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No pity for Dr. Laura
She's Liza Lampanelli without the
compassion
Now that public pressure has forced
her exit, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the hateful hag of talk radio,
is reinventing herself as a helpless victim of free speech. Her
feelings are hurt; how sad for her.
I would venture a guess that she wasn’t worried about hurting the
feelings of the woman who
called in to her show, or concerned about the tone of the exchange
between them that ultimately
led to her leaving the show.
She certainly didn’t care about others’ feelings when she demonized gay
men as pedophiles
—she once said “a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is
predatory on young boys”
—or spoke out against adoption by gay couples.
As a whole, Dr. Laura’s recent comments reflected disdain for black
people in general and
a view that most, if not all, are angry militants who take marching
orders from a scary cabal
of black activist intent on demonizing well-meaning white people. (Like
her?)
I'm surprised Laura went out like she did.
When they write her obituary, the
first paragraph will say she was once popular
but after screaming "Nigger" at a caller eleven times, she was forced
off the air.