Dennis Leary Is Still Funny

Comedian Dennis Leary is taking all kinds of crap from the anti-autism Nazis for comments he made in his new book, Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid.

Oh, and hey look … boobies.

Anyway, Leary – our favorite libertarian – had this to say on the disease, courtesy of our good friends at Page Six:

There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can’t compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don’t give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you – yer kid is NOT autistic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.

Of course, since that’s not a politically-correct thing to say (and since parents of kids with autism rival the Huns in their militant aggressiveness), Leary had to apologize … sort of …

The people who are criticizing the “Autism Schmautism” chapter in my new book “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid” clearly have not read it.

Or if they have, they missed the sections I thought made my feelings about autism very clear: that I not only support the current rational approaches to the diagnoses and treatment of real autism but have witnessed it firsthand while watching very dear old friends raise a functioning autistic child.

Ordinarily we’d say something here about how kids with real autism are getting a bad rap thanks to millions of excuse-happy parents – and how Leary is getting crucified as a byproduct of that latent self-loathing – but once again we’re going to have to stop and stare at the boobies.

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