Stem Cell Lies and the Liars Who Peddle Them

A nice rebuke to those crazy extra chromosone conservatives(cough, Rush drug addict, cough) trying to attack Michael J. Fox for his pro-stem cell research ad. Digby also has a good post up with comments. Lot's of people have good posts up on this insanity. The crazy Rightwing nuts wave a shiny bauble(Michael is ACTING) and to the retarded media whores THAT becomes the story. Not M.J.F.'s desperate condition, not the amazing possibilities of this research, but that maybe Michael is like them (in their heart of hearts), just deceitful and manipulative.
Also here's The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
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L’Infâme: Retardants
Stem Cell Lies and the Liars Who Peddle Them
Pierre Tristam/Candide’s Notebooks, October 26, 2006

There’s never been better spokesmen for stem-cell research than those who oppose it. They’re living proof of debilitated thinking that stem cells could one day cure, along with other ravaging diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s,
Parkinson’s, reactionary conservatism. What better poster-boys for the cause than regression in the flesh? Rush Limbaugh. President Bush. Jeff Suppan. Suppan is the baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals, the pitcher who took the mound in the World Series against Detroit Wednesday evening, and who appeared in a television commercial badgering stem-cell research. The ad was broadcast during the game for Missouri viewers as a counter-hit to Michael J. Fox’s ad supporting stem-cell research and Claire McCaskill, a Democrat running for Senate in Missouri. Michael J. has had Parkinson’s since the 1990s. He now shakes pretty much uncontrollably, as he does in the ad, and when he attempts to control himself (as he has in recent appearances on “Scrubs” and “ Boston legal”), the strain is obvious. His ad drew this comment from Rush Limbaugh on Monday: “He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.” Maybe, just maybe, Rush didn’t take his meds. The utter idiocy of his comment backfired Limbaugh into an apology. Michael Fox isn’t the sort of man you can easily ridicule and win. Even as Alex Keaton, even as a raging Reagan lover, he was an American favorite. The Rush apology turned into another insult: “All right then, I stand corrected. . . . 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.” But is it an insult when the man uttering the words is, to put it in strictly clinical terms, in an intellectual state of arrested development dating back to Salem, Mass., circa 1692?

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