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Rush Attacks Michael J. Fox as a Faker

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fred flintstone

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Washington Post said:
To Rush Limbaugh on Monday, Michael J. Fox looked like a faker. The actor, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has done a series of political ads supporting candidates who favor stem cell research... "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox.... Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting." ...
Later Monday, still on the air, Limbaugh would apologize, but reaction to his statements from Parkinson's experts and Fox's supporters was swift and angry. Read More
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Maybe Rush should be "replaced!" He's been doing the same act for 22 years and he's been showing signs of getting stale for a while now. He now seems desperate. He's been screwing up on and off the air. He may feel pressure to show he's still got it - that he's still the king. And the election is going the wrong way for him, suggesting he may not have all the power and influence he thought. Is Rush approaching melt-down? Is her turning into a one-man, right-wing version of AAR?
 
The issue isn't Rush Limbaugh's comments about Michael Fox, it's about whether or not it's ethical to kill a pre-born human being in order to get stem cells to improve the life of a person who was lucky enough to be born and not simply harvested.
 
MightyFrenchman said:
The issue isn't Rush Limbaugh's comments about Michael Fox, it's about whether or not it's ethical to kill a pre-born human being in order to get stem cells to improve the life of a person who was lucky enough to be born and not simply harvested.
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That is an issue but it's a separate issue (and one better discussed elsewhere).
The issue is a talk show host with a viewpoint and his comment about a celebrity with a different viewpoint and a serious medical condition. Michael J. Fox's condition may have motivated him (in whole or in part) to take a public position on stem cell research; just as Ronald Reagan's condition at the end of his life motivated Nancy Reagan to take a similar position.

Rush has no basis for attacking Michael J. Fox's appearance in TV commercials and for saying he is either faking or off his meds. Anyone who does want people taking shots at him because of a drug addiction should not be taking shots at another because of a degenerative illness.

One of the worst things about the existance of Rush Limbaugh in radio is that he has helped lowered political debate to this level.

I say again, this shows Rush is off his game.
And this could be Rush's Julius LaRosa.
 
I don't necessarily agree with his stand on stem cells but even if I did agree, I take issue with his accusing
Fox of "acting". How about if YOU got Parkinson's, Mr. Talent-On-Loan-From-Oxys, and other people accused
you of "acting"... Of course since Fox is doing this for political ads, Rush feels he's fair game--and Rush would
also be fair game if he were in a similar situation (celeb doing ads for a candidate). (I mean he's fair game in the sense of responding to Fox's ads, but the "he's acting" bit is going a bit far.) In his attempt to spread
his opinion on stem cell research, Rush is attempting to discredit someone who suffers from it. But please
can the bit about "he was acting". Was Rush "acting" when he went deaf after running to the shelter of
his Limbaugh's Little Helper?

Later Rush backed off slightly and I think he actually talked with some people who either suffer from the disease
or know of someone who does. I agree with Rush on certain issues, disagree on others...time for a lil' more
hillbilly heroin, El Rushbo? Worked for ya before...:)
 
As a longtime fan (since 1989) of Limbaugh's (fan of his radio talent, that is, not necessarily his viewpoints), I must say this has been yet another huge disappointment.

I too immediately thought of his hearing loss from several years back. I noticed right away that something didn't "sound right" about his voice, even when he and his syndicators were denying everything. Yesterday, I wondered how he would feel if someone had said he was "acting" back in 2001; that he was just putting on a phony voice to drum up publicity.

Here in Philadelphia, on the same station Rush is carried, we have an idiot for one of the few local talk hosts. Last night she said Michael J. Fox was being "disingenuous" for doing the spots "without having taken his meds", then just ten minutes later denied having ever said such a thing when a caller called her on it.

There's got to be something better between all of this crap and Air America. I'll be damned if I can find it, though.
 
He could have easily made his point by saying that MJF was being exploited by the candidate, as he was. I don't believe he was faking it, as I know people who have (and had) Parkinson's and this is typical. Obviously he went on camera w/o the meds to show the symptoms at their worst, just like when he's on a show and they film around it to show him at his best.
 
Yesterday, one of the clowns on the Imus show said Rush should be beaten with a baseball bat.

That's appropriate?

How long has it been since Imus was relevant?
 
How long has it been since Imus was relevant?
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That baseball bat beating proposal just made Imus relevant, if only for a little while. And if only on this board.

Shock jocks do shocking things, this is no surprise.
 
raccoonradio said:
Later Rush backed off slightly and I think he actually talked with some people who either suffer from the disease
or know of someone who does. I agree with Rush on certain issues, disagree on others...time for a lil' more
hillbilly heroin, El Rushbo? Worked for ya before...:)
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Actually, he didn't back off although some in the media continue to misreport he has apologized. In fact, he said yesterday he stands behind every comment he has made about Fox.

This hardly comes as a surprise to me. In fact, the only thing that did surprise me is that Rush stole Ann Coulter's thunder. After she attacked 9/11 widows as harpies whose men were probably divorcing them anyway, I think it has been a race to the bottom.

The amazing irony of Rush Limbaugh giving his "wisdom"-like take on prescription medications and their side effects is no doubt lost on his listener sheep, but amuses the rest of us.

After all, if the man who thought "take one tablet every six hours" meant "take one bottle every six hours," why should we be surprised he's wrong about Parkinson's medication as well.
 
Whether or not Michael J. Fox took his meds, he has Parkinson's Disease, which is incurable and degenerative. All the meds do is make the symptoms less severe so that the rest of us won't be uncomfortable when we see someone with the disease. But the symptoms are real, with or without the meds. The reason we know less about embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells is because moral objections have delayed research. We don't know what embryonic stem cells can do because without appropriate funding through and proper research remains undone or unfinished.
 
Wrong again, Fred. Political debate was lowered A LONG TIME AGO by liberals in the late 60s and into the 70s.

fred flintstone said:
MightyFrenchman said:
The issue isn't Rush Limbaugh's comments about Michael Fox, it's about whether or not it's ethical to kill a pre-born human being in order to get stem cells to improve the life of a person who was lucky enough to be born and not simply harvested.
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One of the worst things about the existance of Rush Limbaugh in radio is that he has helped lowered political debate to this level.
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MightyFrenchman said:
Wrong again, Fred. Political debate was lowered A LONG TIME AGO by liberals in the late 60s and into the 70s.
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Oh, really? Do you have any specific examples to back that up?

"Liberals" like Joe Pyne, maybe?
 
??? Remember Fox's point is more people will die if you don't support Democrats this election. Republicans like to kill people, just plain and simple....... :eek:
 
Limbaugh set himself up for a defamation suit

No wonder stations have to pay cash (and lots of it) to carry Limbaugh. He's gonna need the money to defend himself.

What he said about Michael J. Fox is the kind of stuff that can end a talk-show career. WBAL-1090 in Baltimore must be glad it dropped Limbaugh last spring.
 
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