Dr. Laura talks of caring for young Deryk in her new book, she was the perfect SAHM. Lewis Bishop was a stay-at-home Dad?
mysti
sacrifices!
I thought Lewis Bishop was a stay-at-home Dad? She mentions him once
as "My husband" but not as a stay-at-home Dad, or as in caring for
Deryk. No mention of how Lew cooked and cleaned. She changed her
version of what happened, this isn't what I recall from a time I did
hear her radio show. Her best talent is as a revisionist historian.
Is this latest book a total crock?
BREAKING NEWS!!!!! Dr. Laura actually admitted to having tried day
care!
Look what can happen if you try day care?
http://tiny.cc/gn1JN
WARNING: Dr. Laura art lessons
http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2007/05/like-mother-like-son.html#85239
Radical Feminist, PBS Host Launches Screed at Dr. Laura Schlessinger
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/04/10/radical-feminist-pbs-host-launches-screed-dr-laura-schlessinger
By Ken Shepherd Managing Editor of NewsBusters.
Ken links to Bonnie Erbe, the "Radical Feminist" who writes a very
brief opinion.
EXCERPT from Dr. Laura's new book "In Praise of Stay-At-Home Moms" or
"In Praise of me, me, me":
In the years before he started kindergarten, we did try two
preschool-like establishments to see if there was some benefit for
him. One of them lasted one day. When I came at 4:00 PM to find that
he hadn’t stopped crying, that was the end of that. The headmistress
gave me the usual argument that he needed to adjust, but I saw no
reason to torture my child with my absence until he accepted his loss.
The second time was when we were financially desperate, and I needed
to do some part-time radio fill-in for some extra money to survive. At
first he liked the experience, but after a few weeks, the routine
became boring, and he yearned to be with me doing all the stuff we’d
do in a day: playing, reading, errands, dancing, artwork, words and
spelling, cycling, hiking, and so forth. So that was the end of that.
I am grateful for every moment I’ve had as a mommy. I have great
memories of twirling my son around in a shopping cart in a local
Target store’s parking lot (a lot cheaper than Magic Mountain), or of
us walking through a forest, pretending that we were being tracked by
monsters, selecting sticks for swords and spears, and working together
to get to safety. Now he’s a paratrooper in the U.S. Army!
My husband and I came to the practical conclusion that I needed to
go back to radio work to be our family’s primary financial support,
while he would manage my career, the home, and our finances.
Nonetheless, I refused to take any job which would require me to be
out of the home every day while our son was home or awake! I would
take care of him all day and then go to work on radio, leaving the
home at 9:00 PM after putting him to bed. Eventually, when he started
kindergarten, I landed a daytime shift while he was in school.
In order to do the writing and necessary research, I would get up
at 5:00 AM and work a few hours before I woke him up to get ready for
school. I always worked my career around my family, never the other
way around.
The first book I published, Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up
Their Lives, required me to travel up and down the West Coast for
interviews. I got all my son’s teachers to give me his work for the
week and took him with me. He did his work and had a blast traveling,
meeting people, and keeping me company. He did cost my publisher a
pretty penny, eating all the goodies in the minibar. Then I found out
about satellite interviews; I could do twenty-five local and national
television shows in one early-morning session, I discovered, so I
didn’t have to leave home to promote my book.
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger is an Elitist, a Hypocrite, and Flat Out
Wrong
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2009/4/10/dr-laura-schlessinger-is-an-elitist-a-hypocrite-and-flat-out-wrong.html
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
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Hannity Aids and Abets Dr. Laura: Stay Home and Make Your Man Happy
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/04/11/hannity_aids_and_abets_dr_laura_stay_home_and_make_your_man_happy.php
“There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other
women,” said Madeleine K. Albright. But you know, there's also a
special place in hell for women who make a whole CAREER out of telling
OTHER women to stay at home – especially when that woman has a history
full of personal baggage that doesn't exactly lend itself to the
“family values” agenda she's peddling.
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mysti
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/04/11/hannity_aids_and_abets_dr_laura_stay_home_and_make_your_man_happy.php
“There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other
women,” said Madeleine K. Albright. But you know, there's also a
special place in hell for women who make a whole CAREER out of telling
OTHER women to stay at home – especially when that woman has a history
full of personal baggage that doesn't exactly lend itself to the
hypocrisies in Family Values Dr. Laura Schlessinger's world – she was
estranged from her mother when she died and is estranged from her
sister, and while insisting others should be stay at home moms at all
costs (WSJ: “At what point do you advise mothers to go back to work?
Dr. Laura: “The answer is never”), she was not a stay-at-home mother
herself, refuses to discuss her past, claiming that it's irrelevant,
and plays fast and loose with her credentials – Sean Hannity had no
problem painting her as a beacon of hope in a Fox News utopia. With
video.
On April 7, 2009, Hannity assisted Dr. Laura Schlessinger (though she
referred to herself in her book “The Ten Commandments” – no irony
there – as a licensed psychotherapist, her Ph.D. is in physiology, not
psychology, in promoting her new book, “In Praise of Stay-At-Home
Moms” and talking about the need for personal sacrifice and belt-
tightening so the Little Woman can stay home with the kids and provide
succor to her man after his hard day.
You know, I'm all in for any woman who chooses – CHOOSES – to stay
home with her kids. I'm not all in when the husband insists on it. I'm
not all in when the woman does it out of some misplaced guilt but
hates every minute of it. And I'm not all in when someone like Dr.
Laura, who has made a CAREER out of bullying and guilt-tripping women,
continues her claptrap – with the help of Fox News' Hannity – for a
return-to-50's lifestyle.
From the moment Hannity made the claim that “we demonize stay at home
moms” (who's this universal “we” anyway?), the interview was replete
with Dr. Laura-isms, such as, “So when Dad comes in — you should
notice Dad. When Dad walks in, he compliments what's there. 'I just
went through a hell of day in traffic, and I came home to the most
beautiful, wonderful woman in the world and all these kids.'” Sure,
that's what Ward Cleaver might have said to June.
Said Schlessinger, “Yes, I worked my life around my kid.” Apparently,
for Schlessinger, it's okay to have a career as long as you don't rely
on outside daycare. “. . . It is remarkable that you and I...”
Hannity interrupted to say ingratiatingly, “Who is an American hero.”
Continued Schlessinger, “Thank you. You and I, as successful as we
are, but you know, you have a wonderful wife at home, taking care of
the kids. But I know you always make the point of being there.”
Hannity himself admitted in this interview, however, that he was often
demanding of his wife.
Hannity asked Schlessinger, “What about people that say they can't
afford it?”
Schlessinger replied, “Well, you know, I don't think there's a stay-at-
home mother existing that doesn't, because it's been a luxury — every
time, no matter what the current economic situation or not, it's
always a sacrifice.” In this economic climate, lady, the “sacrifice”
might be food or housing. “It always means you're giving up something.
I mean, I remember we didn't have money for two cars. So my legs got
strong, because I rode my son on the back of a bicycle, until it
finally bent.” Again, in true elitist fashion, Schlessinger figures
that just doing without that second car is the sacrifice; however,
without two incomes, many families wouldn't be able to afford a single
car . . . or a bike, for that matter.
Hannity happily helped Schlessinger along with her Fox News “family
values” agenda. “You tell them — here we go — to understand their
husband's day when they walk in the house, that they probably had a
tough day. And you go — you talk about nurturing that relationship,
which helps the children, you know . . .”
Well, in Schlessinger's world, hypocrisy rocks. Her own soldier son,
Deryk – the one she claims she worked her life around – was a couple
of years ago under military investigation for a graphic personal web
page that included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and
child molestation, photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths,
accounts of drug use, and other equally repugnant racial epithets and
obscenities. This is especially galling, considering that in an
article in the Wall Street Journal, Schlessinger wrote, in regard to
being a stay-at-home mom, “I will say, however, that your children are
less likely to be major pains in the butt or get into horrendous
situations. The closer the family is and the more hands-on time spent
with children, the more likely those children -- as impulsive and
impetuous as they normally are -- will set some limits on their
youthful experimentation and nonsense.” (Hmm, that didn't work out too
well for her own kid, did it? Well-balanced and mentally healthy? Not
so much.) She went on to mock the notion of arranging a career around
nannies and daycare, comparing it to salad dressing or some nonsense.
Hannity, of course, never questioned her about her own success, or
lack thereof, around this formula of parenting she rams down womens'
throats.
Dr. Laura bemoaned all the “negativity surrounding the most blessed,
wonderful thing a woman can do . . . after all, you could have married
a jerk, and he could just walk out on you and leave you cold and
dry.” (That attitude isn't exactly a stretch here, is it Doc? I mean,
isn't that exactly what your husband, Lew Bishop, did to the wife he
was STILL MARRIED TO when you started dating him? You remember, right,
the one you cohabitated with for nine years prior to marriage – the
big no-no you preach against to everyone else? Again, Hannity chose
not to mention her own highly-checkered past.
Concluded Hannity, “But the idea that, if the men do their part, and
the women do their part, the children are going to be happy.”
The man part: Bring in the bacon. The woman part: Stay home. The child
part: Be happy, even if happiness means being involved in dark and
twisted internet scandals.
I guess we should all be grateful they didn't insist women greet their
men at the door, wrapped in Saran wrap and covered in Mazola oil.
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On Apr 11, 4:05 am, mysti <Lzrya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Those darn Radicals! They just don't understand Dr. Laura's
> sacrifices!
>
> I thought Lewis Bishop was a stay-at-home Dad? She mentions him once
> as "My husband" but not as a stay-at-home Dad, or as in caring for
> Deryk. No mention of how Lew cooked and cleaned. She changed her
> version of what happened, this isn't what I recall from a time I did
> hear her radio show. Her best talent is as a revisionist historian.
> Is this latest book a total crock?
>
> BREAKING NEWS!!!!! Dr. Laura actually admitted to having tried day
> care!
> Look what can happen if you try day care?
> http://tiny.cc/gn1JN
> WARNING: Dr. Laura art lessonshttp://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2007/05/like-mother-like-son.h...
>
> Radical Feminist, PBS Host Launches Screed at Dr. Laura Schlessingerhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/04/10/radical-feminist...
> Wronghttp://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2009/4/10/dr-laura-schlessinger-is-a...
> By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
>
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>
> Hannity Aids and Abets Dr. Laura: Stay Home and Make Your Man Happyhttp://www.newshounds.us/2009/04/11/hannity_aids_and_abets_dr_laura_s...