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Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox: ‘I Take Back None of What I Said’

Rush Limbaugh is sticking to his claim that Michael J. Fox is exaggerating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease — by “acting” or “not taking his medications” — in an advertisement promoting stem cell research.

The media falsely reported that he “apologized” to Fox. On his radio show today, Limbaugh said he regrets nothing. Watch it:

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Transcript:

I stand by what I said. I take back none of what I said. I wouldn’t rephrase it any differently. It is what I believe; it is what I think. It is what I have found to be true.

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251 Responses to “Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox: ‘I Take Back None of What I Said’”

  1. RealScientist says:

    It will be interesting to see how long the trolls keep defending Rush.


  2. hogweed says:

    Rush doesn’t understand that MJ Fox’s meds aren’t supposed to make him into a fat blowhard with partial mental incapacity. In other words, Fox’s meds are different from Rush’s.


  3. null says:

    Is that a can of hair mousse behind the monitor? Kinda funny for a bald guy to have around


  4. DEE-DEE-DEE says:

    Whatever you say ya pill popper..


  5. RealityCheck says:

    Picture I saw:

    “Radio personality Rush Limbaugh for:
    OXYCONTIN
    “OxyContin helped me deal with the pain of
    living in a world that just didn’t resmble my perceptions or my claims.”


  6. unitynow says:

    Rush may be the expert on pharmaceuticals but this time he’s totally out of his league. So he’s not only a buffoon but an insensitive liar as well…..He’s batting his reputation out of the park these days….(and it isn’t a home run!).


  7. Republicans are the fear and smear party says:

    Limpballs is so pathetic. He has to smear Michael J. Fox because Fox’s shaking isn’t up to Limpdick’s acceptable standards of judging people with diseases. This is so low, even for Limpdick.


  8. Fools on the Hill says:

    Amazing that a drop out who couldn’t hack one full year of college is now pretending to be a doctor.


  9. Grey+Eagle says:

    What a fat slob . The state of FL need to jail him for addiction and be sued for fefammation of character . But i would not cry if he overdose .


  10. Badmoodman says:

    Limbaugh: Michael J. Fox is exaggerating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease — by “acting” or “not taking his medications” – -

    That’s like saying people with anorexia nervosa have a heightened sense of vanity.


  11. Wayne says:

    of course he doen’t apologize
    He would have to have a conscience to tell him he did the wrong thing for him to do that.

    Most opiate drug addicts have no conscience, thats why they will lie and steal from anyone, including their own mother, to get their drug.


  12. Ronin_Tetsuro says:

    But.. but he apologized…. Clinton?


  13. Republicans are the fear and smear party says:

    “It is what I believe; it is what I think. It is what I have found to be true.” What an asshole. Just because he believes it and thinks it doesn’t mean that it’s true. But his followers think it’s true because they can’t think for themselves.


  14. Bruce+Gorton says:

    Do you want to see why, the Democrats need to win, and Neocon culture needs to be eradicated (Not the people, the culture) Go read the troll posts on the following thread.

    http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/fox-limbaugh-parkinson/#comments

    There are some things which are morally disgusting. They are things which no decent human being should do. Torture is one of them, but it is not the only one. Making fun of the sick, and infirm is another. Read the troll posts and think about what they are defending.

    That is one great strength to being a liberal, at least, at least, we don’t feel the need to defend those who mock the sick. At least we don’t pretend that someone with Parkinson’s disease is having a fun time with it. We don’t pretend that widows just love having their partners dead.

    We do not support scumbags like Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter.


  15. Keith says:

    He found it to be true?? — the fat tub of shit drug addict!


  16. Alexander says:

    Apparently Rush is a Satanist.


  17. Jeff says:

    keeps us and them from talkin’ Iraq/Afghanistan,Constitution etc. though, doesn’t it? I look for Rust to say even more cruel things in his pathetic attempt to distract before elections. It’s all they’ve got.


  18. Uncle_Ho says:

    Rush Limpdick is a cowardly chickenhawk with NO balls. He copped a draft deferment for a cyst on his ass. When I was a medic during the Vietnam war, I personally changed the bandages of GIs with that very same ailment. Limpdick is a fat-ass, sorry lump of worthless shit. I can only pray that he develops Parkinson’s himself. And no, I do NOT apologize.


  19. » RUSH LIMBAUGH: LOWER THAN A WORM’S BELLY - Recovering Liberal says:

    [...] Rush Defends There are some people who are just so despicable that they defy description.  Yet, somehow, scholarly poets always manage to find ways to describe them.  When I lived in the South, the locals would describe people on this level as being “lower than a worm’s belly crawlin’  in the mud.  Them thar good ole boys sure have a way with words. [...]


  20. Corinne says:

    WTF is it with these right-wingers who think they can diagnose someone via video? Did Rush think Bill Frist did such a bang-up job with diagnosing Terri Schiavo that he saw an opportunity to pronounce judgement on how serious Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s is?

    Fat Bastard.


  21. Shin Gallon says:

    What a remarkably foul human being…


  22. roo says:

    Can we stop giving this idiot his moment? TP has devoted more than enough (ie: 0) space to his drivel. The people who like him don’t read TP, and I for one am sick of looking at his picture and giving him the time of day.

    Onward to information and stories we can take action on to save our country.


  23. whichwitch says:

    Does any one of any intellegence give this nitwit any credance? The guy is a total schmuk.


  24. Matthew says:

    What an idiot, everyone knows that shaking and movements like MJF shows in the video are FROM the drugs he takes. Parkinsons is not what everyone saw in the ad. If he wasn’t taking his drugs, he’d be stiff and unable to speak. Jeez, every idiot knows that except Rush Limbaugh I guess.


  25. Expose+the+Republican+Pedaphile+Scandal says:

    Rush knows America supports stem cell research.


  26. the martini twins says:

    Shameful and absurd posturing by a damaged individual whose character faults are a matter
    of choice and a twisted source of self-pride.


  27. Al Gore says:

    LOL Rush Limbaugh said M J F is acting… are we serious people… Rush Limbaugh, the drug addict who fakes/acts like he is in pain to get American Herion (Oxy).

    Rush Limbaugh said this… his argument and opion is null and void!


  28. steve says:

    #

    of course he doen’t apologize
    He would have to have a conscience to tell him he did the wrong thing for him to do that.

    Most opiate drug addicts have no conscience, thats why they will lie and steal from anyone, including their own mother, to get their drug.

    Comment by Wayne — October 25, 2006 @ 7:40 pm

    Well, no offense, that’s complete bullshit. They have no conscience when they’re using. That’s the definition of addiction.

    I’ve met some recovering addicts that do a lot better at helping people now than most americans do in their lifetime.

    Limbaugh, though, is gaining his weight back and not doing anything to change his behavior just like the preznit.


  29. Judy says:

    My brother has Parkinson’s and is totally disabled from it. I hope not even you ever knows how it feels to have this crimpling disease. I know that you are a Republican and can not help being an insensitive moron but anyone with any thought process could see that no one would want to fake this disease.


  30. Pissed+Off says:

    #17

    I agree with you. This is an attempt by the neo-cons to shift focus two weeks before a key election.

    I expect lot more diversionary tactics like this. After all, a wise man once said:

    “If you cannot win their minds with your argument, baffle them with your BS.”


  31. Johnny Lib says:

    Douglas G. we miss your insight!


  32. John+the+Elder says:

    This poor excuse for a human being sounds like he is reading from the same script as O”lielly, Hannity, Coulter and rest of the right wing wackos. The all sound exactly alike. And since their brain dead leader never admits that he makes mistakes, neither do they. They all belong in the same sewer.


  33. Ed+Deevy says:

    I had a brother who was left seriously disabled as a result of getting gored by a bull on the family farm. Despite his disability he courageously took care of his large young family…until he finally could no longer deal with the pain and he choose to end his life. This very personal experience left me with a deep respect for individuals who each day deal with their disability. It is the reason I have so much respect for Michael J. Fox.
    While Fox represents what is best and noble about our society Rush Limbaugh represents what is most negative. I feel so sorry for fellow citizens who look up to this guy as some kind of guru.


  34. pr says:

    “It is what I have found to be true”

    How can he possibly know that? Unless he talked to MJF there is no way he can make this statement with any kind of credibility.
    And yet people buy into his crap every single day. The problem is not Rush Limbaugh, but the mindset which makes the republicans so sure about everything eg.

    There were WMDs in Iraq!

    We will be greeted as liberators! And on and on and on!

    You know after these guys die, we need to disect their brains and identify and map the Bull***t region of the republican brain.


  35. Zooey says:

    Limbaugh is a weak person, and he knows it. That’s why he acts that way.


  36. the+fly-man says:

    How can that man, the ultimate victim of his own personal pathogens, not for one second think that a legitimate suffering human inflicted with a real disease, not be entitled to using his own opportunities for political speech. See that’s the problem for Mr. Limbaugh, he has never had any real standard of legitimacy established by anyone other than himself. He calls himself America’s anchorman, the Katie envy has lasted a couple of seasons, and his opinion is, well yes his own. Why did he dis the President of the United States when he was invited to the White House? Rush’s schedule? Too busy for the man? What colossal cajones wouldn’t you say?


  37. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    I do see good coming from this in three ways: 1) public education about Parkinson’s disease, 2) more publicity for Fox’s advocacy and 3) Rush getting his just criticisms from a number of sources.


  38. budpaul says:

    I was actually shocked when I heard that Rush had apologized. I should have known better. Cretin.
    America’s Least Wanted


  39. nofltwlt says:

    And if Tubby comes down with some incurable malady, somthing real, something painful, something that makes him even more hideous than he already is; please join me in wishing him a very long life.


  40. Gourney says:

    RimmerBaugh

    is in his studio alone, no friends, no family alientating even his temperature IQ listeners. he knows the only way he can stay ‘heard’ is to funnel the excrement that comes out of his body over the airwaves, and stay ‘outrageous’, where is there to go though? nowhere.

    He is nothing. He should be pitied. He is the epitome of someone that will soon blow his own brains out in his garage as he is unravelling at a rate of knots.

    Sad pathetic waste of space.


  41. ForTruth says:

    Rush’s gut is like pretty big, they showed his fat ass on the Nightly News, in a negative light.


  42. Robert says:

    Please Rush – DON’T APOLOGIZE. You are the shining example of modern “Go F*** Yourself Republicanism” – mean, nasty, uncaring, juvenile. Keep you mouth open and wide until November 7th!

    Rush – you are doing a heckuva job for the Republicans…. Or is that Democrats?


  43. michael says:

    #20 great post.
    Limbaugh’s uneducated antics may prove fatal to Talent.


  44. Mike says:

    Anybody else in the country would be fired for making such outrageously insensitive remarks on the airwaves. Not Rush, though. All the affiliates will keep running his show.


  45. null says:

    Rush Limbaugh is a jerk who has a following of idiots who can’t think for themselves.


  46. Jay says:

    The Radio wingnuts believe in the old P.T. Barnum phrase that there’s a sucker born every minute.

    They’re lying, they know they’re lying and they get paid handsomely to lie.

    The funding behind Limbaugh, Hannity, et al. is the same as the funding behind the rightwing “think tanks”. This propaganda machine that they’ve worked so hard to perfect is extremely well funded and about as authentic as Pam Anderson’s cleavage.

    Here is the difference between us and them when it comes to motivation:

    Grassroots – Activism as a result of the concerns of individual citizens

    Astroturf – Manufactured activism, created by groups organized to attack an issue.


  47. rightwing wako says:

    You liberals obviously don’t see satan’s spawn when he’s right in front of you. If you want to give Michael J. Fox the green light to devour infant babies for there stem cells than you go right on ahead. With your radical San Francisco values, all a bunches of Nancy Paloski’s you all make me sick to my stomach. Next thing you know we’ll be having gay homosexuals requesting for the right to eat babies and have it protected by the constitution. You damn dirty liberals.

    Sincerely,
    Asshole.


  48. wisedup says:

    The only ‘faking it’ is rush, faking being a human being. It is against my morals to wish someone dead,but it sure is being tested now. I watched MJF’s vid…I choked bigtime. Rush, are my fellow Marines that are now dead faking it? YOU are the sickest man on planet earth,along with Colter and others..we will never let you forget this…never.


  49. klyde says:

    Of course they’ll defend him it’s what they do. Never admit you’re wrong never apologize.


  50. r€nato says:

    . Next thing you know we’ll be having gay homosexuals requesting for the right to eat babies and have it protected by the constitution. You damn dirty liberals.

    damn, those gay homosexuals have all the fun.

    Where do I sign up? Can I be a straight homosexual? Is that like one of those guys on Craig’s List who swears they’re straight but likes to suck some cock on the DL?


  51. Rick says:

    Rush’s perception of reality is unbelievable. Does he think the world views him as a perfect person, someone to look up to and admire? I think Rush would kick a guy in a wheelchair if it served his purpose.


  52. r€nato says:

    remember, Rush Limpballs is from Missouri. So the average guy probably notices what he says, more often than the average guy who’s not a dittohead in another state would.


  53. Lee says:

    Is Rush Limbaugh a doctor? How would his pill-popping, mug shot smiling, slightly right of Atilla the Hun, no account a** know if Michael Fox’s condition is being “faked”?

    What a despicable piece of sh*t.


  54. Zooey says:

    Never admit you’re wrong never apologize.
    Comment by klyde

    Stay the course, baby.


  55. moderate says:

    Listen to yourselves.

    One and all, foaming at the mouth with hatred. You’re no better than the right wing idealoges (like Rush).

    MJF admittedly *does* go off his meds to dramatize the suffering of parkinson’s victims. Rush’s only claim is that – in his opinion – it is unseemly to do this to promote a political agenda.

    Rush is certainly insensitive in making this statement. MJF is a brave and virtuous man in his fight to further the cause of research. That is all that needs be said.

    Your childish vituperation brings shame to the liberal cause.


  56. Darin says:

    Rush could care less. He knows that about 30% of this country is comprised of moronic/ignorant sheep who will listen to him no matter what he says.


  57. JPark says:

    Ok, this isn’t the first time I have wondered if Rush is actuallly a raging liberal. Go Rush!!


  58. JPark says:

    Moderate, your balls are no good to you when they are sucked up into your abdomen.


  59. dd says:

    let’s forget about the unimpeachable beliefs of the imaginary friend loving death cult and reframe the debate in terms of American economic security.

    Can we afford to lose the stem cell cure race? Could we gamble with the chance that our domestic pharmaceutical industry could be obsoleted overnight by a foreign stem cell breakthrough?

    or…

    are all the pharmaceutical companies multinational and getting Stem Cell Research funding overseas? if this were true, would Republicans on principal boycott their boner pills, their heart pills, their depression pills and their diet pills? or is this a false red meat issue and they on the take from big pharma to squash biomedical startups by killing public research funding and keeping the barrier to entry high?

    now back to the death cult and the religious right…
    they have the right to the ethical debate, too, but no right under our system of government to own the entire debate by framing it in terms of right or wrong, without exploring the pros and cons for the rest of the American People in the reality based community.


  60. Marie says:

    Rush gives evidence to the old saying about the long lives of rotten people.
    He along with Cheney and the rest of Bush&Co.
    The Greek gods took the best, leaving the bad ones on earth.

    “The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn – Burn to the socket.”


  61. Marie says:

    Olbermann showed an ad tonight when Michael J. Fox made a similar plea for stem cell research — for Republican Senator Arlen Specter, in 2004.
    Did Limpballs say anything nasty at that time?
    The drug addicted, lying bastard.


  62. Alan says:

    Please,please,please– somebody make an ad showing a repeating tape loop of Limbaugh’s sickening and squalid imitation of Fox’s movement disorder. Should be shown 24/7 in all states with a repo candidate who is against stem cell research. I am a neurologist who is all too familiar with the dramatic minute to minute variation of Parkinson symptoms in the advanced stages of the disease. Fox wasn’t acting , Rush was.


  63. Eargy Earpp says:

    You know a couple smacks in the back of the head with a baseball bat and Rush will act like an epileptic, too! Then we can tease him for faking it.

    What an A-hole!!!


  64. Bowdler says:

    Lets imagine the shoe was on the other foot and Rush was making an ad for a drug that he wanted that was outlawed. We see a group of impoverished Costa Rican children around Rush, some digging through garbage for food. Rush gives an impassioned plea: These children would like to earn money for food and clothing. There are plenty of people willing to pay them, but they can’t. You see they suffer from dead crotch syndrome. And until viegra becomes legal again these children will be without gainful employment. We see a tear form on Rush’s cheek as his gaze wanders down to flat region beneath his belly.


  65. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    I support Rush’s statements. Michael J. Fox has admitted to going off his meds for congressional hearings to reinforce the severity of his condition for those in congress. In the commercial, his movements do look staged, as compared to other video footage of his “tremors”, so I believe Rush is dead on right.

    Typical of liberals to once again put forth a victim as some unquestionable messenger of truth, then scream bloody murder when challenged. All this won’t matter, because the gay marriage issue has reminded Reps why they need to get up and vote, especially in Missouri. I predict the Dem will lose by at least 4 percent.


  66. Marie says:

    Jason Hendler – do you really want to solidify the low opinion we have of you with statements like that?
    Did you know Fox made a similaar commercial for Arlen Specter in 2004?
    Don’t talk about exploiting victims – remember Terri Schiavo?
    Jason, I really don’t like to be so personal in criticism, but yours is an example of why liberals despise Republicans for their hypocrisy and their inability to think outside of their party.


  67. Zooey says:

    What’s your point, Jason?

    Do you acknowledge that Michael J. Fox has Parkinson’s Disease?
    Do you acknowledge that Parkinson’s Disease is a terrible disease?
    Do you acknowledge that research must be done in order to find a cure for this disease?
    Do you acknowledge that if a person with Parkinson’s Disease were to testify in a congressional hearing, one might want to let the committee members know what Parkinson’s Disease looks like?

    I already know you’re an insufferable twit, so you don’t have to answer that question.


  68. TerrytheTurtle says:

    I’m sorry, but every time I see Rush, this happy little song keeps on playing in my head… http://www.ericblumrich.com/nazi.html


  69. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #71, Marie,

    Breathe, sister, MJF has ADMITTED to going off meds to exaggerate his condition. As for Terry Schiavo, she was euthanized, which is a position consistent with not allowing embryonic stem cell research. Many desire to protect all life, whether premature, sick, ill – generally defenseless, in need of protection.

    You seem the type who would luv to jam the scissors into the skulls of partially birthed infants as an initiation into your feminist sorority. Hurry, a new life may actually be born!


  70. Bowdler says:

    Whats next for Rush? Ridiculing cripples for taking the best parking spots.


  71. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #72, Zooey,

    Yes
    Relative to what?
    Yes
    Depends on whether you want to demonstrate how their disease is with or without treatment. You could say that he is misrepresenting his normal day to day condition by not taking his meds.


  72. Alan says:

    As a neurologist know that Fox’s symptoms were exactly what one would expect to see in the later stages of Parkinson’s in patients who have been on medication for years. The medications produce a jerky writhing movement called choreoathetosis that for varying periods of time replace the tremor and rigidity. The patient may swing rapidly between tremor-rigidity and chorea with short periods of relative “normalcy”depending on the dosing schedule. Critics of Fox are ignorant bottom dwellers who form the inner repo core. For them there is no global warning ,Sadam attacked the World Trade Centers, and the earth is 6,000 years old. It’s time to drain the swamp.


  73. Zooey says:

    You seem the type who would luv to jam the scissors into the skulls of partially birthed infants as an initiation into your feminist sorority. Hurry, a new life may actually be born!
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    That reminds me, I need to out and get pregnant just so I can have an abortion.


  74. Zooey says:

    Relative to what?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Thanks for making my point for me, Jason.


  75. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #77, Alan,

    Everyone understands what Parkinson’s is supposed to look like, but his “symptoms” did NOT look real, being familiar with previous footage of his symptoms. Big words and bonafides won’t change the public’s perception that MJF was winging it.


  76. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #79, Zooey,

    Is MJF in pain? Is he unable to work? Is he unable to communicate? Is he unable to eat?

    There are far more serious illnesses than Parkinson’s Disease, and while all illnesses are trajic, none are worth destroying human life to cure.


  77. Bowdler says:

    Jason you are guilty of the logical inconsistancies of the Rush crowd. Your allusion to scissors in skulls for stem cell donors is ludicrous. The proposed source for stem cells is the left over , I think the term is, blastocysts from invetro-fertilization. The preponderence of which are destroyed anyway. The scissor skull thing refers (and overdramatically I suspect) to late term abortion.


  78. barfly says:

    You seem the type who would luv to jam the scissors into the skulls of partially birthed infants as an initiation into your feminist sorority. Hurry, a new life may actually be born!

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Jason, since you abhor partial birth abortions, what is your alternative? If a fetus has a severe physical deformity, such as an organ on the outside of the body, and there is zero chance it will survive more than a few hours, do you endanger the life of the mother, by forcing her to give birth? Do you assert it is better to bring the fetus out, and let it slowly die? Your philosophical argument , please, for forcing the woman to give birth, and why it is preferable for a fatally-deformed fetus to be delivered?


  79. Gregor Samsa says:

    his “symptoms” did NOT look real, being familiar with previous footage of his symptoms.
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 11:16 pm

    And now Mr. Hendler will claim to know more than a neurologist about Parkinson’s.

    Big words and bonafides won’t change the public’s perception that MJF was winging it.

    Speak for yourself, Mr. Hendler.

    How about we make fun of your condition? I bet you are “winging it”, anyway.


  80. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #82, Bowdler,

    The “scissors in skull” refers to partial birth abortion …


  81. Zooey says:

    Is MJF in pain? Is he unable to work? Is he unable to communicate? Is he unable to eat?
    There are far more serious illnesses than Parkinson’s Disease, and while all illnesses are trajic, none are worth destroying human life to cure.
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    You’ve never seen anyone waste away with Parkinson’s, have you? Nevermind, you haven’t the capacity for empathy.


  82. Mike says:

    I have never been a fan of Limbaugh but I now find myself even less of a fan. How can such a public figure make such statements and not have to face some retribution, even his network OK’s this behavior because it makes them money. My father had Parkinson’s and I watched it eat at him for his final 17 years. I can tell you there are good days and bad days but I’d like to see Rush spend a day with a Parkinson’s victim and watch him struggle through things that we all take for granted. Simple task such as walking, talking and eating become a very laborious task. The truth is as long as people will listen this blow hard will continue spewing his stupidity.


  83. Marie says:

    It’s too much effort to communicate with an ignorant and pigheaded miscreant.


  84. WC says:

    Rush’s only claim is that – in his opinion – it is unseemly to do this to promote a political agenda.

    Rush is certainly insensitive in making this statement. MJF is a brave and virtuous man in his fight to further the cause of research. That is all that needs be said.

    Your childish vituperation brings shame to the liberal cause.

    Comment by moderate — October 25, 2006 @ 10:19 pm

    Then Rush should have said just that…that in his opinion it’s unseemly for MJF to take advantage of his disease to promote a political agenda.

    And that should have been the end of it.

    But he couldn’t help himself. The drama queen had to make an appearance, once again. The fat bastard had to go way beyond that and accuse MJF of faking his behavior. Of putting on an act. And then the fat ass had to flop around in his chair like a fish out of water in a display of mockery.

    On the other hand, maybe if we keep our big fat liberal mouths shut, maybe…just maybe…Rush will just go away.

    And yes, calling people names is childish. But you know what? I don’t give a damn right now. Because he is a bastard and an ass. You want to talk about being unseemly in promoting a political agenda? All you have to do is picture Rush’s face every time you think about that.


  85. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #86, Zooey,

    Have you no empathy for the unborn children that are snuffed? Have you no empathy for the weak and infirm have their feeding tubes yanked from their throats and starved for 2 weeks until they die?

    Why is a Parkinson’s sufferer valued more than others? Are you ready to choose who lives and who dies?


  86. barfly says:

    And Jason runs away from the question. Big surprise.


  87. WC says:

    All this won’t matter, because the gay marriage issue has reminded Reps why they need to get up and vote, especially in Missouri. I predict the Dem will lose by at least 4 percent.

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 10:52 pm

    Married, Hendler? If so, how is gay marriage affecting your relationship with your wife?


  88. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    This is typical of why libs are impossible to reason with:

    Just because one person is suffering, you feel compelled to take from those who aren’t to abate, however slightly, someone else’s pain. Why hurt everyone else to ease someone’s plight? How many fetuses are you willing to terminate to cure MJF? 10, 20, 50, 100?


  89. barfly says:

    Are you ready to choose who lives and who dies?

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    More hyperbolic rhetoric; if you would deny others a chance at a cure, you surely make the decision of “who lives and who dies” for them.


  90. Bowdler says:

    85 duh. How about an overlooked aspect of this whole argument. While other countries are researching the benifits of stem cell therapy, we are held in the thrall of religous extremists. At some point in the future it is likely that foriegn companys will hold lucrative patents to very beneficial treatments. And what will America have to show for it? Some dishonest politicans elected for pandering to religous right. I bet if Halliburton had a few stem cell patents things might be a little different… No, strike that thought – baby farms would be the only result.


  91. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #92, WC,

    I have stated already that I support gay marriage or civil unions, but detest how the Dems always run to the courts when they can’t win elections or ballot initiatives. For that reason, I hope they never legalize gay marriage, just to chastens Dems for all time.


  92. Zooey says:

    Have you no empathy for the unborn children that are snuffed?

    They are not children.

    Have you no empathy for the weak and infirm have their feeding tubes yanked from their throats and starved for 2 weeks until they die?

    They are already dead. Their bodies just don’t know it yet. Very few of us would want to live that way, if we knew it was happening. Maybe you would. I would support your decision.

    Why is a Parkinson’s sufferer valued more than others?

    They’re not, this is just one example of a disease that needs research.

    Are you ready to choose who lives and who dies?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    If it’s coming from my body, yes, I will choose who lives and who dies. As for choosing between a breathing person and a fetus. Breathing person wins every single time.


  93. WC says:

    Big words and bonafides won’t change the public’s perception that MJF was winging it.

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 11:16 pm

    The public’s perception? You mean Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and their idiotic listeners? I think the “public” is a tad bigger than that group.


  94. barfly says:

    How many fetuses are you willing to terminate to cure MJF? 10, 20, 50, 100?

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    And a technique that offers the promise of getting stem cells without destroying an embryo would be acceptable to the Right? Or will you guys move the goalposts and include unfertilized eggs?


  95. Zooey says:

    How many fetuses are you willing to terminate to cure MJF? 10, 20, 50, 100?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Michael J. Fox is not the only person on this planet with Parkinson’s Disease.

    I would agree to terminate every embryo that is slated for disposal in the next 10 years. More, if necessary.


  96. Caren says:

    Jason,

    If MJF were off his meds, he would be frozen. That is the effect of Parkinsons. The brain can no longer initiate movement. Often, once movement starts, the person can’t stop.

    Please, just Google it. The meds cause the excessive jerkiness. Going off them leaves you frozen.

    And yes, Parkinsons hurts. MJF cannot work full time; his guest stints on Boston Legal are choreographed around the moments he has most control over the tremors. Parkinsons leaves you unable to communicate, as it immobilizes your vocal chords–another reason you can be sure MJF actually took his meds: he wanted to be able to speak clearly. Most late stage Parkinsons die b/c they cannot swallow and aspirate food into their lungs, which leads to pneumonia.

    It is a horrible, fatal disease, and there aren’t far more serious illnesses. Death isn’t bad enough? Having your mind work while your body freezes isn’t horrific enough?

    Again, just Google it. Parkinson’s info is out there. When Rush and you and others claim that going off the medication made the symptoms worse, you just display your utter ignorance, just as you do when you claim the disease isn’t serious.

    400,000 frozen embryos are going to be tossed. Why can’t their parents decide to donate their organs, like any other family member? Oh, b/c every blastocyst is sacred.


  97. r€nato says:

    Many desire to protect all life, whether premature, sick, ill – generally defenseless, in need of protection.

    …damn shame about all those dead people in Iraq. But they don’t count, do they? They’re not white-skinned Christian Republican-Americans.


  98. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #97, Zooey,

    In MJF, we are really talking about quality of life, so you are comfortable with destroying life to improve someone else’s? How about for cosmetic reasons? If fetal tissue could make you look 5, 10 or 20 years younger, would you harvest human fetuses? How many? 10, 20, 50, 100?


  99. Gregor Samsa says:

    This is typical of why libs are impossible to reason with:
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 11:36 pm

    And this is typical of why it is impossible to have a reasoned argument with you. You replace the facts with your own warped “opinion” or “feeling”.

    There would be no fetuses “sacrificed”, because embryonic stem cells are taken from embryos -hence the name.

    Proponents are arguing that stem cells could be collected from the embryos that are currently being discarded (destroyed) by fertility clinics, that don’t have the money or room to store them forever.

    Unless you are ready to oppose in-vitro fertilisation because it “kills babies”.

    And I almost forgot: Thanks to new technology, no embryos will have to be destroyed in order to collect stem cells anymore. So there goes your argument against embryonic stem cell research.


  100. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #99, barfly,

    Personally, I would accept an unfertilized egg, but not a clone. I’ve seen where a nucleus from a skin cell is inserted in an egg, creating again a human life, so as to generate and harvest stem cells. That is NOT acceptable, because a clone, like a twin, is a human life.


  101. R Paul says:

    “It is what I think. It is what I believe, and it is what I have FOUND to be TRUE.”

    Oh! Is that all? So it’s the same old Bolls hit that Rush always spews and he admits it. No big problem. Just typical B.S. as usual.


  102. Zooey says:

    In MJF, we are really talking about quality of life, so you are comfortable with destroying life to improve someone else’s?

    I am very comfortable destroying what is already slated for destruction, to cure this illness and many others. Stop minimizing this disease.

    How about for cosmetic reasons? If fetal tissue could make you look 5, 10 or 20 years younger, would you harvest human fetuses?

    No, I would not do something like that. Don’t be ridiculous.

    How many? 10, 20, 50, 100?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Caren in #101 says 400,000 are about to be tossed. All of them.


  103. Bowdler says:

    Jason, then why not the outrage over invitro-ferilization?


  104. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #107, Zooey,

    So instead of allowing infertile couples to adopt these embryos, you would prefer to dab them under each eye to look younger?


  105. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #108, Bowdler,

    What do you suggest is the outrage with invitro-fertilization?


  106. proudleftists says:

    Rush is your typical modern day conservative— self – centered and mean–also ignorant.


  107. Gregor Samsa says:

    Is MJF in pain? Is he unable to work? Is he unable to communicate? Is he unable to eat?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 11:18 pm

    Asks the man who claims to know what Parkinson’s is.

    I know this will come as a surprise to you, Mr. Hendler, but Parkinson’s disease is degenerative. Michael J Fox is able to walk now, he might not be able in the future. He might not be able to eat, talk, or otherwise function normally.

    Say it with me: Parkinson’s disease is degenerative.


  108. Caren says:

    Jason,

    There are about 50 “snowflake” babies.

    There are 400,000 embryos in storage.

    There aren’t enough infertile couples to adopt them. And not all the biological parents are willing to donate their embryos to other families.

    These embryos are going to be tossed in the garbage, where they do no one any good. They are incapable of life without implantation, so why can’t their parents donate their organs, as they could with a child who was brain dead and no longer capable of living?

    Oh yeah, every blastocyst is sacred. 8 cells, doomed to be thawed and trashed, are more important than living humans.


  109. Zooey says:

    So instead of allowing infertile couples to adopt these embryos, you would prefer to dab them under each eye to look younger?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    What did I just say, Jason? Do not attemtp to pull this crap on me.

    How about for cosmetic reasons? If fetal tissue could make you look 5, 10 or 20 years younger, would you harvest human fetuses?
    No, I would not do something like that. Don’t be ridiculous.

    Infertile couples are not beating down the doors to adopt these embryos, Jason. If they want to adopt, they ought to get busy. Or adopt one of the thousands of children ALREADY BORN.


  110. trueblue says:

    So,
    You choose to show up when you think I’m gone?
    Answer the charge put before you, or slink back under your rock.
    For those of you not familiar with it, :

    #141, Grandmal Seizure ….
    They can sue all they want, but activist judges shouldn’t writing laws.
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler —

    NOW we have a problem.
    NOW I will address you.

    Skewering someone’s name for your enjoyment is not only childish, but now Offensive.

    My daughter has spent the last 24 hours hooked up to electrodes, trying to find out why her seizures have started after a year’s absence.

    We have had 3 hospital stays over a 2 1/2 year period, all a week’s stay, trying to figure out the Why’s and Where’s.

    YOU are not funny. YOU are not even slightly amusing. You are a total ASSHOLE! And I now truly deserve an apology.
    I don’t give a rat’s ass what you say about me, but now you’re making fun of Epileptics. (nice, BTW)
    I demand an apology.

    Comment by trueblue — October 25, 2006 @ 5:26 pm

    He ran off immediately after that.
    That exchange was after the harassment of this morning, which he never apologized for, either.


  111. Gregor Samsa says:

    So instead of allowing infertile couples to adopt these embryos, you would prefer to dab them under each eye to look younger?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 11:51 pm

    More strawman arguments from Mr. Strawman himself.

    Whoever said embryos would be destroyed in order for anyone to look younger?

    We are talking about research that has the potential to cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Both degenerative diseases.

    There is nothing cosmetic about that.


  112. Hawaii says:

    If there is a silver lining in this despicable person’s idiotic diatribe, it is that IF there is even one person with any remaining brain cells that still listen to his show that they will finally see Limbaugh for what he truly is and STOP LISTENING TO HIM. It is my deepest hope that his listeners will wake up from the false conciousness that they have been lulled into by the GOP and Fox, and realize that they have been lied to and actually start being open to the truth. I have given up hope that Limbaugh will ever grow a conscience, as he does not appear to have any sense of morality. I can only hope that his moronic rant will be played over, and over, and over…


  113. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #113, Caren,

    Maybe Madonna could adopt one – or does she prefer to steal them?


  114. WC says:

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 11:38 pm

    So on the one hand you support gay marriage, but on the other you hope it never is legalized simply because you want to smack down the Democrats.


  115. KactionJ says:

    Personally, I would accept an unfertilized egg, but not a clone. I’ve seen where a nucleus from a skin cell is inserted in an egg, creating again a human life, so as to generate and harvest stem cells. That is NOT acceptable, because a clone, like a twin, is a human life.

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Silly boy, its no more a clone than a blastocyte is a baby. If you want to extend the definition of human life to groups of human cells we better stop removing spleens when they rupture, because that would be destroying human life. Probably would have to rule out transplants, because that is making a clone by your definition. These groups of cells are not human life. Human Life is something that can’t sit in a freezer for months and still live.

    Oh, and I won’t presume to speak for anyone else, but to me, the correct answer to the Shiavo situation was euthanasia. Her brain was dead, she didn’t want to be kept alive in a vegetative state. End of story to me.

    Time to stop reading worldnetdaily and join the real world.


  116. Gregor Samsa says:

    does she prefer to steal them?
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 11:58 pm

    Was this comment supposed to be witty? Clever?

    What do Madonna’s antics have to do with the price of tea in China?


  117. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #115, Trueblue,

    I never saw your post 141, having signed off beforehand.

    One minute you choose to ignore me, the next you choose to bite my head off and demand an apology. I have had my name mispelled or replaced with less than flattering monikers, but you don’t see me throwing a hissy fit.

    No, I am not apologizing to you. If you start something, don’t gripe when you get hit. You think that because you are a woman, you can make sexist remarks and not be hit back in kind? Guess what, sister, you are wrong.

    Again, typical liberal using a victim as a means to score points against an adversary. Do you think Michael J. Fox will shoot a video for you?


  118. Bowdler says:

    110: From what I understand, the process of invitro fertilization produces many more embryos than are used. Most of them are destroyed. It is these wasted cells that most stem cell researchers propose to use. It is the act of invitro fertilization that creates the embryos that are to be destroyed. Stem cell research only proposes to use what would be discarded anyway.


  119. trueblue says:

    “#99, barfly, Personally, I would accept an unfertilized egg, but not a clone. I’ve seen where a nucleus from a skin cell is inserted in an egg, creating again a human life, so as to generate and harvest stem cells. That is NOT acceptable, because a clone, like a twin, is a human life.
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler”

    He’s not telling the truth.
    A skin cell nucleus is too differentiated.
    It can only make more skin cells.

    If it were that easy, there’d be all sorts of ‘mini-me’s’ running amok.
    He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
    You need undifferentiated cells.


  120. WC says:

    Are you ready to choose who lives and who dies?

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Well, Jason, by refusing to abort a fetus to save the life of an otherwise healthy female, it would seem that you are making that choice.


  121. Hawaii says:

    Hello folks,
    Did it ever occur to anyone that Jason+M.+Hendler might just be a bored fool that says these ridiculous things just to get everyone riled up? I hope that is the case, because if it’s not, the alternative is worse; the village idiot is running loose. That’s all for me. Night, night.


  122. trueblue says:

    So you like making fun of Epileptics?
    Real nice.
    We don’t make fun of your Autism.

    And YOU STARTED.
    I ignore you all the time.
    This is the only time I have addressed you, because it’s not me – NOW you’re picking on my CHILD.


  123. Gregor Samsa says:

    He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
    Comment by trueblue — October 26, 2006 @ 12:06 am

    Imagine that…


  124. trueblue says:

    When did this become the JMH thread?

    All we’re doing is argueing with him, when really he’s only worthy of being ignored.

    We now return to our regularly scheduled program…

    :)

    Comment by trueblue — October 25, 2006 @ 10:06 am

    #50, true,

    You have missed me – I can tell.

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 10:08 am
    And more crap ensued from JMH…..


  125. barfly says:

    That is NOT acceptable, because a clone, like a twin, is a human life.
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    OK. If an embryo has fatal deformities, and will die once it is removed from the mother (or possibly even die inside her), would harvesting its cells be taboo?


  126. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #131, trueblue,

    Get off it. You and the others have made far worse statements, and I never ran off crying, just gave it back to you in kind. Moreover, I return it in the form of playful banter, for the most part, so don’t get all bent up over it.

    Others make fun of my “mild case of Asperger’s Syndrome”, and often I joke along. (BTW, I consult with a teacher who has a class of these type of children to help her understand what they are thinking / feeling, and how to transition them to mainstream them into regular classes.) I expect no apologies from you, so don’t expect any from me.


  127. Chavez says:

    ATTN: Jason+M.+Hendler

    Shut up and GO AWAY. Believe it or not, this thread isn’t about you.


  128. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #135, barfly,

    If it dies, it can be an organ donor, like anyone else.


  129. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    btru,

    You epitomize the hopeless left. I look forward to visiting your here the day after the election ….


  130. trueblue says:

    And no apologies for disparaging Epileptics.

    True Colors………………


  131. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #143, trueblue,

    No, no apology. What I’ve said is far more kind that what you and others have said to me – get over it.


  132. barfly says:

    If it dies, it can be an organ donor, like anyone else.

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Otherwise, if it hasn’t died yet, the mother has to deliver it?

    You would potentially injure (or kill) the mother by forcing her to deliver it, and then wait for it to die? And then harvest the cells?

    You’re OK with that?


  133. Chavez says:

    Maybe we should just feel very sorry for him. He is pretty pitiful. Obviously his disorder is so severe that he cannot see how inappropriate his behavior and attitudes really are. Ignore him; it is the truly kind thing to do. We need to model appropriate behavior for him. Ignore the bad man.


  134. Gregor Samsa says:

    What I’ve said is far more kind that what you and others have said to me – get over it.
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 26, 2006 @ 12:35 am

    I see: miniblue gets to pay for what others said to you.

    You are so very manly, Mr. Hendler.

    But then you can probably suspend your sense of decency in the same way you suspend your Christian beliefs…


  135. DonP says:

    Rush is a scumbag. Most of his listeners too – Uneducated moronic right wingers.

    http://www.limbaugh.com/?q=ratings


  136. kelso says:

    Rush finds just about anything that supports the agenda he pushes is “found to be true”. Unfortunately, he has a skewed understanding of what “truth” is.


  137. Zooey says:

    But then you can probably suspend your sense of decency in the same way you suspend your Christian beliefs…
    Comment by Gregor Samsa

    You have sized up The Jason.


  138. barfly says:

    I just want to get Jason correctly: does he think an embryo (not a fetus) which shows a fatal deformity should be carried full term, even if it cannot survive outside the womb? If the pregnancy has a good chance of seriously injuring (or killing) the mother, does Jason think she should be forced to carry it full term? That sounds like just the opposite of forced abortions – forced deliveries.


  139. trueblue says:

    When did this become the JMH thread?

    All we’re doing is argueing with him, when really he’s only worthy of being ignored.

    We now return to our regularly scheduled program…

    :)

    Comment by trueblue — October 25, 2006 @ 10:06 am

    #50, true,

    You have missed me – I can tell.

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 10:08 am

    ……………………………

    sorry. just had to projectile vomit…………………..

    Yeah, Briseadh na Faire, I’d be interested in that link as well.

    Comment by trueblue — October 25, 2006 @ 10:14 am

    #63, true,

    You can fight it if you want to, but I know you can’t resist a strong man like myself.

    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 25, 2006 @ 10:20 am

    I’m outta here………………………..
    I just can’t handle another post……………

    If you need me I’ll be disinfecting my screen and keyboard.

    Comment by trueblue — October 25, 2006 @ 10:26 am

    Jason and Exley need to be taught how to treat women.

    Comment by Zooey — October 25, 2006 @ 10:32 am

    I do believe that individuals forfeit their civil rights through bad behaviour – Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    If you believe that, then you should surrender your right to free speech on this site, because you sexually harassed trueblue on this thread (which you have done before and been confronted about). This is both “bad” and illegal behavior. So, let me be the first to say: Goodbye.

    Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) — October 25, 2006 @ 10:51 am

    I never even addressed you, I never do and never have because I don’t like you.
    I only addressed you when you started shitting on my kid’s illness.
    You can’t even be man enough to say you’re wrong now?
    What a weak person you are.


  140. Zooey says:

    true,

    Don’t give Jason any more of your time. I don’t plan to, either. He’s hopeless.

    On a bright note, both Jason and I were deleted on this thread. Jason was deleted for pure stupidity, and I was deleted for responding to it.

    And neither one of us used the f-word. For me, that’s really saying something!


  141. Chavez says:

    Funny Zooey! Take a deep breath and have a great evening. :)


  142. trueblue says:

    Zooey,
    Really???
    You? Deleted?
    ……………email me what you said!
    **snicker**

    ;)


  143. Zooey says:

    Funny Zooey! Take a deep breath and have a great evening. :)
    Comment by Chavez

    Thank you! I plan on it.

    Goodnight all!


  144. trueblue says:

    Chavez,
    I’ve always ignored him.
    Even when he said crap about me.
    It’s now my child that I’m defending. And I’m a big’ol Mama Bear when it comes to my child..!


  145. Chavez says:

    I must’ve missed the Rules you’re talking about, as I logged on apparently much later. BTW, I am a Christian (but not a crazy one), and I support a woman’s right to choose, gay marriage, and virtually every other liberal stand. You want to know why? I am a liberal. Through and through. But then again, I think that God used evolution in the creation progress, so I’m probably not representative of fundamentalist Christians. Oh yeah… I had a point… Just becasue some Christians are intolerant and don’t act Christlike, doesn’t mean that the problem is with real Christianity and real Christians. The problem is with those who choose to use the bible to authorize their hateful, dogmatic rhetoric. Christ was compassionate, he cared about the disenfranchised, and cared about women, the poor, and the sick. That’s the Christianity I choose to follow, not the one that says if you don’t think like they do then you’re going to hell. There are many roads.


  146. Chavez says:

    Dear trueblue,

    Like I said earlier, I logged on late, but I did want to say something. My Dad had terrible Epilepsy. He was repeatedly hospitalized for status epilepticus, so I am pretty familiar with what your child has to deal with. If you haven’t had a loved one, especially a child (I can only imagine that), have grand mal siezures over and over, you can’t really get it. People can be so stupid. I remember Dad having a massive seizure on the way to the courthouse (where he worked), and seeing all the strangers stare, and his coworkers just gawk as well. The disorder alone is bad enough, but when you add humiliation, shame, stigma, and fear and uncertainty of not knowing when the next seizure will take place, well… it’s almost too much to bear. So, I recognize your Mama Bear stance. Good for you! Your child needs one. I myself have had to take charge in a crowd, get rid of lookie-lous, make sure that Dad was okay, and finally help him get cleaned up and then escape from the humiliating scene. So, please don’t let idiots get you down. Recognize them for what they are, morons, and move along if possible. You need all of your strength to help your child. My best wishes are with you and your family.


  147. C says:

    “Found to be true”? Where did you find that Rush? What do you know about taking prescriptio…OOOHHHHHHH!!!! My bad, I forgive you.


  148. Chavez says:

    By all means, please do. :)


  149. Anthony says:

    WOW! Did none of you actually see or listen to the entire show? Rush doesnt need to apologize.

    If anything you should ask your media source to STOP taking everything he says out of context.

    Just shows me how little attention you give to things, no wonder the “drive-by media” works for you. So very sad.


  150. Jehan Nithyanandan says:

    I’d like to see you or one of your close relations with Parkinsons disease in a few years time.


  151. Tony says:

    I cannot believe anyone would be so insensitive or stupid… How is saying someone with a terrible disease is lying or acting a clever idea. This guy is really truly an ass.

    He didn’t find anything to be true , he’s just speculating from MJF’s movement in the advert. I thought it was more movement than normal myself , but I’m willing to give the guy a little freaking slack , seeing as he has the disease and wants to promote research into it, breaking down barriers set in place by a naive bunch of people…


  152. doug says:

    “I found (it) to be true”

    What did you do to seek the truth? “Found” is the past tense of “find.” How did you “find” this truth that you believe? Where-oh-where did you look? In the Bible, the seer and knower of all things? Huh? In your heart that rotten putrid little piece of foil smelling meat. Perhaps in your brain. You thunk it so it must be…….must be…..must be…WHAT???? left over garbage from some occult weird stinking belief you have to long held in your foul putrid brain.

    You….. you …….you NEO-CONSERVATIVE BUSHCO YOU!!!!!!!!!!


  153. John says:

    Sheer stupidity…

    Learn to control how to speak man…

    seriously…


  154. Dog_named_Boo says:

    This is Conservative media, and this is what ABC wants you to acknowledge to be the cure for ‘liberalism’ in the media.

    To recognize the hate speech of goofy grievances from drug addicted conservative hypocrite pundits.

    Wtf?


  155. Dog_named_Boo says:

    I think Rush Limbaugh is faking his loss of hearing by not taking/taking his Oxycontin [poor mans heroin]


  156. alan says:

    Look, I haven’t heard much of his show this week, but I have listed for several thousand hours. You kind of get to know someone a little when you hear them that much. There are a lot of things that he believes that I disagree with, there always will be. First off, many of you are just as bad as him or anyone else that you start calling names. That’s all many of you are doing – name calling. Are you all in middle school? Is that how you have your conversations? So and so disagrees with you, so you just dismiss them with a ‘you’re stupid!’. Have you even listened to his show more than a few minutes? Or do you just wait for people who are looking for headlines to take a couple of things that he says and publish them? It sounds like he got this one at least partially wrong. (The whole medical analysis of MJF…) It also sounds like the bill that is being voted on may not be quite what it is presented as. Our legislatures do that kind of thing all of the time. They take a 500 page bill, give you the two sentence summary, and later we find that there was more to the bill. Surprise!

    You people are starting to sound like the ‘Clinton haters’ from the 90’s! “Clinton is this” or “Clinton is that”. Blah, blah. No actual intelligent conversation, just name calling.

    Alan


  157. Dog_named_Boo says:

    Look, I haven’t heard much of his show this week, but I have listed for several thousand hours.

    If I wanted to hear Archie Bunker type opinionate rants I would listen to Limbaugh — the simple fact is the world is full of these bigoted opinion spewers and living in Texas I can find one of these idiots at the local dairy queen out in the outlying areas eating them some chicken fried steak fingers and speaking the same idiotic wisdom consistently regurgitates.


  158. Swordsbane says:

    Hello folks,
    Did it ever occur to anyone that Jason+M.+Hendler might just be a bored fool that says these ridiculous things just to get everyone riled up? I hope that is the case, because if it’s not, the alternative is worse; the village idiot is running loose. That’s all for me. Night, night.

    Comment by Hawaii — October 26, 2006 @ 12:08 am

    He’s right folks. Give it up. In the interests of accurate information, if JMH spouts his idiocy, just correct the bad info. Don’t say anything else. If he can’t present an argument or at least new information, ignore him.

    Stem cells are harvested from embryos that are already going to be destroyed. If you’re not against invitro-fertilization, you can’t be against stem cell research. New technology will allow stem cells to be harvested without destroying the embryo. JASON: If you want to pick this apart, be my guest, but bring references and show your work.

    About MJF. He wasn’t off his meds, he didn’t eggagerate his movements to pander to the pity strings. If he was off his meds, his movements would have been LESS severe. It was medically impossible for him to do what Rush suggested he did. JASON: If you want to refute that, by all means, but as above, use references and show your work.

    This is not about Democrats or Republicans or how much of a jerk Rush Limbaugh is or the right to die or Madonna, or clones, or adoption. It’s about the accuracy of Rush’s analysis of a medical condition. If you want to do anything but refute the above two points, please do me a favor and stick a lit M-80 in your ear. Thank you.


  159. Dog_named_Boo says:

    It’s about the accuracy of Rush’s analysis of a medical condition

    Yeh, I agree, Rush should compare himself to other peoples problems. Say, “I [Rush] was faking my ingrown butt hair just like MF was faking his Parkinsons disease by acting.”

    “MF didn’t take his medication and I [Rush] didn’t use preperation h on my ingrown butt hair and therefore didn’t have to serve in the military, I acted just like MF did, but I did it so I could shirk my duties, I take back none of what I say –Rush Limbaugh.”


  160. DieNowForPeace says:

    BOTTOM LINE HERE:

    The GOP is losing ground. This ad is working EXACTLY as it was intended. JMH is a retard.

    Next topic?


  161. jarkolicious :: Rush Limbaugh, Complete Idiot says:

    [...] Today, however, the media somehow got wind and reported that Limbaugh apologized for making such ill conceived remarks. Turns out that the media had it all wrong; Limbaugh not only did not apologize but took the chance to reiterate his position on the whole issue by essentially saying that he has no regrets for saying what he said and in the manner in which it was phrased. I stand by what I said. I take back none of what I said. I wouldn’t rephrase it any differently. It is what I believe; it is what I think. It is what I have found to be true. [...]


  162. Jakhack says:

    Lush Rimbaugh shouldn’t point fingers at anyone else. And no one should confuse an interesting speech cadence for intelligence.


  163. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #183, swordsbane,

    I have no problem with any stem cell research that doesn’t destroy embryos, which I, and millions of other people, recognize as a human life, requiring our care and protection.

    btru,

    I am only mildly Asperger. Moreover, Asperger / Autistic individuals do feel empathy, the breakdown is in communication of that empathy, both to and from these individuals. Through “behavioural therapy”, individuals with ASD (autistic spectral disorder) can learn the cues from body language and speech that is not innate, and quickly adapt / compensate for shortcomings.

    That said, I will not allow Dems to demagogue by constantly hurling victims onto the stage and demand everyone empty their pockets in support. Moreover, I am far more than unsympathetic to Dems who spit vitriol, then scream bloody murder when they are hit back. It only encourages me to hit more, until they learn not to spit vitriol. If they can’t learn intellectually, I am happy to use Pavlovian negative reinforcement – their choice.


  164. GodfryDaniel says:

    Ptewey! (Me spitting in Limbaugh’s face) (Even though it’s a waste of good spit)


  165. Quizmos says:

    These guys would kick the crutches out from under one of Jerry’s kids if it promoted their selfish agenda. Rush is at his best when it comes to picking on the weak and the down-trodden. Racism, biggotry, homophobia, and any other divisive methods are all his specialties. He lacks the ability to stand up to any real man, all the while hiding behind a microphone. What a waste of a human being.


  166. destardi says:

    Isn’t it just so painfully obvious, that there are people in the US like “jasonhendler” who take up any and every republican/neo-con viewpoint, and never disagree with anything that comes out of that lying, traitorous group of haters?

    For god’s sake, anyone who attacks a guy who is doing what he thinks is right, and is undeniably ill, and blames everything on democrats (who the flying f*ck has been in power for the last 6 years? congress/senate/president? And everything is dems fault? AHAHAHAAHHHAHAA!) is simply pathetic.


  167. destardi says:

    Personally, if you want to irritate and annoy people like “jason,” I think we should continually point out the following:

    Christian fundamentalists and muslim fundamentalists are two sides of the same coin, i.e.

    1)Christian fundies all think that liberalism is the downfall of their society, and guess what?

    2)Muslim fundies all think that liberalism is the downfall of their society, AND

    Muslim fundies blow themselves up in the name of religion, while christian fundies send their young over to blow up the muslims, and die in the process.

    how the f*ck is that so different?


  168. james says:

    he is lame blahh blahh blahh


  169. Johnny+Lib says:

    “Again, typical liberal using a victim as a means to score points against an adversary. Do you think Michael J. Fox will shoot a video for you?”
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler

    Explain to me why Bush chose to do a fly-around to go to services on the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001?

    The answer is obvious. He was using those victims to score points against an advesary?

    Or why did the Republicans use Terry Schiavo?

    Double standard there, Jason?


  170. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #192, destardi,

    Good question. It is NOT a question of similarity / difference. It is a question of security. I don’t care what causes any group to attack another, I only need to know who and where they are, so that we can eliminate their ability to attack.


  171. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #194, Johnny Lib,

    Not at all. Bush commemorated 9/11 by showing his appreciation to our military forces, who have done much to prevent another attack in the last 5 years – that is appropriate for a commander in chief.

    As for Terry Schiavo, Republicans acted in congress to try to save her life. We did not want her corpse as a trophy, as Dems do with the 30 million fetuses. Reps would be more than happy if she was quietly saved, than publicly terminated.


  172. James says:

    The problem with people who aren’t experienced in a disorder like parkinsons is that they don’t understand the variety of ways the symptoms can manifest. Most people look at Katherine Hepburn and assume that Parkinson’s consists of tremors and warbled speech, but that is just one example of symptoms.

    Some people only have symptoms on half their bodies, and worse still, some people are fully affected in their vocal chords and cannot speak at all.

    He’s dense and insensative, but that’s what he has always been. He’s professing knowledge in a subject he has no experience in…but that’s what he’s always done. Why is this a surprise?


  173. Steve says:

    I really like the first poster….so by default if anybody defends Rush they’re a Troll?

    Nice. Kinda like the Soviet Union…if you protested communism you were OBVIOUSLY crazy and so they locked you up for mental treatment.

    Good attitude there, RealSci…..


  174. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #197, James,

    Yes, kinda like people misunderstand autistic spectral disorder, and try to paint those individuals as insensative and unempathetic, when they are not.



  175. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    #200

    AN IMPOSTER HAS JUST POSTED UNDER MY NAME AGAIN.


  176. LesserFool says:

    It is what I have found to be true.

    So, like Bush, Rush invents his own “truth” and sticks by it, reality be damned.

    “Facts are stubborn things.” –Ronald Reagan.


  177. buffalordr.com » Blog Archive » Standing Tall says:

    [...] Rush Limbaugh is defiant, and stands absolutely behind his hilariously dispicable slagging off of Michael J. Fox, who has the nerve to be dying. [...]


  178. Jaysus says:

    If I were MJ Fox I would start talking about Limpdick’s regular sextourism escapades to the Dominican Republic, that would shut Limpy up pretty quickly (I know, MJF has too much class). Pathetic, a infamous multimillionaire who can’t find a partner in a normal human way, and can’t get it up withuot drugs either. Jeez, I would love to know the age of his “companions” in the D.R.


  179. Quadrajet says:

    #201 – Hmmm, I suspected as much Jason, it’s the most truthful thing I’ve seen posted under your moniker here in low these many months.


  180. JasonManHandler says:

    I have absolutely zero integrity, honour, or decency. I attack the sick and infirm and believe that things such as Christian morality should be put aside whenever it is inconvenient.

    I believe that patriotism, is best expressed by repeatedly making oaths to a piece of cloth, and that it is worst expressed by actually standing up for the principles that America was based on.

    I believe that the left is all for genocide, yet I also believe that anybody who disagrees with me should be killed. I believe the only solid science, is science fiction, and that all scientists ever do is putter around taking notes.

    I believe that all social spending should be cut, especially help to single mothers and poor families. I am pro life however, provided that life does not belong to someone who is poor, in the army, or in another country.

    I believe that embryos which are going to be thrown away anyway, should not be used to benefit humanity, after all life is sacred. Needless to say I have no idea what the hell to do with the frozen embryos other then to claim they can be adopted – I don’t even have the foggiest idea what having an extra 400,000 mouths to feed would do to the economy.

    I am a staunch Republican, because they stand for my values, values of cruelty, sexism, false faith, pedophilia, corruption and stupidity. I believe Rush Limbaugh aping Michael J Fox’s symptoms was both tasteful, and decent of him. I also believe that Michael J Fox speaking out about a desease which is killing him, was contemptable. I cover the latter by claiming he was faking. Needless to say I will not mention that in 2004 Michael J Fox, made an advert based around the same topic, calling for people to vote for Arlen Specter, a Republican, nor that the medication MJF is on, makes him move like that.


  181. Suzanne says:

    Wow……..Jason Hendler is one sick cookie. Amazing. I am glad that our country seems to be slowly starting to recover from his brand of insanity–It can’t come too soon. His ilk are so unstable and threatened in genera-by almost everythingl, they just can’t help themeselves. They are not open and the game of accusing others of what they do in spades is being seen through. Americans are tired of the circular reasoning of these types, their complete lack of empathy, and the harm they cause everyone around them. I feel sorry for Jason on one level, but he and his kind can not — will not be allowed to dominate American culture going forward……. Americans in vast numbers are beginning to get it.


  182. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    I’m wearing my sisters underwear.


  183. Suzanne says:

    From Jason Hendler: “I believe that embryos which are going to be thrown away anyway, should not be used to benefit humanity, after all life is sacred. ” ( life ?………you moron)

    This would be funny if it were not so harmfully insane. He doesn’t even know what he’s said.

    :) I rest my case.


  184. mroom says:

    Unforunately, on this issue, Rush L and his ilk, have successfully shifted the focus from the candidate and the issue of stem cell research to M.J. Fox. The media hoopla is all about Fox & Rush and not the real issues.


  185. Suzanne says:

    Bravo JasonManHandler! Great and right on


  186. Karim says:

    If Michael J. Fox was “not taking his medications” (as the “Pig ” would have you believe, then that means he is in fact sick with Parkinson’s. Because if he were “acting”, then he is not sick. It’s one or the other, Mr. Limbaugh. I suggest that he gets his facts straight before he starts bashing people.


  187. unbelievable says:

    AN IMPOSTER HAS JUST POSTED UNDER MY NAME AGAIN.
    Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler — October 26, 2006 @ 9:15 am

    You shouldn’t complain… The imposter is more credible and likeable.


  188. Bill Innanen says:

    I haven’t had a chance to read all of the comments about Limbaugh’s retraction of his apology (if he ever made one). I for one doubt that he ever apologized.

    I haven’t seen a comment from anyone with PD, so let me be the first. I don’t know the details of MJFox’s PD, and everyone with PD seems to have a unique suite of symptoms and drug side effects. MJF looks to me as a classic case. Enough Sinemet to prevent him becoming a statue is more than enough to cause dyskinesia, which is what the involuntary motions we see in MJF are called. He’s a good enough actor tom make them look somewhat purposeful – a really neat accomplishment.

    My problem is tremors, not “ON/OFF” stiffness or dysiniesias. I am fortunate enough to have had a very successful Deep Brain Stimulator implanted in the sub-thalamic nucleus of my brain. You can see here just how successful it has been. I hate to think of what Limbaugh’s assessment of my dieasee would be. but then I hate to think of Limbaugh, period!

    Bill


  189. unbelievable says:

    Comment by JasonManHandler — October 26, 2006 @ 9:42 am

    That post was hilarious! Mostly because it’s true…


  190. Suzanne says:

    The Cons don’t realize that life includes sick people. The decision about which life is more “important” is something that is a judgement call. And the American people have to come to a consensus……It is not up to any one group…
    For me, It comes down to suffering. Who suffers more, a blastocyst or a person walking around with Parkinsons? When NeoCons stand for blastocysts before people, they are protecting their ideas ( belief system) and ego….it has nothing to do with a concern for “life.” They dont’ know what they are talking about. And they don’t care. It is all ABOUT THEM. It’s just 2 dimensional to them. Real suffering demands a real time compassionate response. Someone protecting their petty little ego structure belief system…which is often divorced from the reality of real suffering with NeoCons, is a cowardly and cold way of living.


  191. Ryan says:

    So Rush, how does it feel to be a heartless DICK!!!


  192. Swordsbane says:

    #183, swordsbane,

    I have no problem with any stem cell research that doesn’t destroy embryos, which I, and millions of other people, recognize as a human life, requiring our care and protection.

    This implies that you won’t support any proceedure/research that destroys human embryo’s. Do you support invitro-fertilization? That proceedure destroys many more embryo’s than all the stem-cell research in the world has done.


  193. Suzanne says:

    The cowboy wannabees like Rush and the NeoCons in general think being heartless is cool Ryan ( #217). They think it is “tough” Didn’t you know? Their defense against their own pain and vulnerability is to mishandle the feelings of others so they can feel in control and safe. They get a kick out of causing the kind of emotional pain that THEY FEAR. Their reasoning is like this….if I can control and hurt others, I am powerful and most of all……..safe. Of course they are wrong and this is an illusion. Because what goes around comes around and they, on some level, fear this truth even more……….


  194. Jim Jones says:

    “It is what I have found to be true.”

    Jesus, it’s as if he hangs out with G. Bush on the weekends. It’s not what *is* true, just what he has found to be true.

    Jim
    http://www.runfatboy.net – Exercise for the rest of us.


  195. Squidbilly says:

    Well, Rush should know what it is like when someone stops taking drugs.


  196. Cato says:

    Embryonic stem cell research = Eating your young.

    Just ask Huxley, Are you an Alpha, Beta, or lunch?


  197. Jason+M.+Hendler says:

    I have absolutely zero integrity, honour, or decency…
    Comment by JasonManHandler — October 26, 2006 @ 9:42 am

    I’m Jason M. Handler, and I approve this message.


  198. RantingTommy says:

    Religion is the antithesis to accurate information.

    Belief in magic beings is a sign of insanity.


  199. Solitaire says:

    I’m glad the fool hasn’t apologized. Why let him weasle out of what he said? He wants to stand by it, fine! I wouldn’t dare to stop any rethug from making a fool of himself. This one is particularly well suited to the dunce hat routine. Dance, fool, dance for the people.


  200. appletree » Blog Archive » Rush Limbaugh Soils Himself Again says:

    [...] Rush Limbaugh will not withdraw his assertion that actor Michael J. Fox faked the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease while making an ad about stem cell research (see ad and criticism here). The actual claim that Limbaugh is reasserting is that “either Fox didn’t take his medication, or he’s acting, one of the two.” At no time has Limbaugh offered any evidence that Fox practiced any sort of deception in the ad. [...]


  201. John says:

    The Limbaugh medical opinion seems to be as worthless as his political, economic and moral opinions, and as worthless as the idea of his “standing by” anything.


  202. Steve Landis says:

    The man – if you are willing to classify him as a man – is a self absorbed, ego-centric, mindless pig. Perhaps, when we take back this nation, right-wing radio stations will fail, along side the Republican Party and this hack will be off the airwaves. Pig, I say!


  203. pete says:

    this man (?), is a lying sack of sh1t!


  204. nikolai says:

    Limppaw really blew it with this one; who says sh1tty things about someone with a dibilitating disease? This just illustrates that the man has
    no class, no brains, and is cruel at the very least. Why didn’t he say something like, “I don’t agree with his politics, but I hope he conquers this horrible disease”, or something to that effect? Didn’t he realize how he would come across? Like I said, he’s not very bright; just listen to his show; most of the time he is just grunting things like, “Err, ahh, eee, eyeee, arrrgggh, oh, geeze, duh, doh, etc, etc. The man is a real dense gasbag with not a lot to say, so he fills his air time mostly with insults, grunting, groaning, and unintelligible noise.


  205. R. Kemp says:

    Rush Limbaugh complaining about someone on medication…don’t make me laugh. This guy ought to know by now that a medication that only masks the symptoms of a disease is not a cure. If Fox goes off his medication to prove a point, it’s because he wants a cure not a life sentence of medical visits, hospital stays and pill popping…on the other hand, Limbaugh got caught popping pills and still hasn’t admited his own hypocrisy.


  206. Swordsbane says:

    I still haven’t heard any of the Rush supporters (Yeah, both of you) refute the point made here by several that even if Rush were telling the truth, and MJF was off his meds, Michael J Fox’s movements would have been REDUCED, not exaggerated. Because they WERE exaggerated, that means the medication is WORKING. It does not mean he’s not taking it. If he didn’t take his meds, he might not have been able to speak at all. That would have been a very effective ad.


  207. Parrotlover77 says:

    After my father was diagnosed and since has slowly deteriorated from Parkinson’s, I said that I would never wish this torturous disease on anyone. I take that back. I now wish it on Rush. Maybe facing something so devastating to your way of life and quality of living would make him finally realize what a jerk and a$$hole he is. Mr. Fox, by Parkinson’s standards, was barely twitching. Believe me, the disconesia (shaking and involuntary movements) can get much worse. Also, if Mr. Fox had not taken his medication, he would be putting himself through days of torture while his body adjusted when he went BACK ON his medication. I know of no Parkinson’s sufferer who would willingingly do that. Not to mention that the disconesia is a SIDE EFFECT of the medication, so likely he wouldn’t be able to move, talk, or do anything, had he NOT taken it, as Rush suggested. And lastly, Parkinson’s affects motor movement. It is next to impossible to “fake” your disconesia because your muscles don’t move the way you want to with Parkinson’s. It is simply impossible for Mr. Fox to do what Rush has claimed. End of story!


  208. Shannon says:

    Keep up the bad work, Rush, old fat buddy. In this world of such sadness and unrest, being able to listen to your pie hole open and close, with such intensity, and spew consistent gunk, well, laughter is the best medicine, right???


  209. rick says:

    So IF the DEMOCRATES are elected Fox will be Healed! WOW! GET OVER IT the Dems used Fox for a LAME ad to try to bash Bush and co.


  210. Opinionmill says:

    I went to Limbaugh’s website to see if I could find a quote of exactly what was said. Instead I found an audio file of Fox admitting to Diane Sawyer that he didn’t take his medication before testifying before public appearances, including congress.

    Fox is joining the dialogue with a digital Molotov cocktail (superstar status and an edited video on YouTube). Fox’s opinion is the fuel. The YouTube video is the container. An opposing viewpoint is the fire and anybody who challenges Fox’s (very much debatable) opinion gets burned. This Molotov cocktail is quite effective and a review of recent history should teach us that it isn’t the first one to be thrown.


  211. Swordsbane says:

    It all makes sense when you realize that Fox News is registered with the FCC as an ENTERTAINMENT network. It makes those law suits much easier when they can say “Hey… it’s all in good fun.”

    Personally, I’ll stick to getting my news from places like this and the Daily Show. The Daily Show is more accurate than Fox and much funnier.


  212. Swordsbane says:

    I went to Limbaugh’s website to see if I could find a quote of exactly what was said. Instead I found an audio file of Fox admitting to Diane Sawyer that he didn’t take his medication before testifying before public appearances, including congress.

    Fox is joining the dialogue with a digital Molotov cocktail (superstar status and an edited video on YouTube). Fox’s opinion is the fuel. The YouTube video is the container. An opposing viewpoint is the fire and anybody who challenges Fox’s (very much debatable) opinion gets burned. This Molotov cocktail is quite effective and a review of recent history should teach us that it isn’t the first one to be thrown.

    Comment by Opinionmill — October 26, 2006 @ 3:33 pm

    Once again….

    If he didn’t take his meds, it would have had the opposite effect that what Rush saw in the ad, ergo – Rush is mistaken and won’t admit it, or he’s lying and won’t apologize.

    I eat all sorts of things that are probably bad for my heart, so does that mean I can’t be in an ad promoting research for heart disease?

    Bit me!


  213. ANITAl says:

    I LOVE YOU, RUSH! All you liberal name callers, calling Rush FAT. Is that nice? Aren’t YOU offending so many overweight people? Making fun of half the population? Shame on you, name callers. It’s embarassing to read your comments, you foul liberals!


  214. Anita shapiro says:

    i have just read hundreds of references to Rush being overweight. Now, it’s not as bad as having Parkinson, but aren’t you liberals actually MAKING FUN of overweight people? How are overweight people supposed to feel about your comments? or should there be a warning. you hypocrites, and what about all the name calling? Personally, I adore Rush Limbaugh! So there! in your face! call ME names?


  215. sinbad says:

    Hey, Anita, I bet you’re a fat chick who looks Ben Franklin.


  216. Pellinore says:

    Rush said MJF “was not taking his medication….” I guess he speaks from somewhat of a position of authority. I mean, he was certainly on top of taking his…..


  217. gumbo76 says:

    As one who has a family member with MS, I find it more offensive than Limbaugh’s bilge when politicians exploit diseases to get votes. Especially with bogus claims about bogus research that has no potential such as embryonic stem cell research. This ad that Fox did does nothing but instill false hopes in people with illnesses.


  218. Patty Rosen says:

    Thanks to all of you who have called Rushie Boy on his sad act! You have said it all. Thank you, thank you, thank you. If we can do anything to help victims of Parkinsons through stem cell research, and yes, it takes years to perfect this research, let’s do it!!!!!


  219. Rush IsANazi says:

    Everyone watch this and have a good laugh at that fat pig slimeball nazi…

    http://www.ericblumrich.com/nazi.html


  220. Rush+IsANazi says:

    Everyone watch this video of the fat pig nazi:

    http://www.ericblumrich.com/nazi.html


  221. Rush IsANazi says:

    Have yourself a good hearty laugh with this video of the fat nazi pig:

    http://www.ericblumrich.com/nazi.html


  222. sinbad says:

    #246 Great vid! THe line, “From the bowels of Adolf Hitler” had me ROTFL… EXCELLENT!!!


  223. sinbad says:

    Rush DOES look a lot like Hermann Goering, doesn’t he?!



  224. BBQDad463 says:

    Strike One: Rush slammed unemployed steelworkers. The steelworkers were trying to get their unemployment benefits extended for six additional weeks. The steelworkers were trying to get the extension because the South Koreans had dumped steel below the cost of production in order to take away the American steel firm’s main contract.
    Strike Two: Rush said we should lock up those who violate drug laws and throw away the key. Where would that leave Rush?
    Strike Three: A pure, ad hominem attack on Michael J. Fox, an attack so full of lies one scarcely knows where to begin the refutation.
    Rush: You’re out!


  225. Richard+J.+Palmer says:

    This ignorant ass should be horse whipped in public, preferably before the White House along with a long line of liars starting with Bush and Cheney. His drop out mentality and ego, built up by the ignorant listeners of our country, has really run amok. He feels that he is so above the world, similar to Bush, that he can criticize anything and anyone. What is he but an asshole commenting on the daily news. These self-made blowhards abound in our country. He and the Fox News crew are all one big gas bag trying to keep the country in the hands of a dictator named Bush. I am not sure who is the most dangerous but dangerous they are. They are willing to cut of their noses to spite their faces on ego trips that have no end. This is the dross of society trying to run it and we are their victims. His sorry spectacle regarding Michael Fox can only cause repulsion in any truly compassionate person. Bush spoke of compassion in reference to the Republican party once. Where have we seen it? All I see is ambition and desire to win at any price. Win what? We now are in the hands of the Chinese and don’t even realize it. We should outsource Bush and Cheney.


  226. Pilgrim says:

    I think it’s funny how quick everybody is to attack Rush for attacking a poor diseased guy, when you all know that he is SORT OF RIGHT.
    We know from seeing Fox guest star occassionaly on various television programs that he can control his shakes and symptoms long enough to flim a short scene. He COULD Have done this int he political ad, but doing so was NOT ADVANTAGOUS to get his point accross, so he didnt. Of course he was “exaggerating,” or at least not controling his symptoms, to gain sympathy and effect. If he showed up steady handed and non shakey with no symptoms, how much sympathy and votes could the ad possibly grab? Not as many.

    Was rush a dick? Mabye. But he was right from a politcal marketing standpoint.

    He purposfully showed his symptoms for effect.
    Get over it.


  227. KJ says:

    EVERYONE seems to miss the fact that what Fox is supporting isnt even about stem cell research, its actually a bill about cloning….its just been givnen an extremely misleading name..if more people knew that then maybe Rush wouldnt get as a bad a rap…Fox is exploiting his illness over a lie


  228. Gordon says:

    I listened to every word Rush Limbaugh said about Michael J. Fox. Then I witnessed dozens of misquotes, out-of-context references, and distortons about what he had said in the media. MSNBC got it wrong, CNN got it wrong, even FOX NEWS got it wrong. In fact, none of the media I saw acurately quoted him.

    It isn’t hard to quote him accurately, the transcript of everything he ever said about Fox is right there on his website.

    Yesterday this came out on Scarborough Country on MSNBC: SCARBOROUGH: “He moved around for a couple of seconds, and as you and I have both said, we all screw up, we all make mistakes. This guy talks three hours a day. We made a mistake, and I’ll say it right here, we made a mistake when I was out in Las Vegas doing a show. We actually ran that on a loop for probably five, ten seconds making it look like he was doing it for a lot longer than he did and we weren’t alone, of course. When we came back and found out, we didn’t do it again.”

    So, there it is, the tape that all of you are holding up as the gospel truth about Rush and why he is the devil turns out to have been manufactured! It is no accident that a doctored tape of Rush ended up on all the media. First, it had to be deliberately doctored, then scooped up by the media without verification. Just like CBS and 60 minutes, (Remember DAN RAthER?), with the manufactured documents about Bush’s National Guard status. Somebody faked it and the media saw what they wanted to see and said, “We don’t like this guy and here’s something that shows he is a bad guy. It must be true. Run it.”

    Does this change even one of your conservative hating hearts? Probably not. You won’t verify what you hear if it is what you want to hear, you just slurp up this manufactured crap that gets fed to you by your precious liberal slanted media. When it comes time for the record to be corrected, the correction is heard one time by a fraction of the people for about 5 seconds and that is it. Nevermind the hours they spent trying to destroy the man.


  229. whocares says:

    Fox doesn’t care. Michael J Fox doesn’t care. Limbaugh doesn’t care, and neither do I. It seems that Rush is attempting to turn into a “shock jock” in his dotage. He’s probably been up all night watching Oliver Stone’s “Talk Radio”, and is attempting to be eloquently accostive, instead of simply ignorant, opinionated and offensive.

    Your days are numbered, Rush. People are turning you off in droves. You are turning THEM off in droves. And say what – is that Oxycontin quote accurate? If it is, why does this golden-miked dragon chaser have ANY more public credibility than any old drug fiend?

    Throwing stones, glass houses, yawn…


  230. family tie says:

    um, michael j. fox, doesn’t need publicity, and he woudn’t make a whole lie, especially on something important like the Parkinson disease. I think Limbaugh, just did this to cause reactions, and become more popular, about his quotes, and criticism. But, he could of chosen another subject, and not someone as admired to the world as Mr Fox, because then nobody, will take his comments seriously. He could of commented on a lighter subject-like celebrity gossip….also i bet mr limbaugh might feel a slight jealousy toward Mr Fox….
    what i don’t understand is, he is famous enough-does he need more?
    but, if i where in show bizz….i probably would have done something familiar to Limbaughs


  231. Paul says:

    The hell with all this mjf stuff. I thought Rushes comment “Watching the NFL is like watching the cripts and the bloods going at it without the weapons” was totally cool. Good Job Rush!!


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