tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789684384895250488.post8156151641912085206..comments2023-07-20T10:50:23.114-04:00Comments on Greg's Take: The Audio That Started It All: The Context, What Was Overlooked, The Spin, and The ApologistsMaster Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782498101243679417noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789684384895250488.post-2777171039814959352008-07-30T21:30:00.000-04:002008-07-30T21:30:00.000-04:00Lenny, It's obvious that you haven't read much of ...Lenny, <BR/><BR/>It's obvious that you haven't read much of what I wrote, because you would understand that it's not about the First Amendment. The First Amendment is a protection from legislatiion, not from free market forces. If the advertisers Michael Savage has drop him, then he has no inherent right to stay on the air. Advertising dollars support him; if they are gone, so is he.<BR/><BR/>No one is calling for legislation to ban him from the air. No one is suing him in court to get him off the air. We're trying to educate his sponsors.<BR/><BR/>I really don't give a damn if you're a physician. Do you know how many times I've been misdiagnosed myself by physicians? It took six months and five different doctors, two of them specialists, to figure out that the cartilege in my back is drying out and disintegrating. I figured it out from web research the week my back went out. <BR/><BR/>You--and all other intellectually lazy apologists for Michael Savage--are missing the point I'm making here. Michael Savage was not talking factually about autism spectrum disorder here, and the context wasn't misdiagnosis or the drugging of our children. He was originally talking about (I already put this into my post, so you obviously didn't read it or didn't care) what treatments he would fund and which ones he wouldn't in America, following his statement of opposition to funding the fight against AIDS in Africa. Moreover, he disparaged minorities with asthma, when minority children are three to six times more likely to DIE of ashtma than white children! <BR/><BR/>Why don't you sheeple stop being apologists for this intellectually lazy blowhard and wake up? You're supporting someone who has no interest in what "real" autism is (which he talks about but never defines); he is only trying to salvage the few sponsors whom we haven't contacted or convinced yet. It's spin, pure and simple. He wasn't misquoted; those were his actual words on the audio. He said that AUTISM is a fraud and a racket, not ASD. He was NOT talking about misdiagnosis and misdirected pharmaceutical treatment. He only brought those things up later--and fictionalized the original context, by the way--after his sponsors started dropping him like a bad habit.<BR/><BR/>I find it ironic that Savage is using the government to try to investigate Media Matters and to sue CAIR, while we're using the power of the market to oust him. Some conservative.Master Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13782498101243679417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789684384895250488.post-22685832779905482552008-07-30T19:38:00.000-04:002008-07-30T19:38:00.000-04:00Greg,Your liberal socialists anti 1st amendment ac...Greg,<BR/>Your liberal socialists anti 1st amendment actions will not work. Michael will remain on the air with loyal support because the truth rings clear.<BR/> I am a physicain and autism and its spectrum as well ADHD is over diagnosed. You need to do more thorough and objective research on this topic and the many others you misrepresent.<BR/>LennyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789684384895250488.post-71807940542389549762008-07-28T01:34:00.000-04:002008-07-28T01:34:00.000-04:00Thanks. I hadn't actually heard any of the context...Thanks. I hadn't actually heard any of the context at all except for the line about autism. Knowing all that came before and after certainly does make it worse! <BR/>I have one of those kids with the super high IQ, hyperactivity, and OCD behaviors. He hand flaps and lines things up and spins in circles. But he would never qualify for an autism diagnosis. <BR/>Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to dissect what was said and the follow up, and I completely agree with you.Amnestyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04476260199706597885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789684384895250488.post-17115704164061098882008-07-27T22:48:00.000-04:002008-07-27T22:48:00.000-04:00Mom with 4 boys with autism,Great post!Mom with 4 boys with autism,<BR/><BR/>Great post!TwinsX2https://www.blogger.com/profile/08428020163905842882noreply@blogger.com