Yesterday my blog was linked from Slate (many thanks to the site) when I posted a qualified defense of Rush Limbaugh’s Michael J. Fox comments. The actor appears in a pro-embryonic stem cell research campaign commercial, moving awkwardly due to his Parkinson’s. Rush Limbaugh accused Fox of either acting or not taking his medication.
The post acknowledged sources that said Parkinson’s medication, not Parkinson’s itself, causes the awkward movements Fox exhibited — but I also pointed out evidence, indeed a confession from Fox himself, that the actor had manipulated his symptoms for public consumption in the past.
A book Fox wrote says he intentionally didn’t take his medication before speaking at a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing. Commenters quickly attacked me, even when they agreed with every factual statement I’d made.
In an earlier post I had criticized Limbaugh because of the medication inaccuracy. In that post I said: “If anything Limbaugh should have accused Fox of taking too much medication.”
I have been vindicated on both counts. The problem was not, as Limbaugh at first contended, that Fox didn’t take his medicine. But Fox has admitted he was “too medicated.”
Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhat a deceptive blog, implying that he was deliberately over-mediated. I hope everyone follows the link to read what Fox actually had to say in his “confession”. Very unprofessional.
You bring a bad name to right-wingers, playing so loosely with the truth.
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