Jerry Lewis telethon raises record donations
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?
I also wonder if the donations truly are record numbers when inflation is taken into account. The charity has been going for a long time and I keep thinking back to those that say when inflation is taken into account, Gone With The Wind is the highest grossing movie of all time. Still, those are semantics and it is a good cause. If you wish to donate, go to http://www.mda.org.
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