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12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 0 replies · 0 points
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 0 replies · 0 points
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 0 replies · 0 points
As stem cell research continues to find solutions to intractable medical problems (you haven't kept up with the science), do we have your word?
If you are sincere in your beliefs, will you promise to renounce and reject ALL stem-cell treatments that might one day cure you?
You deliberately and grotesquely mis-represent the actual nature of the science and its technology, by the way, but we expect this.
Mr Fox and his foundation have raised over $325 MILLION for Parkinson's Research. It is a stunning achievement.
Now, let's compare that to Mr Limbaugh's good works... no?
When Mr Limbaugh has raised as much money for Parkinson's research as has Mr Fox, he will have earned the dubious "right" to flail around in his studio, mocking him. Until then, he owes an apology.
A decent man would have given it long ago.
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 0 replies · +1 points
If he didn't -- repeatedly -- demand to see the law student's non-existent "sex tapes", he wouldn't appear like a leering old voyeur.
If he didn't -- repeatedly -- flail around his studio in mockery of someone with Parkinson's Disease, he wouldn't appear so heartless and cruel.
But then again -- if he did none of these things, he wouldn't be Rush Limbaugh.
Which is why you like him.
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 2 replies · -1 points
Parkinson's Disease IS his condition, and it is a terrible affliction. Perhaps you would prefer that Mr Fox say nothing, and simply die without complaint.
"junk science about stem cell research", you say.
It is that science which is, already, moving us toward the particularization of treatment for individual patients. If ever you or yours should suffer from a disease made curable by the "junk science" of stem cell research, we trust you will do the right thing -- and refuse treatment.
Anything else would be hypocritical of you.
Even Nancy Reagan, understanding the possibilities and the science better than you do, adopted and supported Mr Fox's position on the matter.
Luckily for the nation, science proceeds apace, and remarkable discoveries arise.
Luckily for the nation, Mr Fox's foundation has -- so far -- raised and contributed over $325 MILLION to Parkinson's Disease research. It is an extraordinary achievement, and all since 2000.
How much have you done? About as much as Mr Limbaugh, I expect.
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 0 replies · 0 points
I am sorry to realize they don't repel you.
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 0 replies · +1 points
The word you mis-spelled, and mis-used, means foreknowledge.
Why are the people who hold your extreme views such illiterates?
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 0 replies · 0 points
That would be a start.
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 4 replies · -1 points
By choosing to withhold medical masking agents, Mr Fox appeared AS HE IS. He did not appear "more afflicted". He simply IS that afflicted.
But you prefer masking. We understand why.
You prefer ideology over science, and caricature over compassion. We understand why.
Mr Fox is an actor who appears in film and television. It is necessary in his profession to conceal his symptoms. However, from time to time he allows the nation to witness the gravity of his disease.
You don't like this. Neither does Limbaugh. We understand why.
12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - What Rush Hath Wrought · 2 replies · -1 points
His addiction to Oxycontin destroyed his hearing, and now requires him to use a cochlear implant. He destroyed his own hearing because of his own drug addiction.
His crude comments about a female law student, demanding that she show him her non-existent "sex tapes", destroyed his credibility. By demanding to see her non-existent "sex tapes", he painted himself as a leering old voyeur.
His caricature of Mr Fox, flailing around ridiculously in his studio, destroyed himself. He WAS wrong. He never apologized. He never will. He's not that sort of man.
Neither are you, we gather.
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