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Dr. Laura: If I Say The N-Word I’m Bad, If Bill Maher Says It No Complaints

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger is back on the scene and ready to talk more about her infamous tirade full of the N-word last summer. She appeared on the fourth hour of The Today Show with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb to promote her new book “How to Survive a Shark Attack (On Land),” to discuss the benefits of revenge and to share her unhappiness with a media double standard.

After Dr. Laura expressed how much she loved the idea of revenge, Gifford remarked about Dr. Laura’s lust for justice, “it’s a little maniacal . . . you’re scaring us.” When you’re the one scaring the entertainingly loopy Gifford, you might be in trouble. From there Dr. Laura admitted she doesn’t regret the incident, and was merely inartful. Instead, she name drops George Stephanopoulos and CNN as wrongly playing up the incident and attacked comedian Bill Maher even more directly:

“No what it is – is I’m a social conservative. That’s what it’s about. Because Bill Maher went on Larry King and articulated the word and nobody sucked in a breath, because he’s a social liberal. So the media distinguishes between good and bad by political persuasion.”

And just for kicks, she threw in an “Uncle Tom” reference in relation to comedian Bill Cosby and how they “Uncle Tom’d him because he stood up for values” within the African American community. Now a host on Sirius radio, many might be quick to dismiss Dr. Laura as a fringe personality, yet her point about the N-word double standard is surely a debate worth having.

Watch the clip from NBC below:

And check out Maher casually dropping the N-word in his conversation with Larry King in September, 2010, just one month after Dr. Laura’s incident:

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  • MiddleRoader

    just another victim.

  • notsofast

    Welcome to the world of liberalism.

  • Color Me Badd

    Tee Hee.

  • Color Me Badd

    Dr. Laura needs to stop lying about the photos. No one believes you besides Republicans who go to church. I’ve seen the photos, studied them actually. They are not photo shopped, nice try Dr. Laura. Look damn good though. Although now she looks a little like Alice Cooper with a blonde wig.

  • notsofast

    Color Me Badd said:
    Dr. Laura needs to stop lying about the photos. No one believes you besides Republicans who go to church. I’ve seen the photos, studied them actually

    You beat off to ‘en, son!

  • Jon Bershad

    Wow. I can have empathy for anyone we write about on any issue, but not this woman. If she truly and honestly can’t see the difference between what she said and what Maher said (he told Larry King that anti-Obama Conservatives had used “Kenyan” as a code for “nigger” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/09/bill-maher-drops-n-word-to-larry-king-nobody-notices-poll.html), then she is too far gone by a third.

    It wasn’t just that word, Dr. Laura (which you used approximately 10 times more than Maher, by the by)! It’s the fact that you began angrily screaming at a black woman because she had THE GALL to be offended by the racist comments of her husband’s friends. You told this woman, a woman who had called you asking for advice, that she needed a sense of humor or she shouldn’t marry outside of her race. Then, FOR NO APPARENT REASON, you went on a rant about how blacks complain too much!

    HOW BLACKS COMPLAIN TOO MUCH!

    How do you not see this?!

    The difference between you and Maher is that he was clearly stating that he doesn’t like Conservatives. Now that’s a bad thing in its own right, but you didn’t clearly state anything. Your comments belied your true feelings and your true feelings didn’t belong at that radio station in the year 2010.

    You are not a victim. You are an angry woman.

  • beamangrow

    i am sorry,this is all you could find,that doctor said the n word over and over and over,you are comparing her to bill maher who was talking about race and used the word to make a point? look i know there are a lot of stupid people here on here,but you dont have to bring down your standard for them matt geez.

  • stephenpyle

    That’s because Laura S. has higher expectations to live up to. People expect that stuff out of Maher. No one expects Maher to be on good behavior while they do of LS – and she let them down with her comments.

    Furthermore, she sounds like someone who wants a pass for her racist comments, which extend beyond the n-word.

  • beamangrow

    Jon Bershad says:
    January 18, 2011 at 4:18 pm Jon Bershad(Quote)
    Mediaite Staff
    Wow. I can have empathy for anyone we write about on any issue, but not this woman. If she truly and honestly can’t see the difference between what she said and what Maher said (he told Larry King that anti-Obama Conservatives had used “Kenyan” as a code for “nigger” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/09/bill-maher-drops-n-word-to-larry-king-nobody-notices-poll.html), then she is too far gone by a third.

    It wasn’t just that word, Dr. Laura (which you used approximately 10 times more than Maher, by the by)! It’s the fact that you began angrily screaming at a black woman because she had THE GALL to be offended by the racist comments of her husband’s friends. You told this woman, a woman who had called you asking for advice, that she needed a sense of humor or she shouldn’t marry outside of her race. Then, FOR NO APPARENT REASON, you went on a rant about how blacks complain too much!

    HOW BLACKS COMPLAIN TOO MUCH!

    How do you not see this?!

    The difference between you and Maher is that he was clearly stating that he doesn’t like Conservatives. Now that’s a bad thing in its own right, but you didn’t clearly state anything. Your comments belied your true feelings and your true feelings didn’t belong at that radio station in the year 2010.

    You are not a victim. You are an angry woman.

    amen.
    but i will be carefull if i were you,the rightwing nutjobs will start complaining about you.are you not scared to loose your job?They are the majority here.

  • notsofast

    Jon Bershad said:
    Maher said (he told Larry King that anti-Obama Conservatives had used “Kenyan” as a code for “nigger”

    And you believed him?

    And you thought it was funny when he said:

    Bill Maher on how he expected BHO to act with BP: “I was expecting a “real black president”– you know, the kind that “lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants.”

    “Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black.”

  • MiddleRoader

    Jon Bershad said:
    You are not a victim. You are an angry woman.

    and let’s not forget mean spirited.

  • The Real Royal King

    Now, Dr. Laura, our nation can have only one Lady of Perpetual Victimization, and it is not you.

  • kvon

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGk6eF65Fo

    Oh for a world where people like this were properly shamed and not celebrated.

  • The Real Royal King

    You know, CMB,with your new avatar adjacent to Nutsofast, I have to say you make a smashing looking couple.

  • WCinWI

    Jon Bershad said:
    Wow. I can have empathy for anyone we write about on any issue, but not this woman. If she truly and honestly can’t see the difference between what she said and what Maher said (he told Larry King that anti-Obama Conservatives had used “Kenyan” as a code for “nigger” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/09/bill-maher-drops-n-word-to-larry-king-nobody-notices-poll.html), then she is too far gone by a third.

    It wasn’t just that word, Dr. Laura (which you used approximately 10 times more than Maher, by the by)! It’s the fact that you began angrily screaming at a black woman because she had THE GALL to be offended by the racist comments of her husband’s friends. You told this woman, a woman who had called you asking for advice, that she needed a sense of humor or she shouldn’t marry outside of her race. Then, FOR NO APPARENT REASON, you went on a rant about how blacks complain too much!

    HOW BLACKS COMPLAIN TOO MUCH!

    How do you not see this?!

    The difference between you and Maher is that he was clearly stating that he doesn’t like Conservatives. Now that’s a bad thing in its own right, but you didn’t clearly state anything. Your comments belied your true feelings and your true feelings didn’t belong at that radio station in the year 2010.

    You are not a victim. You are an angry woman.

    So I fully expect you to have article after article about the n-word and its use in rap music? I’ll be waiting, with baited breath, for these articles.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Jon, would you mind giving a list of when it is and when it is not alright to use the word? That would be a big help, thanks!

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Jon, would you mind giving a list of when it is and when it is not alright to use the word? That would be a big help, thanks!

    If it helps, I haven’t seen you use the word appropriately yet.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    I haven’t used it period, idiot.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    I haven’t used it period, idiot.

    Which was just my point, dear. One ought never use the word aside from the rare literary usage appropriate to time and place. I was actually commending you. You ought not have “dumped” the shark.

  • Nacho

    “How to Survive a Shark Attack (On Land): The Story of a Victim.”

  • valkyrie101

    More blood libel against conservatives.

  • Thelonious Funk

    I heard “Doctor” Laura is really just a podiatrist.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    King, perhaps you should tell that to Obama, since according to him, his ipod is filled with such artists as Nas, who uses it constantly.

  • nice_thought

    Forget what maher says, why do u so want to say that N-word. U r a doctor so u say, but still it would serve u better to see a real shrink. Gotta solve those 60′s problems already.

  • minorityreport

    Yes Laura. Your N**ger pass has been revoked(LOL). Bill Maher defends the first black president on his show and for that he gets a free N**ger pass for the duration of the Obama presidency. Dont give me the bullshit about double standards. If you want the freedom to use the word N**ger, This is what you have to do
    1. Get shot for no reason by white cops like Diallo or Grant
    2. Be denied countless times for credit or a job
    3. Be a victim of the Jim Crow laws for a generations
    4. Be tied to a pick truck and driven 10 miles like James Byrd
    5. Go back in time and seat in the back of the bus
    6. Be sold as a slave

    BUT ON A LIGHTER NOTE!!

    7. Listen to BET and drop 16 bars of hard core rap lyrics(LOL)
    Until you do that, SHUT THE F**K up B**CH

  • writer

    All of these things have happened to minorityreport, yet he soldiers on.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Minority report, you should be offended when anyone says it or not at all. Otherwise, you are just a big hypocrite.

  • writer

    I know what minorityreport means. I’m of Irish ancestry, and the potato famine of 1845 is affecting me greatly to this day.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Minority Report, my people were the only group I can think of that had a sitting US Governor sign an extermination order for them. I was able to get over that, so perhaps you can to.

  • notsofast

    minorityreport said:
    Yes Laura. Your N**ger pass has been revoked(LOL). Bill Maher defends the first black president on his show and for that he gets a free N**ger pass for the duration of the Obama presidency. Dont give me the bullshit about double standards. If you want the freedom to use the word N**ger, This is what you have to do
    1. Get shot for no reason by white cops like Diallo or Grant
    2. Be denied countless times for credit or a job
    3. Be a victim of the Jim Crow laws for a generations
    4. Be tied to a pick truck and driven 10 miles like James Byrd
    5. Go back in time and seat in the back of the bus
    6. Be sold as a slave

    Oh, negro, please. None of that has happened to you, so STFU!

  • Color Me Badd

    So this crazy bitch wrote a book about how she wishes the dude that took peepshow photos of her (which arent photoshopped, how are you going to photoshop the pic of her all spread eagle on the floor) was alive so she could exact revenge on him. That is some cold blooded shit, I sometimes ride with the Outlaws MC and even those guys don’t wish that their enemies were alive so they could bury them again.

    The right wing need better role models. She doesn’t even know that it isn’t cool for white folks to use the term Uncle Tom talking about a black person. What is with these tonedeaf bimbos in the republican party.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    She doesn’t even know that it isn’t cool for white folks to use the term Uncle Tom talking about a black person

    Dude, it’s your liberal friends that do that, so talk to them.

  • notsofast

    Color Me Badd said:
    She doesn’t even know that it isn’t cool for white folks to use the term Uncle Tom talking about a black person.

    Thanks for yet another look at lib hypocrisy.

  • minorityreport

    I get you. Mr Imperialist. Just becos it did not happen to me , To hell with the millions of people it happened to. Dont say negro please instead use the phrase your parents taught you when you were growing up which is “ni**er please”.
    You fit the description of a a deranged ” black and brown people are taking away our stuff” white man. Anyways, Gos have mercy on your shallow intolerant being

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Minority Report, again either you are offended when anyone uses the word or you forfeit the right to be offended by it. You can’t have it both ways.

  • notsofast

    minorityreport said:
    You fit the description of a a deranged ” black and brown people are taking away our stuff” white man. Anyways, Gos have mercy on your shallow intolerant being

    Learn English, son!

  • notsofast

    minorityreport said:
    Dont say negro please instead use the phrase your parents taught you when you were growing up which is “ni**er please”.

    Sorry son, the libs taught me that word.

    Sorry they didn’t teach you English as they told ya you can’t succeed in America without them and that you needed to blame whites for all YOUR failures and to rehash all the lib talking points on why blacks are doomed in America.

    They taught that part to you well, you self-absorbed , self-pitying lib.

  • Scott_in_MI

    I totally agree w/ Dr Laura…she SAYS the word and is almost ruined, but when Tingle’s SHOW everyone how racist he is with his blacks in crowd remark yesterday, its forgotten the next day.

    Well I didn’t forget Matthews, you f-in racist

  • Color Me Badd

    notsofast said:
    Sorry son, the libs taught me that word.

    Sorry they didn’t teach you English as they told ya you can’t succeed in America without them and that you needed to blame whites for all YOUR failures and to rehash all the lib talking points on why blacks are doomed in America.

    They taught that part to you well, you self-absorbed , self-pitying lib.

    Look at that straight up racism right there!!!!!!!! Calling that guy “son”, he aint ur slave dude.

  • Color Me Badd

    notsofast said:
    You beat off to ‘en, son!

    I tried, she is a little too trailer park for my taste I am more into Sasha Grey.

  • minorityreport

    notsofast said:
    Learn English, son!</blockquot
    What an idiot. I am not even resident in America. Forget about English, the language your deranged ass should be learning now is Cantonese cos every american owes China at least $3000. The native indians got exterminated for far less .hahahahaha
    If you are as crazy as your profile picture, you probably sleep upside down in a trailer park in Iowa. waking up only to have sex with your sister.

  • SarahP.

    The woman looks like she’s been mummified.

  • Color Me Badd

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    She doesn’t even know that it isn’t cool for white folks to use the term Uncle Tom talking about a black person

    Dude, it’s your liberal friends that do that, so talk to them.

    HEY! No liberal has ever called anyone an Uncle Tom on TV, Oh wait I forgot about this one time. But that was a bit FTW

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibsP6XN2dIo

    But really Nader was asking a rhetorical question with the term Uncle Tom in it. Not even Nader who had absolutely zero to lose on election night 2008 went there. Dr. Laura she isn’t even a psychologist. Dummy

  • minorityreport

    notsofast said:
    What an idiot. I am not even resident in America. Forget about English, the language your deranged ass should be learning now is Cantonese cos every american owes China at least $3000. The native indians got exterminated for far less .hahahahaha
    If you are as crazy as your profile picture, you probably sleep upside down in a trailer park in Iowa. waking up only to have sex with your sister.

    What an idiot. I am not even resident in America. Forget about English, the language your deranged ass should be learning now is Cantonese cos every american owes China at least $3000. The native indians got exterminated for far less .hahahahaha
    If you are as crazy as your profile picture, you probably sleep upside down in a trailer park in Iowa. waking up only to have sex with your sister.

  • Pablo

    minorityreport said:
    If you want the freedom to use the word N**ger, This is what you have to do

    2. Be denied countless times for credit or a job

    Ah, so that’s why it’s cool when Democrats do it! I’ve always wondered.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    NAACP Leader explains why Kenneth Gladney deserved his SEIU thug beating: He’s an Uncle Tom and not “Black Enough”

    http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2010/07/08/naacp-leader-explains-why-kenneth-gladney-deserved-his-seiu-thug-beating-hes-an-uncle-tom-and-not-black-enough/

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Uncle Tom Powell Stumps for Massah Bush

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/12/183155/559

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Radio host calls Rice ‘Aunt Jemima’

    Powell called ‘Uncle Tom’

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6530925/ns/us_news-life/

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Color Me Badd says:

    Look at that straight up racism right there!!!!!!!! Calling that guy “son”, he aint ur slave dude

    Give it up dude, he calls everyone that. You’re not gaining any sympathy by being offended at absolutely everything.

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    Now, Dr. Laura, our nation can have only one Lady of Perpetual Victimization, and it is not you.

    Eventually, you’ll drop dead and your wife will be released from that burden, Kook.

  • treecutter

    Color Me Badd said:
    Look at that straight up racism right there!!!!!!!! Calling that guy “son”, he aint ur slave dude.

    Would you rather he said Boy moron?

  • dogstar7

    Where do dunderheads like Laura PhD. get the idea that the word itself is the be-all and end-all of the issue regarding the use of “that word”? Context is everything. The words I use change meaning, have different texture and convey entirely different thoughts and expression depending on the context of how I use them. I am conscious of this as a fact of my daily life, as is every conscientious adult on the planet. Whom does Ms. Schlessinger think she is fooling with this line of sophistry?

  • Color Me Badd

    Pablo said:
    Eventually, you’ll drop dead and your wife will be released from that burden, Kook.

    Oh a death threat now,

  • HonestOpinion

    This old wrinkled up b-tch is nasty. I heard the conversation she had with the caller and she never even answered the question. The call was ended by telling the woman if she had a problem with her in-laws, why did she marry out of her race? Old Girl doesn’t even know what the term Uncle Tom means. What an out of touch piece of trash who needs to watusi her monkey flat arse back to her Ivory Tower. Her failed attempt at controvery failed just like Imas. Bill Mahr won’t get a free pass for using that word, but he also uses the F bomb frequently and his girlfriend is Black and a Ho. I believe she was the Video Ho (Vixen) who wrote a tell all about so called rappers. By the way, nobody wants to read her damn book.

  • treecutter

    Color Me Badd said:
    Oh a death threat now,

    By the looks of that trailer trash hair you’ve got your name is appropriate monkeylove.

  • SarahP.

    Pablo said:
    Eventually, you’ll drop dead and your wife will be released from that burden, Kook.

    This from a far right wing whack job. LMAO!!

  • felixw

    Wake up, Dr. Laura, the Thought Police are everywhere. Check out the latest example from CNN, which finds their host apologizing because a guest used the term “crosshairs”:

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/18/cnn_apologizes_for_guest_using_term_crosshairs.html

    This is why these networks are losing their audience. Journalists once prized accuracy and honesty, but now the most valued commodity is totally sanitized commentary in which no one leftwing interest group is offended and no frank commentary is allowed if it deviates ever so slightly from the party line. Needless to say, Christians, conservatives and tea party members don’t count — so you can accuse them of murder, racism, greed, evil, whatever.

  • SarahP.

    felixw said:
    Wake up, Dr. Laura, the Thought Police are everywhere. Check out the latest example from CNN, which finds their host apologizing because a guest used the term “crosshairs”:

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/18/cnn_apologizes_for_guest_using_term_crosshairs.html

    This is why these networks are losing their audience. Journalists once prized accuracy and honesty, but now the most valued commodity is totally sanitized commentary in which no one leftwing interest group is offended and no frank commentary is allowed if it deviates ever so slightly from the party line. Needless to say, Christians, conservatives and tea party members don’t count — so you can accuse them of murder, racism, greed, evil, whatever.

    Again, more pablum from another far, far, right wing whack job.

  • felixw

    SarahP. said:
    Again, more pablum from another far, far, right wing whack job.

    Request to Mediaite: What do we need to do to move to moderated comments? Getting rid of the spammers and trolls would improve the credibility of your site and enhance the quality of dialogue. I’ve seen other sites do this, and the abusive people just disappear over night, and a more intelligent, civil discussion is fostered immediately. Can we do this here? Do we need a petition?

  • SarahP.

    felixw said:
    Request to Mediaite: What do we need to do to move to moderated comments? Getting rid of the spammers and trolls would improve the credibility of your site and enhance the quality of dialogue. I’ve seen other sites do this, and the abusive people just disappear over night, and a more intelligent, civil discussion is fostered immediately. Can we do this here? Do we need a petition?

    I think we have a big baby in felixw. Whaaaaaa!

  • Gasket

    Someone call the waaaaambulance!

  • Mar

    google search ‘Dr. Laura NUDE PHOTOS” this is TRUE!! The “social conservative” had an affair with a married man, has been divorced, and lived with a man outside of marriage. but worst of all are those photos, which she tried to block in court but lost, she shows ALL her “privates” in those photos, just google them yourself you’ll see what i’m talking about. Now that she’s old she’s “conservative” all of a sudden, but we all know some old grouchy people ashamed of their past.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    felixw said:
    Wake up, Dr. Laura, the Thought Police are everywhere. Check out the latest example from CNN, which finds their host apologizing because a guest used the term “crosshairs”:

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/18/cnn_apologizes_for_guest_using_term_crosshairs.html

    This is why these networks are losing their audience. Journalists once prized accuracy and honesty, but now the most valued commodity is totally sanitized commentary in which no one leftwing interest group is offended and no frank commentary is allowed if it deviates ever so slightly from the party line. Needless to say, Christians, conservatives and tea party members don’t count — so you can accuse them of murder, racism, greed, evil, whatever.

    It was John King on CNN that made that apology, Hell he better think af 1000 ways to say i’m sorry, long as he has a panel with eric erikson on it uncivil discourse will be the norm, Kings a true wackjob repuke, damn shame they fired Lou Dobbs and only got worse

  • felixw

    SarahP. said:
    I think we have a big baby in felixw. Whaaaaaa!

    Note to Mediaite editors: What possible benefit is it to the site when an individual posts a hundred or more comments on a single article, all of them containing only abusive and often vulgar language? Over the course of a month, thousands and thousands of these inconsequential and abusive comments fill up the pages, and all due to a very small number of individual(s) — no doubt driving away sensible people from joining the discussion and giving Mediaite a black eye in the process. Moderated comments would clear the site of these people, which would be of benefit both to Mediaite and its audience.

  • SarahP.

    felixw said:
    Note to Mediaite editors: What possible benefit is it to the site when an individual posts a hundred or more comments on a single article, all of them containing only abusive and often vulgar language? Over the course of a month, thousands and thousands of these inconsequential and abusive comments fill up the pages, and all due to a very small number of individual(s) — no doubt driving away sensible people from joining the discussion and giving Mediaite a black eye in the process. Moderated comments would clear the site of these people, which would be of benefit both to Mediaite and its audience.

    If you had anything remotely intelligent to say, you might have an argument, As it is you are simply a dumb ass whiner. Pathetic but true. Thumb sucking big baby.

  • felixw

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    It was John King on CNN that made that apology, Hell he better think af 1000 ways to say i’m sorry, long as he has a panel with eric erikson on it uncivil discourse will be the norm, Kings a true wackjob repuke, damn shame they fired Lou Dobbs and only got worse

    CNN is clearly an example of political correctness run amok. That’s why the got rid of Dobbs. That’s why Glenn Beck felt he needed to leave. That’s why they have the current crop of hosts, who worry more about pleasing the internal Thought Police rather than engaging in honest journalism and frank commentary. They don’t realize that having John King make these kinds of apologies makes the whole network look limp-wristed and pathetic. If they start removing all war and battle metaphors from the political dialogue, they will have to stop talking about battleground states, political campaigns and war chests, targeted districts and demographics, etc. etc. Shows called Crossfire or Firing Line would be taboo. Etc. Only a liberal could enjoy the mind-numbing result of such an approach.

  • Color Me Badd

    treecutter said:
    By the looks of that trailer trash hair you’ve got your name is appropriate monkeylove.

    No need to be jealous hun, I work in the industry.

  • felixw

    SarahP. said:
    If you had anything remotely intelligent to say, you might have an argument, As it is you are simply a dumb ass whiner. Pathetic but true. Thumb sucking big baby.

    Request to Mediaite: What do we need to do to move to moderated comments? Getting rid of the spammers and trolls would improve the credibility of your site and enhance the quality of dialogue. I’ve seen other sites do this, and the abusive people just disappear over night, and a more intelligent, civil discussion is fostered immediately. Can we do this here? Do we need a petition?

  • Color Me Badd

    felixw said:
    Note to Mediaite editors: What possible benefit is it to the site when an individual posts a hundred or more comments on a single article, all of them containing only abusive and often vulgar language? Over the course of a month, thousands and thousands of these inconsequential and abusive comments fill up the pages, and all due to a very small number of individual(s) — no doubt driving away sensible people from joining the discussion and giving Mediaite a black eye in the process. Moderated comments would clear the site of these people, which would be of benefit both to Mediaite and its audience.

    Censorship sucks. Go live in Russia bro.

  • SarahP.

    felixw said:
    CNN is clearly an example of political correctness run amok. That’s why the got rid of Dobbs. That’s why Glenn Beck felt he needed to leave. That’s why they have the current crop of hosts, who worry more about pleasing the internal Thought Police rather than engaging in honest journalism and frank commentary. They don’t realize that having John King make these kinds of apologies makes the whole network look limp-wristed and pathetic. If they start removing all war and battle metaphors from the political dialogue, they will have to stop talking about battleground states, political campaigns and war chests, targeted districts and demographics, etc. etc. Shows called Crossfire or Firing Line would be taboo. Etc. Only a liberal could enjoy the mind-numbing result of such an approach.

    Surprised to see that you are not whining like a but right wing baby.

  • Color Me Badd

    felixw said:
    Request to Mediaite: What do we need to do to move to moderated comments? Getting rid of the spammers and trolls would improve the credibility of your site and enhance the quality of dialogue. I’ve seen other sites do this, and the abusive people just disappear over night, and a more intelligent, civil discussion is fostered immediately. Can we do this here? Do we need a petition?

    Get lost, the Mediaite comments section is the best comment section on the web, period. We don’t want or need PC trolls ruining the fun for all these massive intellectual Titans! Check out HuffPo that sounds like that is your speed.

  • Color Me Badd

    felixw said:
    Note to Mediaite editors: What possible benefit is it to the site when an individual posts a hundred or more comments on a single article, all of them containing only abusive and often vulgar language? Over the course of a month, thousands and thousands of these inconsequential and abusive comments fill up the pages, and all due to a very small number of individual(s) — no doubt driving away sensible people from joining the discussion and giving Mediaite a black eye in the process. Moderated comments would clear the site of these people, which would be of benefit both to Mediaite and its audience.

    Who are you calling “limpwristed”, That sounds like hate speech to me hun, I work in the business and we don’t tolerate such intolerance.

  • Color Me Badd

    Mar said:
    google search ‘Dr. Laura NUDE PHOTOS” this is TRUE!! The “social conservative” had an affair with a married man, has been divorced, and lived with a man outside of marriage. but worst of all are those photos, which she tried to block in court but lost, she shows ALL her “privates” in those photos, just google them yourself you’ll see what i’m talking about. Now that she’s old she’s “conservative” all of a sudden, but we all know some old grouchy people ashamed of their past.

    She got outed as a trailer trash perv, she looks like the centerfolds in Easy Rider Magazine. So much for family values. If you are really wanting to see how she is google Dr. Laura’s crazy son. That is some crazy shit right there.

  • felixw

    SarahP. said:
    Surprised to see that you are not whining like a but right wing baby.

    No wonder all your aliases are worried about moderated comments. If Mediate started eliminating trolls and spammers, you would be gone in a hearbeat. Phewwww! Just like that.

  • Color Me Badd
  • treecutter

    Color Me Badd said:
    No need to be jealous hun, I work in the industry.

    What prostitution???

  • SarahP.

    felixw said:
    No wonder all your aliases are worried about moderated comments. If Mediate started eliminating trolls and spammers, you would be gone in a hearbeat. Phewwww! Just like that.

    It really is hard for you to understand that you are a buffoon isn’t it? So sad.

  • felixw

    SarahP. said:
    It really is hard for you to understand that you are a buffoon isn’t it? So sad.

    Look at all the messages from the panicky SarahP. Mention moderated comments that would eliminate trolls and spammers, and he gets very, very worried. He knows that this would eliminate all of his thousands of comments in one fell swoop. Hence the shrill, panicky tone. I almost feel sorry for him.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    Dr. Laura is a stupid ignorant racist.

  • BarneyFranken

    armwood said:
    Dr. Laura is a stupid ignorant racist.

    You mean she joined your club? Wow thats a scoop.

  • writer

    Harry Belafonte referred to Colin Powell as a ‘house Negro’. That’s much more polite.

  • IIWII

    Help please. Is the N-word:
    No?
    Never?
    Never (again)?
    Naturalization?
    Negativism?
    Negate?
    Not (PC)?
    Nunya?
    Just wondering how many N words we need to ban.
    Poor “Huck Finn”
    9/10ths of the message will be scrubbed.

  • Color Me Badd

    BarneyFranken said:
    You mean she joined your club? Wow thats a scoop.

    says the guy with Obama as a white man on his avatar. Stay classy.

  • Color Me Badd

    BarneyFranken said:
    You mean she joined your club? Wow thats a scoop.

    Hey you just committed a Palindrome, go watch the Jon Stewart clip. You learned from the best.

  • IIWII

    Color Me Badd said:
    says the guy with Obama as a white man on his avatar. Stay classy.

    I agree… the avatar should be specific-quantum white man… what were they thinking?

  • nice_thought

    What’s up with this waiting for moderation? South park can use it, I can’t?

  • Hugo Daun

    When did Skeletor have a sex-change and does He-Man know about this?

  • notsofast

    minorityreport said:
    . I am not even resident in America.

    Then STFU!

  • notsofast

    Color Me Badd said:
    I tried, she is a little too trailer park for my taste I am more into Sasha Grey.

    A trailer park would be a step up for you,son!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    I don’t get it. Why does the right want so badly to be able to say the n-word in public? Can somebody offer some insight?

  • writer

    Like climbing Everest. Because it’s there.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    nice_thought said:
    What’s up with this waiting for moderation? South park can use it, I can’t?

    South Park was making a point about using it. Don’t call South Park liberal either; the creators hate liberals more than they hate conservatives. Their point in that episode was actually that certain people shouldn’t use the word because since they’re not black they have no idea how it feels when it comes up. You should have actually watched the episode.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    writer said:
    Like climbing Everest. Because it’s there.

    So you ant to shout a racist slur simply because you can?

  • writer

    Reasonable, I’m not that concerned if I get to say it or not. However, if I ever decide to become a rap star, I do think it would be necessary for the word to be available to me.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    writer said:
    Reasonable, I’m not that concerned if I get to say it or not. However, if I ever decide to become a rap star, I do think it would be necessary for the word to be available to me.

    Eminem has sold over 20 million albums in the United States alone without saying it so that shit doesn’t fly here. Vanilla Ice did pretty well without it too.

  • writer

    Well, yeah. It’s possible to go without saying it. If you don’t give a damn about your ‘street cred’. Show me a real OG who doesn’t use the term.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    writer said:
    Well, yeah. It’s possible to go without saying it. If you don’t give a damn about your ’street cred’. Show me a real OG who doesn’t use the term.

    …Eminem. The guy beats down bouncers, tells censors and everybody to kiss his ass and has had 2 friends get shot and die. He has to walk around with a bullet proof vest on. How is that not “OG”?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    I also find it funny that the same people who said that the ground zero muslim center wasn’t “the right thing to do” and was “insensitive” doesn’t find them saying the n-word as the same.

  • writer

    Sort of like the same people who insisted the ground zero mosque wasn’t insensitive are the same ones who get hyper over who gets to use certain words.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    writer said:
    Sort of like the same people who insisted the ground zero mosque wasn’t insensitive are the same ones who get hyper over who gets to use certain words.

    Never said the muslim center wasn’t, just that it was their RIGHT.

  • writer

    So is free speech. That first amendment can be a bitch.

  • bealzebubba

    Cable TV vs Terrestrial Radio. BIG DIFFERENCE.

  • Zermatt2

    Ms. Schlessinger’s example is a very false example.

    When Ms. Schlessinger used the “n” word, she was talking to an African American woman, married to a white man; she wanted advice on how to handle her husband’s white friends using the “n” word so often.

    Instead of giving advice, Ms. Schlessinger went on a long tirade about the “n” word. She used the “n” word many times in a negative way and with a negative tone.

    In the example shown here, Bill Maher is saying that when people like Newt Gingrich call Obama a “Kenyan” or a “loud tribesman,” what people like Gingrich really want to say is the word “n…..” Maher is not calling anyone the “n” word. He is not going on a rant using the “n” word. He is criticizing people like Newt Gingrich who use such language as “loud tribesman” to describe Obama.

    Maybe Bill Maher is wrong in saying that Newt Gingrich really wanted to use the “n” word if it were acceptable; but, come on, calling Obama a “loud tribesman” is not what I consider to be respectful, and it does imply something along the lines of what Bill Maher was trying to say.

    Lastly, Ms. Schlessinger’s original complaints last year about wanting to exercise her “First Amendment” rights are incorrect. She still had those rights to free speech. “Free Speech” in the First Amendment refers to the right people have to say things without the government censoring them. It does not apply to one’s employer. I know she claims she quit her former job, but if her employer had fired her for using the “n” word or any other word, that would not be infringing upon her “free speech.” It is her employer’s right to do so. Perhaps an employer does not want an employee using such language on the air.

    Further, freedom of speech also implies that people can complain about what Ms. Schlessinger said; it also implies that people can boycott her radio show if they do not like her, for any reason. As long as the government is not trying to stifle what she is saying, it is not taking away her freedom of speech, according to the First Amendment.

    It’s not the actual use of the “n” word that some found offensive. As conservatives like to say very often, “context” is everything.

  • John OLeary

    Ditto on Zermatt. Another non-debate. I’ll give Mediaite one more read tomorrow, but I’m ready to bail.

  • jackster12

    Zermatt… thanks for saying it so I didn’t have to. Dr. Laura doesn’t get it.

    Dr. Laura was indirectly answering her caller’s concern with a defense of the use of the word, and a childish one at that (what’s she a “Dr.” of again?). Her answer to a woman who doesn’t like the use of the term was essentially, well, ‘they do it all the time.’ As if that makes it somehow okay. Even members of the black community would cite those very same examples, of blacks using the term, as harmful. Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, they’ve come out against it. In the same way Dr. Laura should have.

    Maher’s use of the word was to expose veiled racism in a way that was perhaps shocking it it’s brutal honesty, but doesn’t seem at all far from the truth.

    The difference is that at the end of the day, Maher’s world still isn’t okay with rascism and Dr. Laura’s world contains a defense of it. Which one is the world you want to live in? Now, posters, go back and choose your sides.

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