Ok, I've had it Dr Laura really IS an idiot...

[snafui]

I was in my car running errands and Dr. Laura Schlesinger came on. Her first call was from a woman that asked, "should I pay off my student loans before I get married?"

Dr. Laura replied, "yes, that is the responsible thing to do. You shouldn't get married if you have any debts."

A thought occured to me when I heard this followed by laughter and saying out loud, "what a [deleted] moron!"

1) Dr. Laura believes that you should not have sex before marriage.

2) Dr. Laura believes that you should finish college before you get married.

3) Dr. Laura believes that you should pay off your student loans before you get married.

WTF?!? So, according to this idiot, you shouldn't have sex until your 35? God forbid you go to grad school! You'd never get laid! Hormones kick in around 13 or 14 years old telling you to reproduce and you want people to wait 20 years to have sex? Oh, yes, you are dealing with reality, Dr. Laura.

And furthermore, Dr. Laura, if you can find a way to live without debts in our culture, please share it with the rest of us. I can't afford a house outright nor a car so those are two debts I will most likely have forever. So if we were all to live by your rules we would die out because no one would have sex until they were 65. This would be too late to reproduce and the human species would cease to exist!

I don't think her way is going to work.

Ok, it's a rant... but she got me totally steamed.

[solidsquid]

Dr. Laura is ridiculous and has done many of the things she tells people not to do.

[necroshine]

solidsquid said:

Dr. Laura is ridiculous and has done many of the things she tells people not to do.

but how is she to know not to do it if you don't do it?
na don't worry about it. birds of a fether. stupid people asking stupid people how to live.

[solidsquid]

I understand what you're getting at - such as former drug dealers telling kids to not deal drugs.

[snafui]

I agree with that concept but have you heard her tone with the people that call in? She is so self righteous and thinks of her self as completely right to the point of absolute arrogance. She sites statistics that only support her point of view and completely ignores reality when it comes to her point of view.

[solidsquid]

Yes, I'm afraid I'm painfully aware of Dr. Laura and her tactics. Although she has been trumped by Ann Coulter on my shitlist.

[GodsAreUs]

solidsquid said:

Yes, I'm afraid I'm painfully aware of Dr. Laura and her tactics. Although she has been trumped by Ann Coulter on my shitlist.

I'd like to see Ann Coulter bleeding in a ditch somewhere. And I've never been the violent type.

[solidsquid]

I find it funny and somewhat disconcerting that even though her latest book has been shown to have many plagiarized parts and her "scientific research" was nothing more than distortions, straw-men and outright lies - many people still take what she says as truth and a scholarly work. Very sad.

[Dragon*of*Heaven]

It has been a while since I listened to Dr. Laura, but if I remember correctly her show runs just like any other of its type. If I am correct it is Pre Recorded, then filtered, then put to air. Or if I am wrong here then she has some one answering the phones first becasues yjou never hear any one disagree with her on air. Even if people have disagreed with her the masses dont hear it so they keep drowning on. Frankly I find tactics like this dispicabel.

I find it funny and somewhat disconcerting that even though her latest book has been shown to have many plagiarized parts and her "scientific research" was nothing more than distortions, straw-men and outright lies - many people still take what she says as truth and a scholarly work. Very sad.

true and one only needs to look at the rateings of Christan day time talk show to understand that this is a growing problem.

[snafui]

Depending on where you live, her show is live. Llike most shows she uses a call screener to evaluate who gets on the air first. She has never had anyone that disagrees with her point of view. I use to listen all the time because it would bust me up. People call in for her "sage" advice and then argue with her about the advice given. I find that comical. That did get boring though and I don't listen to her anymore because it's amazing how many people call in and hear her say the exact same thing over and over.