Rush on a Fox Hunt
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking Parkinson's symptoms during political endorsement television ads in order to drum up sympathy for his pro-stem cell research candidates.
Fox has an advanced case of Parkinsons and has been actively supporting stem cell research. When confronted with evidence that Fox was not faking, Limbaugh said:
"Now people are telling me they have seen Michael J. Fox in interviews and he does appear the same way in the interviews as he does in this commercial," Limbaugh said, according to a transcript on his Web site. "All right then, I stand corrected. . . . 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.
Aren't we done with attack politics yet? No matter who wins the election next month, I hope that a new day of civility will dawn in America where we don't make fun of ill people. When the leaders of our government lie about a reason to go to war, shelter a possible pedophile in the name of politics and spy on our reading material, our moral compass is spinning out of control.
Posted on October 25, 2006
