No threads on Dr. Laura's meltdown?

[Mungwater 601]

Not one thing in this thread is surprising at all.

 

even that people are people are calling you a 'mo?

 

You really have low standards for yourself

[surferskin 31]

I get her point, it's stupid for one group to object to the use of a word by another group when the word is used as a term of endearment by the first group. But you're still going to get in trouble for saying it on the air.

 

Ultimately she proved her point by losing her job.

[Voice_Of_Reason 0]

Other than being too stupid to realise that saying the N-word on the radio will get you in hot water, nothing.

 

I get her point, it's stupid for one group to object to the use of a word by another group when the word is used as a term of endearment by the first group. But you're still going to get in trouble for saying it on the air.

 

Did Don Imus say anything wrong? No.

Did Howard Stern say anything wrong? No.

Did Dr. Laura say anything wrong? No.

 

They all said something stupid and have/are going to pay for it.

So the only problem with it is that we live in a hyper sensitive world that refuses to use logic and reason in these situations. Agreed.

[Cruzer 1,996]

I was going to respond but you seem to be one of those guys who gets all emotional and starts tossing around personal insults when faced with opinions you don't agree with, so nevermind.

I'm hardly one of those, my skin is thicker than you could possibly imagine. If anybody called anybody out, it was you. But whatever - thanks for still not answering the question. Like you said earlier, this thread is full of predictability.

[MDC 8,084]

I'm hardly one of those, my skin is thicker than you could possibly imagine.

 

Yep. But you're typical of people on this site - you see an opinion you don't agree with and immediately start throwing around insults and getting personal, to turn the discussion into anything but the original topic. You're not unlike Recliner Pilot and many others here in that way.

[surferskin 31]

Yep. But you're typical of people on this site - you see an opinion you don't agree with and immediately start throwing around insults and getting personal, to turn the discussion into anything but the original topic. You're not unlike Recliner Pilot and many others here in that way.

 

I hope you're just fishing because you just described yourself to a T. Well, minus the black eye liner.

[Cruzer 1,996]

Yep. But you're typical of people on this site - you see an opinion you don't agree with and immediately start throwing around insults and getting personal, to turn the discussion into anything but the original topic. You're not unlike Recliner Pilot and many others here in that way.

Okay, I'll throw a quater in the slot and play......... Please tell/show me where I personally insulted you. Please point to the exact point in my post where I specifically called you out or said you were 'xyz'. Again, if anybody took a shot and did such a thing, it was you. I'd personally like to stay on topic and discuss the issue. Guess I'm too busy enjoying being Cruzer like somebody said. :hypocrisy:

[MDC 8,084]

Please tell/show me where I personally insulted you.

 

No. You can scroll back to your first post to me with your welcher BS. That stuff is typical for FFT - see an opinion you don't like and try to derail the conversation by getting personal. I see it over and over again here, you're just the latest to follow the herd.

[surferskin 31]

Where's the MDC thread deleter when you need him? Crying about being called a welcher?

[Cruzer 1,996]

No. You can scroll back to your first post to me with your welcher BS. That stuff is typical for FFT - see an opinion you don't like and try to derail the conversation by getting personal. I see it over and over again here, you're just the latest to follow the herd.

Oh, I see. Bcoz I brought up the word welcher you got offended. Strange, why would you get offended - are you one? I was speaking in general terms as why being Cruzer isn't so bad. Like I said, you brought it up and started that ball rolling - not me.

[Frank M 181]

So the only problem with it is that we live in a hyper sensitive world that refuses to use logic and reason in these situations. Agreed.

 

Perhaps.

 

I don't know many people, even logical, non-hypersensitized people, that want to hear that word while driving in the car listening to the radio, though.

[MDC 8,084]

Oh, I see. Bcoz I brought up the word welcher you got offended. Strange, why would you get offended - are you one? I was speaking in general terms as why being Cruzer isn't so bad. Like I said, you brought up and started that ball rolling - not me.

 

I'm not offended. I just see the typical pattern of knee-jerk lashing out when confronted with opinions you don't like, as the typical FFT strategy of derailing the conversation. You're a lot more interested in this kind of back-and-forth than having a point or discussing anything - that's why I'm done with you. Have the last word, I won't be talking to you anymore.

 

Edit: You can see surfurskin practically getting a boner now that the thread isn't about anything. It's like you guys share the same hive mind.

[Cruzer 1,996]

I'm not offended. I just see the typical pattern of knee-jerk lashing out when confronted with opinions you don't like, as the typical FFT strategy of derailing the conversation. You're a lot more interested in this kind of back-and-forth than having a point or discussing anything - that's why I'm done with you. Have the last word, I won't be talking to you anymore.

I agree, it is the typical pattern you display here. You start a thread and when legitimately challenged with a straight foreward question that you don't like or can't answer - you revert to antics and back door slaps. Go back to my original post - in it you will find a very direct, on topic question. In your response you start the ball rolling by suggesting when I heard Chris Rock say it once, my narrowmindness had me reacting in a way you didn't like/understand. But you weren't done - you continued to take a shot belittling my wolrd and saying how nice it must be to be me. So please, save the drama and just admit you are the one (as is usually the case) who took this thread off topic and then tried to blame somebody else for it. Ha, I do find it funny though that the welcher comment hit a nerve.

[MDC 8,084]

Oh yeah, and I did answer Cruzer's question - "the lefties" don't all tolerate the N word. Most people find it offensive in any context. It was presumptuous and obnoxious to Dr. Laura to lump her caller in with all black people. Bill Cosby among many other black people have complained about blacks using that term. And let's get real here: Did Dr. Laura need to use that word to make her point? No. Did she use it because her audience gets off on hearing her say racially offensive things? She sure did.

[Cruzer 1,996]

Oh yeah, and I did answer Cruzer's question - "the lefties" don't all tolerate the N word. Most people find it offensive in any context. It was presumptuous and obnoxious to Dr. Laura to lump her caller in with all black people. Bill Cosby among many other black people have complained about blacks using that term. And let's get real here: Did Dr. Laura need to use that word to make her point? No. Did she use it because her audience gets off on hearing her say racially offensive things? She sure did.

Good - this is what I looking for........... Now that you mention it, I think I do remember Cosby coming out on that. But that is one, one in a gazillion mediums. As I stated earlier, I myself do not use the word nor do I think it is proper for anybody else to do it. One of my very best friends is black. By the same token I do not think other races should have ugly names thrown about them - including whites. Dr. Laura certainly could have shown better judgment and tact - but her point was dead on. I guess it will always be that way - the double standard.

[Willis McGahee's Dentist 61]

I wasn't aware that this would be a political topic, but the way I see it is that Dr. Laura said what every single one of us 'white folk' has thought a million times..if the word is so offensive to them, why do they use it so much? She was 100% right and her taking slack for her comments is proof that freedom of speech only exists for minorities. Still don't see how this is political.

[KSB2424 3,174]

I wasn't aware that this would be a political topic, but the way I see it is that Dr. Laura said what every single one of us 'white folk' has thought a million times..if the word is so offensive to them, why do they use it so much? She was 100% right and her taking slack for her comments is proof that freedom of speech only exists for minorities. Still don't see how this is political.

Well, to be fair, this isn't a freedom of speech issue.

 

It's more of a culturual and political correctness issue.

[surferskin 31]

I was just surprised there were no threads, since so many people at FFT enjoy saying racist things and complaining about black people. I figured Dr. Laura was a forearm hero.

 

I'm surprised posts like this didn't lead to the thoughtful discussion on race relations that MDC had hoped for...

[MDC 8,084]

Dr. Laura certainly could have shown better judgment and tact - but her point was dead on.

 

I think Dr. Laura could've made the same point without going out of her way to be offensive. I also think Dr. Laura and her ilk are race-baiters. Rush Limbaugh occassionally has a point too, but he tries to be racially offensive because that's what his audience wants to hear. Those kind of people are pretty much the flip side of the coin to someone like Al Sharpton, who sees racist intent in everything.

[Cruzer 1,996]

I think Dr. Laura could've made the same point without going out of her way to be offensive. I also think Dr. Laura and her ilk are race-baiters. Rush Limbaugh occassionally has a point too, but he tries to be racially offensive because that's what his audience wants to hear. Those kind of people are pretty much the flip side of the coin to someone like Al Sharpton, who sees racist intent in everything.

Agreed. Those people lives' are ratings driven. I think they do it from time to time just to get back into the circle of conversation. Like now, we've got people here who have never heard of her who are reading and talking about her today.

[SUXBNME 1,625]

What a fockin joke.

Please explain to me how that was a 'meltdown'.

 

As usual, MDC fails miserably.

move along, nothing to see here

[MDC 8,084]

What a fockin joke.

Please explain to me how that was a 'meltdown'.

 

Uh she said a bunch of offensive things at work, then was forced to quit her job and apologize for it publicly.

 

I'd call that a meltdown.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,705]

Oh yeah, and I did answer Cruzer's question - "the lefties" don't all tolerate the N word. Most people find it offensive in any context. It was presumptuous and obnoxious to Dr. Laura to lump her caller in with all black people. Bill Cosby among many other black people have complained about blacks using that term. And let's get real here: Did Dr. Laura need to use that word to make her point? No. Did she use it because her audience gets off on hearing her say racially offensive things? She sure did.

 

 

You stated earlier that you have never listened to her show and barely knew who she was. And then you say the above. You have never listened to her or know who she is, yet you come to this conclusion. Her listeners are all racist and only listen to hear offensive things. You prove here that you have no idea what you are talking about. You are no different than the people you disagree with. You don not think for yourself like you constantly remind us all of and prove it in that one sentence. Good stuff.

[Voice_Of_Reason 0]

Perhaps.

 

I don't know many people, even logical, non-hypersensitized people, that want to hear that word while driving in the car listening to the radio, though.

I grant you that. I don't really want to hear it myself. But by the same token, I think we've become a society with too thin a skin

[MDC 8,084]

You stated earlier that you have never listened to her show and barely knew who she was. And then you say the above. You have never listened to her or know who she is, yet you come to this conclusion. Her listeners are all racist and only listen to hear offensive things. You prove here that you have no idea what you are talking about. You are no different than the people you disagree with. You don not think for yourself like you constantly remind us all of and prove it in that one sentence. Good stuff.

 

I didn't say a single thing in your spittle-spraying rant.

[Frank M 181]

"I want my 1st Amendment rights back, which I can't have on radio without the threat of attack on my advertisers and stations," Schlessinger said.

 

link

 

It amazes me how stupid people are. The First Amendment doesn't guarantee that your boss won't get pissed and force you to quit because you said something stupid, nor does it guarantee that advertisers won't leave your show in droves, nor does it guarantee that people won't flood your e-mail with threats.

 

I've listened to her before and concluded on my own that she's an idiot, but this just reinforces it.

[surferskin 31]

link

 

It amazes me how stupid people are. The First Amendment doesn't guarantee that your boss won't get pissed and force you to quit because you said something stupid, nor does it guarantee that advertisers won't leave your show in droves, nor does it guarantee that people won't flood your e-mail with threats.

 

I've listened to her before and concluded on my own that she's an idiot, but this just reinforces it.

 

[Voice_Of_Reason 0]

You stated earlier that you have never listened to her show and barely knew who she was. And then you say the above. You have never listened to her or know who she is, yet you come to this conclusion. Her listeners are all racist and only listen to hear offensive things. You prove here that you have no idea what you are talking about. You are no different than the people you disagree with. You don not think for yourself like you constantly remind us all of and prove it in that one sentence. Good stuff.

Having a conversation with MDC is like having a conversation with RP. Too one sided to really get anywhere. It's just not worth it.

[MDC 8,084]

link

 

It amazes me how stupid people are. The First Amendment doesn't guarantee that your boss won't get pissed and force you to quit because you said something stupid, nor does it guarantee that advertisers won't leave your show in droves, nor does it guarantee that people won't flood your e-mail with threats.

 

I've listened to her before and concluded on my own that she's an idiot, but this just reinforces it.

 

This is coming from the same crowd that compares health care reform to Nazi Germany. We're not talking about the most stable bunch here.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,705]

I didn't say a single thing in your spittle-spraying rant.

 

 

Sou you didn't say this?

 

Oh yeah, and I did answer Cruzer's question - "the lefties" don't all tolerate the N word. Most people find it offensive in any context. It was presumptuous and obnoxious to Dr. Laura to lump her caller in with all black people. Bill Cosby among many other black people have complained about blacks using that term. And let's get real here: Did Dr. Laura need to use that word to make her point? No. Did she use it because her audience gets off on hearing her say racially offensive things? She sure did.

 

 

See, you did say it. Never listened to her show and yet you know enough about her to come to that conclusion. That's thinking for yourself.

 

 

Spittle? You need to wipe it off yor chin. You are beginning to look feminime again.

[MDC 8,084]

Sou you didn't say this?

 

Things I never said:

 

You stated earlier that you have never listened to her show and barely knew who she was. And then you say the above.

 

I didn't say this.

 

Her listeners are all racist and only listen to hear offensive things.

 

I didn't say ALL her listeners are anything.

 

hth!

[Me_2006 14]

What the fock were they doing letting a woman on the radio in the first place? Was she broadcasting from the kitchen? Is there a microphone above the stove?

 

 

I don't blame the niggers for being mad. This cuunt needs to learn her place.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,705]

Things I never said:

 

 

 

I didn't say this.

 

 

 

I didn't say ALL her listeners are anything.

 

hth!

 

 

And you didn't say her audience gets off on hearing her say racially offensive things? Right.

[MDC 8,084]

And you didn't say her audience gets off on hearing her say racially offensive things? Right.

 

I didn't say ALL her listeners are racist or ALL of them get off on hearing her say bigotted things, but a certain percentage obviously do. Why do you think race-baiters like Dr. Laura and Rush are so popular among the fringe right? Wild coincidence?

[Me_2006 14]

I didn't say ALL her listeners are racist or ALL of them get off on hearing her say bigotted things, but a certain percentage obviously do. Why do you think race-baiters like Dr. Laura and Rush are so popular among the fringe right? Wild coincidence?

What does any of this have to do with politics?

[MDC 8,084]

What does any of this have to do with politics?

 

Not much. Why?

[TimmySmith 2,783]

And you didn't say her audience gets off on hearing her say racially offensive things? Right.

He's a hypocrite and a welcher who will change his story to keep this egocentric train rolling. Why not ask him about all the other threads he has started about rappers using the n-word?

[Me_2006 14]

Not much. Why?

I've just seen you take shots at right wingers, and others take shots at 'lefties' on this issue and I thought I would ask in case I had missed something involving politics regarding this issue.

[MDC 8,084]

He's a hypocrite and a welcher who will change his story to keep this egocentric train rolling. Why not ask him about all the other threads he has started about rappers using the n-word?

 

I still never said that "all" of Dr. Laura's audience are racist - I didn't make a definite statement.

 

Why the hell would I start a thread about rappers using the n-word?

[drobeski 3,061]

I didn't say ALL her listeners are racist or ALL of them get off on hearing her say bigotted things, but a certain percentage obviously do. Why do you think race-baiters like Dr. Laura and Rush are so popular among the fringe right? Wild coincidence?

There aren't any bigger race baiters than you, white boy clowns like you and that ignorant clown of a president you retards voted for.