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the G-man said:
Even if we concede that Limbaugh was over the top (again, ala "South Park" and Reeve),



Why you keep comparing Rush, a political commentator, to South Park, a cartoon on Comedy Central, I have no idea...

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Fox was the one who chose to use his illness to score political points.



Did he? Or, did he step in to try and promote political backing and awareness for a prominent disease?

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Clearly, Fox wanted people to feel some level of sympathy for him personally, and to vote based on that emotional response.



How so? By appearing and speaking? By making an ad? Does the very fact that his disease is visually evident mean that whenever he appears anywhere, at any time, he's trying to garner sympathy or emotion?

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That's his right. However, as Lauer and Estritch noted, by doing so he opened his illness up for discussion and, therefore, criticism.

As someone who's been in the public eye for over 20 years, surely Fox is not so naive as to think his entry into partisan politics was immune to comment.



Again, and repeated, not in doubt. However, there's a difference between someone who is critical of him based on logic and facts, and not just "the other side" trying to smear him with lies and spin...