Posted on 07/21/2008 11:23:49 AM PDT by camerakid400
Michael Savage, the incendiary radio host who last week characterized nearly every autistic child as “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” said in a telephone interview Monday morning that he stood by his remarks and had no intention of apologizing to those advocates and parents who have called for his firing over the matter.
“My main point remains true,” Mr. Savage, whose radio audience ranks in size behind only those of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, said in an interview on Monday. “It is an overdiagnosed medical condition. In my readings, there is no definitive medical diagnosis for autism.”
On his program lastWednesday, Mr. Savage suggested that “99 percent of the cases” of autism were a result of lax parenting. He told his audience: “They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life.“ He added, “Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’ ”
Asked Monday if he actually believed that 99 out every 100 cases of autism was misdiagnosed, Mr. Savage conceded that figure was “a little high.” “It was hyperbole,” he said.
But he said he was proud to have prodded discussion on the subject, and planned to give over his entire show on Monday — broadcast live from northern California from 3 to 6 p.m. Pacific time — to parents and other callers who wished to disagree with him, and to educate him.
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“Or “Nutritional Ethnomedicine” or something. A degree he’s so proud of he never fails to go even one 3-hr segment without mentioning his “physician” and “scientist” creds. Savage would last less than a week in a real medical school.”
That’s DOCTOR WEINER to you!
“You stay classy, Weiner.”
lol
“Apparently the free PR he was getting for his battle with CAIR was quieting down and he had to find another way to get some press.”
When he runs out of ideas, he can deny the holocaust.
“My wife works with severely autistic children, Savage is full of shit.”
Yep
I will recall this every time some Savageweiner tells me 'He has a degree!" in the future.
Savage doesn't let reality get in the way of his need to be "controversial," which is the sign of desperation in a talk show host.
“How dare you refer to Levin’s mouth as nothing more than a ‘pie hole’, bite your tongue.”
A$$H0!e is the word you guys are looking for.
In an earlier time, Michael Weiner would be institutionalized.
“Savage will say anything to get publicity. He may be a latent or repressed homosexual. His past relationships wih Alan Ginsberg and other homesexual Beatniks would indicate that.”
Would a straight guy choose the name “Savage”? Hello?
“No kidding. I never cease to be amazed by the clueless experts who have no firsthand knowledge of autism but they’ve “read a lotta books”. lol
I do think perhaps he got it mixed up with ADD. Surely he’s not as ignorant as it appears.”
No, he IS that ignorant.
And stop calling me Shirley.
“FR should have a forum dedicated to naive and stupid with an ignorant caucus”
uhhh...lol
Congrats on writing the dumbest post I've seen in months.
Everyboyd has the right to be wrong....and stupid.....savage is excercising his rights.
I guess you would know.
Ya! He's been "desperate" for 15 years.
Are you from the Dan Rather school of journalism?
Looks like that will be a looooooong wait: no backpedaling so far. He was even on the Larry King show and defended his comments, with Glen Beck filling in for Larry.
“Congrats on writing the dumbest post I’ve seen in months.”
I hit a nerve.
“Ya! He’s been “desperate” for 15 years.”
Longer than, I suspect.
Can’t refute the facts, can you?
I see you provided links to support your bullet points.
Oops.
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