Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are an odd pair. My theory is that each despises the other, but knows that they are valuable for their career. Limbaugh wishes to curry favor with the Republican party (which has been trying to disown him for some time now), whereas Palin is clawing for the spotlight and the fringe lunatic crowd.
Circumstance has driven them together, and not even Limbaugh's profligate use of "the R word" shall drive them apart, apparently.
Last August, Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel used the word "retarded" as a pejorative. (And really, there is no longer a non-pejorative context for that word.) Earlier in the month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Emanuel's use of the slur, which got Palin up in arms.
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