What's offensive (Update)

I have also emailed the UK's Downs Syndrome Association so that they are aware of Richard Bacon's endorsement of the word 'retard' to describe a Downs Syndrome child...

'Here's BBC Radio 5Live's afternoon show presenter Richard Bacon introducing one of his guests this afternoon:

"Doug Stanhope is here. Just a remarkable stand-up comic. If you haven't seen him and want a flavour of what he's like go to YouTube now and type "Doug Stanhope Sarah Palin" [laughs] and get back to me."

Richard Bacon could have recommended any Stanhope routine, but it was the Palin one he wanted his listeners to hear. Here's the meat of it:

(WARNING FOUL & OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE FOLLOWS)

Sarah Palin is the most fucking horrible, horrible [sic] - on so many levels…

Sarah Palin is this woman - she's the mother of five, two of whom are retarded. One of them has Down's Syndrome and the other volunteered for Iraq. She's got a baby with Down's Syndrome for Christ's sake. How do you expect America to get behind her when even God hates her…

…after that last fucking retard baby came out of her - did you see the size of the head on that thing? The alien skull on that fucking retard baby had to tear her apart. Can you imagine the carnage, the violence of that thing coming out of her. It's like someone stood at the foot of her cunt and yelled "Hey Kool Aid!" They [sic] bursting through her. That baby had to do more damage to her undercarriage than the Viet Cong did to McCain's entire upper torso. I believe that if she were in the White House when she tried to deliver that child the secret service would've had to shoot it in the soft spot as it was crowning to save her… I think the Democratic Party is really dropping the ball if they don't hammer the big cunt retard baby issues for the rest of this campaign and just stay on point. Don't get distracted with all the other nonsense. Stay on point. Bring everything back to big cunt retard baby. They shoulda done that in the vice presidential debates and Biden dropped the ball. Everything shoulda come back to - whatever red herring she tries to throw at you - "Well I broke up the old boy network when I was the governor of Alaska" " I heard the only thing you broke up was that sorry cunt of yours when you fucking threw that spastic out of your tard launcher, that's what I heard." And the moderator would've said "You have two minutes to rebut the big cunt retard baby allegations" and she'll throw some other nonsense - "How's your campaign equipped to deal with that proverbial 3am phone call?" And he goes "I don't know but we're not going to have some fucking waterhead running around kicking the phone of the hook so it goes straight to voicemail with his tongue on the button. I know that! What's up with that?" And then the moderator would chastise the crowd to hold their applause to the end and remain seated. "What's your record on earmarks?" "What's your record on spitting out fucking bulb-headed [laughs] - I heard your fucking snatch is so split open they had to put a tent zipper on your snatch so your guts don't shoot out when you sneeze. That's what I heard."

Does the Downs Syndrome Association find this amusing?
Is the Downs Syndrome Association happy for this sort of abuse of a Downs Syndrome child to be recommended by a BBC presenter?
Is the Downs Syndrome Association happy with a BBC presenter endorsing the use of the word 'retard' to describe a Downs Syndrome child?

Your thoughts would be most welcome.

Kind regards

NotaSheep MaybeaGoat'