Palin defends Dr. Laura over N-word rant: ‘Be thankful for her voice, America’

By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 22:12 EST
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Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Wednesday defended Laura Schlessinger, the radio host whose recent racially-charged remarks to a black caller led her to announce the end of her program.

“Dr. Laura,” as she is best-known, created an uproar after using the N-word eleven times during a conversation with a caller. She announced Tuesday that she will end the show this year, lamenting her inability to speak freely without being attacked.

In two separate Twitter postings Wednesday night, a bullish Palin implored Americans to be “thankful” for Dr. Laura’s voice and blamed her departure on “Constitutional obstructionists” who trampled her First Amendment rights.

As for Schlessinger, Palin urged her to “reload” and not “retreat,” declaring that she’d be “even more powerful” and “effective” without “the shackles.”

Palin’s first Tweet:

Palin’s second Tweet:

Palin’s claims reflect, at best, a questionable interpretation of the First Amendment, which was designed to prevent government from restricting free-speech rights — not to provide citizens immunity from public controversy over potentially offensive remarks.

Palin joins numerous conservative activists and commentators, including blogger Michelle Malkin, in defending Schlessinger against fierce criticism over last week’s comments.

When confronted by the caller about her use of the N-word, Schlessinger responded: “Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO, listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n—-r, n—-r, n—-r.”

After controversy erupted with calls for her resignation, including from the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, Schlessinger admitted the following day she did the “wrong thing.” She also lashed back at her critics.

“My First Amendment rights have been usurped by angry, hateful groups who don’t want to debate,” Schlessinger said. “They want to eliminate.”

While she will likely appreciate Palin’s defense, Schlessinger hasn’t always had kind words for the former half-term governor. “I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party,” she blogged in September of 2008.

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  • Anonymous

    Racist skank!

  • scytherius

    Dumb bitch speaks. The world’s average IQ drops one more point.

  • Anonymous

    Golly, that’s real white of Miss Sarah to say all them nice things about that Dr. Laura woman – what with Dr. Laura’s people killin’ Miss Sarah’s lawd and all.

    She ought ta be Prez and Dr. Laura her vice-prez.

    hang on, gotta scratch my teabag…

  • Anonymous

    the scary skank needs to shut both sets of lips. The less toxic waste spewing out of her the better off the world is.

  • Anonymous

    Blah Blah Blah. Just a pair of quitters who couldn’t stand the heat they’ve taken for their own idiotic comments. Standard playbook: Play the victim and take no responsibility for their incendiary flamethrowing.

  • http://www.nornsisland.com Norn Cutson

    Isnt it the INVISIBLE HAND of THE MARKETPLACE at work?
    Why do Palin & Dr. Skag hate CAPITALISM?

  • Tyroanee

    One more time Palin:
    ” I think you’re offensive to the American way of life, and the true meaning of American.”

    Thank you for allowing me my free speech rant… BTW being a dumb-ass is no longer a privileged in the RNC… you ARE the RNC.

  • Anonymous

    Sarah just has to stick her nose into everything. She is a self designated authority on the mystery and meaning of life. In her case, its money for her mouth.

  • Anonymous

    Guess palin’s recommending some 2nd amendment solutions.

  • Anonymous

    Once again numb nuts…”Congress shall make no law” a tenant of civil rights protection that has been incorporated into state Constitutions. It means that the GOVERNMENT can’t unreasonably censor you….The rest of us are free to identify you both as ASS HATS

  • Anonymous

    Birds of a feather…..

  • Anonymous

    The World anxiously awaits this broad’s “n-word” moment. It’ll come to pass if we’re fortunate. Heaven knows Sarah P. is more than capable of it, and people are more than likely searching far and wide for nude photos too. Then she and Dr. Laura can restructure together.

  • Anonymous

    “…what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?” — Laura Schlessinger talking about Sarah Palin.

    That’s awfully magnanimous of Sarah Palin to defend Dr. Laura after that.

  • Anonymous

    I just threw up in my mouth…

  • Anonymous

    We just want YOU to SHUT UP!!!

  • Prattvictory

    Since Dr. Laura and Sister Sarah are touting comedians on HBO how about this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o&feature=related

  • Crispus Attucks

    I wonder if she’s as thankful like I am for Keith Olberman’s special comments? I betcha not.

  • Anonymous

    Go away Sarah and Dr. Laura, too. And to Raw, stop spilling ink on anything from these retards – they do not deserve the headlines or attention. You betcha!

  • H.P. Loathecraft
  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Us quitters stick together…till we quit.

  • Anonymous

    and i am thankful that she is shutting up at the end of the year. maybe you should do the same, skank.

    she is a fake doctor and you are a fake leader. never could stand either one of you. dont let the door hit you in the ass, bimbo.

    although it WOUD be interesting if one of your many ex-boyfriends/hockey teams published nudie pics of you, sarah.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1771160802 Karl Jurisons

    It is true. She has every right to be a racist.

  • Anonymous

    When all you do is thoughtlessly open your mouth, wiggle your tongue and blather, it’s easy to have something to say about everything. Words without thought, meaning or sense are as easy ot emit as gas after a plate of beans.

  • Anonymous

    Raw reports on these retards because of the tenant “Know your enemy”

  • Anonymous

    Two “cracks.” Errr, “quacks.” Freudian slip. They should get along fine on FAUX NEWS.

  • Anonymous

    it wasn’t her use of the word NIGGER as much as her enthusiastic defense and promotion of racism. I wish writers would take the time to get this story right.

  • Anonymous

    it wasn’t her use of the N word as much as her enthusiastic defense and promotion of racism. I wish writers would take the time to get this story right.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.largrizzly.com/web/guest/bigboar

    We can reload, too. This rifle was designed specifically to take down Mama Griz, real or pretend.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    I’m sure Sarahcudda doesn’t know she said that, and if someone told her she wouldn’t believe it and would blame the ‘liberal media’ for twisting Dr. Laura’s words.

  • Anonymous

    But should she?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t wait for their show on FAUXNOOZ, premiering probably in January. But, can the studio afford the makeup for both of them?

  • Anonymous

    The First Amendment rights do not apply in libel, slander, and when what you say can cause death, injury and property damage such as yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater or inciting mob violence. The right to free speech also does not apply to racist or hate speech over the public broadcast waves.

    And I’m really getting tire of this phony mama’s voice telling me what to think.

  • Anonymous

    I just realized what’s going on here. Howard Dean and Laura Schlessinger are obviously rolling out a new hate show. “Howard and Laura in the Morning,” perhaps. Or “Late Nite with Dr. Dee and Dr. Dum.”

  • Seidl

    Perhaps we should add this line to the definition of “conservative”:

    “Prone to self-victimization upon the failure to prevail over and utterly dominate the opposition.”

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t what these ditzy idiots do to Liberals all the time? Like birthers, death panelers, ad infinitum. Then they have the nads to say Liberals are usurping their first amendment rights? Quite a gig they got. And they get paid for it. Something rotten in Denmark can’t hold a garbage can to these skanks.

  • Seidl

    And because conservatives, having abandoned all reason and resort to conversation, actually listen to them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/deactivate.privacy.settings Tim Webster

    I am very thankful for Dr. Laura’s sharp intellect and sound insight over the years. The woman is clearly inspired by God, and in spite of her mistakes she’s done many very wonderful things for many people. She is truly blessed, and by consequence, the rest of us are blessed too. Amen.

    Sarah Palin is one of the BRIGHTEST most experienced politicians of our time, and it’s very nice to see her come up from the sidelines to support Dr. Laura. Notice that nobody else is stepping forward to say anything? Only Palin, which demonstrates her strong backbone – a necessary ingrediant for any good politician. Would very much like to see her as first female President of the United States in 2014.

  • Anonymous

    For all her education, she’s a MORON… No government agency is stopping her from speaking, thus no violation of the 1st amendment… it’s too bad conservatives never learned the Constitution. Ooops, my bad, they can quote you verbatim their interpretation of the 2nd, 10th and 14th Amendments… (also incorrect, but they won’t hear anything but what Rush, Glenn, Sean and Bill tell them…).

    None of the other amendments mean anything to them… witness GW Bush using them as toilet paper…

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    I know some decent and righteous garbage cans. They await your apology.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, but you can still empty the cans.

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    Seriously, what the fuck is with Howard Dean? Fuck him and the donkey he rode in on.
    Perhaps it is a good thing that so many phony “liberals” are now exposing there true colors, which are anything but red, white or blue. Fuck them all.

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    All of this irrational right-wing vitriol will blow over as it has so many times before. Wingnuts are on the wrong side of history, as they so reliably always are.

    “The current fight over the building of an Islamic study center near Ground Zero here in Manhattan is reminiscent of another battle nearly thirty years ago. Then, too, ignorance, rage and prejudice threatened to destroy the creation of something intended to help mend a grievous wound and foster understanding and reconciliation.

    In May 1981, a jury of architects and sculptors announced the results of a nationwide competition to design a Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Congress had authorized the setting aside of three acres of National Park Service land near the Lincoln Memorial. More than 1400 design submissions came in, so many they took up more than 35,000 square feet in a hangar at Andrews Air Force Base outside the capital. Each entry was numbered so that the identities of those submitting remained anonymous.

    The winner, by unanimous vote of the jury, was Number 1026 — a massive, horizontal V made from polished black granite: two walls, each 246 feet, nine inches across, inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 Americans killed during the Vietnam War. In the words of Jan Scruggs, the ex-infantryman who came up with the idea of building a monument, “As you looked at the other designs, they were miniature Lincoln Memorials. There was the helicopter on the pole, there was the army helmet with dog tags inside. They seemed so banal and average and typical compared to this.”

    But many screamed in protest, including two who had been supporters of the idea of a Vietnam memorial and prominent fundraisers for its construction: billionaire H. Ross Perot and now Democratic senator from Virginia Jim Webb, who wrote to Scruggs, “I never in my wildest dreams imagined such a nihilistic slab of stone.”

    Some veterans described it as a “black gash of shame” and said it was an insult, both to those who had given their lives and those who had fought and survived. Others were further outraged by the identity of the memorial’s designer, a 21-year-old Yale undergraduate, Chinese-American Maya Ying Lin. Irrationally ignoring even the simple truth that the judges had no idea of her identity beforehand, the notion that a young Asian woman should be chosen to design a monument to a conflict in which the other side was Asian was attacked as a slap in the face by the bigoted and ill-informed.

    As Washingtonian magazine reported, in words echoing the current Ground Zero battle, “The fight was bitter, fueled by emotions that had as much to do with the war as they did with the memorial itself. There were death threats, racial slurs and broken friendships. Memories of that time still spark pain and anger.”

    Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior James Watt, the same man who wanted to ban the Beach Boys from Washington’s National Mall because he thought they attracted “the wrong element,” tried to block the building permit. But eventually a compromise was made. Over Maya Lin’s vehement, aesthetic objections, a statue of three servicemen and an American flag were added to the site.

    Today, of course, the protests have faded to meaninglessness and Maya Lin’s Vietnam wall is recognized for what it is and always was, a simple yet dramatic and eloquent expression of both service and the horrible finality of war. Now a venerated part of Washington’s landscape of monuments and tributes, more than three million come to the wall every year, triple the combined number of sightseers who go to the White House and the Washington Monument. Many stop to make a pencil rubbing of one of the names engraved in the granite; some leave flowers and other mementoes, or stop to stare into the polished black surface that reflects back the visitor’s own face.

    “It has become something of a shrine,” Jan Scruggs told US News and World Report in 2007. “It has helped people separate the warrior from the war and it has helped a nation to heal.” So powerful is its impact, replicas of the wall tour the country, reminding towns and villages that sent so many of their young to southeast Asia of the sacrifices made and the lives cut short by combat, then and now.”

    http://www.truth-out.org/the-wall-and-mosque-divide-and-unite62205

    On to the next fake, politically motivated outrage….

  • Anonymous

    Sirius Radio next.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/67S5EJKMPMMRWSEP7MRPQ53J3E mpclark12

    What drugs are you on? They must be REALLY strong.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Whatever Sarah…the rest of us will just be happy with her blessed, golden, sweet sweet silence…which is already long overdue.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    I don’t see a snark tag anywhere around so i have to assume this is a serious response. Nice picture, by the way. During the last surgery when the doc sliced off your junk, did he throw in a lobotomy for free? otherwise, how do you explain that a radio “therapist” abuses a word that many people think is offensive, which you clearly enjoy using because it came from God. who knew God was a racist? I don’t feel as blessed about this quack as you do. $ister $arah is, to many sane and reasonable people, an opportunist and a textbook narcissist who is not all that bright and is playing all of you who WORSHIP her. You lose two points for misspelling “ingredient” (or do you prefer the Palin spelling?). Ironically, 2014 is halfway between presidential election years, unless she’s trying to pass an amendment to change it to show how she supports our Constitution by wanting to “fix” it, so if by some divine miracle or another voting machine “oops”, she was to get elected in 2012, 2014 would be her halfway mark and, by her standards, the time to quit so she could make more money. You also forgot to use the word “freedom” and “mama Grizzly”, $aint $arah doesn’t like it when you don’t parrot her words. Send a check for $5,000 and you will be forgiven.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    You wouldn’t be able to recognize her face. Hint: her nickname at college(s) was “Bukkake Sarah”. Also “Team Chew Toy.”

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    Hey, she didn’t say she listened to “all of ‘em” radio stations. Plus, she sometimes forgot she was Governor, since TAAAHHHDDD was running the show anyway.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    Which one, the quitter, or the other quitter?

  • Anonymous

    “Dear Sarah: Guest what Laura said about you… And I Quote…

    ” I’m stunned – couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age. But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?”

    Now Sarah, dear, You may support her, but she clearly didn’t feel the same about you…”

  • Anonymous

    “Dear Sarah: Guest what Laura said about you… And I Quote…

    ” I’m stunned – couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age. But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?”

    Now Sarah, dear, You may support her, but she clearly didn’t feel the same about you…”

  • CattyNineTails

    Isn’t this really an Entertainment News item ?

    “Dr. Laura’s Radio Rebound: Guest Spot On The Reality Show Palin Calls Her Political Career”

    I can only imagine they’ll HATE each other’s GUTS since they’re so much alike and soooo “type A.”

    Imagine the horror: Sarah Palin, Dr. Laura and YOU … trapped in an elevator !

    Or worse: forced to drive from Florida to New York ! (Viewers can vote on who drives … )

    Hell, put these two together and you’ve got a substitute for waterboarding any Muslims who refuse to refudiate … and have reportedly refused repeated requests to refudiate.

    Of the two, I think Palin is the real “omnivore” since she can eat, gain strength from and excrete both people AND issues equally well. Old-fashioned losers who still value junk like honesty and fairness probably think being born without a conscience is some huge tragedy or handicap but it’s really streamlined the way Palin has honed her act, defined her brand, refined her marketing and picked America’s pockets.

    Dr. Laura better lock up her fanbase mailing list or Sarah will suck it dry of donations faster than the deranged doc can say the n-word 11 times.

    Palin’s also had more experience dumping people when she’s done with them. It’d be great for ratings if she doesn’t just dump Dr. Loser in the end but also stabs her in the back just for fun. And anybody who can talk them both into even a single round wrestling can have 1% of the gate (after “costs” of course).

    Palin would, of course, be the odds-on favorite … “Mama Grizzlies” instinctively attack and eat any creature they perceive as a threat or think would make a nutritious meal.

  • http://mrefrem615.livejournal.com/ chris_i_am

    Sarah Stalin can go to HELL! She’s a true IDIOT!

  • Anonymous

    Go there, Sarah. Please go there, Sarah. I dare you to go there, Sarah. Please go there, you cross-eyed, Moose-uddered c-word.

  • Anonymous

    Here we go…..Welcome to the Palin Bashfest….Libs are like Pavlov’s dogs.

  • Anonymous

    Palin, like most conservatives, believes in freedom of speech……Something you libs can’t seem to understand…unless the speaker is agreeing with you.

  • George

    one of few things I agreed with doc laura on

  • Anonymous

    Another Lib freedom of speech advocate heard from. Their favorite phrase for someone whose speech they disagree with is STFU.

  • George

    Yikes!

  • me

    that bitch is soooooo stupid & she’s like a robot just saying the same words over & over : “reload,free,moma grizzly,retreat” jesus christ !

  • Anonymous

    “Palin’s claims reflect, at best, a questionable interpretation of the First Amendment, which was designed to prevent government from restricting free-speech rights — not to provide citizens immunity from public controversy over potentially offensive remarks.”

  • Anonymous

    Tell Bill O’Reilly.

  • Anonymous

    Whew!

    I’m glad Sarah Palin weighed in on the topic.
    What does Rush think about what Sarah thinks?
    What does Hannity say about what Rush thinks about what Sarah said about Schlessinger?

    More importantly,
    what is Brittany Spears doing?

  • TheDevilCanDance

    I know you do believe in freedom of speech, but I am questioning Palin & “most conservatives”.

    As for your comment on Liberals, I have to agree with you….They never bashed me for going after their enemies,but when yesterday I spoke in favor of freedom of expression for Dr Laura, they turned me into Eva Braun…

  • Anonymous

    And to think…Libs spit on those vets when they returned from that war.

  • Anonymous

    The Democrats thrive on the politics of victimization.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Woot.

    He has a point….and as an individual he has the right to speak his mind & be disassociated from Bill Reilly :)

  • Anonymous

    Good comment.

  • Anonymous

    Another liberal “Free Speech” advocate.

  • Anonymous

    Conservatives believe in free speech, a distinctionfrom libs.

  • Anonymous

    Yea, like Biden making racist convenience store remarks.

  • Anonymous

    Another liberal “Free Speech” advocate.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/GQQIJ5U6H3BDGSXIMPCJSHHUPY Pee Pee

    No. Pavlov’s dogs reacted to a bell that sounded when they were fed. Eventually they were conditioned to anticipate the food and salivated in anticipation.

    Sarah Palin is an intellectual lightweight and political opportunist who instinctively manipulates public opinion to her own personal advantage. She’s in a symbiotic relationship with the GOP and its captured media to distract public interest from issues of substance. As a result, she’s the object of criticism, as now when she makes ignorant statements about the Constitution and defends a insensitive buffoon like “Dr. Laura.”

    You see, there’s a difference. The response to Sarah Palin is based on an actual gaffe and demonstrated venality. The dogs’ response was a conditioned reflex.

    Also, you are either a troll or an idiot or both.

  • Anonymous

    god damned racist, dumb, _horing skank!!

  • Anonymous

    urban myth…….NO ONE has spit on ‘nam vets……

    http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=350

  • Anonymous

    And there goes the conservative voice with the usual, fundamental misunderstanding of The Constitution.

    As is mentioned,, the 1st amendment prevents the government from restricting speech, it does not give you the right to yell “fire” in a crowded movie theater–if it did, then there would be no laws against slander. And you should be ashamed of the blatant hypocrisy of that “unless the speaker is agreeing with you” statement. Republicans or conservatives or Tea Partiers don’t hold that same standard, and maybe you don’t remember the hateful rhetoric that was spewed against liberals during the Bush years? Oh, right, those wars were all right when there was a Republican in the White House, but now … ? Yeah, have your double-standard.

  • Anonymous

    Aww, you and your poor feelings.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, your talking point is really tired–you can’t seem to produce a secondary thought.

  • Anonymous

    You’re exactly right. Dr.Laura removed herself from the airwaves, not big brother. Palin, as usual, is just throwing firebombs to incite emotional outrage in her tea bag rag tag followers.

  • Anonymous

    HAHA HHA HAH AHH AH AH A HH AH AH A HAH H A HA HAH

    You’re an idiot. All Conservatives do is cry about your feelings. This is the emptiest thing I’ve ever read around here.

  • Anonymous

    Libs understand scientific facts and nuance, a distinction from cons.

  • Anonymous

    Good idea … yo Rob, broccoli sucks, and STFU!

  • Anonymous

    You need a new talking point troll

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Just like…you? Jumping on any comment to blather ‘libs’ as if it means anything? You’ve used it so much so incorrectly it has lost all meaning.

    I don’t know WHAT the fuck you’re talking about, and I have a strong feeling you don’t either. How do you fucking morons equate libs with hate speech? You fucking conservatives have thrown this country down the toilet and flushed repeatedly, and now you’re trying to blame US?

  • Phil E. Drifter

    I could not have said what you said better myself. I tip my hat to you, good sir; I like the cut of your jib.

  • Anonymous

    To do that, one should have a mind from which to speak, not just clutch talking points to one’s heart as if it were their idea.

  • Anonymous

    Also: What does Jon Gosselin think about Kate + 8 hanging out with Sarah?

  • Anonymous

    Are Sarah and “doctor” Laura defending Mark Twain or the bigoted friends of the caller’s husband? Do you think their followers know the difference?

  • Anonymous

    I have always wondered … besides hooters, what is it that Palin does for you to deserve your unfounded ignorant support Rob?

  • Anonymous

    them goddamned Libs

  • Anonymous

    Even though Dr. Laura is often wrong, and always ugly, gorgeous, glamorous Gov. Palin defends her right to free expression. Sarah is the tantalizing temptress of Twitter. She rules.

  • Anonymous

    How is this a freedom of speech issue? How have her right to free speech been infringed upon. In your view, using the N word is preotected under the constitution. The caller stated she was offended by the word, but the good Dr. repeated it over and over. Is lying protected by the first amendment in your view?

  • Anonymous

    The drug is “brain-wash euphoria”!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2XVRZJ5LUVQDLUUAXAZ4QDSUWY Andy

    Right, like how she’s all fine for Rush Limbaugh to say “retard,” but not anybody else. But it’s satire when he says it, and it’s used to describe her political enemies, right? Oh, to be as intellectually nuanced as a woman who needed 5 colleges to get one degree!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, they do.
    It’s a good thing; reveals character.

    “I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.”
    -George H.W. Bush

  • http://twitter.com/hartwitt Cheryl Hartman

    Palin rules whom? Check your brain at the door? Every day more moronic. Please run in 2012 Sara

  • Anonymous

    Let’s look at the facts here, instead of Sarah’s looks, which have obviously distracted you. She tells America to be thankful for the voice of a woman who uses one of the most insulting and derogatory terms in the English language and America is supposed to be THANKFUL? It would be worse than if you called Dr. Laura, who told you that you had broccoli for brains. And would you then feel grateful that she insulted you? I doubt it. Palin makes no sense with this latest message, but what else is new?
    “A patriot is a person who hollers the loudest but has no idea what he is hollering about.” — Mark Twain

  • Anonymous

    I agree 100%. If more people spoke what was really on their mind, America would be a better place.

    http://www.total-privacy.cz.tc

  • Anonymous

    I think you are very confused since you believe anyone who does not agree with you to be a liberal. The only freedom of speech that palin supports is her own and those of her supporters. But I digress since using racial slurs is not an issue protected by the first amendment. And near is yelling fire in a movie theater but is something the gop like to do everyday.

  • Anonymous

    BroccoliRob, you have no idea what the First Amendment means. It guarantees that governments will not curtail citizens’ right to speak, but citizens CANNOT say anything they like. There are laws that prevent you from yelling “fire” in a theater, for instance. You cannot call up your neighbor and threaten to kill him without facing consquences, like being charged with terroristic threats. What Dr. Laura did was NOT suffer government consequences but derision in the court of public opinion. She took HERSELF off the air; no one else did (or did so publicly, but it wasn’t the government that intervened). If conservatives believe in freedom of speech so strongly, why was the couple that wore anti-Bush T-shirts arrested during his administration? Or the guy outside Pittsburgh arrested when he went to a Bush appearance with an anti-Bush signs? Yes, conservatives believe in freedom of speech, all right, as long as the speaker agrees with them. And it’s “liberal,” not “lib,” which is derived from the Latin word for “freedom.” Perhaps we should then call you “con,” which means “against” or “fool” as in con man?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the Mark Twain quote. Bet Dr. Laura uses the S. word at home. S= Schwartzer in the pejorative sense.

    Mazel Tov!

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Well, you can kiss my ass if that makes you feel better.

    I never complained about my “poor feelings”. I mouth fucked each and every one of your hypocritical self righteous liberal boyfriends….They are the ones playing victims now.

  • Anonymous

    Perot, Watts & Webb. A Trinity which will live in Infamy.

    Thanks Maya Lin.

    Korean War Veteran. DD214s are the only Testimonials.

  • Anonymous

    You’re welcome! I am neither Jewish nor German, but I understand a few words. Schwartzer is one of them, and I’ll bet you’re right about it. Best to you, too!

  • Anonymous

    You’re welcome! I am neither Jewish nor German, but I understand a few words. Schwartzer is one of them, and I’ll bet you’re right about it. Best to you, too!

  • http://www.CoreyMondello.com/ Corey

    Dr. Laura, is getting what she deserves for trying to take away the ’1st amend.’ rights of almost all people not like here over the years. She is quitting, no one is silencing her. She, like Coulter, Palin, Bachman, Malkin, other anti-liberal gals that love to open their mouths, forget it was the Liberal/Left ideology, those who they all demonize and try to silence, that has given them the right to even open their mouths, and leave the kitchen. Take some of her own advice and “STOP WHINING!”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QAEVKRRBSBJYCZTN7YVJ4NOWRU Jea

    A side note:

    Sarah Palin ripped off the moniker of “mama grizzlies” straight from Dr. Laura without giving her credit. She might feel guilty about that, but probably not because she doesn’t have a conscience.

  • Anonymous

    Alright! One down (Schlessinger), a toilet-full (Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, Savage, Malkin, Palin, Steele, etc.) to go.

    No one has tried to trample the good Dr’s constitutional rights. She got to go on the air and speak in as ignorant a manner as she chose; her critics got to express their outrage and offense as they chose. If Dr. Laura thinks she’ll be able to more effectively martyr herself in this way, she should do it. But it won’t work. All she looks like is someone who desperately wants to use racially offensive words with impugnity, as do ALL white people who ask “Black people use the N-word all the time, why can’t I?”
    Again, no one has prevented her from expressing herself; why does she think she should be able to pre-empt the perfectly understandable reaction to it? Who is trying to trample whose rights here? If Dr. Laura HAS been attacked, then, oh well, what’s sauce for the goose…

  • Anonymous

    That would imply we associate a fake stimulus with a real stimulus and react accordingly. That’s incorrect: Palin is, as always, demonstrating a lack of thoughtful deliberation before opening her reactionary yap. Therefore, the reaction is justified. Palin’s adversity isn’t based on her opponents’ conditioning, but on her own stupidity.

  • Anonymous

    Hmm, I didn’t see this response as I was typing my own. Yours is much better.

  • Anonymous

    Oh shit!

  • Anonymous

    Sure, I just think STFU-culture is far more pervasive in American rightist circles than in left. The left specializes in political correctness.

  • Anonymous

    Ha ha ha ha ha. The tories “buy” free speech:

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0810/Fox_parent_gives_1_million_to_RGA.html

    They only believe in putting a boot on your chest until you die.

  • Anonymous

    “Another tory jackass advocating the FAUX NEWS butt trumpet of the dumb-masses.”

  • Anonymous

    …and eat your broccoli, it might put help your brain functions.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, mr. goebbels.

  • Anonymous

    Good thinking. Now, head on back to the tea-baggers compound and give money to the corporations that fund them. They will give you more ammo to shoot your feet with.

  • Anonymous

    Nice place you live.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans thrive on the psychopathology of victim blaming.

  • Anonymous

    You got it, That’s the basic story line they think they are pushing… Good observation!

  • Anonymous

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Yep. That’s a real good one.

    You fucking lying piece of shit. ..”House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, offered the only amendments to cut the veterans bill but withdrew them as soon as Democrats started making political hay”….

    http://www.theledger.com/article/LL/20100728/NEWS/7285039/1286/news100?Title=House-Republicans-Join-Democrats-to-Spend-on-Vets

    http://www.theledger.com/article/20100731/NEWS/7315001

    http://www.theledger.com/article/20100710/NEWS/7105031

    Tell the truth, you fucking tory-troll.

  • Anonymous

    I will go the long way: shut the fuck up.

  • Anonymous

    Hmmmm, who put up those “free speech zones”, asswipe? Who use to pick and choose their audiences?

    Your “tachometer” for shit in your head is reaching the “brown” area.

  • Anonymous

    It isn’t bashing, it’s just repeating what “fishy-pants-palin” spewed from her pie-hole. Maybe you could help her with her “word-smithing”, since you are so fucking smart.

  • Anonymous

    Because gangsta rappers don’t know any better, it doesn’t give permission to use the n-word discussing it. Dr. Laura knew she said it. To repeat it over and over is not what a professional of her standard should bear. Sara be a uniter not a divider!

  • Anonymous

    Sara Palin is clearly no reader of the Constitution except for the 2nd Amendment which is short enough to be understood by her very limited intellect. Perhaps Laura can get employment with the Fox “News” team, “Unfair and Unbalanced.” She would be a prefect addition.

  • Anonymous

    Did 50% of them spit on themselves?

  • Anonymous

    WHERE DOES THE TEA PARTY’S PATHOLOGICAL GULLIBILITY AND WILLFUL BLINDNESS COME FROM?

    How can any semi-perceptive human being watch Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Steve King, Saxby Chambliss, Jeff Sessions, Jim Inhofe, Haley Barbour, John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint or Newt Gingrich speak even ONCE and NOT SEE that they are disingenuous intellectually dishonest and or inferior CHARLATANS…..CON ARTISTS……LIARS?

    The difficulty in addressing the flawed “beliefs” of Tea Partiers and or reasoning with them has a great deal to do with overcoming their inability to RECOGNIZE that people like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Michelle Bachmann and Rush Limbaugh are OBVIOUS opportunistic FRAUDS.

    Seeing is believing, but in the case of Tea Partiers, it’s believing DESPITE what you see. They’ve actually been intellectually and morally hoodwinked, duped, bamboozled and conned into perverting “faith” into self-delusion.

  • Anonymous

    **I *KNEW* she would team up with Palin. They are so alike it’s scary. They will now hit the road whining about what victims they are. Two aging grizzled mama bears, the doyennes of Right Wing America.

  • Anonymous

    ” ….and blamed her departure on “Constitutional obstructionists” who trampled her First Amendment rights.”

    Hint to sister Sara…..nobody trampled on Dr. Laura’s first amendment rights. They simply exercised THEIR first amendment rights in response! Her sponsors who pulled their ads were also exercising THEIR first amendment rights. It’s really not rocket science here Sara. Then again I suppose just tying your shoes is rocket science to you, so I shouldn’t be surprised at your ignorance.

  • Anonymous

    We report, you decide.

  • Anonymous

    Holey, moley, TWO old rascist white women!

  • Anonymous

    Yep, she’s lobbing one grenade after the other, like the entire cryptonazi reactionary gaggle who fiend for power in 2012. Plenty of useful idiots marching the streets.

  • Anonymous

    So tell me, why did republicans go so postal when Natalie Maines made the very casual comment (paraphrased)…”I’m ashamed president Bush is from my home state of Texas”.
    Her comment was relatively innocuous compared to what Dr. Laura said.

  • Anonymous

    “I am very thankful for Dr. Laura’s sharp intellect and sound insight over the years. The woman is clearly inspired by God”

    This is a paradox. The fictional Christian God and his book of intolerant lies can’t possibly inspire anything of the sort.

  • http://twitter.com/kathleen206 Kathleen Dvais

    Laura Schlesinger’s right of free speech does not equal the unfettered right to use racial slurs or other hate speech without consequences. Sad that Schlesinger does not know what hate speech is! Kudos to the caller who, lost in this discussion, did not put up with Schlesinger’s condescending manner or slurs.

  • Anonymous

    Hardcore religious cult members always appear to be zealously happy, and spew all sorts of uncanny encomiums. It comes with the trade. Suffering lurks underneath.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve got that just a bit wrong; Palin only supports her own, and believes her supporters are useful idiots whose rights are trumped by her will. In a way she treats them like Sauron treated Saruman in LOTR.

  • Anonymous

    Hear Hear H.P. !
    As a 25 year veteran architect and designer, I whole heartedly agree with you. I have been to the wall, and it was a very surreal, somber, and yet enlightening experience. Seeing ones own reflection as you gaze upon a loved ones name is indescribable.

  • Scuby

    “The woman is clearly inspired by God”

    So God told her to say “nigger, nigger, nigger” 11 times to a black woman, and then tell said black woman that she was overly sensitive if it offended her???

    Okay.

  • Anonymous

    WHO CARES WHAT HALF GOVENOR PALIN SAYS THINKS OR DOES THIS CRAZY GETS WAY TOOOOOO MUCH ATTENTION SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

  • Anonymous

    “The woman is clearly inspired by God”

    So god told her to say “n****r 11 times to a black woman, then tell said black woman that she was being “over sensitive” if it offended her???

  • Anonymous

    Regressives believe that the First Amendment means you can say what ever you want and we all have to either agree or sit quietly and say nothing. They feel that the First Amendment means they never have to take responsibility for what they say.

    That being said, how much of a coincidence was it that last night they re-ran the South Park where Cartman fakes having Tourettes so he can say what ever he wants and never be punished?

  • Anonymous

    Which is of course why all good conservatives cheered with joy and patted Natalie Maines on the back when she publicized her dislike for President Bush….RIGHT???

  • christoofar

    What do these two women have in common? Oh yeah, they are both QUITTERS when things got tough, they bailed Such awesome role models…..

  • Anonymous

    Two Words for you…..Dixie Chicks. Case closed.

  • Anonymous

    please stop posting ‘stories’ about palin.
    neither of these idiots deserve any more face time

  • Anonymous

    Nobody hampered the bigots 1st amemdment rights. She did after all say what she wanted to say. What they want is for everyone else to not use their 1st amendment right to comment on what the bigot said. Palin is the perfect example of idiot. There I just used MY 1st amendment right.

  • Anonymous

    While I would have expected Laura Schlessinger, PhD to understand the First Amendment, and the fact that her rights were not in any way violated, I do not expect intellectual-lightweight Sarah Palin to understand such things.

    It is SO scary that this woman could have been a heartbeat away from the presidency, when she doesn’t even understand such basic things. And you KNOW that if she had become vice-president, she would have spent her days trying to spook McCain into a heart attack.

  • Anonymous

    Conservatives are insane. When they want to attack a person of race, or gender or disabiity it’s okay because it’s free speech. But when it comes to Freedom of Religion then the Conservatives want to rewrite that by saying, “No Islamic Center”.

    Conservatives all hate all the time. Don’t play into the Conservative’s game. What they really want is for this country to hate with them and when we refuse to hate with them the Conservatives whine about it.

    Oh boo hoo Conservatives, so we don’t like your racism, your mysogynism, and your attacks on disables and you think we are taking your rights.

    The stupidy of the Conservatives thinking we are taking their rights is that race, gender and disablitiy is life and life is unalienable. When it comes to the Declaration of Independence do not count on Conservatives keeping their word that life is unalienable.

  • Anonymous

    You *know* she will be on Fox soon enough. That is a given.

  • Anonymous

    laura and sarah have a lot in common..both preach righteousness..blah blah..but the inner workings of their own lives….are a much different story..laura got her first big job in radio..not thru talent..but through sleeping with the boss. while she was married..google. Bill Ballance…her son poses with guns in his mouth..see pix on google and posts websites purring at the torture death of innocen t Muslims..laura pretends to be a psych ..but isn’t etc. sarah’s kids are drug using sluts…nuff said.

  • Anonymous

    How many times can we use the “B” word (Bimbo) with Palin. Lets see who can use it the most

  • Anonymous

    WOW! All this response from just posting a quote from the link provided from the article?

    Oh, and by the way. Hate speech is protected speech in the U.S. The government did not arrest Dr. Laura for her comments. However, free speech does not protect you from the consequences of your words. I bet you didn’t have a problem with Hellen Thomas or Octavia Nasr getting fired for their speech.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    And of course you know exactly what is and what is not on his mind?

    Do you realize that you & your ilk are as intolerant and repressive as the right wing freaks?

  • Anonymous

    I was thinkin the same damn thing…RUN Palin RUN for pres not the hills !PLEASE!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    hey we learned from you all how to bash, you got it down to a science!!!

  • Anonymous

    This has become a very interesting issue…with a double standard taboo in place, which is okay and should be respected. If a black person and friends find it okay to address each other with the term, then so be it. Even commentary on the situation is fine, but it gives no one permission to utter the word in a public setting. I don’t care if you think you are part of the club that can say the word like John Mayer or if you’re just stupid like Dr. Laura and think you can make a point by blasting over the radio. She was hateful towards the woman she was talking to, talking down to her and then using the word repeatedly. Really, she is quitting at the end of the year? She should just be fired!

  • Anonymous

    What a strangely stupid thing to say. IF Palin understood what Freedom of Speech actually meant, she would have chastised PhD Laura for both having a PhD and *not* understanding something as simple as the Freedom of Speech. PhD Laura used her Freedom of Speech on her radio show, and others used *their* Freedom of Speech to speak out against what PhD Laura said. No-one was arrested. That demonstrates that the Freedom of Speech was working exactly as intended.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, lying is protected. I think the Supreme Court actually said as much in response to a lawsuit against Fox News, which airs lies and omissions on a daily basis.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    I’m not sure if i’d trust Grizzly Sarah’s survival skills in the wilderness of Alaska – next month: Kate + 6. Nice going, Sarah

  • Anonymous

    I missed it. What did you say about the freedom of expression for PhD Laura? She certainly has the right to freedom of speech, which she exercised on her radio show, before quitting.

  • Phoebe Byrd

    No one was trampling on Dr. Laura’s First Amendment rights, she just couldn’t handle it when other people exercised their first amendment rights!
    What, she wants her right to free speech but everyone else should STFU?

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    When i first hear Sarah’s screeching voice (hell, she even screeches when she twitters), i instinctively reach for the nearest sharp pencil to puncture my eardrums. Eventually I’ll do it when i see her picture.

  • Anonymous

    There you go again. Everyone has the Freedom of Speech. You are free to say what you want, with some exceptions deemed too dangerous, like the yelling fire in a theater issue, and we are free to express our desire to *not* hear Sarah Palin’s opinions on anything at all.

    Sarah Palin, of course, is free to ignore our request for her silence.

    You still do not understand the basics, do you?

  • Anonymous

    That was awesome! My father was lucky enough to be stationed stateside, and I don’t think any of his buddies died in the war. My uncle was not as lucky, as sadly has buddies whose names are on the wall. He has visited the wall, and grieved for their losses…

  • Anonymous

    Damn straight. The DD214 is the veterans friend.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    Well said, fellow Pennsylvian. But don’t forget “confederate”. They don’t want a prayer room in NYC, but it’s perfectly fine to fly the Confederate flag, symbol of slavery, over state houses and on pickup bumpers throughout the Cracker Nation. How in the world do those toothless, inbred mouth-breathers decide which flag to wrap themselves in when they put on their hoods and head out to the weekly cross-burnin’? Maybe Rob can explain that to all of us ‘libs’ without using the phrase “I know you are but what am I?”

  • Anonymous

    Damn, this comment MUST be a parody. Of course, your apparent sincerity is what gives it away.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    You see it as 5 colleges; she saw it as yet another men’s sports team to service. They didn’t call her “Chew Toy” Sarah for nothing (sorry, i mean nuthin’)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_X2Q3T7F7KSAAWUVXFO34KL75DM Fukk

    The old witch Schlessinger will just be on FNC, until they give her a show.
    Then she will be back on the radio vomiting her typical filth yet again.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    A fellow architect agrees – although i confess i did not realize Webb was against. I would like to believe he has since come to his senses. after all, “libs” have the ability to evolve and change and even apologize when they do wrong, “cons” just try to change the Constitution to meet their twisted values.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    Cage Match. To the death. Pay Per View.

  • Anonymous

    “but also stabs her in the back just for fun”

    You just made my morning.

  • Anonymous

    The word tears down the race no matter who uses it.
    While the young African American community may consider it a term of endearment between themselves is subconsciously reinforces second class citizen hood. This is one white boy who wish they would stop so that we could focus on shaming the old white men who still intentionally use it as an invective!

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    I just threw up what i ate THREE DAYS AGO.

  • Anonymous

    Which one………oh yeah both of them!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3ETFGMQ3B7VD4AAMILBBEVMCWE JasonA

    What a flock of self righteous left wing fools post on this site. I am no fan of Palin or Schlessinger, but what she (Schlessinger) said on her show was correct..and apparently missed by the sound of ruffled leftist feathers. The black comics on HBO and other places freely use the N word and the F word, and that appears to be OK in leftist circles, and the silly posts on this site. In fact if the N word or the F word are so inapproprate and “racist” then nobody should use either one. Sheer hypocrasy.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Kate want to go hunting for Moose meat? Sure Sista Sarah.

    Bang, Bang…. Kate + 4.

  • Anonymous

    Sista Sarah’s dad said she left the U of Hawaii because there were too many minorities. So with this history coupled with the fact that she lives in one of the whitest states and I’m not talking about the snow, it is no surprise that she would defend the bad doctor’s spewing.

  • Anonymous

    Retard! Retard! Retard! Retard!

    What was that Sarah? That word is hurtful? What about my First Amendment rights?

  • Anonymous

    And also not to marry outside of your race?

  • Anonymous

    You are free to say whatever you like, as are we all. So, eat a bowl of dick. And please, be polite. Do not speak with your mouth full.

  • Anonymous

    did you even bother to RTA?…
    .
    “Palin’s claims reflect, at best, a questionable interpretation of the First Amendment, which was designed to prevent government from restricting free-speech rights — not to provide citizens immunity from public controversy over potentially offensive remarks.”

  • Anonymous

    Right back at ya’, fellow Keystoner! Points very well made. Thanks for including the Confederate flag issue, which represents slavery and barriers yet to be surmounted.

  • Anonymous

    Baby steps, baby steps. Let Rob grow at a natural pace.

  • Anonymous

    Of course you’re a fan of Palin AND Schlessinger. Let’s just leave it at that, troll.

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  • Anonymous

    Maybe if Kate and Sarah invite Darth Cheney along hunting they can both be shot in the face by a dick in a new way.

  • talis

    Geezus Repubes are stupid. It is embarrassing for our country.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Sorry but he has a point, I hate Palin and Dr fruitcake Laura, but in the context of the conversation she had on her show, it was not a racist remark. Schlessinger made an observation about the use of the Nigger word. People found offensive the very use of the word,but what she said was not racist. She was asking why the use of the word was allowed in particular circles and contexts.

  • David R Velasquez

    “…and something’s happening but you don’t know what it iiiiiiiiiis. Do you, Mr Jones.’

  • talis

    LOL I love it when a dyed in the wool con starts a rant by saying they are not a fan of cons.
    That is my first clue that they are Con/Repube/Delusitarian/AmericanTaliban.

    So Jason if what she did was ok then why did the typically whiney Con quit?

  • talis

    She has a phd in physiology. I think you are giving her way to much credit.

  • Anonymous

    she was doing it to be provocative and she is a racist.. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Right, but if you have a PhD in physiology, it still shows that you know how to do research. I have yet to meet an unintelligent person with a PhD in any subject matter. And PhD’s are all about research, adding knowledge to the field. This woman should know enough to be able to do the basic research on the rights enumerated by the 1st Amendment, and she did not.

    Of course, she really was just pandering to her audience of people who *don’t* know these things. Why else would they be taking marriage and family advice from a woman who states that she grew up in a dysfunctional household, has been married twice, cheated on her first husband, lived in sin with her second husband, and was pregnant at her second marriage (not that there is anything wrong with living in sin, or being pregnant at your wedding, but the idiots who listen to her care about these things).

  • TheDevilCanDance

    I have a question for the “politically correct” flock on Raw Story. Do you have to agree with a particular form of speech to tolerate it. Example, I profoundly despise Bush and Cheney, whom I consider genocidal dirt bags. Most posters on Raw Story will share that point of view. Now if I make the following comment ” I wish that Cheney could drop dead today, it will save the need and trouble to send him to the International court of justice, where he should be hanged by the testicles….”. how many of you will protest and label my comment as hate speech?.

    Palin and Schlessinger are repugnant twats (that’s also hate speech..), Do I deserve to be banned from Raw Story for making “inappropriate & sexist statements” ?.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Yes she is, so what?, we are not going to change her and the rest of the morons who are racists…..Do you want to take their right to speak?. It wont solve anything, on the contrary, turning them into martyrs.

  • David R Velasquez

    “Reload”????
    I see. Sarah is going to support Dr Laura by offering her some of her own favorite slurs.
    Something folksy no doubt.

  • Anonymous

    no..we didn’t change her, but now she wont be flapping her jaws on the airwaves…now she will have to communicate via her facebook page instead of a nationally syndicated radio show…as far as being a martyr, she will be a faded memory in a week…her free speech hasn’t been taken away, she has made herself irrelevant…

  • TheDevilCanDance

    yeah, that’s what they did to Helen Thomas…….So we have to behave on the same standards that are used by the people we despise?

  • Anonymous

    bullets don’t care who you are…

  • Anonymous

    The worst thing about all this is that Schlessinger was right!

  • Anonymous

    Of course. Nut cases stick together. Sane “America” is ashamed of her voice and her face and also yours, Palin.

  • Anonymous

    **I am reminded once again how much we owe Senator McCain.

  • Anonymous

    The N word tears down the race no matter who uses it.
    While the young African American community may consider it a term of endearment between themselves, it subconsciously reinforces second class citizen hood. This is one white boy who wish they would stop using it so that we could focus on shaming the old white men who still intentionally use it as an invective!

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Ironically, you’ve said this to one of the few people who doesn’t believe in banning or prosecuting hate speech. Treating someone to a public humiliation for their public idiocy is fine…but employing force of law to silence those you disagree with is always wrong…on either side of the fence.

    And my state of mind of the subject of our freedoms is not welcome on the right…but it is understood by the ACLU. Sometimes you have to defend a principle…even when the people involved are trolls that would never extend the same charity to others.

    End point: I am celebrating Dr Laura’s departure on the Wahmbulance…because her ignorance and the regular dose of it that was shared with us is finally coming to a halt…legally and through the consequences of her own actions…not by force of law or edict. If she were banned from the air…I would object strenuously on first amendment grounds…but collapsing under the weight of years of stupidity with a final spout of ignorance is a perfectly acceptable end for an undertalented hack.

  • Anonymous

    The First Amendment has nothing to do with the “rights” you are talking about. Look at the Constitution.

  • Anonymous

    As if defending someone else’s racist speech on Constitutional grounds makes you a racist. You libs do not have a clue.

  • Anonymous

    All of this SH….errr stuff comes from Libs who use the word “Teabaggers” in every sentence. Hypocracy indeed.

  • Anonymous

    Her interpretation is right on. The First Amendment has nothing to do with potentially offensive remarks. Try readint it…if you can read, that is.

    All of this SH….errr stuff comes from Libs who use the word “Teabaggers” in every sentence.

  • Anonymous

    All of this SH….errr stuff comes from Libs who use the word “Teabaggers” in every sentence.

  • Anonymous

    Your remars are more offensive than Dr. Laura’s. All of this SH….errr stuff comes from Libs who use the word “Teabaggers” in every sentence.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, so original in your response.

  • Anonymous

    All of this SH….errr stuff comes from Libs who use the word “Teabaggers” in every sentence. Verrry funny!

  • Anonymous

    I’ll tell you what..I take Palin, you take your female emblem..Pelosi. hahaha

  • Anonymous

    All of this SH….errr stuff comes from Libs who use the word “Teabaggers” in every sentence. You reallly are a JOKE!

  • Anonymous

    All of this SH….errr stuff comes from Libs who use the word “Teabaggers” in every sentence. You Libs are like the dogs when it comes to Palin…I love it.

  • Anonymous

    Right you are davewtf.
    But being able to research and comprehend what you have found are 2 different things. :)

  • Anonymous

    Its a good thing they didn’t disqualify anyone who used the word “Teabagger” more than ten times from posting here or this thread would be empty

    You Libs are sooooo sensitive to other’s feelings..

  • Anonymous

    I find your content correct…just wish you would word it like an intelligent adult…not like the 16 year old ghetto kids would state it…or like those “twats” would comment on these topics…It is called “Intelligent Debate”..and Don’t be so Defensive…that always gets “Hateful” and that is bad for you…hate always comes back on to you..Be careful

  • TheDevilCanDance

    ” So, eat a bowl of dick”.
    You’re not very original…..
    Thanks for the suggestion but I am beyond your paycheck, you cannot afford a bitch like me, besides, Martinez, I don’t do Latinos…..(nothing racial of course…), so for the blow job, you’ll have to rely on your lovely pet-dog.

  • Anonymous

    Hypocracy [sic!]? What’s that Rob, democracy Republican style? Or were you referring to the noun “hypocrisy”. What is it with rightists and dyslexia?

  • Anonymous

    5th child? You must have meant 1st grandchild.. Wish that Johnson kid would just come out and say that daughter has two kids and he once got head from Sarah, and she sucked at that too!

  • Anonymous

    Stay away from politics…you are so out-classed..Now spelling, that is your forte.

  • Anonymous

    You are good, I have to admit it…you had me fooled…for at least 5 seconds I thought you knew what you were talking about!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=526903019 Timothy Clark

    yes, because saying that black men on HBO call other black people “nigger” (when they don’t at all) is equal to calling tea partiers “teabaggers”

  • Anonymous

    Let me see. Are you implying that we should only support the free speech of people we agree with? This is LIB dogma…I know.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=526903019 Timothy Clark

    black people do not call each other “nigger”. they say “nigga” which is EXTREMELY different. get it right.

  • http://www.halfwaypundit.blogspot.com Eyepublius

    Palin says “defend Dr. Laura for her First Amendment rights, but “f**k” Muslims for wanting theirs.”

    Um… must be two Constitutions and two First Amendments, eh?

    Attention GOP: The Constitution is not your personal buffet table!!

    ~ Dan Francis (Watertown, NY)

  • Prattvictory

    If I called Sarah Palin a c-nt would it be acceptable if a Black comedian used the term on HBO?

    What if it were a Black woman comedian?

  • Anonymous

    Politics: plenty of room for more dyslexic vegetables. Go right ahead Rob, Basil Marceaux dot com needs a running mate.

  • Anonymous

    You LIAR! When bullets approached JFK, they stopped, reversed, when to a phone booth, and came out as…. MAGIC BULLETS.

    They flew back to finish the job and the rest is history. The Dealy Plaza Museum be my witness.

  • Anonymous

    Okay “Homey”

  • Anonymous

    BR, you seem a little sensitive about the label TEA bagger! Since the term was adopted by the baggers themselves I don’t see why you should protest. Ok in “street” language it has a very sexual connotation but when a TEA bagger describes themselves as such in word and on signs what are us liberals supposed to do?

  • Anonymous

    The difference is that the baggers really DO CHOOSE to be baggers, while people of color and homosexuals do not. The baggers also choose to say and put ignorant things on the camera and signs. In other words if the derisive label fits wear it and wear it proudly OR STFU

  • Anonymous

    It was the number of times she said it and the apparent glee with which she said it that earned her the grief!

    Also she missed the callers point entirely and actually was telling to toughen up since she chose to marring outside her race. Not very good couchside manner!

    I think if she had used the N word once and had a little more compassion for the caller we would not be talking about her this weekl

  • http://speculativevision.com Brad Richardson

    I’m missing the part where the government is infringing on her constitutional right to make an ass of herself. Freedom of Speech isn’t in question here.

  • Anonymous

    Palin who?

  • Anonymous

    When confronted by the caller about her use of the N-word, Schlessinger responded: “Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO, listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n—-r, n—-r, n—-r.”

    Wrong, Laura
    What you hear is mother-fu*ker

  • Anonymous

    I use “tory”. Try it with your “three” sided hat: tea-bagger, goofy-paulist, troll.

  • Anonymous

    Any day.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Thanks for the feedback & for your straightforwardness

  • Anonymous

    You sure complain while being given free speech.

  • Anonymous

    The reason your thought process “blanked”, your bong pipe went out.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a doo-doo head.

  • Anonymous

    Quit stuttering and take your meds.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Yes Denny, but at least unlike some of the self righteous lefties hypocritical windbags (Shall I name names…..LOL) he is not asking for my freedom of expression to be taken away from me

  • TheDevilCanDance

    She didn’t quit Dave…..No one quits a multi million dollars job…..

  • Anonymous

    Shit your dumb. When does hate speech enter your pee brain. Or yelling fire in a theater.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you start counting the word, “dumb fuck.”

  • Anonymous

    The real racism was when doc laura said ‘don’t get all NAACP on me’ and then ‘if you don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry outside your race.’ Saying the n word was not her real problem, it was the words she used to back up the n word.

  • Anonymous

    Really? I thought supporting free speech only of people we agree with was a con dogma, with the con Sarah having her goons rip up that “Worst Governor Ever” sign the Homer, Alaska, teacher put up. Or Bush having the couple with anti-Bush T-shirts arrested when he was president. Or Bush having the guy outside Pittsburgh with the anti-Bush protest sign arrested. No one arrested Dr. Laura; she quit on her own. Sarah supports hate speech, that’s for sure, as when Rush Limbaugh used the R word, that was OK. Anyone else, no way. If that’s not an example of cons only supporting the free (read: hate) speech we agree with, I don’t know what is.

  • Anonymous

    is that all you can come up with?    Dude, you all have bashing and fearmongering down to an art, its the truth!  But then again, morals and values and truths are hard for you people to grasp.  Dont tread on me, just the other guy right?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JY5SNK4FE7IJQ3F7RSU6QMVHKM Felix

    Her free speech is not in question…No one is saying the government is going to shut her down. She’s leaving because public opinion, listeners, and likely sponsors found it offensive. That’s FREE MARKET baby!

  • Anonymous

    5 seconds of thought. A new high score for Rob!

  • Anonymous

    I remember a radio therapist some years ago name of Toni Grant. I loved her show, she was so intelligent and caring and thoughtful, just what you would expect of a specialist giving advice to people who have problems.

    Schlessinger by contrast is using the airwaves to vent her hostility by being abrasive and just downright mean to callers who have genuine problems they need help with. What I do not understand is why her show was so popular?!

    She not only didn’t address Jade’s problem, she interrupted her repeatedly and then accused Jade of not letting her (Schlessinger) finish a sentence. Oh, the irony.

  • Anonymous

    Fox News motto: “We distort, you comply.”

  • Anonymous

    Poor Sara. She lost a beauty pageant crown to an african american. The she lost a chance to stay in the White House to an african american. I’ll “bet cha” she uses the phrase quite often and is simply praising Laura for doing it on air because she couldn’t.
    Anyone check to see if Laura’s salary is the reason for leaving? Maybe she was auditioning for a job on FOX.

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    You are the ones who call yourself the tea party. need teabags for tea.

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  • Anonymous

    ya, if you live in a “white state” you MUST be racist. Also, why is it a crime to be white?

  • http://www.vensingray.com VGray

    As a young african-american male, I’m not offended by Dr. Laura’s protest or Sarah P.’s take on it. The First Amendment does allow us to say whatever we want. People are entitled to like and dislike whomever they please. And Dr. Laura is correct, black people do use the n-word very vocally and freely. Is it right? I don’t know, is there a double standard? Yes there is. Just like why men are celebrated for their number of mates, and women are disgraced for theirs.

    ~VGray

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    You are all idiots.
    All of you.

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  • Scott

    In the ignorance of her response, constituted her crime – she didn’t care how offensive she was to her caller, or to America, she just had to find an excuse to use a word she would otherwise be prohibited from using on air, of course, because it is offensive. Police will tell you, ignorance is no excuse for the law. Well the same with being so offensive and ignoring why the caller called, and jumping on her own racist need to use a word most would choose not to use. She, as Palin, look for these opportunities, and fortunately, it backfired this time. Thank God!

  • Scott

    In the ignorance of her response, constituted her crime – she didn’t care how offensive she was to her caller, or to America, she just had to find an excuse to use a word she would otherwise be prohibited from using on air, of course, because it is offensive. Police will tell you, ignorance is no excuse for the law. Well the same with being so offensive and ignoring why the caller called, and jumping on her own racist need to use a word most would choose not to use. She, as Palin, look for these opportunities, and fortunately, it backfired this time. Thank God!

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  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    I am a true liberal . I oppose this so called phoney liberalism , political correct censorship. Created by communist originally ,motivated by back stabbing conservatives both majority and minority. Going after wont stop prejudice. It’a motivated by something more complicated . Words come second , A bigot can still take action to their hate without words. Under the first amendment conservatives , shifties, aka sneaky conservatives and communist and few of us true liberals are enitle to our own view points as well as critisizm. She’s entitle to her opinion and you are entitle to disagree with her if you want to. I don’t support her politics nor do I support moderate politics . They are both fascist and are in cahoots

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but they have not protected liable and slander.