[WEB4LIB] Dr Laura Crusade Continues

[Maria Vagianos]

By the way, Lifetime channel's "Intimate Portrait: Dr. Laura Schlessinger"
will be replayed on Monday, May 10, 3pm. 
Don't let the censor bug bite -watch it! 

If you don't get a chance to see it, check out:
http://www.lifetimetv.com/onair/intimate/frameset.shtml/archives_q_t.html

and read about the good doctor!



On Fri, 7 May 1999, David Burt wrote:

> 
> Dr. Laura continues to liberally apply her baseball bat to ALA.  Last week her 
> show was bombarded with prank calls from ALA supporters pretending to have 
> problems.  On Monday, Dr. Laura received a fax saying "I am my kid's mom, and a 
> SLUT" that said "American Library Association" at the top and was from an ALA 
> office phone number.
> 
> These tactics appear to be backfiring, as Dr. Laura has only made ALA more of a 
> priority for her 20 million listeners.  She did another anti-ALA monologue at 
> the beginning of Thursday's show, available at 
> http://www.audionet.com/premrad/shows/drlaura/9905/laura0506.ram
> 
> Referring to ALA's opposition to an Illinois bill requiring filters for 
> children in public schools:
> 
> "They [ALA] definitely want to make sure your children have easy access to 
> pornography, under the guise of free speech.  This is a dangerous group...This 
> is absurd, I cannot imagine that any sane adult would use the concept of 
> discrimination as an issue, when people are simply trying to protect children 
> from pornography.  It is amazing to me.  We're not talking about adults, we're 
> talking about our children.  Why do we have a rating system in the movies?  Is 
> the American Library Association against that too?...I'm so fed up with the 
> American Library Association, I can hardly spit."
> Dr. Laura Show, 5/6/99
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> David Burt, President
> Filtering Facts
> www.filteringfacts.org
> phone/fax 503 635-7048
> 210 S State Street, Suite 7
> Lake Oswego, OR 97034
> 


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