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Rush Limbaugh -- Blowhard Prick

by Abacquer on Wed 25 Oct 2006 01:00 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

The actor Michael J. Fox recently appeared in a campaign ad. As everyone knows Mr. Fox has Parkinson's disease, a debilitating illness for which there is no cure. Needless to say, Mr. Fox therefore supports stem cell research, and therefore supports Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill. So it is quite reasonable for him to appear in an ad for her. As Parkinson's progresses it causes tremors in the sufferer, and Mr. Fox is clearly suffering in the ad.

Seeing Mr. Fox as he now is made me want to cry. When I was a kid I remember being a fan of a lot of Michael J. Fox's movies. Sure he's no Anthony Hopkins, but I still liked his movies and by extension liked him. I have an Aunt with Parkinson's and seeing Mr. Fox reminded me of how she is suffering, and how thousands of people with Parkinson's are also suffering. It's just an awful thing.

Seeing Mr. Fox as he now is made Rush Limbaugh angry. Causing him to accuse Fox, during his radio program, of either deliberately going off his medication or playing up his symptoms on the air so as to win votes for McCaskill.

Now I ask you, what sort of gutter slime accuses someone with a debilitating illness of "faking it" for political points? Was Rush "faking" his addiction to Oxycontin? Assuming he went through some sort of withdrawal symptoms getting off the drug, was he "faking" those symptoms? Rush Limbaugh is a sick piece of shit.

Having been informed by other people that, yes, Michael J. Fox really does tremble like that, all the time, 'cause you know, that's what Parkinson's does to people, Rush, Limbaugh had this to say yesterday:

From Limbaugh Says Fox Exploited Disease (AOL News):
..."All I'm saying is I've never seen him the way he appears in this commercial for Claire McCaskill," says Limbaugh. "So I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox, if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act, especially since people are telling me they have seen him this way on other interviews and in other television appearances."...

Wow Rush, that's really big of you. And let me be the first to say, go fuck yourself... hugely... you asshole. Next time you are going shopping be sure to add "giant fucking cork" to the list.

I'm sure it makes folks uncomfortable to see what happens to people who suffer from the sorts of diseases that stem cell research might lead to cures for. It sure makes me uncomfortable! But I'm sure it's far more disconcerting to someone weighing the value of a 14 day old embryo which is not a person and may never become one against a real life Parkinson's sufferer. It's probably much easier when the Parkinson's sufferer becomes an abstraction. It must be particularly hard to deal with it when it's in your face.

So I'm glad Michael J. Fox got in people's faces and forced them to associate a real face and name with their abstract disease-sufferer. Good on you Michael.

And as for Limbaugh, I have no idea whether he is for or against stem cell research. But he most certainly is an obnoxious ass.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh -- Blowha...

by plracing on Wed 25 Oct 2006 04:19 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Wow, you've gotta be some kind of twisted fuck to make a statement like that. It would be a horrible thing to say if he had said it about someone with Parkinson's like John Mark Karr, but to say it about Michael J. Fox? Someone who's been a champion of this disease for years and years?? Sheesh.

Tom

Re: Rush Limbaugh -- Blowha...

by Anonymous on Thu 26 Oct 2006 01:58 PM EDT | Permanent Link

Many people who are against stem-cell research have a black-and-white view of the world. That is much easier than actually weighing each individual case, or weighing generalities. My goodness, their brains might implode.

So good/evil, sin/not sin, soul/not soul is how they see the world. I doubt seeing a Parkinson's sufferer is going to change their minds, but I applaud MJF because part of the problem with humans is we have trouble with statistics vs. individual cases. Maybe he will help the people who are trying to think.

I know a Catholic who said to me, "Now that you've had a baby, can you see that it's a life?" I mean, she seriously thought that before I had my own child, I hadn't connected pregnant women with babies or something. To give her a little more credit, I think she meant *feel*, as in "how can you imagine killing that child?"

Why don't these people see that their argument is actually our argument? That once a person is alive, *that's* when you want to do what you can to save them? I saw a bumper sticker the other day that I'll have to paraphrase, but it was something like, "An eight year old with diabetes is more a life than a clump of cells."

And of course, it's all silly, because stem cells are just cells, and many of the same people who completely freak out over abortion have no qualms about people going to fertility clinics and having their little unused fertilized clumps of cells destroyed.

Grrr.

Oh, and yeah, Rush Limbaugh is a bag of shit. I mean, I think that's pretty much a given. But I suppose that having had problems of his own, one might hope he'd lose the holier-than-thou asshole stuff. But that's what he's made of, I guess.

Maggie

Re: Rush Limbaugh -- Blowha...

by JPB on Thu 26 Oct 2006 08:15 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Rush may be a big blowhard, it's true, but on the other hand he's a complete asshole.

In any case, thids isn't about political parties. Fox has made commercials for Republicans in the past. He's not a partisan. It seems likely to me that Fox would be supporting the Republican candidates if they were for this vital research. But Rush's brain only works on one level.

He's not stupid, though. Rush only goes on the air with stuff that he thinks his listeners will eat up with a spoon. So this is either a comment on his listeners directly, or a comment on what he thinks about his listeners.

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