Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox political ad

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WP: Limbaugh mocks Michael J. Fox ad - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

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."
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Does it surprise you?

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Disability aside, I have a hard time with Canadaiens telling me who to vote for!
 
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I was actually listening to the broadcast. Limbaugh wasn't making fun. He was rather sympathetic to MJF especially considering this ad is as dirty as they get. Check Rush's website if you are intrested at all in what occured.
 
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USMCvol said:
I was actually listening to the broadcast. Limbaugh wasn't making fun. He was rather sympathetic to MJF especially considering this ad is as dirty as they get. Check Rush's website if you are intrested at all in what occured.
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I also was listening at the time, it stemmed from a point a caller was making.

Still, should it have been said, no matter what Limbaugh's intent was?

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So someone who is ill and can benefit from something campaigns for that and they're shameful? Then complain to all of those women wearing the pink ribbons on breast cancer as well.

Rush was an idiot for saying what he said. Actually he hurt his cause by saying anything on the matter.

Have you seen a counter ad on stem cells being aired in MO? Jim Caviezel, Patricia Heaton, Kurt Warner and a few others made some home video quality rebuttal against stem cell research.
 
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I do not think Limbaugh should have said anything concerning MJF exagerating his condition. However, I have no problem with Rush calling out MJF on the widely accepted belief that embryonic stem cell research offers nothing for those with parkinsons. Cell and tissue cloning research offers promises in reducing the effects of Parkinsons, however, it does not go as far as to offer the hope of a cure.
 
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All research is in hope of Research is never definitive and finding a cure is a hope that could easily be achieved. Not researching essentially reduces the likelihood of achieving cures and reducing the effects.

Most of the politicians who vote and debate on this topic have no clue whatsoever what the science is on this matter. Those on the Right who are completely against this are held by the Pro-Life side and have made little attempt to see that there is research beyond 'killing babies'.
 
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The research might be "beyond 'killing babies'," however, embryonic stem cell research still involves the destruction of life.

In your argument you say that this research is in hope of one day being able to find a cure. In the mean time, this research destroys what is, at worst, extreme hope for new life. We can all admit that if given incubation and nourishment, an embryo will develop into, what we can all agree on, a human being in 9 months. That is life!

To destroy that very large possibility of life, in the minute glimse of maybe reducing, not too many scientists will even say the word cure yet, the effects of a disease is, in my opinion, ridiculous. Any great scientist should look at what they are doing as anti-science. They are in fact detroying definite life for a pipe dream.
 
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So are you saying ALL life should be preserved or are you limiting your opinion to human life?
 
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Back on topic....Limbaugh is a little confused by the wiggling of Fox in that ad. Everything I've seen in person and read in medical journals is that this motion of Fox is actually due to the effects of the medication as a side effect. Tremors are the direct sign of Parkinson's. The wiggling is med related. Limbaugh should check his knowledge of drugs before commenting on them.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
So are you saying ALL life should be preserved or are you limiting your opinion to human life?
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No life should needlessly be done away with. When most animals are killed, there lies a direct benefit to those killing the animal. Same goes with trees and plants. I guess that killing bugs produces no benefit, so in that matter I would say I am very hypocritical.

A nice comparison of this issue would be with war. Many feel that the current war is the destruction of mass amounts of life with no apparent and direct benefit (similar to those opposed to embryonic stem cell research.) However, most of the people that have died in this war have made that choice. The life contained in that embryo has no choice.
 
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I'd say most of the people who are dying in Iraq are innocents who did not choose to die. I don't think those who get blown up in a marketplace chose when they woke up that morning to die for anyone's cause.
 
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So when the bombs explode in these streets and market places and kill about 20, most of those are combatants?
 
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CSpindizzy said:
So when the bombs explode in these streets and market places and kill about 20, most of those are combatants?
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No, most of those are non combatants, and it is a travesty. However, I would not say that the U.S. military is responsible for those deaths. I would also continue to state that at the present moment, combatant casualties far exceed non combatant casualties in Iraq.
 
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No one said the US was responsible. But looking at the publicly reported deaths in Iraq and where they are coming from, I see more civilians being killed than combatants.
 
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I dont think we are going to get any good hard numbers on how many enemy combatants have been killed.
 
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What I can't figure out about this ad is why the Democrats are rolling out a red meat issue like this when things are supposedly looking so good for them? If there's anything that energizes the Republican base, it's an issue with abortion overtones.
 
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GAVol said:
What I can't figure out about this ad is why the Democrats are rolling out a red meat issue like this when things are supposedly looking so good for them? If there's anything that energizes the Republican base, it's an issue with abortion overtones.
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I don't know about that. Commercials with racist overtones and ones that accuse war heroes of cowardice seem to get the GOP base pretty fired up.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I don't know about that. Commercials with racist overtones....
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If you're referring to the Ford commercial that the NAACP objected to, I was completely surprised it was viewed as racist or having racial overtones.

Maybe I'm naive but the mere fact that it was a white women (bimbo) that said "call me" in no way triggered any thoughts of race in my mind. Likewise with the TO/Nicolette Sheridan thing on MNF.

In short, I'm tired of other entities (e.g. NAACP) telling me how I see things.
 
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I think it's also hitting on an issue that affects quite a number of people (Alzheimers, Parkinson's, etc.) and putting up a commonly liked celebrity for the cause.

I think with Amendment 2 already on the ballot there in MO, the Pro-Life crowd will already turn out in numbers. All this did was attempt to pin the extremist "against helping people" label on those groups and try to galvanize the middle to sympathize with their position on the Senate race.
 
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