Meanwhile, in another example of conservative spinning for Limbaugh's sake, Kathryn Lopez of The National Review writes:
Rush said what doctors and other experts were saying off the record on Monday when the news of the Michael J. Fox ads were fresh to the election buzzlines: That it looked like he must have laid off his medication to make sure viewers would have a worse-day kinda look at life with Parkinson’s. As Limbaugh has pointed out, Fox admitted he does such things (like when testifying before a congressional committee) in his memoir. I knew this because I watched the E True Hollywood Story on Fox (true story, alas).
Well, if Limbaugh, some off the record doctors and E True Hollywood Story say it, it must be true!
She then adds:
To make the point Rush made was not mean or heartless.
Who is she trying to kid? Rush makes millions off of being 'mean' and 'heartless'. That's who he is. It's what he does. And even when he offered a so-called apology, he just couldn't help taking one more swipe at Fox:
"Now people are telling me they have seen Michael J. Fox in interviews and he does appear the same way in the interviews as he does in this commercial," Limbaugh said later in his show Monday, according to a transcript posted on his Website.
"All right then, I stand corrected…so I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act."
"Michael J. Fox is allowing his illness to be exploited and in the process, is shilling for a Democratic politician," he said.
'bigly, hugely' my ass.
The only thing big and huge about Limbaugh is his enormous ego which, even when he gets caught being such a despicable human being, can't even allow him to offer an honest apology to a suffering man who has every right to appear in any forum he chooses to push for a cure for his illness that so sadly affects millions of others.
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