Dr. Laura’s Son Crazy Creep
If you want proof that morality means nothing without love, compassion, and forgiveness, take a look at Dr. Laura’s son. Deryk Schlessinger, the right-wing radio talk show host’s “little bounchkin,” is now 21 years old and serving in the army. The military just took down Deryk’s MySpace page because of “Depictions of Rape, Murder, Torture, Child Molestation, and Abuse.” There were “cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned “My Sweet Little Habib”; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets. ”
“Yes . . . F—ING Yes!!!” said one blog entry on the Schlessinger site. “I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it . . . and some that don’t.”
Oh yeah, and:
It also included several graphic cartoons. In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.
I used to listen to Dr. Laura in college driving back and forth to Portland all the time (my car didn’t have a CD player). I have always thought she makes some good points. I don’t think it’s bad to encourage people to try to make their marriages work or to get married before having children and so on and so forth. However, for every good point she made, there was at least one other point that was harsh, severe, or unforgiving. This attitude seems to be reflected in Dr. Laura’s own life–her mother was found rotting in a house after being dead for days. I guess you really do reap what you sow in life. She has publicly talked about Deryk her whole career, repeatedly saying she put him first and that her job in life is to be “her kid’s mom.” And now… this is who her kid is. So what does that say about her?
Very interesting.
Of course, it could be terrorists putting up a fake MySpace page just to make Dr. Laura and the army look bad. That’s a possibility too. Right? Right?