I just don't get some people..

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Ok this was sent to me in a bulliten on myspace so sorry I don't have a link for it. [i] Dr. Laura Blog Shame on Oprah! October 14, 2008 on 12:00 am | In Child Neglect, Children, Motherhood, Oprah Winfrey, Parenting, Personal Responsibility, Uncategorized Email This Post Here’s a simple test for you to contemplate: What do you get when you leave a golden retriever dog in a car on a hot day with the windows cracked a bit, and the dog dies from being cooked in that car oven? Well, you get arrested for felony animal cruelty, with bail set at $20,000 while you await your trial, which, if convicted, will get you about three years in jail. Okay, did you get that one right? Probably. Next test is: What do you get when you leave a human child in a car on a hot day with the window not cracked a bit, and the child dies from being cooked in that car oven? You get to be on Oprah! with an entire audience of dewy-eyed women exuding understanding and sympathy. Disgusting. Here are a few view responses to that program: “I too saw that Oprah episode. I scoffed and hissed as I watched the ’sympathetic nodding’ of Oprah’s audience who were apparently relating to the distracted, forgetful ‘busyness’ of a mother who was asked by her husband to drop the baby off at day care that morning. According to this woman, that was something her husband normally did, and it was outside of her daily routine. She had a lot on her mind and was concentrating on what the day had in store for her at work. That was her reason for forgetting the baby in the car! I just wanted to scream! Then a thought came to my little pea brain. I wondered if these ‘understanding’ women in the audience would actually ‘understand’ if their husbands forgot their birthday, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or Mother’s Day because he was stressed and busy, concentrating on work, blah blah blah. Hmmmm…..yeah, I don’t think so; we all know what these women would think of their controlling, nasty, insensitive husbands for forgetting these important things in life. ” Oh yes, there was one thing that mother did remember. With the forgotten, ignored, unimportant human being in the back seat, she evidently did make a hurried stop to get donuts for the staff, which means the child was also left alone in the car while she got those all-important calorie-laden munchies. Right after I brought this travesty up on my radio program, I received an email from a single, twenty-three year old man, who had been watching this Oprah episode with his girlfriend of two years. His immediate take was that the woman, the audience, and Oprah were being utterly disgusting, offering sympathy to a woman - a mother - who didn’t have her child on her mind. It seems he went on and on to his girlfriend about the sacred obligations of a mother - i.e., putting the child first - and about how awful it was to see women clucking in sympathy for this neglectful mother and not for the buried child. His girlfriend was in sympathy with the audience and was aghast that he would have such a “cold, cruel” non-understanding point of view. He decided at that moment to break off with her, because he couldn’t see any woman with that point of view being his girlfriend, wife, and certainly not the mother of his precious children. I tell you, I was very impressed that we have such real men among our young people today. When Oprah and other feminist, liberal, influential women take the point of view that children are not the first priority, when they coo over the “pain” of a mother who leaves her child to slowly cook to death in a car instead of storming the citadel demanding jail time for reckless endangerment, neglect and manslaughter, then we have women telling women to have compassion for irresponsibility, self-centeredness and murder. When we have compassion for evil, we show disdain for the innocent victim. Shame on Oprah. [/i] I feel the same way this poster did. I have two children and I'VE NEVER FORGOT THEM, EVER. I think this woman should be rotting in jail, not making money telling her story on Oprah. I think Oprah should be ashamed of herself for even inviting this woman on her show. The moment you become a parent your life takes a backseat to that child. I don't believe she "forgot" her child, I just think she was just to damn lazy to be a parent and take care of it.