Rush Limbaugh Accuses Michael J. Fox Of Faking It
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, ScienceWow…Rush just gave the pro-stem cell crowd a huge gift on Monday.
From the Wash Post:
Possibly worse than making fun of someone’s disability is saying that it’s imaginary. That is not to mock someone’s body, but to challenge a person’s guts, integrity, sanity.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, including Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, who is running against Republican Michael Steele for the Senate seat being vacated by Paul Sarbanes.
“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.”
Hahaha. He just can’t help himself folks. And that will be the end of him.
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October 25th, 2006 at 3:06 am
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October 25th, 2006 at 4:43 am
WHAT RUSH REALLY SAID: “It’s “Lucky Man,” 2002, but he admits in the book that before Senate subcommittee on appropriations I think in 1999, September of 1999, he did not take his medication for the purposes of having the ravages and the horrors of Parkinson’s disease illustrated, which was what he has done in the commercials that are running for Claire McCaskill and Jim Talent. “
October 25th, 2006 at 4:46 am
WHY HE IS RIGHT:
“It is misleading, purposely so. It is disgraceful, and it is exploitative of people who suffer these diseases, in an attempt to use them as infallible victims insulated from criticism. Well, I don’t follow that script. This is the political arena. They have entered it. If they are going to conduct misrepresentations of fact in a commercial, then we’re going to critique it. Now, I have learned, ladies and gentlemen, that the television show Inside Edition is doing a feature on this controversy involving me and Michael J. Fox about whom and with whom I hold no animus other than criticizing his political entry into this campaign, the manner in which he has done so. “
October 25th, 2006 at 7:10 am
If you bothered, Mr. AssHat, to consider looking at anything apart from el Rushbo’s talking points, you’d find the following:
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_297190206.html
“… University of Chicago neurologist Dr. Thomas Kelly says Limbaugh doesn’t have his facts straight. Fox’s disease has progressed where he no longer only gets tremors, which can be controlled with medication, but has more erratic movements which are caused directly by his medicine.
“Chaotic, maybe writhing, dance-like movements, or dyskinesia, the movements I’ve seen in Mr. Fox, are due to his medications,” said Dr. Kelly.”
But hey, you’re entitled to your opinion, even if it’s not based in any sort of fact and only Rushie’s little squirrelly fantasy world.
October 25th, 2006 at 7:19 am
Fox writes about the “thrill ride” of going on and off the medication in riveting detail. When he’s off, he experiences the classic Parkinson’s symptoms of rigidity, shuffling, tremors and imbalance. “You wouldn’t recognize me when I’m off,” he says. And here’s how he describes it in the book: “I feel like I’m dangling from a coat hanger that has been surgically implanted under my skin in the muscles of my back, wedged between my shoulder blades. The sensation is not quite one of being suspended in the air; it’s more like being jacked up, with my toes scraping and kicking at the ground, straining for purchase.”
October 25th, 2006 at 8:28 am
Until Mr. Limbaugh has Parkinson’s he will never know what it is like. My mother had Parkinson’s and I have seen her so many times as bad as Michael and even worse. It would happen more often when she was nervous or upset and medications would not help. Her legs would jerk for no reason, her hands would shake to the point she couldn’t hold a cup or write her name, her head would bounce back and forth and I think she hated that the most. So till Mr. Limbaugh has walked in those shoes or anyone with Parkinson’s then he can’t say a word about faking or not.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:28 am
Until Mr. Limbaugh has Parkinson’s he will never know what it is like. My mother had Parkinson’s and I have seen her so many times as bad as Michael and even worse. It would happen more often when she was nervous or upset and medications would not help. Her legs would jerk for no reason, her hands would shake to the point she couldn’t hold a cup or write her name, her head would bounce back and forth and I think she hated that the most. So till Mr. Limbaugh has walked in those shoes or anyone with Parkinson’s then he can’t say a word about faking or not.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:33 am
fat…draft dodging….drug taking slob!
October 25th, 2006 at 10:11 am
[...] While it is easy for ME to Boycott Rush (since I never listen to him anyway), my pal Todd has, to quote him, “taken a page from my book” and is boycotting Rush over his comments about Michael J. Fox. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 10:11 am
[...] While it is easy for ME to Boycott Rush (since I never listen to him anyway), my pal Todd has, to quote him, “taken a page from my book” and is boycotting Rush over his comments about Michael J. Fox. [...]
October 25th, 2006 at 10:12 am
El Limbo sure knows a thing or two about faking a health problem. He fakes ear aches to justify his drug habit.
October 25th, 2006 at 11:31 am
The guy is a bloveating, doctor shopping drug addict. And he has the freaking nerve to comment on a brave human being like Michael J. Fox?? Damn pussy!!!
October 25th, 2006 at 11:51 am
For some strang reason back in the late 80’s I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I was a kool-aid drinker for about 2 years. He used to have a TV show on and ask people to send in video tapes. I bought his book and filmed a little segment where I was trying to read my kids (at that time, they were 4 and 2 respectively) a fairy tale. However, my little four year old daughter picks up Rush’s book and says “Mommy I want you to read us this”. I sent in the tape and the following week, this blowhard says on his show that the tapes were so “bad”, they were all unusable and to try harder in the future. He didn’t show any tapes on that particular show.
Two weeks later, a video tape was sent in that looked as if it had been directed by Steven Spielberg himself. A mother was tucking her children into bed with the book “Beauty and the Beast” (EXACTLY the same book I used). The little girl reaches under the covers and says, “No Mommy, please read us this”. I remember my reaction of yelling at the TV calling this phony everything in the book.
I never listened to him again and never watched his TV show that got cancelled anyway. The moral to the story is that this man does not have an ORIGINAL thought. I read his “opinion” on Michael J. Fox and I’m certain that someone else wrote it and just had him read it in his satanic cult like voice. Of course, Rush is going to accuse someone of not taking their medication because Rush cannot imagine a day when he isn’t popping at least 30 for 40 pills.
Seriously, I work in the medical field and obviously Mr. Limbaugh doesn’t research the things he steals from other people. If he really knew the truth, he’d realize that Parkinson’s medication only “help” with the shaking and the tremors and they literally don’t work on some people. The side effects for some people are worse than the disease.
There is no new low that Limbaugh could ever reach in my mind. I do hope, however, that some of his kool-aid drinkers who have aging parents or relatives with a disease as horrible as Parkinsons will understand that making fun of a disability is despicable and this idiot does not deserve their loyalty. What’s next, is he going to accuse Stevie Wonder of not really being blind?
The one medical fact that we all know for sure is that this multi-millionaire is a drug addict on the same level as the crackheads he likes to disparage on a regular basis. The only difference is that he had the money to support his habit thanks to his flock of sheep.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Delusional -
Has anyone run a test to see if Rush is clean?? This sounds like the delusional ramblings of a drug addled brain. Then again maybe the far right is in an absolute panic about the possibility of losing both houses of Congress, and the real discussion of impeaching Dubya for his various transgressions. . . . .
October 25th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
I used to think Rush was just prone to an occasional lapse in judgement. Now I am convinced that he is just another political bigot (One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.) This is the same moron that stated on his short stint on Monday Night Football that Donovan McNabb wouldn’t be playing if he wasn’t Black. Rush has demonstrated for years his intolerance for poor people, sick people, African Americans (who I’m sure he still calls Niggers) Mexican Americans, Mexicans (The point being he treats all people of Mexican descent as illegal aliens)
People that listen to Rush on a daily basis are a danger to themselves and to society.
Should we be suprised when they implode, NO!
And this coming from a middle class, middle age, white boy from Kansas. Just like the line from the American President…
“How can you claim to love America when you clearly hate Americans?”
October 25th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Excellent comment Mary Ann!
October 25th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Wow Maryann! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Rush. You hit the nail right on the head of this moron. I appreciate your candor. I usually just read blogs and do not comment.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
that rush is a dick head .my friend had parkinsons .had i said it killed him.but he shock something ferice. can’t expect much from that bloated brain dead drug taking nut
October 25th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Mr. Limbaugh is a ass hole…
October 25th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Rush is part of the Republican spin machine. Like a number of bloggers, his “job” is to take anything that might hurt Republicans and spin it so that it hurts Democrats instead. In this case, he tried to find a way to turn the popular cause of stem-cell research into an embarassment for Dems. Problem is, he’s only succeeded in giving the Fox ads tons of free airtime. Some will believe Rush but I bet most people have a possitive impression of Fox and will think Rush is an ass. I don’t know if that will hurt the Republicans anymore than their stance on stem-cell research already hurts them, but it at least gives us all something to blog about for a day.
October 25th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
I expect him to say stuff like that. Like Maryann, I used to listen to his radio show. He used to make lots of disparaging remarks about the poor, the sick, and non-white males.
What is more offensive to me is people who are backing him up – like AssHat (?WTF?) and DosPeros, who has a lovely post about the situation on his blog. That evil Michael J. Fox, USING his medical condition to advance political objectives. Just like all those cancer-survivor women who bitch and complain about breast cancer research, or those annoying poor people who are sick and wouldn’t mind having some health care!!!!
October 26th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Yet sadly this will likely not be the end for el Rushbo.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Sadly, no surprise here. Rush is playing to the crowd on purpose, the crowd that thinks that disabled or sick people should just stop whining and be Personally Responsible. He beat on people with ADD 20 years ago, “they’re lazy, stupid”, etc., and no one said much.
October 26th, 2006 at 11:35 am
OK, now easy guys….
Resorting to name calling LOWERS you to their level…rational discussion please.
I happened to be listening to Rush when he said what he and and *I* don’t think I’m sick. I personally LIKE to get different peoples opinion (to a point).
My first thought when he said this was that he was WAY over the line. A few seconds after he said this, one of his listeners corrected him pointing out that this was normal behaviour. And personally said that he stood corrected. My point is that he didn’t just say this and ignore the fallout…he responded immediately.
Let’s try to avoid rash generalizations.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Meredith – If I had a depilitating disease, I would want to be treated like everyone else. I wouldn’t want to be coddled. I think MJF is a big boy and can defend himself. BTW, I think Rush is wrong, in that I don’t think MJF was faking it, but I think the pandemonium of “how dare he?”-indignation is kind of funny.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
I am a medical doctor and Fox’s signs as exhibited in his commercial do not match those of Parkinson’s Disease. The writhing, contorted movements are not typical of Parkinson’s which usually manifests with rigidity and tremors. Watching Fox, I had questions. Perhaps he is misdiagnosed or…..is Rush right???
October 27th, 2006 at 12:07 am
hehe…if I had a depilitating disease I would be bald ;)
October 27th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
patricia, YOU are NOT a doctor! you just showed your ignorance! shame on you!
October 31st, 2006 at 8:49 pm
people you should get down on your knees and pray to rush for forgiveness
November 1st, 2006 at 4:07 pm
their is one more back stabbing bastard out there.
and his name is Geo. w. Bush
November 1st, 2006 at 7:34 pm
LOL, Limbaugh’s real problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiOo7S0DvM8
We all knew something was up with Rush.
EA
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