Have radio personalities lost it?

Don Imus has allowed his common sense to take a vacation more than once in recent years but as repugnant as his comments were, I think Michael Savage takes the cake.

What did he hope to accomplish when he called most autistic children "brats"? Was he hoping to increase slumping radio listeners by staring a conflict that would bring him attention or is he simply so moronic that he believes the bile he drools?

If Imus was fired for his comments about black women, then Savage needs to be permanently banned for his comments about autism. It shows his arrogance and his ignorance and neither is pretty.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25788692/

Some parents of autistic children have called for Savage’s firing after he described autism as a racket last week. “In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” Savage said on his radio program last Wednesday.

Savage offered no apology in a message posted Monday on his Web site. He said greedy doctors and drug companies were creating a “national panic” by overdiagnosing autism, a mental disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate.

On his radio show last week, he said: “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.”’




Savage, you're a moron.