Palin Rips Rahm For Using ‘Retarded’

Former Republican vice presidential candidate — and GOP future presidential candidate? — Sarah Palin took out after White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel today for referring to a group of liberal activists as “retarded.” “Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the ‘N-word’ or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities — and the people who love them — is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page . Palin’s son has Down’s Syndrome. Emanuel has apologized to Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver for using the word “retarded,” as reported here in The Wall Street Journal . (Emanuel modified the term with a trademark f-word)/ USA Today . More here .

Question: Does Sarah Palin have a legitimate point here, that the use of the word ‘retarded’ for certain disabled persons is unacceptable?