I listen to Dr. Laura when I’m in the car and she happens to be on… absolutely hilarious! She’s rude, obnoxious, frequently wrong, and never listens to the caller before berating them for something that is entirely peripheral if not outright unrelated to their problem. It’s funny as hell!
But this is interesting (from the linked article:
Mink codpiece. All the rage.
Not really. I just switched the channel from TBN when Kirk Cameron started espousing creationism–don’t actors get a decent science education? I wanted to yell at the TV, “No, humans are not descended from apes, you moron, they share a common ancestry. Read talkorigins.com!”
But the Crusades, man, the Crusades!
They killed their own people at Byzantium!
To answer a couple questions posed here:
I listen to Dr. Laura as a part of my skeptomasochism program, which occasionally includes fundie radio and The 700 Club as well. Sometimes it’s fun to get riled up.
Evidence of her general twittiness from today’s show:
A woman called and asked a question, IIRC, about letting her daughter get presents from the father who abandoned her years earlier. Laura tried to ask a question, but, to my ear, tripped over her tongue a bit. In any case, her question was completely unintelligible. When the woman said, “I’m sorry?” Laura responded with a frustrated, “I give up!” As though the caller was deliberately not listening to her advice.
A guy named Kerr called. She asked, “Is it ‘Car’ or ‘Ker’ [rhymes with “Cher”]?” He responded, “No, it’s ‘Cur.’” She called him “Ker,” and he said, “No, ‘Cur,’” and she said “Right,” and proceded to call him “Ker” throughout the rest of the call.
If it makes anyone feel better, I think her supply of callers is drying up, because she is now reading faxes and answering them in the third hour of the show. She’s also taking repeat callers, which she never used to do.
How does going to a Mosque teach anyone what being a Muslim is like in America?
Marc
I hope someone calls Dr. Laura and mentions LTC West to the bitch.
What’s that?
Actually, gobear, I was wondering if you could give me a link to some of these fundie boards. I guess that I, like AerynSun, am a skeptomasochist (great term, by the way). Or maybe I just have a morbid curiosity.
Lt. Col Allen West is currently facing a court martial for beating and threatening to kill an Iraqi detainee. He also fired a pistol near the guy to try to scare him into talking.
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Astroboy14: CAIR itself has been accused of unfairly labeling all criticism of any Muslim as “racist” and “xenophobic,” whether the criticism is justified or not.
Well then, it must be true, right? Who did the accusing? On what basis? Could they have had ulterior motives? Who decides whether the criticism is justified or not?
That would be asking a lot of a field trip, wouldn’t it! Maybe the child or the parent misunderstood the purpose of the field trip. Maybe the purpose was to give the children the opportunity to associate Moslems with things of beauty and reverence so that they don’t confuse the Islamic terrorists with all people who are Islamic. (I know some people at SDMB who could benefit by exposure.)
DtC, this is one of those rare occasions that I must disagree with you. There is sometimes discrimination of some Christians by other Christians. The Southern Baptists and Church of Christ school administrators put me through hell every year before they would grant me All Saints’ Day and Ash Wednesday away from my post of duty for religious observance. [/hijack]
Unless it is against SDMB policy, I would like to know the sponsors for Dr. Laura’s show.
She is one very, very angry woman. People can hide that kind of anger only for so long and then it starts to show up. In RL people get fired. But in radio and TV the ratings go up. It’s sad.
Well then, it must be true, right? No, not necessarily… as I said, it’s interesting!
Who did the accusing? Dunno… as I said, it’s interesting!
On what basis? Dunno… as I said, it’s interesting!
Could they have had ulterior motives? Dunno, but quite possibly. As I said, it’s… ah, to hell with it, I think you know where this is going…
Zoe, unless I am misreading your reply to my comment, you seem to think that I am in some way accusing this CAIR organization of being sponsors of terrorism or supporters of terrorism or something. I am not. I quoted something from the linked article, and I just said that it was interesting… and I stand by that. Why would the authors of that article drop that info. there at the bottom without expanding on it at all? What was their motive for mentioning that in the context of this flap about Dr. Laura’s bigotted remarks?
That’s all I meant, and nothing more. Interesting.
Oh, sorry… I forgot about the sponsors:
Here’s one that I have heard advertised on her show (mind you, I’ve heard it advertised on other shows as well): Living Air Classic.
I’ve listened to her exactly once. I was “scanning” (my car radio has a “scan” function that hits each station for 7 seconds, just long enough to see if you like the song, or if there are commercials on, I hate commercials ) and it landed on just enough of one of her shows to make me think “Whaaaat did I just hear”??
And to dial back to the show. A young unwed mother had called in, crying and scared, and wanting to know what to do.
Dr. Laura spent the entire call berating the girl for having sex too young (something I also disagree with), and asking her over and over, basically “what were you thinking, you’re irresponsible, blah blah blah”.
To me, not only was it unnecesarily cruel, it was stupid. Very “shutting the barn door after the horse gets loose”. I haven’t heard her show for years, I’m not sure what radio station carries it, but I’ve been successful in avoiding it.
The woman is a moron.
I don’t think it can, but it could open up a discussion about this issue and others like it.
Here in the Land of the Trolls we have a state religion, and unfortunately that religion (Lutheranism) is still given preferential treatment in the public schools in spite of a constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion for all. Schools are encouraged in the national curriculum to take the children to church during Advent - this means, of course, the local Lutheran church, where they will learn about Advent and Christmas in the Lutheran tradition. Now, flodjunior’s (private) school decided to take the church-going tradition and turn it into something a little more. Each year in December they visit a house of worship, all right, but not always the same one. This is his fourth year at the school and so far they’ve visited a Lutheran church, a Roman Catholic church, and a mosque, and this year they will be visiting a synagogue. Rather than just hear about Christmas, even when they’re in a Christian church, they hear about the basic beliefs of the religion, a bit about what a worship service is like, and how the daily life of a believer is influenced by their beliefs. Obviously one morning spent there isn’t going to teach them everything they wish to know, but it opens up for discussion and research later when they get back to school. Part of the reason I love flodjunior’s school!
So much for teaching our children tolerance. I’ve listened to her once and she hated men that day. It’s off topic, but could I have SDMB’s official definition of a “fundie”? Is it just a person who believes the Bible literally or…?
Actually, gobear, I was wondering if you could give me a link to some of these fundie boards. I guess that I, like AerynSun, am a skeptomasochist (great term, by the way). Or maybe I just have a morbid curiosity. **
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I’m not making the mistakes others have made, so there will be no links posted here, but I’ll e-mail you one.
IWLN, men are a favorite topic of hers in general. She’s very split on men…good husbands and fathers in the mold of Ward Cleaver are admired. Everyone else is “just looking for a warm place to put it.”
Because they need to rest their eyes after waisting their fifteen-minute attention span reading “The Last Jihad” or “The Last Days”?
Seriously–from first-hand experience, I don’t think fundie animosity towards Muslims is anything new. At Thanksgiving last year, a fundie at the table made a comment like “Call me crazy, but after 9/11 I don’t trust anyone with dark skin anymore!” after an Indian family wanted to pick some grape leaves growing into the alley from the back yard. No one at the table disagreed with him–and most of the people at the table were Mexican (to be fair, the non-Fundies didn’t openly challenge him to avoid discussing it any further…)
It doesn’t sound as though she is making the world a better place.