Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100208:12:41:00
Politically incorrect, that's putting it mildly. both democrats and republicans have thrown around the word retard to slam each other. now another group is using it for much different reasons. our carol costello with the story. >> reporter: the r word, in the word of partisan politics it's become a favorite nonpartisan slur. everybody is doing it. the president's chief of staff called liberal democrats f-ing retards and coulter called pennsylvania voters retards. a huffington post columnist jokes sarah palin would run on a retardation platform in 2012, and then there's there. >> our political ...