Barone's remarks are despicable.

Barone went over the line a long time ago and can't seem to find his way back. Is there really a market for his propaganda anymore? Americans need objective reporters who tell us what is happening and not enablers of the powers that be.

leaves me (nearly) speechless. They've hit rock bottom in hate mongering and the surreal perversion of factual reality. Next they'll be claiming she was raped by Bill Ayers and a gang of Black Panthers but was willing to keep the baby anyway. Cause Jesus insists.

it sounds so much like a punchline, I can't help but laugh!

Is he this funny all the time?

For not aborting him............just trying to be funny. I may have crossed the line.

The only way you fight these twits is fire with fire.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Doncha.

Doncha who?

Doncha wish I had murdered my retarded unborn baby!

HA! It's sooooo funny.

Barone may say that he was trying to be humorous, but the fact is that many of these lunatics really believe that "liberals" don't like Sarah Palin because she didn't abort her child.

Where does this come from? Are they saying that, if you're pro-choice, you are automatically in favor of aborting children with Down syndrome, and that you believe every woman should do this?

Do they understand at all what "choice" means?

I respect the choice Sarah Palin made with all my heart. I think it is an act of courage and compassion to take on the challenge of raising a child with Down syndrome. But, the fact is that she wants to take away this choice from anyone else.

... that the other rightwingnuts will listen to Barone's remarks and go apeshit at the "liberal media" for something that they never did.

Abortion? Not so much. Barone is an ass hole.

is what comes from working at Fox. Oh, the infection, it really burns.

I wanted Sarah Palin to abort her Down syndrome baby. But only if I got to eat the fetus with some fava beans and a nice chianti!

JUST KIDDING! *ba dum bum* (drum roll)

See? I'm hi-LA-rious too!

WTF is wrong with this guy?

That doesn't even qualify as "poor taste" on it's worst day....

This article should have been lightly flagged or labeled as an extreme comment; it fails as both humor and social commentary.

This is essentially Camile Paglia's point too http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/

Today, on Salon, she castigated the liberal media for not pursing the Ayers/Obama thing, and then wrote:

>>Reporters have been too busy playing mini-badminton with every random spitball about Sarah Palin, who has been subjected to an atrocious and at times delusional level of defamation merely because she has the temerity to hold pro-life views. How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture?<<

The only difference is that, unlike Barone, she didn't mention the baby by name

on Hannity

Way to turn the corner, GOP. That kind of fresh, intelligent rhetoric will really get it done in 2010 and 2012. If by "get it done" you mean giving the Democrats another 10 Senate and 30 House seats and torpedoing your party for a generation.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go kill some kittens.

Sarah Palin stated, when she was introduced to the other 49 states, that she "chose" to keep the pregnancy and bear the child. It was her choice, but it is a choice which she wants to deny to other women.

Mr. Barone must have some real, pent up hostility over the Prop 8 vote now that he can't marry his sweetie pie. Too bad he used all that pissiness to lash out at his fellow journalists. And no--not one single member of the media ever attacked Sarah Palin because she had a Down Syndrome Baby. But I would like to hear one member of the media tell the truth about Baby Trig by revealing that his real mother is his sister Bristol. Ms. Palin is quite a liar. She promised throughout the entire campaign to release her medical records, but they never saw the light of day. Wonder why? I think we all know, Mr. Barone.

Now that the GOP has lost badly, it is going over to the batshit crazy side completely and wholeheartedly then. Good to know...

wow...

This is his idea of humor? What an a**wipe.

I'm not even sure what you can say to something like that.

Sure, the media wanted the kid to die, but obviously not any members of the media that are in the room or in earshot right now, you're all cool. I'm talking "those" members of the media. Just like some Americans aren't as real as others, but of course I'm not talking about any of the Americans that are around right now, just unspoken ones that shall not be named, but continue to exist somewhere other than here.

Other than boomerang insults back at other worthless 'pundits'. Seriously, do you people sit around the staff meeting table once a week and pencil in all the stupid ass stories you plan to cover all at once or do you take it one day at a time? Who cares what retards like Barone say?

the go-to excuse whenever one of the right wing windbags says something disgusting and over the line...

Barone is a whore and a moron. Much like the rest of the right-wing punditry, which has painted itself into a troglodytic corner by consistently appealing to the worst and most base natures in their audience. We should not be surprised that this kind of shameless cuntmouthery (riffing off Deadwood a little here, bear with me) is all that's left of them. Especially while all the dumb little waterheads like Barone, who couldn't hold a day job outside of the self-reinforcing, reality-denying right wing jihad wing, sign on to defend Palin for the next four years. They have to sink this low to defend Palin because there is literally nothing substantial to defend her with.

In a just world Palin would still be the mayor of her horrible little East Bumblefuck stripmall of a town and people like Barone would be mucking out sewers or perhaps well compensated catamites for the Senator Larry Craigs of the world. Alas, our world is an imperfect one.