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Oct. 24th, 2006 07:59 pmSt. Louis Post Dispatch Blog Zone
Rush: Fox is acting or off his meds
By Jake Wagman
10/23/2006 7:12 pm
Conservative radio pundit and Missouri native Rush Limbaugh has joined the chorus of those discussing the Claire McCaskill ad featuring Michael J. Fox talking about the importance of stem cell research.
Fox suffers from Parkinson’s disease. The ad, which has been playing during the World Series, showed the actor voicing his support for McCaskill, while giving viewers a poignant example of the involuntary movements associated with the neurological disorder.
Limbaugh told listeners today that he wasn’t sure what to make of the ad – or whether Fox was being sincere.
“He’s either off his medication or acting,” Limbaugh said. “He is an actor after all.”
Limbaugh went on to say that Parkinson’s is a “hideous” disease, but that the McCaskill campaign spot was “exploitative.”
A thanks for the info goes to the blog CrooksandLiars.com, which has an audio file of Limbaugh on its page here.
Years ago, before Bush & Co. made stem-cell research a political hotbutton to distract voters from asking about real issues, I saw Michael J. Fox on an interview with Charlie Rose. He couldn't keep still the entire time, his face was drawn and had aged well beyond the beloved actor we saw on "Spin City" just shortly before the taping, and he generally did not appear to be a well man. Whether this was with or without his medication - just as in the ad - is beyond the point of the illness of Parkinson's. (If you have dangerously-high blood pressure that's regulated by medication, it doesn't mean you can't still suffer an attack while ON the medication at some point, nor can you live your life without being chained to those pills.)
Of course, if anyone would know how someone off off drugs looks and acts, it'd be Limbaugh - anyone who's not in HIS mirror has a 50/50 chance of falling under that category.
Limbaugh, a fake journalist, is assuming he commands the same or more respect than Fox, a mere actor. But Fox has never pretended to be anything other than an actor and a sometime-activist (for several years, I might add, with his own fund-raising research foundation), and there are a hell of a lot more Americans - and Missourians, which is Limbaugh's (and my own) home state - who like and trust Fox, a native Canadian, than will admit the same feeling for Limbaugh.
Oh, and Rush? "Exploitive" by definition requires a measure of ignorance on the part of the person allegedly being exploited. Fox is not a 15-year-old kid - he is a 45-year-old businessman who has had his illness long enough to understand its effects on-camera, and I seriously doubt he was tricked into filming the ad for what is probably one of the most-chronicled Senate races in the country this year.
EDIT: The ad, so you can decide for yourself, is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WB_PXjTBo&eurl=
Rush: Fox is acting or off his meds
By Jake Wagman
10/23/2006 7:12 pm
Conservative radio pundit and Missouri native Rush Limbaugh has joined the chorus of those discussing the Claire McCaskill ad featuring Michael J. Fox talking about the importance of stem cell research.
Fox suffers from Parkinson’s disease. The ad, which has been playing during the World Series, showed the actor voicing his support for McCaskill, while giving viewers a poignant example of the involuntary movements associated with the neurological disorder.
Limbaugh told listeners today that he wasn’t sure what to make of the ad – or whether Fox was being sincere.
“He’s either off his medication or acting,” Limbaugh said. “He is an actor after all.”
Limbaugh went on to say that Parkinson’s is a “hideous” disease, but that the McCaskill campaign spot was “exploitative.”
A thanks for the info goes to the blog CrooksandLiars.com, which has an audio file of Limbaugh on its page here.
Years ago, before Bush & Co. made stem-cell research a political hotbutton to distract voters from asking about real issues, I saw Michael J. Fox on an interview with Charlie Rose. He couldn't keep still the entire time, his face was drawn and had aged well beyond the beloved actor we saw on "Spin City" just shortly before the taping, and he generally did not appear to be a well man. Whether this was with or without his medication - just as in the ad - is beyond the point of the illness of Parkinson's. (If you have dangerously-high blood pressure that's regulated by medication, it doesn't mean you can't still suffer an attack while ON the medication at some point, nor can you live your life without being chained to those pills.)
Of course, if anyone would know how someone off off drugs looks and acts, it'd be Limbaugh - anyone who's not in HIS mirror has a 50/50 chance of falling under that category.
Limbaugh, a fake journalist, is assuming he commands the same or more respect than Fox, a mere actor. But Fox has never pretended to be anything other than an actor and a sometime-activist (for several years, I might add, with his own fund-raising research foundation), and there are a hell of a lot more Americans - and Missourians, which is Limbaugh's (and my own) home state - who like and trust Fox, a native Canadian, than will admit the same feeling for Limbaugh.
Oh, and Rush? "Exploitive" by definition requires a measure of ignorance on the part of the person allegedly being exploited. Fox is not a 15-year-old kid - he is a 45-year-old businessman who has had his illness long enough to understand its effects on-camera, and I seriously doubt he was tricked into filming the ad for what is probably one of the most-chronicled Senate races in the country this year.
EDIT: The ad, so you can decide for yourself, is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WB_PXjTBo&eurl=
