Posted on 05/13/2007 8:02:25 PM PDT by RGSpincich
SALT LAKE CITY -- Radio relationship guru Laura Schlessinger, in Salt Lake City on Friday to speak to Army families at Fort Douglas, said she was tired of hearing the complaints of lonely and overwhelmed military wives whose husbands are deployed. "He could come back without arms, legs or eyeballs, and you're (whining)?" Schlessinger asked before taking the stage at the base theater to host her daily program on ethics, morals and values. "You're not dodging bullets, so I don't want to hear any whining -- that's my message to them."
Schlessinger boasted that she once talked a young woman out of marrying a soldier, noting that "warriors need warrior wives" and that she felt the woman was unprepared.
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lol!
I agree.
When your own naked pictures appear on the internet, it is time for you to shut up about others sex lives.
I think this article makes a lot of sense. She is standing up for the troops and for the importance of their mission. I’m not usually a Dr. Laura fan, but I liked this.
The only thing I questioned was her recommendation that everyone should go through two years of military training, but no draft. That’s a lot of time if you aren’t going to make use of people. We have enough govt interference in our lives as it is.
I particularly liked this bit:
The radio host . . . declined to say how she felt about women who leave their families to serve at war. “I’m going to leave that alone,” she said.
I agree with the sentiment completely, although I would put it slightly differently:
In other words, with all due respect Dr. Laura, please shut your steaming snack pipe...
Remember, callers: It’s always your fault, and you’re an idiot for not knowing that.
Men are clueless about certain things (emotional needs, and other odd things that I just don't understand), while women are clueless about others (responsabilities in wartime, political philosophy, engineering, etc.). ;-)
This is a very sensitive area the Doc has inserted herself into. I'm sure the servicemen coming home will have/are having the same experience as my grandfather from the women in their life, but let them deal with it.
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Now that's an intriquing statement. Please elaborate.
My impression of Schlessinger is that she gives solid advice and has a real knack for penetrating to the core of her callers' problems.
How is she a fraud?
What your point she does a good service the more voices echoing morality is welcome!
My son is deployed. My DIL of course is worried but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t get sad, lonely and maybe a little scared too. I don’t call it whining.
Who says? They have e-mail capability now. "Mom would you......." :')
Dr. Laura had obviously done a lot of work in her field before she got into radio, and people like Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, who go back to school to get their GED are (to me, anyway) to be admired.
TV and radio Names like “Dr. Phil” and “Dr. Laura” aren’t meant to be taken totally seriously— if they were, they’d be “Dr. Schlesinger”.
Like Cyborg said, if you want tact, don’t listen to Dr. Laura. I sure don’t-— I find her shrill, annoying and boring, plus I feel like a voyeur listening to other people’s dirty laundry. But it also seems like she usually gives pretty good, if obnoxiously put advice.
She does have a hang up as far as her feeling that orphaned kids should never seek out their birth parents, though. I wonder if that’s always a bad idea the way she thinks it is.
Right about that. Dr. Laura is an arrogant pseudo-relationship scientist who wouldn’t know an intelligent thought or sound instant alaysis if it bit her on the ankle. She preys on the weak and confused with a never changing mantra that, while it has the aura of insight, is absolutely wrong about 95% of the time. She jumps to conclusions and then preoceeds to answer the dilemma she herself poses and passes it off as the bumper sticker solution to the caller’s distress. She is a charlatan masquerading as a compassionate analyst when, in fact, she doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about the caller and uses her response to hawk her books, her single issue point of view and a sub-rosa political dogma devoid of science. And, all the while, uses the tinest bit of caller information to wax what she assures everyone as widom merely to use radio time to get to the next commercial. This fraud sells blue sky to vulnerable people who might really need serious and competent help; neither of which she dispenses.
I know many have knee jerk reaction but dr Phil has helped many of family with general dysfunctions as well as show folks who might need to seek help in their community for some situations beyond their own!
I appreciate dry Phil he has given me more insight things I took as gospel as a kid and live with those scars all my life I have more compassion for those affected my life understanding they were a product of their childhood!
Anyway good healing was to take place and I am sure I am not the only one who has benefited.
He has all kinds of shows some of them pay the Bills, so I can’t complain when a few days are spend on “Pop Culture”, those days I find something else to do, and I love growing as person to come out of my shell more even at my age!
So some might have an uppity opinion, but this nation is hurting and really needs to learn about being good neighbors, and how to function as a family as well as, good citizen are getting the opposite in the schools and many families never received a legacy memo.
She does tell it. Especially since her son is one of those fighting in this war she can tell it.
I don't either. It's the ones who call a radio show to solicit sympathy for their own discomfort while the spouse is out fighting bad guys.
Dr Dre? Dr Pepper? Dr Johnny Fever!
yep
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