Talk:Muscular Dystrophy Association
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[edit] Minor Change
I just linked Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy to Kennedy's Disease (since they're the same thing). Lotsotech 13:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of Jerry Lewis Criticism
Removed the following:
- Jerry Lewis has also made some disparaging remarks towards the disabled community:
- In 1990, he wrote a first-person essay entitled "If I Had Muscular Dystrophy" for Parade magazine, in which he characterized those with muscular dystrophy as "being half a person."[1] Many in the disabled community viewed his remarks as prejudicial, contributing to the idea that disabled people are "childlike, helpless, hopeless, nonfunctioning and noncontributing members of society."[2]
- On May 20, 2001, he responded to his critics in an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning: "If you don't want to be pitied for being a cripple in a wheelchair, don't come out of the house." Again, disability rights activists blasted him for characterizing disabled people as helpless and homebound.
As this information is available in the Jerry Lewis article. While Lewis is well know for work with MDA, these are personal comments and criticism not MDA sponsored events. There's little need for people to associate the two. If needed a short line about Mr. Lewis' controversy can be added, but it doesn't appear needed.--Kinglink 20:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Final tally removal
I removed the following:
- The exact amount of the final tally that rolls up on the board at the close of each annual Telethon is predetermined by MDA representatives weeks before the Telethon is held.
I doubt this is true, and I don't think its responsible to leave it on the article without a citation. —Cliffb 01:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Greece?
Umm...is it just me, or does the MDA Greece website have nothing to do with the article? FruitMart07 22:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
