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So I finally got around to reading Michael Savage on the Autism Controversy after grading papers, going swimming with Charlie and explaining to the water aerobics teacher why the boombox was contributing to him looking mighty distressed and since the

Todays adventure in digitilogy started a couple of weeks ago. Word came in that Rush Limbaugh had signed a contract for $400 million. That kind of money will buy a lot of painkillers. I did question whether Rush was a good investment for that sort of coinage. His popularity seems to have peaked about the time of the Gingrich revolution. Even if he is at fourteen minutes and counting, someone thinks the last thirty seconds of his fame is worth nine digits of loot. Then, one of the other radio whiners…probably Mike Gallagher…got jealous over another person getting a big contract. I didn’t catch the name right away, but soon found out that it was Sean Hannity. I stalked Sean Hannity one afternoon. In the early nineties, I was working in a job downtown with lots of free time. Mr. H was a celebrity guest in a sparsely attended parade…probably veterans day. I followed his car for a couple of blocks, staring at him with a blank look, like I wasn’t too connected to the planet. Finally, he looked at me and said “are we having fun yet?†“ But that wasn’t the best part of my search party. A technorati looksee for Sean Hannity yielded a bunch of stories about Micheal Savage. Mr. Savage is not from the south. His former last name is Wiener. And he is like a kid who shouts cuss words at dinner, and loves the attention that he gets. He has outdone himself lately. He was talking about autism. He should know that people know how to transcribe what he says. †I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot. †I can’t spill too many details, but I know a bit about mental illness. I have sat in on many “what can we doâ€conversations. There are a lot of unknowns, and perhaps some things could be handled better. But that does not excuse a man, who should know better, for trashing a lot of decent families. Of course, some people still don’t get it. A conservative blog posted a piece called †“This is why Michael Savage is the most hated conservative in America.†And someone left this in the comment thread: †cant believe no one believes in free speech anymore… all of you so called conservatives have played directly into “Media Matters†trap! …good jobâ€

According to Michael Savage that is. Radio host Michael Savage incites protests with autism comments WOR said they couldn't be held responsible for what Savage says because he is a syndicated host broadcasting out of San Francisco. "We regret any consternation that his remarks may have caused to our listeners," the station said. On the air last night, Savage said his comments were "ripped out of context" by "far left Stalinists." He said he was talking about kids who were "misdiagnosed," but repeated his contention that most children who are called autistic aren't really sick. The comments on the article are just lovely. So are the comments on a lot of other post and articles I've read. Apparently the opinion that autistic kids (no one seems to realise yet that those kids you know, grow up) are just rotten kids with rotten parents is pretty popular. Lovely. So much for autism awareness. It seems that most people would rather autism, and autistic individuals not exist, so they comfort themselves with the delusion that it is all faked, bratty kids (again ignoring the fact that autistic kids grow up to be autistic adults), a result of bad parenting (apparently this means not heaping enough verbal and physical abuse upon your kids), an over zealous medical establishment looking to make money off of gullible people (there are people making lots of money off of autism but they're not your family doctor, pediatrician, or big bad pharmaceutical companies), a ploy to get goodies from the government (I wish they'd let me in on the secret), or some combination there of. Savage autism. Savage's Comments Infuriate Autism Community Michael Savage, autism comment It's interesting how some people would rather take pot shots at liberals and conservatives than actually discuss the substance, or lack thereof, of Savage's remarks as is happening in the comments on this post, This is why Michael Savage is the most hated conservative in America. There are also a few over/mis-diagnosis, bad kids, bad parents comments thrown in for good measure. I wonder if any of these people know what's involved in actually getting a diagnosis of autism. People who have more intimate experience with autism, as in being autistic and/or caring for autistic individuals, have their own opinions on the matter. Is this guy for real? Savage indignation Conservatives Need to Get a Clue Savage Language, To What End I Do Not Know Savage Language, Cont’d A Little Autism Education for Michael Savage Micheal Savage - bottom lip trembling Ignoble Savage Technorati Tags:savage, autism, conservatives, michael savage, disability Generated By Technorati Tag Generator