5 words bring Dr. Laura almost to tears on Fox news- the bubble bursts!

[Poll_Blind]

  Those words? "You son is being deployed." From the description on LiveLeak.com:

Dr.Laura is upbeat and excited talking about her new book on Fox.She rips into bad wives,feminists and the inner child when right at the end of the interview Doocy bursts her bubble with 5 words....
"Your son is being deployed".....

Watch it

  Oh the hypocrisy...

PB

[Bluebear]

1. (Wow she's rough looking these days!)

(Just started watching)

[ronnykmarshall]

70. I saw her in my review mirror one time

She driving behind me. I thought I was going to turn to stone.

[ikojo]

106. Karma is a b*tch isn't it?

Don't feel for that rag. Her son is probably excited about the opportunity to shoot some Ay-rabs for Christ (Dr Laura is a Christian now isn't she?)

[Bonobo]

2. I Hate her, but that was sad...

Even she has a heart and loves her child.

[Bluebear]

4. Don't be sad. She's not "too worried", because she "brought him up to be a warrior"

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Dr. Laura Schlessinger, famous for doling out advice on her nationally syndicated call-in radio talk show, shared a little of her own personal life with U.S. Army reservists.

Schlessinger told some 300 people at a 425th Civil Affairs Battalion event on Saturday that her son, 19-year-old Deryk Schlessinger, will join the U.S. Special Forces later this year — a mission that could take him to the Middle East.

Schlessinger, who enlisted last year, joined his mother on stage to explain his reasons for signing up. He told the crowd at the Calvary Chapel that he resented the way Americans criticize the war without recognizing soldiers' sacrifices — a theme echoed by his mother.

"Real people were fighting and I wanted to be part of that," Schlessinger said.

Schlessinger said she wasn't too worried about her son.

"I brought my son up to be a warrior," she said. "I feel sorry for the mothers of the bad guys. And I just have a good feeling."

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-02-06-drlaura_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA

[Katherine Brengle]

10. That's a common fundie talking point I've noticed lately --

bringing boys up to be "warriors" -- it's enough to make you puke.

[Bluebear]

12. You got that right, kb. nt

[adigal]

31. God forbid you bring your son up to be a Peace Maker like that guy,

oh, I can't remember his name right now, Jes, something, OH, I got it, Jesus, that's right. Fundies hate Jesus because he was a Peace Maker.

[mzteris]

61. Oh THAT guy -

:rofl:

Ain't that just the truth, though.

[BoneDaddy]

63. Real warriors

are peacemakers. For the real warrior the fight is internal and, if necessary, to defend hearth and home, external, but it more about exorcising our own personal demons before we attribute them to others.

Bush and people like him are cowards.

[kineneb]

39. Those who live by the sword

will die by the sword.

Dead is still dead. Guess they like having their sons (and daughters)"coming home in a box".

[AndyTiedye]

57. Raising Them to be Bullies, More Like

[salin]

15. while I can't stand her show, her words, her craziness...

there is a difference when one is speaking in the abstract (of an event not yet a reality) and the reality (being deployed in two weeks.) I feel for each parent, family member, loved one who gets the news of a (or another) deployment.

[Katherine Brengle]

34. Agreed - it's no picnic any way you cut it - I have no doubt that the sadness was genuine.

And I feel more for her son, who was trained his whole life to come to this point.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

55. I hope nothing happens to that young man. Maybe with a little

time and maturity he will come to realize what a whack job his mother really is. And in the event something happens to him - his mother will not hesitate a millisecond to use his death or injury for her own monetary gain. She is all about selling books, a radio show and speaking fees. I have no sympathy for Laura (refuse to call a doctor since she has a degree in physical therapy of something like that and not psychiatry or psychology) at all but have enormous sympathy for her son. Imagine being raised in that household.

Laura has posed nude, had an abortion, stole another woman's husband - she is the poster woman for the repugs and neofascists.

[butterfly77]

58. THANK HIM FOR HIS SERVICE...

[Bluebear]

62. Oh...OK...thank you Deryk!

Better? :)

[butterfly77]

79. That sounds about right..

[lnmike]

66. Will join the Special Forces later this year?

Making the team in Special Forces is no foregone conclusion. Maybe we shouldn't wish failure on her son, but if you really wanted to see Dr. Shrew bawl on camera, some interviewer asking her how she felt about Deryk not being able to cut it would really fill the bill.

[hatrack]

93. And that renders him immune to traumatic amputation from an IED?

Whatever, Doc.

[Poll_Blind]

13. I don't doubt that. But she's made a fortune insulting and degrading...

...her audience, often times telling them to just "suck it up." My point in posting the video was to show the level of hypocrisy in this woman's life.

  If a mother were to call up her show and express all the fear and doubts that you see cross Dr. Laura's face at the end of the interview, Dr. Laura would have probably shit all over the caller. It's all a hurtful, nasty act and this is a great example of how her anti-humanist rhetoric is just a sack of bullshit.

PB

[salin]

point being - schtick to make money

I thnk that is true of a lot of rw shrills, er shills. Schtick - to make money.

[wryter2000]

21. Exactly

I think if Michael Savage discovered tomorrow that he could make more money as a communist on the radio, he'd switch in a heart beat.

[salin]

30. no question about it

and if Rush thought could double his earnings as a spokesperson for Fidel...

and if Laura thought she could double her money preaching atheism... and so on and so forth...

[Bjorn Against]

104. Does the name David Horowitz ring a bell?

Former leftist turned extreme right-winger.

Maybe I shouldn't talk because I am a convert myself (of course I moved the opposite direction and became a leftist) but I just don't believe Horowitz is genuine. And I also think you are probably right on Michael Wiener as well, he knows there is money to be made in hate radio and he is more than willing to do whatever he can to keep the corporate dollars flowing into his pockets.

[Bonobo]

20. I hear you PB.

[Breeze54]

23. No sympathy for her.

I'll bet she's "not worried." :eyes:

What a Liar! And a Bitch!

Thanks for posting the video. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

-----------------

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410010001

Dr. Laura:

"We have insurgents, terrorists, Muslim terrorists in Baghdad
murdering children to make sure Kerry's elected"

[CBGLuthier]

3. How that woman

who let her mother ROT, literally ROT, can talk about parenting skills is a truly mind boggling thing.

[Rosemary2205]

5. It's not the son's fault his mom is a jerk.

IMHO joy over Dr. Laura's pain is misplaced because he son really could be maimed or die over in that hellhole. To say "she has it coming" implies her son deserves it.

No one deserves this.

[atreides1]

16. It is

If he's just as much of jerk as she is! And reading his little speech to his church, it does sound as if he's as much of a jerk as she is.

[Rosemary2205]

25. The punishment for being a jerk isn't a death sentence.

that and you don't know who you'd be if you were raised by her either.

[northernsoul]

40. Thank you for saying it!

I think we should all repeat this every day: "The punishment for being a jerk isn't a death sentence."

[joeunderdog]

68. It's no death sentence. He signed up for the military voluntarily.

Yes, he might die, but unlike his Complete Hypocrite Mother, he's at least practicing a little of what he preaches. Give him credit for that.

And let's face it--we all grow up with alot of our parents' values in us. He's a carbon copy of Dr. Hypocrisy, and he never developed to think on his own. If he dies, I hope on some level Mommie Dearest knows that she programmed the crazy idea of Patriotism into him.

[Arkansas Granny]

38. Her son is 19 and probably has gotten a lot of his attitude from

listening to his mother. After he is out from under her influence his opinions may change.

[wryter2000]

19. I utterly despise her

But she didn't think up this war. She may be supporting it because she's a rw tool, but I don't think there's any way in hell she got up one morning in 2002 and said, "I think this country ought to invade Iraq." PNAC and Bush thought this up.

I hope her son is safe, but I hope this knocks some sense into her head.

[helderheid]

22. agreed

[TahitiNut]

33. I think it's a matter of seeing her son being cannon fodder for his mother's politics.

That's how I see it, at least. I personally see virtually ALL people in military service as being abused and wasted for the self-serving and predatory politics of the power-obsessed right-wing. Unlike many here, I don't regard the political orientations of most people in the military itself to be very relevant. First, people that age (18-28) more often than not 'inherit' their political opinions from their parents and family. From my own experience, far fewer than 20% have responsibly-adopted political attitudes based on their own values, principles, and studies. On top of this, we often find our emotional survival to be 'served' by adopting beliefs (even false beliefs) that rationalize our circumstance. (E.g. the "Stockholm syndrome.") The military is riddled with this.

[wryter2000]

6. Good grief

I feel for her regarding her son. I hope she'll start speaking out about how awful this war is on the families involved. Not likely, I guess, but it sure would be nice.

I hope her son tells her his experiences and what he sees. That might light up a few neurons in her brain.

[fishwax]

67. I listened to her a little over a month ago, and she was totally in favor

of the war and his service, so I don't think this will make her wise up in that sense. Still, much as I despise the mother, I think it much more appropriate to ridicule those who beat the drums of war but keep their kids out of harms way, like just about every other hawk out there does.

I don't know how many times I've heard young right-wingers complaining about unpatriotic anti-war protestors and thought: "why haven't you signed up?" Here's someone who has. I hope you're right and that it softens up his (and then her) perspective.

[wryter2000]

84. Well put n/t

:thumbsup:

[Dhalgren]

7. I despise "Dr. Laura", but I did not enjoy her pain. That was brutal...

[Tyo]

91. I feel sorry for her son...

But as for her pain, well, she has caused enough of it for others with her misguided and often vicious opinions and advice. Maybe with her suffering will come some empathy. This has been markedly absent from her makeup up to now.

[Katherine Brengle]

8. Wow...

For the record, I'm a feminist and I stay home and take care of my daughter... she doesn't have a clue.

But at least she has some capacity to feel.

[Double T]

9. I'm sure no fan of dr.laura's politics or hypocrisy, BUT I wouldn't wish deployment......

of her son, or anyone's son or daughter, to 'war'; it is very sad to see a mother's (or father's) pain.

[Bluebear]

11. But she raised him to be a warrior! See upthread.

She'll be OK.

[Poll_Blind]

17. I thank you for that article- it's a perfect compliment to the video! n/t

PB

[mwb970]

27. Especially *this* war. /nt

[Breeze54]

28. Perhaps she's to blame for this??

Sounds like it to me. She made her bed, let her lay in it!

[Submariner]

14. Dr. Laura's dead mother

Isn't this witch the one who never visited or called her mother and her mom was found by others to be a 2 month old rotting corpse in her apartment?

[salin]

24. and she wouldn't pick the corpse up from the Morgue.

I can't stand her.

But that doesn't stop me from having a little human compassion for even her at learning that one's child is about to be deployed to Iraq.

That said - how she treated her mother - in life and in death - should alert 'listeners' to how full of sh*t she and her moralizing schtick is.

[bumblebee1]

51. I know this is cold, but,

how Dr Laura treated her mother in life, may Deryk do the same to her or worse.

[wryter2000]

29. She's the one

She gets quite defensive when someone asks why she didn't honor her own mother, too.

[orleans]

92. her eyes pecked out by birds.....ah yes, laura and her family values.

what a "special" daughter laura is. (glad she's not my kid!)

[Breeze54]

95. She's just like the 1st Mrs. Bush!

She went golfing the day W's sister died! :wow:

And no funeral!

[RebelOne]

18. I don't like that lady in the least.

But I did feel bad for her.

[quiet.american]

26. I'm NO fan of Laura's, but can understand she's scared now.

The way the idiot on the show put it to her was really insensitive, too -- as though he were saying, "so your kid's off to college next week isn't he?"

That said, with her and her son brainwashed and brainwashing people into thinking that those who do not support this war crime do not recognize the sacrifice of the troops is unforgiveable.

[treestar]

83. That's the way they sometimes see it

In fact, that's how she'd tell others to see it.

Really, she should have expected it, and given her support for the war and the fact she raised her son to be a warrior, that should be considered good news. From her point of view, it is.

[quiet.american]

85. True -- and I'm sure she'd be the first to agree, but one can see she's scared for her son.

It's one thing to rah-rah and raise one's son during a time that was largely peaceful and prosperous -- now as a result of all that rah-rahing, off goes her son, maybe never to return. Pretty high stakes.

[wryter2000]

86. Good point

Doocy really stuck it to her, didn't he? But then, what did I expect?

[thereismore]

32. She is slightly mad, but the Pox guys have no class, no heart. FU Pox.

[salin]

35. and this is how they treat their *friends*

not only ask on air - but keep pointing the camera on her after the interview/session was over and as she chokes up. Why would *anyone* want to go on air with that ghoulish (on everyfront not just this moment) crew?

[Bake]

45. They were saying that because they think she's a ROLE MODEL

They were holding her up for praise because her son is being deployed. Oops, her reaction was not quite what they expected.

She raised him to be a warrior? Fine. Ship him off. I didn't raise MY son to be cannon fodder.

Screw Dr. Laura and the horse she rode in on.

Bake

[salin]

47. Hey Bake!

Always great to run across you on a thread. Hope all is well with you and yours.

[Bake]

74. Thanks salin!

And back atcha too! We're hanging in down here in 'Sippi, missing the kids up in KY and hoping we can get ourselves back up there (even though it's a "red" state too)!

Bake

[salin]

81. I didn't realize that you had moved...

was bout to ask if you got a milder version of the storm that hit us in Indiana yesterday (which is part of why I am able to be typing on DU today.) Ky may be red - but it does from time to time have some purple moments - like Indiana (which just got a dem. maj. congressional delegation - which I am still celebrating!)

[thereismore]

71. I think that's exactly how it happened. You're right. nt

[Dastard Stepchild]

37. That was harsh, no?

I couldn't imagine having a conversation with someone, and then right at the end they say, "Oh, and I totally ran over your brother. He's dead. Bye."

Talk about a sucker punch!

[Pugee]

41. She already knew. He just mentioned it to thank him.

[Dastard Stepchild]

49. Oh... I gathered she knew...

It just seemed like this was an aside right before leaving. Which is a pretty heavy aside to dole onto someone before walking away.

I could handle an aside such as "..blah...blah...blah...banter...banter...And you know, I like peanut butter. Bye."

But a subject that weighty seems to merit more than a drop and a bye-bye. She seemed really taken aback.

[Poll_Blind]

43. They didn't mean any malice by it- they expected her to chime in...

...with more of her goose-stepping support for Junior's War. But it caught her off guard. She wasn't prepared, and it shows. For just a moment the facade fell away. Someone dropped the mental cue cards and we saw the real Dr. Laura who is not the blather she pimps on the radio.

PB

[Bluebear]

44. "Be sure to work in that my son is being deployed."

Wanna bet?

[leftofthedial]

36. make choices

how did someone like her end up with a kid being deployed?

where's the Air National Guard when you need them? oh yeah. deployed.

[BayCityProgressive]

46. She is a rotten bitch

and if her son dies she has no one to blame but herself. She has been a tool of the Nazi class for YEARS, drummed for this war, and raised him to be a Nazi "warrior". Everything she has done in her life has led him to his fate. I hope she can live with that.

[leftofthedial]

48. tool of the Nazis?

she IS a Nazi.

[TZ]

42. we should say to her what she has as much as said to soo many..

get over it. How's that feel "Dr" (insult to everyone who busted their asses for a real degree) Laura?:nopity:

[BayCityProgressive]

50. oh stop whining single moms!

JUST GO OUT AND FIND A 3RD SHIFT STAY AT HOME COMPUTER JOB! tHEY ARE EVERYWHERE!:sarcasm:

[nadinbrzezinski]

52. You know having sent somebody to this craziness

I feel for her.

And I hope her son will cone back relatively untouched... regardless of what fantasies she lives with

Oh and one last thing... his son's right. Most people do not understand the sacrifices the troops make, regardless of politics

All the power to him, he is willing to put his life on the line for soemthing he believes in. And the same goes for her, she now has skin in the game

[ColdboyinStPaul]

107. How are you holding up?

I can't imagine having someone close to me over in that place. Is your son or daughter in the military?

[Darkhawk32]

53. That was one's career overriding a mother's love for her son.

She knows damn well that the Iraq occupation is total bullshit and more than likely her son will be seriously wounded or killed (depending upon his duties) and that she feels she must keep her mouth shut because it'll hurt her career to speak out.

Now if she did speak out, she's a hypocrite because she didn't give two shits about any dead servicemen before for this bullshit occupation.

Her tone and mannerisms were quite striking in that clip. Her eyes expressed everything I just stated.

I hope you son comes home safe and YOU have to go there.

[Marr]

54. Here's hoping her son doesn't lose his life to his mother's

lunatic brainwashing and self-serving, career-promoting rhetoric.

[TlalocW]

56. My take on it

We all know her entire life is a schtick. She's lived a life far worse than any of her callers, but now she feels justified in insulting them on the air. She's created this persona who is all rah-rah-rah when it comes to anything conservative. Now that there's the possibility that she'll have to pay consequences for it, the facade drops, and she gives into the nagging feeling that she's screwed up and like most upper-class conservatives, this will be the first time she'll have to deal with real consequences from choices she's made.

Everything else - the hypocrisy of her life, the divorces, stressing the importance of family while ignoring her mom - that could all be ignored and/or buffered by the millions of dollars she makes and the fact that she can shout anyone down because she holds the mic. The reality that millions of other people face is now intruding on her fabricated world, and it's not pretty.

TlalocW

[Darkhawk32]

59. That's a bit more indepth than my take, but it's essentially the same. :) n/t

[npincus]

60. oh my... mothers should just "get some computer work"

or "work at night"... who the FUCK is she kidding?

[Darkhawk32]

65. How stupid of women never to have thought of that, eh?

[fishwax]

64. She's one of the few hawks who actually has a child in harms way

I think Dr. Laura's totally full of shit, but at least her son has put his money where her mouth is.

She's wrong on the war and wrong on just about everything else. But regarding precious Deryk's service, when I see young republicans protesting anti-war protests, I always wonder why they don't sign up themselves. He's someone who has.

Doesn't change the fact that she's a loud-mouthed bigot, of course.

[Bunny]

69. Dr. Laura is a self-loathing woman who rails against women who

do the EXACT SAME THINGS SHE DID!!! Have sex before marriage, hook up with a married man, pose nude for your married lover, steal a married man away from his wife and kids, work outside the home while your kids are young - you name it, she's done it. Now, anyone who does anything remotely close to her behavior is a Slut (that's one of her favorite words) who lets strangers raise her kids. Not to mention letting her deceased mother's corpse rot away for two months. I swear, you can't make this stuff up.

She's a textbook study in projection, denial, whatever else you'd want to call it.

She particularly annoys me with her advice to women - The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands is one of her books, (that's SOME name, isn't it? :eyes:) and she basically says that a good wife will fuck her husband regularly, and keep her problems to herself. Because, really, that's all it takes to keep a man happy. That's incredibly insulting to both women AND men, who may indeed be flummoxed to be reduced to an organism requiring only sex and harmony in order to be content. It strips men of most of their intellect, frankly, and also puts the sole responsibility for marital happiness squarely on the woman. My my, I thought we'd gotten away from that 50 years ago, but not in her world. Dr. Laura - one of the 12th Century's pre-eminent thinkers.

Having said all that, and with the clear understanding that I loathe this woman beyond words, I wish her son well and I hope he returns home safely to her.

[Breeze54]

72. Is there a long waiting list??

:rofl: :rofl:

"she basically says that a good wife will fuck her husband regularly" :rofl:

[Bunny]

75. HAHAHA!

Bacause if all those women would fuck her husband, SHE wouldn't have to deal with it!!! :rofl:

[wryter2000]

87. Hey, Bunny

:hi:

Right on the money, as usual.

[Bunny]

88. wryter! Thanks, how are ya, dear?

Good to see you - :hi:

[wryter2000]

89. Just great

Someone sent me a DVD of the greatest band in the world's New Year's Eve show. It hasn't left my DVD player.



On edit: Doc looks even weirder without his hat. Who woulda thunk?

[Bunny]

90. Oh I love that pic!

Are they doing the Star Spangled Banner or something? Now, *that* would be a great rendition of the national anthem! :)

[wryter2000]

99. Since you asked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsJgap7GTMw

Yes, they were doing the national anthem at the Oakland Coliseum. It appears to be at a Raiders game.

[dogday]

73. Been there, done that and it stings like hell

I feel for her, I really do..... :shrug:

[shance]

76. Why did it look and seem staged?

Of course, I could be wrong, but something seems manufactured here. I am curious also to know exactly WHAT is her son going to be doing in Iraq?

Are they going to "deploy" Dr. Laura's son to the Middle East to work at a cushy desk job in the Halliburton offices?

I have to ask after witnessing some of Dr. Laura's antics is how much danger is her son going to actually be in and is this just a PR move?

When looking at what Dr. Laura represents and her capacity for dishonesty, would this be such a surprise?

[sakabatou]

77. I'm conflicted

In one way I want to laugh and in another way I feel sorry for her.

[Plaid Adder]

78. All right, that should come with a warning.

Dr. Laura on her own is bad enough. Watching the Fox "team" yuk it up like...like...I don't know, what's the most vapid bootlicking smug and giggling thing you can think of? Yuk it up like whatever that is, is much worse. Subjecting my brain to that long enough to get to the denouement may have done it permanent damage.

And I agree, it is sad to see her reaction to the reference to her son's deployment. Even though she no longer looks entirely organic, she is after all a mother, and is going to feel this like any other mother would. Though I would be interested to know whether she thinks that women whose kids went to day care will feel any less bad when _their_ kids get deployed than women who stayed at home.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Breeze54]

80. LMFAO!!

"Subjecting my brain to that long enough to get to the denouement may have done it permanent damage"!

:rofl: :rofl:

I was thinking the same thing while I was waiting for the punchline! lol

[Plaid Adder]

102. It's JUST PAINFUL!

It makes me wish I had Jon Stewart's job. Making fun of THIS shit is EASY!

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[AlCzervik]

82. that show reminds me of the parody Will Ferrell and shari O'Teri used to do on SNL.

[Imagevision]

94. Quite obviously, there's no-one on this thread with a loved one serving in Iraq....

[dogday]

98. See #73

My Son came home in November after serving a year in Tikrit... I know what she feels

[blogslut]

96. I can only hope

that was Laura's wake-up call.

[lies and propaganda]

97. i cant say what i want to on DU.

it may rhyme with lupid bunt though.

[Nikki Stone1]

100. At least she's one neocon whose kid is actually going to Iraq

Let's see the others pony up.

Hey Barbara and Jenna? Why aren't you over there?

[shance]

101. Yes, but knowing Dr. Laura, I'm curious to know exactly what hes going to be doing over there.

n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

105. I don't know. A lot depends on how much of a true believer she is

If she really believes in what she has been saying (and she is the type that could, despite how loopy it all sounds) then it is quite possible that neither she nor her son asked for special favors. She may believe that this really a calling from God or a time to prove one's bravery. My hope is that if she is a true believer, something will happen to convince her that this war is not a good thing.

[trekbiker]

103. sheesh... what a scary judgemental bitch..

here's the real Dr Laura, back during the days when she was sleeping her way into the radio Biz

http://www.bartcop.com/mengidx.htm

kudos to her son for volunteering though. Millionaire kids have a LOT of other options

[Liberal In Texas]

108. Fuck her. Sorry publicity grubbing tool. Vain as the day is long.

I remember one of the last satellite interviews I directed at Fox that involved her.

(A satellite interview is where someone hawking a book or movie sits in front of a camera and they either record or take live all day long an author or actor and they go from one local station to the next. You've seen them, "We talked to Dr. Laura earlier and blah blah blah...")

Anyway, between interviews she had a bevy of make-up artists and hair people hovering around her. The camera had a "gauze" filter over it, AND it was out of focus. (I know it was out of focus, because at one point the camera operator focused, and then went back out of focus.) She still looked terrible.

At least Molly Ivans and Ann Richardson had the grace to look their age, and looked all the more better for it.