...Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Dr. Laura Schlessinger has announced live on Larry King Live Tuesday night that she is ending her at the end of the year when her contract expires. She said that she is not necessarily leaving because of her conversation last week with a caller in which she said nigger 11 times in less than 5 minutes, but because she wants to "regain her First Amendment rights." Dr. Laura said that she is not quitting or retiring, she is just going to do things differently so that she can feel freer. In her own words she said, "I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry — some special interest group deciding this is a time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates and sponsors." I understand what she is saying and I get it, but I do not think that she should leave her show. Two sponsors left her show, General Motors and Motel 6, and I guess more would have followed, but who really knows. To be fair she never actually called the caller a nigger, she just used the word a lot. She apologized the very next day but some felt that she should have been fired. Dr. Laura had this to say about that, "To imagine that there are people who refuse to accept an apology because they have an agenda and would like me silenced — I'm done with that." Understandable. But I do not lie quitters. She went through controversy before, many times, and it did not move her, literally. Race is a much tougher subject to escape though. But again I do not like quitters so I am going to give Dr. Laura a Digit Down.