Surprisingly, everyone appears to have missed the subtle nuance in a chapter of comedian Denis Leary's book entitled "Autism, Schmautism." Go figure. Controversy arose after the Post excerpted a paragraph from Leary's Why We All Suck reading, in part, "I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic." Last night Leary appeared on the Daily Show to explain that he was quoted out of context, and in reality was taking a sophisticated stand on the scientific mystery of surging autism cases:

It's caused by whiny parents trying to get attention and drugs for their hyperactive, non-autistic kids. Now that he's cleared that up and picked a fight with Page Six to boot, controversy should be safely behind him. Click the video above to watch.

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