I heard that Dr Laura Schesingler or whatever’s radio show came under protest because she said something to offend the gay ‘community’. Someone also told me she is now afraid to criticize them, and that she was almost ‘run off the air’.
What did she say? Has she stopped? Is it true what I heard?
From the Wikipedia article:
I think she threw the word “deviant” around a lot, too.
I had forgotten her very existence.
Got much press, lately?
Since this question requires a factual answer, I am moving this thread from IMHO to General Questions.
Actually, she did a few months ago, tangentially. Her son, Deryk, was/is deployed in Afghanistan and, allegedly, his MySpace page is a bit…extreme (link goes to an online newspaper article). I don’t know if they’ve determined if the page is actually his or not yet.
The evil cunt has moved to Santa Barbara. I believe that she was denied a studio on our local tourist attraction, Stern’s Wharf. She’s shilling for the other most evil cunt in town, Wendy McCaw, destroyer of our local newspaper. God. I hate those women.
I’ve listened to her radio program a few times and once heard a caller ask for help in coping with the fact that her adult son had just come out . Dr. Laura suggested treatment to “cure” his homosexuality and even recommended a program that has had remarkable success in turning gay people straight!
Eerily (ooooOOOOOOooooo) I asked Mrs. J. (who is more into talk radio than I) what was going on with “Dr. Laura” these days, as she seemed to have fallen off the radar screen. She is not on the air in our market, but continues whacking away at immorality and anti-family behavior elsewhere, and is reportedly still cranking out books on how we’re jiving off to Gomorrah.
First time I’ve heard of her in some time. She really has fallen off the radar.
Googling “Dr. Laura nude” will usually take the edge off that feeling.
Just curious as to why you put “community” in quotes . . . single ones, at that.
The nausea it engenders, on the other hand…
She also should not be called “Dr.” in that context. Although she does have a legit PhD, it is in Physiology and not Psychology or any related field. She works as a Pop psycholgist and is a licensed counselor, but her “Dr” has nothing whatsover to do with her field.
I used to listen to Dr. Laura back in the late 90s. Not that I always agreed with her but it was always interesting when she gave advice I did agree with because I generally reached the same conclusion based on difference reasons. I do think she’s grown a bit more radical since I stopped listening to her nearly 10 years ago.
Marc
You know, her first book 10 Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives was actually pretty good.
And then she went around the bend.
Bill O’Reilly did the same thing. What’s up with that?
They both figured out that in the early to mid 90s, you could get a whole lot bigger audience by being a far right-wing idiot than by being a reasonable person.
She kind of developed into this anti-gay position. Back in the early 90s she used to give common sense advice about homosexuality. Then she started to go off the rails…she got into religion, and when she started talking about anti-gay therapy she caught a lot of flack. And the complaints from the gays drove her over the bend. She figured that the problem couldn’t be her, it couldn’t be that therapy can’t cure gay, no the problem had to be those awful awful homosexuals.
Last I checked, she had a master’s in a counseling field, but was not licensed. This was a smart move on her part, since I was looking her up in a professional context, in response to an inquiry about filing a complaint with her licensing board for being outside scope and standards of practice.
