Former Jerry's Kid sees telethon as an insult to MD victims

The Denver Post ^ | 9/7/10 | Susan Greene

[MissTed]

The disabled don't need people to cheer themselves up by donating money.(snip) They need programs like Colorado's that pay for aides to help them live independently.

So she prefers Government assistance instead. Bet I know who she voted for.

[Frantzie]

Who does she think she is? Dean Martin?

[circlecity]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[Julia H.]

As critics see it, the frenetic comic has perpetuated a myth that living with MD isn't worthwhile.

People think those with MD would be better off dead? If so, I've never heard anyone say so.

These "don't you dare call my disability a disability--just shut up and give me your money" types make me sick.

[huldah1776]

You Betcha! Right on her home page! LOL

http://www.lucasfamily.disabilitypride.com/carrie.htm

[Krankor]

From what I understand, Jerry Lewis donates enough grease from his hair each year to keep almost 57% of the country’s wheelchairs running smoothly.

[a fool in paradise]

Why should those with MD get more help than those with other conditions?

Ever look at AIDS research funding?

[a fool in paradise]

“Disability pride”.

Is that like the lesbians who conspired to give birth to a deaf daughter?

[Pravious]

What a whining idiot.

God bless Jerry for all the money he’s raised for MD over the years.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’ve given to the MDA telethons in the past. And I will probably do so again.

But any money I do donate is IN SPITE OF Jerry Lewis.

He’s a slimy foul-mouthed Vegas lounge lizard. He disgusts me.

[calex59]

So the way I understand her is that she doesn’t want people to contribute of their own free will but to have the money ripped from them by the government and given to her and other MD patients.

[sharkhawk]

They need programs like Colorado's that pay for aides to help them live independently

That statement is an oxymoron if I have ever seen one.

[sharkhawk]

They need programs like Colorado's that pay for aides to help them live independently

That statement is an oxymoron if I have ever seen one.

[discostu]

When I was a kid I hated the telethon because school started the next day (today functionally) so when the Jerry Lewis commercials started that meant fun summer was going away. The last time I bothered to turn it on I found the finely orchestrated sobfest kind of annoying, it’s all so blatantly manipulative.

[stumptalker]

Exactly, medical research expenditures compared to medical occurrences have been out of whack for decades. Particularly when the government got involved.

[oh8eleven]

That statement is an oxymoron if I have ever seen one.
My exact reaction too. You can't make this stuff up.

[nina0113]

They need programs like Colorado's that pay for aides to help them live independently.

I need a taxpayer-funded program to hire some servants for me, too.

[nina0113]

So the way I understand her is that she doesn’t want people to contribute of their own free will but to have the money ripped from them by the government and given to her and other MD patients.

That's what it sounds like to me - it's too demeaning to admit she's accepting charity, so she's claiming the taxpayers owe it to her somehow.

[sanjoaquinvalley]

Hershey no longer does cute or grateful. She has lived longer and far more fully than she says the Muscular Dystrophy Association led her to expect.
Is it possible that some of the fishbowl money old Jerry generated helped with that? Maybe just a wee bit? I think what JL has done raising money for medical research is terrific and I say that as someone who IS NOT a Jerry Lewis fan at all.

[Mr. Bird]

But if you're looking for someone to hire or date

I didn't think "Jerry's Kids" were of dating or employment age, but maybe times have changed.

Good grief, it's a charity. I never once (even while watching hours of the telethon as a very young boy) thought of them as anything other than being dealt an unfortunate hand, and thought it was nice that people were willing to give millions to help out. Lewis himself can be an ass at times, but so what?