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So says Michael Savage:

Michael Savage, the incendiary radio host who last week characterized nearly every child with autism as “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” said in a telephone interview on Monday 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.

Skip to next paragraph “My main point remains true,” Mr. Savage, whose radio audience ranks in size behind only those of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, said in the interview. “It is an overdiagnosed medical condition. In my readings, there is no definitive medical diagnosis for autism.”

On the July 16 installment of his program, which is broadcast every weekday, 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.’ ” Among the other admonitions he felt children with autism should be hearing, he said, were: “ ‘Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’ ”

Asked Monday if he actually believed that 99 out of every 100 cases of autism were misdiagnosed, Mr. Savage conceded that figure was “a little high.” He added, “It was hyperbole.”

It figures that autism and NASA financing may come from the same source: a selfish devotion to persecuting the successful, and a contemptuous attitude towards people of faith, who rightly insist upon spanking their children. Autistic children are nearly always liberal children. They failed to see their old man's belt more often, and instead grew up relying on Mommy, Daddy, and the fortunate, like a vampire would. Michael Savage shouldn't be backing down from his revelation at all. Instead, he should expose autistic children for the socialists they are.

There are several people, however, who are reacting with stupidity and brash liberalism towards Mr. Savage:

Late Monday afternoon, Aflac, the insurance company, announced it was withdrawing all advertising from Mr. Savage's show. "We understand that radio hosts pick on any number of targets," Laura Kane, a company spokeswoman, said in a statement, before adding that Aflac considered "his recent comments about autistic children to be both inappropriate and insensitive.”

Who cares about Aflac's opinion? If they want to kowtow to the liberals who want to take away the right to private insurance, they can go ahead. They won't be receiving my family's money anymore. They incorporate bestiality into their commercials with their talking ducks, anyways.

In New York City, Autism United, a coalition of organizations that advocate on behalf of children with autism and provide services to them, staged a protest Monday outside the studios of WOR (710 AM), which carries Mr. Savage’s program weeknights from 6 to 9 p.m., Eastern time.

“He characterizes children with autism who are very, very ill — disabled children — as essentially bad kids; the only thing wrong with them is they have parents who don’t discipline them,” said John Gilmore, executive director of Autism United and the father of an 8-year-old with a diagnosis of autism. “That completely misrepresents what is going on with children with autism.”

“Basically, what he’s doing is parroting what used to be said about autism 40 years ago, back in the heyday of Freudian analysis,” Mr. Gilmore added. “It was blamed on bad parenting. There wasn’t a shred of evidence to support that.”

He's got plenty of evidence, or at least much more than you pro-vaccinationists do. In fact, the mandatory vaccination crowd is probably also the one who made up the soulless concept of autism.

Paul Siebold, a spokesman for WOR, said in an e-mail statement: “The views expressed by Michael Savage are his views and are not those of WOR Radio. We regret any consternation that his remarks may have caused to our listeners.”

Except that he generates the most revenue for your moonbat radio station, sure you shouldn't agree with him! Don't even think about distancing yourselves from Mr. Savage _ you'll become another 7th rate AM radio station listened to only by weirdos that accept food stamps, subscribe to New Age religions, and protest the Iraq war.

Mark Masters, the chief executive of Talk Radio Network, which syndicates Mr. Savage’s program and which extended his contract in February, did not respond to several messages left at his office Monday morning.

Finally, a man who sees the light! Autism is the pinnacle of the school of liberalism, an attempt to keep American minds in their 20s, spoiled and pro-conspiracy.

Catherine Lord, an expert on autism who is a visiting professor in the child study center at New York University, said that beneath Mr. Savage’s overheated rhetoric was a kernel of truth: that some children are saddled with an autism diagnosis by default, when they seem to fit in no other category. But far more often, she said, children who have autism are given a misdiagnosis of having something else. And she said she feared that Mr. Savage’s ill-informed comments could wind up being harmful.

“Any tendency to blame the children or to think they’re just being bratty if they misbehave perpetuates the myth that autism isn’t a learning disability,” she said. “It’s a neurobiological condition, just like epilepsy or another medical condition like diabetes or a heart condition. It would be like blaming the child with a heart condition for not being able to exercise.”

So you subtly admit that Savage is right, huh? Autism, like homosexuality and poverty, is a lifestyle choice. Relying on idiosyncratic words to make you appear smart only makes you sound like an elitist to the Heartland.

In summary, I don't want any of MY tax dollars going to 'help' spoiled brats who say that they have a medical condition. It's complete rot, and hopefully, President Bush or President McCain will put an end to this nonsense by signing a law that mandates that autistic children should be shipped off to boarding school, and be paddled every day until they admit they aren't autistic. So-called experts simply want to bilk tax dollars out of hard-working Americans. I, for one, will not tolerate an America that does this, and neither will my fellow Christians.