Michael J. Fox to Rush Limbaugh: Screw You!

[The Night Owl]

A positive take on Parkinson's
Katherine Seligman, Special to The Chronicle

Monday, May 4, 2009

If there is an optimistic take on Parkinson's disease, it is this: "It opened up other possibilities to me," said actor Michael J. Fox last week. "I went in directions I could not have gone. It's a great journey."

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Then came conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's comments that Fox either exaggerated his symptoms or deliberately went off his meds when he appeared in political ads. Fox ignored Limbaugh's accusations at first, trying to play them down and turn the discussion back to his foundation's work. Now, after repeatedly being asked to address them - and Limbaugh's apparent imitation of his symptoms - Fox is more direct.

"Screw you," he said Friday. "I saw the footage of him doing that and I was mad, not for me, but it stigmatized this whole community of people."

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/03/DDU317DCJ4.DTL

Right on.

[wndycty]

1. I read this and assumed it was FOX NEWS saying "screw you" but of course. . .

. . .that will never happen.

[The Night Owl]

2. Yeah, I meant Fox, not Faux. :)

[Viking12]

3. If it were Fox News the headline would read

"Fox fellates Limbaugh"

[Mist]

4. OxyRush also got the symptoms of Parkinson's wrong, from what I understand of

the disease. Parkinson's patients need to take medicine to avoid stasis. The difficulty is in judging the amounts of medicine needed to enable movement. Sometimes exaggerated movement results from taking the meds. In other words, if Fox had NOT taken his meds (as OxyRush claims) he would have been afflicted with the inability to move, not exaggerated motion.
But why be surprised at a RWnut not doing basic research before blatting lies and insults?

[glitch]

6. Can you name one time Limbaugh was ever right?

(And I don't mean extreme right.) He is always wrong.

[SidDithers]

5. Go Mike!...

He was great with John Stewart a couple of weeks ago.

Sid

[Creena]

7. Keep fighting, Michael!

Anyone who does not approve of his response to Rush isn't worth having in your corner anyway. And, his character on Rescue Me is hilarious. I love a cynic.

[medeak]

8. I can't wait for Michael's special on optimism this week! n/t

[roguevalley]

9. he said happiness is a decision and he is totally right.