Friday Vent - Dr. Phil

[major_kerina]

I had the unfortunate chance to listen to Dr. Phil on the other TV while I was waiting for something else.

Here's what happened - There's a family. The husband and wife were attacked by a hammer-wielding man in their bed. The event was distastefully reenacted in the program.

What does Dr. Phil do? Offer genuine counseling and help to this couple? HELL NO!

It's free crap time! To promote healing, of course. They took their home and decorated/made over it! *zam* Brand new 60-inch flat screen TV! (providing the names of each of the sponsors in excruciating detail). A state-of-the-art new kitchen! Wow! The youngest kid was really the only who seemed to see through the BS of all this. He wasn't very pleased with his room (despite the fact our smiling, pretty hostess through their new house tried to cover it up with - "he's quite speechless").

By the end of it...both parents had their plastered on smiles like "This makes being brutally beaten by a house invader totally worth it now!" Only towards the end did they briefly mention something which I think would've been remotely-logical to give them...a security system for their house. Which they definitely need now with $300,000 dollars worth of corporation-donated crap.

This is why I try to absolutely avoid daytime TV and about 99 percent of network TV wherever possible...X_X

Comments

[allieflowlight.livejournal.com]

Dr. Phil. Bleh. (http://community.livejournal.com/tranny_rage/87420.html)

[mistresshikari.livejournal.com]

That's positively disgusting.. I'm not surprised, but ugh.

Sigh, culture today.

[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

Ann Coulter calls John Edwards a faggot, so every liberal worth their salt with a blog calls her a tranny. We're not getting any help from the outside culture; not for *decades*.

[mistresshikari.livejournal.com]

The way I see it, this culture that currently exists will end up dying of it's own venom, or imploding over itself. Just sadly it'll end up doing irrepairable damage to society and humanity as a whole in the process.

[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

Oh, we're in for the long haul, baby. You'd be amazed how long hate sustains itself.

America's dying. Hate? Hate's already making arrangements to get paid in euros.

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[allieflowlight.livejournal.com]

Not every one. (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=942)

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[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

Yes, and what is that blog post pointing out? All those good, nice, "progressive" liberals calling Ann Coulter a transvestite.

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[allieflowlight.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I'm saying that not every well-read liberal blogger does that. I can post more examples if you want.

For the record, I wasn't posting that to argue with you, but to bring a little bit of hope and light to the thread ("See, at least some liberal bloggers have our back!").

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[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

All I'm saying is, if you can't get the average liberal blogger to tilt at your windmill, mainstream politics isn't looking terribly bright.

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[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

Okay, where exactly did that come from? I've taken a rational, if somewhat cynical, position that mainstream liberal sources such as the Democratic party won't publicly support the transgendered, seeing as how even the liberal blogs are divided. I hardly see how that's a "lunatic" position, much less one that's a few subway stops away from tired Nazi analogies.

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[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

You insist on turning a political discussion into an exchange of personal attacks?

Fine, you're as bad a troll as you are a writer.

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[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

I'm so interested in hearing what you contribute to society that's "of value".

[angeliccelestia.livejournal.com]

So, it seems we all agree that Dr. Phil is a dumbass. >_

[tal-kaline.livejournal.com]

Remember, kids. What's the answer to everything? MORE CONSUMER GOODS!

[mistresshikari.livejournal.com]

Culture today. A paranoid, self destructive granfaloon desperately seeking solace in whatever it can while remaining hostile to the growing amount of freedom that could, in the end, repair it's desperate state.

[anna-wren.livejournal.com]

Its bad when you think Jerry Springer is more Valid than Doc Phil