Hate on-air personality Laura Schlessinger’s son is under investigation after being linked to a controversial website featuring animated depictions of rape and child molestation.
Pictures of the radio talk show host’s 21-year-old son Deryk, who is serving in Afghanistan, are featured on a MySpace page, which is credited to him.
And now U.S. Army officials are looking into the offensive site, which has been taken down. While an Army rep confirms that a photo of a man holding a gun in his mouth did in fact appear on the MySpace page in question, it is not formally known at this stage if Deryk is actually the man behind the website or if his identity is being used by an imposter.
Schlessinger, who is known as kindly advice queen Dr. Laura, has taken a leave of absence from writing her regular column in California newspaper the Santa Barbara News-Press during the investigation, but her syndicated radio show is set to continue.
And to think that this insane woman actually has the gull to dish out parenting advice!
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I would shoot myself if she was my mother to.
Talk about a freaking flake she is…
They’re all jews, who cares?
I wonder how old this story is? It’s my understanding the DoD made MySpace unavailable (along with Youtube, etc…anything the troops could use to get the message out of what’s *really* going down over there).
Secondly, is this really a surprise? It’s always the “High and Mighty” who are the biggest hypocrites.
That would be “gAll”. The gAll to dish out parenting advice.
fuck you, adolf.
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..> Dr. Laura son linked to lurid Web page
..subtitle–> Site contained violent, sex-oriented images one official called ‘repulsive’
..byline–> By Matthew D. LaPlante
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
..date–> Article Last Updated:05/19/2007 12:15:45 AM MDT
The soldier son of talk radio relationship counselor Laura Schlessinger is under investigation for a graphic personal Web page that one Army official has called “repulsive.”
The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned “My Sweet Little Habib”; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets.
The site is credited to and includes many photographs of Deryk Schlessinger, the 21-year-old son of the talk radio personality known simply as Dr. Laura. Broadcast locally on 570 KNRS, “Family Values Talk Radio,” the former family counselor spends three hours daily taking calls and offering advice on morals, ethics and values. She broadcast a show from Fort Douglas, in Salt Lake City, last week.
Military leaders have long grappled with how to balance positive publicity and operational security with technological opportunities for troops to tell their personal stories.
The Pentagon last week shut down access to a variety of video-sharing and social networking Internet sites, including MySpace, on its computer systems worldwide. Officials said the change was made to enhance security and protect a strained bandwidth, but critics worried that it might close a public window into the lives of deployed U.S. troops, some of which can be raw, frightening, violent and revealing.
“Yes . . . F—ING Yes!!!” said one blog entry on the Schlessinger site. “I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it . . . and some that don’t.”
Deryk Schlessinger joined the Army in 2004, telling a crowd of Santa Barbara, Calif., Army reservists gathered for an appearance by his mother that he resented the way Americans criticize the war without recognizing soldiers’ sacrifices.
“Real people were fighting, and I wanted to be part of that,” the younger Schlessinger said, according to The Associated Press.
Since Deryk Schlessinger deployed earlier this year, his mother’s talk show increasingly has been focused on the battles being waged in Iraq and Afghanistan and the wars’ effects on families back home. Meanwhile, the radio host has taken to referring to herself as “the proud mother of a deployed American paratrooper” and speaks frequently about her soldier son before military audiences nationwide.
Deryk Schlessinger did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment from The Tribune.
Mike Paul, spokesman for Laura Schlessinger, released a statement which said, in part, “We hope all news media outlets will respect his privacy for his safety and the safety of those serving with him.” In an interview with The Tribune, Paul suggested that the page could be a fake.
That was a contention echoed by Army spokesman Robert Tallman, who said “it may be possible that our enemies are actually behind this.
“Our enemies are adaptive, technologically sophisticated, and truly understand the importance of the information battlespace,” Tallman continued. “Sadly, they will use that space to promulgate and disseminate untrue propaganda.”
MySpace is an online social network in which users link pages together through like interests and shared friendships. The Deryk Schlessinger page included nearly a dozen “friends,” including a number of soldiers in Afghanistan, several of whom were linked back to Schlessinger’s page and some of whom had additional photos of, and comments from, Schlessinger on their sites.
Deryk Schlessinger’s Web site indicated the 21-year-old soldier is stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where, the site’s author writes, “godless crazy people like me,” have become “a generation of apathetic killers.”
The site indicated Schlessinger’s team has survived numerous mortar, rocket and roadside bomb attacks. It also included several graphic cartoons. In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.
It’s unclear who created the cartoons, but Army spokesman Robert Tallman said the drawings “are repulsive and not anywhere near being acceptable,” for a soldier’s personal Web page.
The Tribune learned of the Web page earlier this week from a former schoolmate of Deryk Schlessinger. Army officials said they were unaware of the site until alerted to its presence by the newspaper Thursday.
David Accetta, public affairs director for the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan, said the Army “will investigate thoroughly and impartially.”
In an e-mail to 82nd commanders, Accetta asked to see “how the site is being administered and if we can shut it down.” By Friday morning the site was offline, but officials didn’t immediately respond to questions about who took it down.
Accetta said the pictures and writings he reviewed from the site were inconsistent with the values of Army special forces soldiers.
J.P. Borda, who administers an online index of thousands of personal military Web pages, said military guidelines and common decency are respected by “the overwhelming majority of military bloggers in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“There are a few bad apples and they have soured the whole bunch,” said Borda, who began his site - http://www.milblogging.com - during his first tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2004.
Laura Schlessinger’s appearance in Utah last week included a visit with Army families at Fort Douglas. In an interview with The Tribune, she said, “We raised our son to be a warrior.”
After her Utah visit, Schlessinger received criticism for telling The Tribune
Schlessinger later wrote on her Web site - http://www.drlaura.com - that she was trying to communicate her belief that military spouses shouldn’t complain to war-deployed family members, who have more pressing concerns. “I never whine to my son when he is able to call between missions,” she wrote. that she didn’t want to hear the complaints of military wives whose husbands are deployed. “He could come back without arms, legs or eyeballs, and you’re bitching?” Schlessinger said. “You’re not dodging bullets, so I don’t want to hear any whining.”
I can’t imagine ANYONE being this stupid, the gun in the mouth shot maybe as a sick joke but accompanied by cartoons of rape and murder? No. I smell set up.
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I’ve never listened to Dr. Laura.
me, too Barks…i think it’s highly unlikely he’d be so brazen as to put those kind of depictions up, especially being military, not to mention the son of a “celebrity”….unless he really, really, really hates her and himself.
I don’t think it’s a real Myspace profile, but that’s just my opinion. Also, I don’t think having rebellious or even deranged children is the sole blame of the parents. He’s a fucking adult, at what point is this HIS fault and not his mother’s?!
lolly,
i’m sure you know ‘what’s really going down over there’ huh?
but where would you have heard with the fascistic DoD censoring all the bad news?
You’d be amazed at how brash and stupid some people are. I’m not totally buying the fact that he’s behind it, but the familes of the moral high-roaders are filled with people who do and say stupid, offensive shit and think they can get away with it just because of who their parents/families are.
Having said all that, however, it does seem a little odd that her son would be THIS brazen. I guess we’ll need to hear more of the story before anything can really be confirmed. And this is coming from someone who loathes Dr. Laura.
no adam, how would *I* know, I’m not there!
“enemies” how the fuck wouls they get pics of the dude with a gun in his mouth? puh-leeze! of course there are many soldiers who are dumb as fuck - brandishing a machine guns doesn’t take many brain cells & soldiers aren’t really known for their intelligence …
Adolph is a moron. Adolph’s parents are clearly deranged for giving adolph that name. Adolph is probably the screen name Deryck has given himself.
let me just imagine being George Bush — “hmmm… how do i permanently screw the future of our country? that’s right, i’ll send 200,000 of our promising young men to bootcamp so they can be mindfucked by nazis and go to the desert to murder children and women in the name of Jesus”
Maybe if 9/11 had led to reconciliation rather than revenge, Deryck Schlesinger would be projecting healing rather than haterape of youngsters … he might just be gay though, in which case he should renounce his religion and join George Bush’s Christian Coalition… that way he’ll find many a pinkbutt
“maybe if 9/11 had led to reconciliation?”
maybe if unicorns were sold at 711s!
yea, that’s right…i’m sure bin laden etal would sit at a round table with the civilized world and we could work something out. all we’d have to do is continue to buy oil at 75$ a barrel, as they pump it at 3$…(for uses that the muslim world never dreamt of)…leave israel, kill all jews (apes and pigs according to their bible), leave al-anduhar better known as spain and portugal…continue to give them billions in aid every year, continue to give them all the luxurious technologies that they love, convert to islam or pay the jyzya for being dhimmis! and, promise to never take them for granted again.
i’ll personally write a thank you letter for inventing algebra and the alphabet.
hey, why didn’t dubya think of that!
we could have saved tens of thousands of lives!
that’s the ticket! they knock down our 2 most famous buildings, kill thousands of innocents and we apologize for past transgressions and malfeasance.
joe christ, i nominate you for head of the DNC.
makes perfect sense.
adam — ur are obviously gay — i’m sorry to have displeased you — nothing against gay people
so it was a good idea to support afghanistan and build up the taliban in the 80s to ward off the evil empire and it was a good idea to attack a hapless population with no hope of defending themselves and it was a good idea to allow the heroin production to triple since 2001 and it was a good idea to destabilize an entire region by turning the only secular, militarized nation in the middle east into a boiling cauldron of religious fanatacism and it was a good idea to send our troops half way around the world so when katrina hit there were no emergency resources available and it was a good idea …?
reconciliation with the rest of the world against bin laden!
oh btw adam, you child molesting christian fanatic, they found bin laden right?
jackass
adam, i cannot fathom why you defend this government. the government robs us blind and here you are tooting it’s horn!!
and why do you mention bin laden and 9/11 in the same breath? FBI hasn’t charged him, WON”T charge him!
“Maybe if 9/11 led to reconciliation” ? WTF! Bombing in Spain ring a bell?
lolly, i personally hate the gov’t…i also hate people who have no scope or historical reference when they bash the current sitch.
and i mentioned bin laden and 9/11 because he took credit for it.
because hundreds of millions of muslims consider him a hero because of 9/11.
you been watching too much ‘loose change’ lolly?
are you saying we attacked ourselves?
then why didn’t chimpy mchalihitlerbush plant some WMDs in iraq if he’s so evil, maniacal, power craven?
joe c,
you are obviously a total christianophobe and homophobe. a massive stereotyping, bigotted, intolerant hate-spewing individual.
do you suppose that since we set up the taliban that we ought to always prop up dictators?
do you think that we couldn’t have killed many more millions of poor hapless civilians if it weren’t for our billion dollar gps weapons?
have you noticed that war up until now has always targeted civilians?
btw joe ‘no military resources were available’ christ…do you know how absurd that sounds? do you remember the thousands of school buses that were abandoned because nagin said, ‘where would you take them?’ do you remember when cindy sheehan, hero of the left, said that the military in new orleans was an occupation like iraq? lefties were bawling at the sight of humvees with .50 cals in the streets of new orleans. do you know that it is unconstitutional for the military to come in without state approval? that’s why bush asked 3 days before the storm hit to come into town.
do you know the size of our military and that there were plenty of reserves to go into nawlins?
joe, you are an absolute fanatical moron and i have a sneaking suspicion that you attend a madrassa, or work for the socialist worker. but you’re right about the heroin and iraq. so you got that going for you.
which is nice.
The Pentagon “cleansed the evidence”. Would that be if they didn’t know who the page belonged? THEY KNOW WHO “THE ENEMY” IS.
Army said the gun in mouth was on the website in question. Did not ID him.
The US needs Deryk’s past behaviors, writings and ideas to get a better perspective. Deryk has written similar to “Adolf” for years. While his mother was saying the orthodox act, Deryk was already conflicted. The website in question has more of this confused pattern. Is Deryk back on line? Is “Adolf” a”brother” or just another random creep?
Only Salt Lake Tribune can say what they have. The Army can verify what was on the website in question. The classmates and others will know what they saw before website in question was “cleansed”.
The “alleged” is only a question, not original or verified.
“no emergency resources”
thx for your reconciliation …
read btw the lines, no bigotry, no homophobia — only a massive distrust of fundamentalists of any faith…
George Bush = christian fundamentalist
Bin Laden = militant smart enough to exploit muslim fundamentalist
Saddam = narcissist murderer region controller
best bet is to pay for their oil fair and square and stay away. how many billions does it take to create a quagmire? how many billions does it take to create a utopia? hmmmmm
That idiot isn’t for real! OMG!! Tell me that’s not Dr. Laura. Whose his Daddy?
“Whose his Daddy?” That is the saddest part. Sperm donor or what, the father figure was under the control of dominent mother. He had to be silenced in public, as was the rest of family. How did “Daddy” do with 3 other children? Why won’t Aunt Cyndi help the soldier/boy? She’s a pro. There are cousins and others. Who cares for their own blood?
Only Dr.Laura writes about Deryk today ” Sacrifices must be made for freedom.Death toll passes 3,500:” June 10, 2007 7:58 AM
This from the same who left her mother, Yolanda Schlessinger too long because she didn’t know to call. That was after the neglected elder’s corpse decomposed for 3 to 4 months in her condo not far from daughter.
OMG! I just saw #alleged? Jun 1st, 2007 at 8:43 am ! SICK!
CORRECTION: “she didn’t know to call the morgue.”