Editors at the Philadelphia Inquirer excoriate Michael Savage’s comments about children with autism.

Actually, his rant is proof that moronic behavior can get you somewhere in life. After all, Savage has the third-largest talk-radio audience in America, on 350 stations. But that’s beside the point.

Savage willfully misrepresents the reality of autism. About 1 in 150 children in the United States have some form of this developmental disability, which is a medical condition, not a surge in coddling.

… What’s needed for these children is better therapy earlier in life, and more services to help them ease into adulthood. They will not “get better” from applying sterner discipline, just as a talk-radio host can’t become less biased by taking a pill.

See also: Long Islanders to join SF protest over Michael Savage comments (Newsday)

See earlier posts here, here and here.

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