Posted on 09/07/2009 2:26:45 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 27, 2009 – Fire up the barbies, and the flat screen TVs and join comedy legend Jerry Lewis for his 44th annual Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon this Labor Day weekend, Sept. 6-7.
“I’m determined to keep fighting for a cure for muscular dystrophy because my kids deserve to live long and healthy lives,” said Lewis, MDA’s national chairman and Telethon star.
(Excerpt) Read more at mda.org ...
I'm having a scrum-dilly-umptious day!
And you do it too!
Is that you, Mr. Rickles, ya hockey puck?
Just my Opinion from my mil experience with it
This thread is more entertaining than I remember the telethon to be...
It’s sad.
I admire Jerry Lewis for I believe genuinely wanting to help kids out.
Fact is, none of anyone ‘working’ to ‘cure’ MD or any other thing, do not wnat the cure to be found. Scientists might want it to have the honor of curing something, but the people that run these companies and labs don’t. They are all out of jobs if they do find a cure.
This stuff is all a scam with ignorant, genuinely concerned people fronting them. Nobody works to put themselves out of business.
I wonder if they did a tribute to Ed McMahon?
Yep, and Big Oil has that 400 mpg fuel injection system buried in their back yard.
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It’s a matter of good manners especially when you’re asking for favors.
I wonder that too. I watched a little bit last night. Charo. My gosh that woman has got to be close to 70 years old and she still has so much energy.
Anyway, maybe they’ll do a tribute to Ed at the end of the show this year. They really should. He did the telethon for 41 years straight. Only Jerry Lewis has been on more often.
Jerry Lewis has been doing essentially the same comedy routine for 60 years. You’ll live.
I’ll tell ya John W.
And I’ll be nice.
Many years ago on Davis Island in downtown Tampa there was a great skate rental place.
They held events year round to raise money for “jerry’s Kids”. Raised about $10,000 and felt great about it.
Seems the folks responsible came to town and asked the folks to meet them at Burns Steakhouse where they could give them the check/
After that, the skate rental place started giving locally to charity.
Just my two cents.
It doesn’t get more 5 star than Burns and that just doesn’t sem to be the way to spend the money
Naw, why bother? Obama is gonna kill alla Jerry’s kids off anyway.
sorry but al is correct...i’ve had friends working for both MDA and the Amercian Cancer Society... so little of that money actually does any good, it’s pathetic.. the bulk of the money goes for “administrative” costs, the rest going to line researchers pockets who have no real incentive to find a cure, since once they do, there goes their paycheck.
But, that was back in the day when the Rat Pack were frequent guests, and actors from all the old and cheesy movies that I watched came on, and my Grandparents were still alive...
It seems that Jerry has outlived them all, and he's the only one left. Even Ed is gone.
-PJ
Very early this morning, I happened on the telethon in time to see four guys (caucasian) who are a doo wop group. Don’t recall their group name, but they play in Las Vegas. They sounded just like the original group singing the song, I think it was one of Smokey Robinson’s.
Uh Uh, give credit where credit is due - Obama and all democrats lining up in favor of Obamacare (Kennedycare - whatever), are in favor of cost costing, and we ALL know what that means in liberal-speak within their healthcare plan.
Kudos to Jerry Lewis.
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