Rush Limbaugh is a Jerk

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Here is Michael J. Fox's ad on stem cell research, which is very powerful.

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Rush Limbaugh mocked him, saying that he was faking it. He was speedily informed by Parkinsons experts that he was dead wrong, and was forced to apologize. Then he attacked Michael J. Fox with a different critique: "Michael J. Fox is allowing his illness to be exploited and in the process is shilling for a Democratic politician." Good lord, but that man is a waste of oxygen. (Limbaugh, not Fox. Obviously.)

Comments

Re: Sure.

[joelrosenberg.livejournal.com]

I don't think that makes that point. That he's campaigned for a Republican in the past isn't a defense to the claim that he's letting himself be used by the Democrats in the present. The specific claims that he makes in his ad and the facts that he leaves out makes it clear that he has signed onto the Democratic position -- that the prohibition on federal funding for additional lines of stem cell research means that the Republicans don't want people with Parkinson's to get well.

That's a pretty demagogic position, isn't it?

I'm generally thought to be pro-Republican. Does the fact that I first voted for a Republican more than twenty years after I'd been solidly voting for Democrats make that untrue?