Dr. Laura Schlessinger is not someone I pay much attention to. I know she made some news years back with some anti-gay comments. All I know about her is that she gives right wing advice to people which usually involves women just shutting up and putting out. Honestly, I haven’t paid that much attention to her. Well, she’s caught everyone’s notice now.
Here’s audio of Schlessenger’s original rant, which happened during a discussion with a black female caller who thought her white husband’s friends were racist (the most shocking moment of which included Schlessenger saying angrily, “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.”
Right, Dr. Laura. Because some comedians use the word on HBO for shock value that means it’s o.k. to use. Of course, Dr. Laura’s advice is that the woman is just supposed to suck it up and take it. The worse part of the rant comes here in Part 2, where she really goes to town.
Dr. Laura obviously isn’t familiar with the first rule of digging holes.
After a break, the caller said she was appalled by Schlessinger’s use of the word.
“Oh, then I guess you don’t watch HBO or listen to any black comedians,” she said. “My dear, the point I am trying to make…we’ve got a black man as president and we’ve got more complaining about racism than ever. I think that’s hilarious.”
Schlessinger and the caller then got into an exchange about the use of the word:
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 ok.
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.
CALLER: I can’t believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the n***** word, and I hope everybody heard it.
DR. LAURA: I didn’t spew out the n***** word!
CALLER: You said “n*****, n*****, n*****” and I hope everybody heard it.
DR. LAURA: Yes they did, and I’ll say it again: n*****, n*****, n***** is what you hear on HBO.
[Crosstalk]
DR. LAURA: Why don’t you let me finish a sentence? Don’t take things out of context. Don’t NAACP me, leave them in context.“If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry outside of your race,” Schlessinger said after hanging up with the caller.
Did you hear that? Stop being so sensitive! Obviously it’s your problem if your husband won’t stand up for you.
You gotta love that other people do it defense! Plus, she totally went Michael Richards on that caller. But I guess Dr. Laura had a change of heart because she is sorry she got caught you’re offended.
She apologized the next day, opening her show with an apology.
“Yesterday, I did the wrong thing,” she said. “I didn’t intend to hurt people, but I did. And that makes it the wrong thing to have done. I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the “n” word all the way out – more than one time. And that was wrong. I’ll say it again – that was wrong.”
Schlessinger said she “was so upset [she] could not finish the show.”
“I pulled myself off the air at the end of the hour,” she said. “I had to finish the hour, because 20 minutes of dead air doesn’t work. I am very sorry. And it just won’t happen again.”
See, it was terrible. Dr. Laura was so upset she almost couldn’t blabber on for 20 whole minutes. You can rest assured that she won’t almost be so upset to talk ever again.