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Michael Savage, Autism Expert
By Richard | July 19, 2008
Media Matters
On the July 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage claimed that autism is “[a] fraud, a racket.” Savage went on to say, “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.’ ” Savage concluded, “[I]f I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, ‘Don’t behave like a fool.’ The worst thing he said — ‘Don’t behave like a fool. Don’t be anybody’s dummy. Don’t sound like an idiot. Don’t act like a girl. Don’t cry.’ That’s what I was raised with. That’s what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You’re turning your son into a girl, and you’re turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That’s why we have the politicians we have.”
Savage also stated: “[W]hy was there an asthma epidemic amongst minority children? Because I’ll tell you why: The children got extra welfare if they were disabled, and they got extra help in school. It was a money racket. Everyone went in and was told [fake cough], ‘When the nurse looks at you, you go [fake cough], “I don’t know, the dust got me.” ‘ See, everyone had asthma from the minority community.” MORE
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July 24th, 2008 at 3:42 am
—- A Tale that has an idiotic ring..Full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
There should be an economic revolt against all organizations that advertise on this individual’s show.
Do not make any purchases supporting the wares of the advertisers– Take the savings and purchase stock in these organizations and bring it to the shareholders..
August 20th, 2008 at 11:26 am
–what a bleeding idiot! I am a mother of a severely autistic child who can’t speak, isn’t toilet trained and is completely dependent on twenty four hour a day supervision because he is cognitively impaired as well. I would like to see this useless sack of junk try to tend to my son’s needs and then tell me that he is just being a brat and that i can control him and to stop acting like a fool. let’s see this jerk try to calm my child down when he’s in the middle of a meltdown because he can’t talk, try to get him back to sleep when he wants to be up all night…
i am bloody sick of these jerks and it’s time to fight back