Really? Rush Defends Attack On Michael J. Fox: "Just Because You Suffer From A Disease ... Doesn't Mean You Get A Pass"
January 11, 2011 2:41 pm ET
From the January 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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DAMAGE CONTROL !
You seriously can't make this s--- up...
Doctor shopping for oxicontin, pharmacy shopping for oxicontin, paper trail a mile long!
Pillboy got a pass. Used Roy Black, best damned lawyer money can buy a drug addict . .
Michael J. Fox has a disease that is going to KILL him!
As much as he deserves it, calling Rush a "dickwad" disrespects dead sperm everywhere.
As Doc Brown would say: "Precisely."
In mocking Fox's Parkinson's symptoms, Limbaugh faced push-back from his own side for one of the handful of times its ever occurred. But as long as we're on the subject, I guess Limbaugh wouldn't mind Keith Olbermann or Ed Schultz mocking his hearing loss.
The collective spinning is certain to cause a hurricane. And the roaches have been exposed to the light and the entire country is hopefully wise to their tactics of fear and hate.
Unless, I guess what you have is a pilonoidal cyst.
So, it goes something like this:
1. Rush mocks someone with a neurological disease.
2. Rush realizes people don't like it when he mocks someone with a disease.
3. Rush tries to tell us he wasn't mocking Michael J. Fox.
4. Person with a mental illness kills 6, wounds many others.
5. Rush realizes his rhetoric might have played an influential role in crazy person's actions.
6. Rush says people are entirely responsible for what they do, even if they're ill.
7. Rush realizes this conflicts with his comments trying to defend himself against mocking Michael J. Fox.
8. Rush somehow equates schizophrenia with Parkinson's.
9. Rush has to inadvertently admit that he was mocking Michael J. Fox after all.
Is this about right?
I shot the sheriff ( Demarcate )
But I didn't shoot no deputy,( Republican/Fox ) oh no! Oh!
I shot the sheriff ( Demarcate )
But I didn't shoot no deputy,( Republican/Fox ) ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.)
Yeah! All around in my home town,
They're tryin' to track me down;
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,( Republican/Fox )
For the life of a deputy.( Republican/Fox )
But I say:
Oh, now, now. Oh!
(I shot the sheriff.) - the sheriff.
(But I swear it was in selfdefence.)
Oh, no! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff - Oh, Lord! -
(And they say it is a capital offence.)
Yeah! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!
Sheriff Dupnik always hated me,
For what, I don't know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they grow.
And so:
Read it in the news:
(I shot the sheriff.) Oh, Lord!
(But I swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the deputy? (Oo-oo-oh)
According to Rush's brilliant logic: If you have a debilitating neurological disease and enter into politics, it is ok for people to make fun of your disease simply because you don't get a pass for anything when you enter into politics?
Is this what comes out when you mix racist hate, obesity, and a not-so-suppressed desire for man-boy love with a lot of oxycontin?
If you don't have a valid argument against the message, find something about the messenger to attack.
This is the only way he can think of to make a living.
He knows better but, just like a drug dealer, he just won't give up his lavish lifestyle no matter how many people he hurts.
Emmet Brown reacting to the velocity and speed of Rush's stupid.
OK, thanks Limpy; we'll keep that in mind . . .