Posted on 10/31/2006 5:27:11 AM PST by Clive
Bump!
No .. Rush was open for a target because he is a conservative
If Rush was a Democrat saying this on NPR or Air America .. many in the media wouldn't have said a thing
Oh wait, I forgot -- this story will never appear on any of those networks......
Well, if it happened on Err Amerika nobody would have heard it. :)
IOW...RUSH WAS RIGHT
Mocking the pathological symptoms of someone who is disabled is simply unacceptable. Anyone with a chronic illness who depends on medication to function normally knows that it isn't always possible to time it perfectly. Whether Fox could have timed the filming of the commercial better or not, we don't know, but his suffering is real. Rush's identification of the Republican party with mockery of a disability and failure to show compassion showed an appalling lack of judgment.
Well!what do you know?Rush hit the Bullseye again.
It will be interesting to see if Rush talks about this on his show or lets this story die.
Lil shake and bake just turned it on for the audience end of story.
Huh? He's a doctor giving a medical opinion.
Exactly. If he were a liberal he would actually be given extra moral stature as a "victim" of drug addiction. Seems part of being conservative is to reject such status, which in turn makes liberals very uneasy about you. People who don't pull cop-outs concerning moral responsibility scare liberals to their core.
I must have missed your </s> tag...
Yes we do. This was taped and he could have chosen to do it when his symptoms were more under control. This was intentional. Everyone sympathizes with those suffering from awful afflictions like this, but we do not have to be sypathetic over his USING his disease to get dems elected on the incredibly insulting premise that Republicans don't care about alieviating suffering. Fox chose to lie about Talent's position on stem cell research. Nobody should get a pass for that.
Rush should have stuck to the lies in the ad and not gone into Fox's physical symptoms.
While there would have been several ways to make a reasoned argument against the Fox spots--such as pointing out the indignity of using one's illness to promote a medical practice that destroys potential human life, Rush just shows his own shallowness and insecurity by acting like the clown gasbag he has become. Indefensible.
Timing is exactly the issue. Timed just so to make Republicans appear cold and unconcerned. It was disingenuous and it should not be allowed to stand. It was a lie. Fox put himself up as the poster boy for a proposal that he hasn't read.....he was just out to help Dems and hurt Reps. He had to have had control over the whole commercial. He is the star! Your response is like asking someone if they STILL beat their spouse. It hamstrings those that are on the opposite side of Fox's party. That was no doubt the intention in using Fox and his presence all over the country.
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