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Andrea Fay Friedman, the voice actress who played the role of “Ellen” –the character depicted as having Down syndrome on the Valentine’s Day episode of Family Guy, has responded to the criticism of sometime-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Of special significance, Friedman herself has Down syndrome. Palingates has Friedman’s complete response:

My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the “Extra Large Medium” episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine’s day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in ” Smudge” but I was a blonde in “Life Goes On”. I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm”.

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.

I have to say, that’s a pretty good burn.

Friedman also spoke to the New York Times Arts Beat reporter David Itzkoff. You can read their interview here.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called out Glenn Beck last night for denying that he ever said that snowstorms disprove global warming, and for accusing her of lying about him on the air.

Beck accused Maddow of selectively editing his words to make him appear to say something he didn’t, but when he played back the tape of her to prove his point, he cut out the part where she gave the evidence for him saying that snowstorms disprove climate change.

Maddow ended the segment on a somber note:

[Beck] has made a lot of people very afraid about a lot of things, and that tried and true stratgey has reaped big financial rewards for him and Fox News. I think it’s between you and your god or you and your conscience as to how much you’re willing to stir up Americans’ fear and prejudice for profit. But it’s between you and me when you accuse me of lying.

This clip from The Colbert Report sums it all up nicely. While Palin was trying to jab Obama for using a telprompter, she (in classic hick style) had written her notes on her hand. She couldn’t be bothered using something all fancy like an index card, oh no, she wanted to be all mavricky and look like a 7th grader.

Towards the end of the video Stephen also encourages us to support Palin in her use of The “R” word. So, in her defense, SARAH PALIN IS A FUCKING RETARD!

The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a “literacy test” to protect America from presidents like Obama — a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.

In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”

Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws.

“Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white,” a website for civil rights veterans explains. “In the South, this process was often called the ‘literacy test.’ In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote.”

“Because the Freedom Movement was running “Citizenship Schools” to help people learn how to fill out the forms and pass the test, Alabama changed the test 4 times in less than two years (1964-1965),” the site adds. “At the time of the Selma Voting Rights campaign there were actually 100 different tests in use across the state. In theory, each applicant was supposed to be given one at random from a big loose-leaf binder. In real life, some individual tests were easier than others and the registrar made sure that Black applicants got the hardest ones.”

White applicants could be approved even if they didn’t pass the test.
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Last night on the Chris Matthews show, in a discussion about the proposal to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, “senior fellow” Peter Sprigg of the far right religious group Family Research Council openly said he wants to see “gay behavior” outlawed.

Wow.

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