Michael Savage defends autism remarks: I'm just "defending the defenseless!"
By SilentPatriot Monday Jul 21, 2008 12:00pm
When I heard Michael Wiener Savage was going to appear on "Larry King Live" Monday night (with Glenn Beck guest-hosting) to "defend" his horrific remarks about children with autism -- "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." -- I knew to expect at least two things: (a) he would claim that he was "taken out of context", and (b) he would attack MediaMatters for bringing it to the public's attention. What I didn't expect, however, is that he would attempt the PR equivalent of a quadruple axel.
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Beck: It seems pretty clear that you don't really believe autism exists.
Savage: No, no, no, no, no. Again, you took what they gave you. But you didn't take the entire preceding material. [...] This was in the broader context of the overmedicalization, the over-diagnosis of disease, using our children as profit centers. I've spent all day saying what a shame it is that I -- as a man who has spent his entire life defending the defenseless, mainly children -- should have to defend myself from charges leveled at me from men who specialize in hating families and children, namely MediaMatters -- who probably come after you as well -- by ripping things out of context and making me look like the monster that they are.
You see, Michael Savage is a humanitarian who's always looking out for the kids! When he says children diagnosed with autism are "brats" who just need a father to smack some sense into them, he's actually defending them. How dare anyone "take him out of context" when all he's trying to do is speak candidly about the epidemic of over-medicating children?! What do those so-called "experts" know about autism, anyway?
Here are a few other examples of Savage's humanitarianism and "defense of the defenseless":
Savage: "We're getting refugees now who have never used a telephone, a toothbrush, or toilet paper. ... [T]hey never assimilate. And then their children become gang-bangers."
Savage accused former page of "gay-baiting" Foley and added: "Maybe he's a Democrat."
Savage advocated "militarization of our children" to respond to terror threat.
You can use MM's form to find your local Savage station and make your voice heard. AFLAC has already decided to pull their ads.
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PIG.
Turd.
And an asshat too! Michael Savage=LOSER
Weiner
I really, REALLY hope every autism group in the nation goes after this typical right-wing arsehole.
I have been a long-time advocate of the fairness doctrine. The argument is always the "freedom of speech" The rebuttal is that all freedoms can and will be abused with out any laws governing them. The jails are full of freedom abusers. Hate speech is an abuse of freedom. Reagan gave talk radio hacks like Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, and Savage a platform for blatant hate speech. Hitler would be proud of Ol' Ronnie RIP.
Must one be heartless to have a right leaning radio show? It surely seems that way. They seem to enjoy seeing how cruel and hurtful they can be. You have to wonder, does their audience share this ugliness?
This guy only does this for attention. Sadly, he gets it everytime. Most people have no clue who he is, until the media give him attention for his latest batch of stupidity.
Is this what happens when Larry King is gone? I wonder if they had Savage invited prior to King's day off or after Beck was assigned to fill in for him? I realize LK has a lot of fluff interviews but having Beck fill in for him interviewing Savage is just Dumb interviewing Dumber. Go to Mediamatters.org and look at each's entries. CNN- Please send Beck back to Headline News where I do not have to see or hear him.
Didn't you know??
AUTISM = DEMOCRATS!
everyone's a tough guy on the phone or on radio.
weiner has definitely insulted the wrong group this time. don't fuck with the mothers of autistic children.
i hope jenny mccarthy kicks his fat, flabby ass.
Autism shares many commonalities with what was once called window-gazing or wool gathering in it's lighter forms.
That doesn't deny the reality of autism, it just makes you wonder how often it's underdiagnosed.
And there are problems with the over-medication of children. Just recently it's emerged that certain anti-depressants in adolescents can cause suicide or suicidal thoughts.
These caveats aside I still think mikey is a weiner.
Remember, the only reason that this douchebag is on the air is because he has an audience. A very
large audience.
Day-dreaming was the other term I was looking for instead of window-gazing.
Spock @ 14:
Logically, it's just one guy who eats a lot.
pissed off patricia @ 7:
IMHO, yes.
WHAT AN HOUR OF COMEDY...last night's Larry King was...now, I'm a huge fan of THE CLOSER so clicked back and forth but could hear my husband move between laughing out loud and shouting A**hole at the TV...Michael Savage should have come down on his head all of what he wishes on others...now that would be KARMA!!! And, could there be a bigger joke than Glenn Beck as a "host"...YEGODS...are them priming him to take over for Larry? Good old CNN always looking for the prime talent...UGH
What a sad, pathetic man this Michael Savage is.
There are wonderfully effective medications he could be taking.
Why did you give Michael Savage publicity by reporting what he said -- again?
I recommend that everyone ignore him and he'll just fade away along with his calculated and intentionally offensive remarks.
Omg.. Weiner is a... well weiner.. for sure. But come on! Are you seriously saying kids who day-dream are autistic!?
Expect the "Don Imus" treatment... a lot of self-indignation, then business back as usual, with more sponsors than before.
Can anyone find a list of sponsors? I'd really like to make sure I wasn't doing business with those who pay for time on this asshole's show.
Liberal AND Proud @ 19:
Marijuana would make him want to be everybody's buddy
But watch your Twinkies.
Who else sponsors this guy? Besides AFLAC, which wisely pulled out. I haven't found anything on the net about boycotting the sponsors or urging them to stop ads.
Eat your own shit with a tooth pick Savage. And that career asshole Beck made a complete dick out of himself last night subbing for Larry King. In trying to justify Bush's and McStupid's speech impediments and endless dumb ass comments, Beck shockingly lied and said "Abraham Lincoln was a terrible public speaker too". The reaction from the panel was classic. David Gergen all but told Glen boy to shut up.
I may be taking him out of context but did he say "I Michael Wiener Savage like having sex with small children and have been doing it my whole life"
richmanpoorman @ 21:
It all depends on whether they can stop it on their own volition.
Accordiing to what I've learned autism is caused by some malfunction or lack of development in what are termed mirror glands in the brain. Other primates have it too. These glands are involved with empathy which aids in learning by imitation. The malfunction creates those who have difficulty in forming empathy and become detached, and unable to observe social cues.
In the last week, there was a story in the Dallas Morning Nudes on how dogs are find useful not in just drawing out the autistic person, but they are trained to keep the autistic child from wondering off. Right now that's all they're used for, the autistic child, not the adult.
condour @ 25:
I can't vouch for this, because I haven't done any research to verify, but a quick google of "Michael Savage Sponsors" leads me to this page.
These damned conservatives....seems as if everything is always taken "out of context." Well, context this. Wiener's a pitiful excuse for a human being; Beck is an idiot for even having the jerk on the show. Larry King....he's lost it, having Beck fill in for him.
26 Left&Left
Winston Churchill had to train himself not to stutter.
King George VI had to control a tendency to stammer when he addressed the nation on the BBC.
Whoa..hopefully he screwed up enough this time to lose his show.
We shall see...but I doubt it.
What does it say about Larry King that he would allow someone as insane as Beck to host his show? Has he no idea what Beck is all about? Larry must be looking for shock value for his aging show.
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Savage - stumbled into one of his own leg-traps. I just didn't see that coming..
The hypocrisy of media regulation continues unabated. In the same manner that the MPAA relegates explicit sexual content to adults yet finds gratuitous gore and violence acceptable for all ages so long as a parent is present, the FCC finds it necessary to crack down on Howard Stern for toilet and boob humor yet sees no problem with people like Michael Savage advocating capital punishment for children who won't "cut the act out."
because outrage sells. Look at this site for example. :D
It is amazing what you can get away with on the air if you are a right wing Korporate media shill.
Randi Rhoads ended up out of a job on Air America after making crude remarks during a comedy show. Those remarks were not made on the air and she was not representing Air America at the show she was doing.
Mann Coulter, Nuts Limpballs and others of their ilke have made far worse comments on the air including Coulter advocating the death of a federal judge! After a large outcry from the left, she was invited right back onto all the right wing nut shows to continue her agenda. It's almost as though right wingers say "take that!"
This Twit will still be ranting away on the airwaves tomorrow. He probably will be given interviews on all the right wing media shows just to show us who runs things!
........And I keep hearing the media is liberal!!
Bring back the fairness doctrine!
who's the next guest host going to be cnn, david duke?
I really want my own radio show. That way, I can sit there all day, everyday, and report on how all Republicans sacrifice babies to the Alter of the All-Mighty Dollar (that's why they oppose abortion and access to birth control) and have Dorian Grey-like portraits hidden in their attics (I'm looking at you, Cindy McCain), while pretending to be oh-so-Christian. Further, they will rob, lie, cheat, rape and murder in order to gain a dollar, a stock or a stick of gum from a poor or middle-class person, thinking nothing of the destruction they leave in the never-ending quest to be JUST that much richer.
Also, they smell.
Then, I will protect myself behind the "It is free speech" meme and rake in a cool $200 Million since I'm at least twice as smart as Sean Hannity.
This slime will be OFF the air by the end of the week. He will be fired. Going going gone.
And they have another slime Beck doing the interview? Screw CNN.
Not that I've ever considered Larry 'the batman' King a real journalist, but Glenn Beck interviewing Michael Weiner "Savage"??? WTF!?!?!?!?! Did I slip through a portal into bizzarro world? THIS is what passes for mainstream now??? What's next Rush Limbaugh filling in for Charlie Rose spending an hour with Sean Hannity????
Michael Savage sounds like a prime contender from the program of the Franklin Cover-Up.
I think it's pretty clear by now that Michael Savage Weiner is an emotionally ill man who projects his damage on the world and then yells at it.
TakeOurCountryBack @ 38:
There are totally different standards for right wing nuts like Savage and progressives like Randi Rhodes. Same in the presidency. Bill Clinton impeached for enjoying sex vs. George W. getting by with tyranny. I wonder why the different standards exist so strongly.
And we're supposed to get upset about attention whores who create meaningless controversies?
Jeez where is the FCC ? I mean I would rather hear dick jokes and fart noises than this ignorant hurtful spew..
Sounds to me like every right-wing radio jerks like Savage, Beck and Limbaugh were all autistic youths that never got the counseling and treatment. Perhaps it's because it wasn't recognized back then, but they sure seem to be classic examples of what they are so vehemently denouncing.
pissed off patricia @ 33:
Larry King is a media whore. Have you seen the way he sucks up to people like Liddy Dole? Disgusting. Glad I got out of the tv habit.
Samson- @ 34:
Great research. It's too bad the old www.buyblue.org got bought up and buried. That was a great resource for taking back the country through the dollars we spend.
Savage is a brat because he cannot control his tongue from using for the purpose of what is called "Verbal attack."
You can interpret the statement from Savage as he might call the drug companies "brat," rather than the autistic children.
In my view, autism has created business and employment. Similarly, drugs, alcohol has created substance abuse centers. U.S. thrives on opening businesses at the expense of poor souls, lol.
mikey weener had a tough life... aphsical coward, he was ALWAYS getting pushed around.
so he stayed around home...
but his mother's friends thought he was a 'dirty little creep' for the way he was always trying to see up their skirts
poor mikey weener
As the adoptive parent of a seriously abused child suffering from PTSD, and who is thankfully medicated to some level of normalcy, I find Michael Wiener's remarks threatening to my child's well-being.
But he is a coward. Instead of spouting his hateful speech in public where sensible people like myself can walk up and punch him in the nose, he isolates himself in a soundproof booth where the negative affects of the vile he expresses can't be felt.
Come on out Mikey. Let me give you a taste of the corporal punishment you so sincerely think our damaged children need. Coward!
Interesting. Michael Savage has spewed hate of humans for years, even wishing for more terrorist attacks. But he smacks kids diagnosed with autism and it's over.
ysbaddaden @ 31:
I don't know where you are going with this...Beck's analogy was criminally stupid....period.
Savage probably mixed up autism with ADD where there is some controversy about over-medicating kids. But even if that's true, it's still a terrible thing to say and he makes it worse by claiming he was taken out of context.
In the original context he went on to say that he was raised by being told "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."
A lot good it did him.
Yea, and Limpballs is a sympathetic spokesperson for Parkinson's Disease http://youtube.com/watch?v=0o6yrdInw6s
I was wondering why Beck, a conservative insensitive cretin himself, was sympathetic to autism and calling Savage to the carpet. Then Beck mentioned he had a kid with special needs and I got it, a selfish conservative is only sympathetic towards the needs of others and the underprivileged only when they experience it first hand. Beck has a dog in this fight which is the only reason he gives a shit and coming to the defense of autism victims.
He should be made to repeat those remarks in a meeting with the parents of autistic children!
@ 53 Dhalgren Says:
Interesting. Michael Savage has spewed hate of humans for years, even wishing for more terrorist attacks. But he smacks kids diagnosed with autism and it’s over.
his beeeg mistake: dissing WHITE people's kids...if he coulda kept it in the minority, he'da been cool.
Autism and ADD/ADHD afflict every group, but since there are more (still) non-minorities, there are therefore MORE "majority" kids with the disorders.
In Murka, on Rightard Talk Radio, you can do anything you want... BUT diss white people's children...
What a disgusting human being. I am sure the parents of autistic kids will be outraged at the comments he made
He needs to be fired and should never be on the Air again.
Mike the Riverine @ 48:
Ever hear of "ants in your pants"? That's the term my parents & grandparents used. A few years back kids were called "hyper". Wonder whatever happened to those sayings? Autism?
What an absolute scumbag.
See Post #34.
Contact his sponsors. I think that's the only way to get this turd canned.
Where does this prick broadcast from? Why aren't there protesters there DAILY burning him in effigy?
I have a brother with Aspergers Syndrome, so I understand that autism is a viable disability.
I do however agree with this guy to a point in that there is an overdiagnosis of the problem in order to sell medications. When I was in junior high I was diagnosed with ADD and prescribed ritalin. What a joke, I just didn't like following the rules or focusing on the boring material. If it interested me I would have paid more attention as my grades show in the classes. Now this has evolved to ADHD and new drugs have been introduced.
With that being said parents are diagnosing their children as autistic and telling the doctors this is the problem. The issue comes down to the doctor not digging further and verifying that this is the problem. Some cases of autism are obvious, and there is no question. But there are many where the children just need structure and their parents to be more active in their lives. TV and video games have introduced a whole new mental state that is not so easily categorized. That's the extent that I agree with him.
bert @ 62:
Hehehehe, canned turd...avaialable in Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and now Weiner!
Mockael Savage is NUTS.
Savage perfers the old methods for treating autism, like locking autistic kids in the root cellar until they snap out of it.
ysbaddaden @ 13:
Full blown autism (not counting aspergers, add, pdd-nos) is said to be at a rate of 1 in 150. Seriously, if "better diagnosing" were true. Where are the 1 in 150 adults with full blown autism and not the "milder forms"?
As both a doctoral-level epidemiologist and an uncle of an autistic child, I found Savage's comments beyond inaccurate, disrespectful, hurtful, and damaging. I sent a letter to AFLAC thanking them for their decision not to support such commentary, and to GEICO, a company that has my family's business (for now), requesting the same. I really hope this is Savage's swan song - a hole he can't "out of context" himself out of.
Hmm, how about that first wife of his who divorced his ass only after 3 years? Nothing funnier than these "family values" hypocrites...
Thanks to SilentPatriot for bringing this to others attention
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Let me start by saying that I think Savage is a moron and his calling Media Matters "men who specialize in hating families and children" is ridiculous. Kind of like the grand wizard of the KKK calling a jewish or gay rights advocate intolerant. But its worth listening to that whole video clip. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day and even though he expressed it in his usual moronic manner I think Savage had a point. What he was saying is that, as with a lot of childhood mental health diseases such as ADD and depression, Autism is getting over diagnosed and doctors are putting kids on drugs at a very early age without proper clinical trials that evaluate the potential long term harmful effects. I used to work at a psych hospital in the early 80's. Autism then was very rare but when you saw a child that had it there was no mistaking them with a "window gazer". They were heart breaking kids trapped in their own world that it was almost impossible to reach. They would sit rocking or try to bang their heads for hours. Now autism is getting diagnosed for children who have serious behavior problems but are nothing like those extreme cases. Of course saying “In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out." is stupid. However, I do think he has a point that autism is now over diagnosed and as a result many kids are over medicated.
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Also, I would suggest anyone even remotely agreeing with Savage to do some research on autism and "autism spectrum disorders" and "pervasive developmental disorder." The term "autism" is often used to include a wide-range of developmental disabilities - not just what is considered "classic autism." Know and understand what the statistics are referring to before crying foul or conspiracy.
MikeD @ 72:
As are most of the adult population. Watch the commercials on any socalled news channel.
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0721-02.htm
National Autism Group and Angry Parents to hold Press Conference Today in Manhattan to Announce Rally and Protest in City of San Francisco for July 23, 2008
Obviously, a guy who changes his last name from Weiner to Savage has some serious manhood issues.
goldenjoe @ 68:
They are all around you. An autistic person stands out by their behaviors. Its not as obvious as, say, Downs Syndrome.
Savage needs to be talked to by a very large mob.
Oh, yeah, my nephew is not over-medicated. He takes no medication at all, as many kids diagnosed with autism. Savage obviously has already influened some to think that any kid diagnosed with autism is loaded up with meds - not the case at all. However, as epilepsy and other SEIZURE (hard to fake and/or misdiagnose, that, eh?) conditions are associated with autism, obviously, medication can be very beneficial.
MikeD @ 72:
Mike, the diagnosis of autism falls along a spectrum. That's why you're seeing so many more diagnoses, because we have a better understanding of it. There are children with developmental issues like Sensory Intergration Dysfunction (which is on the low end of the autism spectrum) that may seem like "brats" but are truly unable to process sensory information and require therapy to control it. My best friend's daughter has SID and has issues with her sense of touch. She cannot stand the feel of elastic on her body and will compulsively remove clothes because it tortures her to feel that constriction. She is not a brat, although this compulsion was driving her parents nuts until it was diagnosed. It is not a lack of discipline that put her in this condition. It requires discipline of her parents to spend hours doing touch therapy to inure her to wearing her clothes.
Only in america can you insult, degrade and attack a disabled group of people and their families and the result is you get MORE media time and become more famous.
Will he be receiving one of those special reich wing "purple hearts" for all his hate on behalf of neocon assholes everywhere?
Anyone who has anything to say on autism without personal first hand experience is welcome to come over and change 6 year old nephew's diapers any time and also to STFU.
Winston Churchill had to train himself not to stutter.
King George VI had to control a tendency to stammer when he addressed the nation on the BBC.
It's not the stuttering re: Bush and McCain and their hate talk lackeys, it's the cruel, thoughtless, arrogant and stupid things that constantly come out of their mouths that make me wish no one would ever turn a camera on them again.
FINALLY (I'll stop with this), if it were just an overdiagnosis issue, why isn't the male/female ratio the same (1:1 as opposed to 4:1). I mean, if a doc is just out to med-up some kids, why give the females such a break?
im1dc @ 20:
ya....just like rush has faded away
if you ignore these fools, they keep going
they must be shown for the hate mongers that they are
Oh my God you guys...
My old boss is a serious devotee of this guy, and I was subjected to all kinds of crazy talking points - all the time.
I've never listened to Michael Savage, but I'm pretty sure I hate him, and his latest outrageous comments sort of seal the deal.
Tekras @ 42:
Yup, Mainstream Media, like stink on garbage on crap.
Wow! Savage is a regular humanitarian! Who'd have guessed? He's my new hero, in that case. I wanna be like him when I grow up.
On second thought...
54 Left&Left
Only that such diagnoses range in severity from the severe to the mild. The mildest form of autism is called Aspergers, who tend to function very well, although are often loners. One can't say to a stammerer or stutterer, stop doing that, because its often due to irregularities in the Wernicke area in the temporal lobe connected to the arcuate fasciculus. Although avian neurocognitive topography is decidedly different than mammalian, they have found birds who stutter in their word songs and found ways to help them, and hopefully eventually use such techniques in humans.
Some stutterers of note were Demosthenes, Aesop, Claudius, Aristotle, and Sir Isaac Newton.
Human nature drives us to try to fix things that are hindering us, and we don't have to be ordered to by a well paid cretin. In fact, one of the behaviors of the severely autistic is a tendency to grow easily frusterated and subsequent screaming fits. In other words, they sense something is wrong, but may feel that it's out of their control. That's where the dog therapy helps them with frusteration.
If people could so easily learn to just stop their behavior the first candidate should be mikey whiner himself.
my nephew has aspergers
i want weiner to go to my bro and tell him to tell my nephew to stop acting like a brat
my bro was a wrestler in college and is still pretty buff
he will rip savages head off
Nicole's spectrum says it better than my range.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBqz6FWvlo
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 92:
You seen your brother in the buff?
Why give this bigot any platform or recognition?
He is a textbook case of a closted gay whose rabid homophobia is an outward expression of his own self hatred...
i'd rather be forced to watch an hour of american idol
than listen/watch this ass clown
I'm autistic and I can be badly behaved sometimes when I get frightened or don't understand it's a natural reaction to flap or stim, but it's such a tiny tiny part of autism. Is the obsession, the routine, the intelligence, the inability to understand emotion bratty behaviour?
Someone needs to stick this guy in a room with a bunch of autistic kids and aspies, he'll soon see he screwed up with that ignorant comment.
Savage embodies the current Republican mindset.
They believe that only the strong, and white survives. And whoever does not fit this mold, is an outsider, detrimental the peace and prosperity of this nation. And they should be cast out of this nation. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. You are either the predator or the prey. So which would you be?
They are bull headed, regimented, and have strong faith in their Christian belief. And they move as a pack. For they know, alone, they cannot stand a chance, hence their consistent, coherent message. They are fascists by definition.
Why is Beck hosting Larry King???? Don't overlook this issue. He is an eh-hole and doesn't deserve the position. Get him (and Wiener) off the air. Honestly, i am more offended by Beck than the clown Savage.
Not sure if you fine folks are aware of this, but Weiner-Savage's son is the inventor/CEO of Rockstar Energy Drink. So, take that bit of information for what it's worth....
All these AM talk show hosts have the same strategy. Say something outrageous a few times a year so we'll start paying attention to them again and give them RATINGS (sweet, sweet ratings!). And we fall for it every time.
Ever hear Savage's callers?- they are as bigoted as him, if not worse.
Savage's rascism against Latinos is out in the open-he routinly refers to Mexicans as 'subhuman' and 'mud people'
Left&Left @ 26:
Yeah, that Gettysburg Address was a real disaster.
Glenn Beck having a conversation with Michael Savage????
Thanks, but no thanks.
Charles @ 103:
Yeah, it's that damned librul Clinton News Network.
The thing about The Savage Weiner isn't so much that he exists. There are people as or more disgusting than he all over the world. Rather, it's that a commercially viable audience for his execrable program. In my more pessimistic moments that fact tempts me to give up on this country.
Michael Savage is correct in one respect. It is an abomination that the medical industry, with government endorsement, is medicating our children on a massive scale. The over medication of children, as young as 2 years old, is a national holocaust that will have a devastating impact on their future development. It is a multi-billion dollar enterprise and profit center for the drug companies. This evil must be brought to a screeching halt.
MICHAEL SAVAGE IS A CERTIFIABLE ASSHOLE. How will he feels if he has a child who is autistic. Abuse him poor kid. Does he knows how much money will be spent to just to diagnosed the disease thoroughly. and while you wait for it the child is not getting any help. Maybe somebody should bonk his head to make him autistic so he knows how it feels to be in that child's position. As for his brat comment look whose talking. Adult bratiness is certainly not becoming of Michael asshole motherfucking savage
Aflac pulls ads from Savage’s radio show.
....insurance giant Aflac announced that it will no longer advertise on his nationally syndicated show:
ysbaddaden @ 28:
Although well intentioned, you have no idea what you are talking about. Please don't pass of "what you've learned recently". It doesn't help.
Weiner has to lie and say outrageous things or else everyone would ignore the idiot.
One thing is for certain, the autism "epidemic" is a result of reclassification and heightened awareness.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 109:
But they've been OK with all of his other OTT offensive bullshit.
You know, if they'd withdrawn their support of his hatefest earlier, along with all the other sponsors who are waiting for their pet cause to be insulted by this nasty piece of work, he'dve never had the chance to say this hurtful shit on air.
Sorry AFLAC. This hateful moron has been being this shitty with other people on your dime. Fuck off.
miss_kitty @ 113:
LOL. Well said. :)
Having directed a program for Autistic teens, I would say that there exists a condition... however, I do agree that people are over proscribing medical treatment and assigning syndromes to conditions that are part of the average human condition having to operate within the smaller and tighter confines of "appropriate behavior" for our f*ed up environment. CIP, I took the autism test and out scored a "diagnosed" autistic colleague. I mean, this does not mean that 99% are lying or that a condition does not exist. It's just our tools are primitive in diagnosing, our treatment ham-handed, and working with a "spectrum" framework allows more people a seat on the bus than is needed. For those of us functioning, hey, who needs the diagnosis. Does not mean we need the slap... Not that I haven't wanted to slap the hell out of a few people... like Neo Cons and their radio show hosts.
Glen Beck is a stupid ass, Savage is a well, a wiener. No pride, either one, both in a dead heat to prove that they will say anything to get a rating (and thus keep a job). I'm willing to bet they both got beat up a lot in elementary, junior and high school. Thats my opinion, but I'm willing to bet I'm pretty right on this one, humbly submitted.
Good one AFLAC! I will now boycott Home Depot, Radio Shack and Busch until they drop him, Seriously, I'll find somewhere else to shop. Won't listen to Larry King either unless he agrees to never have Beck (the village idiot) to cover from him again. I know they both will claim that an organized boycott eliminates their rights to voice their opinion. Bullshit, I'm just saying that I can show how I feel about them. I'm just saying...
110 Tom
I've known people with autism and speech pathologies which led to an interest that goes back years.
And as for the dog therapy, if it's only been recently reported so one can only recently learn of it.
He's just a prick - and he'd be noting more if we didn't have so many insular saps and muttonheads in this society so willing, so lazy to let others place thoughts into their own heads. Too much effort involved in thinking, analyzing for oneself I guess.
Maybe if I didn't give a damn about anyone other than my pocket I could ignore this sad reality too.
Micheal 'Savage' - a gene pool that truly needs analysis...
Nicole Belle @ 82:
OK, good points. I didn't mean to imply that ALL the new cases of autism don't require medication. I still believe though that there are a lot of cases where kids are getting too much medicine too early. Also, let me clarify, I would never call any child a brat. No matter what their problems kids need help, not abuse. You clearly know more about autism than I do. I haven't worked in mental health for a long time. But I can tell you that one of the reasons I quit was it was so depressing to see so many kids be hospitalized and medicated who clearly didn't need it. From what I've read and the people I talk to who are still in the field this is more a problem now than ever. At the same time I don't mean to put down anyone that has to resort to medication. I know how hard it is to raise a kid these days. I'm just advocating that people think twice and think about the alternative agendas of the pharmaceutical companies and doctors before they reach for the meds.
I think Michael Savage is a repugnant SOB that should be taken out and whipped.
OK . . . . now let me give you the context of my declaration.
I picked my nose once and adjusted my glasses two times before I made that remarkable statement. With that context in mind, it's obvious for all too see that I mean none of it. And if you don't come to that same conclusion now that I've explained the context of the situation, then you're completely self centered and everyone despises you because you're an odious little hosehead. Plus, you dress funny!
This is the cheerful, kid-loving guy who called for genocide beyond anything Hitler achieved:
" . . .the Muslim world. . . .So, kill 100 million of them".
Link at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/20/20211/0042
MikeD @ 119:
Just to clarify, Mike, this is not a "mental" condition like the admittedly over-diagnosed and prescribed ADD/ADHD. This is a developmental processing issue.
I don't know how much pharmaceuticals are involved for autism-spectrum diagnoses. My best friend's kid gets none. Other children I know with Asperger's and full-blown autism get none. That isn't to say that some don't receive medication, but I don't believe that's the typical treatment.
I will grant you that there are too many parents and sadly, schools administrations, who want to mellow out normal but spirited kids and diagnose them as ADHD to get them on meds. That isn't to say there aren't legitimate cases of it too. True story: there was a little boy at my eldest's school who was notoriously bad behaved, and on meds for ADHD. After he went into some sort of medical crisis after a field trip to a food factory, it turned out that the child had a severe and undiagnosed wheat allergy. They removed all wheat products from his diet (and it's stunning how hard that is) and he became a completely different child, well behaved, focused and a great student. It was such a huge difference that his classmates all watch out for him and make sure that if they have a special potluck kind of celebration in class (like birthdays, holidays, etc.) that the menu includes enough dishes that are safe for him to eat.
109 Dr. Hussein Matt
The AFLAC duck gave mikey's weiner a goose?
I can't think of a lower scum-sucking maggot than this asshat.
Let me qualify that a little. This jerk off has NO credentials when it comes to childhood disease, and for this piece of waste to be saying that 99% of autistic children are "faking it" is so offensive, I think this butt hole needs to be run out of town on a rail.
I've worked with autistic children, and although I know only a fraction about the condition, I can tell you it is very complex and extremely frustrating to deal with, especially when you don't know enough about the handicap to deal with it.
This butt hole is like so many other right wing, fascist scum-bags. He rudely talks about something he hasn't a clue about. He spews his hate, simplistic and moronic message to the other recipient morons in his audience, and they spread the misconceptions like wild fire. What a disgusting maggot.
I have not had an autistic child in my classroom, but I have had experience with them in neighboring classrooms, and I am totally unqualified to work with them because of my lack of understanding, experience and patience.
This pig needs his ass kicked!! What an ignorant son of a bitch!!
This was surreal, watching Glenn Beck going after Michael Savage. We are certainly down to the bottom of the barrel, aren't we.
It's a shame that somebody at CNN couldn't watch the segment and connect the dots, and say--"You know, if we don't get rid of Beck, he can do just as much damage to us as Savage did to MSNBC".
Rick O. @ 79:
not "autistic" as counted by the 1 in 150 rate determined by the CDC and California diagnosis numbers.
You might see people with "quirky" behavior and milder forms of autism or who could get diagnosed Aspergers or PDD but not moderate to severely autistic. You do not see 1 in 150 adults rocking in the corner flapping their hands, avoiding loud noises, drawing pictures on glass with their spit, unable to properly use the bathroom or care for themselves.
Nicole Belle @ 82:
Mike, the diagnosis of autism falls along a spectrum. That's why you're seeing so many more diagnoses, because we have a better understanding of it. There are children with developmental issues like Sensory Intergration Dysfunction (which is on the low end of the autism spectrum) that may seem like "brats" but are truly unable to process sensory information and require therapy to control it. My best friend's daughter has SID and has issues with her sense of touch. She cannot stand the feel of elastic on her body and will compulsively remove clothes because it tortures her to feel that constriction. She is not a brat, although this compulsion was driving her parents nuts until it was diagnosed. It is not a lack of discipline that put her in this condition. It requires discipline of her parents to spend hours doing touch therapy to inure her to wearing her clothes.
Nichole
"better diagnoses" does not account for the rate. go find 1 in 150 adults with autism in the moderate to severe range that is the current rate nationally for children.
You dont see it.
Something is happening and when one experiences what it is - they know one of the main reasons why it is increasing.
If you want to find "crooksandliars" simply look into this matter Nichole.
ysbaddaden @ 28:
This guy must type out the word "nudes" a lot. Lots of internet searching I guess.
He also state the three times higher than average incidence of asthma in African Americans was the result of them faking it. Kids being told to cough for the doctor to qualify for disability. He didn't mention that they also have a three-fold higher average incidence of death from asthma too. Method acting?
Someone with a pretense to being an expert on health should be held to higher standards.
Don't see the economic model on how MD's make money by incorrectly diagnosing kids. Not a big fan of psych meds, but how does CVS and big pharma getting money help the prescribing docs financially? And if it's a clearly the wrong diagnosis, the kids see the next doc, who disagrees with the first diagnosis, and the doc who falsely cried autism is "The moron MD who thought Timmy was autistic". Most kids with these issues end up seeing multiple specialists. And anyway, the docs could call it anxiety (which has less stigma, and would be easier for parents to swallow) and use the same damn drugs.
Geico, Sears and Home Depot have stated they've stopped advertising with him long ago, and any commercials on his site or show are inadvertent.
What a Neanderthal
And what about all those "blind" people stumbling around into women's boobs? Okay, I admit I used to do that...but I stopped after a few of 'em smacked me, and I deserved it!
We gotta stop coddling these "disadvantaged" people before they take away all our jobs!
An online petition calling for Michael Savage's firing over the latest flap-
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/486739008?z00m=15830668&s_kwcid=michael%20savage|1477600410
If over medication is a real issue, Savage, why not just have the discussion? Why issue a typical uninformed yet authoritative blanket statement? Oh, that's right, you are a simpleton who talks to simpletons. Blanket statements are all you have. Now you are the victim, right? How pathetic.
A bit off topic but anyone interested in Autism might enjoy this novel: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Its an amazing little mystery that shows the world from the point of view of a kid with Aspergers(sp?) syndrome as the hero and "detective". The amazing thing is there is a real mystery that he does solve but the best parts were descriptions of him doing things like navigate the underground for the first time. Its a book I started to read because someone insisted I would love. I expected to hate it, and then couldn't put it down. It really shows what it might be like to be in the head of someone with the syndrome.
A conservative radio station in Mississippi just dropped him:
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/NEWS/80...
All,
Radio Shack was not sponsoring the Savage Show, so please cut them some slack:
[Thank you. I just noted that upthread in a comment that said they were-Sitemonitor]
MikeD @ 134:
Also, An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks, a book of seven essays about people coping with brain abnormalities-[The essay titled] "An Anthropologist on Mars" describes Sacks' meeting with Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who is a world-renowned designer of humane livestock facilities and a professor at Colorado State University. The title of this essay comes from a phrase Grandin uses to describe how she often feels in social interactions."
Nicole Belle @ 122:
Thats interesting. At the hospital I worked at in IL there was a doctor who treated people with vitamins and by trying to detect food allergies. He had very mixed results but he was usually given the hardest patients, he was the last resort when nothing else worked. To be honest I had very mixed feelings about that doctor. I admired his attempt to try therapies that weren't based on drugs but I thought he was a bit dogmatic in believing all problems were caused by food allergies. Then again I think you have to be a bit of a zealot to buck the system.
Wow. Glenn Beck actually sounds sane in comparison to Weener.
goldenjoe @ 127:
If you want me to say that there are some outside influences that are upping the number of cases of autism, I'll agree with you. Vaccinations, environmental, I don't know. However, I do think it's worth studying and I did a post on RFK Jr.'s work on this in the past.
But there is also some truth to the increase of diagnoses being related to a better understanding of the autism spectrum. My friend's kid--who can't stand the feeling of clothing on her body--would have been written off as retarded or incorrigible in not that long ago. Now we know it's SID and she gets therapy for it. Einstein didn't speak until he was 4 years old. It's quite likely that he had Asperger's, but since we didn't have that diagnosis then, he wouldn't fall into any statistics. Likewise, many autistics were misdiagnosed as retarded and shuffled off to homes in the not that distant past.
Aren't those 'so called experts' really brain-washed automatons that are paid by big pharma to diagose kids with autism and prescribe them drugs?
I can't believe Crooks and Liars is supporting this Witch Hunt!
Everyone knows Michael Savage spouts ignorance and vitriol to hyperbolic proportions, but that is how he chooses to make his points. He says something outrageous to get people to listen. However stupid his comments on autism may be, the over medication of children is a valid issue. Since when does the Left/Progressive/Liberals support censorship?
Say NO to the Thought Police!
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I have a coworker who is a huge fan of Savage- he feels Mexicans immigrants should be 'mowed down with machine gun fire'- a highly violent fantasy that has often been expressed by savage
mjb @ 142:
Huh? Where do you get we're supporting censorship? Weiner Savage can say whatever he wants. No one is stopping him. He doesn't have the right to have a national platform. That's not censorship to ask whether companies want to sponsor his hate and misinformation.
And 1% of the Air we Breath is keeping this ASS-HOLE Living!
Jo @ 17:
I have one in my family, I'm sad to say. Her hatred of the Left is almost pathological.
ysbaddaden @ 16:
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one very very large consumer?
what are you trying to tell me here, something like the blob?
ok, now you've got me scared.
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