Shut the f up, midgets

Midgets are getting all midgety about the use of the word “midget” on broadcast TV, calling for the word’s banning and claiming it’s as offensive as racial or sexual slurs. Filthy midgets.

“See, we can be sexy too! And our sausage fingers will make your penis look huuuuuge!”

Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word “midget” on broadcast TV.
The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.

The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice that the group said was demeaning.

In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called “Jesse James and the Midgets.” The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

Calls to the FCC and Celebrity Apprentice host Donald Trump were not immediately answered Sunday. NBC Universal representatives didn’t immediately respond to e-mail messages, and the telephone rang unanswered at their Los Angeles office.

I don’t know what’s more surprising: That the lil fellas took such offense to what was said or that they were able to dial the phone without their fat little fingers hitting too many buttons at once.

My question is this..do these midget groups see someone like Verne Troyer and think of him like a black guy would someone shucking and jiving? Because I feel like 80% of midgets are employed in some form of entertainment that’d be embarrassing for midgetkind. Very hypocritical. Anyway, probably not a good idea to boycott things or whine when the majority of your support base can be easily lifted up and thrown. That’s why bulimic supermodels often avoid discussing political beliefs. Well, that and how time-consuming vomiting is.

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