POS, listen to Behind the Bastards about him if you want to know why.
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A fun piece of trivia is that he lost is license to practice as a counselor after having a relationship with one of his teenaged clients.
For starters.
I took a psychology intro class like 20 years ago and that professor hated Dr. Phil with an absolute passion because of how objectively bad he was as a representative for their field.
I honestly believe that part of the crisis in mental health care that’s universal across southern states is that therapists seem to think that therapy is supposed to look like his show.
I went through the hell of a troubled teen program - like the kid diddling Turnabout Ranch he sent kids to - and so much of my experiences with psychological care have been an attempt to force me into being something more “socially acceptable.” Not recognizing that my brain works differently than others, not helping me find coping strategies, but just telling me “you need more grit and to force yourself to make eye contact!”
His show presents bullying as “mental health care” - and this has seriously hampered the practice.
Yikes.
Fuck Dr Phil, Oz, and especially Oprah.
I'm not saying no to any of these, but why ESPECIALLY Oprah? I try not to know too much about any of them, but Phil seems especially bad considering how he lost his license, I don't think Oprah did anything like that. Did she?
Oprah is who made Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz public figures. She made them famous on her show.
Edit:
[Dr. Phil] McGraw rose to fame with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the late 1990s. Oprah Winfrey then helped McGraw launch his own advice show, Dr. Phil, in September 2002.
In 2003, Oprah Winfrey was the first guest on the Discovery Channel series Second Opinion with Dr. Oz, and he was a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, making more than sixty appearances. In 2009, The Dr. Oz Show, a daily television program about medical matters and health, was launched by Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television, running for 13 seasons.
I’ve come to the conclusion that everybody in Hollywood is out for money and fame, and that some are just very smart about keeping their opinions to themselves so as not to shatter the illusion of being good people.
There's the odd actor who's outspokenly not a shitbag; Pedro Pascal comes to mind as a recent example
Oprah also gave Jenny McCarthy a platform for her anti-vaccine bullshit.
And Oprah loves her some Weinstein
What the fuck is going on, man
America is beyond any possible satire.
Not to mention they say "embedded" as if these goons are dodging sniper fire and mortars in Fallujah. Dude probably got his photo op and then walked over to Erewon for a $19 smoothie.
Wake me up when Hulk Hogan raids with ICE
lol holy fuck every time he does something incredibly dumb and pointless, I think “this is it; surely he won’t top this”.
And yet here we are.
Dr. Phil and my pillow guy have to be related, right?
the mustache binds them
What, was Steven Seagal busy?
What is it with guys Oprah made famous having fake or no credentials in their supposed “area of expertise” and also being close to Trump?
Seriously... the fact that Rachel Ray is the only one to made it out of Oprah's influence with any kind of wide-spread appeal is crazy.
Remember that Million Little Pieces debacle? I think she's just easy to fool.
Yeah, she's obviously very business savvy/good at playing that game, but missing a few marbles in the critical thinking domain. Like one or two other people you may have heard of.
In that picture it looks like his human-mask is slipping.
As ICE was arresting people he was there to tell them to get a job ignoring if they already had one.
...why?
He's a racist piece of shit
Also looks like he lost a good 10 lbf from the head area. Ozempic head?
Freak
I hope he will forever be remembered as one of the first non-politician celebrity that jumped on the fascism bandwagon IRL.
ACAB includes doctor phil
Why is there a picture of Gallagher? Or is that a tortoise dick? The thumbnail is small.
It's a tortoise dick.
A once great a beautiful city, Los Angeles [Citation Needed]
While I stand in solidarity with my fellow Californians, LA is objectively the worst part of California.
I think you're wrong. Reason - I've been to Bakersfield. And Barstow. And Inyokern. And Blythe. And Stockton.
I can see your point, but I respectfully disagree. I find the desert to fairly beautiful, and at least Bakersfield and Stockton have more of a small-town feel. IMO, LA combines all the negatives of Stockton and Bakersfield into one plasticized, superficial mess; LA's better at covering up their flaws, but there's a certain authenticity in owning your blemishes.
At least Barstow is close enough to Victorville that it makes dumping corpses easy. I was born in Redlands, I have little good to say about the rest of SoCal. Better than Idaho though.
Stockton makes the list but not Fresno or Methdesto?
List was non-exhaustive lol
"youre ugly, youre disgusting, im gonna kill you, give me two hundred dollars"