Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox

[CaptainJohn]

It's been pointed out in this thread, it's been confirmed by doctors on the news, so pay close attention as I repeat it ----

IT'S HIS MEDICINE THAT MAKES HIM SHAKE LIKE THAT.

Ass Limbaugh was attacking a sick man by telling lies to bolster his own uninformed position. Ass Limbaugh has repeatedly proven his own hypocrisy by getting caught ("Drug addicts should be shot") and is merely trying to cater to the far right wing that still pays his salary.

He is an ass who deserves no sympathy and certainly doesn't deserve an audience.

 

[operafan]

Sorry, I just can't leave this alone. I am so horrified by the meanness of spirit of Limbaugh's attack. He must be exposed as a callus and hateful person.

Fox: I wasn't acting or off medication

POSTED: 5:06 a.m. EDT, October 27, 2006

var clickExpire = "11/26/2006"; NEW YORK (AP) -- In a response to charges by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, Michael J. Fox defended his appearance in recent political campaign ads, saying he was neither acting nor off his medication for Parkinson's disease.
On the contrary, he had been overmedicated, the actor said during an interview aired on Thursday's "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."


"The irony of it is that I was too medicated," Fox told Couric, adding that his jumpy condition as he spoke to her reflected "a dearth of medication -- not by design. I just take it, and it kicks in when it kicks in."


"That's funny -- the notion that you could calculate it for effect," he said. "Would that we could."


The 7 1/2-minute interview with Fox, whose shaking at one point dislodged the microphone clipped to his jacket lapel, aired in two segments taped Thursday afternoon on the "Evening News" set. (Watch fox tell Couric that he doesn't want pity -- :32)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/27/fox.couric.ap/index.html

 

[-live-]

well i jsyt read what genreal alfie says and its not even that bad what he said. i mean he could be right as ive never seen micheol fox before so i ahve no idea if hes always liek that, i mean Limbaugh says hes seen him out and about and hasnt been liek that before. plus Limbaugh even said hesbeen raising money for the corse so its not like hes not syaing hes doing anything bad.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Limbaugh is treading on shaky ground with this one.

 

[ToesWiggleGBM]

Sebbles
Wonder why you dont have many friends

crawl into bed with Rush and suffocate in his underarm fat funk

 

[eddielee]

I thought what Rush Limbaugh said was particularly cruel and insensitive. Isn't he supposed to be helping his party? First the Foley scandal and now Rush Limbaugh. Democrats couldn't have wished for a better election year.

 

[Soilwork]

Rush's point was that Michael J. Fox entered the political realm. He made a statement that is false. That supporting Republicans and not voting Democrat will mean that there will never be a cure for his disease.

That's pure crap.

What's pure crap is that Michael J Fox said that.. he didn't. You're lying.

No one, include myself and Rush Limbaugh, wishes that anyone should have to endure the effects of Parkinsons. If any of us could snap a finger and make it go away, we would.

If republicans get their way, that will be about as much medicine that will be allowed.

Those of us who's brains receive oxygen know that curing diseases requires research, but I'd not expect the people who think praying for a touchdown in the big game and a passing grade in history would be able to understand that.

 

[Austin40acres]

Actually, I'll vote on November 7.

And, I'll vote for candidates that will make a difference, not just those who promise things they can't deliver.

Michael J. Fox's ad in Missouri is in response to a State Constitutional Amendment that will make cloning legal. The Amendment has nothing to do with stem cell research.

In fact, fetal stem cell research has very little support among scientists. Adult stem cell research, on the other hand, which is supported by Republicans and Democrats alike, show much promise.

No, General Alfie, I don't know the exact page. I heard that Michael J. Fox said on Good Morning America this week that his behavior was the result of too much medication, not going off his medication as Rush said.

It's interesting that some of you have cited Rush's dependence on pain relievers (as though that's equivalent to a crack dealer on the streets) or his deafness. I guess he doesn't qualify as a "victim" who shouldn't be challenged. As this thread has shown, Michael J. Fox, as a "victim" of Parkinson's, should NEVER be challenged on the veracity of his statements.

Good Lord, if any of you are planning to vote on what Michael J. Fox or Rush Limbaugh said, please don't.

A4A

 

[Soilwork]

well, I think celebrities have every right to tell us what they think.

The same way that I have the right to tell you I think Rush Limbaugh is a drug-addicted flatulating butt-head.

nobody has to listen. free country and all that.

 

[frankfrank]

Excuse me if this already got mentioned in this voluminous thread, but I also heard an actual ad that Michael J. Fox did for Arlen Spector (PA Senator) in 2004 - a REPUBLICAN! This seems to be completely missing from the turmoil. His decision (to do ads) involves the issue of research, not political affiliation!

Never in my lifetime have I seen so much vile dirt, filth, distortions and lies as the Republicans have been putting out the past couple of weeks. (The Democrats aren't clean either, but at least their level of vileness in this campaign isn't HISTORIC.)

And I expect that it will only get worse in the next six days.

 

[Joshua_me]

Republican or Democrat - is one more less evil than the other???

Well, perhaps the Democrats are a *tad* less evil, but that's splitting hairs,
really.

Listen: The point is that the election is just days away, and the gloves are
off.... BIG time.

Let's take a step back and think about this thread.

Michael J. Fox, love him, hate him, or don't care one way or the other about him has more than enough money to insure that he, his wife and his kid(s) ?
Live out the rest of their days in a lifestyle that most of us can not even imagine.

So, what's his reason, his motivation, for doing these ads and putting himself
in a spotlight so painful that it almost trumps the disease he's dealing with ?

Money ? No. Fame ? No. The only reasonable conclusion is that he cares about his fellow man and wants to help in the end of the suffering that so many people in the years to come are sure to go through as well.

And here's a thought: Stem cells are not 'people' ! Hell, they're not even
embryos. What they are, sadly, are a hot button issue for narrow-minded
voters to hop on like so many trained seals that clap their fins together every time a politician throws them a fish of line such as, "All of God's life
is precious !"

Well, guess what ? God gave us the wisdom to figure out how to cure diseases. Not to cling to some 14th century Puritan nonsense that microscopic cells in a petri dish are human lives.

And, as if that's not offensive enough, blowhards like Mr. Limbaugh, (who by the way makes millions of spouting this tripe before disappearing in his BMW through the gates of his guarded mansion so he can remain untouchable before his next broadcast) Have the nerve to gloat while 10's
of thousands of people suffer with everything from diabetes to Parkinson's.

But, let's keep waving those cheap plastic flags.... Hell, it's much easier than actually having to think.

Josh