cognitive dissident

Rush Limbaugh’s slander that Michael J. Fox “[e]ither…didn't take his medication or he's acting” during a pro-stem-cell political ad is nothing short of disgraceful. So was the non-apologetic apology where Rush said:

I stand by what I said. I take back none of what I said. I wouldn’t rephrase it any differently. It is what I believe; it is what I think. It is what I have found to be true.

How, exactly, does one find something to be true that is a baseless accusation directly contradicted by the facts? How does the MSM spin this into an apology? Fox fired back at Limbaugh on CBS Evening News:

KC: In fact, Rush Limbaugh suggested you had failed to take your medication intentionally so when you did that ad you’d be more symptomatic and therefore, more sympathetic.

MF: The irony of it is, I was too medicated …The thing about being symptomatic is it’s not comfortable. Nobody wants to be symptomatic. It’s like you want to hit yourself with a hammer, you know, you want at all times to be as comfortable as you can be. And at this point now, if I didn’t take medication I wouldn't be able to speak. I’d have a mask face and I wouldn’t be able to speak and I'd lock up and freeze and not be able to move. So there's no time I'm not medicated. [emphasis added]

Rush should stick to what he knows best: ridiculing teenage girls, popping pills, getting divorced, and taking sex tourist vacations. Michael J. Fox is out of his league.