For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession
of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than
the citizens of America.
What could be more campy then watching the doddering Larry King interview"
Dr." Laura? Oh, maybe if he had her on a panel with Janet Jackson and Richard
Simmons discussing the sanctity of marital vows.
But actually, it is a discussion of marriage and wandering husbands that
made Laura Schlessinger the recipient of this week's BuzzFlash Media Putz
Award. On the King show, she continued peddling her take on the Eliot Spitzer
ProstituteGate scandal. In short, it was all his wife's, Silda's, fault.
As Schlessinger so glibly
stated on "The Today Show":
"When
the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings sexually,
personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success,
to make him
feel like our hero, he's very susceptible to the charm of some other
woman making him feel what he needs. These days, women don't spend a lot
of time
thinking about how they can give their men what they need."
Whoa! This is such a fundamentally objectionable and horrid statement
on so many levels, we don't have the space to lacerate it in the manner
it
so richly deserves.
Of course, as with most media shills, "Dr." Laura just so happens
to be peddling a new book: "Stop Whining, Start Living." Maybe
Spitzer took her advice a little too literally.
But back to Schlessinger blaming a man's wife when he seeks out prostitutes: "The
cheating was his [Spitzer's] decision to repair what's damaged and to feed
himself where he's starving," Schlessinger said. "But,
yes, I hold women responsible for tossing out perfectly good men
by not
treating them
with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need."
Oh my Gawd! Doesn't spending an alleged $80,000 on high-priced hookers
indicate that Spitzer might not be a "perfectly good man," that he is the
one who might not be treating his wife with the "kindness and respect" that
she needs?
But don't tell "Dr." Laura that, a woman who dispenses advice that
makes Mike Huckabee look like a feminist.
The real hurt here, besides to Spitzer's wife, is to all the women who
take Schlessinger's advice seriously, and who she is making feel responsible
for
their husbands who chronically cheat on them.
"Dr." Laura is the Ann Coulter of media pundit marriage counselors.
She'll say anything to get a little publicity when it counts. And
that makes her
the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week.
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