Rush Limbaugh, Michael J. Fox and Parkinson's Disease

POSTED BY: misbehaven
UPDATED: Saturday, November 18, 2006 01:39
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BIGDAMNNOBODY

Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:55 PM

Isn't free speech great. Rush can offer his opinion (rather inelegantly) about Fox and suffer the fallout. The Dixie Chicks can offer their opinion about Bush and suffer the fallout.

Posting to stir stuff up.

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:14 PM

Okay, an interesting debate, with some very simple answers:

Would Fox go off his meds when representing his disease? Of course. To do anything else would be dishonest. I'm sure if you take a parkinson's patient and dose them up oxycontin they will not appear to have the telltale symptoms of parkinsons. Okay, that was a jab, but it's true. It wouldn't be honest to represent a doped Fox as showing parkinson's in action.

Rush is an ass. He's a true conservatives worst nightmare. No one wants the crack whore on the bus standing up for their argument in court. Rush Limbaugh is a crack whore. I do mean this litterally. Oxycontin is in that same opiate family, and its addicts are in the same mental state, there's little to choose between the two. And there's the whore part.

Rush Limbaugh is a whore. He says whatever his economic contributors and sponsors tell him to say. I remember Rush when he was young and actually a conservative, but he hasn't been one for years. He gets up and makes the case that the people who give him the cash and the drugs and the hookers want him to make.

In this case, Rush is a whore for Merck. Merck opposes funding for stem cell research. They are alone on this Earth, unless Pfizer et al have joined in the game. There is no true christian resistance, or republican resistance, there is only one opponent of stem cell research funding, and that is Merck. They do it for one very simple reason: They are funding stem cell research. They fund it in exchange for stock options, a deal they can only get as long as there is no public funding. If there were public funding, no one would be writing stock options in exchange for funding. It's as simple as that, and there is nothing else, at all, anywhere, to this debate.

If you support big pharm's right to own this new technology which they had nothing to do with creating, then by all means, oppose stem cell research funding. That's what Rush does, because they tell him to do it, and because they pay his bills.

Also, please bear in mind, Rush Limbaugh is a serious drug addict. It's not like he made one slip, or he smoked a reefer at a party once. He's what some of us call 'a goner' - he's not coming back. Everything he does is to some extent motivated by his habits, plural. He needs drugs, and he needs cash. If the man tells him sick people gotta suffer, then that's okay. Just load him up and hand him an AK and Rush is ready to roll.

I think I give this man about as much respect as he has earned. None.

RAZZA

Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:45 PM

Quote:
"...They do it for one very simple reason: They are funding stem cell research. They fund it in exchange for stock options, a deal they can only get as long as there is no public funding. If there were public funding, no one would be writing stock options in exchange for funding. It's as simple as that, and there is nothing else, at all, anywhere, to this debate."

DT:

You are aware that there is currently federal funding available for stem cell research aren't you? Here is a link to the NIH's stem cell research opporunities.

http://stemcells.nih.gov/news/nihopps/nihopps_type.asp

There are currently millions of dollars in available federal funding for stem cell research. Granted, the funding is limited to the already existing lines of cells, but the money is there, hardly good news for Merck and Co. if what you say is true.

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FELLOWTRAVELER

Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:09 PM

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:

Where did he go to medical school? Was he in the top 3 percent at his medicad? offering a medical opinion.

He doesn't even have his undergrad degree. He dropped outta' Southeast Missouri State

And I was gonna' let this slide, but the moral superiority was getting to me. That and it's flat wrong.

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Rush Limbaugh is a crack whore. I do mean this litterally. Oxycontin is in that same opiate family

Crack is made from Cocaine. Cocaine comes from the Coca plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Crack_cocaine

OxyContin is a trade name for Oxycodone. It is an Opiate. Opiates are derived from the opium poppy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycontin

HERO

Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:51 PM

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Originally posted by MohrStoutbeard:

I rather liked Fox's classy response

I liked it too. It was classy. If you are talking about the press conferance...you might want to check the tape...his head, its not moving all that much...not like the commercials at all. I suspect his medication is working very well. Good for him.

I note for the record that he has written about going off his medication to better illistrate the affects of his illnes when he testified before Congress.

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RUE

Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:45 PM

I can't believe Zero is still blathering. "I suspect his medication is working very well. Good for him."

Sadly for Fox, with Parkinson's disease medication has a shorter and shorter benefit period where you can move almost normally. As the disease inevitably progresses, medication becomes less effective. Since Fox is having periods of freezing and writhing, he is already on the downhill to death. At some point, usually signalling imminent death, the medication has no benefit at all. You are either frozen because there is not enough medication in your blood stream, or writhing uncontrollably because there is too much. There is no happy middle ground. At that point, for some unknown reason, swallowing becomes uncoordinated and at the same time the sensations that would trigger coughing and the coughing reflex itself disappear. You then swallow liquid (you can't manage solids anymore) into your lungs, causing pneumonia, and a tortured death by slow suffocation lasting several days. All this happens while you are conscious and alert and feel everything.

Yeah, it's all just an act for political gain, ZERO. I get it.

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:10 PM

Because when MJ Fox DOES die, Hero will be there like a vulture on the bedpost saying... He did that just to get sympathy for his cause! You know who else can't express political opinions according to the right wing?

The 9-11 moms (media whores, glad their husbands were dead)
Cindy Sheehan (media whore, glad her son was killed)
triple amputee Max Cleland (a faker)
any Congressional page (it was a prank they were playing)

I'm just waiting for them to smear Kevin Tillman, Pat Tillman's brother. You can bet your bottom dollar that if the Tillman story gets major traction the GOP will find SOME way to run over Kevin.

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SIGNYM

Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:11 PM

Look like I had to kill yet another deadlock victim!

PHOENIXSHIP

Friday, October 27, 2006 3:17 AM

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Originally posted by kaneman:

Get a new job if Mal and Inara threads are so important.....Well, it's true........

Yeah, like where are our priorities! :)

I already quit my job as a congressional page so I could spend more time watching the blooper reel.

Don't forget the mission, people!

"Why're you arguin' what's already been decided?"
Mal to Jayne, "Jaynestown"

DREAMTROVE

Friday, October 27, 2006 4:27 AM

Razza,

It's not a guess. Funding-for-options programs are not secret, this is public information, and is occassionally in the news.

Sure, I know there's limited stem cell funding at the federal level, and even more at the state level. But millions of dollars is not the same thing as billions of dollars.

Come 01/07 the landscape is going to change.

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