Something Savage This Way Comes

A follow up to the News-Press entry from last night....

It seems I missed half the fun by not actually scrounging about for a copy of the print edition from Sunday, for INOTBB's favorite moral scourge Dr. (of Physiology) Laura had to put her two cents in about the Jerry Roberts accusations on page A2. Oh, and I don't mean to use a cliche when I say she put her two cents in--that's precisely what her notions are worth. According to Craig Smith, at the end of her column she writes:

I must say, however, that Mr. Roberts working at The Daily Nexus, which typically presents its own version of vulgar sexuality (check out the "Wednesday Hump" section www.dailynexus.com) looks bad . . .

Jerry Roberts was hired in late January 2007 to be publications director of UC Santa Barbara's Daily Nexus. The Nexus, although it has some advisory staff, is primarily student-run, and certainly student written and edited. It has run a sex column (not a section, as Dr. Laura called it, but then again, the people left in charge at the News-Press don't know their newsholes from a hole in the ground), called the Wednesday Hump, at least as far back as 2002, when then Hump-ster Beth Van Dyke was quoted in USA Today.

That USA Today article went on to say (starting with an amazing first clause that must warm the cockles of every non-free speech loving heart, but here I'm assuming Dr. Laura has one):

First Amendment issues aside, defenders say the columns address an issue important to its primary readers. "It's no secret that sex is a popular topic among college students and that, for a lot of us, it's our first chance to explore our sexuality," says Larry Griffin, editor of The Heights at Boston College. "It's worth it just to get the topic out there."

Given her own youthful indiscretions, you would think Dr. (of Physiology) Laura would have a bit more forgiveness for the perky, curious, and enthusiastic sexuality of those in college. It's less surprising she doesn't seem to care for First Amendment rights, which for her, and her employer Ms. McCaw, seems to mean, "Those who have the most money are first among equals, and therefore get to have the most right to speak." Why else would Schlessinger seem to think every blog should offer her a soapbox when we can hear her across the nation on Talk Radio Network stations?

And speaking of the company that sydicates her show, if she thinks Roberts somehow is besmirched by allowing college students to continue to write the paper they wrote before he came on board (some of which just happens to be about sex and gets specific about acts and uses dirty words and stuff--eww, gross!), should she also be calling out Chancellor Yang for allowing the paper to be published at UCSB? Or, perhaps we should ask--Dr. (of Physiology) Laura, you work for Talk Radio Network, who also represents Michael Savage, shouldn't that give you moral pause? To hit just some of his low-lights Michael Savage has:

• Agreed 100% with a caller who said that gay rabbis would likely rape teen age boys
• Blamed the Columbine shootings on sexual reassignment surgery
• Said Condoleeza Rice was "pushed up the ladder all of her life because of social engineering"
• Called "civil rights" a "con" and asserted: "It's a racket that is used to exploit primarily heterosexual, Christian, white males' birthright" (he did this on Martin Luther King Day)
• Said of Larry King and Wolf Blitzer: "The two of them together look like the type that would have pushed Jewish children into the oven to stay alive one more day to entertain the Nazis"
• Asserted after the 2004 tsunami: "Many of the countries and the areas in these countries that were hit by these tidal waves were hotbeds of radical Islam. Why should we be helping them destroy us?...I truthfully don't believe in foreign aid."
• Told off a caller in 2003 with the lines, "Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig."

This man, Michael Savage, is sold by the same people that sell you, Ms. Schlessinger. Tell me, if we're going to tar people with the blunt brush of association, who looks dirtiest now--you or Jerry Roberts?