Hannity: Michael J. Fox Can Be Criticized for Stem Cell Ad

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2604633&page=1

Hannity: Michael J. Fox Can Be Criticized for Stem Cell Ad
Radio Show Host Says Ad Won't Affect Midterm Elections' Outcome

Oct. 25, 2006 — Conservatives came to the defense of talk radio host Rush Limbaugh over his accusation that actor Michael J. Fox's appearance in a political ad about stem cell research was "purely an act."

ABC talk radio host Sean Hannity told "Good Morning America" that Fox deserved to be criticized.

"Michael J. Fox admits now that he stopped taking his medication prior to testifying before Congress," Hannity said. "You have a right to speak up, but he also has a right to be criticized."

...

"There are some inaccuracies in the ad that need to be debated," Hannity said. "Unfortunately he wants to create an impression where Republicans don't care about the health of people. This is only about the funding of federal stem cell issues."

"Bottom line: Did Rush Limbaugh go too far? My take is that he was referring to his own admission in his own book. He didn't talk about the congressional testimony. Everybody wants Michael J. Fox to get well. It is a difficult disease," Hannity said.

[LynnTheDem]

1. "create an impression where Republicans don't care about the health

of people"...

ya mean such as MOCKING THEIR DISABILITIES???

[Hugin]

9. Limp has a long history of such things...

Apparently, during the early part of the AIDS crisis he would read out lists of
victims and laugh on the air.

Real compassionate like... eh?

[saigon68]

41. Hannity can be criticized for POSING as a human being

HE IS A GREASY PIECE OF DOG SHIT.

[LibDemAlways]

16. Hannity managed to slip a little truth in there.....

"Republicans don't care about the health of people....."

They care plenty about the profits of big pharma and "for profit" hospitals and keeping malpractice settlements low and ripping off seniors with a bogus "prescription" plan that does nothing more than bankrupt them......All that they care about. But people's health? They'd just as soon keep the funeral industry happy.

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. The funeral industry is the endgame - they prefer the play up to

that, like keeping people on meds for years and years instead of finding a cure and thus losing the med sales.

big pharmaceuticals is the antithesis of health care.

[Jack Rabbit]

29. The GOP doesn't need Mr. Fox' help to look like they don't care

The fact is that they don't care about public health.

They have supported a privatize medical system that fails to deliver and oppose any attempts to overhaul it. This is simply a place where the free market doesn't work.

[C_U_L8R]

2. they aren't talking about the issue

blah blah blah blah

[AlCzervik]

3. the right wing has literally found another new low, keep digging boys

and soon you won't hold any public offices.

[harun]

5. Exactly, here's a few more shovels boys :-) (n/t)

[BOSSHOG]

4. Way to go sean, keep the subject on the radar screen

Don't be a real man and admit a mistake, something conservatives are incapable of doing. And you are wrong, the impression isn't that republicans don't care about the health of people. Republicans don't care about people period. Its part of your DNA.

[sugapablo]

6. yet again

[Liberal Veteran]

7. I don't see what the big deal is.

If Michael J. Fox decided to show congress what Parkinson's Disease looks like when one isn't using medications to blunt the obvious physical symptoms, more power to him.

Treating the symptoms of Parkinson't isn't a cure and from what I understand, the medications lose effectiveness over time.

A cure is needed.

[Demoiselle]

20. It's the meds that CAUSE the out of control movements...

According to a statement just issued by the Parkinson Foundation people...it's the meds used to control Parkinsons
that cause the "jerks". Parkinsons disease itself causes rigidity..ie.paralysis. If Fox stopped taking his meds briefly, before he spoke to
Congress, he MAY have done so to cut down on the distracting medication-produced movements while he spoke to them. That's just a guess
on my part. Does anybody have the actual Fox statement about this?

[Hugin]

8. They had this schmuck on 'free speech' two nights ago...

Why a nationally syndicated radio shock jock needs more exposure... Is beyond me.

That is the stupidest segment on TV.

Now he's talking about 'Stem Cell Research' on the All Bullshit Channel?

:wtf:

What are his credentials? Fox's are obvious... He has a vested interest.

Why? Why are these persona non-gratas allowed to monopolize the airwaves?

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. "Create an impression where Republicans don't care about the health of people"

They don't. For years -- decades -- Repuglicans have fought every attempt to help sick people, every drive to improve the overall health of the country, every breakthrough that might prevent or cure Parkinsons, HPV, HIV and who knows how many other diseases.

[MikeNearMcChord]

13. It's not that they don't want a cure, but they want to make sure that

they can make obscene profits from the cure, that is why they oppose single payer health care. Call me cynical, but I bet that the Bushies had some back door funds that would go into stem cell research, despite Shrub's veto.
Money is not in the way of their priciples.

[TechBear_Seattle]

14. Same thing n/t

[Rose Siding]

11. Hannity's on ABC today, CBS last night -Doesn't he already HAVE a job?

And doesn't everyone already KNOW what kind of garbage he's going to throw? Sick, sick media, TV.

[Chipper Chat]

23. S'matta Sean? Dont you and the BOYS sell enough books?

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060582510.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Virginia Dare]

12. Keep digging that hole Sean...

then take the shovel and stick it up your ass.

[bluedog]

15. think about it.if some people had NO money to

pay for the medications or had to split the pills or such........this is what the disease would look like on millions of people..........

[htuttle]

17. "Bottom line:" Sean Hannity is still a fuckwit

[Tempest]

19. Fox wasn't criticized when he made an ad for Arlen Specter

But since Specter is a Repug, that's above reproach.

Mainstream America is not looking kindly on the Grand Old Pedophile party on how they're smearing Fox.

[zbdent]

21. Hey Hannity ... if you stop telling lies about the Dems ...

we'll stop telling the truth about you ...

[MissMillie]

22. Actually, Hannity, we're more likely to criticize you for being a blowhard

There's certainly no harm in showing people the full specrum of symptoms of this disease. Why Hannity doesn't recognize that only enforces our believe that he's a complete idiot.

[AngryOldDem]

24. Sure, you can criticize....

...but that does not necessarily invalidate the message. And as Keith Olbermann pointed out, Limpballs is the LAST person who should be harping on someone's use/nonuse of drugs.

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. Hannity is a good case for easier access to birth control.

He should've been tossed by his parents.

[lcordero2]

26. and Hannity can be criticized too...

for fellating the Grand Ole Pervert Party

[medeak]

27. Has Hannity seen the clip of Fox OFF his meds.....

shown on his bio a few months ago? Chreeeest....how ill informed these people are....his meds MAKE him sway..off of them he shakes uncontrollably.

[calimary]

28. Well then, vanity, YOU can be criticized for being a close-minded,

mean-spirited, lying, arrogant, egotistical SCHMUCK. And for THAT, there certainly isn't a cure! Except maybe for you to shut up and go away (haven't you made enough money by now?).

[Oleladylib]

30. yes, and when Mary Cheney's lifestyle was mentioned in a

presidental debate wasn't it the prostipublican conservs including Limberger who were outraged. Wow, how tight the shoe pinches when it is on one's own foot.

[deadparrot]

31. ...but George Bush can't! nt

[Generic Brad]

32. And I suppose 9/11 widows can be attacked as well

Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter and their ilk hate anybody who is a victim of anything. It pops their conservative bubble and reminds them of the real world the rest of us occupy. They are irked when anyone rightly points out they have crossed the line of decency. These are not compassionate human beings.

[crossroads]

33. Be Careful Republicans - Your Compassion Is Showing!

:mad:

[NVMojo]

34. Hannity needs an enema

[truthisfreedom]

35. keep Michael kicked... way to go, rethug idiot! god, this is so amazing...

first Foley, now this... they've destroyed themselves. rush is a big fat idiot who just destroyed his party forever. he got massive national attention for a commercial that elicits sympathy and empathy in almost all viewers except the most hardened heroin abusers.

[HughBeaumont]

36. Fine. Can I make fun of Hannity's football field sized jawline?

Or his style-less conservalook?
Or his caterpillar eyebrows?
Or his continuous interrupt-then-attack means of debating?
Or the fact that he verbally attacks Code Pink members, or that he's anti-veteran?
Or his ability to talk at just a decibel above his opponent at the same time he does?
Or his constant Cavuting?

Can I make fun of all that?

[Melynn]

37. Hannity - Just a second rate Limbaugh

Do you your little dance for your masters, Mr. Hannity. Someday you will be old and sick and then you will regret what you have said today.

[billyoc]

38. Yes, "Hannity: the other white

fat pig meat."

[saigon68]

42. Pork: The Other White Meat?

Pork: The Other White Meat?



"You are what you eat" -American proverb




National Pork Board to purchase "Other White Meat" brand rights for $60 million; USDA keeps financial details secret
In a deal that is scheduled to take effect July 1, the federal government's National Pork Board plans to purchase rights to the "Other White Meat" brand from the National Pork Producers Council, a private trade association, for $60 million.

The deal will not help pork producers improve demand for their product, because the Pork Board already uses the "Other White Meat" slogan in well-known national advertising campaigns.

Instead, the sale will circumvent federal restrictions on how the National Pork Board may use money that it collects in taxes or mandatory assessments on pork producers and importers. The sale will funnel $3 million each year for 20 years to the National Pork Producers Council, a private industry association whose heavy influence over the federal government's Pork Board has long been controversial. The Council, in turn, can spend the $60 million without federal government oversight.

[antiimperialist]

39. A poll on the stem cell initiative in Missouri

Remember: We want the "Yes" option to win.

[Raine]

40. Stem cell can be criticized

on it's merits as to if it works etc but it is wrong to make it personal by insulting and making fun of someone who has a disease. I guess Limberger is too lazy and stupid to actually dig out facts and have a real debate on the issue of stem cells.

[Cooley Hurd]

43. There was an emergency con talkie summit at the WH yesterday...

Bush, Republicans turn to U.S. talk shows for help

Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:11am ET

<snip>
On Tuesday the White House invited more than three dozen hosts from both sides of the political spectrum so they could interview top administration officials.


Radio personalities and programs play a political role in many countries. In America, they have become largely a powerful ally for conservatives, even as the rise of Internet blogs has broadened the spectrum of voter voices being heard.

"The liberal media wants to suppress the vote, they want to convince you that this race is over, they want you to go away and they want us to lose. I'm here to tell you that you have the power (to prove them wrong)," conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity told a Republican rally in Cincinnati last week in a jab at what conservatives call a liberal mainstream media.

Hannity, who does a show for ABC Radio that reaches 13 million people a week as well as a television show for Fox News, said his shows give politicians the opportunity for "real interviews, not soundbites" -- the sort of unfiltered access to voters that mainstream media don't offer.

"Look, on my radio program today I had the vice president, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, Karl Rove, Tony Snow and Dan Bartlett. That's all in one radio show," Hannity told Reuters in an interview.
</snip>

This undisputedly PROVES it! Rush, Hannity (et al) get their talking points (including anti-Michael J Fox talking points) straight from the White House.:grr:

[Blue Gardener]

44. Meds or no meds

The end result for Michael J. Fox is still the same. It is going to kill him. To ridicule his condition is just appalling.