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Fox Responds To Limbaugh's Accusations [it's like being hit with a hammer."........]
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Posted on 10/26/2006 4:32:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Fox Responds To Limbaugh's Accusations

(CBS News) Responding to criticism by conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, actor Michael J. Fox defended his appearance in a political campaign ad, saying he wasn't acting or off his medication.

In fact, at the time he was over-medicated for his Parkinson's disease, Fox said in an exclusive interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric.

"The irony is that I was too medicated, I was dyskinesic," Fox told Couric. "Because the thing about, the thing about being symptomatic is that it's not comfortable. No one wants to be symptomatic; it's like being hit with a hammer."

His body visibly wracked by tremors, Fox appears in a political ad that prompted Limbaugh to speculate that Fox was "either off his medication or acting."

Fox told Couric, "At this point now, if I didn't take medication I wouldn't be able to speak."

He said that he appeared in the ad only to advance his cause, and that, "Disease is a non-partisan problem that requires a bi-partisan solution."

"You know what, I don't really care about politics," Fox said. "We want to appeal to voters to elect the people that are going to give us a margin, so we can't be vetoed again."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hoaxter; liar; lyigtosickpeople; lyingtosickpeople; michaeljfox; rush; rushlimbaugh; waaaaa; yousickmjf
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To: Luigi Vasellini
"One is to suspect MDMA ecstacy use. He was very young with a lot of money. I wonder if he liked drugs???"
It was not ecstacy,it was spending all of his youth in front of a flux capacitor.
41 posted on 10/26/2006 4:45:04 PM PDT by FUBAR12 (God ,guns,and a good lady is all a man needs.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"You know what, I don't really care about politics," Fox said. "We want to appeal to voters to elect the people that are going to give us a margin, so we can't be vetoed again."

Then why are you supporting Cardin huh? He voted against what you claim to advocate. The answer is that this isn't about embryonoic stem cell research, it' about electing only Democrats because you are a Liberal activist.

He's a liar, and he's on the last rated news network where the Olbermann's of the world are probably pumping their fist slurping it up while the rest are better occupied with their time.

42 posted on 10/26/2006 4:45:07 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: samadams2000
stem cell vs. embryonic stem cell research

That of course is the point, but too subtle for Democrats to get.

43 posted on 10/26/2006 4:45:16 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Sub-Driver
I don't watch Couric, but was he shaking when she interviewed him?

Fox has 4 children with his wife Tracy Pollen. Did he ask her to donate stem cells when she was pregnant with their children? Being a bit sarcastic here, but I'm just wondering.

45 posted on 10/26/2006 4:46:08 PM PDT by IamHD
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To: Sub-Driver
"You know what, I don't really care about politics," Fox said. "We want to appeal to voters to elect the people that are going to give us a margin, so we can't be vetoed again."

That must be why he's running an ad to help Cardin, who voted against the bill.

I'm sure Couric pointed this out.

46 posted on 10/26/2006 4:46:16 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: tioga

I have alot, I mean ALOT of friends who also used drugs. Not one of them broadcast it!!


47 posted on 10/26/2006 4:46:33 PM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (What do you call 2 toddlers and some duct tape??........muslim body armor!!!!!!!)
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To: Luigi Vasellini

MDMA, ecstacy........causes dopamine damage resulting in Parkinson's Disease.........now that is just really disgusting to think he COULD HAVE done this to his own body, and now wants the federal government to harvest babies in the womb to try for a pie in the sky cure? That is just sick.


48 posted on 10/26/2006 4:47:43 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Luigi Vasellini

Well, ecstasy would have been an unusual drug back then, wouldn't it?


49 posted on 10/26/2006 4:48:17 PM PDT by AmishDude (Mwahahahahahahahaha -- official evil laugh of the North American Union)
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To: AmishDude

I had friends doing it in 1983. It was easy to get


50 posted on 10/26/2006 4:50:42 PM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (What do you call 2 toddlers and some duct tape??........muslim body armor!!!!!!!)
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To: tsmith130
And didn't Rush mention that this ad is set to run in two other states? If so, MJF would have had to tape two other ads, as he mentions Missouri, Caskill and Tallent by name in this one. Are these ads going to show him under or over medicated? Will these ads be for dems or repubs?

Why isn't he touting the news of injecting virus into the brain as an alternative potential solution, that his foundation, not we the taxpayer, is funding?

51 posted on 10/26/2006 4:51:24 PM PDT by uvular
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To: Sub-Driver

PLEASE go back to Canada! After all, they have great health care up there...wouldn't you be cured by now?


52 posted on 10/26/2006 4:51:42 PM PDT by Cricket24 (ULTRA PATRIOT!!)
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To: Luigi Vasellini

I haven't heard that myself but...

What is known about it from my contemporaries is more of the shorter term consequences--like dehydration and dying from an extreme rise in one's core body temperature. It makes sense though, since MDMA is particularly damaging to the central nervous system.


53 posted on 10/26/2006 4:54:01 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Would you like to join the OFFICIAL Oakland Raiders ping list? Sure you would, send me freepmail.)
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To: Luigi Vasellini; AmishDude

Ecstasy was legal in Texas until 1985 and was extremely popular through the mid and late 80s.


54 posted on 10/26/2006 4:54:33 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Sub-Driver
1. Whether he was acting or not, almost everything he said in the ad was a lie. When you consider the accusations he's making and the lies he's telling to make them seem credible, acting a little more dyskinetic than he really is would be would be the least dishonest thing in the ad.

2. If he doesn't want people to think these sorts of things, he shouldn't do them and then write about them in a memoir.

55 posted on 10/26/2006 4:57:17 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (People who say there are jobs Americans won't do haven't seen "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Sub-Driver

what ever happened to the good Republican Alex P.Keaton?

He pissed himself off for getting so much into the Alex character he needs the constant cleansing of lieing for the Democrats. He seeks atonement for his bad thoughts as Alex.


56 posted on 10/26/2006 4:57:23 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. We will screw you inshallah)
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To: GOP_Raider

I just googled it I found articles how it causes and also alleviates parkinson in mice. There is some link.


57 posted on 10/26/2006 4:57:29 PM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (What do you call 2 toddlers and some duct tape??........muslim body armor!!!!!!!)
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To: Luigi Vasellini

A) Fox is over 40, and

B) It's documented that he suffered a head injury in a hockey game in his youth, a much more likely cause for his Parkinson's.

There's no need for this ridiculous talk. Fox is wrong on the issue, period. There is no need to try to smear him. This isn't DU.


58 posted on 10/26/2006 5:00:34 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Republicans should produce an ad using someone with advanced Parkinson's stating that they would rather die with the disease than to live as a ghoul preying upon the unborn.


59 posted on 10/26/2006 5:01:19 PM PDT by RaymondLuxuryYacht (It's pronounced throat warbler mangrove!)
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To: tioga
MDMA, ecstacy........causes dopamine damage resulting in Parkinson's Disease.........now that is just really disgusting to think he COULD HAVE done this to his own body, and now wants the federal government to harvest babies in the womb to try for a pie in the sky cure? That is just sick.

Not fair. People were suggesting that Rush's addiction to Oxycontin was responsible for his hearing loss. It's possible that could have happened, but anyone who says that's definitely why has no proof whatsoever.

60 posted on 10/26/2006 5:01:40 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Dixie Chicks: "We're Not Ready To Make Sense!")
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