Kathy Lee Gifford embarasses autistic boy on national TV.

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I don't much care for the Senior boy's mom either. She's very self serving and conceited.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MwuJy07lQY&feature=related[/youtube]

This is over a year old, and I'm sure a lot has probably been said on this, but I just saw it and thought it was terrible.

I really hate people like that. They don't think, and are extremely self centered, arrogant, narcisistic, and foolish. A lot of Talk Show hosts are like this, and forget that what they say can harm/affect others.

I'm almost always against Talk Show hosts. Except for Ellen DeGeneres, she's freaking hilarious and awesome.

At best she is a B**ch.

That video POed me, but then Howard Stern's rant about this made everything right again.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qty2-KnC8W0&feature=related[/youtube]

Her tone when she said, "That means you're the boss, big guy." Made me want to slap her.

She's lucky it was that Graham... There are some who would have reached out and slapped her... Gifford needs to be stopped...

She's the worst kind of ignorant person... The one that thinks they know what is going on and think we are mentally deficient...

I have much more that I could say on the subject but that arrogant cow has upset me to the point where I can't think straight.

I can't see embedded videos at all anymore since my daughter did the updates to the system. All I see are empty squares with a tiny x in the top corner. Is there a link to the video otherwise? I can go to YouTube just fine, and can embed videos just fine too, I just can't see them on this site now.

here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MwuJy07lQY

Why haven't my friends been given stuff and gotten national attention for hanging out with me?

I mean that really was the most condescending thing! The kids weren't acting like that but the adults were acting like Zach had made such a huge sacrifice to be friends with Graham. Both the kids looked like they thought the entire idea of the segment was silly, but went along with it probably cause their mother's made them do it. Zach's mom wrote the letter and she was probably trying to get some attention on her son because of the sports scholarship. I don't know. Maybe she did it for that reason.

Either way, Graham seemed like a normal kid too. I think he grasped the craziness of being praised on national tv for making a friend much better than the adults did. Then they had them write a song about it. That has to be probably really humiliating to have a song written about you, and sung to you, on national tv about how you are so pitiful and alone and somebody else is so nice as to put up with you and give you a chance to have a friend.

That kind of thing doesn't really help with the public's image of AS.

They acted like Zach had made friends with a boy who has leprosy and taken the risk of catching it himself or something. Probably the biggest factor in my opinion that would have prevented them from being friends in the beginning was that one was a senior and one was a freshman. That's what's usually not done.

If I had been Graham's mom I would have been offended that Zachs mother had thought that being friends with my kid was so difficult and unlikely that she wanted him to get praise on national tv. I noticed they didn't ask Graham something like "Were you were surprised that Zach was so nice? Jocks are usually a**holes and Zach turned out to be a normal kid, were you surprised about that? Did you have any misgivings about what the motives of a senior who is a jock approaching you?" Zach looked embarrassed about being singled out for simply being friends with somebody.

Because you aren't a young, possibly future sport's star who is considered "gorgeous."


I disagree that this was the most condescending thing. Kathy Lee's "big guy" comment and the fact that they were talking about Graham as if he weren't in the room, IMO is the worst thing. Had it been me, I would have called her on it.

I do agree that Zach's mom is part of the problem. These people act like it is an heroic act to be friends with one of us.



Agreed. Not only that, but the song really sucked... It sounds like something that autism speaks would put out as a theme song.


So much so that even howard stern wigged out about it.


As a film maker, I can tell you, when they cut away from the boys, they were trying to avoid something being shown... Most likely, it was Zach getting angry on his friend's behalf. At least it should have been... but both boys showed the physiological signs of being angry

I cannot agree enough with Howard Stern on this. The song he did made me lol.

it's the same old sh** that i've seen my whole life clueless preppy types that think there doing a good thing and infact they are hurting or more or less missing the point all together.
walk past it all and hold your head up high knowing your a much better person.
i love the fact that she thought she was doing good, i only wish i could have seen her face and heard her comment when she was first told how horrable it really was!

I MOST CERTAINLY AM!! !! !! !!

No, I'm really not, but lets pretend I am.

Also, for some reason even when the air is still, my long hair blows out behind me framing my face.

I never have "bed head" and I always look like I'm wearing eyeliner.

And I look forever 22 years old, even at 47.



ETA; And I bet neither one of those boys can make biscuits worth a damn! So HA! I win!

Sorry, I'm trying to get awake. My humor at this time of day is set in the "funny only to me" setting.

How yuck.

It wasn't intended to be an insult... the boy has the look of a movie star... Sorry if I offended

LOL, you didn't upset me at all, I was playing around. I know what you mean.