Michael Weiner Savage says autism is a fraud and a racket

On the July 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael 'Weiner' Savage claimed that autism is "fraud, a racket... I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. 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, idiot.' "



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Advertisers Drop Michael Savage Radio Show Over Autism Remarks

A week after conservative radio host Michael Savage made controversial remarks suggesting a child with autism was really "a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out," advertisers and some radio stations are distancing themselves from his show. According to Newsday, "Radio Shack, Aflac and Sears say that their advertisements should not have appeared during Savage's show and will not for the foreseeable future," while Anheuser-Busch explained "it has never advertised on Savage's program." And Mississippi network of radio stations SuperTalk dropped the program, with its president explaining, "We're a conservative network. I just didn't see why a person with so much hatred had a place in our network."

In response to this firestorm, Michael Weiner Savage is now claiming (lying) that he has been taken 'out of context'. He has posted 20 clips on his website where he appears to be sympathetic to autism sufferers. But all of these clips are from his radio show that aired after July 16. So Michael Weiner Savage is trying to supply retroactive context?

Media Matters exposes this fraud.