Racial Incendiary rant exposes Dr. Laura (again)

 According to the article from Newsvine below Dr. Laura's rant is nothing new. Over the years she's been in trouble several times. It appears that talking about controversial subjects in a derogotory way is also not new. This is just the latest of these incidents


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Newsvine - Media Matters: Incendiary rant exposes Dr. Laura (again)

 "The year was 1998, and radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger's celebrity was soaring. A media group had recently paid $71.5 million for her program -- the biggest radio deal at the time -- and the Los Angeles Times reported that she had the 'fastest-growing show in radio history, a program now aired on 450 stations in the United States, 30 in Canada -- where she is the No. 1 talk radio personality -- and in South Africa.' Schlessinger would soon begin discussions on hosting her own national TV show."

Just a few years later, Schlessinger began to stumble. In 2001, her syndicated Paramount television show was cancelled after a brief run, and in 2002, the New York Daily News reported that Schlessinger's radio audience had lost several million listeners.

Schlessinger's troubles then -- just like now -- began with incendiary remarks aimed at a minority group. During the 1990s, Schlesinger blasted "homosexuality" as "a biological error," "deviant behavior, a dysfunctional behavior," and linked gay men to pedophilia and child molestation. Schlessinger also touted "therapies which have been successful in helping a reasonable number of people become heterosexual.

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Nearly ten years later, the same controversy over Schlessinger played out again -- this time over racially tinged remarks to an African-American caller.

To give you a refresher, during the August 10 edition of her program, Schlessinger took a call from an African-American woman seeking advice on dealing with the resentment she felt when her white husband didn't speak out about racist comments his friends made. During the discussion, Schlessinger used the n-word 11 times, and told the caller that she had a "chip on [her] shoulder." Schlessinger added that "a lot of blacks voted for Obama" due to race and said that the caller shouldn't "marry out of [her] race" if she didn't "have a sense of humor."

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‘Dr. Laura’ Retreats After Racial Epithets

Laura Schlessinger said on Tuesday night that she would not renew her contract for her long-running radio talk show when it expires at the end of the year. See the article from the New York Times below.

Laura Schlessinger Leaving Show After Using Slur
By JOSEPH PLAMBECK Published: August 18, 2010

Following criticism and the loss of advertisers after her use of a racial epithet 11 times on her long-running radio talk show last week, Laura Schlessinger said on Tuesday night that she would not renew her contract for the show when it expires at the end of the year
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On CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Dr. Schlessinger said that she would leave her “Dr. Laura Program” because she doesn’t want to have to prune her words or opinions.

“I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors,” she said. “I’m sort of done with that.”

On Aug. 10, Dr. Schlessinger used the epithet 11 times while arguing in an exchange with a caller that there was a double standard depending on who utters the word.

“Black guys talking to each other seem to think it’s O.K.,” she said. “I don’t get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it’s affectionate.

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger Ends Her Radio Show

Dr Laura said she "realized I had made a horrible mistake, and was so upset, I could not finish the show." She said she pulled herself off the air at the end of the hour. In a way it's too bad, but it certainly gave the country the opportunity to discuss the subject.


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Dr. Laura Schlessinger ending radio show

msnbc.com staff and news service reports updated 8/18/2010 1:06:55 AM ET

 

"Dr. Laura Schlessinger says she's shutting down her 30-year-old syndicated radio program at the end of the year so she can get her 'First Amendment rights' back.

Her announcement on 'Larry King Live' comes just a week after she repeatedly used the N-word while taking a call on the air from a black woman who wanted to discuss her interracial marriage.

She told King, 'My contract is up for my radio show at the end of the year and I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.'

'The reason is I want to regain my First Amendment rights,' she told King, according to E! Online. 'I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.'

She's not retiring or quitting, she said, but rather, hopes to be 'stronger and freer to say the things that I believe need to be said for people in this country.'"

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