On Monday Rush Limbaugh suggested that Michael J. Fox deliberately went off his medication to exaggerate his Parkinson’s symptoms in a campaign ad for Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill in which he called for stem-cell research. On his syndicated show Limbaugh said:
“I think this is exploitative in a way that’s unbecoming of either Claire McCaskill or Michael J. Fox.”
Although yesterday on his website he backed away from his accusation, saying:
“All I’m saying is I’ve never seen him the way he appears in this commercial for Claire McCaskill. 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, especially since people are telling me they have seen him this way on other interviews and in other television appearances.”
And then he drove down to the local hospital and yelled at a bunch of patients for being liars. That guy with cerebral palsy who keeps twitching? Liar! That guy who got shot three times in the stomach who keeps bleeding? Liar! They’re all liars. And there’s only one man brave enough to stand up for truth and justice and all that is right: Batman! But he was off fighting a giant mechanical spider or something so they called in Rush Limbaugh.
Rush, youre a fucking cunt.
You can fuck with a lot of things, but when you fuck with Marty McFly you cross the line. Damn you Rush Limbaugh.
Wow Rush…just cuz you can’t pop your pills anymore, doesn’t mean you gotta take it out on people who actually need ‘em…you fat cunt.
I think Rush exaggerated his drug addition.
Fucking-douchebag-conservative-fat-fuck.
I was hoping that the video was going to be Alex P. Keaton explaining how a bill grows up to become a law.
Thanks Superfish… I didn’t know I signed into http://www.obvious.fuckingcom.
Right or wrong it
Wow! Considering Fox has admitted to going off his pills to show his disease in front of congress would you say that was ok then? I think Fox is the A-hole, just because he has a disease does not make him and his views the correct ones. I feel bad for him sure, but that doesn’t make him being the “poster boy” so nobody will disagree witha a handicap person ok.
Thanks for that insightful news flash.
Also in the headlines:
The Earth is round.
Grass is green.
Fire is hot.
TCLTC.
Pinky – your hyphens are sexy as hell.
“Americans like me”…..
I thought he was Canadian?
*confused*
Rush Limbaugh hates gay people, people with diseases and black people. And kittens. And David Banda.
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Rush, calm down, stay OFF the “medication”, and find some other ways to get high ratings, okay?
I mean, what next? Tell blind people that they need to “learn how to see” or something?!…
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i hope rush dies, soon. very very soon. oh and painfully too. that would be cool :)
Fox has admitted to going of his meds to flop and twitch to dramatize his message.
Plus the whole ad is total Bullshit anyway. Read the actual law and what it will and will not do and you’ll find out how gay the whole thing is.
RUSH FOR LIFE!!!
@9: I did that just for you Ferret. *wink-wink*
@ 7,8 you don’t accuse someone of ‘going off their meds’, period. It would take a couple of dittoheads to completely miss the point like that. Also, what Fox is doing is putting a human face to the people that people like Jim Talent are hurting. If it seems wrong not to support this research at NO COST OF HUMAN LIFE by using embryos scheduled to be destroyed by IVF clinics, then that’s an issue you’ll have to take up with your own conscience. If it’s ok with you to let handicapped people die, then so be it, I bet you like kicking puppies too, douchebags.
@#16, applause…
Fuck Rush.
http://www.scandalsnappers.com
So what if he went off his meds. Do you diss cancer boy for not wearing his wig after his hair falls out?
Anyway I’m with the Republins on stem cell research. Whats with that crap eh? I think we need to take it a step further. No medical assisstance at all. Let jesus save you. In fact, I think it would be a cope out to go to the hospital at all. Praying should be the only thing that saves you.
I’m praying really really hard that all you that oppose this resarch get Parkinson’s. It’ll be funny to watch you do the worm vertically while you pray to be healed.
Jesus Saves!
I like Michael J. Fox, he makes a great martini………
Rush is a guy of many depths – to which he regularly stoops. This is a new one even for him, though.
Mega-dittos, Rush!
First time, long time here from Shitlandia, IA. If you say it, I believe it and that’s that. I don’t believe that you are a lying, self-serving hypocrite for one second.
Nope, not for one second. God bless!
well said 21!
If I have bronchitis and go to the doctor hoping they will give me something to treat it, I don’t take a bunch of DayQuil before going in, I want them to see that I really am sick and need help. Same principle. Meds only cover up the symptoms, they don’t cure anything. Also, someone I am close to has recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and so I’ve read a bit about the meds for it and they don’t sound too great. They need to find a real cure instead of just throwing drugs at people, for that and many other illnesses. End of rant.
Do your own research. Liberals can win when they misrepresent conservative positions. Go to http://www.rushlimbaugh.com to read the entire transcript of what Rush has said. AND he hasn’t backed off what he initially said.
Wonder if the Repugs ever consider that God gave people the intelligence to discover stem cell research. That otherwise Repugs would be even more stupid than they already are.
Funny, Michael J. Cox didn’t act like he’d just gotten off a Tilt-a-Whirl when he did Boston Legal. Regardless of what you think of Limbaugh, or even your political stance or views on stem cell research, exaggerating the illness to sway the vote is pathetic. And he’s never become a US citizen, so the whole “my fellow Americans” bullshit is disingenuous. Let’s see them take this to another level. Watch them trot out dead celebs in a CGI-enhanced campaign to rail against other causes. James Dean against speeding. William Holden against alcoholism. Kurt Cobain against suicide. Michael Hutchence against jacking-off while hanging yourself with a bedsheet.
RLLTC
#24 – This isn’t about Dem vs. Rep – this is about a grotesque PIGMAN attacking MJ Fox for having a disease.
Rush – Go back to the Dominican Republic and pay for more hookers, you sick bastard.
18, go back to your shanty hole and die.
Fox going off his meds so people feel sorry for him and feel motivated by guilt to support him and whatever his cause is, is like when charity groups roll out the people in wheelchairs to collect money from you outside of the supermarket. I hate that. So I usually just grab their wheelchairs and push them into the street. Good times.
Rush the Doctor Shopper is a fucking needle dicked dweeb? I actually have no idea how big his cock is, only that his nuts are so fucking huge his dick must look like an eyelash in comparison. This glass house living in motherfucker sure knows how to weild a slingshot and a bag full of fucking rocks…
Word, #23
Fox has admitted going off his meds for effect, like when he was in front of Congress in ’99. The ad is ridiculous because he and his other pro-stem-cell friends like Christopher Reeve act like all we have to do is put a few stem cells in a test tube and we’ll have a cure for everything. And now the media is acting like you can’t criticize anything that comes from the mouth of someone who has had something unfortunate happen to them, just like they did with Cindy Sheehan. Apparently once a person gets parkinsons, he gets to single-handedly determine US policy on stem cell research, or once a mother loses a son, she then gets put in charge of US foreign policy (despite the fact that the vast majority of gold star mothers, if polled, would be in favor of the war).
And I’m actually in favor of stem-cell research!
Ok folks… from what I have been reading, a parkinson’s victim who goes “off meds” would probably NOT be jerking around spastically like MJ Fox was in the ad. The medication allows victims to control themselves enough to speak, but also causes the spastic bodily movements.
Going off meds would probably lead to him being more stiff and unable to speak well.
On Boston Legal, production was scheduled around MJ Fox’s ability to control himself for short periods of time. So, the worst thing you idiots out there can say about him is that he didn’t try to hide the effects of the disease while filming the political ads… and why should he?
@26…You’ve never taken some meds to get through your work day? But still been very sick? He’s just showing the reality of the illness and not covering it up, there’s nothing dishonest in that, quite the opposite. And comparing with all those others who died from self destructive behaviors…that’s just idiotic.
Being a practicing buddhist and voting republican in these last 2 elections (yet for research), why is it that the “repugs” must all be jesus lovin fools? I don’t assume all you dems are huggin a tree. I really wish regardless of your political opinioin people would not assume that one is the extreme stereo type that has been unfortunate branding on this wonderful country.
#23 – Excellent. That would be like getting an STD and putting on a condom before visiting the doctor. Or advocating war using drug addict radio show hosts who are completely full of shit and on the payroll, only to later hold press conferences saying the exact same thing your detractors said, claiming that because YOU said it, it’s now true. Oh shit, off topic… my bad.
Isn’t Fatso an Rx drug addict? ah–who fucking cares.
Wait, isn’t this the same guy that was hooked on pain pills?
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@19, fuck you Stallion…. why didn’t I think of that? “shaken, not stirred”.
I just bought a gallon of paint, perhaps Michael J. Fox can mix it for me?
OK 33…
The VAST majority of gold star mothers, if polled, would be in favor of the war?
Please cite your source on that one or STFU.
@40 With all the bullshit people are talking about, I didn’t think anyone got it…….
P.S. Maybe he can get a job at Home Depot shaking paint……..
They used to put colicky babies in their car seats and place them on top of washer machines while the machine was on the spin cycle…..maybe Michael J. can have a return/follow-up show to “Spin City” and call it “Spin Cycle” where he puts colicky babies to sleep?
Just the other day someone said they saw Michael J. Fox jerking off in a public restroom when all the poor guy was doing was taking a piss………
LOL @44! You people are so bad, that’s why I love this site. :)
29 – I can only imagine where a Slap Jaw Yockle like urself live to be offended by what I said.
Are you praying to the Lord for my shanty town death?
Well… I’m still here and it only means one thing.
Jesus hates you!
Paris Hilton has inquired to Michael J. Fox’s agent, that since he can longer act in that condition, could he possibly crawl into her vagina and be her vibrator. True story. He’d fit too, becuase you know, he’s little and her pussy is huge.
Aw, hell. All MJ gotta do is buy Rush Limbaugh 4 times over and rename him something like “Dirt McGirt” or “Pink Taco”, with the quotation marks included in the name.
@10 He’s a Canadian-born American. Duel citizenship.
Hey #26: Of course he never looked like that on Boston Legal…ever heard of EDITING? Larry King said the other day that he’s a lot worse than you know and that his scenes are shot and reshot until he gets it right.
Show a little compassion and stop turning this into a lib vs. rightie thing. To be honest, this country is in a mess not because of libbies but because of scumbags like Limbaugh who parrot the party line and refuse to look deeper at what’s wrong. Easy to blame the libbie, eh?
Also: Even Republicans are condemning this scumbag, Limbaugh for making such obscene comments. So what? So he made a commercial for a libbie? You guys had no problem making Terri Schiavo a big deal and using her parents for political gain.
Both sides are scumbags because their business is to get elected and serve their elitist masters. America would be better off to start electing 3rd parties to challenge these jerks power.
At the end of the day, I agree with good republicans. Leave Michael J Fox alone and stop opposing Stem Cell Research because a SMALL percentage of core GOP voters want it banned.