I am pretty sure I've posted this clip before, but every time I watch this, it brings me tremendous joy. The woman this clip focuses on represents an actual person in real life. The character in this clip is based on a woman who had a daily 3 hour radio show many years ago, right around the time my hubby and I learned we had a gay son.
She went by the name of Dr. Laura, but in reality she was a marriage and family counselor & not a medical doctor. This woman used her 3 hours of on-air evangelicalism and sanctimonious piety to hurt people with her cruel barbs & judgment. This fraud had a special place in her heart of stone for LGBTQ community. She caused so much damage & hurt to those who were gay & those who loved them. My hatred of this woman grew every time she opened her mouth. Not only was she NOT a doctor, but she held herself up as morally superior & above us all.
So the take-down of this fraud, still to this day, makes me happy.
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For the Dr. Laura RECORD:
Laura Catherine Schlessinger, an American talk radio host (trade name: Dr. Laura) in 1975, while not yet divorced from her first husband - Michael F. Rudolph (divorce finalized in 1977), she met and began an affair with Lewis (Lew) G. Bishop, who was married & the father of 3 children. Bishop separated from his wife & began living with Schlessinger the same year. Schlessinger has vociferously proclaimed her disapproval of unwed couples "shacking up" and having children out of wedlock. According to her friend Shelly Herman, "Laura lived with Lew for about 9 years before she was married to him." His divorce was final in 1979. Bishop & Schlessinger married in 1985; giving birth to a son that same year.
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