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RUSH: Annapolis, Maryland, this is Patty. Nice to have you on the program, Patty. Welcome.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Listen, Democrat from Maryland giving you a holler. I really hate to beat a dead horse, but you said a little earlier on the program about Michael J. Fox and what you really had an issue was with what he\u2019s saying, you know, in the advertisement for these different senators, whatever. And I guess my issue is, if that is in fact true, then say it. You have the right to say how you feel about what he said.RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But you don\u2019t have to make fun of the guy. I mean, I think everybody in America saw the webcast of you sitting in your seat and kicking around and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait! Hold it a minute. Make fun of him? Who says I made fun of him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m saying you made fun him. I could see it on the webcast.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you watch the webcam when the show was going on, or where did you see that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, and I told your producer: I didn\u2019t hear your show. I\u2019m a pretty regular listener but the last two days I\u2019ve been busy, haven\u2019t had a chance to get to the radio. I actually heard about it from my mother who is a severe liberal Democrat (who) called and she was very upset about it and she knows I listen to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, tell me where you saw this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I saw it on the Today Show this morning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You saw it on the Today Show.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Let me tell you what was happening.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because they\u2019ve —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a big fan of telling both sides. That\u2019s why I like to listen to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here it is from the very beginning. I go to the Drudge Report, and I see the link that there\u2019s this controversial ad by Michael J. Fox running. So I figure it\u2019s a political season, no big deal, and I watch it, and I listen to it, and I am stunned because I\u2019ve never seen Michael J. Fox that way. I\u2019ve seen him on Boston Legal; I\u2019ve seen him in interviews. I have never seen him in the full force of the ravages of his disease. So I have a radio show here, and I am trying to describe for the audience watching on my Dittocam what I am seeing — and I hope you heard the words. His face and his body never leave the frame, and as I\u2019m describing this (I\u2019m even doing it now, and as I\u2019m describing this) I\u2019m starting to move around like he does, but never once was I making fun of him. I was trying to illustrate for my audience watching on the Dittocam what I had seen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well, you know, that\u2019s fair. Like I say, as a Democrat I like to listen to your program so I can get both sides of the story. I\u2019m an intelligent person. I\u2019m a moderate Democrat. I think both ways, and so I like to hear both sides of the story, and it\u2019s kind of why I wanted to call and say it really looked like you were trying to make fun of him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what media can do when they take words and pictures out of context. I didn\u2019t see the Today Show report, but it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if the commentary that accompanied that little Dittocam clip helped create the impression that that\u2019s what I was doing because they\u2019ve also reported that I was accusing him of “faking,” which I didn\u2019t do. I accused him of “acting, or being off his medication,” and the reason I raised the speculation of being off his medication is because in his own book, he has written in chapter eight that before Senate committees he goes off the medication so that people can see the ravages of the disease, which I said I can understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s true, but he hasn\u2019t done that since — the last time he spoke in front of the Senate that I\u2019m aware of was 1999. Now, as an RN, I can tell you that the progression of that disease, especially in one as young as he is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I mean is fairly severe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But one of my favorite TV shows is Boston Legal and he\u2019s been in it within the last year or two appearing entirely normal. So I\u2019m just using what I have seen with my own eyes and what I know. I understand the degenerative nature of the disease, but the idea that I was making fun of him, that is a media concoction and creation because they have an agenda with this, which is understandable. I mean, I\u2019m their favorite guy wearing a black hat. I\u2019m glad you called so I could set it straight because anybody who watched this did not see a smile on my face while I was mimicking this, just trying to illustrate for people watching what I had seen in the ad that shocked me — and it is shocking. It\u2019s horrible to watch.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would you agree?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I would agree. It is difficult to watch for people that don\u2019t understand what it is that Parkinson\u2019s does to a person. I mean, it\u2019s very difficult to watch, and what makes it even more difficult to watch is to understand that he can\u2019t control that. He\u2019s not acting. I mean, there\u2019s nothing that he can do that can stop those movements from happening —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and to go on the drug makes people very sick. We\u2019ve all seen Mohammed Ali, and we\u2019ve all seen —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Wait. Wait.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — what these drugs can do to people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second, now. I\u2019m just going to be human with you here. “There\u2019s no way to control it,” yet he finds a way. He can appear on Boston Legal. Now, I understand that they have to do a bunch of different takes and it\u2019s hard to do, but I\u2019ve never seen him that way. I have seen him far more recently than 1999. When you say “you” can\u2019t control it, or he can\u2019t?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s controlled by the drugs that he\u2019s taking, the doses and the day. I mean we all know everybody with or without a disease, everybody has good days and bad days, and when patients have those kind of degenerative diseases, it\u2019s worse.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that. But the bottom line remains all of this is a very sad use of this to politicize all this, and to go out and claim that there\u2019s one political party that doesn\u2019t want to find a cure here and the only other political party around, the Democrats, do want to find a cure is just dangerous and it\u2019s cruel. It gives false hope and all that, and that\u2019s what I spent the vast majority of my time talking about, including trying to educate people about the issues on the ballot in the state of Missouri, and in Maryland, and in Wisconsin. You know, they took that little video clip and they took maybe a seven- or eight-second audio clip out of three hours of things I said, and it\u2019s no wonder that you would conclude what you did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I agree with you there — and like I said, I\u2019m generally a pretty regular listener to you, and I can kind of see where people get the wrong impression. However, sometimes you do put yourself out there, and, you know, saying or insinuating that he was acting, I don\u2019t know. I think that\u2019s kind of —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I said, “He\u2019s either..” You know, words mean things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Either <\/strong>acting or <\/strong>off the meds,” and I had a reason for speculating on both.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, because he said before that he was off the meds, that he\u2019s gone off the meds.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he\u2019s an actor, plus you couple the fact the fact that I\u2019ve seen him on television in recent months and years with no such symptoms. I\u2019m human.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why (I don\u2019t know if they told you this) I said, “If somebody can prove to me that I\u2019m wrong about it, I will bigly, hugely apologize.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know if they mentioned that. Did they mention that on the Today Show?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That was actually in the Washington Post this morning that I read.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Huh. Well, somebody got it. All right. Well, look, Patty, I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019m happy for the chance to straighten you out (or try, anyway) and you do sound intelligent. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

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