Sorry if you’re tired of Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s travails! If so, move on to the next post. But I can’t get enough! Sarah Palin coming to her defense — despite Schlessinger slamming her and her vice presidential nomination in 2008. How the thing she’s been most upset about in her radio career “is people who haven’t read what I’ve written, people who haven’t heard me on the air, telling other people to hate me.” And how, she says after her Larry King Live appearance where she announced she was leaving her show, she “went out to dinner with three friends … One of my friends who is gay is sitting there with another friend who is black, and he looks up and says, ‘I wonder what the media would do with this? You’re with a black guy and a gay guy.’ We laughed, because we all understand what this is really about — censoring a point of view.”
[Ed: Before you go bitching about the headline, it’s said in jest. Sense the tone!]
Chuck
I wonder if the old hag refers to her African American ‘friend’ as colored?
Steve
The waiter asked who her friends were. And she responded “Oh these are my lovely friends nigger, nigger, nigger and faggot, faggot, faggot.”
I understand what she wants to do, because I also think we as a society put a lot of emphasis on language and political correctness, but… blatantly offending people by using a term they still percieve as an insult is not the route to go. Sorry Dr. Laura. Go write a book or pay for your son’s therapy that he desperately needs.
Miss Understood
The most racist part is not that word. She immediately discounted the callers concerns about racism. She started in with the “hyper-sensitive” crap without event listening to what her situation was. She even implied that racism is not a problem because the president is black. She’s an absolute idiot. The real people to be angry at are the ones who supported a show for this fool in the first place: the radio station, the sponsors, her listeners.
christopher di spirito
Couldn’t Schlessinger have gotten that face a little tighter?
Her lift makes her look like a beach ball with eyes, a nose and a mouth drawn on it. Really, what is it with these wealthy women on the Westside of LA? Do they all see the same surgeon?
Hilarious
@Miss Understood: Thank you!
Well said, she doesn’t even know what people are upset about. She’s the definition of ignorant. No surprise the most ignorant person I’ve ever seen or heard, Sarah Palin, is now her supporter.
Nunya Bizness
Sarah Palin is highly aware that her biggest supporters are the crazy, Right-Extremists; which is being weighted by her current strategy of latching on to any and all sensational happenings that Right Wing Nut camp may create, endorse, or even midly enjoy.
Thus, she lends Dr. Schlessinger a hearty “you go girl!”. I’m sure Laura’s wrinkled face cringed in disdain behind that one… because I have yet to see a returned “Thank You, Sarah” being discussed in all of the press that she’s receiving. However, I don’t Tweet — so I may have missed something.
Black Pegasus
Poor Dr. Laura….
Her free speech rights are being impaled upon, and those angry special interest groups like Media Matters, and the NAACP are Bullying her….
*rolls eyes*
Oh Bitch Please!! Go drive off a cliff in your Mini Cooper and Fuck Off! Good riddance to you and your special brand of Hate Radio!
Chitown Kev
That’s inteersting that Nita (the black woman had been on the air and had asked Dr Laura a question before.
Chitown Kev
That’s intersting that Nita (the black woman) had been on the air and had asked Dr Laura a question before.
So there was some sort of relationship (however flimsy) there already.
And, I mean, leaving Dr. Laura’s bigotry aside for a moment, she has a pretty good schtick when limited to relationship/personal morality advice as the tough talking Jewish woman; persona wise, it works.
And didn’t Dr. Laura trash Sarah Palin on the air? I wonder if there’s a clip of that.
Chitown Kev
Oh, it’s still on her blog:
“I’m stunned – couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age. But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?”
http://www.drlaurablog.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palin-and-motherhood/
Jeffree
Sarah Palin is suddenly defending “Dr.” Laura’s right to “free speech” after, as Chitown Kev quotes above, Laura pwned her onlline?
Palin is getting stoopider by the day, and Laura needs to have her head examinined by a *real* mental health specialist.
This also reflects the desperation of the rabid fundie TeaPartiers to stay “on top” of the news cycle — but without knowing or researching any of the background.
I asked my Black Dominican aunt about the situation with DrLaura using the N word on the radio. Her reply? “I’d spit in her coffee and never regret it.”
Way to go Tia Maria! Muchos besos!
Sceth
Nita’s husband’s friends are probably quite sensitized now.
Pip
Even if the “advice” was inappropriate, I don’t really disagree with Dr. Laura’s point. You typically hear black men say the n-word a lot, and they seem to think that because they’re black men they’re entitled to it. I don’t like anybody saying faggot, gay or straight. If someone says it generally in a conversation though where they’re not using it to call someone names, or as a synonym for something being bad, I can deal with it.
John Smith
Queerty uses the Q-word. No one has demanded that this blog be banned from the internet.
David
According to the Weekly World News (the planet’s only reliable source of news), Dr. Laura isn’t finished yet:
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HOLLYWOOD – Dr. Laura has inked a deal for a new NBC sitcom. She’s starring with her black friend and her gay friend.
Conservative radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who recently give up her show after she used the N-word repeatedly, announced on Larry King’s show that she has a black friend and a gay friend. — skip —
Dr. Laura said that she wouldn’t be using the N-Word on the NBC sitcom, but Wayne Brady and Neil Patrick Harris would be allowed to use the C-Word. “I told them it was okay to call me that, because I feel bad that I offended some N***gers on my show. I wanted to make it up to them on the sitcom and show American that I can give it and take it. It’s a First Amendment issue.”
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Lol . . . gee, I miss that rag.
richardporter
My heart goes out to the children who have to trick or treat her home at Halloween. I get shivers just thinking about it.
Queer Supremacist
Hey Dorothy, water bucket on aisle 6!