A national group sworn to advocate on behalf of people with Down syndrome won’t say a peep about Bill Maher blasting Sarah Palin’s children, including Trig Palin, as “inbred weirdos straight out of ‘The Hills Have Eyes.’”
Has Palin Derangement syndrome trumped common decency?
It’s hard to imagine another explanation why groups dedicated to the dignity of people with Down syndrome have been so silent about Maher’s broadside, unleashed during a recent “Real Time with Bill Maher” telecast on HBO.
“And when I point out that Sarah Palin is a vainglorious braggart, a liar, a whiner, a professional victim, a scold, a know-it-all, a chiseler, a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp, and the leader of a strange family of inbred weirdos straight out of ‘The Hills Have Eyes,’ that’s not sexist. I’m saying it because it’s true, not because it’s true of a woman.”
For non-horror fans, “The Hills Have Eyes” involves an inbred family feasting on the flesh of innocent travelers.
The New York-based National Down Syndrome Society “does not have a comment on this clip at this time,” says Jordana Stern, the group’s Communications Associate.
Perhaps the NDSS mission statement, which reads, “to be the national advocate for the value, acceptance and inclusion of people with Down syndrome,” is suspended when the attack is launched against Palin’s brood.
This reporter reached out to multiple people in the Down syndrome community for comment on Maher‘s vicious commentary with similar results.
“We are going to stay quiet on this one being that it is specifically politically focused and does not address someone with DS directly, but by association,” said Gail Williamson, Director of Programs and Outreach with the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles.
So it‘s game on to verbally taunt someone with Down Syndrome if the person belongs to a political family?
Can’t decide which is more despicable…Maher or the so called advocates for those with Down’s Syndrome.
Children, especially special needs children, should be off limits, and for that comment, Maher should never work again in the media…He has shown the nature of his heart and the blackness of his soul.
…let us be decent and charitable, and not wish that his children or grandchildren should be born with a similar affliction, just as Karma, cosmic justice coming around to him….or let us at least TRY not to wish that upon him and his family.
maher is a jerk, but the organization that won’t call him out is worse.
Vile, hateful people that have a black, diseased clump of cells where
their hearts should be.