Dr. Laura is not in the business of helping people with their problems. She is in the business of getting people to listen to her show, which she does by beating up on the type of people that her ignorant listeners like to dislike.
Lipochrome said:
Of course, her claim brought up the question of what is wrong with cavorting around naked with your own lover, no matter what religion you are. I don’t remember any commandments about not taking naked photos.
“It’s a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense.” – James Randi
I once tried to find those infamous nude pictures. Apparently large numbers of sites offering adult pictures have stuck her name on, I assume with the intent of luring people in. I haven’t laughed so hard in ages.
I know this thread is old, but I couldn’t resist posting this:
I was listening to the Good Doctor today. A woman called in and asked what she should look for in a good man. Dr Laura asked her a few details about herself (I can’t remember if the woman said she had lived with a man, or had been divorced). Then Dr Laura told this poor creature that no really decent man would ever want her, because she was “damaged goods.” I just about drove off of the road.
Anyone fool enough to call Dr. Laura deserves
her advice. She wouldn’t be as popular as she is if there weren’t so many masochists presenting themselves for psychological flagellation.
In this house we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics
__Homer Simpson
What does that say then about Dr. Laura’s own husband?
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
Frank, great turn of phrase, man!! I love it. Have to think of some way to use that myself (not on myself!) 
Carpe Diem!
Personally, i think Dr. Laura is a Bizznitch (Bitch in the local vernacular =) ). She offers horrible advice, and then beats up on her callers. However, i cant fully blame her, her callers call in and set themselves up. If people didnt call in, then they wouldnt get the verbal lashing she gives out. She also wouldn’t have a show. I cant remember the last time i listened to her, but sometimes i want to lay the smack down on her ass! =)>.
Oh my GOD! It’s MRS. BIG HOGZ!!!
>^,^<
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Has anyone else noticed her obsession lately with bestiality, of all things?
I listen pretty regularly, partly because she’s an entertaining bitch and partly because I agree with a lot of what she says.
But lately it’s become a game to see how long she can go without mentioning sex with animals. It usually happens within 30 minutes. She brings it up in the strangest ways, often as just an offhand reference to the evils of the world, as if that is a major problem in American society.
– Greg, Atlanta
Her pet battle of the moment is with the American Library Association, and its web-site. There is a link on there to a site called Go Ask Alice. It’s aimed at teenagers, and it’s a place where kids can ask questions about sex, drugs, and other such “unsuitable” topics and receive non-judgemental answers.
Her outraged, moralistic tirades against the ALA for their refusal to censor themselves is truly one of the most comical pieces of tripe that I have ever had the priveledge of being exposed to. A Dr. Laura classic. I really recommend that you guys check out her web site.
The exasperated ALA issued a statement after hordes of Dr. Laura avengers have harassed them, basically saying, “Hey, we’re a library. There’s a ton of books here. We don’t decide what is proper and what is not. We offer internet access. But we can’t watch your kid constantly to make sure he hasn’t been exposed to stuff you find offensive. Why don’t you watch your kid, for pete’s sake.”
They can actually receive <gasp> “non-judgemental answers”?! Well, there’s her problem. To her, all answers are judgemental – and she is the judge.
On the internet aspect and the library telling people to watch their own kids – there was a letter to the editor in the local free weekly here, with a guy complaining that you could <gasp> find porn on the internet and so local communities should be able to ban the ENTIRE internet to avoid children being able to see these things. I wrote a letter back explaining that there is a new invention that will solve his problem. After going on for a paragraph about how this invention can prevent children from accessing improper material without censoring the rest of us, I noted that this invention is called “parenting.” Heavy sarcasm.
“Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.”
– Neil Peart, RUSH, “Witch Hunt”
I think this is getting a little off-topic. Instead of matters of parenting, we should be discussing spanking and (or more specifically, of) Dr. Laura. Unfortunately none of the nude pictures presented her derriere, but I would suspect it was quite spankable in its day, and would not altogether have lost its appeal after only twenty years.
Her congenital deficiency of humility, while otherwise a charater flaw, only enhances the appeal of this target.
My verdict: not only smack-worthy, but ripe for the cane.
Excuse me while I go look for some Dr. Laura pictures…
As an atheist, I regret Dr. Laura’s attribution of her recommendations as coming from God.
I do agree with her constnat recommendation that parents put considerable time and effort into their children’s well-being, even at some sacrifice of the parents’ pleasure and finances. Even when I don’t fully agree, she represents a point of view that should be aired.
As a listener, I find her radio show entertaining. Being totally full of herself seems to help move the show along. Similarly, arrogance seems to serve Rush Limbaugh well on his show. The two of them are roughly tied with about 20 million listeners, so they must be doing something right.
The woman is infuriating as hell.
A week or two ago she was on a tirade about that detergent commercial where the mom doesn’t want to come down hard on her kid and his blankie, so she just makes sure it’s clean. Dr. Laura was foaming at the mouth about how this was a demonstration of a parent abandoning their responsibility to their kid. HUH?
She drives me nuts…but I DO listen, for the same reason I listen to Christian Radio: know thine enemy.
And I agree with December. The unfortunate thing is that she’s actually right on with about half of what she says, mostly having to do with parents being more focused on their children. But the WAY she says it is so completely awful it drains all the good right out of it.
And what everyone else is saying about the callers… the thing that gets me about the callers is that they even need to call! Listen to Dr. Laura for more than 10 minutes and you will know EXACTLY what she’s going to tell you!
Stoidela
Gee, how disappointing – apparently I actually AGREE with Dr. Laura on something. I’ve never listened to her show (I did read one of her books and was distinctly unimpressed), but I HATE that damn detergent commercial – was the Doc having a hissy about letting the child have the blanket itself? Or the voice over? I quote: “When I come home from work, I just want to play with Sam, not be a disiplinarian.” Bleech. BTW, it seems that Dr. laura and I are not alone in our disdain – the last time I saw this spot the wording had been changed!
Jess
Full of 'satiable curtiosity
Getting WAY off topic here, the thing i hate about that detergent commerical is how they think you need it to be anti-bacterial to make it “germ free”. Ugh, like a washer of hot water and regular detergent isnt enough! Anyway, back on topic: When i do catch the big bitch Dr. Laura on the radio, i must admit it is funny hearing her callers stammer and nearly burst into tears after Dr. Laura uses her verbal S&M on them =).
Admittedly nowhere near topic:
That commercial didn’t make a lot of sense, but the one that had me laughing 'till I urinated was the one about the busy, harried mother making dinner for her son.
She pulls a frozen pizza out of the freezer, but about that time the boy shows her a drawing that he made for her. Geez, she thinks, he put so much effort into this picture for me and here I am about to give him a frozen pizza for dinner. So she puts it back and instead makes him:
Campbell’s Tomato Soup.
Which, the last time I checked, involves slightly less cooking than a frozen pizza. Did anyone else find this a bit odd?
To be on topic: Dr. Laura is hopelessly out of touch. True, some people need to be torn a new one about their problems (some people don’t respond any other way), but it should not be delivered from the high moral throne she sits on. See also: Judge Mills Lane.
Dr. J
I haven’t been back to this thread, but, ha ha ha, whatever the “pig” is, I’d like to slip it to her too.
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