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DreamWorks Goes 'No Retard,' Yanks 'Simple Jack' Site [Disabilities]

The HeldenFiles Online found this 8/8/2008 on defamer.com

Well, that was fast: Mere days after first drawing attention on a disability issues blog (and eventually going under magnifying glasses at the NY Times and here at Defamer HQ ), DreamWorks's mock Web site for Simple Jack is gone . The site had been part of the studio's complex interweaving of Tropic Thunder tie-ins, with its "Once upon a time... there was a retard" tagline tipping the story ...