EMERGENCY!!!! Laura stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in ( Approx 1.6m). If I even think you hurt him, I will take you down to the molecular level. And he said, As well you should. . [95] When Hanson asked, "Is it ever OK to say that word?" Using ones immediate need. [19] Moving to Columbia University for graduate studies,[20] she earned a master's and PhD in physiology in 1974. [96] Hanson questioned the motivation and sincerity of Schlessinger's apology, believing it to be result of being "caught. A wise woman has summed up the so-called "secret" to a great marriage as the mere presence of two ingredients. . [86], In 1998, Schlessinger's early radio mentor, Bill Ballance, sold nude photos of Schlessinger to a company specializing in internet porn. Still, I'd rather have licked it up from the floor than have seen those photos again. Not intelligent, she says crisply. Not using ones brain. Legal Statement. Lewis died on November 2, 2015. [60], She was the first woman to win the Marconi Award for Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year (1997). The television show failed to generate the energy and interest of Schlessinger's radio show. According to her friend Shelly Herman, "Laura lived with Lew for about nine years before she was married to him. "[94], When the caller noted that she was referred to as the "n-word" by the individuals in question, Schlessinger complained that blacks are fine with cordially using the slur among themselves, but that it was wrong when whites used it to slur them. I think it was more of an angry confrontation. Literally, there was no "chest.". Laura herself has been divorced; she herself "shacked up" with her current husband, who was a married father of three when they met; she herself, a strident critic of women who undergo fertility treatments instead of adopting, spent lots of time and money to conceive her son, Deryk (she had to have a tubal ligation . [13][16] She credited her father with giving her the drive to succeed. On the second floor, ther is a private patio that overlooks the scenic Pacific Ocean where the primary suite resides. You say, "The first time I saw those pix" Durin, after such a violent reaction to the pics, why did you look at them again? She then announced a multiyear deal to be on satellite radio. Copyright 2023 Santa Barbara Independent, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Independent.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. The photos were taken in the mid-1970s, while Schlessinger was involved in a brief affair with the then-married Ballance. You black people like doing that." Our enemies are adaptive, technologically sophisticated, and truly understand the importance of the information battlespace. By then Laura was attending Columbia University. By. Schlessinger began broadcasting a daily show on KFI, which was nationally syndicated in 1994[27] by Synergy, a company owned by Schlessinger and her husband. I want to be able to say what is on my mind. [84][85] The suit has since been settled, but the terms of the settlement have not been revealed. Dr Alex George bravely reveals he suffered with an eating disorder and 'didn't eat for days' after being fat-shamed by two women at work.. For several years, Schlessinger published a monthly magazine, Dr. Laura Perspective. [32] She also used "New Attitude" by Patti LaBelle. By 1979, she was on the air Sunday evenings from 9:00 to midnight on KWIZ in Santa Ana, California. He carried her on his shoulders. Beverly Hills Police Lt. Gary Gilmond said the state of the body and home suggested that the woman had been dead for a "substantial period of time," possibly several months. 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 she says her show will go national in late spring, but she declined to give details. Her mother Yolanda (ne Ceccovini) Schlessinger died in 2002 from heart disease and Laura had not spoken to her for almost 20 years. 2022 FOX News Network, LLC. Schlessinger was not religious until she started to practice Conservative Judaism in 1996. 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. The tale is about a short-lived early marriage, the unfurling of a union of hard-working New York professionals with a luminous future. She's also been on the faculty of the Department of Biology at the . [13] Schlessinger said her father was "petty, insensitive, mean, thoughtless, demeaning, and downright unloving". But as we grow, we learn what really matters is love: to our families, our spouses our friends, to God. Dr. Laura's personality is apparently as 2-dimensional as her chest. [68] Schlessinger and Nanci Donnelan (the Fabulous Sports Babe) are the first two women with their own national radio shows to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. 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. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription. She is also the president and founder of the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Foundation, devoted to abused and neglected kids through its unique outreach of My Stuff Bags. A wave comes. I had a shock of recognition of what a brilliant concept that was. Laura' TV Show as Protests Gain Power", "Stop Dr. Laura' Website Receives 1 Million Hits In Just Two Days", "Dr. Laura protest at KPIX: Pro-gay activists object to plans to air her program", "Golden Dot Awards For Best Online Issue Advocacy", "The Silence Of The Slams Historic Perspective", "A Case of the Creeps: 'Dr. To clarify, just before "warrior son" Deryk (what an awful name to give to your kid) started college,Dr. [63] In 2005[64] and 2008,[65], Schlessinger received a National Heritage award from the National Council of Young Israel in March 2001. [12] Her parents were Monroe "Monty" Schlessinger, a Jewish American civil engineer, and Yolanda (ne Ceccovini) Schlessinger, a Catholic war bride from Italy. [13][16], In 1998, Schlessinger was in a Costa Mesa surf shop with her son when she began perusing the skateboarding magazine Big Brother. When I got pregnant with our son, I woke (Bishop) up at 3 in the morning and I said, I want you real clear on one thing. She was once an Orthodox Jew. The remains of her body were found about two months after she died in her Beverly Hills condo. And like that, the Deryk Schlessinger/MySpace controversy ends with a whimper. However their divorce was finalized in 1977. The false allegation had been made that Laura was unfit to dispense advice based on family values. I got worried that somebody might hurt my reputation because they think Im a deep pocket. Your email address will not be published. Laura' on UPN Looks Better on Radio", "CBS shoves Dr. Laura into late night slots, or dumps her", "Dr. Laura Schlessinger Do the Right Thing Archive", "Dr. Laura Suspends Calif. [18] She received a bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University. Homosexual 'journalist' Matt Drudge, within minutes, would have had a flashing light and banner headline: SON OF DEM CANDIDATE IS DANGEROUS PEDOPHILE!!! 5. Laura earns an average salary of $95,386 per year. 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. In 2000, in the episode "The Midterms" on The West Wing, the fictional "Dr. Jenna Jacobs" is scolded by President Bartlet, who criticizes her views on homosexuality, and points out she is not a doctor in any field related to morality, ethics, medicine or theology. Among the treats reportedly found on Schlessingers now-yanked MySpace page: A stick-drawing cartoon showing a top-hatted man raping a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family, another cartoon showing a man forcing a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the childs mother pleads for her sons life, and the following blog entry: Full story here; Dr. Laura must be so proud. In 2007, Schlessinger began fundraising for Operation Family Fund, an organization that aids the families of fallen or seriously injured veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She has ascribed some of the difficulty to extended family rejection of her parents' mixed faith Jewish-Catholic marriage. Schlessinger used "Hot Talkin' Big Shot", a song by country and blues singer and songwriter Nikki Hornsby, for several years as cue music for her radio program and for a national radio commercial advertising for the show. Take on the Day, LLC. In September 2004, Schlessinger announced that she was closing down the foundation because it had become too difficult and costly for her husband and her to underwrite, and they wished to devote their "energies and resources to other pressing needs".[59]. He came home at noon and put her on the potty. Laura Schlessinger packed a course-worth of lessons into her new book, Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, including: * If you kiss a toad, you dont get a prince--you get slime in your mouth and bad memories. The only way to raise your children. This process of taking as well as giving allows it to constantly replenish itself. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided byRefinitiv Lipper. [69] Laura said one time in class that she always gets mad at a client if a client says, I dont know. She said, I dont believe a client doesnt know. . Several follow the mold of her successful Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, with similarly named books giving advice for men, couples, and parents, while others are more moral in orientation. [23][24], Schlessinger's first appearance on radio was in 1975 when she called in to a KABC show hosted by Bill Ballance. "[8] Several of her affiliates and major sponsors had dropped her show after her on-air use of a racial epithet on August 10 (see Use of racial slur below). * Is this the Catch-22 Syndrome of women? This week, the world got a glimpse of the fruit of Dr. Lauras own loins21-year-old Deryk Schlessingerand it wasnt pretty. and nurture each other are; and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. How sad. Laura is a widow, her husband Lewis G. Bishop died on November 2, 2015. This is your body. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. She said that she had not mourned the deaths of either of her parents because she had no emotional bond to them. I was also always shocked that she was Jewish. A short-lived television talk show hosted by Schlessinger was launched in 2000. When Independent.com repackaged and localized LaPlantes story on May 22, it became one of our most emailed and widely read articles to date. Lewis divorce from his first wife was finalized in 1979 and he married Laura in 1985. Log in, DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTS, Managing Editor of TMV, and Columnist, Trump, Haley to lock horns at US conservative forum, Editorial: McCarthy gave Capitol footage to Carlson. It was a little foamy, too. Schlessinger responded, "It depends how it's said. [7][8] Her show moved to the Sirius XM Stars satellite radio channel on January 3, 2011. Schlessinger regularly asked her on-air audience to donate items for My Stuff bags, which go to children in need. She received her Ph.D. in physiology from Columbia University and holds a postdoctoral certification and licensing in Marriage and Family Therapy. She gives the same down-to-earth advice she does everyone else. The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am, Courage is not the lack of fear, it is fear plus action., The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with If youre in the mood., A lousy relationship is never better than no relationship at all., Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship., How you feel should be secondary to the good you can do., There is a reason Dante made betrayal the deepest level of Hell, Life is a unique opportunity to explore, create, and give., The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Bad ChildhoodGood Life: How to Blossom and Thrive in Spite of an Unhappy Childhood, Stupid Things Parents Do To Mess Up Their Kids: Dont Have Them If You Wont Raise Them, 10 Stupid Things Couples Do To Mess Up Their Relationships, Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives. Schlessinger did post-doctoral work in psychology at the USC Human Relations Center and earned her license as a marriage, family and child counselor in 1980. In 2000, she launched and hosted a short-lived television talk show. 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.. Pressure from gay rights groups caused dozens of sponsors to drop the radio show, as well. Im afraid when you get better, he said, because I dont think youll need me.. Dr. Laura and Her Sick Son Deryk -- Let's Laugh a While! She did not appeal the ruling. [14], In 2010her last year on terrestrial radioshe was still No. The 16-year-old son of OWN-TV host Dr. Laura Berman succumbed to an accidental overdose of fentanyl laced Xanax at their family home in Santa Monica, California. In a recent KFI promo, Schlessinger calls one woman lazy. He doesnt care. Now thats basically for the listener, because shes already pregnant. [14] Later, Jacor merged with Clear Channel Communications and a company co-owned by Schlessinger, Take on the Day, LLC, acquired the production rights. It really never made sense to me. How can that be? That happened to a friend and I went, Whoa. . [48], For several years, Schlessinger wrote a weekly column syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate that was carried in many newspapers, and in Jewish World Review. Monroe was a Jewish American civil engineer while Yolanda was a Catholic war bride from Italy. [21][22] After she began dispensing personal advice on the radio, she obtained training and certification in marriage and family counseling from the University of Southern California, where she worked in the biology department, and a therapist's license from the State of California. "[14] His divorce was final in 1979. Dr. Laura Lesson No. So the bluntness brings the truth of the moment and I think the ultimate pain to the fore, and I think that makes people realize they have to move. [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. They come over and cook for you.. 06/25/2020. For several years, Laura used a song by country and blues singer and songwriter Nikki Hornsby titled Hot Talkin Big Shot as cue music for her radio program and also for a national radio commercial advertising for the show. 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?!!!' On August 17, 2010, during an appearance on Larry King Live, Schlessinger announced the end of her radio show, saying that her motivation was to "regain her First Amendment rights",[7] and that she wanted to be able to say what is on her mind without "some special interest group deciding this is a time to silence a voice of dissent. * Water and self-esteem seek their own levels. Did Dr. Laura's Son Have a Deathwish?! Her radio program moved to the Sirius XM Triumph Channel 111 on November 5, 2018. She is supportive of same sex relationships. You gotta know that. Your email address will not be published. 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. Deryk Schlessinger Still Serving in Afghanistan. . When youre a celebrity and a therapist, either way, youre dealing with people who have difficulties. Dr. Laura, was the subject of a military investigation. She also expressed her view that "a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys. It was like I had a revelation. Market data provided by Factset. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. At some point, I could not contain the vomit, and it sprayed out like a bad sitcom spit take with bits of carrot and doritos. Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947)[4] is an American talk radio host and author. She was raised in Brooklyn and later on Long Island. One of her supervisors, a refined woman of a certain age, invited her to imagine people who lived in houses with slats for floors. They want to be happy now and thats why theyre less likely to make it.. [70] Separating from Rudolph, Schlessinger moved to Encino, California in 1975, when she obtained a job in the science department at the University of Southern California. But her distinctive kick-butt style earns her mixed marks from other therapists. But pressured by the popularity of radio psychology talk shows, the APA relaxed the ban in 1981, allowing advice-giving, but nixing psychotherapy. I admire all that. And then one night at dinner, he told her his fears. [77] Schlessinger's husband died November 2, 2015, after being ill for 1.5 years. In fact, the woman was San-D Duchas, a researcher for the show whose name appeared in the closing credits of the shows on which she posed as a guest.[47]. Until that, there are rationalizations, denial all over the place. [50] She wrote a monthly column for WorldNetDaily between 2002 and 2004, with one entry in 2006. -. You didnt take care of it. I figured, Im going to name this thing anything I want, and I said, Lew, do you have any problem with the last name Schlessinger? He said, No. . Her big break came when Sally Jessy Raphael began working at ABC Radio, and Maurice Tunick, former vice president of talk programming for the ABC Radio Networks, needed a regular substitute for Raphael's evening personal-advice show. Also, there is a pool house and tennis pavilion. It is a function of "will" that you choose to be gay and to screw old men. Schlessinger started as a human sexuality expert on his show, then got her own show, first with guests, eventually without. I hate that answer. My feeling is, whats Lauras need to be answered? Youre miserable, so you make kids, now you have kids and you cant get out for the sake of the kids--even though you are miserable with him? The other lake, the Sea of Galilee, also takes water from the Jordan in the north, but then it gives water to the south. Laura announced that she was no longer following Orthodox Judaism. Broadcast locally on 570 KNRS, "Family Values Talk Radio," the former family counselor spends three hours daily taking calls and offering advice on morals, ethics and values. In 2008, Talkers presented her with an award for outstanding community service by a radio talk-show host. He continued in his email, I cannot comment on whether [Schlessinger] was personally responsible for the material, only that our enemies are not responsible. Emotion. Schlessinger's only child and son, Deryk Schlessinger, was born in 1985 to her and Lewis. There are days that make Schlessinger cry, when she has turned off the microphone and let her head thud. Deryk and Laura photograph My 1043. And its true. Call of the Day Podcast: My Mom Hasn't Changed a Bit, Call of the Day Podcast: I Discovered My Late Husband's Affairs. 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. 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. A MySpace page allegedly created by and containing a trove of photos of what appeared to be Deryk Schlessinger, Dr. Laura's 21-year-old son who is serving as a Specialist with the 82nd Airborne . . After she learned about the death of her mother, Laura said: Apparently she had no friends and none of her neighbors were close, so nobody even noticed! Schlessinger acknowledges that people have ended relationships after minutes worth of on-air talk, a fact borne out by letters. On her radio program, Schlessinger declared the magazine to be "stealth pornography". Nude pictures of her were posted on the web by an old flame a few years ago. She married a dentist called Michael F. Rudolph in 1972. As an author, Laura has written 13 books for adults and four books for children. Laura announced in August 2010 that she would end her syndicated radio show come December 2010. The books Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives and The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands are among her bestselling works. Others books are more moral in orientation. So if somebody criticizes me, Gee, you were too tough on that call, you know, maybe I was. 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. 0. She made me listen to Dr. Laura, The Bible Answer Man, and I had to watch retarded FONF movies all of the fucking time. [46], The credibility of Schlessinger's television program also suffered during its first month, when the New York Post reported that Schlessinger had used show staff to falsely pose as guests on the show. 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. More >> Tags . post-template-default single single-post postid-578 single-format-standard. [92] Her rhetoric eventually prompted an open letter penned in the year 2000 responding to her position that used text of Bible decrees. Deryk is the guy on santa's left. Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Deryk Schlessinger, Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby? Now hes deployed in Iraq, where hes a soldier and blogger. Some of her expressed views were explicitly religious and are referenced her 1999 book The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life. and some that dont.. / Marriage 101 | Dr. Laura is a talk radio and podcast host offering no-nonsense advice infused with a strong sense of ethics, accountability and personal responsibility. I havent lied, cheated, stolen.
