What Michael Savage Meant: His Explanation of the Autism Commentary

If anything is a "fraud," it's the pretend goy, Michael "Savage." (Real name, Michael Weiner.)

He regularly attacks other Jewish Americans with such vitriol one is reminded of the Kapos who bargained with the devil and helped kill their fellow Jews in Nazi concentration camps. He sells well with our own American neo-Nazis in the "Christian Identity" movement.

He describes the respected organization, "Media Matters for America" as a "homosexual mafia."

He got fired from MSNBC after telling one caller to "get AIDS and die."

Such a sweetheart, I'm telling you. A lovely boy, this faygele.

While misdiagnoses do happen, I still think he was way out of line when he opened his mouth. But I believe that in most cases the children/adults were correctly diagnosed.

He's not too far off base, but as a talk show host you have to be careful with anything that has to do with kids. I'm speaking on "shock jock" standards and not my own. You can do borderline racial remarks and people might be up in arms for a minute or two as long as you don't cross teh line or are sponsored by a huge network. Gay insults seem to fly allright as well. But talk about people's kids...well, the lines can get crossed very easily.
In my psychopharmacology class we looked at the issues of overdiagnosis when it comes to diseases like ADD and Autism. I have met parents who thought their kids were "mildly autistic" and, I have to say, it was a joke to see these parents baby their children that really did need some tough love. At the same time I have worked one-on-one with autistic kids that were properly diagnosed and needed help.
The worst is ADD. I used to work at a summer camp for four years and all these kids would be diagnosed as ADD but off the meds for the week. I will honestly say that out of the 60 or so ADD kids in my cabin I had over those summers, maybe 10 really needed the meds. The other 50 needed less sugar and more exercise because they were just fine. And the international camp counselors told me they had never seen ADD until they came to America.
So yeah, I believe that Michael Savage's cause is in the right place. His mouth was not and when you offend one group (gays), anything you say after that is subject to scrutiny.

It doesn't matter what context his words were said in. Context matters sometimes. In this case it does not. He's an idiot.

Savage isn't an "idiot." He merely acts like one, so he has no excuse to say what he says.

He does claim to be a "scientist," however. I think he was trained as a nutritionist decades ago, but he claims expertise in global warming (he's a "denier"). If producing hot air makes you an expert, I guess he's right.

so again, as a parent with an autistic child, this individual's methodology is what is off beat and harmful.

How can he determine only 1% of diagnosis are valid? He cannot.

To air a scripted scenario re a misdiagnosed autistic, thereby degrading all autistics, is wrong. It hurt me as a parent who has struggled for years to get help for my son (non medicated help).

He could have found a better way to relate to misdiagnosis of kis, a valid issue, without berating autistics.

He should have chose to berate brain damaged children....but their problems are PHYSICAL so must be real, huh? he is a putz and no advocate of children that i can see. In fact, it appears he would rather call children hateful names and berate them! What fantastic parenting skills that promotes.

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Savage isn't an "idiot." He merely acts like one, so he has no excuse to say what he says.

He does claim to be a "scientist," however. I think he was trained as a nutritionist decades ago, but he claims expertise in global warming (he's a "denier"). If producing hot air makes you an expert, I guess he's right.

If you act like an idiot you are an idiot.