Saturday, January 03, 2004

Oops.

A Holocaust Studies institute is asking radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to retract her on-air comments yesterday comparing some U.S. day-care centers to child-rearing practices in Nazi Germany.

The pop psychologist, whose syndicated show is broadcast on more than 200 stations, read a letter from a listener who criticized the lack of attention given to children in some American "child development centers" and other day-care facilities.

Schlessinger said, "It sounds like something out of Nazi Germany."

That drew a complaint from the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which asked for a retraction.

"Whatever their flaws, child development centers are not comparable to Nazi Germany, a brutal fascist dictatorship that slaughtered six million Jews," said Wyman Institute director Rafael Medoff said...


--New York Post

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