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To: JavaJumpy
When Rush made fun of Michael J. Fox’s movements during his testimony to Congress, he could have just gone after the issue without attacking the man.

You'd generally be more believable in other things you say if you weren't recycling other people's mischaracterizations as fact. It was Michael J. Fox who said that before testimony or public appearances he would forego his medication in order to make his Parkinsons tremors more extreme. Someone like this deserves to be called on it. That's not "making fun" of him, simply drawing attention to his deliberate exploitation of his medical condition for partisan political purposes.
298 posted on 01/25/2009 8:55:41 AM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan

You’d generally be more believable in other things you say if you weren’t recycling other people’s mischaracterizations as fact. It was Michael J. Fox who said that before testimony or public appearances he would forego his medication in order to make his Parkinsons tremors more extreme. Someone like this deserves to be called on it. That’s not “making fun” of him, simply drawing attention to his deliberate exploitation of his medical condition for partisan political purposes.
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I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I’ll tell you this:

I have a debilitating disorder, and that disorder pretty much cost me everything in my life. If I were to try to get help for it, I’d be damn sure I’d show what a bad day was like as opposed to a good day. A day that is controlled is not the same as a day that isn’t controlled - the seriousness of the illness might not be appreciated. Fox did what he had to do.

I mischaracterized nothing.


300 posted on 01/25/2009 9:12:32 AM PST by JavaJumpy (Thanks, Mark Levin, for being there. You're a lifesaver.)
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