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Satirical Blog Under Fire for Making Fun of Trig Palin

By    |   Wednesday, 20 April 2011 10:02 PM EDT

Making fun of Trig, Sarah Palin's disabled son, is off limits.

So learned the satirical political blog Wonkette this week, after one of its blogs posted an item on Trig's birthday making fun of the boy, who has Down's Syndrome.

The post quickly spread through the conservative blogosphere, which led to a day-long campaign on blogs and Twitter railing against it. By day's end Wednesday Papa John’s Pizza announced that it will stop advertising on the site. Huggies will too.

To read more about the controversy, click here and here.



 

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Making fun of Trig, Sarah Palin's disabled son, is off limits. So learned the satirical political blogWonkette this week, after one of its blogs posted an item on Trig's birthday making fun of the boy, who has Down's Syndrome. The post quickly spread through the...
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