01:41 Did you hear about that? No, but I can just see he's all you have to do is look at him and you know he says that. So hold on a second I've got the link it's really funny because I bumped into something amazing that we got we got to jump on the on the bandwagon here here it is Wall Street Journal White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met with disabilities advocates and apologized again for his use of the word retarded Criticism of Mr. Emanuel have been building since the Wall Street Journal reported last week that he told a group of liberal activists that it was effing retarded for them to run attack ads against some Democrats. By the way, for those of you outside of Gitmo Nation USA, Rahm Emanuel is the chief of staff for the President of the United States. And then I see that he actually had a private meeting in which he apologized to Special Olympics head Tim Shriver. Now I know Tim, I've had dinner with him once.
02:37 And he's kind of like the poor side of the Kennedy family. And he runs the Special Olympics, which of course for years was run by his mom, I guess, right? Eunice? Yeah. And so I'm like looking around and it turns out there's actually a whole movement. Hold on, www, check this out, John, r-word.org. So not only do we have the N word, which we can't use, of course we have the C word, which we've not been able to use for a long time, but now we have the R word. R-word.org. You may no longer say the word retard. Our language frames how we think about others. Help eliminate the use of the R word in everyday speech.
03:31 This is a whole website. Yeah, they got more pledges than we do. 52,277. Well, those are pledges. That's not money. It's the same thing. It's where you pledge money. No, no, no. The pledge is the pledge here. Oh, does it not use the word retard? Yeah. It's a perfectly okay word. Well, if they don't want you to use it because it refers to a subculture, subgroup of people, sub whatever. I don't have a problem dropping it. Really? I mean, I find it ridiculous. It's, you know, first of all, the word retard, you use that in aviation all the time, by the way, to retard the throttle, as an example, which means to pull back, to slow down. Yeah, it's an accurate, but if you look in the dictionary, it actually is, the word retard and retarded is in the dictionary. Yeah. Well, if you want to retard the throttle, that's different, but then you're using it as a verb. No, it's in the dictionary as a,
04:27 As a, you know, I'll look it up for you. I'll look up the exact definition. I just like, you know, I think it's just going a bit too far. At what point, when I was in Jersey, Hanging out with the guys from like skid row and stuff down here Tom's River. They had this guy Who I think it's kind of a strange thing to say out of the blue? Jersey last week hanging out at Skid Row. What would you do? Listen, this is down on Tom's River This is that whole area where Bon Jovi came from and later on there was like a whole bunch of real rock bands that were from there and And we had this one guy who would hang out around the studio and he was I think he had polio and
05:07 and he would call himself, and everyone called him the cripple, or actually Chet the Leaning Mule is what we called him. He probably more likely had cerebral palsy. Could have been cerebral palsy. But you know, it was like, and it made it so much more comfortable, and he was so much more a part of the group just by, you know, everyone called each other douchebag, or you know, by the way, talk about derogatory, don't use the D word, douchebags of the world will be offended. You retard. It's the douchebags of the world. Douchebags unite. Yeah. Noun, a mentally handicapped person. So it says it right there in the dictionary. Of course, it does say often used as a general term of abuse.
05:47 But it's like a valid word. I'm just, I think we can go too far that we only have 26 letters that we can ban. Before you know it, we're just going to be saying N, C, P, N. I'm not saying that it's a good idea and I don't think it's going to get very far to be honest about it. But I can't get worked up about people, you know, finding it to, you know, they want to end the usage. I can't get worked up about it. But why can't you call an Someone else, there's two sides to it. Why wouldn't you be able to call someone who's mentally retarded, which is a proper term, right? Or is that, oh you can't say that, you are mentally retarded, you are the retardation. I mean, is that not a proper use of the word? Only retard is derogatory? What am I going to call people? Excuse me, could you please give me a card with your actual issue?
06:37 Yeah. So what would you like me to call you? Yeah, really is like that down syndrome guy. I mean, does that sound nice? Does that sound any nicer or to that special person? I'm sorry, I just I can't buy that stuff. I think like special. I think that's what I start calling you. I know I'm special, but seriously, it's crazy. Yeah, it's just going to make an amount out of a bull hill. No, because this is how it starts. And then we'll be over the next thing you know, we're in concentration camps. You mean the C camp word? By the way, don't talk about the H word. And don't don't blame it on the J word.
07:21 I mean, this is where it's gonna go, man. This is exactly where it's gonna go. It's just a whole- maybe it's that I take offense to the R word. Well, here's, um... John C. McGinley. And he's on that website and here we go. Hi, I'm John C. McGinley. I'm an ambassador for the National Down Syndrome Society and today I'm joining up with the Special Olympics to bring you a message that's very important to me. As Dr. Cox on Scrubs, you've heard me call JD many different names over the years. Patricia, Pam, Helen, Billy, Nicole, Deb, Nancy, Kathleen, Mary, Loretta, and Grace. But one name you have never heard me use is retard or retarded.
07:59 Words are powerful. Hearing the R-word makes people with intellectual disabilities and those who love them feel like less valued members of humanity. That's why we're asking you to help spread the word to end the R-word. Join the campaign and make your pledge. It's time to respect and value people with intellectual disabilities. It's time to end the R-word. I'm sorry, that's an intellectually disabled person. That's what you're supposed to say, I guess. I'm thinking, you know what I'm thinking? This is some sort of, now that you mention that the guys from the poor side of the Kennedy family, this is some sort of a meme created to make, to associate the R word, well retarded, with Republican.
08:50 I like it. Let's call it... Because you guys are Democrat, the whole thing seems like a scheme. We start saying the R word, you might... the first thing that comes to mind is Republican. I like it. I'm going to make it... put it in within my brain that it's like, you know, retarded Republican, retarded Republican, same thing. So, yeah, interesting. That's not bad. Now I'll take your side because of that. Cool. Welcome to the party. I mean the P word. We just need to be claiming these words. You know, because... Let's claim a few of our own. Yeah, okay. The D word I think is good. What's the D word? The douchebag.