To me the real question is whether they were making fun of Trig. Right or wrong, there’s a major effort in the disabled community to have a strong representation on TV, in film and on stage—and that extends to the mentally challenged as well. Thus to have a DS character is seen as an advance for many, and the oblique reference was to Palin as a mother of a DS child, not actually to Trig.
I wonder if he would find this funny...Following the airplane crash that killed a former Minnesota Senator, a reporter asked an NTSB spokesman what type of terrain the plane crashed in. The NTSB spokesman replied, “Well, Stone”