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Obama Insults Special Olympics Athletes
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*Obama Insults Special Olympics
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*ACTION ALERT: Community Choice Act Reintroduced
TUESDAY<http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ver=fi-CboYHL3c.en.O&am=X_k6pcbzcKGYBf3j0fQyA-8wrPIM#12039f781beb842d_LETTER.BLOCK5>
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*Poll Shows Majority Fail to See Offense in Obama's
"Joke"<http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ver=fi-CboYHL3c.en.O&am=X_k6pcbzcKGYBf3j0fQyA-8wrPIM#12039f781beb842d_LETTER.BLOCK14>
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*Obama Speaks about Inclusive
Employment<http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ver=fi-CboYHL3c.en.O&am=X_k6pcbzcKGYBf3j0fQyA-8wrPIM#12039f781beb842d_LETTER.BLOCK11>
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*Obama Insults Special Olympics Athletes *
This excerpt from MSNBC (March 20, 2009) provides a brief summary of the
offending remark.
*Obama 'stunned' by millions in AIG bonuses*
*President promises on 'Tonight Show' to get payments back*
By Savannah Guthrie and Alex Johnson
...
*Presidential Gaffe?*
... in attempting to make a joke about the White House bowling alley, the
president may have made a serious misstep.
Telling Leno that he had not removed the alley, Obama said he had recently
recorded a 129 game...
...Then he added: "It was like Special Olympics or something," a reference
to the athletic festival held every two years for people with mental
disabilities...
*>>> For the Full
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*The Initial White House Press Secretary Explanation from Air Force One
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*Special Olympics' Official
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*Politico Reporter Looks for Way
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*Gov. Palin and Others React to Obama's Special Olympics
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*Comment on the JFActivist Blog:* How did Obama's comment make you feel? How
would you like to proceed? What can he and the administration do to repair
the damage? What did this thoughtless and insulting remark mean to you? Is
this indicative of a larger issue of our societies insensitivity and how do
we combat that?
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*Poll Shows Majority Fail to See Offense in Obama's "Joke"*
Further evidence of why a PUBLIC response by the White House is necessary--a
Huffington Post online poll reports that at least 54% of readers thought
should not be taken as offensive. (I'm not exactly sure how to interpret
the "Why are we even talking about this" category.)
Clearly we have a long way to go toward sensitizing the public to the
offensiveness of derogatory and belittling words and attitudes.
Online Poll Results from the Huffington Post (March 19, 2009):
*Obama's joke about the Special Olympics was...*
- Just a light-hearted, self-deprecating comment. Get over it people.
*27.47%*
- Maybe a dumb thing to say, but he didn't mean it in a mean-spirited
way, and it is pretty funny. * 26.11%*
- A tasteless comment that he should not have said, period. *24.83%*
- Why are we even talking about this? * 21.59%*
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