Rush Limbaugh Had Reason to Question Michael J. Fox
Rush Limbaugh is taking heat for criticizing Michael J. Fox’s pro-embryonic stem commericals. A Washington Post writer wrote,
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.
The quasi-op-ed quotes Fox’s political advisor John Rogers,
“It’s a shameless statement. It’s insulting. It’s appallingly sad, at best.”
Where would Limbaugh get such an outrageous idea that Fox would exploit his Parkinson’s Disease? How about from his memoir Lucky Man. In it Fox recounts testimony he gave a Senate subcommittee:
I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effect of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been starling.
“Rush Limbaugh On the Offensive Against Ad With Michael J. Fox” [via PoliPundit]
When you enter a political debate you’re not above scrutiny because you’re physically ravaged by a disease. Fox is tough enough to boldly challenge Parkinson’s. A legitimate criticism from a talk radio yapper can’t be tougher.
“Washington Post Writes about Rush’s Statements on MJ Fox Ad, but Doesn’t Note that he Apologized “Bigly” for his Remarks Later in the Show”
Being OFF Parkinson’s meds makes you stiff, sometimes unable to speak. Being ON the medications gives you the shakes, makes you rock back and forth, etc.
The long and the short of it is that Parkinson’s sucks either on or off the meds, and Rush is as big a jackass as ever for not doing a little research before he opened his mouth.
“When you enter a political debate you’re not above scrutiny because you’re physically ravaged by a disease.”
Oh, but say, if you’re a gay Republican, you absolutely can’t be questioned about your support for Republican anti-gay legislation.