Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox: ‘I Take Back None of What I Said’

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/limbaugh-fox-no-regrets/

Rush Limbaugh is sticking to his claim that Michael J. Fox is exaggerating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease — by “acting” or “not taking his medications” — in an advertisement promoting stem cell research.

The media falsely reported that he “apologized” to Fox. On his radio show today, Limbaugh said he regrets nothing. Watch it:

Transcript:

I stand by what I said. I take back none of what I said. I wouldn’t rephrase it any differently. It is what I believe; it is what I think. It is what I have found to be true.

[jimshoes]

1. By golly Rush, you are a pusbag

Yep, that's what I believe.

[Richard Steele]

4. But, unlike Rush, you can find EVIDENCE to support your belief.

Evidence that he is, in point of fact, a PUSBAG.

[alarimer]

2. I won't take back what I said about you, Rush

I hope you choke on your Oxycontin.

You are a rotten, evil pig. I hope you die slowly and painfully.

[BootinUp]

3. lol.

[Fridays Child]

49. Never in my life did I think that I would support statements such as yours.

But I do. :(

[RevolutionStartsNow]

5. "It is what I have found to be true."

You know, he can just make shit up and never has to prove it. Which is fine, it's his show, but the sad part is that so many people listen to him and think it's The News.

[Orsino]

44. Anyone can use facts to form opinions...

It takes courage to forge boldly ahead unarmed. Thank God for Rush!

[muntrv]

6. I don't see "DR" next to limp balls name.

So how do you know Fox is exaggerating the symptoms?

[DemonFighterLives]

8. Someone on Air America figured out

that Dr Frist must have given him lessons in snap video diagnosis.
:rofl:

[DemonFighterLives]

7. For anyone not convinced that the drug addled gas bag

was an asshole, you now can be assured.
:beer:

[NotGivingUp]

9. wow....what an asshole...but we already knew that

[greblc]

10. I believe in Karma.

Rush should start a list.

[stanwyck]

22. That would be quite a list. Speaking of karma

Rush has already been smacked down. He's in a box. The man has sexual issues which have put him in a box. He can't live openly -- because of his over-heated rhetoric and his Bubba following which would drop him like a used condom. He's been arrested for soliciting male prostitutes in the past (when he used the name Jeff Christie). He's had 3 failed marriages which he orchestrated as covers for his true proclivities. (He didn't even pretend to have a relationship with the latest wife -- they lived apart throughout the "marriage". He's sneaked off to the D.R. with his viagra. Afterall, he can't pursue his appetites in the U.S.
So. Rush has put himself in a box. He has to hide. He has to be secretive. He has to do without. And it's all because he's handcuffed to his own rants and raving -- which are contrary to his own nature.
He's built his own cell.

[Dinger]

11. ru$h At Work:

[Beaverhausen]

12. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[Dinger]

14. Thank You : ) nt

[C_U_L8R]

16. oh i just threw up a little

[karlrschneider]

25. Okay, asshole, you owe me a steak dinner

'cause I :puke:'d up the one I just finished.
;-)

[Dinger]

38. How About This Instead? :

A donation to DU? I already owe one from a great reply by a fellow DUer a week or so ago. I will send one in at double my original amount.:)

[karlrschneider]

43. Sure!

:thumbsup:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

48. My EYES !!!

:puke:

[Alamom]

13. He is worse than evil.........may he reap what he sows

I have a dear friend with Parkinsons.
Anyone who has seen a Parkinsons sufferer knows MJF was not faking in the least.

[Iris]

15. Fox didn't take his meds when he appeared before the Senate a few years

back. But that was the whole POINT - without the meds, he suffers tremedously. Meds he can well afford, I might add.

[SeattleGirl]

17. I just emailed the author of this article.

Thanked her for her piece, but said that her statement at the end, that Rush had apologized, and told her that was not true. Then I emailed her the link to thinkprogress that reported on what Rush said today.

[greeneyedboy]

18. no class as usual. go take some more pills, Rush.

[Olney Blue]

19. Rush, I hope your penis explodes.

[Straight Shooter]

28. Somebody can clean up the mess with a Q-Tip, then. n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

42. Per Rude Pundit: "Rush should be force-fed his liposuctioned fat."

[Shakespeare]

20. He urgently needs to drop dead, in the most literal sense of that word.

And when you fall, you fat fuck, I hope no one around shows you the compassion you so obnoxiously refuse to show to any other human being. I hope you are treated in kind, you miserable asshole.

[Bigmack]

21. I have a (waking) dream..

.. that Rush loses his big-paying gig and ends up homeless... living in a cardboard box... and giving blowjobs for 5 bucks to support his hillbilly heroin addiction.

[karlrschneider]

23. I'd pay $1000 for 2 minutes alone with that goddamned gasbag.

:grr: :mad:

[Deja Q]

24. If he FOUND it to be true (rather than BELIEVING), I hope he has the evidence...

No doubt MJF has grounds to sue for libel. Especially given Rush's own little problems with medications we keep hearing about...

[LynnTheDem]

26. Nothing more than what can be expected from the likes of

that thing.

[ourvoicescount]

27. Easy for the hypocritical drugie to say, he would be first in line...

...if he ever needed stemcell research findings himself. I say he's earned a place at the back.

[RobertSeattle]

29. PLEASE RUSH - I BEG YOU - KEEP TALKING --- DON'T APOLOGIZE!!!

You are the shining emblem of modern "go f*** yourself Republicanism".

Please keep it up!

Won't it be grand, if, in the final analysis political historians determine the Democrats won both the Senate and the House in 2006 because of Limbaugh pig fat mouth?!!!

[treestar]

30. He has no way of knowing or proving this so it was just meant

to be vicious, as Limpballs always is.

Asshole, that he thinks he could judge anybody who has a real disease. What a butt-wipe.

[RobertSeattle]

34. Without the Factless Assertion, Limbaugh would be a mime

And mime's are that good on the radio!

[Jack Rabbit]

31. OK, Rush, fine

I take back none of what I said.

[Berry Cool]

32. What was it Keith Olbermann said?

Regretting nothing is admirable in a French torch singer, but dangerous in a politician? Well, in Rush, it's just plain stupid and cruel.

I laughed out loud when Keith called him "Limp-baugh" very pointedly right on the air.

[Melynn]

33. Rush is just doing what his masters tell him to do.

No more. No less.

Still, that doesn't excuse him smearing a disable person. A thinking, normal person would never do that. I guess some people will do anything for money.

[krkaufman]

35. Limbaugh acts as a "cognitive dissonance firewall"

The critic or truthteller must be characterized as ridiculous or biased, in order to give the Right Wing minions a pass on critical thinking that might reveal contradictions to their ideology -- providing a sort of cognitive dissonance firewall. As example of this, we've been subjected to 25 years of demonizing of news media as "the liberal media" -- allowing Right Wingers to comfortably ignore anything they might hear on the news that conflicts with the fantasy world created for them. And yet another example, pulled from this election cycle is "Nancy Pelosi": the Right must demonize Pelosi to prevent their followers from hearing what she's actually saying, and learning that they agree with most of it.

George Lakoff or someone else, I'm sure, has a term for this. But I like "cognitive dissonance firewall."

[kiki]

36. Rush Limbaugh is a pedophile.

I have no evidence for this statement*, but I stand by it. It is what I believe; it is what I think. It is what I have found to be true.


* Apart from him being found in a known child sex tourism destination with a bottle of Viagra.

[Critters2]

47. LOL! nt

[Nickster]

37. Some people say that Rush likes to perform ritual sacrifices and bathe in the

blood of small children. That's just what I heard some people say at least.

[Marr]

39. Remember when Limbaugh's drug addiction became public, and

there were scattered admonishments- even here on DU- saying 'don't make fun of his problem'? And Limbaugh's problem wasn't close to Parkison's. He was just a simple drug addict.

The man has learned nothing. He exemplifies all the worst parts of humanity. The fact that he still has people who listen to him and take him seriously is just incredible.

[jus_the_facts]

40. I was seriously terrified of him way back in the early 90's......

....for what he was gettin' away with sayin' on the air waves...He should be exterminated as the traitor he is. :nopity:

[bloom]

41. They must have found that the hate was working.

Like the people repeating such things in comments on the YouTube video of Fox.

If enough Republicans thought it was beyond disgusting - like we do - then maybe he would have apologized. That's my guess.

[JitterbugPerfume]

45. I pity Rush , in a way

He has lost his soul,if he ever had one

What an angry and unhappy person he must be

[Rob H.]

46. Pseudo-humans like Limbaugh and Hannity are top of the list

...of right-wing bloviating assholes who are just crying out for a good cock-punching. Compassionless freaks, the whole festering lot of them. :grr: