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Dr. Laura Schlessinger In Hot Water, Again ("N" Word)
San Diego dot com ^ | 8/12/10 | Ron Donoho

Posted on 08/13/2010 8:24:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Former San Diego radio personality Dr. Laura Schlessinger finds herself in yet another pot of hot water. Yesterday on her national radio program, the outspoken host made what many are labeling racist remarks, and repeatedly used the “n”-word.

Her words: "Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger. I don't get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it's a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it's affectionate."

Later, the on-air discussion with a caller identified as a black woman went like this:CALLER: “Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?”

DR. LAURA: “It depends how it's said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it's okay.”

CALLER: “But you're not black, they're not black, my husband is white.”

DR. LAURA: “Oh, I see, so a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can't do much about that.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; drlaura; drlauraschlessinger; language; lauraschlessinger
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To: SoFloFreeper

Your problem, dear Laura, was watching trashy programming like HBO.


101 posted on 08/13/2010 9:45:19 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Truth hurts. She was right in what she said but due to political correctness she is forced to apologize.


102 posted on 08/13/2010 9:46:48 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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To: OrangeHoof

“...trashy programming like HBO...”

HBO surpasses the main networks in trashiness which takes real effort. To paraphase an old Johnny Carson joke about the Hudson, “you can clean up HBO by pumping in raw sewage”.


103 posted on 08/13/2010 9:49:18 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

How dare she make an honest observation! How dare she! If I were a woman I would call her a ...


104 posted on 08/13/2010 9:50:08 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Except that Laura didn’t “USE” the word. She simply pointed out the hypocrisy surrounding the use of that word using an example. Laura owed no one an apology IMHO.


105 posted on 08/13/2010 9:55:43 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
South Park deals with the "N" word.
106 posted on 08/13/2010 9:56:11 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: SoFloFreeper

Laura is such a silly cracker.
(I can say that because I’m white.)

(/Tim Whatley)


107 posted on 08/13/2010 9:57:04 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: SoFloFreeper
Why should she apologize? She wasn't using the word nigger as a means of attacking blacks. She used it to make a legitimate point.

When politically-correct insanity end?

108 posted on 08/13/2010 9:57:18 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: JudyinCanada
Same goes with the word “fag”. I would never use it, but my gay hairdresser uses it the same way blacks throw around the “n” word....as a term of endearment.

What's wrong with using the fag? I don't think homosexual deviants intent on forcing their perversion on society and on taking away freedom from others deserve any respect whatsoever.

109 posted on 08/13/2010 9:59:11 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: SoFloFreeper

She’s got a point but who listens to Dr. Laura anymore?


110 posted on 08/13/2010 10:00:45 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: dfwgator

Is that you, Jethro? ;-P


111 posted on 08/13/2010 10:00:58 AM PDT by MortMan (Obama's response to the Gulf oil spill: a four-putt.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

THe point she made was RIGHT. The way she made it was not only WRONG, but just plain DUMB. Especially in this climate.


112 posted on 08/13/2010 10:09:10 AM PDT by patriot preacher
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
You see, dear White reader, it’s OK for Blacks to call each other the word. Then the word is a term of affection,...

Then you obviously have not seen the youtube clip of Chris Rock on racism.

113 posted on 08/13/2010 10:14:11 AM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Others may not bJungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuNS9areMc


114 posted on 08/13/2010 10:14:34 AM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Others may not bJungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: Nea Wood
I wish she hadn’t apologized.

You are so right. That was a mistake. She didn't call anybody anything. She simply made a very true statement.

115 posted on 08/13/2010 10:18:20 AM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Others may not bJungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: houeto
Oh yea...LANGUAGE WARNING!!!
116 posted on 08/13/2010 10:22:18 AM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Others may not bJungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: maeng
->>With red hair, I have been called many names such as “red”, “Carrot top”, “little Red” all my life. I guess I should really push for no one to be able to use these words. (sic)<<-

LOL!. Hey, I've been without hair most of my life. Almost not a day goes by without someone referring to me as, ‘baldy’. Thus, I protest these are racist comments and I want reparations too.

Also, in Japan, the Japanese refer to any non-Japanese person as a ‘gaijin’, meaning not of Japanese decent, AKA, foreign born. Just saying...

117 posted on 08/13/2010 10:30:24 AM PDT by redshawk (Yeah, Blunt is a RINO, but we don't have much of a choice now do we?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I heard it, she was race baited by a women of color. She said nothing wrong. The caller - she is the one who keeps the race thang going.


118 posted on 08/13/2010 10:33:32 AM PDT by Pilated
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To: Spok
They will not let it go with fools like JJackson and ASharpton fanning the flames.

from 0Dumbo: “The police, acted stupidly...” nuf said.

119 posted on 08/13/2010 10:33:40 AM PDT by redshawk (Yeah, Blunt is a RINO, but we don't have much of a choice now do we?)
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To: Lancey Howard

Yeah but Tim, ‘your not really Jewish though..’. Boy, that was a good show.


120 posted on 08/13/2010 10:35:28 AM PDT by redshawk (Yeah, Blunt is a RINO, but we don't have much of a choice now do we?)
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