I’m sure everyone has heard of Michael Savage and his national radio show “Savage Nation”. I’m not in to a lot of talk radio but I have heard this guy talk before and never really had a big problem with it.. However, this changes everything. In my occupation as a Behavior Therapist for autistic children I have seen many children with the disorder… I have a heart for these kids and I think they are great… Sometimes they scream and scratch but they are great children. The point of the post, and where Michael Savage comes in is with his recent escapades on National radio.. Here are the quotes from the show where he goes and gives his opinion on autism. From this show, I will never listen to him again and while I’m not an extremist and believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, this guy sucks as a person.

From the July 16 edition of Talk Radio Network’s The Savage Nation:

SAVAGE: Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism, since I’m not talking about autism? A fraud, a racket. For a long while, we were hearing that every minority child had asthma. Why did they sudden — why 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. That was number one.

Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? 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.”

Autism — everybody has an illness. If 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.

Quote: http://mediamatters.org/items/200807170005



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