I'm late to the discussion but I just want to throw this out there having seen the episode: Palin is almost irrelevant to the joke
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Max
Feb 19 '10, 00:00
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I forget the lead in context, but the line "my dad's [...] and my mom's the former governor of Alaska" was in response to Chris' getting-to-know-you question about her family. If anything, it was only meant to confirm that she did have DS. But the entire point of the episode was to elevate DS kids to a status equal to everyone else. In this case, it was "DS people can be bitches too."
You could have taken the DS out of the story and it still would have stood - Chris was trying to be nice to someone he adored and she turned out to not be as nice as he expected.
I say Palin is almost irrelevant because she's not the butt of the joke, but maybe the point of the satire (which humor + social commentary). If she's relevant, it's because she puts the DS condition on an untouchable pedestal, and the point of satire is that nobody's untouchable; in fact, the more one claims righteousness, the more they need to be taken down a notch.
My position is, if you find fault in the episode, you understand the value of satire. In this case that's pretty ironic, which is way meta.
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