ABC Talk Radio host Sean Hannity spoke to Diane Sawyer about the recent controversey caused by Rush Limbaugh's comments about Michael J. Fox.
Posted on 10/25/2006 12:07:38 PM PDT by ajolympian2004
*** Just outstanding guest appearance by Sean Hannity on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, our 'Great American'!!! ***
Hannity: Michael J. Fox Can Be Criticized for Stem Cell Ad
Radio Show Host Says Ad Won't Affect Midterm Elections' Outcome
Video link -
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2604613
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ABC Talk Radio host Sean Hannity spoke to Diane Sawyer about the recent controversey caused by Rush Limbaugh's comments about Michael J. Fox.
Oct. 25, 2006 — Conservatives came to the defense of talk radio host Rush Limbaugh over his accusation that actor Michael J. Fox's appearance in a political ad about stem cell research was "purely an act."
ABC talk radio host Sean Hannity told "Good Morning America" that Fox deserved to be criticized.
"Michael J. Fox admits now that he stopped taking his medication prior to testifying before Congress," Hannity said. "You have a right to speak up, but he also has a right to be criticized."
Fox cut a highly emotional spot for several Democratic candidates, including Missouri's Senate candidate Claire McCaskill.
Limbaugh questioned whether Fox's very real physical tremors had been faked.
"In this commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving all around and shaking. And it's purely an act," Limbaugh said.
Limbaugh apologized after his listeners clued him in that Fox was not acting, but some Democrats say the conservative radio host didn't seem sincere.
"There are some inaccuracies in the ad that need to be debated," Hannity said. "Unfortunately he wants to create an impression where Republicans don't care about the health of people. This is only about the funding of federal stem cell issues."
"Bottom line: Did Rush Limbaugh go too far? My take is that he was referring to his own admission in his own book. He didn't talk about the congressional testimony. Everybody wants Michael J. Fox to get well. It is a difficult disease," Hannity said.
"What's unfortunate and deceiving about the ad is that this is about the federal funding of embryotic stem cells," he said, alleging that congressional candidates didn't have a say in those decisions.
As for the results of the midterm elections, Hannity wasn't sure what the outcome would be.
"If I could pick those, I think I would be a pretty wealthy guy," he said. "But, I sense being on radio talking to people three hours a day, that there's been a shift."
"I think this Michael J. Fox [ad controversy] is going to backfire," he said. "I think the race ultimately is going to be decided on issues: national security, immigration, taxes. And when people focus on that, I think it benefits the Republicans."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2604633
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Why Michael does not have the right to do is dissemble or slander people.
I think that many are missing Rush's point. He is NOT saying that Michael Fox has no right to make an ad, or even that he necessarily should be on his meds before he goes in front of the camera. He is saying that if you enter the political arena, you should not be protected from criticism of your position simply because you have a disease or are handicapped in some way.
Ivan
This is always a problem for the liberals: They keep their millions of Dollars and ask the rest of us to foot their dreams. When M.J. Fox lowers himself to my economic level, I'll respect his request for assistance in helping out. But, as long as they continues to earn more in their sleep than I do as a soldier, I'll ignore them. I'd have a lot more respect for them if they gave EVERYTHING they owned before asking ANYONE else for money. If M.J. Fox is so concerned about this disease, he'd do all he could to find a cure. I know that I would.
LOLOL!!! And I only wanted to date guys with longer perms than mine!
Where are all of his wealthy Hollywood friends to donate loads of $$ to the cause? Everything always off the backs of the regular, everyday taxpayers. This is always a problem for the liberals: They keep their millions of Dollars and ask the rest of us to foot their dreams. When M.J. Fox lowers himself to my economic level, I'll respect his request for assistance in helping out. But, as long as they continue to earn more in their sleep than I do as a soldier, I'll ignore them. I'd have a lot more respect for them if they gave EVERYTHING they owned before asking ANYONE else for money. If M.J. Fox is so concerned about this disease, he'd do all he could to find a cure. I know that I would.
Rush is right ping!
I still have "Out Of The Cellar" -- on VINYL.
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.
Busted!
Do you have Parkinson's?....I didn't think so!!! I am glad you all think it's so fake & so funny because one of these days you may end up with something like this & I would love to see how you feel when people laugh at you & say you are faking!!! I can't believe how cruel people can be to each other!
I visiting someplace with 56K, so I will check it out later.
Ok, no problem.
No I don't think it is funny. But when Fox arrives without medication and fails to announce it, I think he is manipulating his audience. That is not honest.
I went to your link to the CBS poll this afternoon. I hadn't seen Michael J. Fox's political ad at that time. I've since looked at his ad. I went back to the CBS poll this evening. It seems to have been replaced with another topic/poll.
The link below is an interesting one with interviews with Fox and Ali.
http://www.veotag.com/player/Default.aspx?pid=b48abfb4-aa12-43e5-99e2-1bf3a47fa464
http://abortiontv.com/Misc/Embryonic_Stem_Cell%20Research_Tumors%20.htm
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Causes Tumors, New Study Shows
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 23, 2006
Rochester, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Scientists working with embryonic stem cell research on animals reconfirmed what pro-life advocates have been saying for years about it. Researcher Steven Goldman and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center said injecting embryonic stem cells into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease would cause tumors.
Goldman's research team has been injecting the controversial cells into rats that have the disease and the cells turned into tumors afterwards.
The scientists explained their findings in an article in the latest issue of Nature Medicine. They said the embryonic stem cell injections helped some of the rats but some of the cells started growing in a manner that would eventually lead to a tumor. "The behavioral data validate the utility of the approach. But it also raises a cautionary flag and says we are not ready for prime time yet," Goldman told the Washington Post.
He conceded that considerably more research would need to be done to determine whether the tumor problems could ever be overcome. Parkinson's is a disease where dopamine-releasing cells in the brain die out, which leads to muscle dysfunction and can eventually cause paralysis. The goal of stem cell research in Parkinson's is to replace the dead cells with stem cells that form into new dopamine cells. Goldman's team used human embryonic stem cells obtained by killing days-old unborn children that were grown in a special chemical used to coax them into becoming brain cells.
The team killed the rats before they could determine that the tumors that appeared to be growing actually finished appearing and they said that any embryonic stem cell treatments on humans, which has never been tried, would have to be closely monitored. Some autopsies on the rats found tumors and that the embryonic stem cells began to grow uncontrollably rather than becoming the dopamine cells as intended. Another team led by Ole Isacson, a Harvard Medical School professor of neuroscience and neurology, published similar results earlier this month in the online journal Stem Cells and found that the embryonic stem cells also produced tumors.
Adult stem cells have not had the same problems and have been used successfully to treat dozens of diseases and conditions. But scientists have said they don't think embryonic stem cell research will lead to a cure for Parkinson's. University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor of Medicine Thomas Martin told Australian lawmakers recently that he did not think that embryonic stem cell research would even lead to cures for major diseases such as diabetes or Parkinson's.
Martin, an internationally recognized Fellow of the Royal Society, said the embryonic stem cells produced from human cloning would have the same problems.
I'm not talking about Rush.
Are you saying that because we are in agreement? Or are you saying that because you don't understand what I'm saying?
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