Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the right-wing talk radio shrink, under fire for repeatedly using a racial epithet, the N-word 11 times, to a caller on the air, announced  last night on CNN's “Larry King Live” that she has decided to end her show radio show at the end of the year. Why not sooner?

Dr. Schlessinger said, “I want to regain my First Amendment rights. I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I’m sort of done with that. I’m not quitting. I feel energized actually — stronger and freer to say the things that I believe need to be said for people in this country."

Right? Dr. Schlessinger wants the right to use the "n" word?! She calls herself a psychologist, a doctor. She is a quack.

Eric Burns the president of Media Matters for America, a media watch group, issued an apt statement after the quack announced that she will quit radio. “Dr. Laura’s radio career ended in disgrace tonight because of the bigoted, ugly and hateful remarks made on her show. Americans have had enough. Listeners are now holding hosts, affiliates, and sponsors accountable for the offensive and inexcusable content on the airwaves.”

The Associated Press reports that "at least two national sponsors of her radio program, General Motors Co., and Motel 6 have pulled out."

Good bye to the quacko. Why won't she leave sooner?