Laura Schlessinger and blogs

Another little blog mystery. Or, how irresponsible can professionals be?

Comment # 26, from editor bird (Tom?), Santa Barbara's blog*, is in the March 27, 2007 post "Adult or juvenile?" It is a serious topic for a town struggling with long on going gang problems and a recent murder, involving two teens. District Attorney Christine Stanley right away decided to try a fourteen year old as an adult. In Schlessinger's March 25, 2007 Santa Barbara News-Press column she begins, "Yes, Christie Stanley, try a 14-year-old as an adult: In a News-Press report..." Her "reasoning process" is astounding, you have to give her credit, she is fast.

On March 29th this comment showed up in "Adult or juvenile?":

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It sounds like her, except for the "I am credentialed in psychotherapy (MB 14914 - Marriage and Family therapist in State of California)"? The blog comments did discuss her too much. #26 was more off the subject and was it her? Later, in other posts, John Palminteri's name and posts came under discussion when Craig Smith wrote about Palminteri in "Another Reason Why I Don't Allow Comments. Monday, April 2, 2007". The editor bird crowd misinterpreted Smith's blog yet got the message to verify or (unverified). Or, as with Palminteri in another comment: "John Palminteri (imposter) | March 29th, 2007 at 5:03 pm".

"Dr. Laura Schlessinger (unverified)" showed up when? After Smith's blog. What is unusual, they were not able to verify the "new friend" Schlessinger right away? And why can't they now get a straight answer from her? Does the mystery lead some people to believe she is a psychotherapist? The actual person can document her credentials.

In her March 25, 2007 column she sure slams Laurence Steinberg, a professor in the Psychology Department at Temple University (title?) and Professor Mario Garcia by saying their work "is just infuriating nonsense".

*click to enlarge image of comment #26 after (unverified) was added.


* * *Pardon me for moving this. The post date is wrong (not December, actually April 7, 2007)