While "Doctor" Laura may feel that the First Amendment is limited on the normal airwaves -- because her sponsors responded to her N-word ranting earlier this year ... and that switching to Satellite radio would protect her freedoms ... we aren't fooled. Schlessinger cares more about making money and less about the First Amendment, Freedom of Speech or truly Helping People.
Dr. Laura, who pretends to be a therapist on the radio is no therapist; instead, she is a radio entertainer -- much like Beck, Palin or Limbaugh -- who has used her notoriety to legitimize her message & make money. It is the new brand of truth -- repeat something loudly & many times .. it will eventfully become fact.
People are not responding to her negatively because she speaks a hard truth -- it is the fact that she uses the First Amendment as a shield to spew her brand of hate & hypocrisy.
Here's a woman who not just used a racially charged word -- she also spoke it in a context that was very telling of her real beliefs about inter-racial marriage and relationships.
She is anti-gay and only stands to hurt the many youth who are crumbling under pressures of coming of age & dealing with bullies because of their sexual orientation.
Schlessinger extols family values -- however, broke up two marriages by having affairs. Furthermore, she was not aware that her mother had passed away at her (mother's) home for nearly two months. So ... there laid her mother's dead body, undiscovered for two months. If she was this big family values person (that always lashed out at her callers for not having strong family values) one would believe that these values would include checking up on an aging mother. The hundreds of millions who do not preach to others from their high radio perch certainly tend to their aging parents, no?
Her actions speak loudly to her hypocrisy. Her words speak for themselves.
Running to Satellite Radio might make her money -- it will hardly make what she is doing any more important, decent or more legitimate in the eyes of the First Amendment.
Read the story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/26/dr-laura-to-sirius-xm-rad_n_788628.html
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