In case you have been following the controversy regarding children autism-related statements by Michael Savage, we are publishing a transcript of his audio comments regarding his opinions and beliefs.

… And yet I will caution you to not rush to judgment, because the truly autistic child needs as much help as he or she can get. The truly autistic child needs the funding that should be provided. It is the falsely diagnosed, the misdiagnosed and the outright fakers who want the benefits who must be found out and must be turned out. So the money can go to the truly needy in this particular field. That was the essence of my conversation last week. Why would I have chosen to attack defenseless children when I have never done so in my entire life? Think about that. What would I have gained by doing it? Nothing! I didn’t do it! The fact of the matter is the enemies of the truth did it by using you, the parents of the injured child to turn on me, the defender of the child. Very clever the enemy (is). But those are the times that we live in. Let me say again. All of us have seen the faker with a disability placard on his car pull up in a blue zone somewhere in America. Whether it is to a drive-in restaurant door or a handicapped spot. And we have seen them get out of their car and look perfectly healthy; and the minute you look at them, they grab a cane or they grab their back and they hobble. We find that to be reprehensible, don’t we? Because those blue spots were put there for a reason.

They are there for the convenience of those who are not able as we are to get around. And we don’t want the phony disabled to use them. It is the same situation with the case of autism. We don’t want this money pilfered by those who are not autistic. Now, who are those who are not autistic? Are there many? My suspicion is, there are many. There are many, many, many people who have been put in this category either falsely or wrongly or put their children into this category in order to get benefits from it. Again, listen to what I am saying to you: if a child has a very high IQ, if they are late in talking… these are the characteristics that can put them in the checklist for autism. That might be an invitation to a false diagnosis. They have now broadened the category to include children in the new thing called the autistic spectrum. Why are they changing the definition of autism? Why does it now become the autistic spectrum rather than true autism? The answer is because there is now definitive medical diagnosis for autism.

And I’ll leave it at that. We have touched on these things, we have talked about these things, we have gone in circles about these things… So remember what I am saying to you: the truly autistic deserve our sympathy and our help. The misdiagnosed or falsely diagnosed and the outright faking parents need to be found out and turned out so that the scarce resources can go those who are in desperate need of them.