SNL Rahm Emanuel Skit Over His "Retard" Remark Goes After Sarah Palin and Democrats

The SNL Rahm Emanuel skit about his "retard" remark aired Saturday night, in which Democrats and Sarah Palin were targeted. This SNL Rahm Emanuel skit had the fictitious White House Chief of Staff (played by Andy Samberg) apologizing to disabled people without even uttering the "retard" remark, and which can be seen here at Chicago Now. Even though the SNL Rahm Emanuel skit was a spoof, there is a lesson to it. That lesson is that there are so many other words that can better describe how one feels about one's political foes without bringing the disabled into it.

SNL Rahm Emanuel Skit Went After President Obama's Critics, Including Sarah Palin: See, You Can Be Critical Without Using the "Retard" Remark

Andy Samberg as Rahm Emanuel sat on the edge of his desk, and a picture of President Obama smiling is in the background. The fictitious White House Chief of Staff apologized for his "regrettable term" to the head of Special Olympics. He apologized to the American people in a very calm voice, and began apologizing to the progressive Democrats nicely, too, before lighting into them with a flurry of words, many of them had to be bleeped out. But "babies" and "turncoats" weren't bleeped out as he told Democrats he's been having a hard enough time getting health care passed without their undercutting him.

Then Andy Samberg went after Sarah Palin during the SNL Rahm Emanuel skit. He told Sarah Palin that he was sorry for his "retard" remark, then like Obama's Democratic critics, he began a profanity-laden tirade against the Fox News contributor, asking for an apology from her while lighting into the former governor for going after his brother Zeke over "death panels", then chastised her for being "a quitter who couldn't finish dinner". He also asked Sarah Palin, "What are you, 14" because she came after him on Facebook.

While many people might find the use of profanity and insults to be very unacceptable, the Saturday Night Live spoof piece did show that one has a true litany of fiery and descriptive words to describe political opponents. How often are these words really directed at political foes behind closed doors? And for how long, even during the good ol' days of yesteryear, when reporters were more hush-hush about what politicians said? Had Rahm Emanuel really used those fiery words used on the SNL skit instead of the "retard" remark, he wouldn't have had to apologize in the first place, right?

Do you think conservatives do the same thing that was portrayed in the SNL Rahm Emanuel skit when it comes to describing their political foes behind closed doors? Whether they do or not, if you leave the disabled out of criticizing your foes, including the "retard" remark, the apology hotline to the Special Olympics could be disconnected.

Sources for this article about the SNL Rahm Emanuel skit in which Democrats and Sarah Palin were targeted:

Skit, "And Now An Even-Tempered Apology From White Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel", Saturday Night Live (SNL), first aired February 6, 2010

Curt Wagner, Andy Samberg's [bleeping] Rahm Emanuel [bleeps] Ashton Kutcher on 'SNL': http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/show-patrol/2010/02/andy-sambergs-bleeping-rahm-emanuel-bleeps-ashton-kutcher-on-snl.html, February 7, 2010, ChicagoNow.com