"Vote DUmocrat so Marty McFly can walk again..."
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
"If you experience sudden INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS on the drug, you may need a LOWER dose."
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/brain/parkinsons/park.treat.drugs.dopreplace.htm
(I am living through Parkinson's with my mother. Her neurologist said spastic movements can get out of control with over-medication.)
He did not 'mock' Fox's disability. He repeatedly stated it was a horrible disease. He mocked the lies in the ad. The bill is to legalize CLONING at tax payers expense. Stem cell research is already legal in the state, and is being done.
I've kinda made it a point to take what anyone with a sign up date in Apr-May-June 2006 and later says with a grain of salt. I believe they may be what Rush might call "Seminar Bloggers."
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It's bad form to mock one's disability. Poor choice on Rush's part.
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It is worse form for a conservative to believe big media's headlines. Rush absolutely did NOT mock Michael J Fox. Rush was compassionate.
The opposite is true. You have Dyskenesia (uncontrollable movements) when you take too much Parkinson's medicine.
Then what is the point of taking the medicine? It's giving you a symptom of a disease you already have which causes you to have the same symptoms. This is really confusing.
RUSH: All right, people are asking for the cite, that's c-i-t-e. This would be Michael J. Fox, an excerpt from his book "Lucky Man" June 1, 2002. Here is what he writes regarding his appearance before a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing in Washington on September 28th, 1999: "I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease and the urgency we as a community were feeling be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling," as it was for me when I saw the commercial he was running in Missouri, because I had never seen him that way before, ever, and I got numerous e-mails from people saying he had said that he does this: goes off the medication to illustrate the ravages of the disease to people and so it's in his own book, that he admits doing this."
"Vote DUmocrat so Marty McFly can walk again..."
This is political correctness defined: Outlawing or attacking anyone who disagrees with the PC crowd.
The msm should be told, Rush is Right.
Ditto!
Whenever Hollywierdos shill for someone or something they more closely resemble the organ grinder's monkey with its little vest, pill-box cap and tin cup.
In the short term, such people are always heaped with derision. But in the long run, the truth comes out.
Ann Coulter started this with her criticism of the Dems use of the "Jersey Girls". It took a woman to show the Republican men how to fight; let's hope they don't let her example be for nothing.
...And now the truly awful Ron Kuby is running around his radio station shrieking that Rush made horrible fun of Michael J. Fox. Lies, lies, damned lies. My blood pressure is soaring!
"Look at me! I have a disease and it's all Jim Talent's fault! Boo-hoo." It reminds me of the old Cerebral Palsy telethons out of NY where the hosts had stricken children shamble painfully in a circle while they played a song that went, "Look at me, I'm walking! Look at me, I'm talking!" What a shameful belittling of the sufferings of all the OTHER people who have Parkinson's!
He has become an American citizen.
Rush did not MOCK anything or anyone. That's a mischaracterization.
Well I probably heard it wrong, that he takes meds instead, but it was all over the radio yesterday, was on Rush even Bill OReilly last night talking about MJF`s book where he admitted wanting to look more severe when stumping for stem cell research. Plus you look at that video, have you ever seen someone with Parkinsons bob and weave like that? My Grandmother had it when I was a kid and not once did I ever see her jive around like that. Mohammed Ali has it yet I`ve never see him act like that as well, like you said he barely moves.
Monitoring Parkinson's medication carefully is crucial. My mother's neurologist does not overmedicate her, and she doesn't have spastic movements like Fox. I was at a Parkinson's Symposium last month, and a woman sat at my table who had Dyskenesia. (Spastic movements) When a neurologist there lectured about the dangers of over-medication, I noticed that her husband asked questions about Dyskenesia during the Q & A.
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