It must be a tough gig, being at the top of the heap. I don’t know how Rush Limbaugh does it, I really don’t. He’s on 600 stations, has over 20 million listeners, (including me) and he makes about $30 million a year. He deserves it too, because subject matter notwithstanding, he truly is the best host on radio.

Everybody who is honest with themselves knows this. But the trouble with it is, when you’re that big, everybody is gunning for you.

Looks like the mainstream media is after him again, claiming that Mr. Limbaugh made fun of actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease.

This stems from a political ad Mr. Fox did, accusing Missouri senator Jim Talent of attempting to criminalize stem-cell research. In essence, Mr. Fox is claiming that if you are against stem cell research, that you are against curing Parkinson’s disease. This is crazy, and I’ll come back to it in a second. Let’s get back to the Limbaugh portion of this issue.

In the ad, Michael J. Fox is twitching all about, obviously showing the effects of his affliction. I get that. It’s a smart ploy. You have to prove your point, right? Mr. Fox has appeared before congress without his meds, and admits to doing so in his own book. Fair enough.

In reacting to the ad, Rush Limbaugh is being quoted as saying, “He’s acting.”

I listen to Rush every day. That is *not* what he said.

Rush said “He’s either off his meds, OR he’s acting.”

There’s a big difference there. Context is everything, and from the looks of things, Mr. Fox has no problem going off his medication. Rush is being painted as a hatemonger for floating a theory.

More than that, Mr. Limbaugh goes on to explain the misunderstanding and the uproar over this entire legislative episode:

“For four years, legislators in Missouri have tried to pass a simple ban on human cloning, something that neighboring states to Missouri have done. It’s a one-page piece of legislation, a one-page bill. It has never passed. It says that “somatic cell nuclear transfer,” that’s cloning, “will be a crime in Missouri. Somatic cell nuclear transfer is the scientific term for cloning, the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep.

“The other side makes hysterical claims that this bill would criminalize embryonic stem cell research and put patients in jail, and both claims are utterly false. Today in Missouri, there is a constitutional amendment called Amendment 2, and it calls itself the ‘Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.’ McCaskill favors it. Senator Talent opposes it. Amendment 2 is misleading in that it appears to put stem cell research in the Constitution and to ban human cloning, but the fine print creates a right to do somatic cell nuclear transfer, cloning, which is the scientific term for cloning, the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep.” Now, The Amendment 2 proponents are using Michael J. Fox and trotting out other people with sick relatives to try to convince Missourians that there will be no cures for their diseases without Amendment 2, which is a cloning amendment that has nothing to do with stem cell research.”

You didn’t hear that part on the news, did you?

Looks like Michael J. Fox is being used. I’m not surprised. Liberals do that. Again, look how 2004 VP candidate John Edwards claimed Christopher Reeve would walk if John Kerry was elected President. That’s repulsive. Since there is no evidence that embryonic stem-cells can cure anything. But, true to the liberal agenda, you can’t institute socialism without a victim class.

“Quick! We gotta roll us out some cripples!”

On a personal note, some people think I’d like to punch John Edwards in the face. This is not the case. I’d just like to slap him. He is not manly enough to be punched. I just want to slap him and make him cry. Girly man. I can hear him blubbering now, “Why for’d y’all hit me?!”

Ass.

Here’s what I really don’t get. Why does being disabled or somehow otherwise disadvantaged place someone above criticism? *I’m* disabled , and people come after me. Everybody’s fair game. Especially in politics. Nobody attacked Michael J. Fox in the first place. Rush Limbaugh merely offered a couple theories, (one of which was true) and he’s painted to be the bad guy.

Nobody wants anybody to suffer diseases. I don’t, Republicans don’t, and Rush Limbaugh certainly doesn’t.

By the way, Rush Limbaugh is disabled. He’s deaf. Chew on that.

What we have to get through our heads is that *nobody* is above reproach. People need to learn to interpret things in their proper context, *and* develop thicker skins.
Rush Limbaugh really isn’t the issue here, even though that’s what everyone is making it out to be. The bigger issue is that all who are involved with this childish exercise are a bunch of crybabies.

The media needs to grow up. I have no animosity toward people with diseases, but if I want to say something like “Michael J. Fox vibrates more than Jenna Jameson’s ‘sock’ drawer”, I can. Not because I’m disabled, but because I’m an American.

Everybody else is just going to have to deal with it.

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