[RckyRaCoCo]

The facebook comment by Robert Patrick Hartle under the actual article struck me as more poignant regarding society as it exists today...than the comments/views expressed in the article itself.

[MUDDOG]

I spent many past Labor Day weekends joining other people with disabilities in protesting the telethon.

Jerry Lewis is still a genius.

[freedumb2003]

>>It implied that as long as we remain disabled, we have nothing to offer or contribute, that our only hope was a cure. The telethon put forth the false and simplistic notion that the best way to serve disabled people is to contribute to behemoth charities that claim they will cure us.<<

I never ONCE came away with that impression from the MDA telethon. Jerry dealt with the victims (there is no other word) of this disease with dignity and actually screwed around with them alot.

Freaking ingrates.

OK, you think you can operate in society with no help? NO special wheelchairs, no special subsidies for help animals and subsidies for communication devices. No special pain-reducing drugs. NOTHING that costs money.

Just live your life tended by your family in your living room, the way it was before Jerry spent all this effort for 40 years (and he worked from the day after the Telethon until its execution the next year).

Stew in your juices, you ingrates and don’t ask for a DIME of my tax money, much less use any of the donations of millions of kind-hearted people all over the USA.

[Sawdring]

Jesse The Illiterate Faggot.

[ClearCase_guy]

This reminds me of the deaf lobby who WANT to be deaf. And they WANT their children to be deaf. They think being deaf makes them SPECIAL. They get very upset whenever anyone talks to them about "curing" them. How dare you say such a thing???

Jerry Lewis raised a lot of money with very good intentions. Lewis really cares about people with MD. This guy is nothing but an ingrate.

[BigEdLB]

When he got old, the bureaucrats in the MDA mistreated Jerry. When that started Many folks were done with them.

[moovova]

Keep your damn food & water, too...

[hinckley buzzard]

Lewis used the well-worn Victim Posture to entice contributions. The writer here eschews victimhood, which is a healthy stance; but the fact remains, Victim demagoguery pays off when applied to the general public.

[Mears]

This guy is a disability rights advocate.

Enough said ——they are a pain in the butt.

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[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Maybe I am weird but I used to enjoy the telethon every year.

[ealgeone]

Recall seeing Dean Martin and Jerry re-unite on the telethon in ‘76 (?). A very touching moment in tv history.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I thought they discontinued it years ago. They’ve just been running a three hour variety show on Sunday nights the past few years.

[FlingWingFlyer]

We definitely need to stop treating people with disabilities in this country as though they are disabled.

sarc/

[W.]

I remember it from the days we had only 3 over-the-air channels.

"Aw, crap .." [Sorry, I was just a kid.]

[OrangeHoof]

Jerry Lewis recognized decades before anyone else the coming copper crisis and put up copper collection centers in every convenience store around the country. It was genius. He said he was doing it to find a cure for crippled children. Instead, he stealthily owned the copper market.

[wardaddy]

I never thought he was funny at all

He was very very nasty about the south

You can have him

[trebb]

As my wife would say, “I know how that twit votes”.