To say that Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been a controversial character over the past few decades is quite a significant understatement. Those who love to hate the talk show host use words like “rude,” and “dictatorial,” and reference a rise in blood pressure when forced to even hear her voice, while her staunch supporters readily rally behind her self-proclaimed “preaching, teaching, and nagging.” Regardless of where a person falls on that spectrum, she definitely gives the world something to talk about.
Schlessinger was born in January of 1947 in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. She has described her childhood as unloving and unpleasant, and her family, dysfunctional. An unauthorized biography of the author dispels some of this, but she and her mother remained estranged throughout her adult life. She earned her Ph.D. in Physiology and thereafter, got her big break into talk radio after an infamous steamy affair with a high-profile shock jock in Los Angeles. It wasn’t until later that she obtained the actual training and certification to provide Marriage and Family Therapy. …show more content…
Laura Program was the second-highest-rated radio show in America. The obvious losses that occurred between then and now are said to be due to her shift from giving general relationship advice to high-strung, judgmental morality lectures and high-pressure, conservative political rhetoric. In August 2010, she announced the end of her network radio show, giving “regaining her First Amendment rights” as reason for the split, and is currently exclusively on satellite
Schlessinger was born in January of 1947 in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. She has described her childhood as unloving and unpleasant, and her family, dysfunctional. An unauthorized biography of the author dispels some of this, but she and her mother remained estranged throughout her adult life. She earned her Ph.D. in Physiology and thereafter, got her big break into talk radio after an infamous steamy affair with a high-profile shock jock in Los Angeles. It wasn’t until later that she obtained the actual training and certification to provide Marriage and Family Therapy. …show more content…
Laura Program was the second-highest-rated radio show in America. The obvious losses that occurred between then and now are said to be due to her shift from giving general relationship advice to high-strung, judgmental morality lectures and high-pressure, conservative political rhetoric. In August 2010, she announced the end of her network radio show, giving “regaining her First Amendment rights” as reason for the split, and is currently exclusively on satellite