daughter Lauren: Are either of you among the thousand-whatever people on
this list?
How about Chief Justice John Roberts? Are you here, Your Honor?
Lauren had it bad, 25 per day. I had always imagined I would end up like
that, but she was really getting pounded.
Of course all of US want a program on epilepsy, and I think this one was a
good one. If it elicits a politically-motivated offensive response, that
simply can't be ignored. People shouldn't be talking smack about epilepsy
like it's a political football. I guess I've never heard Michelle Malkin say
anything that wasn't offensive but she's never brought up epilepsy and now
I'm offended personally.
-Jason
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Millie Myers <mylmy@gogreencroft.net>wrote:
> Jason,
>
> If those attitudes come thru in this group-- you can count me out.
>
> It hasn't been long that you all wanted a program on EP, We got
> one. Now let's see if we can get more and improve them.
>
> Millie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason" <tiscione@gmail.com>
> To: <epilepsy@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:27 PM
> Subject: [epilepsy] The "other side's response" to that 60 Minutes story
>
>
> Is anyone interested in a less charitable, more cynical take on that 60
> minutes story with David Axelrod and his epileptic daughter?
>
> Naturally, Michelle Malkin has a shocking one for you, if you're a glutton
> for punishment:
> http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/26/david-axelrods-i-care-campaign/
>
> (You only need to click on that URL if you want to read the disgusting
> comments.) This is what she says there:
>
> [snip]
>
> *In Chicago, there are no coincidences.
> In Chicago-on-the-Potomac, there are no coincidences, either.
>
> In the desperate push for Obamacare, the White House spin doctors are
> pulling out all the stops to distract from the disastrous numbers by
> ginning
> up emotions.
> FLOTUS is playing the the concerned parent card.
>
> So is White House senior adviser/Astroturf master/Big Pharma beneficiary
> David Axelrod, who appeared on 60 Minutes with Katie
> Couric<
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/23/60minutes/main5414456.shtml>this
> weekend to talk about the epilectic daughter he never sees because
> he's
> so busy trying to salvage his boss's government health care takeover plans.
> The AP dutifully recycled the story — which itself had been recycled
> from February's
> Parade
> magazine.<
> http://www.parade.com/health/2009/02/susan-axelrod-CURE-epilepsy.html>
>
> Ann Kane at the American Thinker is dead on: *
>
> *This is all very noble, until we look at who the advisor to the president
> really is: a PR man par excellence. No matter what he says, even lovingly
> about family members, he will always be under suspicion for promoting a
> brand. That's just the way it is with professional spinners. So, when the
> going gets tough for him and the White House, the tough create a soft news
> story.*
>
> *Cynically-timed puff pieces on Axelrod = "news."*
>
> *Investigative commentary on and analysis of Obama's radicals and
> subversive
> policies = "Not news."*
>
> *What's next? A prime-time special on how Rahm Emanuel nursed his
> grandmother back to health?*
>
> [/snip]
>
> (I removed the links to American Thinker, American Spectator, and earlier
> Malkin posts.)
>
> I was taken away by all this... but I really like the way she spells
> "epileptic". There is definitely something wrong with Michelle's brain but
> it doesn't appear to be "epilecsy".
>
> Of all the sneerful commenters, I could only find one who seemed to have
> any
> familiarity with epilepsy or respect for people with it at all:
>
> [snip]
> On October 26th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, farmgal said:
>
> *Having 3 children that are Epileptic 2 have very serious forms of it,I'm
> always encouraged when there's news on Epilepsy that lets people know that
> Epilepsy is a very tough sometimes fatal disability,instead of the easily
> controlled one it's often potrayed as.But with that said I couldn't watch
> it,because I know very well who David Axelrod is and what he's trying to
> promote in socialized medicine and I can't stand Katie Couric.It makes me
> ill to think of people who dump their children in homes because they don't
> want to care for them,especially with the money that family has.Please
> spare
> me the phony tears.Linn*
>
> [/snip]
>
> You can tell she's for real, because she can spell "epilepsy" correctly.
> Although I still disagree with those who capitalize the E.
>
> -Jason
>
>
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