Rush Limbaugh may have cost the Repubs the Senate seat in MO?

[kentuck]

In one of his most disgraceful moments, he flopped around on his radio show mocking Michael J Fox for "exaggerating" his Parkinson's disease. In a very close Senate race between Jim Talent, the Republican, and Claire MCCaskill, the Democrat, where Amendment 2 is one of the most talked about issues in MO, this could not possibly help Talent, the Republican. Thanks Rush! Talent must be thinking?

If I were advising the Democrats :), I would advise them to take the clip of Limbaugh flopping his arms and mocking MJF's disease, and show it all over the state of MO. Rush wants publicity. Give it to him.

[Chomskyite]

1. Anybody out there watching?

Claire, here's your victory. Go out and get it!

[Swamp Rat]

2. ditto!!!

:D

[stepnw1f]

6. Isn't It Amazing How "Ditto-Heads" Don't Seem to Realize that...

their name, "Ditto-head", actually means they don't think for themselves? That they get their info from a self-delluded drug addict racist who calls them "Ditto-Heads"/"Brainless-Lemmings"?

[Swamp Rat]

10. I find that particular irony very amusing.

:D

[hlthe2b]

3. Missouri is the "SHOW ME" state, after all...

:evilgrin:

[Penndems]

4. I'd like to think the folks in Missouri have more sense than to worship at the throne of

Rush Limbaugh.

That jerk has no credibility whatsoever.

[Mabus]

9. But he's from Missouri

and, unfortnately, he's given a wee bit of a pass as a "Native Son". Fortuntately, as a result of his latest antics, that pass has been revoked by some voters.

[Penndems]

13. Rush Limbaugh left Missouri behind a long time ago

Both literally and figuratively speaking.

He has more of a connection to Palm Beach than he does to St. Louis, or Cape Girardeau.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. I disagree

He has connections all over the state. He is from south of St. Louis and he lived for awhile in KC, in the western part of the state. He was the voice of the Royals before he became a rw windbag. He is supposedly still good friends with George Brett. I know many people who think he is a god.

He has lots of connections in MO.

[Penndems]

30. Understand where you're comin' from here

The majority of people I've met and dealt with from Missouri are good, decent and plain-spoken.

Rush Limbaugh doesn't seem to fit that criteria. ;)

[BeachBuckeye]

32. I don't know about Missouri

But I can tell you I have not talked to a single Republican in Florida that didn't think his antics were not just great. Hard to imagine that mindset.

[donco6]

5. Yes.

I think that would push it right over the top. That Rush clip will hurt the anti-stem cell cause for a long, long time.

[catmandu57]

7. I tell you what, up here in the corner

of the state things look iffey. This is a deep, deep red here, I feel like a little blue dot floating in a sea of hate and ignorance, yesterday, judging by the yard and fence signs, it looks like a sure loss if we're going to win the day, a couple of things need to happen.
The fence sitters need to be turned off enough to stay home, and the urban vote needs to show up big.

[Mabus]

8. I saw Talent's "response ad" this morning

At least I think that's what he was trying to do. In the ad he talks about (and uses) his mom as an example of why we don't need stem cell research. He says she had breast cancer but, get this, she was cured by current technology. He ends the ad by equating stem cell research with cloning.

Admittedly, the ad came on this morning before I was fully awake and I wasn't paying a lot of attention. My overall impression was that he's saying we don't need to do stem cell research because we already have ways to cure diseases. He also made a real push that stem cell research = cloning. I wasn't impressed.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. This would be ironic, since Rush is FROM Missouri, isn't he? He should just

take his oxycontin and STFU.

[John Gauger]

16. John J. DiIulio, Jr.

wrote my Gov textbook. I did not know he was a member of the Bush administration. That puts an interesting spin on things.

[madrchsod]

19. like the bush rave------

[gumby]

21. That's just great ! !

Thanks !!!

[walldude]

12. He's denying everything.. what a maroon

Who are you going to believe? Rush or your own lying eyes?
"because there is an irresponsible charge, and an irresponsible misuse of video from my ditto cam here – by the way, welcome to all of you watching on the ditto cam today — there is an irresponsible charge that I was making fun of Michael J. Fox, and that I said Michael J. Fox was faking it. Neither of those two charges have any foundation of truth whatsoever and, yet, they continue to be leveled and they continue to be distorted and amplified upon."

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/29/limbaughs-phony-apology-then-attacks-mj-fox-again/#more-11437

[mediacenter]

14. Proposition 200

in Missouri is about cloning, not stem cell research.

[greenbriar]

17. weeeee time to play

hehehe

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. Boy sounds JUST LIKE what Kurt Warner said in the wingnut response ad.

Go figure!

[gumby]

25. I think one must CLONE the embryonic stem cells

in order to do the research. Doesn't that mean "cloning" "humans"?

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. Well, first of all,

EMBRYO means 'early'. NOT 'baby'.

And secondly, stem cells are not humans. They never will be. They must be implanted in a womb and grow to become a fetus.

The stem cells used in research have been rejected for implantation.

So no, cloning stem cells is not the same as cloning humans.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

26. First of all it's proposition 2, not 200. Here are the links with the text:

Cloning is part of it but there's a lot more.

Full text: http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2006petitions/ppStemCell.asp

Section 38(d). 1. This section shall be known as the “ Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.”

2. To ensure that Missouri patients have access to stem cell therapies and cures, that Missouri researchers can conduct stem cell research in the state, and that all such research is conducted safely and ethically, any stem cell research permitted under federal law may be conducted in Missouri, and any stem cell therapies and cures permitted under federal law may be provided to patients in Missouri, subject to the requirements of federal law and only the following additional limitations and requirements:

(1) No person may clone or attempt to clone a human being.

(2) No human blastocyst may be produced by fertilization solely for the purpose of stem cell research.

(3) No stem cells may be taken from a human blastocyst more than fourteen days after cell division begins; provided, however, that time during which a blastocyst is frozen does not count against the fourteen-day limit.

(4) No person may, for valuable consideration, purchase or sell human blastocysts or eggs for stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures.

(5) Human blastocysts and eggs obtained for stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures must have been donated with voluntary and informed consent, documented in writing.

...

5. To ensure that no governmental body or official arbitrarily restricts funds designated for purposes other than stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures as a means of inhibiting lawful stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures, no state or local governmental body or official shall eliminate, reduce, deny, or withhold any public funds provided or eligible to be provided to a person that (i) lawfully conducts stem cell research or provides stem cell therapies and cures, allows for such research or therapies and cures to be conducted or provided on its premises, or is otherwise associated with such research or therapies and cures, but (ii) receives or is eligible to receive such public funds for purposes other than such stem cell-related activities, on account of, or otherwise for the purpose of creating disincentives for any person to engage in or otherwise associate with, or preventing, restricting, obstructing, or discouraging, such stem cell-related activities.

"Fair Ballot Language" version:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2006ballot/fbl.asp#amend2

Fair Ballot Language
Constitutional Amendment 2

A "yes" vote will amend the Missouri Constitution to allow and set limitations on stem cell research, therapies, and cures which will:

*

ensure Missouri patients have access to any therapies and cures, and allow Missouri researchers to conduct any research, permitted under federal law;
*

ban human cloning or attempted cloning;
*

require expert medical and public oversight and annual reports on the nature and purpose of any stem cell research;
*

impose criminal and civil penalties for any violations; and
*

prohibit state or local governments from preventing or discouraging lawful research, therapies and cures.

A "no" vote would not ensure that stem cell research permitted under federal law is allowed to be conducted in Missouri and that Missouri patients have access to stem cell therapies and cures permitted under federal law.

This measure will have no impact on taxes.

[salin]

35. and yet the wingnuts claim it is a "cloning" amendment

just in time for Halloween... "BOOO!" are we skeered yet?

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. Don't worry

No one wants to clone YOU.

Enjoy your brief stay here! :hi:

[walldude]

37. Yeah... and? What does that have to do with Rush denying

he made fun of M.J. Fox? Or were you replying to the original post? If you hit the reply button on a post you are replying to that specific post. If you want to reply to the original you have to hit reply on the original...

Welcome to DU.

[Annces]

15. It also occurs to me you can appeal to the better side of Republicans

Some of them care about Parkinson's disease and its effects on people.

[SharonAnn]

38. My Friend's R-W brother, Limbaugh lover, has a wife with Parkinson's

His wife, in her 50's is now near death from Parkinson's.

He's turned off by Rush big-time over this issue.

But, who knows how he'll vote.

[madrchsod]

18. wouldn`t payback be a dish best served cold if

his home state goes to the democrats because of his flopping arms?....i wonder what his grandfather thinks of him now....

[salin]

20. is there video footage of Rush's antics?

that would be something to see.

[kentuck]

23. Here's one..

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/28/this/

[salin]

29. two points...

1) if it weren't Limbaugh - that would be frickin' unbelievable.

2) remember when rush lost a lot of wieght, wrote a book about it as a way to extract even more $ from his listeners? then when the drug story broke there was some speculation per the *real* reason for rush's weightloss? Can't help it - but it appears that there was something to that speculation - wouldn't you say?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. Check the .gifs in post #11. But it's at Crooksandliars.com also, in the

Keith Olberman segment about this.

[salin]

31. I watched via Crooksandliar's Olberman clip

OxyRush was appalling.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. I think you are right

The interesting thing about this is that rush is from MO. He is sorta popular in the show me state.

[Cleita]

36. I hope he has cost them more than MO.

Even his most ardent followers have to cringe at that display.