Sarah Palin’s latest ploy to give Fox ratings, as I’m sure you all know, is to play the “retard” card. I don’t mean that in a mean way, as I am personally a huge advocate for the mentally handicapped, I just mean it in an honest way, and honesty is something the Palin family practices even less than abstinence. She demanded that Rahm Emanuel be fired for saying “fucking retarded” and flipped when Family Guy took a jab at her with a down syndrome joke, yet she defended Rush Limbaugh ‘s use of the evil R-word as “satire.” The hypocrisy doesn’t end there, however; as it turns out, Sarah made the ultimate retard joke at her son’s expense about two years ago…the day he was born.
According to one interview, Trig is just a modernization of an obscure old name…
The name Trig is a Norse word meaning “true” and “brave victory,” Leighow said. Paxson is an area of Alaska that both Palin and her husband, Todd, feel is “one of the most beautiful spots in Alaska,” she added.
(It would normally be spelled “Trygg,” as if that name could be considered normal.) But according to another interview, it’s a family name…
The grandfather says Trig is named after his great uncle, a Bristol Bay fisherman, while the name Paxson comes from the well-known snowmachining area.
The reality, however, is that the name is just a sick joke. The medical term for down syndrome is Trisomy 21, or Trisomy-G. Often, this is shortened to “Trig-G,” and those born with it are sometimes referred to as “trig” babies. So, in other words, she just named him “Retard.” If he was born without legs, would she have named him “Stubby”? YouTube user onlywhenprovoked summed it up best in this rant…
This should come as no surprise to those of us who have read a lot about the “behind the scenes” Sarah Palin, as opposed to her hard-working mom public image. In Levi Johnston’s infamous Vanity Fair piece, for example, he explains what a lazy parent she is and how she would refer to Trig as her “little retard baby,” and while you could argue that Levi has ulterior motives for smearing Palin, this is far from the only account of her nasty, selfish, and utterly insane personality.
But isn’t that most of these “soccer mom” types? Like the modern revision of the 1950s ideal housewife, these women use their kids like little trophies, or in Sarah’s case, like poker chips in the game of politics. It really blows my mind that this hasn’t been brought up more, considering how terribly insensitive and downright cruel it is to name a kid that’s already going to struggle his whole life to be loved and accepted after his own disability. I dare any of these middle-aged pseudo-feminist mothers to stand up for her now after reading this…she’s going to need a lot more than a Tea Party to weasel her way out of this one.
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and yet there are people with opposable thumbs still impressed by this grifter.