Sarah Palin Says Family Guy Mocked Her Baby Trig
Family Guy
According to Palin’s Facebook page, watching Sunday’s “Family Guy” episode “felt like another kick in the gut.”
Who knew she was a fan?
Evidently, her daughter Bristol “was one who asked what I thought of the show that mocked her baby brother.”
Let’s pretend that this isn’t a horribly worded sentence, and move on to the issue of “Family Guy” and the alleged mockery.
What’s got Palin in such a hissy is a scene in which Chris, the cartoon character teenage boy played by Seth Green, is on a date with a girl, Ellen, who has Down syndrome.
What happens is that Chris asks Ellen what her parents do for a living and she says that her mother is the former governor of Alaska.
How is this mocking a two-year-old baby with Down syndrome? Only the Palin’s can answer that, but clearly the former governor of Alaska thinks the joke was a cheap shot directed at her son Trig.
However, Sarah Palin was just too irate to even issue her own response, so she had her daughter Bristol take this one.
On Sarah’s Facebook page, Bristol said that it’s OK to poke fun of her because she can take it – she’s developed a “thick skin.” But when insults are hurled at her young brother Trig, who was born in 2008, that’s just too much for her to take lying down.
Bristol said that people with “special needs” should be treated, well, special.
“Their lives are difficult enough as it is,” she said, “so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them?”
But did the “Family Guy” writers actually mock the baby Trig? The character, Ellen, is a teenage girl – not a two-year-old baby. Yes, she appears to have Down syndrome, but so what? The jokes seem to be more about two awkward teenagers on a date, and one half of one sentence refers to Sarah Palin.
Is it really mocking someone to have a character in a cartoon comedy that is somewhat similar to them?
Is the character of Cleveland mocking black people?
Well, maybe it is, but isn’t that the point of true equality?
Isn’t it a good thing that we can have a guy in a wheel chair, someone with Down syndrome, a black couple, a pervert, rich people, a goofy mayor and a complete moron all on a show making fun of our entire culture, including Sarah Palin?
Or perhaps it would be better to just pretend “those” people don’t exist? Maybe it’s easier for us as a society to ignore our fellow citizens with Down syndrome? It’s just wrong to talk about them – they’re different.
I think more people with Down syndrome should be on television and in movies – comedic roles, dramatic roles or whatever. They’re here too, and they’re just as much a part of our culture as a black man, a nitwit, a cop in a wheel chair and Quagmire.
Well, you be the judge. Here’s the complete transcript of the scene that’s got the Palin’s all riled up and a video clip below.
Chris: “Well I’m glad we’re finally going out Ellen. I’ve really liked you for a long time.”
Ellen: “Hey, what the hell do you think you’re doing?”
Chris: “Sitting down.”
Ellen: “Get up and pull my chair out for me.”
Chris: “Oh. Goodness. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
Ellen: “That’s better. Are you going to be this rude all evening? You haven’t asked anything about myself.”
Chris: “Oh um. Sorry um. Uh. So what do you parents do?”
Ellen: “That’s better. My dad’s an accountant and my mom’s the former governor of Alaska.”
Chris: “That’s cool.”
Ellen: “It’s real cool.”
