Two loud-mouth conservative voices that we love to hate have been reined in just a bit.
1. The person with a PhD in physiology, who markets herself on talk radio as "Dr. Laura" and who dispenses putdowns and insults masquerading as "advice," got into trouble for saying the "n" word on air 11 times within 15 minutes. She was speaking to an African-American woman married to a white man and calling in to ask how to handle it when his family and friends make racial remarks in her presence. Non-doctor Laura went into a rant about how black people use the "n" word all the time, why can't white people use it? So she did, saying "nigger, nigger, nigger." Then she turned the tables on the caller, saying if she was that sensitive about race, she shouldn't have married outside her own race. My question to the woman would be: why did you call someone as insensitive as this person who calls herself Dr. Laura but is not a "doctor" in any sense of being a helping person.
Today, this professional insulter announced that she is ending her radio career to devote her time to writing her books. She denied that she was forced to resign. We all know how that works. It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
2. Ann Coulter is another queen of insults, only she doesn't try to pass them off as advice. She clearly enjoys and profits from being snarky and mean, and her conservative audiences love it. She had been invited (hired, actually) to give the keynote speech for the conservative website WND at their "Taking Back America Conference."
Now, because she is also giving a talk to the gay Republican group GOProud, WND has disinvited (aka fired) Coulter, saying that their conservative ideals do not fit with the "unconservative agenda" of GOProud.
Coulter's response was: I'm just giving a speech to GOProud. I give lots of speeches to groups I don't endorse. I've even spoken at Harvard, she says. In other words, she's a mouth for hire -- no ideology involved. Just an entertainer. I've even heard that she parties with gay friends, even though her pubic persona is anti-gay. That woman just has no principles. She's just a materialist. Others might even call her less kind names that rhyme with a digging tool.
Two loudmouth bigots bite the dust . . . sort of; but don't think we've heard the last of their ilk.
Ralph
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This is not the first time Laura Schlessinger has been forced off the air for her incendiary comments. A decade ago, it was her virulent anti-gay remarks, including referring to gays as "biological errors" and declaring that all homosexual men are pedophiles.
ReplyDeletePublic outrage and a boycott of her advertisers, plus an official reprimand from the Canadian government, led to the cancellation of her tv show.
And not to leave out Ann Coulter in these comments (she wouldn't like that): the picture of her up on HuffPost today looks even more ghoulish than before. She looks like an escapee from the Addams Family show. Yes, that's catty of me to say so. So be it.
Sarah to Laura: "Hang in there. Don't retreat; RELOAD !!!"
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