rush limbaugh says michael j. fox is being "used" by democrats

After nearly a decade of being proven wrong and hypocritcal at nearly every important juncture, does anybody still take this guy seriously anymore?

What an utter failure of a human being.

 

from oxycontin to ecstasy

 

^^^^^^

 

I listen to him sometimes in the car, because I want to know where some of the folks on the right are getting their talking points. The guy used to be pretty funny on a regular basis. Really. Now he's not. I don't know if it's the lack of drugs, or that he's just burned out, but he isn't nearly what he was, in my opinion.



Keep D&D Civil.

 

The odd part is, he had a point, but misspoke it, and now all he can do is apologize.

While Michael J. Fox takes medications at all times, the episodes he was displaying come sporadically. The fact that the people who filmed it chose to show him speaking while he was going through his spasms was a tad off base, IMO.

Anyone who watched him in Spin City, or even Boston Legal last year, should be fully aware that he isn't like that at all times.

 

It's just that there's nothing new. It's the same talking points drug up for a new situation. If you were hearing Rush's rant for the first time about a subject, you'd still think it was funny. But since you've heard the same bits about a different situation some time ago, it's not funny.

 

What's the point though? It's not like he or the crew have time to just wait for him to be having a good day. It is a political ad, so time is important, they needed to get it done and get it out there. Where were these complaints in 2004 when he did an ad for Spectre?

Again, what was Rush's valid point? He said Fox was either acting or off his meds. Well it's a FACT that he meds are what cause the spasms and why would he need to exagerate what he's going through? He gave a speech in Jersey and looked fine and then on Couric, he looked much worse than that commercial.

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"the thing about being symptomatic is it's not comfortable. Nobody wants to be symptomatic, it's like wanting to hit yourself with a hammer. You want at all times to be as comfortable as you can be."

As for tv shows, well they have time to film and work around him. Plus they can edit scenes that maybe didn't turn out so well originally and have him redo his lines when he's better since they film months in advance.

The thing that gets me is that this is a political ad, there is fair game, which is the message, yet starting with Rush, the didiots, his media pals (Hannity, Fox and Friends), and others are all going after Michael J. Fox and accusing him of faking his own illness. I'm just at a loss for words.

 

Don't get me wrong. Michael J. Fox has always been one of my favorite actors. Two things about that interview:

1: He stated that both during the ad, and during that interview that he was overly medicated. While that may be fine during a morning interview where time was obviously a factor, unless they wanted to tape it, it seems staged for a political ad. Don't tell me they couldn't have waited a couple hours to do the ad. That's extremely naive.

2: I truly wish what he were saying about stem-cell research were true. I think 90% of Americans would be for it. Unfortunately, the problems that most people have are harvesting stem-cells, such as creating life simply to destroy it. The idea of low-income families selling their fetus for a profit sickens a lot of people. If you limit stem-cell research to abortions, and unused invitro fertilizations, I think people may be OK with it. But then realize that invitro fertilizations are used to create life. Not create it, and then take it away.

 

The legislation in congress would allow for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research on fetuses that would otherwise be discarded from fertility clinics. I think doing research on aborted fetuses would have significant ethics issues and that the current stance by Congress is perfectly acceptable. It would fund research on embryos that would otherwise be destroyed. No new life would have to be created

 

I'd like to see specifically what it states. I've heard too much about harvesting not being specifically outlawed. If the legislation specifically outlaws harvesting, I'd be fine with it.

 

here's the text of the bill. It's pretty specific regarding how the embryos must be obtained.

http://www.house.gov/castle/Castle-DeGette-Specter-Harkin.pdf

 

My father has Parkinson's. All I can say about Rush Limbaugh after having seen this is that I have absolutely no respect for him.

 

Wow, sorry to hear that about your father. Hope everything is ok on that front.

 

Just to make it clear no one is talking about selling fetuses. For one at the fetal stage of development the cells are differentiated to the point of no longer being stem cells that can become other kinds of cells. Two have someone sell their fetus that would require removing it from the womb since to reach fetus stage the embryo would have to be implanted. I'm not an expert but my understanding is that stem cells wouldn't be collected from abortions. The sources for stem cells would come from the extra embryos created from invitro fertilization, many of which are discarded anyway.