Sunday, October 29, 2006
What do YOU think?

So there's this whole fiasco now with Rush Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox. Fox stumped for some Dems to draw attention to stem cell research. In the commercials, he's got some intense Parkinson's stuff going on.

Limbaugh said he was faking it. Or that he purposely didn't take his meds. And that if Fox was putting himself in the political arena, then he had to take the heat.

I have mixed feelings about it. I think Limbaugh came off sounding like a jerk, that he was rude and insensitive. But I also think that Fox could have said, "You know, I'm a little too symptomatic in those commercials. I'd like to re-film them." Because he said himself, in his acting roles, that he's had to work really hard to control his symptoms. So why not in the commercials?

Seeing Fox so ravaged by the disease is compelling. It could make a voter think twice. Maybe there was some calculation in letting the ads air "as is?"

I don't know, but it's interesting.




Love, Maven @ 9:47 PM

3 Comments:

  • At 10:26 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Fox, admitted in his autobioraphy that he did NOT take his meds when he testified before Congress a few years ago to illustrate the effects of his disease, so you could assume that he would the same again.

    With that said, if he didn't take his medicine, it's safe to critisise him for forgoing one medical treatment to promote another. If he chooses to jump into the fray, he and his supporters, need to be ready for any wind fall, good or bad that comes. Fair, is fair.

    As for Rush...ignore, ignore, ignore, ditto, ditto, ditto. He's a dork.

     

  • At 1:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My grandfather, of blessed memory, died of Parkinson's disease. Towards the end of his life, he shook much worse than how M. Fox did in those ads.

    Also, I believe that with the way that anti-stem cell ads are worded (by saying that they are killing unborn children) are just as "dirty" as not taking your medicine, if not worse. Because Michael J. Fox WAS born, and he ALREADY suffers.

     

  • At 4:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Michael J Fox has Parkinson's disease. The younger the person is when the disease hits, the more radical are their symptoms.
    How can you blame a guy for having Parkinson's disease, that's my question.
    People like to turn their eyes away. People don't like to look at it. The meds don't cure , they just mask the symptoms.
    What in the world is all the hub bub about anyway. Bless Michael J. Fox for fighting for his disease. Look what happened to Christopher and Dana Reeve.
    Everybody seems to have something to say, but what about good ol' compassion. For Mr. Fox to appear with his symptoms in full view takes strength and courage. He isn't hiding away.
    Everybody should look at it.

     

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