I would like you to apologize, Mr. Limbaugh

[Jack Rabbit]

Since you lurk here, Mr. Limbaugh, you might read this.

My wife has Parkinson's Disease. Stem cell research will be a blessing to her, and if not to her, then perhaps to her children and grandchildren. We don't know how people get PD, but one of the ongoing theories is that the tendency to get PD is hereditary.

I have seen her shake, Mr. Limbaugh. She has a tremor that at times can be pronounced. Her tremor is not as bad at that displayed by Mr. Fox in the ad that upsets you, but some people have it worse than he does.

Ask Milton Kondracke, who's no liberal. He'll tell you all about it. His wife, Millie, had PD, too. In fact, she had Parkinson's plus, a very debilitating form of PD. Mr. Kondracke wrote a book about Millie's fight with the disease, which I recommend to you.

That's a funny thing about diseases. A disease doesn't care about the political ideology of it host.

Mr. Limbaugh, you have no reason to believe that Mr. Fox was faking anything. You have no reason to believe a lot of what you say and perhaps many good reasons not. But slandering Hillary Clinton is one thing that we've come to expect of you, slandering the victim of a progressive, degenerative disease is another thing altogether. You have simply allowed your hatred of Mr. Fox -- and not so much of Mr. Fox as his personal beliefs -- to run away with your imagination.

It doesn't bother me that you don't agree with him or with me or with my wife on the issue of stem cell research. After all, that's your right. Besides, you haven't changed any minds in twenty years. I don't listen to your program; I leave that to the choir to whom you preach and to the morbidly curious, some of whom pass on your outrageous nonsense to rest of us at DU. I don't see you as a threat.

What bothers me is that you have gone after a victim of a disease. It's like making light of a cancer patient of one recovering from heart surgery. My mother taught me not to make light of any person in that situation, no matter who he was. She taught me to be supportive of such people. I know of a radio personality who has a serious problem with prescription drugs; while I can't stand him, I wish him the best fortune in kicking his habit. It is wrong to belittle the suffering of such people.

You owe Mr. Fox an apology, sir. You owe him and my wife and all who suffer from PD an apology.

If you are big enough, Mr. Limbaugh, you may use this space to apologize. It will be the first time for me and many others at DU will feel any respect for you, but it indeed be an act worthy of respect.