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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot

Here is the ad that Rush Limbaugh said was a fake and that Fox is "acting", mimicing the symptoms of Parkinson on purpose:

UPDATE: I probably should have included this in the original post. This is Rush:

"I stated when I saw the ad, I was commenting to you about it, that he was either off the medication or he was acting. He is an actor, after all."

You can hear the quote here.

UPDATE II: More on the ad from Digby who quotes a Parkinson's expert:

What you are seeing on the video is side effects of the medication. He has to take that medication to sit there and talk to you like that. ... He's not over-dramatizing. ... [Limbaugh] is revealing his ignorance of Parkinson's disease, because people with Parkinson's don't look like that at all when they're not taking their medication. They look stiff, and frozen, and don't move at all. ... People with Parkinson's, when they've had the disease for awhile, are in this bind, where if they don't take any medication, they can be stiff and hardly able to talk. And if they do take their medication, so they can talk, they get all of this movement, like what you see in the ad.

Written at 8:45 AM by Greyhair.

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1 Comments:

Unknown said...

He honestly accused Mr. Fox of faking this disease? It's time for Mr. Limbaugh to lay off the happy pills, because he's entirely lost touch with reality. I'm sure, in his opinion, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and Christopher Reeves were all faking it too? Geez, Louise...where's Lynn...I can't do outrage justice.....

9:15 AM

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