Jumat, 13 Agustus 2010

Dr. Laura Schlessinger: 'I did the wrong thing'

Talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger speaks June 4, 2001 during the 2001 Conservative Leadership Seminar at the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES - Radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has issued an apology for saying the n-word several times this week on-air during a conversation with a caller. Dr. Laura says, "I did the wrong thing."
Dr. Laura explained she was trying to "make a philosophical point" during a heated discussion with an African-American caller who wanted advice on how to deal with her white husband. The caller said her husband allows his family and friends to say things she considers racist.
On her show Wednesday, Dr. Laura said, "I talk every day about doing the right thing. And yesterday, I did the wrong thing."
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton gave his take on the incident during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Sharpton said, "Not only the caller was right that she said the word over and over and in a very animated way, I might add, but that she actually, if you listen carefully to the logic of what she was saying was saying that the n-word was not offensive."
In his reaction specific to Dr. Laura, Sharpton said, "Well, her first reaction was that people use the n-word all along and you are being too sensitive or something to that effect, and at no point until after the outrage that followed did she come back today and say it was wrong."

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