dr. Laura comments

I forgot about that. Sarah Palin ought to know better. They're both selling hate like Bill O'Reilly.

Yea, that guy is one with the words with a smile. Add Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox news and Friends.... all one big racket. Its interesting who owns Fox too. One has to wonder who the big puppeteer is behind all this.

I second that!

I listened to Dr. Laura's speech about how she's not retiring but going to other forms of media blah, blah, blah, just not going to be on terrestrial radio nonsense and how it's all because of people wanting to stomp on her first amendment rights. The kicker was when she explained that her advertisers didn't deserve this, so for THEM she was falling on the sword and leaving. Give me a freaking break!!! No one's saying you CAN'T say what you want, just that there are repercussions for what you say! The first amendment never said there weren't consequences for your speech. Dr. Laura couldn't stand the heat (THAT SHE CREATED) so she's getting out of the kitchen. Fine. But don't cry about your rights. No one's denying you those.

Spot on with everything...So many people assume I voted for Obama because I have black sons...it's nice to have role models to show them that yes, they can indeed be anything, but I was more worried about stopping the bleeding wound in America than securing my sons role model. I would have voted for Barney over McCain. Sarah Jessica Parker...anyone. I didn't vote for Obama because be was black, I voted for Obama because he wasn't McCain. I agree with a lot that he says, but the main thing was...he wasn't McCain...As far as her first Amendment...seems like it's working just fine. She didn't get thrown in jail for what she said...she's protected from any laws being made against her saying what she wants to say. 1st amendment doesn't force everyone else to agree with what she says, it just protects her right to say what she wants...no matter how screwed up it might be.

For the record, nobody should use the n-word, and many aa have critiziced those guys on hbo for doing that. People shouldn't be using the word 'ho either but they do that too. But she was talking more about a philosophical point there, not applied to anybody. I was most disgusted by the answer she gave the caller, which was basically that she shouldn't be hypersensitive (so the fact that she disliked being disparaged and humiliated by her husband's demeaning family and/or friends was being "hypersensitive" I guess) and that she should "grow a sense of humor", or not marry outside her race. Really! So she should try to find it funny that people are looking at her as "less than" and insulting her. She should "suck it up" or not marry outside her race. That is the type of dismissivism that typifies people like Dr. Laura. It is infuriating to me that Dr. Laura actually understands what is being done and calls it "being hypersensitive". To me that is even worse than the people who live in an alternative universe and walk around saying "this is 2010 and there is no racism anymore". Because she acknowleges it and feels it's no big deal that it exists. Why would someone like this pose as some sort of "life helper" type person who gives advice and who would actually find her advice useful?!!! And then for Sara Palin to support this when she is supposed to be representing people and has plans for future roles in government.... stupid move. PS For those in the alternative universe, (I doubt if it's anyone around here) I found this article about the song "dixie" which I was disappointed to find out is a racist song. I always kind of liked the tune but never knew more than the first few lines. This article probably goes better with the confederate flag thread. The picture at the bottom says it all. [url=http://youthvoices.net/node/27976]University's Dismissal of Racist Song "Dixie" | Youth Voices[/url]

Hey aclee, as someone who has recently discovered the joys of Barney, I have to say he'd probably be a much better politician than those who actually are!

HATE HER! SHE MAKES ME SICK! :mad: :mad:

nickchris, I meant to mention that your hamburger comment really cracked me up! :-)

LOL I was trying to be nice, but I saw her picture..and said yikes! Whats the saying, cannot be too rich or too thin?

I heard this when Roland Martin reported it on The Tom Joyner Morning Show. They were pretty upset but of course they had jokes. They said Don Imus was probably sitting back saying, SHEW! I've never listened to her but with the company she keeps I never felt the need to seek her out. I agree with everything BB said. Seriously, can someone really be that dumb? She thought it was okay to say what she was saying because she saw some commediens on HBO? Since when did a comedy skit set the tone for the whole world? Oy! Crick, you are so right. I forgot all about her outrage over the use of the R word. Does the shoe fit when it's on the other foot?

I figured that Dr. Laura had an axe to grind that day and that poor unsuspecting caller filled that need. What happened? A black person cut her off in traffic? Robbed a neighbor? I'm pretty sure there's a story behind how she reacted that day because she did not respond to the caller question in any rational way as a so called trained professional. Even if something did happen it's wrong to blame an entire race or take it out on the next person of that race you see. Now on to the caller... Something has to be up with her... What is wrong with her DH? He lets his friends come to the house and do that? There is no way no one is coming into my house and disrespecting me... friend of DH or not. Her DH should have put them in check from the get go. This story is why some of my AA friends refuse to date interracially... They said the first time they got called the n-word it would be on. They don't allow anyone of any race to call them that.

Yea the Dr. was sounding fed up. lolI was wondering about the caller too. She was in shock, and still could not get her thoughts together about the situation in another interview. I am thinking she never expected such and outburst, or that stuff rarely happens. Now if my dh was white there is no way friends would even get that far. I wonder what she tolerated before it came in her home, her DH should be more sensitive but, at times one gets away with what one is allowed to. kwim? Let it go and some take the jokes or comments too far. One of our friends (CC) got a bit tipsy and I had to straighten him out firmly.. as he was a bit tipsy. lol However, he never acted as if he was some Black stand-up comedian again. LOL I had a situation happen to me today, and I had to say to myself, was it race based or no? I was talking to my sister about it, since she was there. quote=Sleeplvr]I figured that Dr. Laura had an axe to grind that day and that poor unsuspecting caller filled that need. What happened? A black person cut her off in traffic? Robbed a neighbor? I'm pretty sure there's a story behind how she reacted that day because she did not respond to the caller question in any rational way as a so called trained professional. Even if something did happen it's wrong to blame an entire race or take it out on the next person of that race you see.Now on to the caller... Something has to be up with her... What is wrong with her DH? He lets his friends come to the house and do that? There is no way no one is coming into my house and disrespecting me... friend of DH or not. Her DH should have put them in check from the get go. This story is why some of my AA friends refuse to date interracially... They said the first time they got called the n-word it would be on. They don't allow anyone of any race to call them that.[/quote]

See that's what I was thinking... she let it slide with her DH and then he thought it was okay and then probably told his friends that she doesn't care or will be cool about it. Now she realizes how hurtful it really is... and my guess is they've taken it one step further than what she's okay with. She might have even been guilty of using it but they might not have grasped the subtley of how she used it. But that's her fault... Don't use something around other people if you are not sure they understand it, particularly if it's something controversial.

I have never had any respect for Dr. Laura. She is an arrogant, rude, nasty woman, who thinks, for some reason, that she can define right and wrong and that makes it gospel doctrine. I have always wondered why anyone has ever called in to her show, and subjected themselves to her abuse.It didn't really surprize me that she said what she did to the black woman who called her show. It pleased me, though, that she was finally called on the carpet about something! If someone had used a disparaging term for Jews, in a similar fashion, she would have likened them to Hitler and Mengele, yet she felt entitled to use that horrible word repeatedly. I'm thrilled that she's off the air and hope that people forget about her. As far as the woman who called in, I imagine her DH and his friends now know that it makes her uncomfortable to keep being singled out like that and, hopefully, they have stopped doing it. It sounded to me like they were being thoughtless, but not really intending to offend her. Hopefully, her marriage is OK and this hasn't had any long-term negative effect on her life.