"do you mean to tell me you turned a handicapp into a political football......"
"... well I figure if your going to turn a handicapp into a political football, you might as well do it with no-class
Posted on 10/25/2006 6:13:59 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle
Conservative talk show host accuses actor of faking Parkinson's disease
Updated: 42 minutes ago
Possibly worse than making fun of someone's disability is saying that it's imaginary. That is not to mock someone's body, but to challenge a person's guts, integrity, sanity.
To Rush Limbaugh on Monday, Michael J. Fox looked like a faker. The actor, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has done a series of political ads supporting candidates who favor stem cell research, including Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, who is running against Republican Michael Steele for the Senate seat being vacated by Paul Sarbanes.
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
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LOL, what posers these lib hacks are, as if anyone believes they are "reporters" anymore.
At least Rush is honest about who he is and what he wants.
He did NOT mock his disability.
and Welcome to FR (2006-07-08).
Rush said that Fox admitted, in his own book, that he had not taken his meds, when he went before Congress. He did it so that they would get the full effect of the disease (my words).
I used to enjoy MJF as an actor. But, he is still an actor, with a drum to beat.
I'm sorry but just because Michael J. Fox has Parkinsons Disease doesn't make him special. He's doing a politcal ad and put himself out there and that's what he should have expected. I have no sympathy for him. My grandfather had Parkinsons Disease so I am very familiar with it.
Rush also pointed out that there has been success in other protocols that are financially supported by Fox himself.
Too bad the media wants to make Rush the issue rather than embryonic stem cell research, which is NOT banned in the USA.
The President has refused to have taxpayer funding of this unproven research.
"do you mean to tell me you turned a handicapp into a political football......"
"... well I figure if your going to turn a handicapp into a political football, you might as well do it with no-class
and Welcome to FR (2006-07-08).
Ditto that. I don't care how sick or handicapped someone is. When you enter the political fray, expect to be critiqued. And when you lie, expect to be attacked.
I find it really hard to believe that a Hollywood tv show would "tape around his illness," don't you? Hollywood is one cold little merciless town and money is the bottom line. Strange story getting stranger!
What is (at the moment) being lost in the debate about Fox is that he LIED in the commercial.
Aol liberal lap dog news page has the same thing.
Even on non political shows they are nailing Rush because all they know about him is he had a drug problem and he is conservative.
On Fox & Friends this morning, they said Michael admitted in his book he wouldn't take his meds so would shake more when being interviewed. A bit sleezy if you ask me.
< /sarcasm >
The only thing Rush said that was wrong was the work faking. He could have gone with MJ Fox may have been off his meds to show the symptoms of the disease without medications. It would have been more prudent. That being said MSM is taking this way too seriously. Rush and Fox are entertainers let them duke it out on their own.
Sorry but that makes no sense. The medication causes the tremors, not taking the medication would have the reverse affect (he wouldn't move at all)
But like previous posters this sort of tactic is exactly what Coulter refered to.
It's bad form to use one's disability as a political tool for the LIEberal DUmocrats.
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