Wednesday, October 25, 2006
On Michael J. Fox
Rush Limbaugh is taking heat for suggesting that Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, was off his meds when he filmed television spots for various Senate Democrats who support federally-funded stem-cell research. On CNN this morning, reporter John Fox called Limbaugh's comment a "new low." John Fox and others who're currently trashing Limbaugh should check out this interesting post. A sample:
It is on the surface a cynical and mean question. Would he really do something as exploitive like stop taking his meds to appear more symptomatic and therefore sympathetic?
Sadly, yes ... or at least he has in the past This from his own Web site:
"I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling."
So yes, Fox has done that, and may have this time as well.
It is on the surface a cynical and mean question. Would he really do something as exploitive like stop taking his meds to appear more symptomatic and therefore sympathetic?
Sadly, yes ... or at least he has in the past This from his own Web site:
"I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling."
So yes, Fox has done that, and may have this time as well.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 
