…with her sanctimonious intolerance?

In another era, she would not have as much reach as the usual AM radio hosts. But listener habits have changed to favor the Internet.

Ugh, can't stand her. She's what my grandmother would have described as "shrill." I loathe that word, but it fits here.

It was either lifted or modified from a scene in West Wing. The president comes in and sees the person who said that. He goes into a scorched earth spiel with a lot, if not all, of these points. She totally shuts up.

from his post.

If "Doctor" Laura has a podcast or a show now, she doesn't have nearly the following she had in the '90s.

Her father was Jewish and her mother Italian Catholic, so she was not halachically a Jew at birth.
She had to convert. Hence, using your definition, she is a "Pick and Choose" Jew.

...by the man she was having an affair with at the time.

Reminds me of that iconic scene on The West Wing when President Bartlet took down an uptight bible thumper. It is probably the most watched segment on YouTube.

On her show she would talk against cheating especially with a married man. In the 1970's she had an affair with a married man who had 3 children. They eventually shacked up together for 9 years before they got married. Oh, and she also condemned people on her show who lived together before marriage.

She has a commercial that promotes her show.

It sounds like she had a stroke. Seriously, not a jike.

major disagreement in years past. Not abuse or anything like that, just a major dispute over some issue maybe political, maybe financial that I can't remember now.

The caller said that years later her parents contacted her, said they were sorry, asked for forgiveness, wanted to reconnect and see the caller's child -- their grandchild for the first time.

The caller was asking if it was okay to do this. I was sure I knew what Schlesinger or any decent person would say -- of course you should forgive your parents and let them see your kid.

Schlesinger said "no" do not forgive, do not forget and never let them see their grandchild. I was stunned. I could tell the caller didn't expect that answer and was also stunned, as she was at a loss for words.

Schlesinger was encouraging behavior that was petty, vindictive and cruel over the airwaves. She lost me then.

Schlesinger might want to watch that episode.

It seems like a minor sacrifice to be owned by a Canadian if one can get out of a fascist hell.

President Bartlett made a similar speech to a radio host . . . I loved it then and I love it now!

He would point out her hypocrisy and then show several pictures, some censored by him, of her taken by her married boyfriend. He would put his logo over her spread eagle shots.

76 things banned in Leviticus
1. Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)
2. Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)
3. Eating fat (3:17)
4. Eating blood (3:17)
5. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)
6. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)
7. Touching an unclean animal (5:2)
8. Carelessly making an oath (5:4)
9. Deceiving a neighbor about something trusted to them (6:2)
10. Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)
11. Bringing unauthorized fire before God (10:1)
12. Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)
13. Tearing your clothes (10:6)
14. Drinking alcohol in holy places (10)
15. Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)
16. Touching the carcass of any of the above (11:8)
17. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)
18. Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)
19. Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)
20. Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)
21. Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29)
22. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)
23. Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)
24. Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)
25. Having sex with your mother (18)
26. Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)
27. Having sex with your sister (18)
28. Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)
29. Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)
30. Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)
31. Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)
32. Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)
33. Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)
34. Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (18:17)
35. Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)
36. Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)
37. Having sex with your neighbor’s wife (18:20)
38. Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)
39. Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)
40. Having sex with an animal (18:23)
41. Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)
42. Reaping to the very edges of a field (19)
43. Picking up grapes that have fallen in your vineyard (19:10)
44. Stealing (19:11)
45. Lying (19:11)
46. Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)
47. Defrauding your neighbor (19:13)
48. Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (19:13)
49. Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)
50. Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)
51. Spreading slander (19:16)
52. Doing anything to endanger a neighbor’s life (19:16)
53. Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)
54. Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)
55. Cross-breeding animals (19:19)
56. Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19)
57. Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20)
58. Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)
59. Practicing divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)
60. Trimming your beard (19:27)
61. Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)
62. Getting tattoos (19:28)
63. Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29)
64. Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)
65. Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)
66. Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born” (19:33-34)
67. Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)
68. Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20)
69. Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21,13)
70. Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11)
71. Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)
72. Working on the Sabbath (23:3)
73. Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)
74. Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22)
75. Selling land permanently (25:23)
76. Selling an Israelite as a slave (foreigners are fine) (25:42)

He did write a book regarding the comments about the letter, though.

https://www.specialeducationtoday.com/p/james-m-kauffman-1940-2024