BY DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN | Special to Newsday Advocates from Autism United gathered in lower Manhattan Friday to announce a host of advertisers have pulled out of nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Savage's show, carried here on WOR-AM. It was little more than a week ago that Savage, who has more than 8 million listeners nationwide, called autism "a fraud, a racket" -- adding that it was a ploy to hide the fact that most kids are brats. "He's nothing more than a schoolyard bully who's never been sent to the principal's office," state Sen. John Gillmore of Autism United said Savage is "not owning up to being a vicious man." Savage has said his remarks were taken out of context, and that he wasn't targeting genuinely autistic children. He said he was criticizing doctors and drug companies for over-diagnosing...
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