Rush Limbaugh is an idiot

[everlast1986]

(Oct. 24) - His body visibly wracked by tremors, actor Michael J. Fox appears in a political ad that was the subject of widespread discussion on Monday after conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh claimed Fox was "either off his medication or acting."

A victim of Parkinson's disease, Fox speaks out in the ad for Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, who supports embryonic stem cell research.

"I think this is exploitative in a way that's unbecoming of either Claire McCaskill or Michael J. Fox," Limbaugh said on his syndicated show.

On his Web site Tuesday, Limbaugh appeared to back away from his accusation.

"All I'm saying is I've never seen him the way he appears in this commercial for Claire McCaskill," says Limbaugh. "So I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox, if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act, especially since people are telling me they have seen him this way on other interviews and in other television appearances."

"As you might know I care deeply about stem cell research," says Fox, who has struggled with Parkinson's disease for more than a decade. "In Missouri you can elect Claire McCaskill, who shares my hope for cures."

McCaskill has made support for the research a key part of her campaign to unseat Sen. Jim Talent. The Republican incumbent opposes the research as unethical, saying it destroys human embryos.

The new ad debuted prominently Saturday night during Game 1 of the World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers and will continue airing statewide this week, a campaign spokeswoman said.

Debate over stem cell research looms large in Missouri, where voters are considering a ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to protect all federally allowed forms of the research, including embryonic stem cell research. The scientific study holds promise in the search to cure diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

"Unfortunately, Senator Jim Talent opposes expanding stem cell research," Fox says in the 30-second spot. "Senator Talent even wanted to criminalize the science that gives us a chance for hope."

Talent's campaign called the ad a false attack.

"Senator Talent supports medical research including stem cell research that doesn't involve cloning or destroying a human embryo," said Talent spokesman Rich Chrismer.


 
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Next Up: Sam takes more questions. Ask a Question Now Earlier this year, Talent withdrew his support for a Senate bill that would ban all embryonic stem cell research and impose a million-dollar fine and jail sentence on violators. But he opposes the Missouri ballot initiative, claiming it would "make cloning human life at the earliest stage a constitutional right."

Supporters of the state referendum deny that assertion, noting the language of the proposed constitutional amendment explicitly bans human cloning.

McCaskill, running even with Talent in the latest polls, hopes to get a boost from aligning herself with support for the ballot measure, which recent polls show has the support of 58 percent of likely voters. Backers of the measure have raised nearly $29 million toward its passage, the costliest political campaign in Missouri history.

Fox's ad urges voters that "what you do in Missouri matters to millions of Americans. Americans like me." The ad ends with a picture of McCaskill and her voice approving the message.

A native of Canada, Fox became an American citizen in 2000 and has been politically active for Democratic causes. He campaigned for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race and lobbied Congress to lift President Bush's restrictions on funding for stem cell research.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9WB_PXjTBo
^Michael J. Fox Campaign Ad

 

[virtuoso]

This is a man who said we showed real strength in having black slaves, real courage in nuking japan, we showed real power by giving the native indians small pox in their blankets. This man is a complete and utter monster and yet he is massively popular with his talk radio show I believe. He is so warped I couldnt bear to listen to him for more than 20 mins, the man just spews utter double think, strange contradictions and truly twisted logic.

[WestCoasta]

ya I heard this clip the other day, what a dick

he says "He's using this disease and his problems with it to get votes"

no shit!

like he isn't trying to do the same thing with his bullshit opposition to stem cell research which could save lifes

these people are fucked up to not wanna help sick people

[Sanford - V. President of the Dangerous Crew Movement]

fuck Rush Limbaugh.

[J Bananas]

his maid shoulda sold him some rat poison instead of norcos

[Sikotic™]

I thought it was already established that Rush Limbaugh was a dick. I blame it on his parents for giving him a pornstar name.

[BallinNigga06]

dudes got mad pills anyone got his #?

[Primo]

Anyone that is against stem cell research is a fucking idiot.

[Sikotic™]

Anyone that is against stem cell research is a fucking idiot.

Amen nigga.

[Trauma-san]

You guys are absolutely, positively clueless.  Republicans aren't against stem cell research.  They're against growing or cloning children to do embryonic stem cell research. 

Here's an example.  Say your brother dies from whatever disease.  Doctors tell you that after he's dead, they'll take his body and bring it artificially back to life to a place where cells will grow within his organs and his spine.  Then they'll use those cells to do research with. 

You would never do that.  The problem comes down to abortion.  You're so fucking stupid you can't see that a child is a child whether it's born or not.  You actually think that when a child passes out of a mother's body, that's when it becomes a child.  It's alright to grow one in a dish, because that's not a child since it didn't pass through a utereus?  What kind of stupid, right in your face dumbass logic is that?

The only other opinion you could possibly have to explain why you think it's alright is that you're o.k. with killing children to keep grown people alive. 

So i'm going to assume you just don't feel a cloned embryo is a child.  You're wrong. 

[Sikotic™]

You guys are absolutely, positively clueless.  Republicans aren't against stem cell research.  They're against growing or cloning children to do embryonic stem cell research. 

Here's an example.  Say your brother dies from whatever disease.  Doctors tell you that after he's dead, they'll take his body and bring it artificially back to life to a place where cells will grow within his organs and his spine.  Then they'll use those cells to do research with. 

You would never do that.  The problem comes down to abortion.  You're so fucking stupid you can't see that a child is a child whether it's born or not.  You actually think that when a child passes out of a mother's body, that's when it becomes a child.  It's alright to grow one in a dish, because that's not a child since it didn't pass through a utereus?  What kind of stupid, right in your face dumbass logic is that?

The only other opinion you could possibly have to explain why you think it's alright is that you're o.k. with killing children to keep grown people alive. 

So i'm going to assume you just don't feel a cloned embryo is a child.  You're wrong. 

Yeah, let's forget all about the stem cells you can harvest from the umbilical cord that can potentially cure leukemia and other ailments, ya superstitious dumbass. Get that bullshit propaganda that doped up morons like Rush feed you out of your system.

I have a cousin right now dying of some rare type of blood cancer that could potentially be treated with hematopoietic stem cells so she wouldn't die. Unfortunately, motherfuckers with your viewpoint refuse to even allow stem cells to be tested just to see their potential.

If it was up to people like you, we would still be dying of the flu and tuberculosis because you demonize medical science. YOU are clueless.

[Primo]

RNA-Interference methods are going to cure almost all diseases. In order to use RNA-Interference you need to use stem cells. No government is going to be able to stop people from scientifically doing these type of things around the world. Scientific advances are only natural.
   I am all for human cloning. It is the secret of eternal life. If you keep up on technology you would notice that computers and the human brain are very very similar. They are now using DNA to build computer chips. They are figuring out ways to transfer memory into DNA based computer brains. Imagine being able to take memory from your brain at 80 and transfer it into a new clone of yourself at 20 years old. Just like you would transfer data from computer to computer. About 30 years it WILL be a possibility. Science in genetics is advancing very rapidly and you need to study about that subject to understand. Most people that are happy with thier life would love the opportunity. We are allowed to play god. Nothing in your scriptures will prove it otherwise. I would love to prove you wrong to make you more educated.

[WC Iz Active]

Rush is a putrid piece of shit.  This guy is a evil, moronic, cruel, arrogant piece of shit. I hate this fucker w/ a passion, I wish something very bad would happen to this dickhead.  And how he is so popular I will never know, alot of fuckin ignorant people in this world I guess thats how.

[Narrator]

Republicans aren't against stem cell research. 

Of course not...that would anger one of their biggest constituencies.