Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo (Post 11163627)

Then you have a hate mongerer who attacks kids on the air.

Originally Posted by Splum (Post 11163657)

To what are you refering here?

Originally Posted by scardog (Post 11163587)

I don't think it was an act. Rush knows he has Parkinson's. Listen to the entire clip, and don't just cherry pick the "purely an act" part.

Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo (Post 11163733)

When Clinton was elected, he made personal attacks on their daughter. He also attacked the pages in the Mark Foley scandal.

Originally Posted by Splum (Post 11163761)

The only time I remember him saying anything about Chelsea Clinton was... He said on his TV show that the White House had a cat but did everyone know they had a dog too and then held up a picture of Chelsea, as far as the pages in the Mark Foley controversey they were over the age of 18 last time I read.

Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo (Post 11163812)

It sure takes an honorable man to insult a 12 year old girl like that on syndicated radio. The Foley controversy had kids that were under 18. They may be over now, but he said that when they were kids, they were at fault for allowing it to happen and making it a childish prank.

I can't believe you are defending Rush Limbaugh's character. We are talking about the war hawk who calls Democrats pussies but couldn't fight in the war because he had a cyst on his butt.

Originally Posted by Splum (Post 11163821)

She was 13. They were 18+.
Im not defending Rushs character just his statement that Michael J Fag was spazzing out on purpose.

Originally Posted by Splum (Post 11163821)

She was 13. They were 18+.
Im not defending Rushs character just his statement that Michael J Fag was spazzing out on purpose.

Originally Posted by SuckOnThis (Post 11152624)

The fat drug addicted lard ass knows no limits.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15408508/
Possibly worse than making fun of someone's disability is saying that it's imaginary. That is not to mock someone's body, but to challenge a person's guts, integrity, sanity.

To Rush Limbaugh on Monday, Michael J. Fox looked like a faker. The actor, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has done a series of political ads supporting candidates who favor stem cell research, including Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, who is running against Republican Michael Steele for the Senate seat being vacated by Paul Sarbanes.

"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

Limbaugh, whose syndicated radio program has a weekly audience of about 10 million, was reacting to Fox's appearance in another one of the spots, for Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill, running against Republican Sen. James M. Talent.

But the Cardin ad is similar. It is hard to watch, unless, for some reason, you don't believe it. As he speaks, Fox's restless torso weaves and writhes in a private dance. His head bobs from side to side, almost leaving the video frame.

"This is the only time I've ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has," Limbaugh said. "He can barely control himself."

'A shameless statement'
Later Monday, still on the air, Limbaugh would apologize, but reaction to his statements from Parkinson's experts and Fox's supporters was swift and angry.

"It's a shameless statement," John Rogers said yesterday. Rogers, Fox's political adviser, who also serves on the board of the Parkinson's Action Network, added: "It's insulting. It's appallingly sad, at best."

"Anyone who knows the disease well would regard his movement as classic severe Parkinson's disease," said Elaine Richman, a neuroscientist in Baltimore who co-wrote "Parkinson's Disease and the Family." "Any other interpretation is misinformed."

Fox was campaigning yesterday for Tammy Duckworth, a congressional candidate, outside Chicago, when he alluded to Limbaugh's remarks. "It's ironic, given some of the things that have been said in the last couple of days, that my pills are working really well right now," he said, according to a report on the CBS2 Web site.

After his apology, Limbaugh shifted his ground and renewed his attack on Fox.

"Now people are telling me they have seen Michael J. Fox in interviews and he does appear the same way in the interviews as he does in this commercial," Limbaugh said, according to a transcript on his Web site. "All right then, I stand corrected. . . . So I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox, if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act."

Then Limbaugh pivoted to a different critique: "Michael J. Fox is allowing his illness to be exploited and in the process is shilling for a Democratic politician."