Santa Barbara's Phyllis Schlafly

Look who's morphing more and more into Phyllis Schlafly and doesn't like the ladies "mags", unless...
There are SAHMs and there are $AHMs?

Schlessing writes of Don Imus (below, click to enlarge collage) Paid?
The radio multi millionaire, Laura Schlessinger writes books. Also a blog and a column in the Santa Barbara News-Press. She still uses an old physiology degree title, SHE IS NOT A PSYCHOLOGIST, or a behavior scientist. Her public relations firm promotes "Truth" and "Accountability". To date we do not know that her discrepancies have been adequately cleared up.
Making it especially irresponsible and harmful to repeatedly call a rival a term like "paranoid".

A few memories of the days before Laura Schlessinger's "truth and reconciliation" process

by Jizz Fri Aug 31 2001:
"The last show I ever heard before both my mom and me decided that she had become crappy. Had a portion that went something like this:

'Look, I just...' (Caller)

'No, you called me.' (Dr. Laura)

'Bu..'

'No, who asked who...'

*--Phone Hang Up--*

'Okay, this is Dr. Laura Schlessinger you can call me at...'

I found that pretty amazing. She's degraded from something worth listening to on the radio to your everyday trash talk.

Is this what money does to you???"

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"The conservative Christian World Magazine once even said 'Dr. Laura is hopelessly and even shamelessly arbitrary. She makes up her rules as she goes along. She has to do so, for she has no ultimate and overarching allegiance to any other set of absolute standards.'"

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by Citizen Aim Fri Dec 29 2000
"An interesting quote from her televsion talk show came from an episode today featuring a 17-year-old Miami girl who had started a volunteer program for teenagers called ManaTEEN. She was talking about the output of local members, and she noted that the organization had started with only 22 teens and had grown to 10,000. She then handed Dr. Laura another statistic, that there are only 13,000 teens in the Miami area (something seems inaccurate about this statistic, but that's not the point) and so almost 5/6 of all teens in the Miami area were active members of this organization.

Dr. Laura: 'My goodness! What are those other 3,000 children doing, out getting arrested?!'

Nothing like that ultra-conservative mind to make such a beautiful assumption.

She followed up later with a comment that parents watching this program were probably griping at their kids asking them to do what this girl was doing."

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Schlessinger quotes:

"a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys."

"Encouraging women to do the wrong thing by making them paranoid about disasters,"

"Meanwhile, Leslie Bennetts is paranoid"

"If you're gay or a lesbian, it's a biological error."

"And paranoid feminists like Leslie Bennetts are telling you to go backwards in history and hurt the family… "

"I’m telling you this because I want clarity that what I’m about to say is not vengeance."

"I call homosexual practices deviant."

"who do you think in the entire United States you would really think they’d ask for a quote, besides me? It doesn’t happen. Okay?"

"So, my comments about Leslie Bennetts’ book are not vengeance." Laura Schlessinger

Santa Barbara's Laura Schlessinger, Leslie Bennetts, and "cute" or?

Why wouldn't there be anything but a "huge public backlash against the feminista paranoia in Leslie Bennetts' new book, "The Feminine Mistake.'"? as Dr. Laura writes in the behind a paywall Santa Barbara News-Press column.

Who has the huge public relation machine all over this? Leslie Bennetts is not a name that gets much press. And when did you last hear about her huge listening audience? I don't see the battle so much about stay at home or working mothers. I say it's public relation spin and Schessinger wins for now. Substance? Time will tell if more women can speak up. And how can we forget house hubby Lew? He and one house keeper take care of a 3. acre ocean view estate?

How does that question "cute" or "slut" keep coming up? Some of us do believe whenever the name Dr. Laura comes up, bring out the hypocritical reminder shots. Don't forget the CNN interviews (9-29-06, 1-9-08 et al).

In full disclosure, I did not read Leslie's book. I did google her. WOW! It looked alot like googling Laura. You get the better PR machine's view of the world. I checked out a message board because it has the best writers and they know years of Laura's spins. Both sides have a say. Ok, I'm biased. Laura's support comes from, we'll call her "T", the others are several, with "K" the most "vocal" on this one. For the most part, remind you, on the internet I find it is the same old Laura controled PR machine. This might be the last place where the other side is allowed. "T" is like the many other Laura clones, they don't address her lack of credentials, many of the hypocrisies and lies et al. To their credit, some will now admit that is her in the nude. They say she's cute. These are not the people I'd listen to, they seem to love the kool-aide. One thing the Laura business does is to get people to repeat her rhetoric. I don't aways know how to tell the difference between the ones who are like a Jim Jones follower or the troll types. They pretty much sound the same and share the same denials. As if they all had the same indoctrination?

I don't have a dog in today's fight . I made plenty of wrong choices. That gave me enough experience to make some great choices. Maybe I'm just lucky? I don't have to worry about those important concerns for myself. I do know many people who have raised children, stayed in marriage or not. There is not one answer for all. Laura is selling product, she is not as she appears. People like "T" may not even be as they appear. This one agrees, there is not one answer for all. She promotes Laura, is against a book she didn't read, she did read the "reviews". She has no financial worries, has a degree and a hobby that makes money and she said "I now maintain many content web sites that profit by means of affiliate marketing. They make a nice passive income." Laura wouldn't use people like her? Doesn't her web site offer making money for SAHM's? "T" can afford to promote Laura. She's probably well paid. Supports Bush war and torture policy and agrees with their "global warning" and the complete package.

Leslie Bennetts and the machine
"'The Latest Polemic Against Stay-At-Home Moms!' was the headline on one recent essay about The Feminine Mistake. If this were accurate, I wouldn't mind someone complaining about it, but my book is not a polemic; it's a painstakingly reported collection of information and interviews. If you want to disagree with my conclusions, you need to address the facts on which they're based rather than acting as if these were simply matters of opinion. They're not."

Laura hates painstaking studies. In one column she was down on 2 professors who wrote about trying children as adults or juvenile. She called their work "infuriating nonsense". She's not into facts or discussion.

UPDATE: $ahm "T", from message board, finally gets her web$ite in discussion....
"I now maintain many content web sites that profit by means of affiliate marketing. They make a nice passive income."