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- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -43/+39599% of Conservative Radio Hosts are as well...
- FlamDukke, on 07/17/2008, -12/+18999% of these comments will make use of a sarcastic statistic.
- MFF37, on 07/17/2008, -45/+18799% of Conservative Radio Hosts are stupid *****....
- Dumbledorito, on 07/18/2008, -15/+14599% of parents with autistic kids would love to drop their children off at Michael Savage's house for a little daycare.
- LeRenard, on 07/18/2008, -8/+80I used to work with autistic children, it would be pretty hard to fake what *most* of those kids are doing. First off, he's obviously talking about high functioning individuals, but even among them I bet you could beat them within an inch of their life and they still wouldn't be able to modify their behaviors this guy calls "acting like a putz" (I'm not advocating that anyone try it). Besides, I defy you to find a kid who *wants* to be in SPED classes.
- whatknight, on 07/17/2008, -35/+9699% of austic people should beat up said conservative radio host.
- emmejuice, on 07/18/2008, -8/+63As awesome as all these "99% of ___'s are ___'s" comments are, I'd really like to add that this guy probably doesn't know anyone with autism, or had one random experience that seemed fake to him and decided they're all fakers.
Who would -choose- to fake autism? They don't even know it exists when they first show symptoms. - Dragular, on 07/18/2008, -9/+59Don't assume Michael Savage speaks for us all, even most conservatives agreed he was ***** years ago.
- dagnabbit, on 07/18/2008, -17/+63Seriously, who tunes in to this garbage?
- shutaro, on 07/18/2008, -3/+4999% of sarcastic statistics are made up on the spot.
- BalsamLane, on 07/17/2008, -25/+68Michael, stop acting like a putz!
- dshPls, on 07/18/2008, -6/+47He wants people to get upset at his extremism, it's unfortunately a pretty big trend in Conservative talk radio. It's why people like O'reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh are so popular, and to a lesser extent Mark Levine and Andrew Wilkow(I'm sure more exist, these are just in my area). They say ***** that's wrong and annoying so people like MediaMatters write about it and get them free publicity.
Don't give Micheal Savage the free publicity, bury this story as lame. - EatingPie, on 07/18/2008, -26/+67The implication of the article is to associate "conservative talk show hosts" with Michael Savage's comments. However, many conservative talk show hosts have actively condemned the things Savage has said in the past, and broke any association they'd have with the host.
In reality it should have simply read "Michael Savage: 99% of Autistic Children are Frauds." But that wouldn't have fit Maki Maki's continued flood of anti-conservative/anti-republican posts.
-Pie - nblsavage, on 07/18/2008, -9/+49Correlation does not equal causation.
- VictoryGin, on 07/18/2008, -1/+3899% of those kids would not enjoy that daycare.
- BaudiIROCZ, on 07/18/2008, -9/+46along with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, etc.
- SolidBones, on 07/18/2008, -6/+41Of course, because 2 year old children will beat their faces on walls until they bleed so their parents can make a quick buck.
- dshPls, on 07/18/2008, -11/+46Don't feed the troll.
- teh_techie, on 07/18/2008, -2/+26100% of Diggers don't care
- screamthenrun, on 07/18/2008, -5/+27I see what you're saying... but I wouldn't wish that upon anyone.
- MoofTheStoof, on 07/18/2008, -2/+23@DyceFreak My daughter is low-functioning, non-verbal autistic. She's 7 and she can't speak or use a toilet or even be left unsupervised. She'll happily eat any chemical or poison she encounters - even her own feces on more than one occasion - and I have even seen her once pick up pieces of a glass christmas ornament she'd just broken and start chewing on them. One of her favorite things is to chew on small pebbles. She's actually broken two molars and had to have their remains extracted from her jaw in order to prevent further infection. Her view of the world is so small and distorted by her malfunctioning (yes, malfunctioning) mind that I have to hold her hand tightly in parking lots or near busy streets because she'll casually wander in front of oncoming cars without the slightest concept of danger. She'll sit for hours playing with a piece of string or with a stream of water from a faucet, but can't maintain more than accidental eye-contact or even look at most people as if they're more than another object in the room.
I'm not refusing to cultivate her talents. I'm not fighting against her secret genius. I don't care about social norm. I just want her to function. I want her to read books and have boyfriends and go to college and find joys and loves and passions in interacting with the people and world around her. She can't, though, and she never will be able to. Whatever altered her brian development and caused this malformation needs to be understood and future children need to be saved from this fate because this is a disease and not just some poorly-understood quirk. - lovek, on 07/18/2008, -3/+23I do on long drives. Why would I want to listen to the same boring music or listen to a reasonable person talk? Snooooore.
Nothing makes a long trip fly by like screaming at your radio. - Ebonsteel, on 07/18/2008, -1/+21I think that may be more true of ADD and ADHD than Autism, honestly.
- NuFadZoo, on 07/18/2008, -2/+2199% of Diggers know that
- p51d007, on 07/18/2008, -15/+34As a conservative, please don't lump Savage as a conservative. That would be the same as saying somebody
like Cindy Sheehan (however it is spelled) is a liberal. Both are wingnuts on the extreme of their respective parties. - Phillycat81, on 07/18/2008, -2/+20Autism has a whole spectrum of severity. Just because you think that some good ol' fashioned discipline will fix some cases doesn't make it so.
- D4r7h3v1l, on 07/18/2008, -0/+17I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
- insertAliasHere, on 07/18/2008, -6/+22Damn straight.
As a conservative, I'll tell you right now that Savage is an ass, and doesn't represent me at all. - malex, on 07/18/2008, -5/+21All things considered, I'd rather my child grow up a girlyman than a psychopath.
- Kidtuf, on 07/18/2008, -4/+20That's the stupidest statement I've ever heard. You cannot turn your son into a girl, and being sensitive towards others does not a beaten man make.
Anyone who thinks that being considerate and sensitive to others around you makes you a "loser" have some issue of their own to work through. You can be a friendly person and a firm in your constitution. You can be respectful and strong willed. These things are not mutually exclusive, no matter what the AM radio tools insist. - inactive, on 07/18/2008, -6/+21No, they're not crazy, just stupid and full of hate.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -4/+19Well when you get an autistic child in your family who on the surface doesn't seem to have anything wrong with him, you might change your mind. I did.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -3/+18I love this behavioral distinction between sexes. Boys are supposed to be rough-and-tumble, obtuse and active, while girls are supposed to be dainty, sensitive and stay inside working on their embroidery. Anybody else find that just the least little bit disgusting? I wouldn't want to live in this world if boys didn't learn to have a little sensitivity! Being able to empathize and not offend people everywhere you go does not make you a "loser" and does not make this a nation of "beaten men". How sickening.
- qdkk, on 07/18/2008, -4/+17Why do you denigrate autistic homosexuals?
- josephbloseph, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1499% of those kids would not find being told to "quit acting like a putz" helpful at all
- TSCheredar, on 07/18/2008, -14/+27Please don't encourage this goon by talking about this. Just ignore it. Please.
- trying2hide, on 07/18/2008, -1/+13I would LOVE to.... but am afraid that a day of being subjected to such narrow mindedness, my 9 year old with aspbergers might never be the same. He may be in the autism category... but he still has feelings.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -2/+14What does it mean to be a man, JBrown? To sit in front of the TV and drink beers? To demand that your wife get you a sammich RIGHT NOW? To drive a dirty pickup truck? To wear a white wifebeater?
These things don't define a man, and you can be a true man while not being obtuse and offending people everywhere you go. (See my post below.) The suggestion that sensitivity is a female virtue alone is terrifying; men, who according to you are not supposed to be subtle or understanding, have a disproportionate number of ambassadors and world leaders among them. Should they be "real men" and go play with their Tonka trucks instead of engaging in delicate negotiations? I ***** hate this kind of sexism. Let people be people and let all people treat each other well. The only true measure of a man or woman is as a good person. - TXAgs911, on 07/18/2008, -4/+16True...there is definitely an irony in Michael Savage calling autistic minorities out for faking symptoms for money. His industry (and him in particular) is largely built around making wild-ass statements (that they don't necessarily believe) for effect (and in the end, money).
- blackinthmiddle, on 07/18/2008, -2/+14His father told him to stop acting like a fool. Looks like the father failed!
- endlessoul, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1387% of all statistics are pulled directly out of your ass.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -4/+16I have a friend who has an autistic child. Trust me its no act.
and the government doesn't give her shiet either. I watched her struggle for many years until she finally managed to get a sales job at morgan-stanley, and even now she struggles to make a little bit of commission so that all her money doesn't go towards his medical issues. - shutaro, on 07/18/2008, -1/+13No, 87% of all statistics are pulled directly out of *your* ass. My colon is statistic-free and clean as a whistle.
- franklymister, on 07/18/2008, -7/+18I'm pretty sure Michael Savage is a performance artist.
There's no way this guy could be for real. I'm guessing that he gets together with Fred Phelps and Ann Coulter for secret meetings at an undisclosed hippie commune in Oregon several time a year where they all eat shrooms and drop acid, engage is wild bacchanalian orgies, and laugh about how they are working to discredit the right with their crazy antics. - nafnosseb, on 07/18/2008, -0/+11Shot, you just blocked 99% of us from posting our wisecrack...
- DaFunk, on 07/18/2008, -2/+13I dugg your comment. There is truth to it. Autistic spectrum disorder is clinically diagnosed and the range of individuals now considered "autistic" is vastly larger than it was 10 or 20 years ago. 10 or 20 years ago people may have been considered socially inept or simply a "little odd," but today we seek a diagnosis for everything we consider abnormal and therefore we have a lot more autistic individuals out there. If a kid misbehaves we think there must be something wrong so they're diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, autism, etc. Now, there are kids out there who generally have disorders, but there are also plenty of kids out there who are "just kids," yet we diagnose them with a disorder.
- Pronoiac, on 07/18/2008, -8/+18How about "Completely uninformed delusional attention whore says on his douche canoe radio show that 99% of Autistic Children are Frauds" His political association has nothing to do with him being a complete idiot and it makes the rest of us look bad.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -2/+12Actually a lot of them go on to do great things...
- nebbo, on 07/18/2008, -0/+10I think it worked exactly like he thought it would. He is back in the headlines and a lot of you will now tune into to his show today to listen to him. All to easy for him to get ratings.
- Hamletlere, on 07/18/2008, -2/+12Really? I'm a man, and I can't tell you what it means to be a man. Every one of us is different.
Perhaps by not taking my son to sporting events, you think I am in emasculating him? Guess what? I don't like them. Guess I am not a "man" in your eyes, either. -
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