All Right Reserved. This week, the world got a glimpse of the fruit of Dr. Lauras own loins21-year-old Deryk Schlessingerand it wasnt pretty. . "All Talk and Plenty of Action" by John Steven Soet. Schlessinger was invited to the editorial board of Skeptic magazine in 1994 after taking a stand against recovered memory therapy, but resigned abruptly in 1998 after it published an issue on The God Question, insisting to its publisher Michael Shermer that there can be no question about God's existence. She is best known for her advice on relationships, moral and ethical issues. One woman said her boyfriend wasnt crazy about her daughter, so she was trying to figure out how to unload the child. 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I want to be able to say what is on my mind. Lewis died on November 2, 2015. When she delivered her stingingly clear opinions on early childhood--she believes moms should stay at home for the first few years--to a group of working mothers last year, only half the women agreed with her message, she says. An investigation was conducted by trooper Schlessingers chain of command and found nothing that indicated that any foreign government or enemy organization contributed to the webpage., But while enemies are off the hook, Accetta isnt letting off other possible culprits. [14] She had not spoken to her mother for 18[79] to 20 years before her mother's death in 2002 from heart disease. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it's OK." After the call Schlessinger said, "If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race. And then one night at dinner, he told her his fears. By 1979, she was on the air Sunday evenings from 9:00 to midnight on KWIZ in Santa Ana, California. [63] In 2005[64] and 2008,[65], Schlessinger received a National Heritage award from the National Council of Young Israel in March 2001. The couple had a Unitarian ceremony. But her distinctive kick-butt style earns her mixed marks from other therapists. That was about 20 years ago, and theyve been married for 10. Not intelligent, she says crisply. By then, Lweis was married with three kids. The court ruled that Schlessinger did not own the rights to the photos. She's also been on the faculty of the Department of Biology at the . Schlessingers experience as a new mother was characteristically intense. Because of the circumstances surrounding her mothers death, Laura wrote that she had been attacked in a vulgar, inhumane manner by media types in 2006. Homosexual 'journalist' Matt Drudge, within minutes, would have had a flashing light and banner headline: SON OF DEM CANDIDATE IS DANGEROUS PEDOPHILE!!! Ive never cut corners. The other lake is full of healing benefits and rich in vital minerals; but there is NO life in it. She is supportive of same sex relationships. Others books are more moral in orientation. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Deryk is a soldier currently serving in Afghanistan. On the second floor, ther is a private patio that overlooks the scenic Pacific Ocean where the primary suite resides. That's just scratching Laura's surface. What I do has many therapeutic parts to it. The false allegation had been made that Laura was unfit to dispense advice based on family values. She is a woman of average stature. [86], In 1998, Schlessinger's early radio mentor, Bill Ballance, sold nude photos of Schlessinger to a company specializing in internet porn. . FYI - If any of you have actually listened to Dr. Laura recently, you would be surprised that she is very open to gay callers. Almost All of Santa Barbara County Out of Drought Conditions, Diablo Canyon Allowed to Keep Running During License Review, Santa Barbara Zoo Says Goodbye to Pauline the Lioness, Citizen Performing CPR in Santa Barbara Mistaken for an Assault, Amtrak v. Wood Chipper Incident Stalls Train Travel Through Santa Barbara, Lake Cachuma Releases Expected to Contribute to Flooding in Lompoc, Downed Eucalyptus Temporarily Shuts Down Hwy. Schlessinger's only child and son, Deryk Schlessinger, was born in 1985 to her and Lewis. Bishop says hes mesmerized by his wifes outspokenness. Your email address will not be published. [72], In 1975, while working in the labs at USC, she met Lewis G. Bishop, a professor of neurophysiology, who was married and the father of three children. She suspended the column in mid-2007, resumed writing it later, then discontinued it in December 2008. Another picture from this weekend: The Schlessinger clan in San Francisco! By then Laura was attending Columbia University. CPXB 167 subscribers Subscribe 77 Share Save 21K views 15 years ago This is me making fun of Dr. Laura and her son, Deryk,. Also, the show often features her short monologues on social and political topics. Tipped off by a former schoolmate of the soldiers, LaPlante reported that Deryk Schlessingers MySpace page was awash in objectionable material, from the aforementioned images to written entries such as I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it . So the ultimate Dr. Laura lesson is this: Theres a lesson in everything. [5] The Dr. Laura Program, heard weekdays for three hours on Sirius XM Radio, consists mainly of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice and often features her short monologues on social and political topics. More Episodes of the Call of the Day. Heres what I said to the happy couple: We all dream of leaving a mark; of making a difference in some major way. [48] CBS was displeased enough with the ratings that it began looking to either drop the series or move it to late-night slots on its stations within two months of its premiere. She spent most of the 80s as an adjunct professor in psychology at Pepperdine University. She didnt take it well, Schlessinger says with some understatement. As if it weren't bad enough that the homo-phobic 'arch-hypocrite' one-time physiologist (by the way, she's NOT a Psychologist) 'Pseudo-Dr' Laura's misanthropic pseudo-Judaeic vitriol has destroyed not only her own mother's life (the poor old lady was found bludgeoned to death rotting on a dirty kitchen floor nearly 3 months after her murder---Dr Laura having NOT even spoken to her for more than a decade) but has added misery & mayhem to countless persons desperately coming to her seeking so-called 'professional' help with family problems on that hideously inane radio 'talk show' of hers (most of the vomit flowing from her painted caustic lips are so mindlessly jejune they are positively laughable---unfortunately she doesn't know she's doing comedy) : the recent child pornography & violent sex acts displayed by her hell-spawn son recently posted on MySpace.Com did NOT happen in a vacuum (and we can all thank our own very personal clan god there is only one such little abortion from her rotting thighs that we have to deal with on this planet) & echoes her own degraded moral character if we pause to consider all those cheery pornographic colour snaps of her naked, mis-shapen, flat-chested, spread-eagled stick-like body posted on the world wide web for the whole world to gawk at in Shock and Awe nearly ten years agothe problem of course is that this particular type of religious right wing zealot-hypocrite tends to have AIPAC type corporate sponsorship along with a kind of Jim-Jones cult-like following among the deluded & Dumbed Down American masses that kept her sickeningly in the Public Ear for so many years now ('What Would Moses Do?!!!' [76] Herman says that Schlessinger told her she was pregnant at the time, which Herman recalls as "particularly joyful because of the happy news. [78], Schlessinger was estranged from her sister for years, and many thought she was an only child. (626) 658-3775. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the radio scourge of the immature, has a lesson for you. Nope, and that was the only other confirmation from Lt. Col. Accetta. "[14] His divorce was final in 1979. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. You could say, This is a choice determined by all the historical pain youve had. I dont think these motivate people to face the truth and do anything constructive.. On January 3, 2011, she moved the show to the Sirius XM Stars satellite radio channel. "[14] Schlessinger's only child, a son named Deryk, was born in November 1985. He carried her on his shoulders. Previously, she used to combine her local radio career in Los Angeles with a private practice as a marriage and family counselor. 05B, (1974): 2093, The California Department of Consumer Affairs' Board of Behavioral Science's. Her radio program moved to the Sirius XM Triumph Channel 111 on November 5, 2018. [90] She told her radio audience that she was embarrassed, but that the photos were taken when she was going through a divorce and had "no moral authority. Go extreme Christianity. Schlessinger first replied that "some people are hypersensitive" and asked for some examples from the caller. First, she says, Choose wisely. Second: Treat kindly. Right now, the two of you are half way there. He quotes from the Bible to point out the inconsistency of condemning certain sins but not others. So instead she ministers to her callers, many of whom are women with tired lives. Schlessinger packed a course-worth of Dr. Laura life lessons into her new book, Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives. The in-your-face title is vintage Dr. Laura, whose signature style is beyond no-nonsense. Kung Fu Masters, June 1993, pp. All rights reserved. She hosts a show called The Dr. Laura Program, which is heard for three hours every weekday on Sirius XM Radio. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. "The Effects of Insulin on 3-0-Methylglucose Transport in Isolated Rat Adipocytes" DAI, 36, no. Recently, my son married his beloved girlfriend. [99], In 2011, she began broadcasting on satellite radio with Sirius XM. There is no such thing as a non-judgmental shrink, and those who claim to be objective are being less than honest.. . Also, ther is a secondary suite with its own balcony. The University of Southern California provided Laura with training and certification in marriage and family counseling after she started dispensing personal advice on the radio. The Dr. Laura Program | Heard Daily on SiriusXM Triumph 111 & The Call of the Day Podcast | P.C.F.H. People basically will not move until the poop gets too high. GODDAMN I AM PISSED!!! If a mental health professional advises you to do something, that happens in therapy all the time. We must not lose momentum, White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022, http://www.beliefnet.com/story/131/story_13159.html, ANNOUNCING TMV CAPSULE MOVIE AND BOOK REVIEWS. [106][107][108], A fictionalised version of Schlessinger is featured as an antagonist in the 2000 animated series Queer Duck.[109]. For what seems like decades, Dr. Laura Schlessinger has denounced the society-detroying demon of permissive parenting, urging parents to live up to their God-given duties with honor and instill the eternal values of the Ten Commmandments in their children, and berating all who fail. In the late 1980s, Schlessinger was filling in for Barbara De Angelis' noon-time, relationship-oriented talk show in Los Angeles on KFI,[14] while working weekends at KGIL in San Fernando. Although her identity has not been confirmed, police are operating on the assumption that the body is that of the talk show host's mother. 1: Do trust anyone under 30--just not enough to marry them. Schlessinger, 47, whose on-and-off radio career spans 18 years, long ago dispensed with such therapeutic niceties as being non-judgmental, the principle on which many counselors cut their teeth. The couple had a Unitarian ceremony. [87][88] Schlessinger sued after the photos were posted on the internet,[89] claiming invasion of privacy and copyright violation. June 8, 2007 by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTS, Managing Editor of TMV, and Columnist 6 Comments [13] Schlessinger said her father was "petty, insensitive, mean, thoughtless, demeaning, and downright unloving". And I dont admire that. Schlessinger, Laura. On iTunes, the podcast is ranked in the top 25 Kids and Family podcasts. However their divorce was finalized in 1977. [44], On Yom Kippur in 2000, Dr. Laura said she "deeply [regretted] the hurt this situation has caused the gay and lesbian community" and asked for forgiveness, while abstaining from offering a retraction of her words. She was so upset that she threw down her headphones, hurled her pencil across the room and paced through an extra commercial until she could pull herself together. This weak-kneed stuff got you to spread your knees and now youre pregnant. Even Bill Bennett would be screaming about his and calling for worldwide protest. Intellect does not induce anyone to act. You didnt do it. Look how I turned out. Our enemies are adaptive, technologically sophisticated, and truly understand the importance of the information battlespace. Children's welfare is the driving force behind Dr. Laura's mission. The character was also shown to have a degree that belies her therapeutic advice and was estranged from her mother.[104][105]. (NSFW, or eyes.). When Deryk popped out, he was given his mothers last name. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. . Schlessinger responded that her examples were not racist and that "a lot of blacks only voted for Obama simply because he was half black. Laura stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in ( Approx 1.6m). Her mother Yolanda (ne Ceccovini) Schlessinger died in 2002 from heart disease and Laura had not spoken to her for almost 20 years. Schlessinger most recently was named to the National Radio Hall of Fame, Class of 2018. 2022 FOX News Network, LLC. . I think it was just her way of 'making sure' I might turn outgodly? You were too busy wanting to have a chuckle at the moment. In 2001, Schlessinger was portrayed on the claymation show Celebrity Deathmatch on the episode, A Night of Vomit. In her New York Times Bestseller, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura Schlessinger gives women the tools they need to have the marriage of their dreams. While LaPlante apparently tipped off the Army about Schlessingers MySpace page, the Pentagon was already in the midst of shutting down soldier access to such social networking sites because of security concerns and bandwidth pressures. And I remember that vividly, and I dont think its gone away.. JOURNALISTS, USA JOURNALISTS' BIOS lousy parents). The question of the day was, Would you rather be a widow or a divorcee? Schlessinger got on the line, said that her name was Cathy and that shed rather be a widow: Then you dont have to second-guess yourself whether you made the right choice in leaving. The remains of her body were found about two months after she died in her Beverly Hills condo. It really never made sense to me. The show became a joint effort between Take on the Day, which produced it, Talk Radio Network, which syndicated and marketed it to radio stations, and Premiere Radio Networks, (a subsidiary of Clear Channel), which provided satellite facilities and handled advertising sales. It is so salty that it can sustain no life at all. [60], She was the first woman to win the Marconi Award for Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year (1997). A short-lived television talk show hosted by Schlessinger was launched in 2000. See, Im from the 60s and the 60s were, you do whatever you damn well feel like and if somebody is unhappy about it, its too bad, its their problem. Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947)[4] is an American talk radio host and author. She gives the same down-to-earth advice she does everyone else. Dorcas Market data provided by Factset. The show mainly consists of Lauras responses to callers requests for personal advice. [69], Schlessinger met and married Michael F. Rudolph, a dentist, in 1972 while she was attending Columbia University. I didnt believe all this whining and complaining and demanding of everybody else when you could have done it yourself. In August 2010, she announced that she would end her syndicated radio show in December 2010. Dr. Laura Schlessinger Phil Konstantin, via Wikipedia Did Deryk Schlessinger - the soldier son of syndicated talk show host Dr. Laura who's currently serving in Afghanistan - post images of rape, murder, torture, and child molestation on his MySpace page? She was born on January 16, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. In March 2000, a group of gay activists launched StopDrLaura.com, an online campaign with the purpose of convincing Paramount to cancel Dr. Laura prior to its premiere. Shes no-nonsense and yet she does it with compassion, which I admire, says Santa Monica clinical psychologist Diane Medved, the author of The Case Against Divorce and, briefly, a talk-show counselor herself. * Look out for the word compromise if it ends up meaning you give up what is precious to you so that maybe youll get what you want later. Laura is a widow, her husband Lewis G. Bishop died on November 2, 2015. If a radio psychologist says, This isnt therapy, this is advice, whats the difference when push comes to shove? asks David Levy, associate professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, who has published studies on radio psychology talk shows. 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To clarify, just before "warrior son" Deryk (what an awful name to give to your kid) started college,Dr. Sadly, they will use that space to promulgate and disseminate untrue propaganda., So was it our enemies putting offensive material on Deryk Schlessingers MySpace page? I landed all over her with both feet. My Wedding Day Speech to My Son and His Wife, Dr. Laura is one of the most popular talk show hosts in radio history, offering no-nonsense advice infused with a strong sense of ethics, accountability and personal responsibility heard exclusively on SiriusXM Triumph channel 111, Copyright @ 2023. I agree with her on two main things: the chaos of divorce and remarriages brings upon kids, and the downside of daycare. Schlessinger boils at the thought of women who opt out of a first-class life, partly because she grew up with one who did. Dr. Laura is one of the most popular talk show hosts in radio history, offering no-nonsense advice infused with a strong sense of ethics, accountability and personal responsibility. 101 Near La Cumbre, Santa Barbaras New State Street Hotel Opens, Ukrainian Philosopher Gryhoriy Skovorooda, An evening with Peter White and Richard Elliot, Dos Pueblos Jazz Festival Jazz in Paradise, Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. And thats what she does on the air, and sometimes when I listen to her, I say, How the hell did you get from here to there? Its almost an altered state of concentration.. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The only way to raise your children. I only have a few minutes with people, so my style has evolved in that Ive been taught by my callers what works.. [77] Schlessinger's husband died November 2, 2015, after being ill for 1.5 years. 2.6K 11 shares Like Most relevant Julie Davis Do they have "a ring & a date"?? [16] As of 2009, it was tied for third place along with The Glenn Beck Program and The Savage Nation.[31]. She was embraced by many in the politically conservative segment of Orthodox Judaism for bringing more awareness of Orthodoxy to her radio show. During a show, she tells a caller that a boyfriend who believes in hitting an 18-month-old is insane: Get rid of this guy or just date him, but keep him away from your kids., I think you have to get peoples attention, and I call something what it is, says Schlessinger, a petite woman in big red Sally Jessy Raphael glasses and a suit like blue stained glass. . post-template-default single single-post postid-578 single-format-standard. On a hike with my son, Deryk (he's taking the picture), on Santa Cruz Island this past weekend. She also gave up her private practice, partly to spend more time with her family in Woodland Hills and partly to avoid the pitfalls of high-profile shrinkage. Her website says that her show "preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values, and ethics." [6] Currently, she offers a short podcast of the Call of the Day from her SiriusXM daily show. * The ultimate sadness for me is to hear how people refuse to stop trying to get love and approval from bloodsucking, slime-producing, im- or a-moral, insensitive, unloving, uncaring, self-centered, disgusting sperm and egg donors (a.k.a. [16] Writing in 1998, Leslie Bennett described the popularity of the show: In an age of moral relativity, Dr. Laura's certitude compels Schlessinger's fervor is indisputably evangelical, and her listeners believe her to be a paragon, a beacon of hope and rectitude in a dissolute, degraded world. Laura told her to basically get a life and deal with what God gave her. [39][40][41] The group protested at Paramount studios, stating her views were offensively bigoted. Nearby Areas. The former Love Island star, 32, who works as the UK . What better role model do you want than somebody whos done it right?. Any disciplinary action taken is not publicly releasable nor are the specific allegations or investigation results. Accetta said he could not discuss more because he was obligated to protect Schlessingers privacy. A September 25, 2000, episode named "Readin', Writin', and Cheatin'" featured a so-called college student who specialized in professional note-taking.
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