Discussion: Fox Brings On Dr. Phil To Deliver 'Straight Talk' To Baltimore Rioters

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Truly amazing. There is actually a show called, “'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills?” Damn, I’ll just bet it’s Must See TV!

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In 2002, the California Board of Psychology judged that McGraw’s work on his show was “more entertainment than psychology.”

What the hell was the California Board of Psychology thinking? Do they really believe that Dr. Phil is entertaining? Well, chacun a son gout.

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News Flash: Daytime TV parasite Dr. Phil saddles high horse, states the obvious.

" ‘Some of them can’t tell you why they’re out there,’ McGraw said. ‘I have talked to people who are angry about issues, but don’t really understand the issues. They’re just blanket, ‘we’re supposed to be angry.’ Then you have people that are just saying, hey, it’s a chance to get free stuff.’ "

Seems to me Dr. Phil that you’re angry about this issue but don’t really understand the issue. With you, it’s a case of “I’m supposed to be angry because I’m getting paid to be here.”

As for getting free stuff, would peddling dietary supplements fall under that category? Oh, I guess not – you’ve earned scammed that money on your own. It’s the American Way.

http://cspinet.org/new/200401131.html

Why can’t these Negroes learn from your fine example and steal with legitimacy?    I guess we can chalk it up to their culture of depravity, huh?

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“Look, you know, I’m sitting here, an old white guy, I can’t say I know how these young people feel. I get that,” McGraw began.

Co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck asked McGraw to “get into the mindset of the looters, the rioters.”

Damn, is she dumb!

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In the runup to the Iraq war I happened to watch “Dr” Phil who had a woman in the audience who questioned the wisdom of attacking a country who had done nothing to us. Dr Phil told her she needed to shut up and get behind the President, and many in the audience erupted in approval. I want to spit every fucking time I hear his name mentioned now.

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“Um, yes, -ahem-, Doctor Phil, if we could ask you for a moment to ‘get jiggy with it’ and get both Moe and Joe working as they say. Could you please enlighten our geriatric white supremacist audience as to the mindset of these savages who demonstrate such flagrant disrespect for law and order? Is it any wonder the police have to kill them sometimes?”

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Bingo!

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A fake news channel brings on a fake psychologist to give advice. Fuck you Oprah for foisting this idiot into our national media.

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While thanking Oprah, let’s not forget her other gift to America: Dr. Oz.

Amazing! I saw the same broadcast, and I remember sending the sonofabitch an email suggesting that if he wants to delve into politics, he needs to declare his political alignment clearly and unambiguously. He insinuated she was a traitor for questioning the war. I was fucking burning up. What fucking balls. I never forgot it either.

Quick Draw McGraw is nothing but another shit kicking grifter from Texas.

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There was a time when I thought Oprah was pretty smart… and that was before I really observed the idiot fame-whores she championed. In retrospect she’s a clueless rich idiot.

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(I have to go with this one, but it was almost a toss up with a Picard face palm meme picture.)

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“Noting that Phil McGraw was ‘also a dad,’”

There it is again! Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “Black people are terrible parents and shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce.”

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Not sure I’d call her an idiot. You’ll notice that championing the idiot fame-whores made her a lot of money . . .

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Daytime television is civilization’s cesspool.

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“where is the sense of values and character” missing from the streets of Baltimore.

Did the police start killing black men every other day once we elected a black President or was it happening the whole time and the press just didn’t pay attention?

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“id·i·ot ˈidēət, nouninformal, ‘a stupid person.’”

To be fair, where does that preclude getting rich by doing and saying stupid things? Does it make one “smaht” to recognize that one can get rich doing and saying stupid things and then doing and saying those stupid things to get rich? I’m pretty sure it takes very little brainpower to recognize that, so I’d have to say it just makes you a rich idiot.

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Brings to mind a recent discussion between Cornel West and Robert P. George I watched on C-SPAN. They had just discussed the idea that society has devolved to overemphasize celebrity and wealth over community. West used the example of Beyonce, giving her ample credit as a towering pop music icon, but then dropping the hammer that she just ain’t no Aretha. His point was that music once had heart, it was a voice, it was a message.

It seems all entertainment has followed the de-evolutionary path to self-gratification. So indeed, it’s not a mark of idiocy to leverage that characteristic among the populace into a fortune. Perhaps a better term would be “shallow opportunism.”

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See the bubble headed bleached blond on Fox & Friends.

Her GOP talking points well they never end.

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“Look, you know, I’m sitting here, an old white guy, I can’t say I know how these young people feel. I get that,” McGraw began.

Too bad he didn’t stop right there…that would have been the most constructive thing he could have done.