Redux: People magazine article on Yolanda Schlessinger that quotes Shelley Herman

[lc]

December 16, 2002, Schlessinger's mother Yolanda was found dead
Redux: People magazine article on Yolanda Schlessinger that quotes
Shelley Herman

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/01ceaadbbf84bafe

There is an article in the Janauary 13, 2003 People magazine (that
arrived in my mailbox January 4). It is on page 65 for those of you
who want to check it out in the grocery store line. The byline is Alex
Tresniowski, Maureen Harrington, and VICKIE BANE. Here are some
highlights:
"Alone at the End"
"Long estranged from her daughter, Dr. Laura's mother dies
mysteriously."
"The controversial radio show host had not seen or spoken with Yolanda
Schlessinger, 77, in nearly two decades...Police discovered her
corpse, as well as the body of her beloved parrot Sweetie Pie...
Mother and daughter were on speaking terms when Laura began her rise
... to radio star. Now one of the nation's top-rated talk show hosts
with 12 milllion listeners...
"According to one account, Laura's estrangement from her mother begain
in the mid-80s. Working as an assistant in Laura's office, Lundy
refused to take a typing class. "Finally, Laura said, 'If you don't
learn to type, I can't pay you,'" recalls Rhoda Marcovitch, a
therapist and family friend who was there that day. "Lundy said,'If
you can't pay me, I have no further use for you.'" And that was it.
Lundy never even met Deryk, Laura's 17-year-old son with second
husband Lew Bishop. In recent years Laura claims to have lost track of
Lundy altogether. Yet Shelley Herman, a television writer who worked
with Laura in the 80s, says Laura "could have found her mother if she
wanted to. Why did she have to die alone?" She remembers Lundy as a
cheerful assistant who was inexplicably cut off by her daughter. "It's
interesting that Laura is always bad-mouthing her mother," says
Herman, "but Lundy never said a word about her to the press." Whatever
issues kept them apart will now, sadly, remain unresolved. In her last
years Lundy liked to dress in tasteful St. Johns outfits and drive her
Cadillac to local bridge clubs. According to someone who spent time
with her recently, she also listened to her daughter's radio show..."
[[]]
Lundy
[] Yet Shelley Herman, a television writer who worked with Laura in
the 80s, says Laura "could have found her mother if she
wanted to. Why did she have to die alone?" She remembers Lundy as a
cheerful assistant who was inexplicably cut off by her daughter. "It's
interesting that Laura is always bad-mouthing her mother," says
Herman, "but Lundy never said a word about her to the press." []

"In her last years Lundy liked to dress in tasteful St. Johns outfits
and drive her Cadillac to local bridge clubs."
[[]]
Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/035c88eab02573ec
excerpts:
"In a 1994 People magazine profile, Schlessinger said the estrangement
dated to 1986, when her mother walked off the job as Laura's
secretary." 1986 ?

"Neighbors described Yolanda Schlessinger as a friendly, pleasant,
talkative person who seemed "quite bright," said Edna Neidorff, a
former resident of the apartment complex in the 400 block of North
Palm Drive."

"'Lundy,' the name she listed on the condo roster."

"[Lundy]Schlessinger had lived in the building two or three years with
a very
noisy, white, parrot-like bird..."

"and two
months had passed without her paying her condo bill"

"When police entered the apartment, they found the windows slightly
ajar --"

"[Beverly Hills Police Lt. Gary] Gilmond, said, however, that police
'have sufficient information from
the coroner that we are handling it as a homicide at this time.'"

"Although not a professionally trained psychotherapist, "Dr. Laura"
(she has a doctorate in physiology) specializes in a sort of
tough-love approach to counseling."

"But Schlessinger's popularity has waned somewhat in recent years. She
angered supporters of gay rights several years ago by calling
homosexuality 'a biological error.'"

"Yolanda Ceccovini, was born and raised in Italy, but immigrated to
the United States
after meeting an American soldier, Monroe Schlessinger, during World
War II, according
to Laura Schlessinger's biography."

"Masi, the building manager's mother, said Yolanda Schlessinger was a
charming, very conversational person, who spoke English as well as
Italian and dressed very elegantly.

Although she believed the blond, blue-eyed Schlessinger was in her
70s, Masi said the woman looked much younger and had a youthful,
jovial manner."

"'It's so strange that she had no visitors,' Masi said. She said
Schlessinger never mentioned her famous daughter."

"Neidorff described her acquaintance, Schlessinger, as a 'lovely lady'
who seemed 'very wise'."

"'She was very friendly,' she said."

"'But very private -- an interesting combination. She had an accent
that someone told me was Italian.... She never mentioned her
daughter.'"

[lc]

From The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article702249.ece
April 6, 2006

Just ditch those difficult parents
Times2 meets 'Dr Laura', an anti-feminist, right-wing agony aunt who
recommends severing ties with relations you don't get on with
Chris Ayres
The headline in the Los Angeles Times read “Mother of ‘Dr Laura’ Found
Dead”. It was the week before Christmas in 2002. At first glance the
story seemed unremarkable: a personal tragedy for the blonde,
conservative radio host but not much else.

But the facts of the case got stranger as you read on. Yolanda
Schlessinger, a 77-year-old Italian Catholic, had died in her
apartment, where her body had remained undiscovered for about four
months. No one had complained of an odour. Building managers had
called the Beverly Hills police department only after noticing her
uncollected mail and her unpaid maintenance fees. Detectives
immediately treated the case as homicide.

More curious still were the details that emerged of the 20-year
silence between the dead woman and her daughter, “Dr Laura”, a
converted Orthodox Jewish agony aunt who, at the time, had the second
most popular radio show in America, after Rush Limbaugh.

Although Dr Laura had previously talked about her estranged mother on
air, the news came as a shock. A few asked the question on everyone’s
mind: how could Dr Laura possibly be qualified to offer advice on
motherhood to 12 million listeners?

Today, four years after Yolanda Schlessinger’s body was discovered, Dr
Laura wants to answer that question with a self-help book: Bad
Childhood, Good Life. A more appropriate title might have been They
F**k You Up, Your Mum and Dad, in homage to Philip Larkin’s This be
the Verse, although Dr Laura would probably not condone such language.
Neither would she agree with Larkin’s misanthropic conclusion: that
parents pass down their problems to their children, so “Get out as
early as you can/ And don’t have any kids yourself.”

Dr Laura, 59, is famous for introducing herself as “my kid’s mom”. Her
only child, Deryk, serves in the armed forces. Dr Laura boasts that
her brand of 1950s-era moral philosophy — mothers should stay at home;
those who hire nannies or use day-care serv- ices are harming their
children — has produced the ideal result. “I have a 20-year-old son
who, when he’ s not training for ten days in the wild without water,
calls me every day,” she likes to say.

In case you get the wrong impression, Bad Childhood is not a feel-good
book. Parts of it are so chilly that you can feel your heart shiver.
Its tone is perhaps best sampled in the postscript, where Dr Laura
complains: “I always took (my late mother) on my vacations and bought
her lovely gifts even when I had a modest income. She was never
grateful and would always find something to criticise.”

Dr Laura goes on to blame her mother for causing their estrangement —
saying that she walked out of a receptionist’s job at her counselling
clinic after refusing to take a typing class. And when Dr Laura
describes the day that she heard about her mother’s Scrooge-like
death, she informs the reader: “Apparently she had no friends and none
of her neighbours were close, so nobody even noticed! How sad.”

This flippancy soon morphs into full-blown celebrity narcissism. “The
horrendous part of all this is how the media, because I am a
‘celebrity’, handled this event,” Dr Laura concludes. “My mother
(caused me) pain even after death!” (Detectives eventually found the
cause of Yolanda Schlessinger’s death to be natural).

I drove to meet Dr Laura at her home on the clifftops of Santa
Barbara, a seaside town a couple of hours north of Los Angeles. She
shares the place with her second husband, Lewis Bishop, who was
previously married with dependent children — one of the many moral U-
turns in Dr Laura’s life that attracts claims of hypocrisy (others
include her conversion to Orthodox Judaism, which she later gave up,
and naked pictures of her that appeared online).

Dr Laura counters all of this with one of her many moral tabloidisms:
“Do what I say, not what I did.”

I thought I knew what to expect of Dr Laura: I had met her once before
at a couples’ therapy session in Laguna Beach, California (I stood at
the back of the room, taking notes for another times2 article). I
found her witty and surprisingly charming — for a man, her anti-
feminism was dangerously fascinating — although I thought some of her
arguments were insulting to both sexes.

As I pulled into her long, narrow driveway, next to her fleet of
sports cars, I was expecting the same cheeky, dazzling personality I
had seen that night in Laguna Beach. I was wrong. From the moment Dr
Laura padded into the reception room barefoot, dressed in a baby-pink
tracksuit, there was something wrong: she was brittle, defensive. We
drank coffee from cups with coasters and admired the ocean-front view.
Within a few minutes she had offered more criticism of her late
mother, accusing her of lacking discipline. So I asked for the real
reason why they fell out.

“I didn’t fall out with my mother,” she replied, with Clintonian
precision. “When it was clear that my career was taking off, I needed
her to learn typing. She said, ‘If I’m going to take any class, it’ll
be ceramics’. I said, ‘Well, you can take that too, but I really need
you to take a typing class’ and she packed her bags and refused to
talk to me ever again, no matter what contact we tried to make. My
mother was like that. Over the years, you journalist types would love
to go after me because it’s a better story to say ‘she abandoned her
mother’.”

Later, Dr Laura explained that her family’s problems went back much
farther than the typing dispute. Her mother, who looked like Sophia
Loren, was a war bride from Italy who married a second lieutenant in
the US Army after the American liberation. After a shotgun wedding in
Italy the couple returned to the US, where Monroe Schlessinger’s
Jewish family began a campaign against the “shiksa” — the non-Jewish
wife. Things were not easy for Dr Laura’s mother, whose older sister
had been killed by the Nazis for joining the Resistance.

Dr Laura says: “My family was not in any way loving: the tension, the
anger, the hostility, the dissension, the lack of love and affection,
all had its impact. Up until the age of 13 I thought my name was
‘stupid’, or ‘lazy’, because that’s what my father told me I was.
Looking back, it amazes me that he could have a kid like me and use
words like that.”

So, how should people handle their bad childhoods?

Dr Laura spits at the pop-psychology notion of closure with the same
long-range ferocity that she spits at feminists and lefties, telling
readers that people who claim to have found it are kidding themselves.
“There is no such thing as history being erased or made entirely
powerless, unless I scoop out significant portions of their cerebral
cortex, or they are stoned or drunk all the time, or they’re in a
coma, or they make such a crazy life that they have no time to
ruminate,” she writes. Instead, she argues for “resilience”: being
willing to identify situations that make you act out your “Bad
Childhood”, change your behaviour and move on.

Unsurprisingly, Dr Laura often promotes excommunication as an
effective way to neutralise a troublesome parent. “The good news I
have for you is that giving up hope is one of the healthiest, most
life-affirming things you could do for yourself!” she writes. “That
is, of course, if you follow my two-step plan: accept, and don’t
pout.”

Things seemed to go well with Dr Laura until she realised that I was
the journalist from Laguna Beach, at which point she almost threw me
out of her home. “So you wrote that snotty thing?” she said. “I
couldn’t understand why you did that! I really helped people.”

By snotty, of course, Dr Laura meant critical. And that’s when I
realise that she hates being criticised in any way, which is one of
the many reasons why she hates the media. I tell her that I was simply
debating the merits of her arguments. “I don’t like to sit and argue,”
she replied. “I’ve heard all points of view. If we argue about
something, I’m simply trying to muscle you into my way of thinking,
and you are muscling me into your way of thinking. I prefer to spend
my time helping people.”

I told Dr Laura that I learnt things by arguing with people. “Well,
you’re a man of few convictions,” she replied. It was time to leave.

On the way out she became friendlier and tried to explain why she was
so defensive. “If you go on the internet and look up Charles Manson
and Hitler, you’ll find fan clubs. You do the same thing for me,
you’ll find several thousand hate groups. And all I’m trying to do is
to get people to do the right thing by their children and to lead
decent lives.”

I dismissed this as another bout of narcissism, but then ran a search
for Dr Laura on Google when I got home and discovered an absurd “Stop
Dr Laura” website and another page full of explicitly pornographic
photographs of her, taken several decades ago. Perhaps she had a
point: a lot of people really hate her.

To me, her moral certainty is infuriating but her willingness to argue
the exact opposite of the politically correct norm is to be admired.
Even to my relatively liberal ears, many of her theories on childcare
are commonsensical.

Now her son has left home and her media empire is declining: her radio
show is carried on about 200 radio stations, compared with 450 at its
peak. As for her television show, it was cancelled after protests by
gay-rights groups, which accused Dr Laura of saying that homosexuals
were a “biological error” and more likely to be paedophiles (she says
that her best friend is gay, but that no one listens).

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Dr Laura is so needlessly
boastful and insecure. “I was going to be a scientist and discover a
cure for diabetes and my life came and grabbed me despite my intent,”
she told me earlier in the interview. “Which is why, unfortunately,
diabetes is still around!” She ended this ridiculous comment with a
qualifier — “not that I may have been the one to cure it” — then
beamed, like a child desperate to please her distant, scornful father.

Bad childhood, good life? A wealthy life for Dr Laura, certainly, but
perhaps not such a happy one. Larkin, the old misery, was dead right:
they f*** you up, your mum and dad.
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Post by lc
December 16, 2002, Schlessinger's mother Yolanda was found dead
Redux: People magazine article on Yolanda Schlessinger that quotes
Shelley Herman
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/01ceaadbbf...
There is an article in the Janauary 13, 2003 People magazine (that
arrived in my mailbox January 4). It is on page 65 for those of you
who want to check it out in the grocery store line. The byline is Alex
Tresniowski, Maureen Harrington, and VICKIE BANE. Here are some
"Alone at the End"
"Long estranged from her daughter, Dr. Laura's mother dies
mysteriously."
"The controversial radio show host had not seen or spoken with Yolanda
Schlessinger, 77, in nearly two decades...Police discovered her
corpse, as well as the body of her beloved parrot Sweetie Pie...
Mother and daughter were on speaking terms when Laura began her rise
... to radio star. Now one of the nation's top-rated talk show hosts
with 12 milllion listeners...
"According to one account, Laura's estrangement from her mother begain
in the mid-80s. Working as an assistant in Laura's office, Lundy
refused to take a typing class. "Finally, Laura said, 'If you don't
learn to type, I can't pay you,'" recalls Rhoda Marcovitch, a
therapist and family friend who was there that day. "Lundy said,'If
you can't pay me, I have no further use for you.'" And that was it.
Lundy never even met Deryk, Laura's 17-year-old son with second
husband Lew Bishop. In recent years Laura claims to have lost track of
Lundy altogether. Yet Shelley Herman, a television writer who worked
with Laura in the 80s, says Laura "could have found her mother if she
wanted to. Why did she have to die alone?" She remembers Lundy as a
cheerful assistant who was inexplicably cut off by her daughter. "It's
interesting that Laura is always bad-mouthing her mother," says
Herman, "but Lundy never said a word about her to the press." Whatever
issues kept them apart will now, sadly, remain unresolved. In her last
years Lundy liked to dress in tasteful St. Johns outfits and drive her
Cadillac to local bridge clubs. According to someone who spent time
with her recently, she also listened to her daughter's radio show..."
[[]]
Lundy
[] Yet Shelley Herman, a television writer who worked with Laura in
the 80s, says Laura "could have found her mother if she
wanted to. Why did she have to die alone?" She remembers Lundy as a
cheerful assistant who was inexplicably cut off by her daughter. "It's
interesting that Laura is always bad-mouthing her mother," says
Herman, "but Lundy never said a word about her to the press." []
"In her last years Lundy liked to dress in tasteful St. Johns outfits
and drive her Cadillac to local bridge clubs."
[[]]
Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murderedhttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/035c88eab02573ec
"In a 1994 People magazine profile, Schlessinger said the estrangement
dated to 1986, when her mother walked off the job as Laura's
secretary." 1986 ?
"Neighbors described Yolanda Schlessinger as a friendly, pleasant,
talkative person who seemed "quite bright," said Edna Neidorff, a
former resident of the apartment complex in the 400 block of North
Palm Drive."
"'Lundy,' the name she listed on the condo roster."
"[Lundy]Schlessinger had lived in the building two or three years with
a very
noisy, white, parrot-like bird..."
"and two
months had passed without her paying her condo bill"
"When police entered the apartment, they found the windows slightly
ajar --"
"[Beverly Hills Police Lt. Gary] Gilmond, said, however, that police
'have sufficient information from
the coroner that we are handling it as a homicide at this time.'"
"Although not a professionally trained psychotherapist, "Dr. Laura"
(she has a doctorate in physiology) specializes in a sort of
tough-love approach to counseling."
"But Schlessinger's popularity has waned somewhat in recent years. She
angered supporters of gay rights several years ago by calling
homosexuality 'a biological error.'"
"Yolanda Ceccovini, was born and raised in Italy, but immigrated to
the United States
after meeting an American soldier, Monroe Schlessinger, during World
War II, according
to Laura Schlessinger's biography."
"Masi, the building manager's mother, said Yolanda Schlessinger was a
charming, very conversational person, who spoke English as well as
Italian and dressed very elegantly.
Although she believed the blond, blue-eyed Schlessinger was in her
70s, Masi said the woman looked much younger and had a youthful,
jovial manner."
"'It's so strange that she had no visitors,' Masi said. She said
Schlessinger never mentioned her famous daughter."
"Neidorff described her acquaintance, Schlessinger, as a 'lovely lady'
who seemed 'very wise'."
"'She was very friendly,' she said."
"'But very private -- an interesting combination. She had an accent
that someone told me was Italian.... She never mentioned her
daughter.'"

[lc]

MURDER MYSTERY: DR LAURA'S MOTHER LAY DEAD FOR MONTHS IN APARTMENT
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/12/Schlessinger.html
Friday, December 20, 2002

A gruesome scene has unfolded on North Palm Drive in Beverly Hills
where Dr. Laura Schlessinger's mother has been found dead -- with the
body going undiscovered for months!

Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, died all alone in her apartment months ago,
authorities now believe.

Concern was not raised until a neighbor realized Schlessinger's pet
bird was no longer singing!

Police went into the house and found a woman who had been dead "a
substantial amount of time."

Lt. Gary Gilmond of the Beverly Hills Police Department said an
autopsy disclosed the woman was murdered.

Radio sensation Dr. Laura released a statement: "I am horrified by the
tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and so sad to learn that
she died as she chose to live--alone and isolated. My mother shut all
her family out of her life over the years, though we made several
futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul."

She told her radio audience late Friday:

"I am shocked and horrified that she is a victim of a violent crime...
I guess one of the reasons I am committed to sanctity of the family is
because I was not fortunate to grow up in a close knit family
myself... It was her choice to be estranged from her entire family...
I do pray she is at peace... Hold your family very close, very tight
and very dear, and don't sweat the petty stuff..."
[][][][] [][][][]
[] misc...
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/df6834ac33c4d90c
I did some searching and was surprized to find the nude photos are
on-line, and an interesting FAQ and time-line from a newsgroup. She
has
denied Derek has any grandparents, but Lew's father is alive and her
mother was at the time. She has been estranged from her sister since
the
70's. She was estranged from her father but did reconcile with him
before he died of stomach cancer. [1990]
[]

Where are the nude photo's?

I'm shocked you asked

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/d1ef1cb71cfb0692
Really.......why?? I will admit, I'm shocked at the pictures, thought
they
would be more tame than they were! How the hell did Dr. Laura live
these
down? Will admit, I don't keep up with her, can't stand the woman,
but how
the hell did she live these suckers down and retain her show, miss
goody
two-shoes.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/279d2fab0d028ea3
At first she denied they were her. Then she had them removed and said
some blah, blah thing about youth and mistakes. Guess she should make
that 11 things women do to mess up their lives.
She's a good spin-control persona. Hides the trugh about her life
while
declaring she is her kid's mom, etc. She held down three jobs and a
knitting business when Deryk was
born and continued in those jobs
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/3c89b34ea2b6e436
Very funny. Comparing Dear Abby or Ann Lander's advice on which way
the
toilet paper roll should go or how much to tip the paper boy or Ms
Manners on wedding protocol is a far cry from *DR*, who is not a Dr of
any sort in psychology or any mental health field, who declares
homosexuals are a *biological error*. I do believe anyone who calls a
talk show for advice on a serious matter are as daft as she who gives
the advice
She earned her doctorate in psysiology, not psychiatry, and therein
lies
a danger to the nutz that call in/ She declares herself the moral
leader, yet her own life is far from *moral*. Her conversion to
Juadism
could be just a fraud, as she is. She shacked up with Bill Ballence
when
she was married to another man, she shacked up with Lew, he left his
wife and three children, she did not adopt, as she encourages other
infertile folks to do; she reversed her tubal and took fertility
drugs,
she worked three jobs
for years after her son was born, and she has never lived in any way,
the morals she tells her callers to.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/58a884e83ac91b93
Dr Laura does not just give advice, her entire hoopla is around *moral
dilemnas*. I believe she is ill equipped, given her rather loose
backround, to dispense any moral
judgements. She is far from qualified. She has no morals of her own,
given her shacking up history. Ann and Abby were extremely cautious
about their answers and they never said a homosexual was a *biological
error*, in fact
they were rather supportive of gays.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/93ab9cb70280f810
POST Doctoral is misleading and erroneous. Her doctorate was in
psysiology, her dissertation was in rats
and insulin. Her certification is NOT post-doctorate. It is obtained
at a master's level. It is not associated with her title of Dr nor
related to her doctorate. Certification is just that, nothing to do
with
anything post-doctoral. it is an unwarrented claim
of higher education and authority
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/cb36a556ab3c0ea6She
has no credentials to dispense moral judgements on a radio show.
Radio is pure entertainment, not therapy, not dispensing ultimate
judgements in two minutes.
And her own unmoral life makes it even more unlikely that anyone who
had half a brain would ever take it seriously,
'cept you. Now do go call her.
And I don't see my lunch handed to me by you at all. You are
mis-informed and quite ignorant.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/a8df5a6a603bdc08
She's an opportunist. She dispenses what sells. Period. If she hadn't
made it as Miss Righteous, she'd have a call-in show about how to ...
oh, I don't know... market naked pictures or something. It isn't about
morality. It's about celebrity and the bottom line, money.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/09cdc8f0ee358ad9
You are mis-informed. She is entitled to the title of Dr...
of psysiology. She is just not a Dr of any sort in the mental health
field. Her POST doctural certification is an unwarrented claim of
authority. Her doctorate was in psysiology, her dissertation was on
rats and insulin.
Her CERTIFICATION as a counselor is obtained at a Master's level,
therefor it is misleading to claim it is post doctural certification.
One has nothing to do with the other.

Ann and Abby started out many, many years ago, in a different time and
generation, both learned lots, grew with the times and changed their
opinions. However, it , like Dr Laura, it's entertainment. Do you
really think anyone reads it and says, I must do what Ann and Abby say
and change my life
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/bf4b635077727727
*** Under the California Business and Profession Code, an MFCC
(Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor) is defined as a
licensed person who performs services with individuals,
couples, or groups wherein interpersonal relationships
are examined for the purpose of achieving more adequate,
satisfying, and productive marriage and family adjustments.
This practice includes relationship and premarriage counseling.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/13052148553bb349She
is the older daughter of Monroe Schlessinger, a
Jewish civil engineer, and Yolanda Ceccovini, a young Italian Catholic
woman. They married in Italy in the last days of World War II. Laura
says she lived an unhappy childhood, in Brooklyn until she was 7, and
then when the family moved to Westbury and then Jericho.

Her parents' stormy 30-year marriage ended in divorce.

She has been estranged from her 74-year-old mother for more than 10
years.
Schlessinger won't talk about the breakup now, but she told The
Washington Post
two years ago thather mother was the kind of woman she now criticizes,
for
complaining without bothering to better herself. "She had the brains,
but not the grit, to
tackle something and follow it through," Schlessinger told the Post.
"I'm the total opposite of my mother."
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/03019fb02a7653da
Dr. Phil is also pretty straight forward with people, but the
difference between him and Dr. Laura is that he's much more diplomatic
when he tells someone how it looks to the outside. Dr. Laura is so
black and white, there is absolutely no room for compassion. Plus she
has lied about her past - the problems getting pregnant, yet her son
was born less than a year after the marriage; financial struggles in
her present marriage, yet her husband doesn't remember a time he was
unemployed, and if he was says it must have been very brief. Dr.
Laura berates callers, yet when she gets bad reviews she goes on the
air complaining about the columnist. I only listen to her when
someone else subjects me to her.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/b9a983bd1b330ad7
She had a tubal reversed and it took her several years
(with fertility drugs) to get pregnant at age 38. She was shacking up
with Lew who left his wife and three kids for her. She was unmarried
when she became pregnant and he was of a different religion. All the
things she tells callers not to do, and she also tells callers to
adopt
over fertility tx
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/127e2c6c83bfed9a
And it wouldn't be our business to criticize her were it not for the
fact that she makes it her business to criticize everyone else.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/e20a66b08ca9b664
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lauramom1.html
According to Lt. Gary Gilmond, Beverly Hills cops are investigating
Schlessinger's death as a homicide. On Wednesday, cops spoke with
Laura Schlessinger, but the radio star has not identified her mother's
body, nor does she plan to, said Keven Bellows, a Schlessinger
spokesperson.
[] 70
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/ea7638ba8a913411
hmmm...murder....estranged family members....one a prominent rich
person
with secrets in her past which she would prefer remain hidden....as
they
could negatively impact her income and status....hmmmm....
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/171e2c318e9c8714
Known as Lundy, the former Yolanda Ceccovini met Monroe Schlessinger,
then a
lieutenant and later an engineer, in her native Italy during World War
II.
They married in 1946 and divorced 31 years later. [So much for the "I
was a
child of divorce" LauraLie.] Life for the couple and their daughters
Laura
and Cindy Harris, now a family therapist, was apparently less than
idyllic.
"I was not fortunate to grow up in a loving, close family," Laura said
after
her mother's death, in one of her few public comments about her
upbringing.
[]
HEADLINE: DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER SHOULD PUBLICLY KNOWN ADVICE GIVERS
REVEAL
THEIR OWN PROBLEMS TO THEIR LISTENERS
DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/8941a2ef1e0fac86
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/111d873a0fd2bb21
You might not call the articles "evil," and I certainly don't, but
Laura
does. Laura tells her listeners that the liberull media purvey
"vicious
personal attacks" on her, like McDonald's peddles "Quarter Pounders."
She
usually does not identify the people who are murdering her reputation,
and she
almost never specifies what the lies are. This is a woman who shares
with her
listeners her darkest suspicions about (for example) just how many
MORE
illegitimate children the Reverend Jesse Jackson might have, but she
whimpers
whenever she reads or hears an unflattering description of her own
activities.
It's all right for Laura to speculate about (for example) the marriage
of Bill
and Hillary Clinton, but no one may be uncharitable in an assessment
of Laura's
relationship with her mother. It's terrible, says Laura, the way
people keep
hitting her back. Of course, Laura makes a good living by being
nasty, but she
should recognize that other people wanna get paid, too.
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/77f4bb0621991613
You know, if only Laura had acted (and she is an actress, after all)
like a
decent human being -- taken one (1) day off after learning of her
mother's
death, sniffled a bit and/or expressed righteous anger when she
announced her
mother's murder, stopped herself after saying that she regretted her
estrangement from her mother -- she wouldn't have invited the "vicious
personal
attacks." Do you suppose she realized that?
[]
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/bbb3812fb797207a
You do have to wonder. We know *she* has a tin ear, so to speak,
when it
comes to relations with other human beings. Like other sociopaths,
she
often doesn't get interactions right - sometimes spectacularly so.
Doesn't
she have a PR firm to handle this stuff? Maybe it's just Keven
Bellows,
which is like asking one person to deal with a wounded rhino.
**

From The Timeshttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article702249.ece
April 6, 2006
Just ditch those difficult parents
Times2 meets 'Dr Laura', an anti-feminist, right-wing agony aunt who
recommends severing ties with relations you don't get on with
Chris Ayres
The headline in the Los Angeles Times read “Mother of ‘Dr Laura’ Found
Dead”. It was the week before Christmas in 2002. At first glance the
story seemed unremarkable: a personal tragedy for the blonde,
conservative radio host but not much else.
But the facts of the case got stranger as you read on. Yolanda
Schlessinger, a 77-year-old Italian Catholic, had died in her
apartment, where her body had remained undiscovered for about four
months. No one had complained of an odour. Building managers had
called the Beverly Hills police department only after noticing her
uncollected mail and her unpaid maintenance fees. Detectives
immediately treated the case as homicide.
More curious still were the details that emerged of the 20-year
silence between the dead woman and her daughter, “Dr Laura”, a
converted Orthodox Jewish agony aunt who, at the time, had the second
most popular radio show in America, after Rush Limbaugh.
Although Dr Laura had previously talked about her estranged mother on
air, the news came as a shock. A few asked the question on everyone’s
mind: how could Dr Laura possibly be qualified to offer advice on
motherhood to 12 million listeners?
Today, four years after Yolanda Schlessinger’s body was discovered, Dr
Laura wants to answer that question with a self-help book: Bad
Childhood, Good Life. A more appropriate title might have been They
F**k You Up, Your Mum and Dad, in homage to Philip Larkin’s This be
the Verse, although Dr Laura would probably not condone such language.
Neither would she agree with Larkin’s misanthropic conclusion: that
parents pass down their problems to their children, so “Get out as
early as you can/ And don’t have any kids yourself.”
Dr Laura, 59, is famous for introducing herself as “my kid’s mom”. Her
only child, Deryk, serves in the armed forces. Dr Laura boasts that
her brand of 1950s-era moral philosophy — mothers should stay at home;
those who hire nannies or use day-care serv- ices are harming their
children — has produced the ideal result. “I have a 20-year-old son
who, when he’ s not training for ten days in the wild without water,
calls me every day,” she likes to say.
In case you get the wrong impression, Bad Childhood is not a feel-good
book. Parts of it are so chilly that you can feel your heart shiver.
Its tone is perhaps best sampled in the postscript, where Dr Laura
complains: “I always took (my late mother) on my vacations and bought
her lovely gifts even when I had a modest income. She was never
grateful and would always find something to criticise.”
Dr Laura goes on to blame her mother for causing their estrangement —
saying that she walked out of a receptionist’s job at her counselling
clinic after refusing to take a typing class. And when Dr Laura
describes the day that she heard about her mother’s Scrooge-like
death, she informs the reader: “Apparently she had no friends and none
of her neighbours were close, so nobody even noticed! How sad.”
This flippancy soon morphs into full-blown celebrity narcissism. “The
horrendous part of all this is how the media, because I am a
‘celebrity’, handled this event,” Dr Laura concludes. “My mother
(caused me) pain even after death!” (Detectives eventually found the
cause of Yolanda Schlessinger’s death to be natural).
I drove to meet Dr Laura at her home on the clifftops of Santa
Barbara, a seaside town a couple of hours north of Los Angeles. She
shares the place with her second husband, Lewis Bishop, who was
previously married with dependent children — one of the many moral U-
turns in Dr Laura’s life that attracts claims of hypocrisy (others
include her conversion to Orthodox Judaism, which she later gave up,
and naked pictures of her that appeared online).
“Do what I say, not what I did.”
I thought I knew what to expect of Dr Laura: I had met her once before
at a couples’ therapy session in Laguna Beach, California (I stood at
the back of the room, taking notes for another times2 article). I
found her witty and surprisingly charming — for a man, her anti-
feminism was dangerously fascinating — although I thought some of her
arguments were insulting to both sexes.
As I pulled into her long, narrow driveway, next to her fleet of
sports cars, I was expecting the same cheeky, dazzling personality I
had seen that night in Laguna Beach. I was wrong. From the moment Dr
Laura padded into the reception room barefoot, dressed in a baby-pink
tracksuit, there was something wrong: she was brittle, defensive. We
drank coffee from cups with coasters and admired the ocean-front view.
Within a few minutes she had offered more criticism of her late
mother, accusing her of lacking discipline. So I asked for the real
reason why they fell out.
“I didn’t fall out with my mother,” she replied, with Clintonian
precision. “When it was clear that my career was taking off, I needed
her to learn typing. She said, ‘If I’m going to take any class, it’ll
be ceramics’. I said, ‘Well, you can take that too, but I really need
you to take a typing class’ and she packed her bags and refused to
talk to me ever again, no matter what contact we tried to make. My
mother was like that. Over the years, you journalist types would love
to go after me because it’s a better story to say ‘she abandoned her
mother’.”
Later, Dr Laura explained that her family’s problems went back much
farther than the typing dispute. Her mother, who looked like Sophia
Loren, was a war bride from Italy who married a second lieutenant in
the US Army after the American liberation. After a shotgun wedding in
Italy the couple returned to the US, where Monroe Schlessinger’s
Jewish family began a campaign against the “shiksa” — the non-Jewish
wife. Things were not easy for Dr Laura’s mother, whose older sister
had been killed by the Nazis for joining the Resistance.
Dr Laura says: “My family was not in any way loving: the tension, the
anger, the hostility, the dissension, the lack of love and affection,
all had its impact. Up until the age of 13 I thought my name was
‘stupid’, or ‘lazy’, because that’s what my father told me I was.
Looking back, it amazes me that he could have a kid like me and use
words like that.”
So, how should people handle their bad childhoods?
Dr Laura spits at the pop-psychology notion of closure with the same
long-range ferocity that she spits at feminists and lefties, telling
readers that people who claim to have found it are kidding themselves.
“There is no such thing as history being erased or made entirely
powerless, unless I scoop out significant portions of their cerebral
cortex, or they are stoned or drunk all the time, or they’re in a
coma, or they make such a crazy life that they have no time to
ruminate,” she writes. Instead, she argues for “resilience”: being
willing to identify situations that make you act out your “Bad
Childhood”, change your behaviour and move on.
Unsurprisingly, Dr Laura often promotes excommunication as an
effective way to neutralise a troublesome parent. “The good news I
have for you is that giving up hope is one of the healthiest, most
life-affirming things you could do for yourself!” she writes. “That
is, of course, if you follow my two-step plan: accept, and don’t
pout.”
Things seemed to go well with Dr Laura until she realised that I was
the journalist from Laguna Beach, at which point she almost threw me
out of her home. “So you wrote that snotty thing?” she said. “I
couldn’t understand why you did that! I really helped people.”
By snotty, of course, Dr Laura meant critical. And that’s when I
realise that she hates being criticised in any way, which is one of
the many reasons why she hates the media. I tell her that I was simply
debating the merits of her arguments. “I don’t like to sit and argue,”
she replied. “I’ve heard all points of view. If we argue about
something, I’m simply trying to muscle you into my way of thinking,
and you are muscling me into your way of thinking. I prefer to spend
my time helping people.”
I told Dr Laura that I learnt things by arguing with people. “Well,
you’re a man of few convictions,” she replied. It was time to leave.
On the way out she became friendlier and tried to explain why she was
so defensive. “If you go on the internet and look up Charles Manson
and Hitler, you’ll find fan clubs. You do the same thing for me,
you’ll find several thousand hate groups. And all I’m trying to do is
to get people to do the right thing by their children and to lead
decent lives.”
I dismissed this as another bout of narcissism, but then ran a search
for Dr Laura on Google when I got home and discovered an absurd “Stop
Dr Laura” website and another page full of explicitly pornographic
photographs of her, taken several decades ago. Perhaps she had a
point: a lot of people really hate her.
To me, her moral certainty is infuriating but her willingness to argue
the exact opposite of the politically correct norm is to be admired.
Even to my relatively liberal ears, many of her theories on childcare
are commonsensical.
Now her son has left home and her media empire is declining: her radio
show is carried on about 200 radio stations, compared with 450 at its
peak. As for her television show, it was cancelled after protests by
gay-rights groups, which accused Dr Laura of saying that homosexuals
were a “biological error” and more likely to be paedophiles (she says
that her best friend is gay, but that no one listens).
Perhaps it should come ...
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[samvaknin]

Hi,

Narcissism and Religion

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal45.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html

Celebrity narcissists

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq19.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal73.html

Narcissism of leaders and authority figures

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/15.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq11.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal45.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal79.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal70.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/corporatenarcissism.html

For a more detailed view of pathological narcissism and the
Narcissistic
Personality Disorder (NPD) - click on these links:

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/npdglance.html

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/narcissismglance.html

Other Personality Disorders

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faqpd.html

Pathological Narcissism and Other Mental Health Disorders

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq82.html

NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) and AsPD (Antisocial
Personality
Disorder, Psychopathy, or Sociopathy)

http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders16.html

http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders15.html

Cyber Narcissist

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal67.html

Female Narcissists

http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq34.html

Take care.

Sam

[lc]

Narcissism is appropriate for daughter Laura... Thanx.

Post by samvaknin
Hi,
Narcissism and Religion
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal45.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html
Celebrity narcissists
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq19.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal73.html
Narcissism of leaders and authority figures
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/15.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq11.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal45.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal79.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal70.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/corporatenarcissism.html
For a more detailed view of pathological narcissism and the
Narcissistic
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/npdglance.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/narcissismglance.html
Other Personality Disorders
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faqpd.html
Pathological Narcissism and Other Mental Health Disorders
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq82.html
NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) and AsPD (Antisocial
Personality
Disorder, Psychopathy, or Sociopathy)
http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders16.html
http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders15.html
Cyber Narcissist
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal67.html
Female Narcissists
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq34.html
Take care.
Sam

[lc]

New York Post Dec. 21, 2002
DR. LAURA'S MOM FOUND SLAIN AT CALIF. HOME
By CLEMENTE LISI
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/a4d240fa1eae00cf
Excerpt:
"Yolanda Schlessinger, whom Dr. Laura once described as 'filled with
negativity' and someone who 'blamed everyone for her unhappiness,' had
not seen her daughter in 14 years."

[Laura is a serial liar, not to be believed. Others describe Lundy
Schlessinger as pleasant and in better terms. If she suffered from
depression, there is no indication her daughter lifted a finger to get
her the medical attention she needed]
[][]
Dr. Laura Schlessinger and the Ten Commandments
http://www.beth-elsa.org/be_s0212.htm
Sermon given February 12, 1999, by Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/3259067f076e667f?

"she stayed home for two years while Derek was growing up." ? ?
[doubtful]

"One story goes that Monroe's family wanted a young Laura
and her mother to take a boat ride back to Italy and sink on the way."

"The host was Bill Ballance, the amateur photographer who would later
sell her out. For now, however, Ballance heard something special in
this caller, and he kept her on the air for 20 minutes. She ended up
with her own show on a rival station. In part because her callers
wanted advice, Laura earned her license in marriage and family
counseling."

"They were united at courtside in 1984,
wearing tennis shorts and sunglasses, in a decidedly nonreligious
ceremony."

"A PBS special called "The Miracle of
Life" prompted weeping and a maternal urge she thought long since
dead" the power of media

"She credits Deryk's arrival with many of the changes
in her life, including her rediscovery of the God of her father. It
was while watching TV with Deryk that they surfed by a show on the
Holocaust," the power of media

"she already felt Jewish. So she made it official, and when the
syndicators
called and when her show went national in 1994, she brought Jehovah
with her. Her followers multiplied and filled the earth"
[][]
Call to Dr. Laura haunts murder trial: 'I did it,' caller told talk
show hostess
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/cf989206253d8a3e
By: Tony Lofaro
Ottawa Citizen Feb 07, 2002
[][]
I've read that the sister was estranged from Laura as well as the
mother.
Interesting that her sister Cyndi Harris is also a marriage and family
counselor.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/b002e6fd07ee2a5b
From a 1998 Vanity Affair article by Leslie Bennetts on Dr. Laura:

"odd conflicts and critical omissions"

"Monroe Schlessinger, a Jewish civil engineer, and his Italian war
bride, Yolanda Ceccovini."

"....[Laura] her father's familyreacted poisonously because Yolanda
wasn't Jewish.
"'Every member of his family cut him off and would have nothing
further to do with him from
1945 on,' says Ballance, who knew both Yolanda and Monty."

"'She was brought up in a quarrelsome family, so her idea of human
communications is shouting, screaming, bellowing, and screeching,'
says Ballance. The
Schlessingers eventually divorced, and Monty died of stomach cancer in
1990."

"Some of Laura's intimates didn't even know that she had a sister.
'She always told me she
was an only child,' says Shelly Herman."

"Schlessinger has been estranged from her sister, who is a marriage
and family counselor,
apparently since the 1970s. Her friends don't know why."

"When Ballance, who actually met
Cyndi before the rift, asked Laura about it, she just said, 'Oh, she's
so much prettier
than I am!' Laura's own attractiveness has always been an extremely
sore subject. 'Her
daddy told her she was ugly when she was little,' explains Herman"

"...she hasn't seen her own mother in 14 years. The rupture amazed her
friends, who say
that Laura's mother was devoted to her. "Laura is a very needy person,
and her mother was
instrumental in helping her function on a daily basis," explains
Herman. "Her mother lived for
Laura and would have done anything for her."

"...her mother as 'filled with negativity.....She blamed everyone for
her
unhappiness.' But back in 1984, Schlessinger explained the breach
somewhat differently: 'I
retired my mother from my office,' she said in a letter to Ballance.
These days
Schlessinger refuses to talk about her family at all, insisting that
gossip is against her
religion."
[][]
born on 1-12-1923 in Italy
http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-s.htm
estranged mom Yolanda Schlessinger last seen in late September
2002, her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of
decomposition with hints of homicide; hadn't spoken with daughter in
more than a decade
¤ née: Ceccovini
born on 1-12-1923 in Italy
expired 9-??-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 78 cause: under
investigation
[][]

The body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, sat in the Los Angeles morgue
for ten days before her daughter "Go Do the Right Thing" Laura claimed
the 78-year-old woman's remains on December 28. The recent death of
Dr. Laura Schlessinger's mother was a homicide, according to Beverly
Hills cops. The body of Yolanda Schlessinger was discovered December
16 by officers responding to the elderly woman's condo after a
neighbor called to say she was worried "after not seeing the resident
for several weeks." Radio star Laura Schlessinger said of her
estranged mother, "I am horrified by the tragic circumstances of my
mother's death, and so sad to learn that she died as she chose to
live--alone and isolated. May God rest her soul." When you think of
turning on talk radio, we suggest that you, too, "do the right
thing."
http://www.bentonnews.net/Archive/jan/Jaunary2003.htm

[][]
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/laura-schlessinger/controversies.html
Laura Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and
moral commentator, most known as host of the very popular Dr. Laura
radio call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three
hours a day on weekdays.
Controversies
Name of show and qualifications
Schlessinger is not a licensed medical doctor (she does not have an
M.D. degree). Schlessinger's Ph.D. is in physiology (not psychology),
and her critics have characterized the show's name as deceptive.

Related Topics:
Ph.D. - Physiology - Psychology
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
She has mentioned that her degree is in physiology and that she is a
licensed marriage therapist on her web site and during her show,
however. Critics contend that she rarely mentions these facts on her
show.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
While she claims that she does not do "therapy" and often refers
people to seek therapy outside the context of her show, she has
received additional criticism because her California Marriage Family
and Child Counseling (MFCC) license has been inactive for several
years. Further criticism arises because she often refers to herself as
"a licensed therapist."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
View of homosexuality
Prior to 1997, Schlessinger was very supportive to gay callers during
the show. In those years, she took issue with Christian religious
leaders who were opposed to gay relationships, and said that it was
cruel to deny love and happiness to gay couples. She renounced this
view in 1997 and embraced the opposite view. Soon, her monologues
approvingly mentioned groups who claimed they could help homosexuals
"turn" heterosexual, and she attacked the American Psychological
Association for condemning their stance.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Afterwards, Schlessinger was frequently criticized in the gay
community for her view of homosexuality as a "biological error" and
for her opposition to adoption by gay parents. On December 8, 1998 she
stated:
Related Topics:
Gay community - Adoption by gay parents
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
: I'm sorry — hear it one more time, perfectly clearly: If you're gay
or a lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating
normally to the opposite sex. The fact that you are intelligent,
creative and valuable is all true. The error is in your inability to
relate sexually intimately, in a loving way to a member of the
opposite sex — it is a biological error.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
On, May 10, 2000, The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC)
ruled that

Related Topics:
May 10 - 2000 - Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
:her consistent characterization (in episodes reviewed) of the sexual
behavior of gays and lesbian as "abnormal", "aberrant", "deviant",
"disordered", "dysfunctional", and "an error" constituted abusive
discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation. As a result,
Schlessinger's comments were determined to be in violation of the
human rights provision of the CAB Code of Ethics.

Related Topics:
Discrimination - Human rights
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The CBSC found similar fault with her generalized statements that
pedophilia is more prevalent among members of the gay community.
However, the CBSC also ruled that,
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
:in a number of other areas complained of, notably the issues relating
to the gay agenda, gay culture, fatherless homes and the issues
surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard, Schlessinger's comments
could not reasonably be interpreted on these various episodes as being
in violation of either Clause 2 or 6 of the CAB Code of Ethics.
http://www.ccnr.ca/english/cbscdocs/prs/2000/0005.htm
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Over the next year, most Canadian stations carrying the show dropped
it.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Schlessinger attempted to repair the breach with the gay community
without success. Her March 2000 public apology on her radio show was
withdrawn two weeks later when it was not whole-heartedly accepted. In
October 2000, Schlessinger paid for a full-page ad in the "Gay
Hollywood" issue of Variety, as a Yom Kippur apology for previous
negative remarks.

Related Topics:
Hollywood - Variety - Yom Kippur
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Perceived hypocrisy

The fact that Schlessinger is herself divorced has often led to
allegations that she does not practice the same high moral standards
she preaches. Other old incidents, such as some long-ago nude pictures
of her being posted on the Internet by a former lover, did not help
this reputation, but were dismissed by supporters as happening before
Schlessinger had adopted ? and begun speaking about ? her later moral
views.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
In December 2002, Schlessinger's mother Yolanda was found dead in her
condominium, her corpse having been there for months. Controversy
arose because of Schlessinger's previous advice to callers telling
them to "honor thy father and mother" was viewed by some as
contrasting with her not knowing her own mother had died months ago.
Some felt Schlessinger handled the situation poorly, making statements
that disrespected her mother after her death. Schlessinger often said
that her not speaking to her mother was her mother's choice.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Schlessinger has often observed that a hypocrite says "Do what I say,
not what I do" rather than, as she says, "Do what I say, not what I
did." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1006548
Critics then found that despite her claims to be an Orthodox Jew, she
was entering sailboat races on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath.
Schlessinger soon after announced she was leaving Orthodoxy July,
2003.
Related Topics:
Sailboat - Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath - July - 2003
[][]
Moral opinions
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/laura-schlessinger/moral-opinions.html
[][]
Foundation
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/laura-schlessinger/foundation.html
[][]
Publications
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/laura-schlessinger/publications.html
[][]
Trash Talk UPDATE: Friday, June 1
http://alt.nntp2http.com/royalty/2008/04/89c1ba6c989650db0abe7def4a23060f.html
[][]
a.r.t.d-l newsgroup.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/artdljunkie/faq.html

Post by lc
Narcissism is appropriate for daughter Laura... Thanx.

Post by samvaknin
Hi,
Narcissism and Religion
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal45.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html
Celebrity narcissists
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq19.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal73.html
Narcissism of leaders and authority figures
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/15.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq47.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq11.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal45.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal79.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal70.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/corporatenarcissism.html
For a more detailed view of pathological narcissism and the
Narcissistic
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/npdglance.html
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/narcissismglance.html
Other Personality Disorders
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faqpd.html
Pathological Narcissism and Other Mental Health Disorders
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq82.html
NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) and AsPD (Antisocial
Personality
Disorder, Psychopathy, or Sociopathy)
http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders16.html
http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders15.html
Cyber Narcissist
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/journal67.html
Female Narcissists
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/faq34.html
Take care.
Sam

[lc]

smokin' gun/Caskets On Parade
smokin'
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lauramom1.html
*** 1/2 UPDATE: The body of Yolanda Schlessinger sat in the Los
Angeles morgue for 10 extra days before her daughter Laura claimed the
77-year-old woman's remains on December 28. The delay, coroner's
officials told TSG, was apparently caused by a mixup on the part of
the radio host, who thought that it was the responsibility of the
coroner to inform her when the body could be claimed. In fact, a
decedent's loved ones--or a funeral director hired by the family--must
initiate contact with the coroner and arrange to pick up the body. The
body of Yolanda Schlessinger--who was apparently murdered in her
Beverly Hills condo--was delivered on December 17 to the L.A.
coroner's office, where an autopsy was performed the following
morning. It was at that point--Wednesday, December 18--that
Schlessinger's body could have been removed from the morgue. But the
remains were not claimed until 10 days later, when Yolanda
Schlessinger's body was transferred to Hollywood Hills's Forest Lawn
cemetery.

Police are investigating the recent death of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's
mother as a homicide, according to Beverly Hills cops. The body of
Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was discovered Monday (12/16) by officers
who responded to the elderly woman's condo after a neighbor called to
say she was worried "after not seeing the resident for several weeks."
According to Lt. Gary Gilmond, Beverly Hills cops are investigating
Schlessinger's death as a homicide. On Wednesday, cops spoke with
Laura Schlessinger, but the radio star has not identified her mother's
body, nor does she plan to, said Keven Bellows, a Schlessinger
spokesperson. In the below statement released through her radio
syndication firm, Schlessinger said of her estranged mother, "I am
horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and so sad
to learn that she died as she chose to live--alone and isolated. My
mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we
made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her
soul." Details of Schlessinger's death were first reported by Norma
Zager of The Beverly Hills Courier. (2 pages)

[][]
Caskets On Parade ... Book of the Dead ... Obits: "S"
http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-s.htm

estranged mom Yolanda Schlessinger last seen in late September
2002, her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of
decomposition with hints of homicide; hadn't spoken with daughter in
more than a decade
¤ née: Ceccovini
born on 1-12-1923 in Italy
expired 9-??-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 78 cause: under
investigation
//////
Caskets On Parade ... Cumulative Database ... Still Alive: "S"
physiologist Laura Catherine Schlessinger PhD. has preachy
syndicated radio program dispensing advice on topics outside of the
realm of her academic training; hadn't spoken with her mother in over
a decade before mom's demise — perhaps Dr. Phil should get her into a
group setting with the likes of Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse & Britney
Spears to "talk things out"
born on 1-16-1947 in New York, New York

Post by lc
New York Post Dec. 21, 2002
DR. LAURA'S MOM FOUND SLAIN AT CALIF. HOME
By CLEMENTE LISI
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/a4d240fa1eae00cf
"Yolanda Schlessinger, whom Dr. Laura once described as 'filled with
negativity' and someone who 'blamed everyone for her unhappiness,' had
not seen her daughter in 14 years."
[Laura is a serial liar, not to be believed. Others describe Lundy
Schlessinger as pleasant and in better terms. If she suffered from
depression, there is no indication her daughter lifted a finger to get
her the medical attention she needed]
[][]
Dr. Laura Schlessinger and the Ten Commandmentshttp://www.beth-elsa.org/be_s0212.htm
Sermon given February 12, 1999, by Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/3259067f076e667f?
"she stayed home for two years while Derek was growing up." ? ?
[doubtful]
"One story goes that Monroe's family wanted a young Laura
and her mother to take a boat ride back to Italy and sink on the way."
"The host was Bill Ballance, the amateur photographer who would later
sell her out. For now, however, Ballance heard something special in
this caller, and he kept her on the air for 20 minutes. She ended up
with her own show on a rival station. In part because her callers
wanted advice, Laura earned her license in marriage and family
counseling."
"They were united at courtside in 1984,
wearing tennis shorts and sunglasses, in a decidedly nonreligious
ceremony."
"A PBS special called "The Miracle of
Life" prompted weeping and a maternal urge she thought long since
dead" the power of media
"She credits Deryk's arrival with many of the changes
in her life, including her rediscovery of the God of her father. It
was while watching TV with Deryk that they surfed by a show on the
Holocaust," the power of media
"she already felt Jewish. So she made it official, and when the
syndicators
called and when her show went national in 1994, she brought Jehovah
with her. Her followers multiplied and filled the earth"
[][]
Call to Dr. Laura haunts murder trial: 'I did it,' caller told talk
show hostess
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/cf989206253d8a3e
By: Tony Lofaro
Ottawa Citizen Feb 07, 2002
[][]
I've read that the sister was estranged from Laura as well as the
mother.
Interesting that her sister Cyndi Harris is also a marriage and family
counselor.http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/b002e6fd07ee2a5b
"odd conflicts and critical omissions"
"Monroe Schlessinger, a Jewish civil engineer, and his Italian war
bride, Yolanda Ceccovini."
"....[Laura] her father's familyreacted poisonously because Yolanda
wasn't Jewish.
"'Every member of his family cut him off and would have nothing
further to do with him from
1945 on,' says Ballance, who knew both Yolanda and Monty."
"'She was brought up in a quarrelsome family, so her idea of human
communications is shouting, screaming, bellowing, and screeching,'
says Ballance. The
Schlessingers eventually divorced, and Monty died of stomach cancer in
1990."
"Some of Laura's intimates didn't even know that she had a sister.
'She always told me she
was an only child,' says Shelly Herman."
"Schlessinger has been estranged from her sister, who is a marriage
and family counselor,
apparently since the 1970s. Her friends don't know why."
"When Ballance, who actually met
Cyndi before the rift, asked Laura about it, she just said, 'Oh, she's
so much prettier
than I am!' Laura's own attractiveness has always been an extremely
sore subject. 'Her
daddy told her she was ugly when she was little,' explains Herman"
"...she hasn't seen her own mother in 14 years. The rupture amazed her
friends, who say
that Laura's mother was devoted to her. "Laura is a very needy person,
and her mother was
instrumental in helping her function on a daily basis," explains
Herman. "Her mother lived for
Laura and would have done anything for her."
"...her mother as 'filled with negativity.....She blamed everyone for
her
unhappiness.' But back in 1984, Schlessinger explained the breach
somewhat differently: 'I
retired my mother from my office,' she said in a letter to Ballance.
These days
Schlessinger refuses to talk about her family at all, insisting that
gossip is against her
religion."
[][]
born on 1-12-1923 in Italyhttp://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-s.htm
estranged mom Yolanda Schlessinger last seen in late September
2002, her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of
decomposition with hints of homicide; hadn't spoken with daughter in
more than a decade
¤ née: Ceccovini
born on 1-12-1923 in Italy
expired 9-??-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 78 cause: under
investigation
[][]
The body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, sat in the Los Angeles morgue
for ten days before her daughter "Go Do the Right Thing" Laura claimed
the 78-year-old woman's remains on December 28. The recent death of
Dr. Laura Schlessinger's mother was a homicide, according to Beverly
Hills cops. The body of Yolanda Schlessinger was discovered December
16 by officers responding to the elderly woman's condo after a
neighbor called to say she was worried "after not seeing the resident
for several weeks." Radio star Laura Schlessinger said of her
estranged mother, "I am horrified by the tragic circumstances of my
mother's death, and so sad to learn that she died as she chose to
live--alone and isolated. May God rest her soul." When you think of
turning on talk radio, we suggest that you, too, "do the right
thing."http://www.bentonnews.net/Archive/jan/Jaunary2003.htm
[][]http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/laura-schlessinger/controversies.html
Laura Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and
moral commentator, most known as host of the very popular Dr. Laura
radio call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three
hours a day on weekdays.
Controversies
Name of show and qualifications
Schlessinger is not a licensed medical doctor (she does not have an
M.D. degree). Schlessinger's Ph.D. is in physiology (not psychology),
and her critics have characterized the show's name as deceptive.
Ph.D. - Physiology - Psychology
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
She has mentioned that her degree is in physiology and that she is a
licensed marriage therapist on her web site and during her show,
however. Critics contend that she rarely mentions these facts on her
show.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
While she claims that she does not do "therapy" and often refers
people to seek therapy outside the context of her show, she has
received additional criticism because her California Marriage Family
and Child Counseling (MFCC) license has been inactive for several
years. Further criticism arises because she often refers to herself as
"a licensed therapist."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
View of homosexuality
Prior to 1997, Schlessinger was very supportive to gay callers during
the show. In those years, she took issue with Christian religious
leaders who were opposed to gay relationships, and said that it was
cruel to deny love and happiness to gay couples. She renounced this
view in 1997 and embraced the opposite view. Soon, her monologues
approvingly mentioned groups who claimed they could help homosexuals
"turn" heterosexual, and she attacked the American Psychological
Association for condemning their stance.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Afterwards, Schlessinger was frequently criticized in the gay
community for her view of homosexuality as a "biological error" and
for her opposition to adoption by gay parents. On December 8, 1998 she
Gay community - Adoption by gay parents
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
: I'm sorry — hear it one more time, perfectly clearly: If you're gay
or a lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating
normally to the opposite sex. The fact that you are intelligent,
creative and valuable is all true. The error is in your inability to
relate sexually intimately, in a loving way to a member of the
opposite sex — it is a biological error.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
On, May 10, 2000, The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC)
ruled that
May 10 - 2000 - Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
:her consistent characterization (in episodes reviewed) of the sexual
behavior of gays and lesbian as "abnormal", "aberrant", "deviant",
"disordered", "dysfunctional", and "an error" constituted abusive
discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation. As a result,
Schlessinger's comments were determined to be in violation of the
human rights provision of the CAB Code of Ethics.
Discrimination - Human rights
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The CBSC found similar fault with her generalized statements that
pedophilia is more prevalent among members of the gay community.
However, the CBSC also ruled that,
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
:in a number of other areas complained of, notably the issues relating
to the gay agenda, gay culture, fatherless homes and the issues
surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard, Schlessinger's comments
could not reasonably be interpreted on these various episodes as being
in violation of either Clause 2 or 6 of the CAB Code of Ethics.http://www.ccnr.ca/english/cbscdocs/prs/2000/0005.htm
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Over the next year, most Canadian stations carrying the show dropped
it.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Schlessinger attempted to repair the breach with the gay community
without success. Her March 2000 public apology on her radio show was
withdrawn two weeks later when it was not whole-heartedly accepted. In
October 2000, Schlessinger paid for a full-page ad in the "Gay
Hollywood" issue of Variety, as a Yom Kippur apology for previous
negative remarks.
Hollywood - Variety - Yom Kippur
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Perceived hypocrisy
The fact that Schlessinger is herself divorced has often led to
allegations that she ...
read more »

[lc]

Laura speaks: estranged Mom '02

The always shocked Laura said "I am shocked and horrified that she is
a victim of a violent crime... "

Dr. Laura's Estranged Mom Found Slain
Police find the badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger,
estranged mother of the radio host, who calls the incident
"unbelievable and tragic."

MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2002 10:00 AM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman

Controversial radio therapist Laura Schlessinger informed her
listening audience on Friday that her estranged mother -- whom she
reportedly had not spoken to in more than 14 years -- had been found
slain in her Beverly Hills condominium.

The Brooklyn-born host, 55, didn't make the announcement until the
final minutes of her "Dr. Laura" radio call-in advice show.

"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confident that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.

The badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found last
Monday in her condo when police were called by a neighbor who hadn't
seen her in weeks, the Associated Press reports.

An autopsy determined that she was the victim of a homicide, and
police said she had been dead for a long time.

"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," Laura Schlessinger told her radio audience.

"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard, it's so hard to imagine,
so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and (you)
feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I don't
get it.'"

The host, whose on-air negative comments about homosexuality landed
her in hot water and likely cost her what could have been a lucrative
TV show, said her mother had shut the family out of her life for
years.

"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
=================
CNN SATURDAY
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the Laura Schlessinger's estranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.

Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-old
Yolanda Schlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger. >>
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
=================
December 2002
Details of Schlessinger's death were first reported by Norma Zager of
The Beverly Hills Courier. (2 pages)
[]
Lt. Gary Gilmond of the Beverly Hills Police Department said an
autopsy disclosed the woman was murdered.
=================
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defense ? Historically ? Human Rights
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/f5ea2d0cb2a686a9#
[]
"... the scariest film ...."
http://rebeccaiallen.blogspot.com/2008/04/citizen-mccaw-is-scariest-film.html
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Subpoena Man Always Rings Twice
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=1897
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The Self-Hating Man and the High-Priced Hooker
March 14, 2008
Dr. Laura Schlesinger has harmed many lives with her often inane and
knee-jerk moralizing. But last week even she outdid herself...
mo>>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/the-selfhating-man-and-t_b_91631.html

Why Dr. Laura Dumped Judaism
This has to be one of the shallowest renunciations of faith I've ever
heard.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/131/story_13159_1.html
Of her conversion to Orthodox Judaism, Schlessinger said: "I felt that
I was putting out a tremendous amount toward that mission, that end,
and not feeling a return, not feeling connected, not feeling that
inspired."

Post by lc
smokin' gun/Caskets On Parade
smokin'http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lauramom1.html
*** 1/2 UPDATE: The body of Yolanda Schlessinger sat in the Los
Angeles morgue for 10 extra days before her daughter Laura claimed the
77-year-old woman's remains on December 28. The delay, coroner's
officials told TSG, was apparently caused by a mixup on the part of
the radio host, who thought that it was the responsibility of the
coroner to inform her when the body could be claimed. In fact, a
decedent's loved ones--or a funeral director hired by the family--must
initiate contact with the coroner and arrange to pick up the body. The
body of Yolanda Schlessinger--who was apparently murdered in her
Beverly Hills condo--was delivered on December 17 to the L.A.
coroner's office, where an autopsy was performed the following
morning. It was at that point--Wednesday, December 18--that
Schlessinger's body could have been removed from the morgue. But the
remains were not claimed until 10 days later, when Yolanda
Schlessinger's body was transferred to Hollywood Hills's Forest Lawn
cemetery.
Police are investigating the recent death of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's
mother as a homicide, according to Beverly Hills cops. The body of
Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was discovered Monday (12/16) by officers
who responded to the elderly woman's condo after a neighbor called to
say she was worried "after not seeing the resident for several weeks."
According to Lt. Gary Gilmond, Beverly Hills cops are investigating
Schlessinger's death as a homicide. On Wednesday, cops spoke with
Laura Schlessinger, but the radio star has not identified her mother's
body, nor does she plan to, said Keven Bellows, a Schlessinger
spokesperson. In the below statement released through her radio
syndication firm, Schlessinger said of her estranged mother, "I am
horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and so sad
to learn that she died as she chose to live--alone and isolated. My
mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we
made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her
soul." Details of Schlessinger's death were first reported by Norma
Zager of The Beverly Hills Courier. (2 pages)
[][]
Caskets On Parade ... Book of the Dead ... Obits: "S"
http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-s.htm
estranged mom Yolanda Schlessinger last seen in late September
2002, her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of
decomposition with hints of homicide; hadn't spoken with daughter in
more than a decade
¤ née: Ceccovini
born on 1-12-1923 in Italy
expired 9-??-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 78 cause: under
investigation
//////
Caskets On Parade ... Cumulative Database ... Still Alive: "S"
physiologist Laura Catherine Schlessinger PhD. has preachy
syndicated radio program dispensing advice on topics outside of the
realm of her academic training; hadn't spoken with her mother in over
a decade before mom's demise — perhaps Dr. Phil should get her into a
group setting with the likes of Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse & Britney
Spears to "talk things out"
born on 1-16-1947 in New York, New York

Post by lc
New York Post Dec. 21, 2002
DR. LAURA'S MOM FOUND SLAIN AT CALIF. HOME
By CLEMENTE LISI
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/a4d240fa1eae00cf
"Yolanda Schlessinger, whom Dr. Laura once described as 'filled with
negativity' and someone who 'blamed everyone for her unhappiness,' had
not seen her daughter in 14 years."
[Laura is a serial liar, not to be believed. Others describe Lundy
Schlessinger as pleasant and in better terms. If she suffered from
depression, there is no indication her daughter lifted a finger to get
her the medical attention she needed]
[][]
Dr. Laura Schlessinger and the Ten Commandmentshttp://www.beth-elsa.org/be_s0212.htm
Sermon given February 12, 1999, by Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/3259067f076e667f?
"she stayed home for two years while Derek was growing up." ? ?
[doubtful]
"One story goes that Monroe's family wanted a young Laura
and her mother to take a boat ride back to Italy and sink on the way."
"The host was Bill Ballance, the amateur photographer who would later
sell her out. For now, however, Ballance heard something special in
this caller, and he kept her on the air for 20 minutes. She ended up
with her own show on a rival station. In part because her callers
wanted advice, Laura earned her license in marriage and family
counseling."
"They were united at courtside in 1984,
wearing tennis shorts and sunglasses, in a decidedly nonreligious
ceremony."
"A PBS special called "The Miracle of
Life" prompted weeping and a maternal urge she thought long since
dead" the power of media
"She credits Deryk's arrival with many of the changes
in her life, including her rediscovery of the God of her father. It
was while watching TV with Deryk that they surfed by a show on the
Holocaust," the power of media
"she already felt Jewish. So she made it official, and when the
syndicators
called and when her show went national in 1994, she brought Jehovah
with her. Her followers multiplied and filled the earth"
[][]
Call to Dr. Laura haunts murder trial: 'I did it,' caller told talk
show hostess
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/cf989206253d8a3e
By: Tony Lofaro
Ottawa Citizen Feb 07, 2002
[][]
I've read that the sister was estranged from Laura as well as the
mother.
Interesting that her sister Cyndi Harris is also a marriage and family
counselor.http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/b002e6fd07ee2a5b
"odd conflicts and critical omissions"
"Monroe Schlessinger, a Jewish civil engineer, and his Italian war
bride, Yolanda Ceccovini."
"....[Laura] her father's familyreacted poisonously because Yolanda
wasn't Jewish.
"'Every member of his family cut him off and would have nothing
further to do with him from
1945 on,' says Ballance, who knew both Yolanda and Monty."
"'She was brought up in a quarrelsome family, so her idea of human
communications is shouting, screaming, bellowing, and screeching,'
says Ballance. The
Schlessingers eventually divorced, and Monty died of stomach cancer in
1990."
"Some of Laura's intimates didn't even know that she had a sister.
'She always told me she
was an only child,' says Shelly Herman."
"Schlessinger has been estranged from her sister, who is a marriage
and family counselor,
apparently since the 1970s. Her friends don't know why."
"When Ballance, who actually met
Cyndi before the rift, asked Laura about it, she just said, 'Oh, she's
so much prettier
than I am!' Laura's own attractiveness has always been an extremely
sore subject. 'Her
daddy told her she was ugly when she was little,' explains Herman"
"...she hasn't seen her own mother in 14 years. The rupture amazed her
friends, who say
that Laura's mother was devoted to her. "Laura is a very needy person,
and her mother was
instrumental in helping her function on a daily basis," explains
Herman. "Her mother lived for
Laura and would have done anything for her."
"...her mother as 'filled with negativity.....She blamed everyone for
her
unhappiness.' But back in 1984, Schlessinger explained the breach
somewhat differently: 'I
retired my mother from my office,' she said in a letter to Ballance.
These days
Schlessinger refuses to talk about her family at all, insisting that
gossip is against her
religion."
[][]
born on 1-12-1923 in Italyhttp://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-s.htm
estranged mom Yolanda Schlessinger last seen in late September
2002, her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of
decomposition with hints of homicide; hadn't spoken with daughter in
more than a decade
¤ née: Ceccovini
born on 1-12-1923 in Italy
expired 9-??-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 78 cause: under
investigation
[][]
The body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, sat in the Los Angeles morgue
for ten days before her daughter "Go Do the Right Thing" Laura claimed
the 78-year-old woman's remains on December 28. The recent death of
Dr. Laura Schlessinger's mother was a homicide, according to Beverly
Hills cops. The body of Yolanda Schlessinger was discovered December
16 by officers responding to the elderly woman's condo after a
neighbor called to say she was worried "after not seeing the resident
for several weeks." Radio star Laura Schlessinger said of her
estranged mother, "I am horrified by the tragic circumstances of my
mother's death, and so sad to learn that she died as she chose to
live--alone and isolated. May God rest her soul." When you think of
turning on talk radio, we suggest that you, too, "do the right
thing."http://www.bentonnews.net/Archive/jan/Jaunary2003.htm
[][]http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/laura-schlessinger/controversies.html
Laura Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and
moral commentator, most known as host of the very popular Dr. Laura
radio call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three
hours a day on weekdays.
Controversies
Name of show and qualifications
Schlessinger is not a licensed medical doctor (she does not have an
M.D. degree). Schlessinger's Ph.D. is in physiology (not psychology),
and her critics have characterized the show's name as deceptive.
Ph.D. - Physiology - Psychology
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
She has mentioned that her degree is in physiology and that she is a
licensed marriage therapist on her web site and during her show,
however. Critics contend that she rarely mentions these facts on her
show.
~ ~ ~ ~

...
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[lc]

Quotes: Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
Radio Talkshow Host: We'd Been Estranged For Laura's+Mother+Found
+Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2002

"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness"
Dr. Laura, on her show, speaking about her mother

(AP) Telling her audience, "I have to talk to you listeners about
something," radio host Dr. Laura then dropped a bombshell: "You may
have already heard that my mother was found murdered."

The host, whose full name is Laura Schlessinger, made the announcement
at the conclusion of her radio program Friday, adding during an
emotional statement that she and her mother had been estranged for
many years.

"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.

The body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found Monday in her Beverly
Hills condominium. Police would say only she had been dead for a long
time.

On Friday, Laura Schlessinger took calls from people with problems and
administered her typically blunt advice before mentioning her mother's
slaying in the final minutes of her last broadcast of the year.

"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," she told her radio audience.

"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard - it's so hard to imagine
- so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and
(you) feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I
don't get it.'

Beverly Hills police Lt. Gary Gilmond said authorities had not yet
positively identified the body, but indicated there was no reason to
doubt it was that of the talk show host's mother.

"We have notified Dr. Laura," he said.

The body was discovered when officers made a check at a North Palm
Drive residence after a neighbor became concerned about not seeing the
woman for several weeks.

The investigation has yet to narrow down the date of death.

Laura Schlessinger said her mother had shut the family out of her life
for years.

"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.

"My dad's dead, my mother ... they were divorced, and my mother and I
have had a long estrangement, which was her choice, as it was her
choice to be estranged from all the family.

"And I deeply regret that despite any attempts I made to make contact
or stay connected she died without that ever being accomplished."

Signing off, she said: "I just want to remind you as I do all the
time, hold your family very tight, very close and very dear and don't
sweat the petty stuff - the bad stuff is bad enough."
***
Are children the next target?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/936f7dadebfdb19a#

Who is Cynthia A. Bishop?

Post by lc
Laura speaks: estranged Mom '02
The always shocked Laura said "I am shocked and horrified that she is
a victim of a violent crime... "
Dr. Laura's Estranged Mom Found Slain
Police find the badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger,
estranged mother of the radio host, who calls the incident
"unbelievable and tragic."
MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2002 10:00 AM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Controversial radio therapist Laura Schlessinger informed her
listening audience on Friday that her estranged mother -- whom she
reportedly had not spoken to in more than 14 years -- had been found
slain in her Beverly Hills condominium.
The Brooklyn-born host, 55, didn't make the announcement until the
final minutes of her "Dr. Laura" radio call-in advice show.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confident that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found last
Monday in her condo when police were called by a neighbor who hadn't
seen her in weeks, the Associated Press reports.
An autopsy determined that she was the victim of a homicide, and
police said she had been dead for a long time.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," Laura Schlessinger told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard, it's so hard to imagine,
so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and (you)
feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I don't
get it.'"
The host, whose on-air negative comments about homosexuality landed
her in hot water and likely cost her what could have been a lucrative
TV show, said her mother had shut the family out of her life for
years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
=================
CNN SATURDAY
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the Laura Schlessinger's estranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-old
Yolanda Schlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger. >>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
=================
December 2002
Details of Schlessinger's death were first reported by Norma Zager of
The Beverly Hills Courier. (2 pages)
[]
Lt. Gary Gilmond of the Beverly Hills Police Department said an
autopsy disclosed the woman was murdered.
=================
mo>> Laura Schlessingerhttp://bp2.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/SA-fu7dK0wI/AAAAAAAAC2E/80kFKHg9B...
blames mother
defense ? Historically ? Human Rightshttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/f5ea2d0c...
[]
"... the scariest film ...."http://rebeccaiallen.blogspot.com/2008/04/citizen-mccaw-is-scariest-f...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The Subpoena Man Always Rings Twice
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=1897
http://www.penpressclub.org/images/mccaw_illustration.gif
http://www.west.net/~smith/blog/drlaura.png
http://www.fuglydog.com/forum/upload_fuglies/Antoine/200581012736_Sam...
http://www.bigozine2.com/features07/Aimages/SBkidpics/SBkidpic.gif
http://bp3.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/R_qxZ1wkX3I/AAAAAAAACwA/7YoPqu0Kh...
http://bp3.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/SBA3V7dK05I/AAAAAAAAC3M/KmtKgoNr4...
http://bp1.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/R9RsKwqc7NI/AAAAAAAACmQ/sA0UfUMAI...
[]
The Self-Hating Man and the High-Priced Hooker
March 14, 2008
Dr. Laura Schlesinger has harmed many lives with her often inane and
knee-jerk moralizing. But last week even she outdid herself...
mo>>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/the-selfhating-ma...
Why Dr. Laura Dumped Judaism
This has to be one of the shallowest renunciations of faith I've ever
heard.http://www.beliefnet.com/story/131/story_13159_1.html
Of her conversion to Orthodox Judaism, Schlessinger said: "I felt that
I was putting out a tremendous amount toward that mission, that end,
and not feeling a return, not feeling connected, not feeling that
inspired."

Post by lc
smokin' gun/Caskets On Parade
smokin'http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lauramom1.html
*** 1/2 UPDATE: The body of Yolanda Schlessinger sat in the Los
Angeles morgue for 10 extra days before her daughter Laura claimed the
77-year-old woman's remains on December 28. The delay, coroner's
officials told TSG, was apparently caused by a mixup on the part of
the radio host, who thought that it was the responsibility of the
coroner to inform her when the body could be claimed. In fact, a
decedent's loved ones--or a funeral director hired by the family--must
initiate contact with the coroner and arrange to pick up the body. The
body of Yolanda Schlessinger--who was apparently murdered in her
Beverly Hills condo--was delivered on December 17 to the L.A.
coroner's office, where an autopsy was performed the following
morning. It was at that point--Wednesday, December 18--that
Schlessinger's body could have been removed from the morgue. But the
remains were not claimed until 10 days later, when Yolanda
Schlessinger's body was transferred to Hollywood Hills's Forest Lawn
cemetery.
Police are investigating the recent death of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's
mother as a homicide, according to Beverly Hills cops. The body of
Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was discovered Monday (12/16) by officers
who responded to the elderly woman's condo after a neighbor called to
say she was worried "after not seeing the resident for several weeks."
According to Lt. Gary Gilmond, Beverly Hills cops are investigating
Schlessinger's death as a homicide. On Wednesday, cops spoke with
Laura Schlessinger, but the radio star has not identified her mother's
body, nor does she plan to, said Keven Bellows, a Schlessinger
spokesperson. In the below statement released through her radio
syndication firm, Schlessinger said of her estranged mother, "I am
horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and so sad
to learn that she died as she chose to live--alone and isolated. My
mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we
made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her
soul." Details of Schlessinger's death were first reported by Norma
Zager of The Beverly Hills Courier. (2 pages)
[][]
Caskets On Parade ... Book of the Dead ... Obits: "S"
http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-s.htm
estranged mom Yolanda Schlessinger last seen in late September
2002, her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of
decomposition with hints of homicide; hadn't spoken with daughter in
more than a decade
¤ née: Ceccovini
born on 1-12-1923 in Italy
expired 9-??-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 78 cause: under
investigation
//////
Caskets On Parade ... Cumulative Database ... Still Alive: "S"
physiologist Laura Catherine Schlessinger PhD. has preachy
syndicated radio program dispensing advice on topics outside of the
realm of her academic training; hadn't spoken with her mother in over
a decade before mom's demise — perhaps Dr. Phil should get her into a
group setting with the likes of Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse & Britney
Spears to "talk things out"
born on 1-16-1947 in New York, New York

Post by lc
New York Post Dec. 21, 2002
DR. LAURA'S MOM FOUND SLAIN AT CALIF. HOME
By CLEMENTE LISI
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/a4d240fa1eae00cf
"Yolanda Schlessinger, whom Dr. Laura once described as 'filled with
negativity' and someone who 'blamed everyone for her unhappiness,' had
not seen her daughter in 14 years."
[Laura is a serial liar, not to be believed. Others describe Lundy
Schlessinger as pleasant and in better terms. If she suffered from
depression, there is no indication her daughter lifted a finger to get
her the medical attention she needed]
[][]
Dr. Laura Schlessinger and the Ten Commandmentshttp://www.beth-elsa.org/be_s0212.htm
Sermon given February 12, 1999, by Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/msg/3259067f076e667f?
"she stayed home for two years while Derek was growing up." ? ?
[doubtful]
"One story goes that Monroe's family wanted a young Laura
and her mother to take a boat ride back to Italy and sink on the way."
"The host was Bill Ballance, the amateur photographer who would later
sell her out. For now, however, Ballance heard something special in
this caller, and he kept her on the air for 20 minutes. She ended up
with her own show on a rival station. In part because her callers
wanted advice, Laura earned her license in marriage and family
counseling."
"They were united at courtside in 1984,
wearing tennis shorts and sunglasses, in a decidedly nonreligious
ceremony."
"A PBS special called "The Miracle of
Life" prompted weeping and a maternal urge she thought long since

...
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[lc]

CNN SATURDAY news Carol Lin, Jim Moret
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002 - 18:12 ET
TRANSCRIPT.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the Laura Schlessinger's estranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.

Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-old
Yolanda Schlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

Police were back inside the condominium where earlier this week they
found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman whom they believe
to be Dr. Laura Schlessinger's mother. Police were first tipped off my
neighbors who said they had not seen Yolanda Schlessinger for at least
two months.

Police would only say the body had been there for a substantial period
of time. And based on that period of time, the initial autopsy results
were inconclusive as to both identity and cause of death. However, the
coroner's office indicated that it does point to a homicide.

Now, even though police were not clear about who the victim was, Dr.
Laura Schlessinger was. Both on her Web site, DrLaura.com, and to her
some 12 million radio listeners she issued this statement yesterday,
quote:

"I'm horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and
so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and
isolated. My mother shut all of her family out of her life over the
years, though we made several futile attempts to say connected. My God
rest her soul."

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, by her own admission had been estranged from
her mother for years. By Dr. Laura's account it was her mothers fault.
She apparently walked off a job as her secretary back in 1986.

I spoke with two of the investigators who walked out of the
condominium, after being inside for only about 40 minutes. They said
they had nothing additional to report. They would if they could, they
said.

I also talked with one of the neighbors who said that she had known
Yolanda Schlessinger for sometime. She said she was very friendly,
never indicated that Dr. Laura was her daughter. However, once she saw
Dr. Laura on TV she immediately saw the resemblance. And she said that
many of the residents of this condominium are justifiably concerned
given the fact that police now say this is a homicide investigation.

They should have more to report later this week.

Jim Moret, reporting live from Beverly Hills, California. Carol, back
to you.

LIN: All right, Jim. Did the neighbors give you any indication about
how Yolanda Schlessinger lived? Who her friends were? Who any suspects
might be?

MORET: Well, the neighbor that I talked to said that she never, to her
recollection, had any visitors and indicated to her, the neighbor,
that she was alone and had no one in her life. The neighbor, as a
matter of fact, indicated that she didn't even know the woman had ever
been married.

She said that Yolanda Schlessinger said to her several times she had
plans to move out of the state, wanted to leave this area. And that
she was very concerned because she hadn't seen her in two to three
months. And that's what first gave other neighbors cause for alarm.
That's what lead to them calling the police.

LIN: Yes, because I think what was so shocking about this, as well --
other than the nature of the crime -- was just how long it took for
anybody to discover the body.

MORET: Well, apparently, there were some unresolved and unpaid
homeowner's dues. And also mail that was piling up, but I agree with
you. It is very unusual given the fact that nobody had seen a woman,
who they apparently had seen quite often. And as the one woman I
talked to said, you know, we're all just getting along with our lives.
We're all so busy. I didn't notice that mail was piling up. And I
hadn't seen her and I hadn't really thought about that until this all
developed.

And I think it is simply a matter of people being very busy with their
own lives and simply not taking notice of a woman, who by her own
accounts was all alone.

LIN: Right. Just so sad, so sad -- for all of us with elderly parents.
It is just something to give pause and to think about.

Thank you very much, Jim Moret. Good to see you out there in Los
Angeles.

MORET: Thank you, Carol.

Post by lc
Quotes: Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
Radio Talkshow Host: We'd Been Estranged For Laura's+Mother+Found
+Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2002
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness"
Dr. Laura, on her show, speaking about her mother
(AP) Telling her audience, "I have to talk to you listeners about
something," radio host Dr. Laura then dropped a bombshell: "You may
have already heard that my mother was found murdered."
The host, whose full name is Laura Schlessinger, made the announcement
at the conclusion of her radio program Friday, adding during an
emotional statement that she and her mother had been estranged for
many years.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found Monday in her Beverly
Hills condominium. Police would say only she had been dead for a long
time.
On Friday, Laura Schlessinger took calls from people with problems and
administered her typically blunt advice before mentioning her mother's
slaying in the final minutes of her last broadcast of the year.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," she told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard - it's so hard to imagine
- so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and
(you) feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I
don't get it.'
Beverly Hills police Lt. Gary Gilmond said authorities had not yet
positively identified the body, but indicated there was no reason to
doubt it was that of the talk show host's mother.
"We have notified Dr. Laura," he said.
The body was discovered when officers made a check at a North Palm
Drive residence after a neighbor became concerned about not seeing the
woman for several weeks.
The investigation has yet to narrow down the date of death.
Laura Schlessinger said her mother had shut the family out of her life
for years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
"My dad's dead, my mother ... they were divorced, and my mother and I
have had a long estrangement, which was her choice, as it was her
choice to be estranged from all the family.
"And I deeply regret that despite any attempts I made to make contact
or stay connected she died without that ever being accomplished."
Signing off, she said: "I just want to remind you as I do all the
time, hold your family very tight, very close and very dear and don't
sweat the petty stuff - the bad stuff is bad enough."
***
Are children the next target?http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/936f7dad...
Who is Cynthia A. Bishop?

Post by lc
Laura speaks: estranged Mom '02
The always shocked Laura said "I am shocked and horrified that she is
a victim of a violent crime... "
Dr. Laura's Estranged Mom Found Slain
Police find the badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger,
estranged mother of the radio host, who calls the incident
"unbelievable and tragic."
MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2002 10:00 AM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Controversial radio therapist Laura Schlessinger informed her
listening audience on Friday that her estranged mother -- whom she
reportedly had not spoken to in more than 14 years -- had been found
slain in her Beverly Hills condominium.
The Brooklyn-born host, 55, didn't make the announcement until the
final minutes of her "Dr. Laura" radio call-in advice show.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confident that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found last
Monday in her condo when police were called by a neighbor who hadn't
seen her in weeks, the Associated Press reports.
An autopsy determined that she was the victim of a homicide, and
police said she had been dead for a long time.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," Laura Schlessinger told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard, it's so hard to imagine,
so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and (you)
feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I don't
get it.'"
The host, whose on-air negative comments about homosexuality landed
her in hot water and likely cost her what could have been a lucrative
TV show, said her mother had shut the family out of her life for
years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
=================
CNN SATURDAY
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the Laura Schlessinger's estranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-old
Yolanda Schlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger. >>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
=================
December 2002
Details of Schlessinger's death were first reported by Norma Zager of
The Beverly Hills Courier. (2 pages)
[]
Lt. Gary Gilmond of the Beverly Hills Police Department said an
autopsy disclosed the woman was murdered.
=================
mo>> Laura Schlessingerhttp://bp2.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/SA-fu7dK0wI/AAAAAAAAC2E/80kFKHg9B...
blames mother
defense ? Historically ? Human Rightshttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/f5ea2d0c...
[]
"... the scariest film ...."http://rebeccaiallen.blogspot.com/2008/04/citizen-mccaw-is-scariest-f...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The Subpoena Man Always Rings Twice
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=1897
http://www.penpressclub.org/images/mccaw_illustration.gif
http://www.west.net/~smith/blog/drlaura.png
http://www.fuglydog.com/forum/upload_fuglies/Antoine/200581012736_Sam...
http://www.bigozine2.com/features07/Aimages/SBkidpics/SBkidpic.gif
http://bp3.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/R_qxZ1wkX3I/AAAAAAAACwA/7YoPqu0Kh...
http://bp3.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/SBA3V7dK05I/AAAAAAAAC3M/KmtKgoNr4...
http://bp1.blogger.com/_0qTU784XP0M/R9RsKwqc7NI/AAAAAAAACmQ/sA0UfUMAI...
[]
The Self-Hating Man and the High-Priced Hooker
March 14, 2008
Dr. Laura Schlesinger has harmed many lives with her often inane and
knee-jerk moralizing. But last week even she outdid herself...
mo>>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/the-selfhating-ma...
Why Dr. Laura Dumped Judaism
This has to be one of the shallowest renunciations of faith I've ever
heard.http://www.beliefnet.com/story/131/story_13159_1.html
Of her conversion to Orthodox Judaism, Schlessinger said: "I felt that
I was putting out a tremendous amount toward that mission, that end,
and not feeling a return, not feeling connected, not feeling that
inspired."

Post by lc
smokin' gun/Caskets On Parade
smokin'http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lauramom1.html
*** 1/2 UPDATE: The body of Yolanda Schlessinger sat in the Los
Angeles morgue for 10 extra days before her daughter Laura claimed the
77-year-old woman's remains on December 28. The delay, coroner's
officials told TSG, was apparently caused by a mixup on the part of
the radio host, who thought that it was the responsibility of the
coroner to inform her when the body could be claimed. In fact, a
decedent's loved ones--or a funeral director hired by the family--must
initiate contact with the coroner and arrange to pick up the body. The
body of Yolanda Schlessinger--who was apparently murdered in her
Beverly Hills condo--was delivered on December 17 to the L.A.
coroner's office, where an autopsy was performed the following
morning. It was at that point--Wednesday, December 18--that
Schlessinger's body could have been removed from the morgue. But the
remains were not claimed until 10 days later, when Yolanda
Schlessinger's body was transferred to Hollywood Hills's Forest Lawn
cemetery.
Police are investigating the recent death of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's
mother as a homicide, according to Beverly Hills cops. The body of
Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was discovered Monday (12/16) by officers
who responded to the elderly woman's condo after a neighbor called to
say she was worried "after not seeing the resident for several weeks."
According to Lt. Gary Gilmond, Beverly Hills cops are investigating
Schlessinger's death as a homicide. On Wednesday, cops spoke with
Laura Schlessinger, but the radio star has not identified her mother's
body, nor does

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[lc]

BIRTH DAY
Laura Schlessinger
http://view-from-over-here.blogspot.com/2008/01/laura-schlessinger.html
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Happy 61st birthday to Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16,
1947). Normally I'd want to shout at this hypocritical woman who makes
her living telling other people who to live while she seemingly walks
the primrose path of dalliance, but since it's her birthday, I'll wish
her well and use this as an excuse to get the phrase "Dr. Laura
Schlessinger nude photos" out into the web once more, as I love
hypocrisy exposed. Schlessinger is an American cultural and
conservative commentator, best known as host of the popular Dr. Laura
radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated, and runs
three hours a day on weekdays. She shares a birthday with American Neo
Nazi Robert Jay Mathews (January 16, 1953 – December 8, 1984).

Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels are
immoral and have become too prevalent in contemporary American
culture. These include sex outside of marriage, premarital
cohabitation, intentional single parenthood, day care in lieu of
parents staying home to raise their children, the viewing of
pornography, marrying too quickly or out of desperation, permissive
parenting (also known as laissez-faire parenting), abortion, easy or
no-fault divorce, and same-sex marriage. Her radio program often
features short editorial monologues on these and other social and
political topics, followed by her characteristically direct responses
to callers' questions and moral dilemmas. Certain aspects of feminism
are often discussed on her show (Dr. Laura was a self-claimed feminist
in the 1970s).

She has also authored numerous self-help books, including the best-
selling Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, and several
religious books. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands has been her
most successful book thus far. Her books are both controversial and
popular.

Laura Sclessinger Nude photos

In 1998, allegedly upset that he was snubbed by Schlessinger at an
event, former radio mentor Bill Ballance sold to a media outlet nude
photos of Schlessinger, for which she had posed when she and Ballance
had an affair in the 1970s. Internet Entertainment Group (IEG), which
had purchased the photos, subsequently posted them on its website. IEG
was already known at the time for making available to subscribers a
sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The Schlessinger photos
were originally available only to subscribers to the IEG website, but
predictably, the photos later appeared on different free sites in
varying forms.

Schlessinger initially said the photos were not of her, but then
claimed a copyright interest in them in court. Eventually, she
admitted that the photos were authentic, and read a statement on her
radio show addressing the issue. Schlessinger tried to get the photos
off the Internet, but ultimately was unsuccessful in doing so, as a
court ruled IEG had legally acquired the rights to the material.

In the statement she read on her radio show about the scandal,
Schlessinger called Ballance a "mentor and friend," and said she was
"mystified as to why this 80-year-old man would do such a morally
reprehensible thing." She said the photos were taken when she was 28
years old, going through a divorce, and had "no moral authority." She
added that she had undergone "profound changes over the course of my
life from atheist to observant Jew."

Despite the apology, many faithful listeners to the Dr. Laura show
felt betrayed. Once the nude photo scandal came to light, accusations
surfaced that Schlessinger cheated on her first husband, broke up the
marriage of the man who became her second husband, lived with him
while unmarried, and intentionally bore a child with him out of
wedlock––all things she railed against on her show, but never
mentioned were part of her personal life experience. Schlessinger's
response to these criticisms was that "A hypocrite says, 'Do what I
say, not what I do,' rather than, 'Do what I say, not what I did',"
meaning that a hypocrite is not a person who makes a mistake and then
changes, but is instead a person who sets up a double standard.

Family issues

On December 16, 2002, Schlessinger's mother Yolanda was found dead in
her Beverly Hills, California condominium by the Beverly Hills Police
Department, her body possibly having been there for more than two
months.
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CNN SATURDAY news Carol Lin, Jim Moret
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002 - 18:12 ET
TRANSCRIPT.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the Laura Schlessinger's estranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-old
Yolanda Schlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
Police were back inside the condominium where earlier this week they
found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman whom they believe
to be Dr. Laura Schlessinger's mother. Police were first tipped off my
neighbors who said they had not seen Yolanda Schlessinger for at least
two months.
Police would only say the body had been there for a substantial period
of time. And based on that period of time, the initial autopsy results
were inconclusive as to both identity and cause of death. However, the
coroner's office indicated that it does point to a homicide.
Now, even though police were not clear about who the victim was, Dr.
Laura Schlessinger was. Both on her Web site, DrLaura.com, and to her
some 12 million radio listeners she issued this statement yesterday,
"I'm horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and
so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and
isolated. My mother shut all of her family out of her life over the
years, though we made several futile attempts to say connected. My God
rest her soul."
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, by her own admission had been estranged from
her mother for years. By Dr. Laura's account it was her mothers fault.
She apparently walked off a job as her secretary back in 1986.
I spoke with two of the investigators who walked out of the
condominium, after being inside for only about 40 minutes. They said
they had nothing additional to report. They would if they could, they
said.
I also talked with one of the neighbors who said that she had known
Yolanda Schlessinger for sometime. She said she was very friendly,
never indicated that Dr. Laura was her daughter. However, once she saw
Dr. Laura on TV she immediately saw the resemblance. And she said that
many of the residents of this condominium are justifiably concerned
given the fact that police now say this is a homicide investigation.
They should have more to report later this week.
Jim Moret, reporting live from Beverly Hills, California. Carol, back
to you.
LIN: All right, Jim. Did the neighbors give you any indication about
how Yolanda Schlessinger lived? Who her friends were? Who any suspects
might be?
MORET: Well, the neighbor that I talked to said that she never, to her
recollection, had any visitors and indicated to her, the neighbor,
that she was alone and had no one in her life. The neighbor, as a
matter of fact, indicated that she didn't even know the woman had ever
been married.
She said that Yolanda Schlessinger said to her several times she had
plans to move out of the state, wanted to leave this area. And that
she was very concerned because she hadn't seen her in two to three
months. And that's what first gave other neighbors cause for alarm.
That's what lead to them calling the police.
LIN: Yes, because I think what was so shocking about this, as well --
other than the nature of the crime -- was just how long it took for
anybody to discover the body.
MORET: Well, apparently, there were some unresolved and unpaid
homeowner's dues. And also mail that was piling up, but I agree with
you. It is very unusual given the fact that nobody had seen a woman,
who they apparently had seen quite often. And as the one woman I
talked to said, you know, we're all just getting along with our lives.
We're all so busy. I didn't notice that mail was piling up. And I
hadn't seen her and I hadn't really thought about that until this all
developed.
And I think it is simply a matter of people being very busy with their
own lives and simply not taking notice of a woman, who by her own
accounts was all alone.
LIN: Right. Just so sad, so sad -- for all of us with elderly parents.
It is just something to give pause and to think about.
Thank you very much, Jim Moret. Good to see you out there in Los
Angeles.
MORET: Thank you, Carol.

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Quotes: Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
Radio Talkshow Host: We'd Been Estranged For Laura's+Mother+Found
+Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2002
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness"
Dr. Laura, on her show, speaking about her mother
(AP) Telling her audience, "I have to talk to you listeners about
something," radio host Dr. Laura then dropped a bombshell: "You may
have already heard that my mother was found murdered."
The host, whose full name is Laura Schlessinger, made the announcement
at the conclusion of her radio program Friday, adding during an
emotional statement that she and her mother had been estranged for
many years.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found Monday in her Beverly
Hills condominium. Police would say only she had been dead for a long
time.
On Friday, Laura Schlessinger took calls from people with problems and
administered her typically blunt advice before mentioning her mother's
slaying in the final minutes of her last broadcast of the year.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," she told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard - it's so hard to imagine
- so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and
(you) feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I
don't get it.'
Beverly Hills police Lt. Gary Gilmond said authorities had not yet
positively identified the body, but indicated there was no reason to
doubt it was that of the talk show host's mother.
"We have notified Dr. Laura," he said.
The body was discovered when officers made a check at a North Palm
Drive residence after a neighbor became concerned about not seeing the
woman for several weeks.
The investigation has yet to narrow down the date of death.
Laura Schlessinger said her mother had shut the family out of her life
for years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
"My dad's dead, my mother ... they were divorced, and my mother and I
have had a long estrangement, which was her choice, as it was her
choice to be estranged from all the family.
"And I deeply regret that despite any attempts I made to make contact
or stay connected she died without that ever being accomplished."
Signing off, she said: "I just want to remind you as I do all the
time, hold your family very tight, very close and very dear and don't
sweat the petty stuff - the bad stuff is bad enough."
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Laura speaks: estranged Mom '02
The always shocked Laura said "I am shocked and horrified that she is
a victim of a violent crime... "
Dr. Laura's Estranged Mom Found Slain
Police find the badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger,
estranged mother of the radio host, who calls the incident
"unbelievable and tragic."
MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2002 10:00 AM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Controversial radio therapist Laura Schlessinger informed her
listening audience on Friday that her estranged mother -- whom she
reportedly had not spoken to in more than 14 years -- had been found
slain in her Beverly Hills condominium.
The Brooklyn-born host, 55, didn't make the announcement until the
final minutes of her "Dr. Laura" radio call-in advice show.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confident that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The badly decomposed body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found last
Monday in her condo when police were called by a neighbor who hadn't
seen her in weeks, the Associated Press reports.
An autopsy determined that she was the victim of a homicide, and
police said she had been dead for a long time.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," Laura Schlessinger told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard, it's so hard to imagine,
so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and (you)
feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I don't
get it.'"
The host, whose on-air negative comments about homosexuality landed
her in hot water and likely cost her what could have been a lucrative
TV show, said her

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BIRTH DAY
LauraSchlessingerhttp://view-from-over-here.blogspot.com/2008/01/laura-schlessinger.html
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Happy 61st birthday to Laura CatherineSchlessinger(born January 16,
1947). Normally I'd want to shout at this hypocritical woman who makes
her living telling other people who to live while she seemingly walks
the primrose path of dalliance, but since it's her birthday, I'll wish
her well and use this as an excuse to get the phrase "Dr. LauraSchlessingernude photos" out into the web once more, as I love
hypocrisy exposed.Schlessingeris an American cultural and
conservative commentator, best known as host of the popular Dr. Laura
radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated, and runs
three hours a day on weekdays. She shares a birthday with American Neo
Nazi Robert Jay Mathews (January 16, 1953 – December 8, 1984).
Schlessingeris an outspoken critic of practices that she feels are
immoral and have become too prevalent in contemporary American
culture. These include sex outside of marriage, premarital
cohabitation, intentional single parenthood, day care in lieu of
parents staying home to raise their children, the viewing of
pornography, marrying too quickly or out of desperation, permissive
parenting (also known as laissez-faire parenting), abortion, easy or
no-fault divorce, and same-sex marriage. Her radio program often
features short editorial monologues on these and other social and
political topics, followed by her characteristically direct responses
to callers' questions and moral dilemmas. Certain aspects of feminism
are often discussed on her show (Dr. Laura was a self-claimed feminist
in the 1970s).
She has also authored numerous self-help books, including the best-
selling Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, and several
religious books. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands has been her
most successful book thus far. Her books are both controversial and
popular.
Laura Sclessinger Nude photos
In 1998, allegedly upset that he was snubbed bySchlessingerat an
event, former radio mentor Bill Ballance sold to a media outlet nude
photos ofSchlessinger, for which she had posed when she and Ballance
had an affair in the 1970s. Internet Entertainment Group (IEG), which
had purchased the photos, subsequently posted them on its website. IEG
was already known at the time for making available to subscribers a
sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. TheSchlessingerphotos
were originally available only to subscribers to the IEG website, but
predictably, the photos later appeared on different free sites in
varying forms.
Schlessingerinitially said the photos were not of her, but then
claimed a copyright interest in them in court. Eventually, she
admitted that the photos were authentic, and read a statement on her
radio show addressing the issue.Schlessingertried to get the photos
off the Internet, but ultimately was unsuccessful in doing so, as a
court ruled IEG had legally acquired the rights to the material.
In the statement she read on her radio show about the scandal,Schlessingercalled Ballance a "mentor and friend," and said she was
"mystified as to why this 80-year-old man would do such a morally
reprehensible thing." She said the photos were taken when she was 28
years old, going through a divorce, and had "no moral authority." She
added that she had undergone "profound changes over the course of my
life from atheist to observant Jew."
Despite the apology, many faithful listeners to the Dr. Laura show
felt betrayed. Once the nude photo scandal came to light, accusations
surfaced thatSchlessingercheated on her first husband, broke up the
marriage of the man who became her second husband, lived with him
while unmarried, and intentionally bore a child with him out of
wedlock––all things she railed against on her show, but never
mentioned were part of her personal life experience.Schlessinger's
response to these criticisms was that "A hypocrite says, 'Do what I
say, not what I do,' rather than, 'Do what I say, not what I did',"
meaning that a hypocrite is not a person who makes a mistake and then
changes, but is instead a person who sets up a double standard.
Family issues
On December 16, 2002,Schlessinger'smother Yolanda was found dead in
her Beverly Hills, California condominium by the Beverly Hills Police
Department, her body possibly having been there for more than two
months.
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CNN SATURDAY news Carol Lin, Jim Moret
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002 - 18:12 ET
TRANSCRIPT.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the LauraSchlessinger'sestranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-old
YolandaSchlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. LauraSchlessinger.
Police were back inside the condominium where earlier this week they
found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman whom they believe
to be Dr. LauraSchlessinger'smother. Police were first tipped off my
neighbors who said they had not seen YolandaSchlessingerfor at least
two months.
Police would only say the body had been there for a substantial period
of time. And based on that period of time, the initial autopsy results
were inconclusive as to both identity and cause of death. However, the
coroner's office indicated that it does point to a homicide.
Now, even though police were not clear about who the victim was, Dr.
LauraSchlessingerwas. Both on her Web site, DrLaura.com, and to her
some 12 million radio listeners she issued this statement yesterday,
"I'm horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and
so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and
isolated. My mother shut all of her family out of her life over the
years, though we made several futile attempts to say connected. My God
rest her soul."
Dr. LauraSchlessinger, by her own admission had been estranged from
her mother for years. By Dr. Laura's account it was her mothers fault.
She apparently walked off a job as her secretary back in 1986.
I spoke with two of the investigators who walked out of the
condominium, after being inside for only about 40 minutes. They said
they had nothing additional to report. They would if they could, they
said.
I also talked with one of the neighbors who said that she had known
YolandaSchlessingerfor sometime. She said she was very friendly,
never indicated that Dr. Laura was her daughter. However, once she saw
Dr. Laura on TV she immediately saw the resemblance. And she said that
many of the residents of this condominium are justifiably concerned
given the fact that police now say this is a homicide investigation.
They should have more to report later this week.
Jim Moret, reporting live from Beverly Hills, California. Carol, back
to you.
LIN: All right, Jim. Did the neighbors give you any indication about
how YolandaSchlessingerlived? Who her friends were? Who any suspects
might be?
MORET: Well, the neighbor that I talked to said that she never, to her
recollection, had any visitors and indicated to her, the neighbor,
that she was alone and had no one in her life. The neighbor, as a
matter of fact, indicated that she didn't even know the woman had ever
been married.
She said that YolandaSchlessingersaid to her several times she had
plans to move out of the state, wanted to leave this area. And that
she was very concerned because she hadn't seen her in two to three
months. And that's what first gave other neighbors cause for alarm.
That's what lead to them calling the police.
LIN: Yes, because I think what was so shocking about this, as well --
other than the nature of the crime -- was just how long it took for
anybody to discover the body.
MORET: Well, apparently, there were some unresolved and unpaid
homeowner's dues. And also mail that was piling up, but I agree with
you. It is very unusual given the fact that nobody had seen a woman,
who they apparently had seen quite often. And as the one woman I
talked to said, you know, we're all just getting along with our lives.
We're all so busy. I didn't notice that mail was piling up. And I
hadn't seen her and I hadn't really thought about that until this all
developed.
And I think it is simply a matter of people being very busy with their
own lives and simply not taking notice of a woman, who by her own
accounts was all alone.
LIN: Right. Just so sad, so sad -- for all of us with elderly parents.
It is just something to give pause and to think about.
Thank you very much, Jim Moret. Good to see you out there in Los
Angeles.
MORET: Thank you, Carol.

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Quotes: Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
Radio Talkshow Host: We'd Been Estranged For Laura's+Mother+Found
+Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2002
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness"
Dr. Laura, on her show, speaking about her mother
(AP) Telling her audience, "I have to talk to you listeners about
something," radio host Dr. Laura then dropped a bombshell: "You may
have already heard that my mother was found murdered."
The host, whose full name is LauraSchlessinger, made the announcement
at the conclusion of her radio program Friday, adding during an
emotional statement that she and her mother had been estranged for
many years.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The body of YolandaSchlessinger, 77, was found Monday in her Beverly
Hills condominium. Police would say only she had been dead for a long
time.
On Friday, LauraSchlessingertook calls from people with problems and
administered her typically blunt advice before mentioning her mother's
slaying in the final minutes of her last broadcast of the year.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," she told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard - it's so hard to imagine
- so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and
(you) feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I
don't get it.'
Beverly Hills police Lt. Gary Gilmond said authorities had not yet
positively identified the body, but indicated there was no reason to
doubt it was that of the talk show host's mother.
"We have notified Dr. Laura," he said.
The body was discovered when officers made a check at a North Palm
Drive residence after a neighbor became concerned about not seeing the
woman for several weeks.
The investigation has yet to narrow down the date of death.
LauraSchlessingersaid her mother had shut the family out of her life
for years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
"My dad's dead, my mother ... they were divorced, and my mother and I
have had a long estrangement, which was her choice, as it was her
choice to be estranged from all the family.
"And I deeply regret that despite any attempts I made to make contact
or stay connected she died without that ever being accomplished."
Signing off, she said: "I just want to remind you as I do all the
time, hold your family very tight, very close and very dear and don't
sweat the petty stuff - the bad stuff is bad enough."
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Laura speaks: estranged Mom '02
The always shocked Laura said "I am shocked and horrified that she is
a victim of a violent crime... "
Dr. Laura's Estranged Mom Found Slain
Police find the badly decomposed body of YolandaSchlessinger,
estranged mother of the radio host, who calls the incident
"unbelievable and tragic."
MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2002 10:00 AM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Controversial radio therapist LauraSchlessingerinformed her
listening audience on Friday that her estranged mother -- whom she
reportedly had not spoken to in more than 14 years -- had been found
slain in her Beverly Hills condominium.
The Brooklyn-born host, 55, didn't make the announcement until the
final minutes of her "Dr. Laura" radio call-in advice show.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confident that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The badly decomposed body of YolandaSchlessinger, 77, was found last
Monday in her condo when police were called by a neighbor who hadn't
seen her in weeks, the Associated Press reports.
An autopsy determined that she was the victim of a homicide, and
police said she had been dead for a long time.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," LauraSchlessingertold her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard, it's so hard to imagine,
so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and (you)
feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I don't
get it.'"
The host, whose on-air negative comments about homosexuality landed
her in hot water and likely cost her what could have been a lucrative
TV show, said her

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BIRTH DAY
LauraSchlessingerhttp://view-from-over-here.blogspot.com/2008/01/laura-schlessinger.html
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Happy 61st birthday to Laura CatherineSchlessinger(born January 16,
1947). Normally I'd want to shout at this hypocritical woman who makes
her living telling other people who to live while she seemingly walks
the primrose path of dalliance, but since it's her birthday, I'll wish
her well and use this as an excuse to get the phrase "Dr. LauraSchlessingernude photos" out into the web once more, as I love
hypocrisy exposed.Schlessingeris an American cultural and
conservative commentator, best known as host of the popular Dr. Laura
radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated, and runs
three hours a day on weekdays. She shares a birthday with American Neo
Nazi Robert Jay Mathews (January 16, 1953 – December 8, 1984).
Schlessingeris an outspoken critic of practices that she feels are
immoral and have become too prevalent in contemporary American
culture. These include sex outside of marriage, premarital
cohabitation, intentional single parenthood, day care in lieu of
parents staying home to raise their children, the viewing of
pornography, marrying too quickly or out of desperation, permissive
parenting (also known as laissez-faire parenting), abortion, easy or
no-fault divorce, and same-sex marriage. Her radio program often
features short editorial monologues on these and other social and
political topics, followed by her characteristically direct responses
to callers' questions and moral dilemmas. Certain aspects of feminism
are often discussed on her show (Dr. Laura was a self-claimed feminist
in the 1970s).
She has also authored numerous self-help books, including the best-
selling Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, and several
religious books. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands has been her
most successful book thus far. Her books are both controversial and
popular.
Laura Sclessinger Nude photos
In 1998, allegedly upset that he was snubbed bySchlessingerat an
event, former radio mentor Bill Ballance sold to a media outlet nude
photos ofSchlessinger, for which she had posed when she and Ballance
had an affair in the 1970s. Internet Entertainment Group (IEG), which
had purchased the photos, subsequently posted them on its website. IEG
was already known at the time for making available to subscribers a
sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. TheSchlessingerphotos
were originally available only to subscribers to the IEG website, but
predictably, the photos later appeared on different free sites in
varying forms.
Schlessingerinitially said the photos were not of her, but then
claimed a copyright interest in them in court. Eventually, she
admitted that the photos were authentic, and read a statement on her
radio show addressing the issue.Schlessingertried to get the photos
off the Internet, but ultimately was unsuccessful in doing so, as a
court ruled IEG had legally acquired the rights to the material.
In the statement she read on her radio show about the scandal,Schlessingercalled Ballance a "mentor and friend," and said she was
"mystified as to why this 80-year-old man would do such a morally
reprehensible thing." She said the photos were taken when she was 28
years old, going through a divorce, and had "no moral authority." She
added that she had undergone "profound changes over the course of my
life from atheist to observant Jew."
Despite the apology, many faithful listeners to the Dr. Laura show
felt betrayed. Once the nude photo scandal came to light, accusations
surfaced thatSchlessingercheated on her first husband, broke up the
marriage of the man who became her second husband, lived with him
while unmarried, and intentionally bore a child with him out of
wedlock––all things she railed against on her show, but never
mentioned were part of her personal life experience.Schlessinger's
response to these criticisms was that "A hypocrite says, 'Do what I
say, not what I do,' rather than, 'Do what I say, not what I did',"
meaning that a hypocrite is not a person who makes a mistake and then
changes, but is instead a person who sets up a double standard.
Family issues
On December 16, 2002,Schlessinger'smother Yolanda was found dead in
her Beverly Hills, California condominium by the Beverly Hills Police
Department, her body possibly having been there for more than two
months.
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Post by lc
CNN SATURDAY news Carol Lin, Jim Moret
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002 - 18:12 ET
TRANSCRIPT.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the LauraSchlessinger'sestranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-old
YolandaSchlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. LauraSchlessinger.
Police were back inside the condominium where earlier this week they
found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman whom they believe
to be Dr. LauraSchlessinger'smother. Police were first tipped off my
neighbors who said they had not seen YolandaSchlessingerfor at least
two months.
Police would only say the body had been there for a substantial period
of time. And based on that period of time, the initial autopsy results
were inconclusive as to both identity and cause of death. However, the
coroner's office indicated that it does point to a homicide.
Now, even though police were not clear about who the victim was, Dr.
LauraSchlessingerwas. Both on her Web site, DrLaura.com, and to her
some 12 million radio listeners she issued this statement yesterday,
"I'm horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and
so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and
isolated. My mother shut all of her family out of her life over the
years, though we made several futile attempts to say connected. My God
rest her soul."
Dr. LauraSchlessinger, by her own admission had been estranged from
her mother for years. By Dr. Laura's account it was her mothers fault.
She apparently walked off a job as her secretary back in 1986.
I spoke with two of the investigators who walked out of the
condominium, after being inside for only about 40 minutes. They said
they had nothing additional to report. They would if they could, they
said.
I also talked with one of the neighbors who said that she had known
YolandaSchlessingerfor sometime. She said she was very friendly,
never indicated that Dr. Laura was her daughter. However, once she saw
Dr. Laura on TV she immediately saw the resemblance. And she said that
many of the residents of this condominium are justifiably concerned
given the fact that police now say this is a homicide investigation.
They should have more to report later this week.
Jim Moret, reporting live from Beverly Hills, California. Carol, back
to you.
LIN: All right, Jim. Did the neighbors give you any indication about
how YolandaSchlessingerlived? Who her friends were? Who any suspects
might be?
MORET: Well, the neighbor that I talked to said that she never, to her
recollection, had any visitors and indicated to her, the neighbor,
that she was alone and had no one in her life. The neighbor, as a
matter of fact, indicated that she didn't even know the woman had ever
been married.
She said that YolandaSchlessingersaid to her several times she had
plans to move out of the state, wanted to leave this area. And that
she was very concerned because she hadn't seen her in two to three
months. And that's what first gave other neighbors cause for alarm.
That's what lead to them calling the police.
LIN: Yes, because I think what was so shocking about this, as well --
other than the nature of the crime -- was just how long it took for
anybody to discover the body.
MORET: Well, apparently, there were some unresolved and unpaid
homeowner's dues. And also mail that was piling up, but I agree with
you. It is very unusual given the fact that nobody had seen a woman,
who they apparently had seen quite often. And as the one woman I
talked to said, you know, we're all just getting along with our lives.
We're all so busy. I didn't notice that mail was piling up. And I
hadn't seen her and I hadn't really thought about that until this all
developed.
And I think it is simply a matter of people being very busy with their
own lives and simply not taking notice of a woman, who by her own
accounts was all alone.
LIN: Right. Just so sad, so sad -- for all of us with elderly parents.
It is just something to give pause and to think about.
Thank you very much, Jim Moret. Good to see you

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[lc]

If only Laura Schlessinger was born to the right mother.../Lundy
Schlessinger's demise...

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or
a vulgar action.
By: TBogg Saturday May 17, 2008
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/05/17/i-cant-stand-a-naked-light-bulb-any-more-than-i-can-a-rude-remark-or-a-vulgar-action/
Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who encouraged other women to be the
housewife she never was, goes to Washington University to receive an
honorary degree and all hell, wait... okay, all heck...no?...um, all
kinda quiet breaks loose:

Some applauded while Schlafly was hooded. But about a third of the
graduating students draped in the school’s green and black robes
turned their backs to her, along with some faculty members sitting on
the stage behind her. Many family members in the audience also took
part. Three faculty members made the extra point of walking off the
stage and then turning their backs from the audience. One of the
protesters was Darla Dale, an assistant dean and a faculty marshal at
the ceremony. Dale said she decided to participate after making sure
the protest was intended to remain respectful. Dale said she strongly
disagrees with Schlafly’s views on the role of women in society as
well as with her work to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment. And
students encouraged her to join them. "It felt good," Dale said of
turning her back.

Post by lc
CNN SATURDAY news Carol Lin, Jim Moret
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002 - 18:12 ET
TRANSCRIPT.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the LauraSchlessinger'sestranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-oldYolandaSchlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. LauraSchlessinger.
Police were back inside the condominium where earlier this week they
found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman whom they believe
to be Dr. LauraSchlessinger'smother. Police were first tipped off my
neighbors who said they had not seenYolandaSchlessingerfor at least
two months.
Police would only say the body had been there for a substantial period
of time. And based on that period of time, the initial autopsy results
were inconclusive as to both identity and cause of death. However, the
coroner's office indicated that it does point to a homicide.
Now, even though police were not clear about who the victim was, Dr.
LauraSchlessingerwas. Both on her Web site, DrLaura.com, and to her
some 12 million radio listeners she issued this statement yesterday,
"I'm horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and
so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and
isolated. My mother shut all of her family out of her life over the
years, though we made several futile attempts to say connected. My God
rest her soul."
Dr. LauraSchlessinger, by her own admission had been estranged from
her mother for years. By Dr. Laura's account it was her mothers fault.
She apparently walked off a job as her secretary back in 1986.
I spoke with two of the investigators who walked out of the
condominium, after being inside for only about 40 minutes. They said
they had nothing additional to report. They would if they could, they
said.
I also talked with one of the neighbors who said that she had knownYolandaSchlessingerfor sometime. She said she was very friendly,
never indicated that Dr. Laura was her daughter. However, once she saw
Dr. Laura on TV she immediately saw the resemblance. And she said that
many of the residents of this condominium are justifiably concerned
given the fact that police now say this is a homicide investigation.
They should have more to report later this week.
Jim Moret, reporting live from Beverly Hills, California. Carol, back
to you.
LIN: All right, Jim. Did the neighbors give you any indication about
howYolandaSchlessingerlived? Who her friends were? Who any suspects
might be?
MORET: Well, the neighbor that I talked to said that she never, to her
recollection, had any visitors and indicated to her, the neighbor,
that she was alone and had no one in her life. The neighbor, as a
matter of fact, indicated that she didn't even know the woman had ever
been married.
She said thatYolandaSchlessingersaid to her several times she had
plans to move out of the state, wanted to leave this area. And that
she was very concerned because she hadn't seen her in two to three
months. And that's what first gave other neighbors cause for alarm.
That's what lead to them calling the police.
LIN: Yes, because I think what was so shocking about this, as well --
other than the nature of the crime -- was just how long it took for
anybody to discover the body.
MORET: Well, apparently, there were some unresolved and unpaid
homeowner's dues. And also mail that was piling up, but I agree with
you. It is very unusual given the fact that nobody had seen a woman,
who they apparently had seen quite often. And as the one woman I
talked to said, you know, we're all just getting along with our lives.
We're all so busy. I didn't notice that mail was piling up. And I
hadn't seen her and I hadn't really thought about that until this all
developed.
And I think it is simply a matter of people being very busy with their
own lives and simply not taking notice of a woman, who by her own
accounts was all alone.
LIN: Right. Just so sad, so sad -- for all of us with elderly parents.
It is just something to give pause and to think about.
Thank you very much, Jim Moret. Good to see you out there in Los
Angeles.
MORET: Thank you, Carol.

Post by lc
Quotes: Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
Radio Talkshow Host: We'd Been Estranged For Laura's+Mother+Found
+Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2002
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness"
Dr. Laura, on her show, speaking about her mother
(AP) Telling her audience, "I have to talk to you listeners about
something," radio host Dr. Laura then dropped a bombshell: "You may
have already heard that my mother was found murdered."
The host, whose full name is LauraSchlessinger, made the announcement
at the conclusion of her radio program Friday, adding during an
emotional statement that she and her mother had been estranged for
many years.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The body ofYolandaSchlessinger, 77, was found Monday in her Beverly
Hills condominium. Police would say only she had been dead for a long
time.
On Friday, LauraSchlessingertook calls from people with problems and
administered her typically blunt advice before mentioning her mother's
slaying in the final minutes of her last broadcast of the year.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," she told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard - it's so hard to imagine
- so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and
(you) feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I
don't get it.'
Beverly Hills police Lt. Gary Gilmond said authorities had not yet
positively identified the body, but indicated there was no reason to
doubt it was that of the talk show host's mother.
"We have notified Dr. Laura," he said.
The body was discovered when officers made a check at a North Palm
Drive residence after a neighbor became concerned about not seeing the
woman for several weeks.
The investigation has yet to narrow down the date of death.
LauraSchlessingersaid her mother had shut the family out of her life
for years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
"My dad's dead, my mother ... they were divorced, and my mother and I
have had a long estrangement, which was her choice, as it was her
choice to be estranged from all the family.
"And I deeply regret that despite any attempts I made to make contact
or stay connected she died without that ever being accomplished."
Signing off, she said: "I just want to remind you as I do all the
time, hold your family very tight, very close and very dear and don't
sweat the petty stuff - the bad stuff is bad enough."
***
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Who is Cynthia A. Bishop?

Post by lc
Laura speaks: estranged Mom '02
The always shocked Laura said "I am shocked and horrified that she is
a victim of a violent crime... "
Dr. Laura's Estranged Mom Found Slain
Police find the badly decomposed body ofYolandaSchlessinger,
estranged mother of the radio host, who calls the incident
"unbelievable and tragic."
MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2002 10:00 AM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Controversial radio therapist LauraSchlessingerinformed her
listening audience on Friday that her estranged mother -- whom she
reportedly had not spoken to in more than 14 years -- had been found
slain in her Beverly Hills condominium.
The Brooklyn-born host, 55, didn't make the announcement until the
final minutes of her "Dr. Laura" radio call-in advice show.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confident that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The badly decomposed body ofYolandaSchlessinger, 77, was found last
Monday in her condo when police were called by a neighbor who hadn't
seen her in weeks, the Associated Press reports.
An autopsy determined that she was the victim of a homicide, and
police said she had been dead for a long time.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," LauraSchlessingertold her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard, it's so hard to imagine,
so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and (you)
feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I don't
get it.'"
The host, whose on-air negative comments about homosexuality landed
her in hot water and likely cost her what could have been a lucrative
TV show, said her

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[lc]

Is Laura Schlessinger a grandmother?
What a family! ...
....
Deryk Schlessinger, adult son of Laura Schlessinger, 82nd Airborne
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/62ec54bfe432be5a/c00f8a7d670954bb?lnk=gst&q=+Deryk+Schlessinger%2C+adult+son#c00f8a7d670954bb

If only LauraSchlessingerwas born to the right mother.../LundySchlessinger'sdemise...
I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or
a vulgar action.
By: TBogg Saturday May 17, 2008http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/05/17/i-cant-stand-a-naked-light-bu...
Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who encouraged other women to be the
housewife she never was, goes to Washington University to receive an
honorary degree and all hell, wait... okay, all heck...no?...um, all
Some applauded while Schlafly was hooded. But about a third of the
graduating students draped in the school’s green and black robes
turned their backs to her, along with some faculty members sitting on
the stage behind her. Many family members in the audience also took
part. Three faculty members made the extra point of walking off the
stage and then turning their backs from the audience. One of the
protesters was Darla Dale, an assistant dean and a faculty marshal at
the ceremony. Dale said she decided to participate after making sure
the protest was intended to remain respectful. Dale said she strongly
disagrees with Schlafly’s views on the role of women in society as
well as with her work to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment. And
students encouraged her to join them. "It felt good," Dale said of
turning her back.

Post by lc
CNN SATURDAY news Carol Lin, Jim Moret
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002 - 18:12 ET
TRANSCRIPT.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the LauraSchlessinger'sestranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-oldYolandaSchlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. LauraSchlessinger.
Police were back inside the condominium where earlier this week they
found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman whom they believe
to be Dr. LauraSchlessinger'smother. Police were first tipped off my
neighbors who said they had not seenYolandaSchlessingerfor at least
two months.
Police would only say the body had been there for a substantial period
of time. And based on that period of time, the initial autopsy results
were inconclusive as to both identity and cause of death. However, the
coroner's office indicated that it does point to a homicide.
Now, even though police were not clear about who the victim was, Dr.
LauraSchlessingerwas. Both on her Web site, DrLaura.com, and to her
some 12 million radio listeners she issued this statement yesterday,
"I'm horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and
so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and
isolated. My mother shut all of her family out of her life over the
years, though we made several futile attempts to say connected. My God
rest her soul."
Dr. LauraSchlessinger, by her own admission had been estranged from
her mother for years. By Dr. Laura's account it was her mothers fault.
She apparently walked off a job as her secretary back in 1986.
I spoke with two of the investigators who walked out of the
condominium, after being inside for only about 40 minutes. They said
they had nothing additional to report. They would if they could, they
said.
I also talked with one of the neighbors who said that she had knownYolandaSchlessingerfor sometime. She said she was very friendly,
never indicated that Dr. Laura was her daughter. However, once she saw
Dr. Laura on TV she immediately saw the resemblance. And she said that
many of the residents of this condominium are justifiably concerned
given the fact that police now say this is a homicide investigation.
They should have more to report later this week.
Jim Moret, reporting live from Beverly Hills, California. Carol, back
to you.
LIN: All right, Jim. Did the neighbors give you any indication about
howYolandaSchlessingerlived? Who her friends were? Who any suspects
might be?
MORET: Well, the neighbor that I talked to said that she never, to her
recollection, had any visitors and indicated to her, the neighbor,
that she was alone and had no one in her life. The neighbor, as a
matter of fact, indicated that she didn't even know the woman had ever
been married.
She said thatYolandaSchlessingersaid to her several times she had
plans to move out of the state, wanted to leave this area. And that
she was very concerned because she hadn't seen her in two to three
months. And that's what first gave other neighbors cause for alarm.
That's what lead to them calling the police.
LIN: Yes, because I think what was so shocking about this, as well --
other than the nature of the crime -- was just how long it took for
anybody to discover the body.
MORET: Well, apparently, there were some unresolved and unpaid
homeowner's dues. And also mail that was piling up, but I agree with
you. It is very unusual given the fact that nobody had seen a woman,
who they apparently had seen quite often. And as the one woman I
talked to said, you know, we're all just getting along with our lives.
We're all so busy. I didn't notice that mail was piling up. And I
hadn't seen her and I hadn't really thought about that until this all
developed.
And I think it is simply a matter of people being very busy with their
own lives and simply not taking notice of a woman, who by her own
accounts was all alone.
LIN: Right. Just so sad, so sad -- for all of us with elderly parents.
It is just something to give pause and to think about.
Thank you very much, Jim Moret. Good to see you out there in Los
Angeles.
MORET: Thank you, Carol.

Post by lc
Quotes: Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
Radio Talkshow Host: We'd Been Estranged For Laura's+Mother+Found
+Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2002
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness"
Dr. Laura, on her show, speaking about her mother
(AP) Telling her audience, "I have to talk to you listeners about
something," radio host Dr. Laura then dropped a bombshell: "You may
have already heard that my mother was found murdered."
The host, whose full name is LauraSchlessinger, made the announcement
at the conclusion of her radio program Friday, adding during an
emotional statement that she and her mother had been estranged for
many years.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The body ofYolandaSchlessinger, 77, was found Monday in her Beverly
Hills condominium. Police would say only she had been dead for a long
time.
On Friday, LauraSchlessingertook calls from people with problems and
administered her typically blunt advice before mentioning her mother's
slaying in the final minutes of her last broadcast of the year.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," she told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard - it's so hard to imagine
- so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and
(you) feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I
don't get it.'
Beverly Hills police Lt. Gary Gilmond said authorities had not yet
positively identified the body, but indicated there was no reason to
doubt it was that of the talk show host's mother.
"We have notified Dr. Laura," he said.
The body was discovered when officers made a check at a North Palm
Drive residence after a neighbor became concerned about not seeing the
woman for several weeks.
The investigation has yet to narrow down the date of death.
LauraSchlessingersaid her mother had shut the family out of her life
for years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
"My dad's dead, my mother ... they were divorced, and my mother and I
have had a long estrangement, which was her choice, as it was her
choice to be estranged from all the family.
"And I deeply regret that despite any attempts I made to make contact
or stay connected she died without that ever being accomplished."
Signing off, she said: "I just want to remind you as I do all the
time, hold your family very tight, very close and very dear and don't
sweat the petty stuff - the bad stuff is bad enough."
***
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Who is Cynthia A. Bishop?

Post by lc
Laura speaks: estranged Mom '02
The always shocked Laura said "I am shocked and horrified that she is
a victim of a violent crime... "
Dr. Laura's Estranged Mom Found Slain
Police find the badly decomposed body ofYolandaSchlessinger,
estranged mother

...
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[lc]

bag stuffing
http://www.mystuffbags.org/beta001/dlbio.htm

redux: Dr. Laura's mother found dead in L.A.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-20-dr-lauras-mother-slain_x.htm
Updated 12/21/2002 9:28 AM

Post by lc
Is Laura Schlessinger a grandmother?
What a family! ...
....
Deryk Schlessinger, adult son of Laura Schlessinger, 82nd Airbornehttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/browse_frm/thread/62ec54bf...

If only LauraSchlessingerwas born to the right mother.../LundySchlessinger'sdemise...
I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or
a vulgar action.
By: TBogg Saturday May 17, 2008http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/05/17/i-cant-stand-a-naked-light-bu...
Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who encouraged other women to be the
housewife she never was, goes to Washington University to receive an
honorary degree and all hell, wait... okay, all heck...no?...um, all
Some applauded while Schlafly was hooded. But about a third of the
graduating students draped in the school’s green and black robes
turned their backs to her, along with some faculty members sitting on
the stage behind her. Many family members in the audience also took
part. Three faculty members made the extra point of walking off the
stage and then turning their backs from the audience. One of the
protesters was Darla Dale, an assistant dean and a faculty marshal at
the ceremony. Dale said she decided to participate after making sure
the protest was intended to remain respectful. Dale said she strongly
disagrees with Schlafly’s views on the role of women in society as
well as with her work to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment. And
students encouraged her to join them. "It felt good," Dale said of
turning her back.

Post by lc
CNN SATURDAY news Carol Lin, Jim Moret
Dr. Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered
Aired December 21, 2002 - 18:12 ET
TRANSCRIPT.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/cst.09.html
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The world of talk radio is in shock over the
apparent violent death of the LauraSchlessinger'sestranged mother.
Reporter Jim Moret is following the case in Los Angeles for us and has
more on this -- Jim.
JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Beverly Hills Police were back on the scene at this Beverly Hills
condominium to continue their homicide investigation of 77-year-oldYolandaSchlessinger, the estranged mother of syndicated radio talk
show host, Dr. LauraSchlessinger.
Police were back inside the condominium where earlier this week they
found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman whom they believe
to be Dr. LauraSchlessinger'smother. Police were first tipped off my
neighbors who said they had not seenYolandaSchlessingerfor at least
two months.
Police would only say the body had been there for a substantial period
of time. And based on that period of time, the initial autopsy results
were inconclusive as to both identity and cause of death. However, the
coroner's office indicated that it does point to a homicide.
Now, even though police were not clear about who the victim was, Dr.
LauraSchlessingerwas. Both on her Web site, DrLaura.com, and to her
some 12 million radio listeners she issued this statement yesterday,
"I'm horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death, and
so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and
isolated. My mother shut all of her family out of her life over the
years, though we made several futile attempts to say connected. My God
rest her soul."
Dr. LauraSchlessinger, by her own admission had been estranged from
her mother for years. By Dr. Laura's account it was her mothers fault.
She apparently walked off a job as her secretary back in 1986.
I spoke with two of the investigators who walked out of the
condominium, after being inside for only about 40 minutes. They said
they had nothing additional to report. They would if they could, they
said.
I also talked with one of the neighbors who said that she had knownYolandaSchlessingerfor sometime. She said she was very friendly,
never indicated that Dr. Laura was her daughter. However, once she saw
Dr. Laura on TV she immediately saw the resemblance. And she said that
many of the residents of this condominium are justifiably concerned
given the fact that police now say this is a homicide investigation.
They should have more to report later this week.
Jim Moret, reporting live from Beverly Hills, California. Carol, back
to you.
LIN: All right, Jim. Did the neighbors give you any indication about
howYolandaSchlessingerlived? Who her friends were? Who any suspects
might be?
MORET: Well, the neighbor that I talked to said that she never, to her
recollection, had any visitors and indicated to her, the neighbor,
that she was alone and had no one in her life. The neighbor, as a
matter of fact, indicated that she didn't even know the woman had ever
been married.
She said thatYolandaSchlessingersaid to her several times she had
plans to move out of the state, wanted to leave this area. And that
she was very concerned because she hadn't seen her in two to three
months. And that's what first gave other neighbors cause for alarm.
That's what lead to them calling the police.
LIN: Yes, because I think what was so shocking about this, as well --
other than the nature of the crime -- was just how long it took for
anybody to discover the body.
MORET: Well, apparently, there were some unresolved and unpaid
homeowner's dues. And also mail that was piling up, but I agree with
you. It is very unusual given the fact that nobody had seen a woman,
who they apparently had seen quite often. And as the one woman I
talked to said, you know, we're all just getting along with our lives.
We're all so busy. I didn't notice that mail was piling up. And I
hadn't seen her and I hadn't really thought about that until this all
developed.
And I think it is simply a matter of people being very busy with their
own lives and simply not taking notice of a woman, who by her own
accounts was all alone.
LIN: Right. Just so sad, so sad -- for all of us with elderly parents.
It is just something to give pause and to think about.
Thank you very much, Jim Moret. Good to see you out there in Los
Angeles.
MORET: Thank you, Carol.

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Quotes: Dr. Laura's Mother Found Murdered
Radio Talkshow Host: We'd Been Estranged For Laura's+Mother+Found
+Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2002
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness"
Dr. Laura, on her show, speaking about her mother
(AP) Telling her audience, "I have to talk to you listeners about
something," radio host Dr. Laura then dropped a bombshell: "You may
have already heard that my mother was found murdered."
The host, whose full name is LauraSchlessinger, made the announcement
at the conclusion of her radio program Friday, adding during an
emotional statement that she and her mother had been estranged for
many years.
"I do pray that she is at peace and (am) confidant that the Police
Department will be able to bring justice to this situation. But I am
overwhelmed by sadness," she said.
The body ofYolandaSchlessinger, 77, was found Monday in her Beverly
Hills condominium. Police would say only she had been dead for a long
time.
On Friday, LauraSchlessingertook calls from people with problems and
administered her typically blunt advice before mentioning her mother's
slaying in the final minutes of her last broadcast of the year.
"Because this is an ongoing homicide investigation I cannot say very
much about the circumstances surrounding this unbelievable and tragic
event," she told her radio audience.
"But I'm, of course, shocked and horrified that she would be the
victim of a violent crime, and it's so hard - it's so hard to imagine
- so hard to get that reality into your head. Emotions rise up and
(you) feel the clinch in your chest, but your IQ is still going, 'I
don't get it.'
Beverly Hills police Lt. Gary Gilmond said authorities had not yet
positively identified the body, but indicated there was no reason to
doubt it was that of the talk show host's mother.
"We have notified Dr. Laura," he said.
The body was discovered when officers made a check at a North Palm
Drive residence after a neighbor became concerned about not seeing the
woman for several weeks.
The investigation has yet to narrow down the date of death.
LauraSchlessingersaid her mother had shut the family out of her life
for years.
"And I guess one of the reasons I am so clearly committed to the
sanctity of the family and protection of children and the welfare of
children in my books and on this radio program is quite frankly
because I was not fortunate enough to grow up in a loving, close-knit
family myself," she said.
"My dad's dead, my mother ... they were divorced, and my mother and I
have had a long estrangement, which was her choice, as it was her
choice to be estranged from all the family.
"And I deeply regret that despite any attempts I made to make contact
or stay connected she died without that ever being accomplished."
Signing off, she said: "I just want to remind you as I do all the
time, hold your family very tight,

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