Dr. Laura Blames Spitzer's Wife

Eliot Spitzer loves him some whores! How did it ever happen? What drove him to risk his career and marriage? And what does it say about the rest of us? These are the big questions taken up by the Today Show, and look who they got to answer them! Dr. Laura Schlessinger, that's who? Wondering if she said anything vaguely reprehensible? Yeah, kinda she did!

VIEIRA: Do you think women play any role in this, Dr. Laura?

SCHLESSINGER: It's interesting. what you said about what men need -- men do need validation. When they come into the world they're born of a woman. Getting the validation from mommy is the beginning of needing it from a woman. When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like our hero, he's very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs. These days, women don't spend a lot of time thinking about how they can give their men what they need.

VIEIRA: Are you saying women should feel guilty, like they somehow drove the man to cheat?

SCHLESSINGER: You know what, the cheating was his decision to repair what's damaged, and to feed himself where he's starving. But, yes, I hold women accountable for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need.

Meredith Vieira did a wonderful job throughout, pretending to be shocked when Schlessinger answered her question with the nutball response she expected when she specifically prompted Dr. Laura to let loose. Strangely, though, Schlessinger's contribution to the discourse wasn't the weirdest. That came from anthropologist Helen Fisher, who, while laudably rejecting the notion that Spitzer's transgressions were anyone's fault but his own, nevertheless added: "All you have to do is look at Eliot Spitzer. He has a high cheekbone and low brow ridges. Those are signs of very high testosterone."

So there you have a solid range of opinion! Either Spitzer's testosterone-fueled forehead should have tipped everyone off, or Silda Spitzer should have provided her husband with "attention." The more you know!

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Comments

[landmine]

We act and say what we are built to do and say.
OR you can struggle with it in a negative way...to paraphrase Dr. Grey's Venus and Mars book:

"Men are Pigs, Women are Bitches. Just deal with it".

[Hollyse]

I remember Dr. Laura's TV show and where her audience sat.... behind bars. Readers...­remember that? Seeing similarities here with Eliot Spitzer keepers of the people like Doc Laura. There's much to be gained by those actually believing they're superior to the rest of humanity. You become what you work at in your beliefs and actions. Dr. Laura should figure out ways to gain enormous wealth with marketing manly "Nipple Awareness" month. She's already addressed a semi-porn site on the internet of herself so why not market nippling allowances for a month? She's one of the most degrading women this society has ever produced or shall I leave it to the author of "It takes a Village" book or sound track that resides in the archives of the White House.

[rbspickles]

"These days, women don't spend a lot of time thinking about how they can give their men what they need"

These days? Isn't prostitution the worlds OLDEST profession? So since the dawn of man, we women have been bad, bad, baaaaad and all the bullshit that men have put us through, we've asked for? Gimme a freakin brake. It's women like you that allow men to treat us like cattle. Why aren't you at home right now ironing hubby's shorts? You should be in the kitchen cooking him something mavalous, licking his boots clean and crawling on the floor behind him kissing the ground he's walking on. Go away!

[mikal214]

Ok, How about that other nut with the high forehead, high testosterone comment? Who knew that mess? I'm going to start my gay cruising of high forehead dudes.

[Blurp]

Maybe his wife knew and OK'd it. Maybe she was done with screwing him, but didn't care if he sought comfort outside the marriage. The point is, outsiders shouldn't speculate on the "whys." I don't care who he sleeps with, even if he spends a ridiculous amount of money to do it. Was he foolish, yes. Meanwhile, the members of the Bush Crime Regime are still in office. This is such a phenomenally stupid country.

[TLV]

I don't know how I will be able to stop myself from searching out men's faces for that high-testosterone look from now on. I must stop! I must! I am a married woman after all!

Just joking, of course. But it does bring to mind a few very unpleasant men I've met over the years. That look usually tells me they could be violent - not sexy.

[FirstShirt]

Well, now, aren't we blessed with such inspriational women. Kind of gives hypocracy, dishonesty and criminal behavior a new perspective.

[wsblake]

Yiiiikes! How friggin hideous is she? Typical holier than thou conservative. Monstrously ugly inside and out.

[VictorAndTim]

This should surprise no one. Dr. Laura is a lunatic who craves attention.

[iluvlibs]

What would you epct from this wentch. She a real tool . Betcha a dime to a dollar if she is married her husband is getting a little on the side too.

[drhammer]

"Doctor" Laura is an world-class idiot. And while I know little or nothing of Mrs. Spitzer or her husband beyond his creds as attorney general, It's obvious that he's another flawed public servant whose judgement has taken a back seat to his celebrity and power.

But please don't be so quick to dismiss the corrosive effect of a loss of intimacy from the one to whom you have pledged your love and life.

[LoRiseAntlers]

I didn't realize that anyone in the MSM still used this scab on the ass of humanity anymore...

[Portmanteaux]

Dr. Laura.....­her nude pics are really not too bad....but on to the topic at hand....

We LOVE to see arrogant and powerful people felled by their own hubris. We LOVE IT!
It validates the knowledge that some of the most visible and potent people are also the most F*Cked Up.

[mi]

Why is the American public still being exposed to this woman?

[newshawk14]

I have a character flaw, I don't suffer fools gladly, and Dr. Laura Schlessinger, falls into that
category. If she has ever seen the Peanuts cartoons, she might set up her sidewalk stand.