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Dr. Laura Schlessinger

If there's one thing we can't stand it's hypocrisy. We all know what Dr. Laura Schlessinger preaches. Let's take a look at how Dr. Laura leads her life as reported by reliable sources listed below.

The Sanctity of Marriage	Family Values	Single Family Religion
Ethics	Ideas about Truth	Footnotes

Laura and the Sanctity of Marriage Laura started dating her current husband, Lew Bishop, while he was still married.1 Laura divorced her first husband after 2 years of marriage.2 Laura had premarital sex in college.6 Laura had sex with Bill Ballance within hours of meeting him. Ballance recalls, "We used to thrash around like a couple of crazed weasels. I used to call her Ku Klux, because she's a demon between the sheets. Dynamite!" 9 Laura "shacked up" with Lew for nine years before they married.9 Laura told a freind that she was pregnant at the time of her wedding9

Laura and Family Values Dr. Laura has not spoken to her mother in 15 years.8 Dr. Laura is estranged from her sister.1 "She not only is estranged from her mother, but, according to her husband, "doesn't see much" of her younger sister."7 "When Bill Ballance, who actually met Cyndi [Laura's sister] before the rift, asked Laura about it, she just said, 'Oh, she's so much prettier than I am!'"9 Laura's mother once worked for Laura as a secretary. She walked out the day Laura told her that she should learn how to type.1 "My husband HAD a prior family. And I figured I went through 12 hours of labor and a C-section. I figured, I'm 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.' "5 (emphasis added) When Deryk was young, Laura took him to the studio with her where he ran around unsupervised. He was such a terror, other employees complained9

Laura and the importance of a single family religion Lew Bishop, Mr. Laura, has not converted, because "there are some things about it [Judaism] that I'm still struggling with."1(Lew finally converted in the Summer of 1998)

Laura and Ethics She promotes her show as if she has a doctorate in a therapy related field, yet her degree is in physiology.3 After taking $30,000 in speaking fees, she treated her hosts rudely.4 After she was exposed for acting rudely, she failed to accept responsibility for her actions. Instead she lashed out.4 She has undermined many of her colleagues at work. Marilyn Herman noted, "Tracey Miller, Marilyn Kagan, Barbara De Angelis, Mother Love - she systematically set out to destroy each of these women. She was the most vengeful, evil person." 9 She directed Lew and Shelly Herman to make phony calls to her show when the lines were empty.9

Laura and her Ideas about Truth Dr. Laura calls herself a "shrink", but she is not a psychiatrist or psychologist.8 She claims that she had trouble conceiving her son, Deryk, but Deryk was born within nine months of her marriage. 8 She says that they struggled when Deryk was young, because she was a stay at home mom and her husband had lost his job. Her husband can't remember being out of work at that time and Laura was an adjunct professor at Pepperdine.8 A few weeks before Deryk left to visit his grandfather, Laura told a caller that he "wasn't blessed with grandparents".10 "I am a prophet"5. "I have never, ever said that I was a prophet! That's a total, complete lie," she tells me. ("She said it twice," reports the writer, Janet Wiscombe.)9

Footnotes 1. Johnson, Rebecca, "The Just Do-It Shrink" The New York Times Magazine, 17 Nov. 1996. 2. Minor, Emily J., "Radio's Dr. Laura Tells it like it is," Lexington Herald-Leader 3. Smith, Lynn, "Dr. Laura: Some Lessons in Morality from a Tough Talking Therapist," Good Housekeeping, March 1996. 4. Schwartz, Maryln, "Dr. Laura, it's the attitude, not the allergies" The Dallas Morning News 5. LA Times, 3/13/94 6. King, Patricia and Kendall Hamilton, "Listen up callers: No Whining Allowed. Tough Love from Moralist Laura Schlessinger," Newsweek, May 27, 1996: 75. 7. Washington Post, 7/26/95. 8. Wiscombe, Janet, "I Don't Do Therapy," L.A. Times Magazine, January 18, 1998. 9. Bennetts, Leslie, "" Vanity Fair, September, 1998--Transcript 10. "The Doctor Laura Show". 5/28/98, 2:22:27:00.

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