Posted on 10/24/2006 5:13:31 AM PDT by Dane
Actor and stem-cell research activist Michael J. Fox is getting involved in Maryland's Senate race - with a commercial endorsing Democrat Ben Cardin.
The ad also criticizes Republican candidate Michael Steele's stance on stem cell research.
Fox tells viewers - quote - "Stem cell research offers hope to millions of Americans with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But George Bush and Michael Steele would put limits on the most promising stem cell research."
Fox has also filmed 30-second spots for several other candidates. His publicist says Fox wants to get involved in races that involve candidates who disagree on the issue.
Steele has maintained his position that research on embryos is not needed, especially, because he says there is promising research being done on adult stem cells
ecause he says there is promising research being done on adult stem cells
from what I understand the adult stem cells research has proven more successful than embryonic lines
That is also a lie. Why should the govt. be in the business to harvest potential human life, when they can privately do it, and also Mr. Fox the most promising treatment is in Adult stem cells, but for some reason you leave that out in your politically cynical commercials.
what a piece of emotionally manipulative sh@t mjf turns out to be.
You mean Mr. Steele and not Michael J. Fox. Michael J. Fox leaves that fact out in his politically cynical commercials.
IMO, he is exploiting himself and also calls himself an American, while he holds dual American/Canadian citizenship.
I hope in every commercial where Michael J. Fox shows up to campaign for a candidate that the candidate he shills for LOSES AND LOSES BIG! I'm tired of these Hollywood types trying to manipulate the American people into their leftist agenda.
MJ Fox claims dual citizenship, he does not harrass the Canadian Heathcare for their spending or for his treatment.
Also supposedly, he stop taking his meds so he would look more pathetic.
Also he lies about the fact that PRIVATE spending is not prohibited on embryonic stem cells.
actually this makes him a non-existent actor in my book.
This just exposes his own self interest and delusion.
He did not take his meds to be more pathetic in this commercial.
He's campaigning for Claire McCaskill in Missouri, too. An amendment to the state Constitution goes before the voters on the 7th protecting stem cell research. It has a lot of support and should pass handily, and may cost Talent some votes since he's come out against it.
The pubbies have to address this right away. They can put out commercials specifying all of the support for adult stem cell research and specify Bush's spending on research. I'm afraid that Mr. Fox's appearances will make an impact. The pubbies can mitigate the impact if they address it very soon.
It's hard to see how anyone is exploiting Fox since he's supporting the cause being advertised. He knows what he's doing and the impact it has.
He p!ssing off half his fan base with his partisanship.
People are dumb enough to think GWB is the root of all evil, so I'm not surprised a lot of them think he wants people to stay sick too.
According to those who have seen it, he IS off his meds for the commercial.
Apparently he admits to not taking his meds any time he has to put on a show for Parkinson's research.
According to polls I've seen in Missouri he's only pissing off about a third.
And in typical cynical and manipulative hollywood fashion is not taking his meds.
If he is so confident about his cause, how come he doesn't do tv and movie roles without his medication.
Can anybody say hypocrisy.
Fine you can beleive in polls. Polls for the last 10 years or so, have been wildly off.
Why how can you say that. Just last week Rush was crowing about how the polls are breaking towards the GOP. Of course, the Kansas City Star came out this morning with a poll showing McCaskill ahead of Talent so I imagine Rush will do a show today on how the polls for the last 10 years or so have been wildly off.
Face it, the only poll that matters is being taken two weeks from today. And I plan on participating in it.
Not to defend Mr. Fox in any way, but the irony of your comment is just too much to pass up.
As for the Fox ad, I saw the one he did for McCaskill and I think it will backfire.
If MJF wants to be an American so bad, why doesn't he relinquish his Canadian citizenship.
It is wrong for Fox to play on people's sympathy in order to get them to support anti-life candidates. Unfortunately, this is all too typical of the advocates of embryonic stem cell research. Many of the ESCR groups have websites that solicit sick people and people with spinal cord injuries to come forward with their stories because the only way that they can win this argument is to play on people's emotions. ESCR has not led to a single treatment or therapy and probably will never do so.
Pro-lifers need to counteract their propaganda with facts and to point out that funding ESCR will lead to demands that the government fund the creation of
embryos for experimentation and that it fund cloning. I hope voters will just say "No" to the Brave New World that Michael J. Fox wants.
I concur!
Either he is brainwashed into believing in embryonic stem cells or he knows there is no value in them and is being dishonest. Either way he is being a prop.
Pray for W and the Election
We have the same similar ad running here in Iowa by Boswell against Lamberti. I've written a letter to the editor and may need help if I get shot down.
I got caught up in poll mania in 2000 and I said never again.
Face it polls were wrong in 2000, 02, and 04. The vaunted exit polling is now in shambles.
BTW, Talent pulls it out despite you and the Kansas City Star's wet dream. Just remember just because the Kansas City Star prints a poll doesn't make it true.
The days of liberal media manipulation are coming to an end, and I guerss you will be crying in your Starbuck's on the morning of November 8th.
Hope you are right. However, the pubbies can help the "backfire" by getting out there and telling folks that the Dems are into killing embryos for research purposes. Its apparent how the folks in this forum are feeling about Mr. Fox's recent TV appearances. However, I'm worried about the folks on the outside and their reactions to all this.
I agree. I'm just suprised to see you against dual citizenship. Welcome to the America first side.
Thanks.
His statement is incorrect that George Bush would put limits on the most promising type of research.
The modt promiding area of research is using a person's own stem cells for therapies.
These days, if somebody says "stem cells", the religious right goes into fits. True, stem cells were first discovered in embryonic tissues, but they exist in the millions of not billions in the placenta which is discarded.
So let's grow up, folks. I, for one cannot demand that research stops. It might save my life. Or your life. Or your childs life.
I've always been against dual citizenship, be it with the UK, Israel, Canada, or Mexico.
There are no limits on stem cell research of ANY kind, embyronic or otherwise.
We simply don't want the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to give money for current harvesting of embryos.
George Bush was the FIRST president to offer ANY federal funding for Embryonic stem cell research. Clinton did not.
And states are funding the research. Private groups COULD fund the research as well.
In fact, Fox could take all the money he is donating to politicians, and all the time and energy he is spending on elections, and simply RAISE MONEY FOR EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH!!!.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government (which only has limited resources for ALL research) isn't "cutting" the research budget, whatever is NOT spent on Embryonic Stem Cell research is INSTEAD being spent on ADULT STEM CELL research, which is equally as promising (and isn't causing tumors in rats like the embryonic equivalent).
Hey, there's also money from dozens of FOREIGN governments being spent on embryonic stem cell research. In fact, why doesn't Michael go and lobby HIS government (Canada) for money?
Is there anything quite as pathetic as a multi-millionare with multi-millionare friends trying to get common, ordinary people like you and me to fork up our hard-earned money to pay for research to cure THEIR diseases? Why don't they get a few billion from Bill Gates, Soros, and Warren Buffet? If they need more, get Ted Turner to pitch in a billion.
Cool.
I learned something new today.
I saw it. He did a great Captain Jack Sparrow impression, while twisting the truth abd claiming the GOP candidate was "against stem cell research."
MSNBC home of the wacko Keith Olberidiot.
JMO, Talent wins and Keith Olberidiot is in a straightjacket on November 8th.
A pity that lies, half truths and distortions only pisses off one third of voters, don't you think?
It's not the religious right that goes into fits. We strongly support placenta, umbyllical cord, and adult stem cell research. We simply want to prevent federal funding for experiments which harvest EMBRYOS that, if implanted, would 18.75 years later be voting in elections and fighting in wars for us.
I haven't even seen many of the social conservatives complain about the funding for the existing embryonic stem cell lines.
No, all the hystrionics are on the pro-embryo-harvesting side. And they lie about their cause constantly in order to try to get good, decent, hard-working americans to fund their evil plans by forced contributions.
Fact is, the federal government has no real right to take ANY tax dollars for research of ANY kind. And if they didn't, they could lower our taxes, and each person could donate to the charities of their choice -- meaning people like Fox could donate all of their money to embryonic stem cell research, while those of us who honor life could donate to churches that help pregnant girls keep their children.
So this Hollywood jerk Michael Fox has been campaigning for Democrats using his illness as a political scoring point.
It is hard to imagine a more cheap campaign tactic.
There are 19 strains of embryonic stem cells that are grandfathered into the exception. The federal government will not support research on any new strains.
So it is mistaken to say that if the federal government supports stem cell research that they are somehow promoting the harvesting of embryos. A total mistake.
Me too.
You got the bucks McFly....pay for your own damn research.
1) MJF is hardly an objective voice on the subject. Sure, we all feel for the guy and no one wants to be in his shoes. But he is desperate for a cure and thus will grasp at anything and this has to be taken into consideration.
2) Has MJF supported other forms of research? Does he support Adult Stem Cell Research (ASCR)? After all, isn't the cure score ASCR 70-something, ESCR zero? Did he issue supportive words for GWB's initiative to start federal funding of SCR, albeit the ASCR version? Did he say "nice start but you left something out" or did he take the partisan ESCR or nothing approach? The answer to that question would be very telling.
They are not willing to show or discuss the obvious "good" result. That probably the greater percentage of people utilizing Abortion are Liberal.
Let's say 70%.
Statistics also show that approximatly 80% of children follow their parents in political beliefs. There have been approximatly 40 million, yes 40 Million with an M, abortions since they have become nationally "Legal".
We can compute from that,
40M at 70% = 28M at 80% =22.4M
and Conversely
40M at 30% = 12M at 80% =9.6M
The rest being non-political?
Liberals are aborting themselves at a rate twice as great as Conservatives.
Of course that is the only "good" thing I can find about abortion.
I'll just choose to remember him as Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly.
Exploit?? MJF Volunteered! He is a willing accomplice to lies and distortions. Remember Kerry 2004? MJF did the same thing, using his illness to score political points for Dems by saying GOP doesn't care about the disease. Mike Fox is not a good man, he is political activist that is of the repugnant kind. He is being shameful. And this is part of a larger scheme by Dem activists to use this for 2008 elections. Mike Fox does not deserve any praise, he deserves our scorn.
Somebody had to take Christopher Reeve's place. The dems used him too. It didn't work then. Are you really surprised by this tactic? I'm not.
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