American conservatives taunt a Parkinson's victim at anti-healthcare rally

Whatever you feel about the Obama healthcare plan...this tells you all you need to know about those on the right who oppose it.

Submitted by Boom Boom on March 20, 2010 - 2:12am.

Bill Maher ran that clip on his show tonight on HBO, and said basically the Parkinson's sufferer represented "welfare handouts" to the conservative protestors who threw dollar bills to him and told him to stand up like a man. Pretty pathetic.

Submitted by welder on March 20, 2010 - 3:34am.

Classless.....

Submitted by remind on March 20, 2010 - 12:05pm.

Got nothing to do with class, and everything to do with being fascist haters, and being controlled by the media.

Afterall, the media in North America is following the guidelines set up by Hitler to control the masses through media, and look what results he got, a whole nation of haters willing to murder en mass those they were told to hate.

Submitted by Michelle on March 20, 2010 - 12:16pm.

Good god.

Now what needs to be done is for people to find out the names of those men who were being so cruel, and publicize them broadly. This requires a major, major shaming campaign.

Disgusting. My grandfather died of Parkinson's. The thought of anyone treating him like that while he was sick fills me with rage.

Submitted by remind on March 20, 2010 - 12:23pm.

Ya, I hear ya Michelle, and I wonder what Michael J Fox will have to say and do about this?

IMV, he should move out of the USA and make a big deal about doing so.

A family member of ours who winters in the USA, has Parkinson's and I can't wait to speak with him about it.

Submitted by 500_Apples on March 20, 2010 - 12:27pm.

Michelle wrote:

Good god.

Now what needs to be done is for people to find out the names of those men who were being so cruel, and publicize them broadly. This requires a major, major shaming campaign.

Disgusting. My grandfather died of Parkinson's. The thought of anyone treating him like that while he was sick fills me with rage.

They wouldn't be shamed Michelle, they would become celebrities.

Submitted by Michelle on March 20, 2010 - 12:33pm.

I don't know about that, 500. That might a bit too cruel even for Republican-leaning swing voters, and even some bluish Republicans.

Submitted by al-Qa'bong on March 20, 2010 - 1:35pm.

These Republican teaheads are all in favour of humanity, just as long as one hasn't been born yet. Once birth occurs, however, you're on your own.

Submitted by Sineed on March 20, 2010 - 2:17pm.

Reminds me of back 4 years ago when Rush Limbaugh taunted Michael J. Fox, accusing him of faking his symptoms.

Rush Limbaugh wrote:

"He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

The real issue was around the funding of stem cell research, which Rush opposed.

For people whose logic defends murdering abortion doctors as "pro life," taunting disabled people is nothing more than garden-variety political advocacy.

Recall Ann Coulter's slander of Democratic senator Max Cleland, a triple amputee Vietnam veteran who lost both legs and his right arm:

Quote:

"Max Cleland should stop allowing Democrats to portray him as a war hero who lost his limbs taking enemy fire on the battlefields of Vietnam," she writes, claiming that he "lost three limbs in an accident during a routine non-combat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. In fact, Cleland could have dropped a grenade on his foot as a National Guardsman …. Luckily for Cleland's political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam."

Thanks to Ann Coulter and Repuglican attack ads, Max Cleland lost his bid for re-election to the senate in 2002.

Submitted by clandestiny on March 20, 2010 - 2:54pm.

Hitler won the second world war, finally. You can pick/choose whatever date you want: Nov22/63, or Nov7/1980 (when rrightwinger reagan was sselected by 37% voters as US prez) or Nov7 2000 (rightwinger bush lost election, but pigmedia sent voters to bed thinking Gore was in, but pulled off trick @ 4am declaring the Youngster new rednekki emperor!) or dec12 '00 when supreme court selected the youngster despite law, or even sept11/01 when the nazipoohs took over the nat news media forever for good...what matters is that Hitler's financial helper, prescot bush, had his son/grandson put into whouse, and effectively destroyed liberal democracy. Canada is following like the tail on a kite...

It's almost funny. (couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch then the rednekki)

The real amazing thing, though, is how we all just sat by and watched the bastards lie about who did what, and why. King Ed the 7th was basically a nazi-he was forced out in '36 because he wanted marry ms simpson, but sir oswald mosely and the britnazis tried to arrange his restoration, and most of western upper classes agreed USSR was the enemy and not hitler. They supported franco in Spain fight, and have spent billions demonising USSR and Stalin- who defeated hitler. Truman and churchill created 'iron curtain' to deny east europe/USSR share of marshal plan, but blamed USSR (though allies had nuke weapons by then and alarmed Stalin into defensive posture) You can read 'rise/fall of 3rd reich' a dozen times and never know that it was we, the allies, who forced the cold war on USSR/europe. And today dingbats like steve harper, junyer bush, mike harris, rex murpphy, and a plague-of-host other rightwing stooges sit atop the working culture- while their tapeworms of reaction are everywhere (leah mclaren and craig bromel /don cherry etc heroes of tv biography, and winter olympics showing how wonderfully capable harper is!)

we lost, the nazis(poohs) won and that is that

American conservatives taunt a Parkinson's victim at anti-healthcare rally

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