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Well, it looks like I’m going to have to eat a little crow from one of my previous posts. The Jerry Lewis telethon made a whopping 65 million dollars this year for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Obviously, people are still watching.
Apparently, the show also pitched help for any MDA-registered families that are victims of Hurricane Gustav. It’s a good idea and a brilliant P.R. move by Lewis and company. It did get me thinking: why should all that money only benefit those with muscular dystrophy? Why can’t next year’s donations go towards fighting cancer or some other charity?
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