Posted on 08/20/2010 7:46:53 AM PDT by Brittany Pounders
I wonder what liberals would say if the imam planning the Ground zero mosque used the n-word? I think their heads would explode!
I listened to her too. disagreed, agreed on comments she put out there. Is that not what free speech is all about. We do not live in the same nation today
We’re close to the end of the road when we can’t even use “the N word” in a conversation about language where “the N word” is the subject of the discussion.
OMG, Do not I repeat do not bing her with safe search off.
Problem: Dr. Laura is the biggest hypocrite at all. She argues other women should be stay-at-home moms — when she was never a stay-at-home mom. She argues that men should be the family breadwinner — when she’s always been her family’s main breadwinner. She excoriates divorce — and she’s divorced and started dating her current husband while he was still a married man. She abhors premarital sex — while having nude photos of herself on the web, taken by an ex-boyfriend. She tells people to honor their parents — while she cut all ties with her mother, who died alone in an apartment and whose body wasn’t discovered for several months after her death.
She’s a prime example of “do as I say, not as I do,” and has made scads of money off of yelling at people to act in ways she doesn’t. Dr. Laura pretty much makes me sick.
Well said.
The whole Chris Rock routine, always bothered the heck out of me. Never understood why that was o.k. but whatever, I guess some folks think swearing is funny. Turn around even quote what he said in his routine, and you a bigot.
Political correctness is philosophical suicide.
I know much, if not all, of what you mentioned happened many decades ago- before her show- and I know she used much of it as example of “what not to do”. I think we’ve all done things we wish we hadn’t and are not proud of. Despite that, does that make what she is saying wrong? Aren’t the words she speaks still true, despite her past?
She has addressed the issue of her mother. Her mother appeared to be mentallly ill and cut off contact with her.
I’ve heard stories like hers many times. I read an article recently about a man with a homeless brother. The brother was clearly mentally ill, but simply refused to be helped, and the law is little help on this point.
I personally knew of a woman who in her seventies cut off all contact with her children and has never met one grandchild. Twenty years ago, she was one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet.
It’s easy to point fingers, but ultimately, people can’t control their relatives.
Remember a few years ago in Washington, DC, a black city official in the finance office said we have to be “niggardly” with the people’s money. The resulting uproar compelled him to resign/be asked to leave. Why he left his job wasn’t clear, but because he used a legitimate word which sounded similar to the “N” word, politically correct ideology compelled him to “fall on his sword” and leave his job.
Given the finances of Washington, DC, they probably need more people like him. But, he had to be sacrified to political correctness.
I disagree with her much of the time (she’s a big proponent on the radio of freezing out family members — when I prefer to go with Jesus’ methodology of forgiving 70 x 7), but even if I were to agree that her words were true (although they are often so rudely and unthinkingly cruelly proffered that she should probably just keep her mouth shut), the speaker of the words is not someone worthy of admiration. It’s like saying that if Bill Clinton came out against extramarital sex today he’d have some moral authority, because his actions were all in the past.
Dr. Laura (who by the way is a Ph.D. in Physiology, not in any therapeutic or psychological area) is someone who had her fun, lived her life as she wanted to, and then saw a way to make a lot of money telling others, in the harshest and most soundbite-friendly way possible, to live their lives in a totally different way than she did and does. The naked photos were from many decades ago. As far as stay-at-home Mom issue, she chose not to be one and now her children, IIRC, are grown — so telling others to stay-at-home, after her time to do so has passed, is something she really has no moral authority to do (again, it’s like Bill Clinton telling people to give up extramarital sex after beta blockers impact his sexual prowess); her husband remains not a breadwinner (except as her manager); her Mother died recently. And now she’s taking her toys and going home because she’s getting flack on the radio — something Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and Glenn Beck have managed to weather for years. So she’s spoiled and thin-skinned on top of it all.
Forgive me for being suspicious of Physiology Dr. Laura’s claims that her mother was mentally ill. I believe Dr. Laura’s quote was that her mother “chose to die as she lived” — well, if she was indeed mentally ill, it’s not really a freely made choice and is deserving more of sympathy than self-rightousness from her daughter. How about assigning a personal assistant to check on her well-being (or at least that she’s alive)once in a while? The fact that her mother’s body was decomposing for weeks by the time anyone realized she was dead says more about Dr. Laura’s lack of heart than her mother’s mental illness IMHO.
For someone who touts their their beliefs in forgiveness and Christianity, you certainly seem to reject any value of Redemption. And you know what, if Bill Clinton publicly repented of his behavior, publicly apologized to America and to his family for his devastating sexual behavior and the consequences that this country had to suffer through because of it, and it was clearly a real thing, than I would say that he— above anyone- could be a moral spokesperson on the issue and trumpet from the rooftops of why it’s not the road anyone should travel down.
I’m not a fan of Dr. Laura.
Saw her self-immolation on Larry King. I was not impressed.
She looked ridiculous.
I haven’t heard more than about 30 minutes of Dr. Laura, and don’t really care for that genre of talk radio. I think her remarks, in context, were reasonable and her point was valid. But she had to know, after any number of clearly illustrative examples (e.g., Imus) that in her business a $hitstorm would result. She’s been taking down millions for years, is 63, and she is choosing a perfectly valid option - taking your marbles and going home. I’m sure she’ll command respectable lecture fees, and will write a book or two - her franchise is still valuable.
What the majority view on this seems to be is that blacks can define the “n-word” as benign when they use it and beyond the pale when non-blacks use it. It’s like the aide to the DC Mayor who was forced to resign 11 years ago for proper use of the term “niggardly”. Never mind that the etymology of “niggardly” clearly shows it was in existence long before the pejorative “n-word” came about. They are two different words which have only a phonetic similarity.
They want to control the language, but they preserve the right to benefit from the inherent ambiguity of language and the artificial distinction they apply to context (i.e., race of the speaker.) This very ignorant approach only separates blacks further from the mainstream of America. But they have every right to do it.
I never said I believed in Christianity — I said I liked Jesus’ formulation. My religous outlook isn’t the issue here. It’s not that I reject redemption — it’s that with regard to Dr. Laura, it’s that, given the way she continues to behave, I reject that she has changed at all. And in general, I reject the idea of a redemption after your time for committing the act has past — it’s very convenient to seek redemption once you can no longer behave badly in certain ways. Augustine probably said it best, but at least he changed his ways while he still could have lived a libertine life - not after his libertine years were past.
She isn’t perfect and has a lot in her past but to me that doesn’t diminish her usually good advice.
I didn’t agree with her style and aome of her advice but she had the guts to say things non PC things that you don’t hear many other places to a large audience.
Actually I should modify my statement - I reject the idea of redemption followed by public statements that others should behave in a way contrary to your behavior once your time for committing the act that required redemption has past.
Wow, I had no idea there was a time limit on redemption.
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