Tells listeners Michael J. Fox, actor and Parkinson's victim is pretending to be shaky to get support for stem cell research.
Has he been lower?
2006-10-24 09:48:00 · 17 answers · asked by Red Herring 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners today, encouraging them to go online to watch Fox's commercial, which first aired Oct. 21 in St. Louis during a World Series game. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act."
2006-10-24 09:54:24 · update #1
Rush Limbaugh will go to any extreme to make his views to the narrow minded public that listens to him. Thissam person who said drug dealers need to be in prison but this duggie found way to avoid going to prison.
This typical of right wing Republican Radio to attack the person and not deal with the issues.
2006-10-24 10:57:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rush Limbaugh is a character. It is a schtick. Like Hannity, Coulter, Drudge. They know that right-wing ideologues like to ridicule those with which they don't agree. They take things out of context to create something that doesn't exist then go on to attack that which was never espoused. I call this tactic "mis-characterize and attack". This tactic has grown so much in popularity for the Repub propaganda machine that there is actually a mini-Limbaugh in almost every city in America with no Liberal or Democratic equivalent.
Whereas Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, and Drudge are characters and don't believe most of what they say (because they are well aware that it is a mis-characterization), they are still conservative. The difference between them and a guy like Mike Savage is that he actually believes everything he says, as crazy as some of it sounds.
Examples:
Liberals blame America first
Liberals hate America
Liberals want to protect the terrorists
Liberals are just waiting for the next free bus to next free meal
Liberals think government should tell you what to do
and many, many more. None of these are true, but get repeated so often by these guys they have become factoids. Right-wing ideologues just don't know they are being duped because they are being told what they want to hear.
2006-10-24 17:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by Believe in Possibilities 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When Limp-blimp had to leave Sacramento, CA where he started out running down working class Americans and minorities in the unfashionable parts of town, I hoped he was done for. But he floated to the surface again even with the morals charge and all.
An in depth study of people who are his fans and people who can't stand him showed marked differences in brain function between the two groups.
Based on that study, the brains of doughdoughheads (is that what they call themselves? something like that?) should make good source material for stem-cell research.
2006-10-25 22:52:03 · answer #3 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I listened to that broadcast and he did not say that. He said that Michael stopped taking his medication to show the effect of Parkinson's. His point was not a slam at Michael, it was the blatant lie that the supporters of stem cell research are making. If you would have listened further you would have heard about the research that has found the virus that causes the disease and will soon be studied further. I can not believe people only hear what they want.
2006-10-24 16:58:41 · answer #4 · answered by loser 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Michael J. Fox Foundation
http://www.michaeljfox.org/
..speak with your wallet.
2006-10-25 13:36:42 · answer #5 · answered by $Sun King$ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I happen to have heard what Limbaugh said, and you're misrepresenting him.
What he SAID was that when MJF appeared to shake on the misleading-for-other-reasons political ads, that he was of the opinion that he was either acting, or he was deliberately off his meds. He went on to say he didn't believe he was acting, and pointed out that MJF has deliberately gone off his meds at other times to demonstrate the effects of his disease if untreated, and what it will become even despite treatment.
He was not making light of the condition, nor even saying that going off the meds so he could shake in a commercial was even deceptive.
What he was saying is that the commercial portrayed one candidate as being totally opposed to research for a cure, and the other as a guarantee of a cure. Not having heard the commercial, I don't know if that's a fair statement, but if it's true, it's every bit as dishonest as rigging the Diebold machines.
2006-10-24 16:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by open4one 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The fact that Limbaugh would bring up the subject at all shows just what a low class pig he is. What exactly was his (Limbaugh's) point?
2006-10-24 17:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Every time Limbaugh opens his yap, he not only reveals his astonishing ignorance but also plumbs depths never attempted by ordinary imbeciles.
The man is a disgrace to humanity.
2006-10-24 17:00:41 · answer #8 · answered by marianddoc 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Um... Why are u named Shiraz?
MAn! There are more than 7 of them!
Btw, Fox HAS Parkinson's disease.
2006-10-24 16:50:05 · answer #9 · answered by "I Want to Know Your Answer 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He goes lower everytime he opens his mouth. He is a liar and should be chased off the air.
2006-10-24 17:13:32 · answer #10 · answered by Diggs 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋