I'm Speechless

When it rains it pours...............I blogged a few days ago about the actress Amanda Peet's comments regarding unvaccinated children being "parasites" and indirectly attacked the current experts thoughts on one of the causes of autism and now a radio host has been making outragously awful comments about autism. The comments are so awful, hateful and insensitive I am speechless. Here are comments about autism/autistic kids made this week by Michael Savage a syndicated radio show host:

"In 99 percent of the cases (of autism), it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, `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, you idiot.'"

Mr. Savage, said he was trying to "boldly awaken" parents to his view that many children are being wrongly diagnosed with autism. According to Mr. Savage's website rained as a scientist, he holds master's degrees in medical botany and medical anthropology and earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in epidemiology and nutritional science." The university said yesterday that Savage's doctorate, earned in 1978, was in the field of nutritional ethno medicine. So he has a medical, scientific background and may have throughly researched the current autistic epidemic discovered it to be unfounded (which I don't think so.........) however, for such a learned man he doesn't seem to have learned any MANNERS at UC Berkley. How is he "awakening" parents by offending them? If he is truly concerned about parents being led astray by the medical community over diagnosing autism why not do something constructive about it instead resorting to simple name calling and being cruel? Oh, because that wouldn't make him any money or make him famous. Stupid, stupid "shock jock". Mr. Savage for someone with so much education you seem to have obtained no wisdom in this life.

If your stomach can take it, here is a link to the story http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6X8F7Dkk2QieMRUQfAXl-pDyCvgD922S8P00