On Tuesday, August 17, 2010, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well, that is unfair to King and Oprah. Schlessinger gives moronic snake-oil > salesmen a bad name (and that has been true for years prior to this recent > bru ha ha). > > But I don't understand the context of the sound-bite; is she saying she wants > to be able to say "N*g*er! N*g*er! N*g*er!" without anyone getting on her > case? I thought she had gone on her radio show the next day and apologized? > Has she since changed her tune (yet again) and is now saying that there wa > nothing wrong with what she said?
I think she wants to be able to give bad advice and berate her callers without any government agency stepping in to remind her she isn't a doctor of psychology, and that whatever she thinks she might be doing on the radio, her words have more to do with what is going on inside of her than what any particular caller has said. I don't believe she feels bad about what she said. I believe that she wants to exist in a world that would regard her rants and tirades as "therapy." I believe she knows the backlash of what she said this time would prove too much of an professional obstacle, so she is trying to frame the situation as a freedom of speech issue. I would draw the correlation between this and another situation being incorrectly framed as a freedom of religion issue, but I have learned I fall under the third of the population whose opinion on that issue isn't represented in the media, so never mind. > As has been noted by many, there were so many things about her recent > berating of one of her callers that were worse than the maniacal repetition > of the racial slur. She is a knee jerk reactionary who spends three seconds deciding whether a given caller is an idiot and the rest of the time not thinking at all. I won't miss her pseudo psychology on the radio waves. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
