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There is a God: Dr. Laura quits.

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Posted by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett on August 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM

Dr. Laura, who is to doctors what canned maraschino cherries are to fruit, is quitting her syndicated radio show.

She isn’t going to retire, she says, just extricate herself from situations in which she can be unfairly criticized for using the word,  “nigger” some 11 times in one radio broadcast.

Okay, Miss Klan-mouth, go find that place where you can say whatever you want, whenever you want, without anyone raising an eyebrow. It’s that place where the nice nurses lock you in, take your shoelaces and sedate you.

I guess there are a lot of white people in America who feel that if Chris Rock can say that word every 3 seconds, then we Caucasians should get to use it at least once a year. Or twice, if a black person cuts us off in traffic.

So, conversely, if black people stop saying it, these white people won’t want to either?

Yes, it’s all becoming clearer to me now.

(Postscript: A reader sent this video in response to my Dr. Laura post below. It rounds up some of the responses to the news that she is quitting her radio show when her contract ends. It isn’t objective (either is my post of course) — it’s informative. Check it out.)
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3 Comments

  • On August 18, 2010 at 5:43 PM Dana said

    I’d forgotten she existed, somehow. Hopefully she fades further (to black?) without this platform. But… she’ll find another

  • On August 18, 2010 at 8:31 PM Joel said

    Dare I ask the context, and/or what her excuse was for using the N-word 11 times?

  • On August 19, 2010 at 5:26 AM Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett said

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