Michael J. Fox made this heartbreaking TV ad:
and then Rush Limbaugh accused him of faking for the camera.
I've despised Limbaugh ever since my mother forced me to listen to his incessant, hateful diatribes during my grade school years. Unable to drive and still legally and financially dependent, I was subjected to the "EIB" network in the car and in the kitchen. In between the blah blah blahs, I was deeply annoyed by the callers who identified themselves as "Ditto Heads," as if they were proud of their elite membership in the club of idiocy. Even when I didn't understand the political ranting, I still hated the sound of Rush's voice, drumming on and on with sweeping generalizations of verbal vomit.
And then there were the long, holier-than-everyone soliloquies, where he basically just said the same thing over and over and over and over again.
I remember loving the sweet satisfaction of the moment I worked the "So, I guess Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict" comment into a routine telephone comment with my mother. I loved the hypocracy of his confession. Substance abuse is a flaw of the weak minded, he had said, all the while abusing his own drug.
I've become numb to the dribble, and it's been long enough now that no one I know (except my mother) takes him seriously. So, I leave it up to Media Matters and FAIR to keep up with the daily inconsistencies, contradictions, and fabrications.
But this time, he's gone too far.
Not only does Rush owe Michael J. Fox a formal apology, but he owes an apology to every single individual who is living with a progressive neurological disease for which we have no cure.
UPDATE 10/27: My friend, The Poetry Man, has written a must-read poem in honor of this asshole. He speaks for me.
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I admire you for surviving the Limbaugh onslaught. So many people who are indictrinated from a young age become hopelessly brainwashed by that stuff.
The Rude Pundit has a post appropiately titled: Why Rush Limbaugh Ought to Be Force-Fed His Own Liposuctioned Fat, Part 979
A fool with a microphone and place to transimit from - all he does is galvanize the ignorance of his listeners.
Rush...The man is certifiably insane. Seriously.
You may be bale to have your mother arrested for chidl abuse. Not sure about the statute of limitations ;-).
My parents started listening to wing-nut radio after I left home, so I never was subjected to this swill. My mom tried to turn it on with me in the car once when I was an adult. My opening the car door and preparing to jump made her turn it off - lol!
limbaugh!!! argh! we just had some windows replaced and the dude was blaring his from his car stereo while he worked. :( i'd rather gouge at my eyes with a rusty spoon than to listen to him.
it kills me - the same people that love him wouldn't be caught dead listening to the rantings of a heroin addict, yet, limbaugh was busted abusing a drug that has the exact effect on a person that heroin does and the ditto heads still line up for more. amazing.
Nothing that man does could shock me but this was truly outrageous. How DO these people sleep at night?
Yes - it is intolerable, and/but people get brainwashed by it, and/or they are already brainwashed, so they get off on it.
One of my neighbors thinks they believe him precisely because he is scarily disgusting, and 'sounds smart'. They're intimated, so they get over it by identifying with him. Interesting theory.
Anyway, there's a site 'Open letters to George W. Bush' hosted at Salon, and they had a hilarious entry this week, parodying the happiness of personified, anthropomorphic stem cells swimming around.
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