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Line 1: {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}}▼ {{Short description|Conservative radio personality (born 1947)}} ▲{{Use mdy dates|date= {{Infobox person | name = Laura Schlessinger Line 7: | caption = Schlessinger in 2007 | birth_name = Laura Catherine Schlessinger | birth_date = | birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], New York, U.S. | other_names = Dr. Laura Line 55: {{blockquote|In an age of moral relativity, Dr. Laura's certitude compels ... Schlessinger's fervor is indisputably evangelical, and her listeners believe her to be a paragon, a beacon of hope and rectitude in a dissolute, degraded world.<ref name="vanityfair09-98"/>}} In 2010—her last year on terrestrial radio—she was still No. 5.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/barack-obama-critics-rush-limbaugh-to-annual-list-influential-radio-hosts-article-1.195023|title=Barack Obama critics, like Rush Limbaugh, top annual list of influential radio hosts |first=David|last=Hinckley|work= Daily News|location=New York}}</ref> In May 2002, the show still had an audience of more than 10 million, but had lost several million listeners in the previous two years as it was dropped by [[WABC (AM)|WABC]] and other affiliates, and was moved from day to night in cities such as Seattle and Boston. These losses were attributed in part to Schlessinger's shift from giving relationship advice to lecturing on morality and conservative politics. Pressure from gay rights groups caused dozens of sponsors to drop the radio show, as well.<ref name="nydailynews05-13-02">{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2002/05/13/2002-05-13_mag__dr__laura_s_star_falling.html |title=Mag: Dr. Laura's Star Falling |last=Hinckley |first=David |work=Daily News|location=New York |date=May 13, 2002 Schlessinger used "Hot Talkin' Big Shot", a song by country and blues singer and songwriter [[Nikki Hornsby]], for several years as cue music for her radio program and for a national radio commercial advertising for the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=79852674&albumID=803078&imageID=18559692 |title=Myspace |publisher=Viewmorepics.myspace.com |date=August 30, 2013 |access-date=September 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716100418/http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=79852674&albumID=803078&imageID=18559692 |archive-date=July 16, 2012 }}</ref> She also used "[[New Attitude (song)|New Attitude]]" by [[Patti LaBelle]]. | |||