Yuku free message boards

Ultra Sonic 007 wrote:

---

For the record Castor, when Michael J. Fox appeared in both the Katie Couric interview and an ad for a Democratic candidate, he mischaracterized Republicans as 'opposing medicine' and how Republicans want people to die due to lack of proper medicine simply because they opposed embryonic stem cell research (which only made it more ironic because the bill being talked about in Missouri was about human cloning and NOT stem cells, which is a whole different can of fish). Here's Rush (the link also includes the video bit you mention):

This Michael J. Fox business they continue to get wrong even though all they have to do is go to my website back then or listen to me talk about it on the radio. We spent two hours talking about it on the first day. What they've got is that video, that Dittocam video, and I had seen that commercial that Michael J. Fox ran, which was for Claire McCaskill at that time. I had never seen him this way. He was suffering the symptoms of the disease, Parkinson's disease. I was demonstrating to people what I had seen. I had never seen him this way anywhere, not in any movie, not in any television show, not in any personal appearance. I'd never seen him that way. We radio broadcasters emulate. We're mimics and so forth, and I'm showing people what I had seen. That video, two or three seconds, got looped to 12 or 15 seconds. They admitted this at MSNBC. They sped it up and they then said I was "making fun of him," which wasn't the case at all. Here was a guy who had been thrust into the political process, and he was running a commercial for Democrat candidates accusing Republican candidates of not caring about people who have incurable diseases. He was saying that Republicans wanted to criminalize people who were working on cures via embryonic stem cells. I don't care who you are and I don't care what your malady, when you enter the political arena and you start -- I'm a Republican -- and you start lying about Republicans and my party, I am going to defend. If you are lying and not telling the truth, I'm going to point that out. Now, the Democrats use people like this. They used Christopher Reeve and his family; they used Michael J. Fox, because they think they're above criticism. They've got these diseases that we all feel sorry about and we all think, you know, there but for the grace of God go all of us. The Democrats use that as a way of insulating them from any criticism. Therefore they can go on television and read the script that's written for them and lie, mischaracterizing, without criticism. Remember, liberals don't want debate. There is no alternative point of view. Now, all of this, I said. I said, you're going to go on television in a commercial -- and, by the way, the television commercial is videotaped. So they wanted it to appear that way. Whoever put this together, these producers, these directors, they wanted the Michael J. Fox commercials to look the way they did, for a purpose. I just didn't play along with the game of considering all that hands off and untouchable. You go in the political arena, and you are going to be subject to analysis and criticism. That's what they can't believe that I did. "Why, that's heartless and cold and cruel." They were saying, "Doesn't he have hope?" He can exercise his hope all day. We all have hope. I'd love to get my hearing back. We all have hope. But you don't get to lie in the political arena and not have yourself called on it. That's my only point. So this whole thing was I was "making fun of him," which I wasn't. Michael J. Fox himself in his book [ video | excerpt ] admitted that he manipulated his meds before Senate committee hearings so as to demonstrate these symptoms, to make a connection and an impression on the senators, which I said I can understand. You're trying to get attention. You're trying to draw attention to the disease. You think you need federal funding and assistance for research into a cure. I can understand that. Well, then, if the man admits to having done this, it's not outside the realm of possibility that such things could have happened for the TV commercial, which is what I speculated on -- and when he said later on, "I overmedicated when I did the commercial," I apologized. He said he overmedicated. In other words, he used more medication than he normally does. For whatever reason, I don't know.

So that's his side. Make of it what you will, but at least you now have context herp-a-derp.

He's a filthy race-baiting bigot (his comments on Donovan McNabb right before ESPN fired him).

That comment was about the media and their treatment of certain players. He had an opinion about the play of an NFL quarterback and thought the media was treating him differently and voiced that thought. Even Michael Irvin and Tom Jackson agreed with him at the time. So don't even try.

He wishes failure upon America (and yes, the success of America is directly tied to the success of its president. Just look at what the previous administration's failures did to America both domestically and internationally (yes, I am talking about G.W. Bush here)) merely because he doesn't like the legitmately elected President's political party.

Bullcrap.

What does it mean for America to succeed? To have a stronger economy, true. To have a government that's geared towards letting the individual work, to letting free markets work. Obama's words and stated goals involve such a centralization of government control over the states and the citizenry that society as we know it would no longer be the same. THAT would be the end of America as we know it, and America would no longer be the success it has been. Obama succeeding in his policy objectives means the America as we know it is over. So no, I don't agree. The success of a President being the success of America depends on who is in office and what they're doing. And besides, I know people villify Bush for making the world 'hate us' (as if they hadn't before, what do you expect being the most powerful country in the world at a particular point in time?), but when I see dictators and tyrants cheering Obama on as he politically emasculates America, while our allies (Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Japan, etc.) become uneasy and uncertain, it simply makes me chuckle to hear people say 'But at least the world doesn't hate us anymore!' (by the way, since was being a leader and trying to do the right thing subject to popularity?).

The healthy young mother was shocked when the Golden Rule Insurance company denied her coverage due to the C-Section birth of her son. "I called Golden Rule and they said that if I would get sterilized, they would then be able to offer insurance to me."

He takes people who have real concerns about the things going haywire in their lives and whips them into a fury over a percieved unrelated boogeyman just so he can keep earning lots of money off their backs. He attacks, misleads, lies and yells so much that it's hard to discern what he really believes and what he SAYS he believes.

This just tells me you've hardly listened to his show for any considerable length of time. Understandable if you don't like him, but don't pretend you know what he's saying.

Besides, not like anything I cite would just be meant with keening wails of "But the CONTEXT HERP-A-DERP!"

Because all context does is prove you wrong. No wonder you deride it.

Ultra Sonic 007 wrote:

The man's a dog-whistle spewing bigot. You need examples? I got examples.
"Obama's entire economic program is reparations"
"Half-rican America"
"Barack the Magic Negro" (written once in an LA Times article, said 27 times by Limbaugh the next day with one of them being sung in the tune of 'Puff the Magic Dragon')
"All (they) had to do is nominate an African-American and (they've) got Colin Powell!"
"Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate"
And there's more. Good God, there's lots more.

Just scads of race-baiting dog-whistling bigotry. He hasn't said the N-word yet, and he probably never will on air because he's a genius at self-preservation. But every single thing on there is just more whining about the poor put-upon discriminated against white man all at the hands of the evil liberal Other.

Ah, Media Matters. More proof you don't regularly listen to the show. I would go into a long discussion about how the examples you cite are part of discussions on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's past, everyone treating Obama as 'black' even though he's half-white and half-black (along with how other liberals, without any sense of irony, ask if Obama is 'black enough'), and how the Democratic Party and liberals in general treat blacks as given votes (and how they paint Republicans as 'they're racists for the lulz') even though their policies have done more to encourage black poverty and the breakdown of black families over the last half-century than ANYTHING Republicans have done. You don't listen to the show; you would otherwise know that rather than being a racial bigot, Rush regularly points out the inherent dogmatic treatment by liberals of blacks as incapable of doing anything without government help, despite what government welfare, affirmative action policies, and double standards in general have done to the black community's mentality and well-being.

But go ahead, continue to cite Media Matters. They don't like Rush anyway.