Posted on 10/24/2006 3:42:45 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 10/24/2006 6:49:35 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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The Washington Post has replaced the original article at the source link and almost completely rewritten their hit piece with a new author:
By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 25, 2006; C01
120 posted on 10/24/2006 8:24:16 PM CDT by kristinn
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Below is an excerpt of the Original article before the Washington Post rewrote it.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh today attacked actor Michael J. Fox for inserting his halting voice into the U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri, suggesting Fox was "acting" in a commercial where he's shown shaking while endorsing the importance of stem cell research.
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners today, encouraging them to go online to watch Fox's commercial, which first aired Oct. 21 in St. Louis during a World Series game. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act."
In the commercial, Fox throws his support behind Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, who supports stem cell research, against Republican James M. Talent. Fox also taped similar ads for other Democratic candidates, including Benjamin L. Cardin in his Senate race against Republican Michael S. Steele in Maryland and Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D), who is seeking reelection.
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"What you do in Missouri matters to millions of Americans, Americans like me," Fox said in the television spot, which will continue airing throughout Missouri this week.
"This is the only time I've ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has," Limbaugh said. "He can barely control himself."
Limbaugh said Fox could "control himself enough to stay in the frame of the picture" and to keep "his eyes right on the . . . teleprompter. But his head and shoulders are moving all over the place."
"He is acting like his disease is deteriorating because Jim Talent opposes research that would help him get cured," Limbaugh said, adding that Talent only opposes "fetal stem cell research, but not adult."
"This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox," Limbaugh said. "Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
Too bad about his condition, but thousands of other people has Parkinson's too, and they're not demanding taxpayer funding for it like Fox is.
Fox has the money and connections. He can pour it into stem-cell research if he wants. Typical liberal, wasting other people's time, using other people's money to advance their toxic agenda.
That's the opening graph of a news story. When you read the whole piece, he doesn't make the case for a flat denunciation of Rush. He also leaves out some of the good arguments Rush made.
Now if someone could postulate that embryonic stem cell research could cure biPolar disorder, they could ask another biPolar foreigner like Sting or Jean-Claude Van Damme to stay off their meds and pull the same stunt in front of the Senate.
How long would it take for Jean-Claude Van Damme to jump over his table and put Jabba the Hut {D-Mass} in a choke hold?
The telethon is in full swing - going 24/7.
"He made the accusation that Fox's...condition was just an act"
I heard the program myself, twice. He did not say his condition was an act. Everybody knows he has the condition, and Limbaugh never denied he has the condition.
1. Yes, regrettably Michael J. Fox Has Parkinson's Disease. The fact that he went off his meds to amplify the sympathy factor was a deception. It was an act, if he did not take meds to control what can be controlled. Rush was right.
2. You have to understand there is Fetal Stem Cell research and Adult Stem Cell Research. Republicans will not back GOVERNMENT funding of Fetal Stem Cell Research. Adult Stem Cell Research is okay. There is nothing to keep private (non-government) research and development to find cures for everything with their own money. If there was a hint that this was possible, don't you think big time medical research companies would dive into this with both feet and try to make the big bucks? Has anyone been cured or helped because of Stem Cell Research so far? Not that I know of.
The MSM is despicable when they lump all "Stem Cell research" into one category and say the Republicans oppose it. Of course, we all know they lie.
3. It's very clear to me that this is only a political issue and not a scientific issue. Until someone comes up with some kind of victory over any disease using stem cells, this is a gigantic political smoke screen and you and Michael Fox fell for it.
There was NO media outrage when Al Gore referred to conservatives as "the extra chromosome wing" of the Republican Party...
there was NO media outrage when the senior-most Senator of the Democrat party used the "n word" TWICE on a televised interview...
there was NO media outrage or hubbub when Farrakhan talked about space ships carrying him around showing him the future...
there was NO media outrage when Jesse Jackson called NYC "hymie town"...
yet when M.J. Fox puts his pitiable behavior on display in a political statement, he's not ripe for criticism??? Horsecrap.
MJF allowed himself to be exploited and then
expected the teflon treatment. Rush rocks.
If the handicapped want to get into the battle,
they should expect to take some hits.
But who cares... isn't MJF Canadian? Sheesh.
At least when Nancy Reagan promotes embryonic stem cell research she actually believes in it. Given her husband's condition I can well understand why she'd want to believe it can birth a miracle, even if no reputable science has shown it to cause anything but harm so far.
But when Fox goes on air and promotes Cardin, someone that voted against Fox's cause, I assign him to the category of either allowing blind partisanship to the Dems to lead him to be duped OR that he knowingly lied and is in this for a Democrat victory above and beyond the research he claims takes number one priority in his life.
Which one is it Michael? Did the Dems dupe you about Cardin? Or are you just another in a long string of Liberal partisan hacks that would allow yourself to be paraded as a victim if it'll buy you a few more votes?
If you don't retract your ad against Steele and your support for Cardin I'm going to assume the latter. At least before I thought you actually believed in this, as Nancy does. Now I'm sceptical.
No, it'll be like his Tom Dascle moments.
Remember the running argument Rush had with Dascle? Or Bill Clinton for that matter?
The media has once again make Rush topic one. In return listeners rush to his show for his counter argument.
Two weeks before the election the morons in the MSM are practically egging their viewers on to check out what this Limbaugh guy is saying yet again, and in return they are going to hear what he really is saying about the matter and about the other things the Libs are up to.
They are dunces.
Not only are they going to energize conservatives by attacking our number one spokesman, but they are sending any swayable Libs or "independents" over to Rush as well for the conervative viewpoint unfiltered by the Liberal media.
I have no sympathy at all for actors who after contracting a specific disease or condition then act as spokesmen asking for money to cure the same disease or condition. Obviously Christopher Reeves and Michael J. Fox were only concerned about the cure after they contracted their disease or condition. Now an actor like Jerry Lewis who does not have MDS, but spends a lot of time raising money to cure MDS, should get a lot of respect, sympathy and coincidently he also raises a lot of money.
Article has a new headline: Rush Limbaugh On the Offensive Against Ad With Michael J. Fox
My stepfather has somewhat advanced Parkinsons. At rest he has what is called a "hesitation tremor." His hands will shake and he must now use a walker to get around. Parkinson victims will also display rigidity in their movements. Micheal J Fox did not display this in the least. He was also shown today on Fox walking perfectly normally and shaking peoples hands and displayed none of the movements that were portrayed in the ad. He does have Parkinsons but it is apparently not advanced at this stage or is controlled with drug therapy at this point. The disease will progress and he will display the symptoms I described despite drug therapy. At the hospital I work in I have not seen Parkinson victims display the movements that Micheal J Fox had in the political ad. Also, if his disease had progressed to such a stage his speech pattern would not be as clear and precise as in the ad. In short HE WAS FAKING IT.
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; Page B01
Appearing grimly unsteady from his long bout with Parkinson's disease, actor Michael J. Fox is inserting his halting voice into the campaign for the U.S. Senate in a new television commercial about the importance of stem cell research.
That should read Daniela plagiarized Mosk for the sentence.
Nope. Not true.
He suggested that Fox's symptoms, as seen in the ad, were more intense than he recalled, because he was acting or off his meds. SYMPTOMS.
Limbaugh never suggested Fox does not have Parkinson's.
EXACTLY!
The RATS are trying to use Rush as the boogey man to gin up their base. Wait, according to the "objective" media, the RATS are already fired up. Could it be that the MSM is not telling the whole story?
In their intellectual superiority (which willbe crammed down our collective throats when the dems get back into power and degenerate this nation), leftists deny the unborn a definition of human being. Fox is a dufus, stopping his medication to grease the image of a suffering soul pushing cannibalism with lies and mischaracterizations a plenty. The lady on O'Reilly tried her best to get the truth across to the deaf-eared Bill regarding the purposeful lies of the salivating stem cell cannibals.
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