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Today in C*nt Punditry!

Asked on "The Today Show" if Silda Wall, Elliot Spitzer's wife, had any role in her husband's philandering, the brilliant Dr. Laura Schlessinger, best known as host of the popular Dr. Laura radio advice call-in show, had this to say:

It's interesting. what you said about what men need -- men do need validation. When they come into the world they're born of a woman. Getting the validation from mommy is the beginning of needing it from a woman. When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like our hero, he's very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs. These days, women don't spend a lot of time thinking about how they can give their men what they need.

MEREDITH VIEIRA: Are you saying women should feel guilty, like they somehow drove the man to cheat?

SCHLESSINGER: You know what, the cheating was his decision to repair what's damaged, and to feed himself where he's starving. But, yes, I hold women accountable for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need.

So there you go: Spitzer was just trying to feed himself where he was starving -- and Silda clearly was not putting food on the table. As always, it's the woman's fault.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).