http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:18:53 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/03/113347.php#comment-704924 I think Jerry is doing a good job. I have 2 boys wit Duchenne MD. I don't know what I would do if it wasn't for the MDA. People should be a shame. Money doesn't grow on trees. Without money there would not be a MDA. Whether we like it not people with disabilities are different. That is why there are laws. The fact that he doesn't sugar coat it, is a good thing. Children should have hope that a cure is found for what they may have, but you should never lie to them. They should know the truth about everything that is about there disease. All I have read here is complaining. What do you expect to gain from all this. Get a hobby! I haven't had any bad experiences with the MDA. They have helped a lot. So what if Jerry Lewis is blunt. I don't see anyone else trying to take his place. I have watched the telethon also. The money does go to a good cause. Leave Jerry alone. He is a good man that cares. The bible does say no good deed goes unpunished. I can see that is true! 704924@blogcritics.org Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:18:53 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/03/113347.php#comment-696672 am duchennes muscular dystrophy patient age 29,am frm india,ne one help me to live or guide me for research centres to undertake for their research purposes,hw to get help 696672@blogcritics.org Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:33:59 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/03/113347.php#comment-627922 Well, even if any of those drugs did work, Jerry would likely still be in business. Big organizations like his tend to self-perpetuate. Case in point: the March of Dimes was originally set up specifically to combat childhood polio. Once polio was eradicated, rather than disband, the charity changed its focus to childhood diseases in general - thereby all but guaranteeing themselves an indefinite existence, since children will always get sick. 627922@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:37:34 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/03/113347.php#comment-627894 Do you know why the Iraq war is still going on? Because the powers that be want it to go on. They're making big bucks off this mess. It's all politics....it's all about money....it's all about the oil. Now, compare that to Sleaze Lewis' MDA Telethon. His years as an "entertainer" ended years ago when he ticked off Mr. Martin so he figured out how to run the biggest scam in America, the Annual Labor Day Telethon. Personally, I would have figured he was getting a hell of a lot more than $400K out of this, and I'm sure he is. Any way you want to cut it, Jerry Lewis is a sleaze ball and I cringe every time I hear the term "Jerry's Kids". For forty some odd years, stupid people have allowed this dip to set up shop on their TVs and then actually give him their hard-earned money. Don't you get it? He's nothing more than the de-frocked so-called evangelist Jim Baker and Ed MacMahon is Tammy Faye. For years, they have made a fortune off this scam and there isn't a single drug on the market today that has shown any promise whatsoever. 627894@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:34:34 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/03/113347.php#comment-627695 hello dominic...i applaud you and your research. i feel the medical system in the u.s.a., is a predatory machine...using drugs,office visits,research and surgery....as a set and proven system of producing a high standard of income for those involved. cures and remedies.....are an after thought, and i feel in many cases actually avoided. as you stated, it would kill the goose which lays them the golden egg. its very sad and very wrong. this process,to give credit where its due, is interwoven with (some)....good things. in recent years the whole corporate system has turned into a street hustle known as "bait and switch".....promise a dream as the bait and then the switch is what you get in reality. good luck and god bless you. 627695@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:25:54 EDT