The Tribune’s insanely talented Matthew D. LaPlante brings us the following tragic and disgusting chapter in the moral train wreck that is Dr. Laura and the Schlessinger brood.:

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.

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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 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.”

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LaPlante has sadly been criticized by members of Dr. Laura’s Army for having the audacity to … *GASP* … quote her using *GASP* *GASP* words that she said. The Trib’s Reader’s Advocate has a good summary about that.

Matthew D. LaPlante is a fantastic journalist and his writing about the military has been thoughtful, concise and conscientious. You ought to click on his name, in the byline, and send him a note of support. Journalists, even reporters, don’t get enough of that.

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