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Friday, February 19, 2010
Actress with Down syndrome: Sarah Palin should have sense of humor about ‘Family Guy’ role
Sarah Palin should grow a sense of humor says Andrea Fay Friedman who played a ‘Family Guy’ character with Down syndrome in the show’s Valentine’s Day episode.
Friedman, who has Down syndrome, responded to Palin’s criticism of the episode.
The following is posted on the website Palingates:
My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the “Extra Large Medium” episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine’s day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in ” Smudge” but I was a blonde in “Life Goes On”. I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm”.In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
The same statement was sent to the New York Times with the second paragraph reportedly partly edited out.
Friedman played Ellen, a character with Down syndrome, in the Family Guy episode. Over a romantic dinner with Chris, one of the show’s main characters, she said her mother is “the former governor of Alaska.”
Palin, her daughter Bristol, and other advocates for the mentally disabled criticized the show immediately with Palin calling it a “kick in the gut”
Earlier this month, the former Alaska governor, called for the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel after he reportedly called liberals ‘F-ing retarded.’
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Push on to have John Mellencamp running for Senate
There maybe a Sen. John Mellencamp in the near future.
There is a mounting push to have the liberal rocker seek a senate seat.
At least three Facebook pages, including Draft John Mellencamp for Senate!, have been set up supporting Mellencamp’s bid for the seat being vacated by Indiana’s Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh.
And it doesn’t stop there.
Brent Budowsky, a former aide to Bayh’s father, Senator Birch Bayh, voiced his support of the Hoosier rocker on the The Hill’s Pundit’s blog.
“John Mellemcamp is one of the great advocates of small-town America, of the kind of “square deal” for Americans that Teddy Roosevelt once championed. He is a voice for working people and a champion of farmers who puts his talent, his body and his money behind his words,” Budowsky wrote.
On Thursday, a Mellencamp spokesman told the Associated Press that the “Our Country” singer and Farm Aid co-founder ”has no statement to offer.”
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