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Jen Aniston sparks outrage after referring to herself as a 'retard' [Honesty is SO last year...]
FOX News ^ | 08/20/10 | Staff

Posted on 08/22/2010 6:04:04 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Jennifer Aniston is in hot water for using a politically incorrect term on “Live with Regis & Kelly” Thursday morning.

While promoting her flick “The Switch,” Aniston discussed her recent Barbra Streisand-inspired photo shoot for “Harper’s Bazaar” on the show. "Yeah, I got to play dress up,” Jen said to Regis, “I do it for a living, like a retard!"

Now, disability advocates are bashing the actress for her word choice.

A rep for the Special Olympics tells “Us Weekly,” "People with intellectual disabilities have fought their whole lives for understanding and recognition. When people continue to use the R word, it's hurtful."

(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: atleastsheknows; durrrtawdet; herpaderpderp; honesty; jenniferaniston; selfawareness; truthinadvertising
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To: central_va
Brad Pitt was an idiot.

How could any human male leave *that*?


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

61 posted on 08/22/2010 7:19:33 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: humblegunner

Think about it!!!


62 posted on 08/22/2010 7:20:15 AM PDT by Mare (Hey Barack we are Baroke!)
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To: Mare

The more I think about it, the less I understand.

Advocates? Folks who advocate being retarded? As if it were a good thing?

What a bunch of retards.


63 posted on 08/22/2010 7:22:20 AM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: The Comedian

I think she got tired of Brad's issues....

64 posted on 08/22/2010 7:22:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: The Comedian

65 posted on 08/22/2010 7:23:53 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: tlb
Thanks for the warning! That impressive list of projects doesn't mean squat if the next one doesn't make money..........
66 posted on 08/22/2010 7:24:48 AM PDT by stumptalker
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To: Mare
I love Jennifer Aniston, but I sure wish people would understand how painful it is to those who love someone with developmental problems, to hear “retard” used to mean stupid. It is also very hurtful for those who have a developmental problem. Take it from a mother who knows.

I have been called a "retard" and a "spaz" more times than I could count in my life. The term doesn't just apply to people who are "developmentally challenged" or whatever the current politically correct term is, it applies to anyone who does something stupid. I guess the next step is to demonize anyone who says someone is "stupid" or "idiotic".

I HATE political correctness more than I could ever HATE being called a retard.

In ten years it will be verboten to call someone "developmentally challenged" because that is going to be the new derogatory term to call someone who does something retarded.

You've been suckered into the politically correct message. Get over it. Kids call kids names all the time. That is just part of life. If they can't use one term, they will use another and pretty soon that term will be banned by the politically correct do gooders who have destroyed our language.

67 posted on 08/22/2010 7:26:39 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I don't really care much about jennifer aniston.

That being said, she was joking around.

Not guilty.

68 posted on 08/22/2010 7:27:28 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Perhaps Ms. Aniston should use a less offensive but equally accurate terms to describe herself. How about ignorant twit?
69 posted on 08/22/2010 7:28:53 AM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: Mare

you do understand the word “retard” does mean slow, and can be used in different context’s, now if I walked up to someone who is retarded and called them a retard, that that would be wrong, but to used the word “retard” is not wrong just depend on the context.


70 posted on 08/22/2010 7:29:48 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: maggief
#33 - is that Brad?!?

Too much time in the sun or bad makeup. It makes her look very mannish. The scary thing is, seriously, she looks kind of like my best buddy from 8th grade to this day in those photos, and that is not a good thing.

71 posted on 08/22/2010 7:30:35 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Mare

Thank you for speaking up for “developmentally disabled” people everywhere, apparently “retard” is indeed the word we use to describe them, they own the word and no one else can use it.


72 posted on 08/22/2010 7:32:19 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: The Comedian; central_va
The only retard here, in absentia, is Brad.
73 posted on 08/22/2010 7:34:34 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: The Comedian

She has a nice body, but she’s obviously a skank.


74 posted on 08/22/2010 7:39:16 AM PDT by dangus
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

She can be a ‘tard if she wants to.


75 posted on 08/22/2010 7:43:05 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: mountn man
it's obvious she (Aniston) wasn't trying to offend anybody. The majority of the people use this word in a context like she did. The offended need to learn to grow a little skin an not be so perpetually aggrieved.

I agree with you. The way our language has evolved, "retard" no longer refers to people who are challenged in their intellectual skills. It refers to people who say or do something that they didn't completely think out and wish they had.

This whole thing with unacceptable words just stops language from evolving and burdens our thought processes. We're concentrating too much on what are acceptable words and not getting to the person or message behind them. She didn't slander anyone; Aniston just spoke in an honest way.

I'll be in the minority here. I like Jennifer Aniston as an actress. She brings something positive to every role. And this one....I thought it was more of a satire about relationships today.

76 posted on 08/22/2010 7:48:41 AM PDT by grania ("Won't get fooled again")
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I’m visiting my younger sister when my oldest does something that prompts me to call him a ‘tard. My 17 year old niece immediately chastises me for using the term. I tell her that retard has many connotations and denotations. She says she does not care. It’s just LAME to use the term. So I ask her how the physically impaired feel about her use of THAT term. She said it was not the same because she did not know that it meant handicapped. I suggested she work on her vocabularly.


77 posted on 08/22/2010 7:56:08 AM PDT by wizwor (http://danvilledelivery.wordpress.com/)
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To: dangus
She has a nice body, but she’s obviously a skank.

There's nothing obvious about it at all, and I'm willing to reserve judgment until she proves it to me personally.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

78 posted on 08/22/2010 7:59:45 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: The Comedian

Anybody who would kick her out of bed is a retard of the first order.

Or a queer.


79 posted on 08/22/2010 8:01:18 AM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: dangus
she’s obviously a skank


80 posted on 08/22/2010 8:02:30 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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