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ABC TV Asserts: Our Disabled Children are Dogs
http://abc.go.com/primetime/politicallyincorrect/transcripts/transcript_toda y.html
A number of parents have written in to alert us about ABC TV’s assertion that developmentally disabled children are equivalent to dogs during the January 11, 2001 airing of “Politically Incorrectâ€* with Bill Maher.
What follows is a transcript from the show off the ABC TV website. On the show were guests Martin Short, Sarah Ferguson, Jay Nordlinger and Cynthia Garrett.
Bill: But I've often said that if I had -- I have two dogs -- if I had two retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet the dogs, which are pretty much the same thing --
[ Laughter ]
What? They're sweet. They're loving. They're kind, but they don't mentally advance at all.
Cynthia: I'm going to throw my shoe at you for that one -- oh!
Bill: What? Dogs are like retarded children.
Jay: The show is living up to its name.
[ Scattered boos ]
Sarah: Boo.
Cynthia: My 9-year-old nephew is retarded. I've never thought of him like a little dog.
Bill: Well, maybe you should.
[ Scattered boos ]
Sarah: But I don't think you ought to use the word retarded. I don't think that's right.
Bill: Don't use the word "retarded"? Well, what word should we use?
Sarah: Just a regular person.
Bill: But they're not a regular person.
Sarah: Well, they are regular people. They have a heart and a soul.
Cynthia: Limitations.
Bill: They have a heart and a soul and a brain that's retarded. That's a fact, people! Excuse me!
Sarah: No, because you can't say that. Do you know their brain is retarded -- this word retarded? They could just be lacking in the ability.
Bill: That's what we call retarded.
[ Laughter ]
I mean, people, are you all retarded? I mean --
[ Laughter ]
That's a fact.
Martin: I'm not gonna comment. You're a hideous, cold person.
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