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"When I heard about it, I felt really hurt inside," said Special Olympics global messenger Dustin Plunkett. "I cannot believe a writer could write something like that. It’s the not the way that we want to be portrayed. We have feelings. We don’t like the word retard. We are people. We’re just like any other people out there. We want to be ourselves and not be discriminated against."

    Is it not a writer’s job to make people feel?  Hell most us are already sad, pathetic, retards ourselves.  Who in their right mind would chose such a lonely and unrewarding profession?  I wish I could get a job that “special people” get without even being able to spell their full name.  Well that’s enough about me.

    Ben Stiller loves to poke fun at retarded people in most of his movies anyway.  This is nothing new.  Take “There’s Something about Mary” for example number one.  The adult retarded brother is the funniest part of the movie.  Casting Owen Wilson in “Starsky and Hutch” shows that he has sympathy for special people and will even hire them when in true need of an actor.  Barbara Streisand played his fucking mother in “Meet the Annoying Jews.”  If that is not compassion for a ‘tard then I don’t what is.

    Why not spend protesting energy on something important like keeping re-re’s out of Washington DC?  Leave the hopeless alone in Hollywood and set up shop outside the Senate.  Give the people who actually matter a piece of your slightly slow mind.  Big Business, the same employers who give out greeter’s and janitor’s jobs to the mental, hand out Congressional seats like candy to make sure that no one with a fully developed sense of right and wrong can run this loony bin of a broken democracy.  Isn’t a clear sense of right and wrong the foundation of mental health?  Tell me that someone isn’t retarded when they sign their name next to “no” on a bill that would give free and proper health care to the parents, siblings, and family friends that take care of their “special people.”  I know that taking care of a handicapped person is a full time job that doesn’t pay, so why can’t these full time “employees” get the same treatment that their non-working loved ones get?

    I might be all over the place on this one, but I feel hurt inside.  Let’s all get angry, let’s all get pissed, let’s all protest.  Let’s do it for the right reason though.