I would argue that Mr. Fox is damaging what has traditionally been a bipartisan effort at addressing and curing illnesses, and that is the primary point here. Democrats are politicizing diseases and illnesses. The Breck Girl, John Edwards, promising, if John Kerry is elected, that Christopher Reeve and others with spinal paralysis would walk, when there's no such is evidence that any research into embryonic stem cells will create any immediate cure toward anything. It is irresponsible to mislead victims of people suffering from these horrible diseases in such a fashion. But that's exactly what has happened.I said yesterday that I doubted that Fox had skipped his meds in order to present the worst case image on TV, but now I'm not so sure.
That's what the Democrats are doing, politicizing diseases and illnesses, damaging what has traditionally been a bipartisan effort at addressing and curing illnesses, and the same time they claim if you don't embrace their political and cultural agenda, then you're for Parkinson's disease, and you are for spinal paralysis. It's no different than the way they do it in the environmental movement. They talk about dirty water and dirty air, and if you oppose the environmentalists, why, you must be for dirty water and dirty air! You don't want clean water and clean air, and this is a script that they have written for years. Senate Democrats used to parade victims of various diseases or social concerns or poverty up before congressional committees and let them testify, and they were infallible. You couldn't criticize them.
It was the same thing with the Jersey Girls after 9/11, and in the period of time when the 9/11 commission was meeting publicly. Victims are infallible. Whatever they say cannot be challenged. I don't follow the script anymore. Now, in terms of Michael J. Fox, I did some research today, and I found his book that was published. It's "Lucky Man," 2002, but he admits in the book that before Senate subcommittee on appropriations I think in 1999, September of 1999, he did not take his medication for the purposes of having the ravages and the horrors of Parkinson's disease illustrated, which was what he has done in the commercials that are running for Claire McCaskill and Jim Talent. So when you insert yourself into the political arena this way, to expect insulation and absolution and to expect yourself not to have what you say criticized in the manner in which you're trying to sway opinion is a little bit I think above the fray. I mean, to think that you're immune from any sort of criticism, it's worked in the past for Democrats, but it doesn't work here.
As sad as it is to say, Michael J. Fox has become the official dancing monkey of the Democratic party, though instead of putting in a quarter to make the monkey start dancing, you put in a Dem vote and maybe, perhaps, if the unproven science turns out to have miraculous powers that even Jesus Christ himself would be jealous of, someday maybe the monkey can stop dancing. It's a harsh assessment, but allowing himself to be used as a Dem pawn deserves nothing less.
The other day I commented that the move by Dems to convert evangelicals to the global warming cause was not about saving the planet, but about winning the election. In the same manner, putting the spasming Michael J. Fox on TV to promote cloning and stem cell research is not about healing people, but about engendering sympathy and stirring up emotions for the purpose of winning the election. Nothing more, nothing less.
UPDATE: We know which side of the argument the mainstream media is going to come down on. The top headline on AOL this morning is: Limbaugh Rips Ailing Actor. Fox Has Parkinson's Disease. It isn't until you click on the link that you find out that Rush is upset with the exploitative nature of the ads, and isn't just picking on sick people.
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