact that she would stoop to a level of attacking anyone that says anything derogatory about her shows she’t not suited to be in public office.”
Is this coming from the supporter of a president who, along with his supporters, implies or outright states every little criticism of his policies is racially motivated? Now your quote is a relevant example of hypocrisy, moron.
Missing from NYT’s Dave Itzkoff’s questions to Ms. Friedman: “How do you feel about Rahm Emanuel referring to political opponents as “f—ing retards?”
It Shouldn’t matter if the actress has down-syndrome or not or That her father was the former governor of Alaska (even though in the episode she said that her mother was the former governor of Alaska a clear dig a Palin). It was a tasteless joke. If you don’t like Sarah Palin, fine, take digs at HER. For her policies or if you want to “go there” and make personal attacks fine she’s a big girl and can handle, but stay away from her kids.
You all sure to get all butt-hurt over some stupid stuff. The joke wasn’t all that offensive and who cares if this actress wants to come out in support of it?? Good god people, you’re acting like she has no ability to think for herself. Sounds like she’s been doing pretty good so far, perhaps you should try respecting her opinion rather than concluding that she’s obviously being manipulated.
Being a manipulated simpleton yourself (AGW religious fanatic), you are as ignorant of people with DS as you are of AGW data fakery.
That… or I can take a frickin joke. Good lord people. Palin has been using this “everyone is picking on me” BS every since the Couric interview. She’s a professional victim.
Don’t try – Once a christian – always a denial of all evidence against – always a christian. Try IQ studies, which a lot of down’s syndrome sufferers have IQ’s near equivalent to the southern states average.
And that is frightening.
PS your great grandparents had a similar IQ…everywhere. Science eh… so inconvenient..
This is all a misunderstanding. The therapist who interprets ‘Family Guy’ for Sarah-the-Simp each week, so she can keep-up with current events, made a mistake and thought the show was making fun of Trig, when actually the detard Matt was intending to slam was Sarah, herownself.
@t-doof:
I’m glad I got the opportunity earlier this week to see a comment of yours that actually appeared to be coherent and lucid, because if I had waited for this topic to be your one opportunity to demonstrate commenting greatness I would’ve been sadly disappointed.
I’m holding out hope for you. I’ve seen potential in you where others see only the pre-sophomoric equivalent of fart jokes. “Sarah-the Simp”? “Detard”? C’mon! If you’ve got an opinion justify it reasonably. If you just hate someone or something, but can’t explain why you won’t be able to inform or persuade anyone.
Nope, its idea is – you can be a jerk no matter your IQ (disability in general).
badmotherfarker, what are you doing on this site? Seriously.
What’s wrong, don’t like dissent??
Dissent is great! (except when applied to fake AGW data) Right???
Reasoned dissent is not only acceptable, it is welcomed.
But ‘Reasoned dissent’ and your comments are mutually exclusive issues.
Try not to pretend you are taking the moral high ground on the level of discourse here.
Andrea Fay Friedman was clearly exploited, making what McFarlane did all the more disgusting.
Agreed!
These bottom feeders should be ashamed of themselves for using/exploiting Andrea for this type of controversial garbage.
You’re right. Next thing you know her mom will run for office and drag her around like a political poster.
Their is a huge difference here…Taking your new born child with you on a long several month campaign is just her being a mother. The only political message their was from the left wing haters trying to politically exploit the fact that Sarah took her child with her..It is very important for a child that young to be with their mothers. to be held etc. As you should know first hand not doing so can cause Anti Social behaviors and disorders. (think about it). I’m not sure how you can connect that with politically indoctrinating a mentally handicapped individual to support your agenda and inappropriately attack Sarah Palin and her family.
I guess Barack and Michelle should have kept their kids under a rock, then. We never should have seen Chelsea Clinton either, right? Oh, that only applies to Republicans…or at least the first Republican woman to scare the crap out of the lib establishment. Do you really think you can just throw out snarky one-liners in conservative comment forums and they’ll go unchallenged? Because we’re just a bunch of Fox-following sheep who can’t hold our own, right? Tell your Huff Po friends we said hi…and then stay there.
Blah, blah, blah, blah. You know good and well that if Palin had chosen to keep her children OFF stage, people like you wouldn’t be giving her credit for protecting their privacy or preventing them from being tabloid fodder. You would be saying schtuff like, “What’s wrong with them? Why is she hiding them? Is she ashamed of Trig and Bristol? Is she abusing them? Are all of the children Todd’s?”
There always seems to be a reason why the amorphous rules of political correctness aren’t supposed to be enforced by right-of-center folk. And your predictable comment is further proof of that.
Are all her children Todd’s? Seriously?
Not true in the UK – and the same rules hold for all MP’s children. It would just need an agreement between the two parties, and coming out publicly saying children are off limit. Problem solved.
Are you a TRIG-TRUTHER?? Seriously?
you really are sick. but Im sure you know that..
Proof that political indoctrination and propaganda works..Its a shame that Andrea has been victimized into participating in a Radical Left wing attack on Sarah Palin and her family. I have worked with Physically and mentally handicapped people all my life and have often seen Lefty wackos trying to indoctrinate these people and have in some cases provided instruction as well as rides from the group homes to the voting booths to vote who they are voting for. I have seen it go as far as them having a group meetings with these individuals that start out in them having to say Clinton or John Kerry or the worst Obama is who should win. I know for a fact that if Conservatives or Republicans had two weeks with Andrea she would be angry she participated in that sort of scandalous political attack on Sarah Palin.
Unbelievable! Actually, it’s not…I’m just surprised that we never heard about that before. That’s right up there with manipulating poor minority populations and committing voter fraud through Acorn. Wouldn’t surprise me if the DD population was conned into registering to vote multiple times as well.
Many of the higher functioning DD population does vote and should be encouraged to do so on their own not with a bottom feeder attempting to push their Ideology onto them..unfortunately Mentally disabled people can be groomed very easily. We have shelters all over this country that house the mentally ill that otherwise would be homeless. I have never seen a case where Left Wing Propaganda hasn’t played a huge role indoctrinating these individuals. I worked for TLS (Transitional Living Services) They had employees that openly groomed and schooled the residents to vote for Obama plus using company vans to transport individuals to and from the voting booths. their should be a law that protects them from this style of exploitation.
LOL – change mentally disabled to children, and the shelters with churches – and you have right wing indoctrination. To be quite honest, 70% of people do not examine their beliefs during their life – indoctrinated by their parents, church and schools. Why do you think fundamentalist christians are trying to get into school boards?
To quote that old catholic proverb – Give my a boy till seven, And i will give you the man for life.
Nice spin libnut..I wouldnt expect anyone like you to support the fact that mentally handicapped individuals need to be protected against political exploitation…but of course your type exploits anything for political gain so goes your Acorn hero’s.
Last time I checked the voting laws, children didn’t vote.
To be quite honest, you pull statistics out of your butt.
Sandra3dee…Look at my post- it was to explain once children have a set belief given by social and parental pressure, they do not examine their beliefs. Or are you just trying to make a cheap shot, because it failed, (unless….stupid…understand.)
jsminch… See the percentages of religious individuals changes…Atheism has increased from 9 to 15%, and the amount who have left christianity for another religion is 5 %% -(those who change brand of christianity is 51%)… Ps learn statistics and search google before saying this stats are wrong.
Learn about the mentally handicapped before you make that accusation thebigodoopedu2. Thy searching IQ down syndrome, and american IQ christian
I worked at a polling booth two years ago for the first time. I watched as an old woman, and then a young person, both incapable of choosing a candidate without help, ‘voted’ by being by the machine while the family member voted. This is what we have come to. Illegal aliens and mental defectives voting, non-leftist ballots thrown in the Chicago River, multipule voting by the same person for leftists. It is a wonder that a centrist or a right of center candidate can even come close to winning. Then we have mental defectives in the Senate and Congress, the latest Kennedy, who had brain cancer. I am sure he made some informed decisions. He served in the Senate yet if his competency was challenged in court, of course he would be judged unable to handle his own affairs. But vote on laws? Of course that is ok.
SO only those who fit your voting criteria can vote? Ask any democrat, they will come up with the similar stories. ALL POLITICIANS ARE LYING TO YOU. And the tea party is a joke, based on racism, christian ideology and …well racism.. Just because obama is a failure, does not mean that he is right rarely. And it does not mean the republicans are mostly right.