Diana DeGette fights for Michael J. Fox
In the left corner, CD1 Democratic representative Diana DeGette and Michael J. Fox. In the right corner, Rush Limbaugh. From today's press release from DeGette:
"By attacking someone suffering from Parkinson's disease Rush Limbaugh has reached a new low, and that's saying a lot... Parkinson's is a severely debilitating disease that robs it's victims of their motor functions. Embryonic stem cell research could hold the key to curing this and other debilitating diseases. Michael J. Fox should be applauded for speaking out on this important and life saving research, not ridiculed. Rush Limbaugh should beg the forgiveness of Michael J. Fox and the millions of Americans and their families who suffer though this disease every day."
I have always suspected that Limbaugh is a despicable person. I also suspect that Tom Tancredo is a racist, George W. Bush is an idiot, and Dick Cheney is the Penguin from the Batman comics. The first of these suspicions has been confirmed. We should all be glad Fox is out there fighting for us. And we should all be glad a Colorado representative is leading the charge for stem cell research.
"By attacking someone suffering from Parkinson's disease Rush Limbaugh has reached a new low, and that's saying a lot... Parkinson's is a severely debilitating disease that robs it's victims of their motor functions. Embryonic stem cell research could hold the key to curing this and other debilitating diseases. Michael J. Fox should be applauded for speaking out on this important and life saving research, not ridiculed. Rush Limbaugh should beg the forgiveness of Michael J. Fox and the millions of Americans and their families who suffer though this disease every day."
I have always suspected that Limbaugh is a despicable person. I also suspect that Tom Tancredo is a racist, George W. Bush is an idiot, and Dick Cheney is the Penguin from the Batman comics. The first of these suspicions has been confirmed. We should all be glad Fox is out there fighting for us. And we should all be glad a Colorado representative is leading the charge for stem cell research.
Labels: Diana DeGette, Michael J. Fox, Rush Limbaugh, stem cell research
2 Comments:
My father (the late Rep. John Carroll) was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease when I was born. I watched him suffer from the ravages of this disease and worsen every year of his life until he died of complications from Parkinsons -- but not before being taken years earlier by early onset dementia. What I saw in the ad with Michael J. Fox was the reality of what my father faced even on medication and otherwise a dignified ad supporting a candidate who supports stem cell research (with good reason). If it is so hard for Rush to watch the violent and uncontrollable spasms of Parkinson's Disease then he should support stem cell research. I watched my father lose his mobility, his speech, his career, his freedom, his friends. He spent decades under the humiliation of people either gawking at him or avoiding looking at him altogether. Colorado lost an incredible legislator, a scholar, an advocate, a linguist, an idealist and a civil rights activist -- and I lost my father to it. It is bad enough that these hypocrits refuse the moral option to help millions of Americans but it is truly beyond comprehension to actively attack the very victims whom they refuse to help.
Rep. Carroll,
Thank you for commenting. You're a great representative for your district and it sounds like you had a great role model. Every day, I find more reasons to be glad that you're in the Colorado legislature.
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