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Undo revision 764227 by NP (Talk) hardly hypocrisy - Rush Limbaugh, unlike Rahm Emmanuel, doesn't hold public office, so no comparison can be made
==Against the disabled==
==Against the disabled==
*Obama [[White House]] Chief of Staff [[Rahm Emanuel]] is reported to commonly denigrate persons he disagrees with as "retarded;" he was pointedly criticized for this by [[Sarah Palin]].<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303001_pf.html</ref>
*Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and senior [[Democratic Party]] elder statesman [[Al Gore]] mocked children with Down syndrome by referring to his political critics as having "an extra chromosome."<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/miller200406010833.asp</ref>
*Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and senior [[Democratic Party]] elder statesman [[Al Gore]] mocked children with Down syndrome by referring to his political critics as having "an extra chromosome."<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/miller200406010833.asp</ref>
*Liberal pundit and columnist [[Maureen Dowd]] referred to "extra chromosome conservatives" in an interview with [[Bill Maher]]'s on HBO. The [[National Down Syndrome Society]] issued a statement saying use of the term "extra chromosome" as a negative descriptor "is insensitive and demeaning to the more than 350,000 people in the United States who have Down syndrome, which occurs when there is an extra copy of the 21st chromosome. Regardless of who originally coined the term... Ms. Dowd has perpetuated it as a slur against hundreds of thousands of Americans who are contributing members of society and who deserve the same respect that we all expect."<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195999/posts</ref>
*Liberal pundit and columnist [[Maureen Dowd]] referred to "extra chromosome conservatives" in an interview with [[Bill Maher]]'s on HBO. The [[National Down Syndrome Society]] issued a statement saying use of the term "extra chromosome" as a negative descriptor "is insensitive and demeaning to the more than 350,000 people in the United States who have Down syndrome, which occurs when there is an extra copy of the 21st chromosome. Regardless of who originally coined the term... Ms. Dowd has perpetuated it as a slur against hundreds of thousands of Americans who are contributing members of society and who deserve the same respect that we all expect."<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195999/posts</ref>