Rush Limbaugh said that Michael J. Fox promotes "false hope" by suggesting that blastocyst stem cell research could hold a cure for millions of humans suffering from a wide range of maladies. Who else has offered false hope?

Anyone can grow up to be president of the United States.

Ouch.

If you'll just give your soul--a soul you have been told you have--to a deity you cannot see or hear or touch or smell or taste then you will be rewarded with a permanent safe place in Heaven.

Just gotta believe. And no smirking.

It's morning in America.

No it isn't. It's late afternoon and getting darker earlier every day.

If you put this condom under your pillow Mark Foley will suck you off when you turn 18.

This one might be true!

If you just put your money in private accounts all will be right with the world!

Pull the other one.

Terry Schiavo was not in a persistent vegetative state--she could think and feel just like you or me!

Uh, no she couldn't. Her brain was pretty much low-cal Jamba Juice for the last years of her life. Can Bill Frist think or feel? Let's open him up and find out!

Barbara Bush and Lynne Cheney will someday fight each other--no holds barred--on Pay Per View.

I have reason to live! Hope has been kept alive!

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Readers: can you help Rush Limbaugh stop the terrible scourge of false hope by thinking of more examples? He needs to bring his message of False Hope to all Americans!

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