{"id":23886,"date":"2006-10-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:20:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:20:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:20:06","slug":"caller_with_parkinson_s_questions_michael_j_fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/10\/25\/caller_with_parkinson_s_questions_michael_j_fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Caller with Parkinson\u2019s Questions Michael J. Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Mark, Wadsworth, Ohio, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Hi. Rush, you were talking about Michael J. I kind of agree with you. He shouldn\u2019t use his disease as a political issue and &#8212;<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: I didn\u2019t say that. I said he can do whatever he wants, but you can\u2019t expect nor can anybody else to not have anybody respond to it.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Right.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Once it becomes political, then it\u2019s fair game, once you enter the political arena of ideas.<\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/across_the_fruited_plain.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>CALLER: I kind of agree with you on that. I\u2019m sorry that he did it, because I have the disease, and I don\u2019t quite understand where he\u2019s coming from, other than he wishes that other people don\u2019t have the disease and are cured of it. For him to stand up there and pick a party I felt was wrong.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, see, that\u2019s the thing that offended me, the idea that Republicans don\u2019t want diseases to be cured and if you elect Republicans, it will criminalize people who try to find a cure, that\u2019s what he says in the ad.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yeah. And that\u2019s a false hope. There\u2019s no party going to pick up the research because it\u2019s a dream world anyway. What I wish they would concentrate on is more a cause to prevent it so that my child doesn\u2019t get it.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah, I understand. You know, what you\u2019re illustrating, Mark, is over the years in this country &#8212; and I even, you know, I sort of cringe when I use this word to describe it. It seems like everything has become political these days.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yes, it has.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: But I\u2019ll tell you, it used to be that in this country we fought diseases in a bipartisan way. I can remember presidents of the United States during State of the Union addresses announcing the war on cancer. Nixon did it once, and the whole chamber would stand up and applaud, not just one side, the Republicans or Democrats. Fighting cancer and fighting heart disease, they haven\u2019t been politicized yet. Somehow Parkinson\u2019s disease and spinal disease have been politicized.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: It\u2019s all political, I know.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: It\u2019s a dangerous thing, because we\u2019ve always had a tradition of everybody banding together to try to solve these various diseases, come up with cures or treatments that advance our knowledge.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I think it\u2019s wasting time, valuable time.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well there\u2019s more to it here than curing diseases is the point. Once you enter the political fray and start saying only one party will take it seriously then you\u2019ve got another agenda on your mind or other things in your agenda rather than just research and cure the disease. So once that happens, I mean people that do that are fair game.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Okay. A couple things about the disease that I felt you had wrong. I\u2019m not the knowledge man on it but I\u2019m going on my personal experience. The involuntary movement he had was medicine related. He probably had too much in this system.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019ve gotten e-mails from people, doctors and others, people who suffer or their family members suffered, and, frankly, what I\u2019m hearing is all over the board on it. A lot of people have said what you just said, that too much medicine can lead to those kinds of movements. Others have said not taking the medicine can. Others have said if you don\u2019t take the medicine you\u2019re basically just still with some slight tremors. But what I\u2019m hearing &#8212; it\u2019s impossible to come to a consensus about it because I\u2019ve got so many people claiming to be family members, sufferers, doctors, and so forth, and everybody is telling me &#8212; not everybody, but I mean there\u2019s a variety of explanations for this that I\u2019m hearing. I don\u2019t know which to believe.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, I worked for the post office for 28 years, and the disease that took me, it made my muscles very stiff and unable to walk. And since then, I was diagnosed in \u201998 and had to take a disability in 2004, and since then I have had surgery through the Cleveland Clinic and &#8212;<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Still there? Yeah, okay.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: It\u2019s called BBS surgery. And I don\u2019t know if you were aware of it. It\u2019s not a cure, but it does eliminate a lot of the symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m learning a lot about this disease in the last two days. One of the things I learned, for example, Mark, yesterday was that at a Chicago hospital, an alternative therapy has been tried, and it\u2019s shown far more prospects for success than any stem cell research has. It involves a virus inserted into the brain via a gene. Two nickel sized holes are drilled in the top of the head and the viruses is admitted or inserted, and what it does is stimulate the production of dopamine. Now, Michael J. Fox\u2019s foundation donated $1.9 million to a study to further the research here after these promising results. <\/line><BR\/>We talked about this yesterday, didn\u2019t get reported on, but there\u2019s an area of research into Parkinson\u2019s nobody\u2019s talking about, but it has nothing to do with stem cell research. This whole stem cell thing really is not about stem cells, folks, it\u2019s about other things important to the leadership of the Democratic Party. Mark, I\u2019m glad you called. I know it\u2019s probably difficult for you, and I appreciate your effort and your courage.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/across_the_fruited_plain.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Mark, Wadsworth, Ohio, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi. Rush, you were talking about Michael J. I kind of agree with you. 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