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.
It will be interesting to see if Rush talks about this on his show or lets this story die.
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.
IMHO.... You are off base in using the word "Mocking." The ad was a "Mockery."
I agree. However, M.J. Fox's decision to film a television commercial in favor of a piece of legislation that he admittedly hadn't read shows equally poor judgment. Even sadder, if our society placed an appropriate amount of value on being an informed citizen, and thinking through issues, people wouldn't be swayed one way or another by what a celebrity said.
"Mr. Fox admitted in his 2002 autobiography to going off his medication to appear more disabled before a 1999 Senate subcommittee appearance".
Period.
Did you go off your meds?
Even the super-liberal Washington Post says Fox has been able to time his tapings.
Fox's scenes in "Boston Legal" had to be taped around his illness, as he worked to control the tremors associated with Parkinson's for limited periods of time."
Don't be a shill.
Fox was making a political ad, and he is open to ridicule for the content and presentation in said ad especially because he exploited his disease to deliver a false message.
His suffering is real, I do not doubt that. But his hope is misplaced, and we are not obliged to support that.
I don't recall Rush or anybody else "mocking the pathological symptoms of someone who is disabled". What they did was call Fox to account for LYING about his symptoms by going off his meds (as he has himself admitted to doing) for political propaganda purposes.
"Whether Fox could have timed the filming of the commercial better or not, we don't know" you see, that's the point, we DO know.
There formerly were popular attractions known as "sideshows", wherein people with physical abnormalities would exhibit themselves for money. When Fox chose to make himself into a sideshow geek to elicit political gain, he thrust himself onto the stage. If he can't take counter criticism, then it is too late to hide behind his infirmity.
He is simply the latest in a long line of political shills who whore out their misfortune for political gain. The "Jersey Girls", Cindy Sheehan, the Kennedy Clan, etc. are tragedy whores.
Neither is lying about what Rush did.
" Mocking the pathological symptoms of someone who is disabled is simply unacceptable "
If Rush had imitated how Fox looked on a tv show or walking down the street- that might have been gratuitous mocking.
But, he did no such thing.
Rush described a political ad for those who had not seen it.
I did the same thing for my wife because she had not yet seen the ad.
At no time in any of the discussions on any of the threads or on Rush's show has anyone mocked Fox's illness-in fact, he's received tremendous sympathy and well wishes.
What we mock is Fox's participation in a blatant misrepresentation of the truth.
Rush did it ONLY on his PROPRIETARY webcam. He was showing HIS viewers what the add looked like!!!
It was a pretty accurate reenactment.
You are grossly ignorant.