Limbaugh Versus Fox

Diane Sawyer slandered Rush Limbaugh this morning. She contended that Rush had claimed Michael J. Fox had faked his symptoms. What Rush had done was report that Fox had said he either does not take his medicine or sometimes takes a larger than usual dose to exaggerate his symptoms to gain sympathy for the Parkinson's community or when before Congress, to gain additional research funding. Rush never declared Fox was faking, only that he might, as he said in his own book, try to accentuate the affects of the disease when it could benefit the many afflicted and their families, caregivers, and research. The media managed to successfully distort Rush's word and even his webcam to advance the victories of Claire McCaskill in Rush's home state of Missouri and Ben Cardin over now RNC chair Michael Steele in Maryland (especially ironic since Steele is an advocate for the Parkinson's cause since his sister is a sufferer). No decent person would ever suggest that a person of such fame as Fox would feign distress for some malevolent reason, and Rush certainly did not. It is a shame Diane Sawyer showed no such scruples in maligning Rush and his twenty million plus listeners.