Sarah Palin/Family Guy

By: American Decency Staff

It amazes us how much the media truly hates Sarah Palin. For the sake of her humiliation, what moral lines we have are crossed and taboo subjects become jests. For what other public figure is it ok to mock the handicap of their down-syndrome child? Could we do that for the president? Could we get away with doing that to Pelosi or Olbermann or any airhead in Hollywood? But this is exactly what tries-to-be-funny-guy Seth McFarlane does in his Sunday night show on FOX, Family Guy. In the latest episode of Family Guy, one of the regular characters goes on a date with a downs syndrome woman who yells at him for not pulling out her chair or engaging her in conversation. When he asks her about herself, she says that her mother is the former governor of Alaska. I said he made a joke about her. I never said it was funny. In spite of the fact that Trig Palin is a boy, it is pretty obvious exactly who McFarlane is digging at here. I think it is also pretty obvious to mature adults that it’s never funny to make light of a child’s handicap. Even if the child is a Palin. This isn’t the first out of hand joke aimed at the Palin family by the media. Earlier in the year, David Letterman joked about her fourteen year old daughter getting “knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.â€Â I don’t know of any celebrity or politician whose family has been more subject to public abuse by the media. There used to be a kind of unwritten law that you leave the kids out of it, but when Sarah Palin is the target, that obviously does not apply.

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