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		<title>&#8216;Glee&#8217; offers wry view of bulimia, Down syndrome</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/29/lauren-potter-glee-29439/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s episode of Fox&#8217;s &#8216;Glee&#8217;, cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch)  instructs her Cheerios squad on the preferred method for losing weight: Bulimia. Here&#8217;s the dialogue from her scene with Cheerio Becky Jackson (played by actress Lauren Potter, who has Down syndrome). Becky (standing on a scale): I lost two pounds, coach. Sue: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: Applause for mom who took stand againt DS jokes</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/11/frankie-boyle-29165/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the [UK] Sunday Times, columnist India Knight hails a mother of a 5-year-old with Down syndrome who challenged Scottish standup comedian Frankie Boyle over a comedy routine. Boyle, who is known for his crude humor, referred to &#8220;Mongoloids&#8221; who have bowl haircuts and are &#8220;destined for an early death&#8221;. He recently piloted a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriver stresses humanity of people with intellectual disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/19/shriver-humanity-28779/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Washington Post profile of Tim Shriver, writer Manuel Roig-Franzia examines the Special Olympics chairman&#8217;s campaign to discourage language that makes fun at the expense of people with intellectual disabilities. Shriver has received apologies from President Obama, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Bill O&#8217;Reilly (sort of) for &#8220;colloquial jabs about &#8216;retards&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: It&#8217;s time to stop saying &#8216;retard&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/23/opinion-istop-saying-retard-28501/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg says the word &#8220;retarded&#8221; may have started out as a clinical term, but it has been twisted into a taunt over the past half century and should be put to rest. Were developmentally disabled people secure in the mainstream alongside the Irish and accountants, we could happily debate the cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Palin doesn&#8217;t speak for people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/22/lennard-davis-family-guy-28455/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lennard Davis, writing at Huffingtonpost.com about the flap over &#8220;Family Guy,&#8221; says Sarah Palin misrepresented the show&#8217;s meaning in an effort to &#8220;attack the left in any form.&#8221; Far from being a slight on people with disabilities, Davis said, the episode &#8220;serves to show us that we can&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t underestimate people with Down syndrome.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; joke was hateful</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/22/columnist-family-guy-hateful-28448/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing on CNN.com, San Diego Union editorial board member Ruben Navarrette Jr. says the &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; dig at Sarah Palin was just about as funny as &#8220;showing President Clinton, one of their icons, having a heart attack.&#8221; It&#8217;s not funny, he said, because Trig Palin &#8220;already has a hard life in store &#8212; filled with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Actress Friedman is &#8216;a role model&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/22/friedman-role-model-28443/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mia Navarro, writing at Politicsdaily.com, salutes actress Andrea Fay Friedman for responding to Sarah Palin&#8217;s attack on Fox&#8217;s &#8220;Family Guy.&#8221; Friedman voiced the character of Ellen, a teenager who has Down syndrome (as Friedman does herself.) An excerpt: The thing is, in the broader context, Ellen represents a tremendous step forward in Hollywood. For too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of Andrea Friedman: Palin &#8216;didn&#8217;t even get the joke&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/22/andrea-palin-joke-28398/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Family Guy&#8221; actress Andrea Fay Friedman is interviewed on ABC Good Morning America about her dustup with Sarah Palin. &#8220;Sarah Palin didn&#8217;t even get the joke,&#8221; Friedman told ABC News.&#8221;It would be nice if she did have a sense of humor &#8230; Come on Sarah, laugh a little.&#8221; The actress&#8217;s mother, Marjorie Friedman, says the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Family Guy&#8217; coverage keeps rolling in</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/19/family-guy-coverage-28314/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On CNN, talk show host Leslie Marshall says the &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; controversy has been a &#8220;win-win&#8221; for both Sarah Palin and Seth MacFarlane, the show&#8217;s producer, because it &#8220;ups her popularity and the show&#8217;s popularity.&#8221; Entertainment reporter Tanika Ray says MacFarlane&#8217;s goal is to stir up controversy. &#8220;He thinks: if Sarah Palin&#8217;s responding, he did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Family Guy&#8217; actress: The joke&#8217;s on Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/18/friedman-jokes-on-palin-28293/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a piece by Dave Itzkoff in the New York Times&#8217; Artsbeat blog, actress Andrea Fay Friedman chides Sarah Palin for criticizing the recent episode of &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; on which she worked. &#8220;I guess former governor Palin does not have a sense of humor,&#8221; said Friedman in an email to the newspaper. Friedman, 39, has [...]]]></description>
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