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10-24-2006, 09:05 AM | #2 | ||
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But he does "get it". He knows exactly what he is saying and why he is saying it.
This makes me even more grateful for MJF and the work he does on our behalf. |
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10-24-2006, 09:12 AM | #3 | ||
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yeah you are right. Well the media has it now I just saw it on cable news.
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10-24-2006, 09:17 AM | #4 | ||
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Limbaugh and his cronies must be worried that the ad is helping this candidate. Why else launch a vicious, politically motivated attack such as this?
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10-24-2006, 09:35 AM | #5 | |||
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Sounds like an apology wrapped up in an insult
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10-24-2006, 10:08 AM | #6 | |||
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Perfect description, Steve!
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10-24-2006, 11:01 AM | #7 | ||
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10-24-2006, 11:40 AM | #8 | |||
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I see nothing wrong with exploiting one's own illness for a good cause - including a political cause.
M.J.F is not exploiting his and our illness by his appearances, but if he did exploit it, he would be perfectly justified. Exploiting children, the aged, the ill is wrong, but exploitng the nasty illness that is crippling yourself is perfectly acceptable. It is one of the very few ways in which having the illness can be used to the advantage of its sufferers. birte |
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10-24-2006, 11:57 AM | #9 | ||
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BIrte I completely agree and just sent another email:
Mr. Limbaugh, By explaining your apology as coming from "people who have seen him like that" is completely skirting the actual truth. 1. As stated in a previous email, what you see in those PSAs are medication side effects - not being off meds. 2. If he were off meds, whch he has admitted to doing way back when he was far less along in this progressive disease, he would be mask -faced, wouldn't be able to walk unassisted, completely rigid and cramped, speech would be affected...this is what Parkinson's looks like when OFF meds. Intermittent VIOLENT tremors would accompany. Here the problem is inability to move. 3. What you are seeing in the ads is Dyskinesia - which is a medication side effect almost as debilitating as the illness. Here the problem is excessive movement. 4. You are confusing showing an example of an illness and a genuine right to express support for candidates who can help his cause [isn't that what we do in America?} with exploitation of the illness. Your apology needs to acknowledge that Michael was on his med. And please stop using the word "pitiable". |
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10-24-2006, 01:01 PM | #10 | |||
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Mr. Limbaugh,
You have no idea at all what you are saying when you speak of Michael J. Fox exploiting his Parkinson's Disease by appearing before Congress and on television unmedicated. If Mr. Fox really were to do as you say, he would be unable to sit in a chair, unable to speak, all but unable to move voluntarily at all. Parkinson's Disease is a progressive, incurable PARALYSIS. At Mr. Fox's stage of the illness it is not just arms and legs that are affected, the heart, the circulation the whole system suffers, and it is dangerous not to take the medicine on a regular schedule. The constant movement you witness when Mr. Fox is on television is CAUSED by the medication not by the illness. The medicine available to us today allows us to move for a number of years longer than we would be able to without it. But the movement comes with a cost, because one of the medicine's side effects is dyskinesia, which means UNCONTROLLABLE MOVEMENT. So eat your sanctimonious outrage and apologize to Mr. Fox and to all of us who know first hand how Mr. Fox feels when he rocks and flails. He is a brave man, a good man, a far better man than you. B. Myers 10 years of Parkinson's Disease and still hoping for a cure. Rush is a slippery one, Paula, I heard him once give a raspberry to someone whose argument was so brilliant that Rush was lost for a counter argument. And he managed to make the raspberry derisive, as if the argument had not been worthy if an answer. |
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