Response Ad to Michael J. Fox…

It looks like some celebrities have a response to Michael J. Fox’s ad touting Claire MacCaskill and embryonic stem cell research.
They are:
Jim Caviezel (Actor, “The Passion of the Christ“)
Jeff Suppan (Major League Baseball player)
Kurt Warner (National Football League player, Super Bowl XXXIV MVP)
Patricia Heaton (Actor, “Everybody Loves Raymond“)
Mike Sweeney (Major League Baseball player)

(If you cannot see the video above, you can view it here on the YouTube site.)
Further, it appears that Michael J. Fox might have gone off his meds to film this commercial, dramatically increasing the effects of his Parkinson’s Disease, as he did before he testified before Congress in 1999. How do we know this? Well, Michael J. Fox detailed it in his autobiography, “Lucky Man,” published in 2002.
This is an excerpt which appears on Mr. Fox’s website. (Emphasis added):

Snippets of my testimony were featured on several of the nightly news broadcasts. One line in particular from my prepared statement got a lot of play: “In my forties, I can expect challenges most people wouldn’t face until their seventies and eighties, if ever. But with your help, if we all do everything we can to eradicate this disease, when I’m in my fifties I’ll be dancing at my children’s weddings.” I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.

Later that day, when I finally got a chance to see the hearing broadcast in its entirety on C-SPAN, I was struck too, but by a transformation of a completely different kind. Sure, the symptoms were severeóI looked as though an invisible bully were harassing me while I read my statement. My head jerked, skewing my reading glasses as if the back of my skull were being slapped. I was fighting to control the pages of my speech, my arms bouncing as if someone were trying to knock the paper out of my hands. But through it all, I never wavered. I saw in my eyes an even, controlled sense of purpose I had never seen in myself before. There was, ironically enough, a steadiness in me, even as I was shaking like a leaf. I couldn’t be this still until I could no longer keep still. The bully attacked from every angle, even from within my own body, but I wasn’t about to give in, or be distracted from what I had come there to do.

Be distracted from what he had come there to do? What exactly was that? Simple, it was to put his symptoms and his affliction on display to punctuate his remarks before Congress.
The Media Spin Machine is reporting that Rush Limbaugh claimed that Fox was either acting or off his meds, but none of them seem to mention that he admitted to going off his meds in 1999.
I wonder why that is…
William Smith
ConservativeBlogger.com