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This week on the popular Dr. Phil Show, a mother named Annette Corriveau was featured. She’s special because she wants the right to be able to kill her children. That’s right. She is the mother of two severely disabled adult children, and she feels that the moral thing to do would be to kill them by lethal injection, to end their “suffering.” Her children were diagnosed with Sanfilippo syndrome, causing them to lose motor function and be institutionalized. They cannot speak, and they have to be fed through feeding tubes. Any more information on their condition wasn’t made clear –...

RESULTS - Mercy Killings 1) Do you support euthanasia? 62% Yes, I think it should be legal everywhere 25% No, I think it's murder 13% I'm not sure 2) Do you think Annette should be able to decide when her children die? 53% Yes 28% No 19% I'm not sure

A driver told police he raced at speeds over 100mph to get away from chasing aliens after getting a warning from television host Dr Phil. Richard Blanscet claimed the talk show star spoke in a high-pitched voice telling him an ET invasion had began near his home in Rowan County, North Carolina. The 21-year-old, who said he had been smoking 'a legal form of marijuana,' set out in his father's high-powered Jaguar XK8 to 'rescue' his girlfriend. Now Blanscet has been charged with trying to elude arrest, driving while impaired, and resisting an officer. He was released after posting a...

A 22-year-old newlywed contends in a lawsuit that a "Dr. Phil" national TV spin-off tricked him into appearing and discussing the blemishes on his penis, then aired a rerun of the episode over his protests. , who is suing the producers of the CBS-distributed daytime show "The Doctors," his dermatologist and others, at first agreed to be on the show in Hollywood in exchange for having his pearly penile papules (PPP) removed for free in a brief, laser-surgery procedure. "I felt like I was violated," said Bowling, who was married in July. "It was really embarrassing, and the procedure didn't...

* The Wall Street Journal * OPINION * NOVEMBER 9, 2009, 11:36 P.M. ET Dr. Phil and the Fort Hood Killer His terrorist motive is obvious to everyone but the press and the Army brass. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Snip: To those not terrorized by fear of offending Muslim sensitivities, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's motive was instantly clear: It was an act of terrorism by a man with a record of expressing virulent, anti-American, pro-jihadist sentiments. All were conspicuous signs of danger his Army superiors chose to ignore. Snip: One of the first outbreaks of these fevers, the night of the...

To kill your fellow Americans—as many as possible, unarmed and in the most helpless of circumstances, while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great), requires, of course, only murderous hatred—the sort of mindset that regularly eludes the Dr. Phils of our world as the motive for mass murder of this kind. As the meditations on Maj. Hasan's motives rolled on, "fear of deployment" has served as a major theme—one announced as fact in the headline for the New York Times's front-page story: "Told of War Horror, Gunman Feared Deployment." The authority for this intelligence? The perpetrator's cousin. No story could have...

As you know by now, the “experts”–including fake doctor, Dr. Phil, and Mark Cuban’s brother (on Twitter)–are lecturing us that Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, didn’t kill at least 13 American soldiers and injure at least 31 other soldiers because he’s a devout Muslim. Or because he apparently wrote sympathetic, anti-American messages online approving terrorist attacks on American soldiers. Or because America spoiled him with free college and medical tuition courtesy of taxpayers, which he repaid by hiring a lawyer and killing soldiers. Or because he yelled “allahu Akbar” [allah is the greater or greatest (meaning greater than the Christian or...

US TV therapist Dr Phil is being sued by a woman who claims he tried to "brainwash" her by grabbing her left breast and forcing her to stare at a naked man. Shirley Dieu has filed a suit in a Los Angeles court alleging that she was subjected to physical and emotional abuse when she went to see Dr Phil for therapy in 2007. According to the suit, which was obtained by TMZ.com, Ms Dieu claims Dr Phil forced her to "be in the same room with a completely naked live man while he exposed his entire naked body, genitals...

Ann Coulter was in Hollywood, California this morning at Paramount Studios to appear on the Dr. Phil show.  Southern California's RonDog coordinated a group effort to support Ann.  About thirty members of Free Republic showed up at the studios around 7:30 am. Jim Robinson, his wife Sheila, and thier son Chris came down from Fresno to join in.  Also attending were a number of the Youngs Republicans from UCLA.  Ann didn't have to want for more support.  Thanks to RonDog, we had her back. I would say we made up between 25 and 33% of the audience.  Ann's contributions to...

A nice contingent of FReepers, including the famous Robinson family of Fresno, along with some UCLA young Republicans made it to the Dr. Phil show this morning to give support to Ann Coulter. Okay, so the headline was hyperbolic. We actually didn't invade. We got reservations. It was an interesting show with Annie not shy whatsover in telling the L.A. audience the way things should be. Thanks to Ron Dog for his organizing skills in making it happen. Ann had a great deal of support in the audience as she opposed Alan Colmes and then lying, backstabbing, weasel Scott McClellan....

Recently broadcast on MBC4 were three episodes of the Dr Phil show that initially aired in the US last November. They featured Katherine Lester, a pretty 18-year-old American woman who travelled to the West Bank to be with Abdullah, a 22-year-old Palestinian man she "met" on the internet when she was 16. This was the second time that Katherine had flown to the Middle East to see the young man; on the first occasion, in response to her family's objections, she got as far as Amman, Jordan, before being picked up by the FBI as a minor and escorted home....

One of the girls charged in the vicious beating on a classmate was bailed out of a Florida jail by TV talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw, the show confirmed in a statement on Saturday.

Dr. Phil is a total loser. Watching Larry King on West Coast. He says Hillary's SNIPER gaffe is much about nothing. All Candidates would make these mistakes and gaffes. It doesn't reflect on her REAL experience at all. She has tons of actual experience. Then he says all these LOFTY issues that candidates talk about, in the end ALL PEOPLE CARE ABOUT IS ONE QUESTION: WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME? Its more than Local Politics, its Personal Politics. He doesn't speak for me. I for one am NOT thinking what is in this for me. My guess is most...

Dr. Phil's planned sitdown Monday with Britney Spears' parents dissolved into accusations he was exploiting the troubled singer's emotional crackup. The TV shrink insisted he canceled the taping with Jamie and Lynne Spears "because the Spears situation is too intense at this time, and out of consideration to the family." A source close to Dr. Phil McGraw said it was Britney's parents who cut him off, furious he blabbed about her mental state after visiting her in the psych ward at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "As soon as Jamie realized Dr.Phil was making public statements about Britney,...

Dr Phil, called into help Spears family as Britney mnelts down, went public with plans to air it on a special "intervention" show.

"Britney is having a whole host of problems that no one can diagnose for sure," said Dr. Robi Ludwig, a New York psychologist. "Clearly, though, she is troubled."

Earlier this year, I got the call that every author pines for. Wendi Wan, a producer from the "Dr. Phil" show, alerted my publisher that the daytime pop psychologist wanted to design a program around my new book, "Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good." They would need copies straightaway, and soon I was subjected to an hour-long interrogation. To my great relief, I passed the inquest, and my appearance on "Dr. Phil" was confirmed. Yet the producers required others to appear with me, and they needed my help. And so, for...

GILFORD, Mich. — A Michigan teenager who flew to the Middle East last year to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has broken up with him on the "Dr. Phil" show. "This is really hard for me to tell you, but I'm not going to be with you anymore," 18-year-old Katherine Lester said as her Palestinian boyfriend, Abdullah Jinzawi, watched on a monitor from the West Bank town of Jericho where he lives. Lester told Jinzawi he was possessive and swore at her. Under questioning by host Phil McGraw, Jinzawi denied being verbally abusive but said he called...

First, quick recap for folks who don’t watch daytime TV. Dr. Phil has just wrapped up a four-show orgy of marital disaster on Jeffrey and his wife-for-now, Jennifer. To make a long story very short, Jeffrey is the ultimate control freak – filling their house and cars with cameras and remote-controlled listening devices, making wild accusations against her to her and to all friends and relatives. He even went so far as to give himself a fake vasectomy scar because, as he said, “Having another child has always saved out marriage before.” Suffice to say, watching this self-justifying egomaniac try...

Bushes join''Dr. Phil,' musical stars at "Christmas in Washington" concert Canadian Press Monday, December 11, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. President George W. Bush enjoyed a lively set of Christmas music Sunday night, swaying and bobbing his head as music stars like Taylor Hicks and Gretchen Wilson belted out classic carols. TV host "Dr. Phil" McGraw and his wife, Robin, emceed the annual "Christmas in Washington" concert at the National Building Museum. The event benefited the Children's National Medical Center. "Since this event began a quarter of a century ago, 'Christmas in Washington' has become one of the most cherished...

Time for a Pop Culture Update. This week, the top ten creepiest ad icons. Also, more on Fox's abducted Steve Centenni, some Media Nuggets, "Skating With Stars" Swanson's baby, Dr. Phil's son's strange choice of a mate, Clinton friend Jeffrey Epstein and his choice of very young women. Finally, some celebs as youngsters, blind item fun, awful plastic surgery and the latest in ear jewelry.

<p>If you'll take your "conservative values" blowhard off the air, I promise to vote for whatever right winger gets nominated in 2008.</p> <p>This turd is embarrassing. It's the same thing every show. Some person with an onvious flaw -- so obvious the person themseles always recognize it -- gets paraded out and this phony, arrogant blowhard pretends to "fix" things. Who knows if anything gets fixed, but if it does, it has nothing to do with baldy.</p>

Just when I thought I had seen all of the manufactured grief humans could possibly conjure-up in one morning...I discovered an all-girl affair called "Starting Over". This show finds very whiny women who seem to relish the role of victim, and places them together in one house. The Starting Over gals work for weeks on such pressing matters as "eliminating chaos," "growing up at 40," and "learning to drop the hustle." The show employs other women known as "life coaches" to kick-start the ladies' spirits. All this time, I have been living my life without the benefit of a coach...it...

Because she has led countless billions and billions of people to the promised land of books, because she preaches self-help and self-sufficiency and not least because she has shown that even a middle-aged person can keep weight off, I must tiptoe up to the amazing Oprah and merely whisper to her that in the case of James Frey, the liar whose memoir turns out to have a good deal of fiction alongside fact, she is not only wrong but deluded. What she needs is a session with Dr. Phil. Frey's memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," is about his recovery from...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President and First Lady attended church this morning in Washington, then attended the 24th Annual Christmas in Washington event this evening.

LOS ANGELES - TV psychologist "Dr. Phil" McGraw stated in e-mails that he had "no expertise" in making the diet pills that he endorsed, according to court filings in a lawsuit alleging he made false statements about the products. McGraw also insisted on "the STRONGEST of disclaimers" in the products' advertisements before putting his name on the now discontinued Shape Up! diet campaign, the New York Daily News reported on Monday, citing e-mail printouts that are included in Los Angeles Superior Court filings. "This fleshes out our position that Dr. Phil was in charge ... he was rewriting the commercials,"...

Surprised that we haven’t heard anything from Jesse or Al regarding the ongoing and uncontrolled “civil unrest” in France as well as some other EU countries, the full extent of which has been less than fully reported by both the European and American media. You’d think they’d be on a plane by now geared up for some good ol’ fashioned conciliation Jackson and Sharpton style... Al’s the man. He’s the one with in-your-face experience on how to put the lid on urban torching, amok running and jihad inciting. But then, maybe Dr. Phil should be our man in Paris? With...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life group that monitors corporate donations to Planned Parenthood says it wants Phillip McGraw, Ph.D, better known as Dr. Phil, to stop promoting the nation's largest abortion business. Dr. Phil's opinion on abortion is unclear the group says, but Life Decisions International is calling on him to stop touting the abortion business. LDI points to a recent Dr. Phil television program in which two viewers expressed opposing view on distributing condoms in school. Dr. Phil asked the guest who opposed condoms if she was persuaded by the view that teenagers will have sex anyway. The...

Lawyers Fatten Up on Dr. Phil Diet The man known for telling it like it is apparently didn't--at least according to a new lawsuit. Three dieters who claim that Dr. Phil McGraw's discontinued Shape Up! diet plan was useless are suing the TV shrink for fraud and looking to expand their claim into a national class-action lawsuit. The trio appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday morning to file the suit, alleging that Dr. Phil made false and misleading claims about the diet supplements' weight-loss prowess. They are requesting full refunds and additional damages as well as seeking to open...

Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey views the flood-ravaged Ninth Ward in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Sunday. Dr. Phil McGraw paid a visit Sunday afternoon to Katrina evacuees at the Astrodome. There he consoled the thousands of evacuees with words of advice at an impromptu "town meeting." The meeting was taped for airing on a future edition of Dr. Phil. Oprah Winfrey will be in Houston on Tuesday, also to tape a future show, according to one Reliant Center official. Ellen DeGeneres, a former New Orleans resident, was also expected to address Hurricane...

Man says Dr. Phil was inspiration to scare wife Fredonia man to serve 6 months, undergo counseling Port Washington - A Fredonia man who says he was influenced by TV talk show host "Dr. Phil" McGraw to hire someone to give his wife "a terrific scare" by kidnapping her and locking her in a truck of a car was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and ordered to undergo mental health counseling With the man's wife, five grown children and several friends looking on, Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Tom R. Wolfgram also sentenced Ronald J. Schueller to three years...

Dr. Phil exposed a female DV perp 5/19/05. It's rare for people to admit that women commit their share (if not more) of domestic violence - and even rarer to have live video of female perpetrated DV aired on national TV. Female victims of domestic violence get sympathy from police, courts, media, and plenty of help from shelters. Male victims of domestic violence get laughed at and little or no help from police, courts, or shelters. If the men hit back, they are seen as the perpetrator. If they volunteer too quickly to leave, they lose the house and access...

Sunday the Bush's taped the 23rd annual Christmas in Washington concert at the National Building Museum. The concert will air on Wednesday, December 15 on Turner Network Television. Sunday evening the president (and presumably the first lady) hosted Rudy Giuliani (and presumably his wife) at a Christmas dinner at the White House. Today, President Bush nominated former Utah governor and current EPA Administrator Michael O. Leavitt to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island.

LONDON (Reuters) - A divided world came to terms on Wednesday with the prospect of four more years of President Bush (news - web sites), with friends hailing his re-election and critics vowing to make the best of it, especially in Iraq (news - web sites).

Please pass this on to all your pro-life connections. Dr. Phil has an extremely popular show, and I'm usually a fan. However, I'm very disappointed that he's planning a show discussing when a woman should have an abortion. Please write the show an email and let him know what you think: It says "please only write if you want to be on the show". Disregard. They need to know this is unacceptable. https://www.drphil.com/drphilplugger/templates/BeOnTheShow.jhtml?action=respond&plugId=D139900002Please get the word out to as many people as possible. God Bless.

Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry appeared on "Dr. Phil" yesterday. Some highlights, from HOTLINE: THK: "I think men are supposed to be boys always. They just go through different stages and if wives understand that they can love them." THK, asked if she ever wanted daughters: "Yes. ... I had some miscarriages." Kerry, on bringing the kids together after he and THK married: "I played hockey and my daughter played hockey. And so when we got married and were spending Christmases together, we started this tradition of having this broom hockey game on Christmas afternoon. We all got shirts that...

October 7, 2004 -- IF there is any mercy left in the universe, Dr. Phil — who is such a giant gasbag that he should be flying over Macy’s at Thanksgiving — is finished doing presidential candidate interviews. Can’t somebody sneak in some kind of constitutional amendment or something? Yesterday it was John and Teresa Heinz Kerry’s chance to be grilled by Phil at their house about what they thought — mostly about Dr. Phil’s fantastic parenting ideas. How political wives don’t become professional divorcees, I don’t know. It’s one thing to be forced to eat rubber chicken at nightly...

anybody going to watch these 2 losers?

Skip the Bushes but watch the Kerrys. Now that advice guru Dr. Phil's national syndicated TV interview with George and Laura Bush has already aired, ABC's Good Morning America chose this morning to promote his interviews with the presidential candidates and their wives, just in time to plug Dr. Phil's interview with John and Teresa Heinz Kerry airing Wednesday afternoon. [MRC's Jessica Anderson wrote this item for Cyber Alert.] Before a taped interview with Dr. Phil in the 7:30am EDT half hour, co-host Diane Sawyer explained that "he and his wife, Robin, garnered interviews with both presidential candidates and their...

THE PRESIDENT and first lady appeared on Dr. Phil today in an interview that was recorded in June. Dr. Phil's wife joined him for the living room heart-to-heart, in which the first couple discussed parenting and home life. Politics was not on the agenda. But spanking, teenaged drinking, and what kind of men the Bushes hope their daughters choose as husbands all were. Asked if they had had a definition of success for the twins, Mrs. Bush demurred. "Nothing formal," she said, beyond the basics of doing well at school and demonstrating good behavior. The president emphasized the gift of...

I watched Dr Phil interview the first couple....they were great! Unfortunately I didnt turn it off before Oprah started her "We are women hear us roar" episode on voting. Her accomplices, I mean guests, were Cameron Diaz and drew Barrymore. Of course thery never said who to vote for, but the winks and implications were more than evident. Diaz said something to the effect that if you want to get raped, dont vote. If you want to lose control of your body, dont vote. (paraphrasing here ...where can I get a transcript?) Made me SICK!!! What is scary is that...

President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush welcomed Dr. Phil and Robin to their ranch in Crawford, Texas to talk about family and raising kids. "I am really committed to putting family back in America," Dr. Phil tells them. "I think it's what you have put in the White House, and I think it's what we need to put back in America." The President agrees. "If you have a child, that child has got to be the number one priority in your life," he says. "If you are fortunate enough to be a mother or a father, you're...

Forget Iraq. Forget the economy. Forget those pesky National Guard records. Today on the "Dr. Phil" show, voters can find out all sorts of unusual tidbits about their president, such as: Did Papa Bush spank Jenna and Barbara when they were little? How did daddy feel when Jenna stuck out her tongue at reporters? And does Dr. Phil have any advice for the president on how to keep his "Family First" while on the campaign trail? That's right: in a tradition started by Bill Clinton in 1992 -- remember his saxophone performance on "Arsenio" or the "boxers or briefs?" query...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sen. John Kerry is about to make the rounds on the talk shows. He's been booked for interviews on "Dr. Phil," "Live with Regis and Kelly" and "The Late Show with David Letterman." A Kerry spokeswoman said it's being done to reach out to people "who might not be paying attention just to nightly news." His campaign hopes it will also impress upon viewers that Kerry likes the same things as other Americans -- sports, family, jokes and fast food. Kerry's interview with Dr. Phil McGraw was taped this past weekend and will also feature Teresa Heinz...

BOSTON - Democrat John Kerry reminded his hometown supporters at a $3 million fund-raiser Saturday night that he's come from behind to win elections before. "Let me tell you something, these folks have got me in fighting mood," Kerry said of rival President Bush's campaign. "When I get in a fighting mood towards the end of September and towards the beginning of October, I think you know what happens here in Massachusetts." The crowd of donors, which included Democrats from the state's congressional delegation and other statewide elected officials, rose to its feet cheering, with several people pumping their fists...

excerpts: Mostly, though, Rove's raison d'être these days is to quietly build the best grass-roots organization ever. His goal is to name a Bush coordinator in 29,000 crucial precincts in 17 key target states, and the campaign is 95 percent of the way there right now. Similarly, Rove says the campaign has now recruited 980,000 of the 1 million pro-Bush volunteers it hoped to have signed up by Election Day. Rove also has some surprises for the final weeks of the campaign. One is an interview Bush has taped with television counselor Phil McGraw, known as "Dr. Phil," on parenting....

DR PHIL IS A FRAUD The 'Dr. Phil' show is a fraud!" That's the shocking revelation of two former guests, who say the show's producers paid a stranger to insult them on-camera and arranged for a photographer to do the same. "They saw firsthand what a fraud Dr. Phil's show is, and they want the whole world to know about it," a source close to the women told The ENQUIRER. Maryanne Bodolay, 400-pound executive adminis- trator of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), and Sally E. Smith, 374-pound editor-in-chief of Big Beautiful Woman magazine, went on Dr. Phil...

NEVER FORGET ...In a TV Re-Run of the 1960's Vietnam War Anti-War Arguments against our fighting for Freedom, but this time around with the CLARITY that a Dr. PHIL brings to the table, today's TV Guesting on Dr. Phil's National TV Show of 2 Anti-War "Pink Ladies" Leaders was a real barn burner that just nailed these "Ladies" to the Wall for all to see. ...First, Dr. PHIL let these "Ladies" have their say, which was a mirror image of College Student-Activists HILLARY RODHAM -&- BILL CLINTON during the Vietnam War, and then he blasted them for giving aid and...

Dr. Phil McGraw's syndicated daily program took an activist slant Friday when he featured military personnel and families of American POWs and those killed in action in Operation Iraqi Fredom. His guests included Medea Benjamin, AKA "Baghdad Barbie", founder of Code Pink. Benjamin and her cohorts sputtered the usual lines: the evils of Coalition intervention; how badly their Iraqi friends are suffering because of the war; how she and the Pinkettes are the true Americans fighting to save lives; how Iraq is the new Vietnam; how they are justified in getting their message across regardless of the consequences. Meanwhile, Dr....

This is huge. It means that Scott's boat was NEVER LAUNCHED.