Response Ad to Michael J. Fox’s Missouri Moonbattery

Michael J. Fox’s recent exploitation of his disease to advance the progressive campaign to further dehumanize unborn babies marked a new low in political advertising. In case you haven’t seen it click here.

It’s probably no accident that Fox’s Parkinson’s seems especially bad in the commercial. Here he is in his own words admitting that he will stop taking his meds in order to worsen his condition so as to pull heartstrings:

I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

As Rush Limbaugh points out, this isn’t the first time Democrats have politicized disease. John Edwards famously promised that Christopher Reeve would walk again, if only voters would elect John Kerry. But Missouri’s Amendment 2 battle is particularly disturbing because under cover of confusing verbiage it would establish human cloning as a constitutional right.

There is no evidence that any miracle cures are in the wings if only Jim Talent, who opposes Amendment 2, could be removed from office. The objective — beyond replacing Talent with Democrat Claire McCaskill in the Senate — is to push aside any morality regarding the sanctity of human life.

Stem cell research is not really the issue; it is already legal in Missouri, and Talent is not trying to change that. The issue is raising unborn humans in Petri dishes for purposes of harvesting their cells, like something out of a horror movie. The motivation is not so much to cure disease, as to establish that human life has no inherent value, thus defending the liberal sacrament, abortion.

Amendment 2 opponents have a response on the air, featuring Jeff Suppan, who will be pitching for the Cardinals in the World Series tonight click here.

Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

Said Van Helsing @ 4:09 pm | Permalink   

1. So why are there unclaimed embryos in the first place? Because folks want to tamper with nature and increase the odds of bringing life into the world by creating dozens of embryos with the intent of having only one child. Why doesn’t the right condemn this? What should happen to those embryos? Should they remain frozen for eternity? Are the souls frozens too? When will the right have the courage to act legislatively to end the artificial means of conception and gestation?

   Comment by Mike Woolsey — 10/25/2006 @ 6:18 pm

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2. In that book excerpt, Fox is describing his testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Hearing on Parkinson’s Research and Treatment on September 28, 1999. The full transcript is here.

   To say that he “admitted” going off his meds suggests that he did something sneaky. But given that he told the subcommittee during his testimony that he was unmedicated, I wouldn’t call that an admission at all. There was no intent to deceive.

   From the transcript:

   “For many people with Parkinson’s, managing their disease is a full-time job; it is a constant balancing act. Too little medicine causes tremors and stiffness, too much medicine produces uncontrollable movement and slurring, and far too often Parkinson’s patients wait and wait (as I am right now) for their medicines to kick in.”

   In addition, the flailing and tics seen in the commercial are not from Parkinson’s itself, but are very common side effects from the medication. This dyskinesia or chorea is NOT found in untreated Parkinson’s patients. The original symptoms of the disease are tremors and stiffness. Skipping medication would have made Fox appear more “frozen”.

   I don’t see any history of deception, nor do his symptoms fit in with skipping his medication. Rush was free to say what he wanted, and I’m free to say that he’s full of it.

   Comment by Mary — 10/25/2006 @ 11:50 pm

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3. I get very heated in my debates against advocates of conservative policy. I do so, because conservative pundits make it so abundantly clear, that if it’s not THEIR personal rights that are impinged, they will ALWAYS veto progressive remedy.

   Comment by Goshdarnit — 10/26/2006 @ 8:05 am

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4. I love it when fruitbat rightwing nuts claim folks like MJ Fox are “politicizing” anything, especially since fruitbat rightwing nuts are hell-bent on politicizing EVERYTHING, including their so-called religion, Christianity.

   Comment by blutscheiss — 10/26/2006 @ 1:33 pm

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5. Comment by Cao — 10/26/2006 @ 3:47 pm

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6. If you dupes knew how hoodwinked you really are by Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex”, and Lincoln’s “Moneyed Elite”, you would kick yourselves back into sensibility.

   But, you would rather have Rush Windbag, et al., do your “thinking” for you.

   It is so much easier to believe what the Dictator tells you to believe than it is to gather information and think for yourself.

   You right-wing bandwagoneers will lead to the destruction of this country, which was once a shining beacon of Freedom and Liberty. You have already extinguished the lamp, and we slump before nations as an object of scorn and ridicule.

   World War III will be waged by the civilized nations of the world against the American Christo-Fascist Dictatorship you idiots crave so much.

   May God have mercy on our souls.

   I am proud to be a “Moonbat”, and ashamed of what my Country has become.

   Comment by Moonbat Alpha — 10/26/2006 @ 3:54 pm

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7. Princeton Professor Robert P. George who sits on the bioethics comission says;

   I have great sympathy for Mr. Fox and other victims of Parkinson’s and similarly horrible diseases. I understand how desperately he hopes for a cure for what afflicts him and so many others. I have seen members of my own family suffer, and I too want to hasten the day when the great engine of science conquers the diseases that cause so much suffering. But the fact that Mr. Fox is a victim is not a license for him to mislead or manipulate the public. The truth — the whole truth — must be told. Those politicians who, for political gain, have run these ads in which the truth is distorted and people are misled deserve the most severe of reprimands. Win or lose, they have brought upon themselves disgrace.”

   Here, here.

   Nobody wants to criminalize this research, as Fox says.  That has nothing to do with the evil christian rightwing, that has to do with FACTS.  You know.  Those things that you people conveniently leave out of the debate.

   Comment by Cao — 10/26/2006 @ 4:50 pm

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8. There’s a recognized dope addict making fun of a sincere person with an illiness which can greatly disrupt life. Instead of hiding his illness, our sincere friend is trying to get the apathetic government and public to be aware of the issues. The truly sick person engaged his mouth before using his befuddled brain.
   We as a nation need to learn and practice acute critical thinking. Academics should not outweigh athletics. Using our medical capability to relieve or cure illinesses it seems more moral than to worry whether God approves.
   Americans need to stop playing God with other people’s lives. Let every religion be honored but realize God will correct all problems in his own time. Clean up our own back yard before we try to tell others how to live. On that note, we need to…
   Legalize stem-cell research.
   Legalize same sex unions so their basic human rights are protected.
   Decriminalize drug use and offer medical help as well going after big time crime.
   Move to legalize prostitution to insure health safety.
   Take care of our critically and mentally ill, our homeless, our hungry.
   Get out of a war being fought for oil, using children for cannon fodder, and lining some fat cats pockets.
   We are not the whole world nor should we be responsible for everything happening. Perhaps other world powers should take up responsibility.

   Comment by jo puehse — 10/27/2006 @ 12:07 pm

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9. “Some of us lag behind the advancing wave of moral standards, and some of are far ahead. But most of us in the 21st century are ahead of our counterparts from the time of Abraham, Mohammed or St Paul.

   The progressive shift often emerges in opposition to religion. It’s driven by improved education and (media expression).”

   Fundamentally in the subject of politics: religions are deceptive guides when concerning issues of morality.

   - By the way, Fox wasn’t being deceptive. By being unmedicated, was he not showing the REALITY of his circumstance? The truth of his issue? How can we not have sympathy for that? Conservatives prove, time after time, that they have no sympathy.

   Comment by Goshdarnit — 10/28/2006 @ 2:39 am

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