Lisa

With all due respect to Chris Cuomo (at least he asked the question), Charlie Gibson never would have let Ben Stiller get away with that pathetic answer! I want someone to ask him some tough questions, such as:

1) Would you see this movie with a group of parents who have kids with intellectual disabilities?
2) Do you have any good friends with loved ones (not a second cousin or dead great-grandfather) who have an intellectual disability?
3) Did any of your focus groups include families of those with intellectual disabilities?
4) Why did you spend so much time trying to avoid offense on racial humor and none with regard to disability humor?
5) Why were Tim Shriver and many other disability advocates not allowed to screen this film until the morning of the day it premiered?

Stiller’s response in the GMA interview really shows who the real imbecile is. He even makes a big part of our argument for us:

“we screened the movie so many times and this didn’t come up until very late”

The fact that no one said anything simply illustrates the antipathy for the disabled in this country. THIS IS WHAT IS BEING PROTESTED. No one cares because they think the intellectually disabled are retards who are too stupid to understand. They even go on to admit that they are making fun of actors (themselves)…who actually feel that way. Duh!! They continually try to use circular logic to weasel out of it. It doesn’t work.

Maybe someone should give Stiller an IQ test…

but not over Tropic Thunder’s tasteless and discriminatory writing?

Though some in the picture had the same disrespectful lack of concern as Ben Stiller and Co. in their response: “It’s just a picture, what’s the problem.”