Dr. Phil was embedded with ICE during controversial Los Angeles immigration raids | CNN Business
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The footage is being incorporated into a special report on “Dr. Phil Primetime,” a program on McGraw’s conservative TV channel Merit TV, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
  • goodjason@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    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?

    • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      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.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I hope he will forever be remembered as one of the first non-politician celebrity that jumped on the fascism bandwagon IRL.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      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.

    • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      While I stand in solidarity with my fellow Californians, LA is objectively the worst part of California.

      • Tower@lemmy.zip
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        2 days ago

        I think you’re wrong. Reason - I’ve been to Bakersfield. And Barstow. And Inyokern. And Blythe. And Stockton.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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          11 hours ago

          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.

        • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          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.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • kobra@lemmy.zip
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        2 days ago

        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.

        • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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          4 hours ago

          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.

      • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        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?

        • can@sh.itjust.works
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          2 days ago

          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.

          • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            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.

            • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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              1 day ago

              There’s the odd actor who’s outspokenly not a shitbag; Pedro Pascal comes to mind as a recent example

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Dr Phil is the kind of guy who in the 19th century I would have expected to roll into town with a wagon selling a miracle cure.

        I would also expect them to roll out of town on a rail car, tied up to a post, and covered in tar and feathers.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.