rush limbaugh is a fucking douchebag

as if you didn't know already....

limbaugh's latest bout with foot-in-mouth disease occurred today when he accused alex p. keaton of fakin' it.  i'm sure most of you know that 80's icon michael j. fox has parkinson disease.  and you probably heard he recently filmed a series of commercials supporting political candidates that back stem cell research.  that is - not republicans.  and nuclear surgeon rush limbaugh, in a particularly inspired bit of douchebaggery, accused fox of playing up his symptoms in the commercial.  well i obviously can't vouch for fox's condition personally, but my grandma had parkinson disease, and what i saw seems - unfortunately - plausible for a more severe case.  this video of muhammad ali (who is almost as cool as my grandma) is commensurate with what i have seen first-hand.  and even this almost makes me cry.

it's times like this that i hope people like rush limbaugh actually believe in the conservative/christian concept of hell (though i highly doubt that's true), because i relish the thought of him burning in it.

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Emma Peel
Come Nov. 8, the enemies list is going to come in handy. I call for Rush's head on a pike. Viva la revolution.
hotrod
sadly, emma, rush isn't anywhere near the top of my list, as we can't vote him off the radio.

when the revolution comes, first against my particular wall is rick santorum. then bob taft. then we'll.... improvise.
Vanna
They are both SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO going down. And so is Mike DeWine. And since you will be in P-burgh just post-election, I say we have a grand ol' celebration and plot the improvisation.
hotrod
i'm all for that. lynn swann isn't gonna win is he?
Vanna
No way, Jose. The man's campaign never was. And I hate to say it, but even it he had run a campaign, the blatant racism of the so-called T of Pennsylvania (all the counties across the north and in the center) would never stand for that.
Cap'n Crook
Hot Rod: Read this loud and clear. If ex-Philadelphia Eagle Mike Quick (who had no previous political experience) suddenly threw his name into the gubernatorial ballot of Pennsylvania, running on the Republican ticket, vs. some Democrat from Pittsburgh, I would vote for the Pittsburgh guy in every single matchup.

Pardon the pun...but Lynn Swann will take a dive come election day. Ed Rendell has this thing locked up. I'm more worried about Bob Casey Jr. vs. Satan, given the the Pennsylvanian:Pennsyltuckian ratio here (most live closer to Pittsburgh than Philadelphia...naturally).
hotrod
i wish there was a way i could vote santorum out of my commonwealth. pennsylvania's gain is virginia's loss.
Doc Paradox
Your remarks are an insult to fucking douchebags everywhere, Sir!
CalaVerde
This is absolutely infuriating. I worked with Parkinsons patients for over 5 years, some as young as 35. The symptoms can be devastating no matter the age or the duration of illness. How DARE he. What a raging BASTARD!
Eric
Well I know what I am about to say will not be well received here but I am going to say it anyway.

Rush did not accuse Michael J. Fox of faking it. What he said was that in the commercial he could have been either acting or he was off his meds. It was a speculation that he made because of what he explained as two reasons. One, he had never seen Michael Fox that way in public before and two, Michael Fox has admitted to going off his meds when trying to make a point, as he did before the congressional hearings. Rush went on to say that he could understand why Mr. Fox would do that and had no problem with it.

Rush’s real complaint was on the ballot initiative which would make cloning legal under the Missouri constitution and therefore Michael J. Fox’s claims were misleading. I pointed that out in my post here.
hotrod
"Now, this is Michael J. Fox. He's got Parkinson's disease. And in this commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving all around and shaking. And it's purely an act."

- Rush Limbaugh, October 23, 2006
Eric
You are taking one sentence out of a probably 10 minutes or more of speaking. Rush was not saying anything that was intended to attack Michael J. Fox personally but actually spent most of the time talking about the content of what Mr. Fox said. Which I think is important to point out the Mr. Fox was being deceptive in the commercial. Now I do not know if he was doing it knowingly or unknowingly, I would hope unknowingly but even if that is the case it does not bode well Mr. Fox.

"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease, 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."
Rush also said:

“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.”
None of what he said was disrespectful and the bulk of his comments were directed at the content and not Mr. Fox. If you are going to enter the arena of politics you have to b ready to have your ideas challenged, if you are not then you should probably refrain from entering the debate. It is absurd to think that because of Mr. Fox’s disease that he can speak with impunity, especially if he says misleading or untrue statements.
hotrod
"Now, this is Michael J. Fox. He's got Parkinson's disease. And in this commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving all around and shaking. And it's purely an act."

- Rush Limbaugh, October 23, 2006
Eric
maybe people can find some truth here. Yes I know you will probably delete this comment just like you did my last two.
esckey
There is no issue with Mr. Fox acting or not. The fact is Mr. Fox is representing the many people that are dealing with this disease. Mr. Limbaugh has no point but to create exposure for himself. Insubstantial arguments are profitable!
hotrod
hey, thanks for the shout out, eric. but you forgot to mention the part about my grandma, and how she had parkinson disease and couldn't control her tremors, and that that's why i find rush's comments especially offensive. i'm sure you'll clear that up, though, given your unswerving dedication to the truth.
Eric
Let them read it for themselves, I linked to you, so they can read that and the rest of your well articulated comments on how Rush is a “douchebag” and how you “relish the thought of him burning in [hell]”.

Besides, I tried to have a conversation with here but you kept deleting my comments.

As for Esckey’s point, you are right about their being no issue with Mr. Fox acting out. Even Rush went on to say that he can understand why Mr. Fox would want to have the symptoms so pronounced to make a point. Rush even agreed with the tactic, so you and Rush agree, there is no issue with it.

Here is the problem. Mr. Fox has Parkinson’s so does that mean that he can say whatever he wants even if it is untrue and nobody can question it? He claimed that Rep Cardin supports Stem cell research which the voting record shows that he does not. He made the claim that the Republicans are against stem cell research, again untrue. He claimed that embryonic Stem Cells are the most promising, and again untrue.

So Rush spends 30 minutes talking about this commercial and you and the media spend all your time on one comment that he made. If you look at or listen to his actual comments I think you can see that he was not being disrespectful.

So lest there be any misunderstanding, we talked about a half hour ago of the commercial that's running for Claire McCaskill featuring Michael J. Fox on what appears to be when he's off his meds. I have never seen him this way and I stated when I was commenting to you about it that he was either off his medication or acting. He is an actor after all, and started hearing from people, "Oh, no, I've seen him on TV this way, this is how the disease has affected him when he's not on his medications." Then the e-mails started coming in saying he's admitted not to taking them in certain circumstances so as to illustrate how the disease affects people. All of which I understand, and I'm not even critical of that. Parkinson's disease is hideous.
- Rush Limbaugh, October 23, 2006
[emphasis added by me]

Mr Fox responded Thursday:

The symptoms that I had in the ad that I did, that's called dyskinesia, and that's actually from too much medication.
Rush made the following statement:

Okay, I need to apologize, I was wrong because I speculated either he didn't take his medication or he was acting. I never said the word faking. Now, if you people on the left want to equate acting with faking, I mean, go ahead, George Clooney would be a faker, all your favorite actors, we'll call them fakers. I never used the word. But I was wrong. He did take his medications. Now he took too much medication.
The point is, he did something differently to appear in this ad than when he appears on Boston Legal. And that was my first human reaction.

Vanna
I find it hard to imagine, Eric, why Rush needs you as his personal bodyguard.

I am also curious why you keep insisting that your comments were deleted. If only they were.

I also especially love this description of yourself:
I am a dumb genius. I am a guy that talks too much, if you do not believe me just ask and I will tell you all about it. I was born and raised in Texas which is a blessing (would hate to be a Yankee). I am a Conservative, I think most Liberals are ignorant and the one who re not ignorant are stupid. Peace!


Eric
Not sure what gave you the idea that I was Rush’s bodyguard.

Bodyguard: a person or group of persons employed to guard an individual, as a high official, from bodily harm.
Are you insinuating that hotrod wants to do bodily harm to Rush and I am somehow preventing that from happening?

Why do I keep insisting that my comments were deleted? Because my comments were deleted, twice. The reason that you do not see them is because they were deleted. Funny how that works. Since they were deleted I created my own post and then added the comments that you see now and for whatever reason hotrod has decided to let them stay. Maybe he feels secure now that you have come to be his “bodyguard” as you put it.

Thanks for pointing out my typo in my profile, I corrected it. If it upsets you then I am sorry, actually I am not really sorry. Lighten up, I posted that and forgot all about it when I setup my account. Now that you brought it to my attention maybe I will update it to be more accurate but at the time I was not sure I would even use Vox so I was just putting something. But out of curiosity what does it have to do with this thread?

All I am doing is pointing out something that hotrod and I obviously have different points of view on, it is a discussion. Just as I see things my way hotrod sees them his way and by discussing the issue maybe we will both end up with a better understanding of each others point of view. In other words, hopefully hotrod will come to realize that I am right. (another joke, lighten up and do not get all bent out of shape)


hotrod
are you sure you posted the comments in question? i don't remember deleting anything.
hotrod
ha ha! just kidding! i deleted 'em. i can be quite the jokester too.
riceroni
I agree! Rush LIMPbaugh is a doucebag of the lowest order. I don't know who's more fucktarded. Him or his listeners.

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