Posted on 07/15/2005 7:47:16 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Why? Are you expecting a sizable portion of the talk radio audience to GO COMPLETELY INSANE in the next twelve months?
I had a friend who had just moved to LA when Dr. Laura had her brief disastrous foray into TV.....
So she signed up with a Temp Agency till she found a real job...one of the jobs...
Yes, audience member for Dr. Laura's TV show. They had to HIRE an audience; even giving away free tickets they got nobody.
I keep a copy of one of her nude photos in my wallet...y'know, protection from vampires.
YES!!!
She has no tv presence. I guess because she was trying to be nice and likeable for that audience. I always am suspicious of people who jump around from moral system to moral system. She went from partying hippie to professional Orthodox Jew to whatever she is at the moment. There's no reason to believe that in her personal life, she has any particular loyalty to any particular ideology. Another reason to be suspicious of her is that cackle. Verges on insanity.
I'm SHOCKED that you could be sooooo naughty.... LOL
They always do that with a new program. Dr. Joy Brown did the same thing when she went to television.....so what?
He was hired to be a ghost writer. Why didn't he understand that? Also, why didn't he get his money up front? He sounds a bit naive, but maybe that's how business works on the left coast.
Or this one.
My only criticism is she jumps to conclusions too often on what the caller's problem is - I know she can't let them go on forever but there is some middle ground between cutting them off so she can give an answer that has nothing to do with the issue and boring the audience with minutiae.
It's almost like she's not even listening. I know she would say something like she's been doing this for years and she knows where the caller is going, but her answer isn't even close to what the caller needs. She's definitely not intuitive which she probably thinks is an advantage but it really isn't in her field.
Do like her family values though.
The whiner did not seem to be upset when the initial contact was made by a subbordinate to Dr. Laura. Why would he be upset when his termination was issued by same?
"MUST stay married regardless of the circumstances.......to be unrealistic, therefore flawed."
Dr Laura makes exceptions for infidelity, drugs and drunks....
Remember that she's not getting these calls "cold." They've been extensively screened, and before she pushes the button to start listening to them, she's had a chance to read a lengthy summary of their issues and problems that appears on her computer monitor. The screener also makes sure that the caller has a legitimate problem and is a real caller, not someone who is trying to create a situation to embarrass or stump Dr. Laura. When she appears to be cutting a caller off to jump to conclusions, you'll rarely hear the caller say, "No, Dr. Laura, you completely have hold of the wrong end of the stick, it isn't like that at all." All talk show hosts do it this way. Laura's screeners are really tough and insightful, and often they only let the markedly idiotic callers through, for dramatic effect.
How do I know? My dad worked for a big organization that had both a TV station and a radio station. When Dad would drive in from the country to pick up his paycheck, I would go with him and I saw how they operated.
What bothers me is her authoritarianism. "Go do the right thing."
I'm certainly no moral relativist, but she comes off as coldly imperious, and seems to lack any sense that it is "human to err," and that very good, well-meaning people can and DO make mistakes, especially when they are young.........like some 40 years younger than she is. I find myself wondering just what kinds of "skeletons" there might be in her own closet from when she was somewhere between 18 and 30, which is the age range when millions of people make poor life choices....and with the very best of intentions.
I also have trouble with the fact that there was a "deadly" estrangement between herself and her mother, and while it may be that this wasn't her fault at all, it's extremely weird that her mother's body lay in that house for a couple of months before anyone even knew that she had been killed (by an intruder, as I believe it was finally reported). Just not easy to explain something like that scenario, considering Laura's profession.
Thanks so much for your comments. They add so much substance to this thread! I truly appreciate your remarks.
Char :)
I don't think she's a monster. I think she's boring as hell.
Not being able to stomach more than 30 seconds of her drivel, I'm not qualified to judge whether she's a monster or not, so I'll leave that to others.
And she's only fair as a porno-poser.
One of us is misunderstanding this story. Where does he say that he didn’t get paid? You added the line to the title that she “stiffed" him, but I don't see it.
I read that her producer promised to pay him. Did I miss something about later refusal or are you making that part up?
I’m not a fan of Dr Laura, but liked her for awhile. I could never reconcile how a woman could sleep with her producer on her way to the top, and then when her body gave out, preach the morality of abstinence so condescendingly, even after the photos came out.
It sounds like there was tension between Burt Prelutsky and Dr Laura from the beginning. No wonder she treated him rudely in the end. No wonder he’s now betraying her professional confidence. Only a nut would do that. No wonder they couldn’t get along. I don’t think that will help his career or hurt hers.
I know people who have worked with her and say she cusses like a sailor.
Just the way Burt wrote it, I drew that conclusion from it. I'll email him and ask if he can clarify this point.
........and thanks for adding this bit: "I could never reconcile how a woman could sleep with her producer on her way to the top, and then when her body gave out, preach the morality of abstinence so condescendingly, even after the photos came out." It is something that I never knew.
Thanks for asking about Burt's salary issue. Nothing wrong with challenging assumptions!
Char:)
I highly recommend you look into Sirius. Both Elder and Bruce are on, along with Laura Ingraham, G. Gordon, Glenn Beck, NRA News, and lots of catagorized commercial free music. Mrs. H-T gave it to me for our anniversary this year and I'm really liking it.
Dr. Laura is a bitch. But if Einstein had been an asshole would E still be equal to MC squared? If Newton had been a child molester, would apples fall up?
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