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Yes, you're probably right—your afternoon would have ended on a far brighter note were it not subjected to this campaign ad for Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, featuring Michael J. Fox suffering from an unsettlingly advanced spate of Parkinson's tremors. An actor's political endorsement for a Midwest race isn't typically the type of thing we'd bother to share—but that was before corpulent pharmaceutical enthusiast Rush Limbaugh decided to chime in with accusations that Fox was faking it:

Noting that Fox is "moving all around and shaking" in the ad, Limbaugh declared: "And it's purely an act. This is the only time I have ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has." Limbaugh added that "this is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting, one of the two."

Later in the broadcast, Limbaugh stated that "I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act, especially since people are telling me they have seen him this way on other interviews and in other television appearances."

Even for this hugely reviled mudslinger, it's an outrageous statement to have suggested Fox purposely failed to take his required medication in a manipulative ploy to elicit sympathy. Then again, it's no worse an accusation than the Viagra smuggler has himself weathered countless times before, mainly from a string of suspicious call-girls disappointed to find Limbaugh was incapable of quickly completing the deed, and were instead being retained for a long night of no-holds-barred hotel room snuggling with the ED-suffering radio host.