Here's what I have for you now Michael....
Posted on 10/26/2006 3:24:32 PM PDT by dave k
I’ve interviewed Michael J. Fox several times before – but never quite like this.
After all the controversy and publicity and debate about his political ad, and the criticism he got from people like Rush Limbaugh, he really is in the eye of a political storm right now. But when he came to our studio for our exclusive interview, he was remarkably calm. He was also obviously symptomatic. He trembled uncontrollably, and his legs shook, but he explained it was actually a side effect of not taking enough medication. He told me he reduced his dosage because he didn’t want to have dyskinesia, which is the side effect of too much medication, and which causes the swaying back and forth that was so evident in the controversial ad for Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill. Fox said that he can never tell from one day to the next how serious his symptoms will be. It’s a crapshoot.
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High recent dose is walking through mud. Low late dose is uncontrollable dancing. According to my mom that's about to die with (not of) Parkinson's.
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What's wrong sweetie, ratings down?
My grandmother had Parkinsons (no medicine to control it) and I am sure she would say, shame on you young man.
Nobody has attacked his illness. We've attacked the way he represents it and the way he uses it to deceive.
I've seen the previews of this "interview". Fox flops around like a break dancer, just like he did in the ad. IMHO, he's exaggerating to get sympathy. I've seen people in the final stages of his disease, and they shook, but they didn't put on a show like Fox. Then again, they weren't making RAT commercials.
Do you think it is wrong to lie in the commercial?
But according to the MSM, to question a liberal is to attack them.
What part was he lying about? He wasn't lying about his illness....he was MISREPRESENTING all the other stuff and that's the stuff we should be calling him on...not the effects of his illness.
Nobody has attacked his illness. We've attacked the way he represents it and the way he uses it to deceive.
Not only that, he was not challenged about the fact he was supporting a phony non-cloning amendment to our state constitution. This really isn't about stem cells, it's about the sneaky way this was put on the ballot, and the fact that if it passes there will be absolutely no legislative oversight for these procedures. Cloning will be legalized and enshrined in the constitution even though the wording of the legislation leads the average person to believe otherwise.
It is goulish to think we are on the verge of creating human life, then killing it in the name of helping people.
LOL!!!
You forgot to mention "the children," the environment, and endangered species.
That's what we're doing. He is, in fact, LYING about the records of certain legislators regarding stem cell research and he's being called out on that as well.
If you are interested in dealing with the text of the commercial, what Michael J. Fox says that people like Claire McCaskill support stem cell research and Jim Talent wants to criminalize it. He says that what we do in Missouri effects people like him.
What he says is the commercial is an utter falsehood.
Yet he was still able to appear on Boston Legal...
Okay, I'm gonna say this one more time- We don't have a problem with his symptoms, we have a problem with the way he USED HIS SYMPTOMS TO DECEIVE.
Here's what I have for you now Michael....
Exactly.
Thank you.
Right, he said that too much medication made him twitch.
Managing meds is a continual balancing act with Parkinson's. At Fox's stage of the disease (18 or more years in) taking a larger dose of Sinemet probably causes twitches and head bobbing. Taking less means that he may freeze in place and have other symptoms including falls, difficulty swallowing, and difficulty talking.
I dislike these misleading ads but many of the comments on these threads about Fox's condition are gratuitous and contrary to fact.
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