Dr. Phil McGraw said on his syndicated television show this week that Americans need to have a conversation about limiting the government&#8217;s powers over the people in case another pandemic occurs.
McGraw made the remarks after repeatedly warning throughout the pandemic about the dangers that the lockdowns would have on people, especially children.
&#8220;When I stepped up in the beginning and said this lockdown, this quarantine, is going to create more problems with quality of life than that COVID is going to do in taking lives — people looked at me like I was insane,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I got criticized, called a &#8216;heretic,&#8217; ‘what is he talking about?’ I’ll tell you what I was talking about, I was talking about exactly what happened and is happening.&#8221;
&#8220;And what&#8217;s more, when you shut down the schools, the day you shut them down, you better have a plan for reopening them. I didn’t see a plan for them to be reopened,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we have an entire generation that is suffering from developmental gaps, educational gaps, mental and emotional challenges and still there’s not a good plan to close those gaps. And my concern is when the next pandemic turns the corner, who’s got the plan then? What was learned from this? Because you don&#8217;t hear anybody talking about it, do you? You don&#8217;t hear anybody talking about it, but I&#8217;m talking about it because I want to make noise about this, I want to force people to say, &#8216;we need to get ready for when this happens again.&#8217; And I&#8217;m not some conspiracy theorist saying they&#8217;re coming to get us and lock us up.&#8221;
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He concluded, &#8220;But I&#8217;m saying we need to think about whether we&#8217;re going to rely on science, and how we&#8217;re going to react when the government comes in and starts telling us what we can and can&#8217;t do. I think we need less government. I think if they would step back, we tend to have a way to work these things out.&#8221;
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We can’t just move on and forget about the disaster of school closures. Otherwise it will happen again and innocent children will suffer even more. We need more people like Dr. Phil who push for accountability and put the needs of children first:
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – Season 11

Dr. Phil: People Need To Plan For Next Pandemic So Govt Can’t Tell Us ‘What We Can And Can’t Do’

COVID

Dr. Phil McGraw

U.S.

Dr. Phil McGraw said during an interview late this week that President Joe Biden should take a cognitive exam to prove that he has nothing to hide.
McGraw made the remarks during an appearance Friday night on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time&#8221; with Bill Maher when asked about the subject after Biden recently had his yearly physical exam but did not take a cognitive test.
“All right, here are the questions: Dr. Phil, do you think President Biden should take a cognitive exam?” Maher asked during an &#8220;Overtime&#8221; segment that aired on CNN.
&#8220;If you got nothing — people that have nothing to hide, hide nothing,&#8221; McGraw responded. &#8220;So, why not?&#8221;
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During an interview with TMZ this week, McGraw gave a slightly more detailed response on the question.
&#8220;One of my specialties, back when I was in practice was brain and central nervous system and cognitive ability, cognitive agility, and these things can be defined objectively, such as memory, of course, and what&#8217;s called working memory, the ability to comprehend, put sentences together, express yourself,&#8221; McGraw said. &#8220;All of these things are very measurable.&#8221;
&#8220;And if you really had nothing to hide, I think you would hide nothing,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And if you&#8217;d had no problem with neurological deficits, wouldn&#8217;t you want to crow about that? Wouldn&#8217;t you want to have a transparent neurocognitive examination and show the world that was the case? That kills the issue in the election.&#8221;
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Dr. Phil Visits “Jesse Watters Primetime”

Dr. Phil Suggests Biden Hiding Truth About His Cognitive Health: ‘People That Have Nothing To Hide, Hide Nothing’

2024 Election

Joe Biden

Dr. Phil McGraw slammed the leftist co-hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; this week during an intense discussion about the impacts of COVID lockdowns on school children.
McGraw said that the mental health of children largely began declining in 2008 with the advent of smartphones and social media.
&#8220;In like &#8217;08, &#8217;09, smartphones came in and kids stopped living their lives and started watching people live their lives,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So we saw the biggest spike and the highest levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidality since records have ever been kept. And it&#8217;s just continued on and on and on.&#8221;
&#8220;And then COVID hits 10 years later and the same agencies that knew that are the agencies that shut down the schools for 2 years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children? Who takes it away and shuts it down? By the way, when they shut it up they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested and, in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers with no way to watch.  And referrals dropped 50-60%.&#8221;
Co-host Sunny Hostin snapped back, “There was also a pandemic going on and they were trying to save their lives.”
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg agreed, claiming that the government was &#8220;trying to save kids&#8217; lives&#8221;. “We know a lot of folks who died during this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People weren’t laying around eating bonbons —”
McGraw fired back, noting that school aged children were not dying from the pandemic.
&#8220;Well, you know what? We’re lucky,&#8221; Goldberg claimed. &#8220;Maybe we’re lucky they didn’t, because they kept them out of the places that they could be safe because no one wanted to believe we had an issue.&#8221;
Co-host Ana Navarro asked McGraw: “Are you saying no school children died of COVID?”
“I’m saying it was the safest group,” McGraw responded. “They were the less vulnerable group, and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID, and that’s not an opinion, that’s a fact.”
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🚨This is INSANE:
Dr. Phil correctly pointed out how school closures severely hurt children’s mental health, and the ladies of The View are *still* defending the decision to close schools four years later, despite all of the public evidence showing how harmful and unnecessary… <a href="https://t.co/6YihTl5eH7">pic.twitter.com/6YihTl5eH7</a>
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Today – Season 66

Dr. Phil Torches ‘The View’ Co-Hosts Over Impact Of COVID Lockdowns On Kids: ‘That’s A Fact’

Lockdowns

School Lockdowns

The View

Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-phil-mcgraw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phil McGraw</a> blasted authority figures this week for pushing children to become transgender, saying that they were causing long term damage to the kids, while also warning that social media is causing the issue to become a &#8220;social contagion.&#8221;
McGraw made the remarks during an interview with Joe Rogan on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; while discussing the hotly debated topic.
&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting, [officials] choose words like &#8216;gender affirming care,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;But really what they&#8217;re talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery on children. And, in fairness, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Endocrine Society, or whatever the exact name of that is, all of the major medical associations have signed off on this. They signed off on it. And I have never seen those organizations sign off on anything with less information as to whether or not it does long term harm of anything in my life. And when I asked about that, when I bring that up, then they immediately label you as transphobic.&#8221;
McGraw noted that numerous European countries have reversed course on the transgender issue because they recognized that it is harmful to children.
&#8220;[Officials&#8217;] reason for doing it is it stops this drive for suicide, that there&#8217;s a suicide epidemic,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t fix that, it doesn&#8217;t fix all the comorbid issues that come along with feeling like they&#8217;re in the wrong body. But yet they&#8217;re pushing this. And it&#8217;s, we&#8217;re going to do some shows that are already taped, that are revealing what the real results of this are. And I think people are going to be shocked that these medical organizations have signed off on this. I think they&#8217;ve just given in to the pressure.&#8221;
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McGraw warned about what was happening in some of America&#8217;s public schools with teachers actively working to undermine the relationships that children have with their parents.
&#8220;First off, if this is either a psychological phenomenon, or a medical phenomenon, and the teachers are not trained in either psychology or medicine, they&#8217;re not any more trained to deal with that than they are to take out the kid&#8217;s spleen in the home room,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So if that&#8217;s true, if it&#8217;s a psychological thing, if it&#8217;s gender dysphoria, or it&#8217;s a medical issue, then you need someone trained in child psychology, psychiatry, or medicine. And the teacher is not trained in any of those three things. Like I say, they&#8217;re not any more trained in that than they are to take out the child&#8217;s spleen. So how are they qualified to deal with that?&#8221;
&#8220;Secondly, it&#8217;s teaching the child to keep a secret from their parents, it&#8217;s teaching deception, and interfering between the child&#8217;s relationship with their parent,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Now, their justification for that is well, if the child goes home and announces this, or if we tell it to the parent, then the child could get abused, the child could get judged, the child could get kicked to the curb. But they have to admit, statistically, that that is very rare. And if that&#8217;s the case, that&#8217;s what we have the Department of Child and Family Services for, that&#8217;s what we have child protective services for. If that&#8217;s the case, then you call in for some intervention if the child is being abused at home, for whatever reason, then you get intervention in that way. But you don&#8217;t come between the child and their parent. The parent has the right to know what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
Rogan noted that children were gullible and easy to manipulate, which he said was why Islamic terrorists &#8220;have little kids become suicide bombers.&#8221;
&#8220;Because you can talk kids into almost anything,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;You can talk them into believing in Santa Claus. You talk kids into believing in all kinds of ridiculous shit because they&#8217;re really young. You can easily convince them in one way or another that they&#8217;re anything, that they&#8217;re queer, that they&#8217;re trans, you could 100% convinced some kids have of all kinds of things, especially by reinforcing it with love and support and happiness, you can convince people of a lot of things.&#8221;
McGraw said that the entire transgender issue was not &#8220;appropriate or safe for children&#8221; and that those who say that the effects of transgender procedures are reversible are lying.
He said that he believes that &#8220;a lot&#8221; of what is driving the transgender phenomena onto young people was &#8220;social media platforms and the internet.&#8221;
&#8220;I think, this is what I&#8217;m talking about when I say the activists, I don&#8217;t think speak for the community at large,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think they get an agenda that they&#8217;re pushing, and I think they really get wrapped up in this and it gets a lot of oxygen on the internet. It gets a lot of oxygen on social media platforms. Now they say there&#8217;s no social contagion here, but the girls that are claiming to be transgender, that percentage has gone up 800%, 1,000% over the last several years.&#8221;
&#8220;And they say, &#8216;Well, that&#8217;s because they feel more comfortable talking about it now.&#8217; Is that true? Or is it because you read about it, you see it on social media, and you think, &#8216;Well, I can distinguish myself in this way?'&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think there is a social contagion effect. So people jump on the bandwagon. And if it&#8217;s for a short period of time, but they&#8217;ve done things that can&#8217;t be reversed, I think that&#8217;s really tragic. And they say there are very few detransitioners. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s true. I think there&#8217;s a lot more detransitioners that want to reverse this and come back than are being reported.&#8221;
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The Kelly Clarkson Show – Season 3

Dr. Phil Blasts Those Pushing Transgenderism Onto Children: Not ‘Appropriate Or Safe,’ Internet Is Driving It

Dr. Phil Blasts Those Pushing Transgenderism Onto Children: Not 'Appropriate Or Safe,' Internet Is Driving It

Joe Rogan

Social Issues

Transgender

Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, commonly known as Dr. Phil, slammed woke elite universities for not standing up to extremist student organizations that celebrated Hamas&#8217; terrorist attacks on Israel two weeks ago.
McGraw published a video on X speaking out about the October 7 attacks, which was the bloodiest day for Israel over 75 years.
&#8220;The Hamas invaders were not soldiers. They were assassins,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Hamas charter calls for the ultimate annihilation of all Israeli Jews, followed by the annihilation of Jews around the world. Sound familiar? Sadly, some people, including some right here in America actually celebrated the slaughter and blame those being murdered, raped and kidnapped.&#8221;
&#8220;Many of America&#8217;s most respected elite universities are not only indulging but actually endorsing sanctioned student organizations holding celebrations for the murders,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, UCLA, and Stanford are high profile examples that should raise concern if not outrage.&#8221;
McGraw said that the reactions of the student groups revealed a &#8220;disturbing degree of ivy-covered intellectual rot&#8221; at America&#8217;s alleged top schools.
&#8220;Americans nationwide have been appalled and shocked,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The leadership of these supposedly highly sophisticated schools are so busy virtue signaling and coddling students who think that words are violence, but violence, horrific, inhumane violence is social justice, that they have forgotten it is their job to teach their students to think and to test reality. Instead of training tomorrow&#8217;s leaders, they are profoundly demagnetizing our culture&#8217;s moral compass among the college population.&#8221;
McGraw that while he was no expert in geopolitics, it only takes basic common sense to recognize Hamas&#8217; attacks as &#8220;utterly sick, twisted, disgusting, and inexcusable.&#8221;
&#8220;You cannot negotiate with people whose only acceptable outcome is to murder you and your entire race,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Seriously, have some of these people gotten together and collectively lost their minds? We know right from wrong, and we must stand up for what we believe and know is right. We must call out these institutions. How is any of this acceptable to anyone? How is it not recognized as incredibly racist? How do elite educators not recognize this is a huge teachable moment in the student&#8217;s journey?&#8221;
&#8220;The heads of the schools need to simply say on this campus, we don&#8217;t celebrate racism, anti-Semitism, baby killing, and murdering,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;What they are doing instead is distancing themselves in hopes it blows over. Israel is our friend and ally. They don&#8217;t need us to just be their friend in good times. They need us to be their friend in bad times, to be their friend when it is easier not to be. Good friends are the ones coming in the door when everyone else is going out. This is a really great time to show Israel and the world who we are.&#8221;
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Dr. Phil McGraw Honored With A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Dr. Phil Shreds ‘Incredibly Racist’ Elite Universities For ‘Coddling’ Pro-Hamas Students: ‘We Must Call Out These Institutions’

College

Georgetown University

Hamas

Harvard University

Israel

Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, commonly known as Dr. Phil, said during a recent discussion with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that government officials who decided to shut down schools during the COVID pandemic were &#8220;throwing gas on a fire&#8221; in terms of exacerbating the existing problems facing America&#8217;s youth.
The second half of McGraw&#8217;s remarks during a special appearance on Cruz’s “Verdict” podcast last week were released on Tuesday.
&#8220;Right now, almost a third of fifth and eighth graders can&#8217;t read at the most fundamental level,&#8221; McGraw said. &#8220;They can&#8217;t read a sentence. And the question is, how did they get in the fifth grade? How did they get into the eighth grade? 19% of high school graduates can&#8217;t read. They cannot read.&#8221;
&#8220;How do you graduate high school, if you can&#8217;t read in the first, second, and third grade?&#8221; McGraw continued. &#8220;From the fourth grade on you read to learn. So, if you don&#8217;t learn to read in those first three grades, you don&#8217;t have that tool to learn for the rest of your life. And if teachers are going to pass them either way, then you&#8217;re just setting them up to fail.&#8221;
McGraw said he was called an &#8220;idiot&#8221; when he spoke out against shutting schools down for more than a couple of weeks and said remote teaching would do more damage to society than the virus itself.
&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve got 15 clips of different times that I said, shutting this country down and taking our kids out of school for a prolonged period of time and the epidemiological pediatricians estimate that it will cost somewhere around 15 million years of life lost for these kids,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they figure that because you got roughly 50 million kids in public school plus the private schools and because of what they lost; they will never close that gap.&#8221;
McGraw explained how students missing that time in school would lead to them achieving less academically, leading to less appealing job opportunities later.
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&#8220;Lesser jobs are usually higher risk jobs because they&#8217;re blue collar and they&#8217;re working with machinery and construction and things where they get injured,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They have poorer health coverage, which means they get slower diagnosis and lesser care. And so, it obtains with years of life shaved off the end of their lives. And what gets me is they did this, the same agencies that advocated for this are the same agencies that had the records that said, we have the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness among our children than we&#8217;ve had since records were being kept. So, let&#8217;s shut down the schools, which we know are essential to their development. It&#8217;s like throwing gas on a fire.&#8221;
McGraw also noted that by keeping children out of schools, there was likely an uptick in the amount of abuse that some faced at home because the programs that exist in schools for reporting such acts were not available.
&#8220;We simply abandoned them to their abusers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so many of these children relied on those schools for at least one if not two meals per day. We took that away, and some say well, but they delivered those meals, some got them delivered, some didn&#8217;t. So, we created a huge educational gap. We abandoned the abused and molested children to their abusers and molesters. And nobody has done anything to close the gap. Other than that, no problem.&#8221;
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Dr. Phil On Shutting Down Schools Because Of COVID: ‘It’s Like Throwing Gas On A Fire’

Congress

COVID-19

Politics

Remote Learning

School Shutdowns

Ted Cruz

Verdict with Ted Cruz

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-phil-mcgraw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Phillip C. McGraw</a>, commonly known as Dr. Phil, told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that the political fringes in U.S. politics were responsible for tearing the country apart and not the traditional &#8220;Left versus Right&#8221; fighting.
McGraw made the remarks during a special appearance on Cruz’s “Verdict” podcast while discussing things that can get a person &#8220;canceled&#8221; in today&#8217;s world.
&#8220;Whether you&#8217;re talking about science, history, biology, you pick it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What&#8217;s happening right now, in my opinion, is the narrative in America is being hijacked. And it&#8217;s being hijacked by the fringe. It&#8217;s not even, it&#8217;s not like the Left versus the Right. It&#8217;s the fringe. And I call it the tyranny of the fringe.&#8221;
McGraw said that the &#8220;factions in the fringe&#8221; use emotional extortion to try to bend people to their way of thinking on issues ranging from toxic masculinity to transgenderism to the history of slavery in the U.S.
&#8220;And if you don&#8217;t fall in line, then that&#8217;s where canceled culture comes in, and you get attacked, and you get attacked on the internet, to the point that they&#8217;ll contact your job, they&#8217;ll contact your church, they’ll contact your friends,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And there&#8217;s something that I know, a lot of people listening, read &#8216;1984.&#8217; Which by the way, was written in 1948, by Orwell, how prophetic was he in writing this, and he talked about how people would be &#8216;unpersoned.'&#8221;
&#8220;We call it canceled culture, they call it &#8216;unpersoned,&#8217; where they would just, they would just delete that person, they would just take away everything from them. And that&#8217;s what happens in canceled culture,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You take away people&#8217;s livelihood, you take away their support system, you take away their friends. And I&#8217;m not saying there aren&#8217;t people in this society that have done terrible and egregious things that don&#8217;t deserve to play in the game. But there are also a lot of people that get swept up into not buying into the rhetoric.&#8221;
McGraw said that &#8220;a tiny percent of fringe tyrants&#8221; will single out and attack anyone online who doesn&#8217;t fall into line and will try to &#8220;eliminate them.&#8221;
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Dr. Phil To Ted Cruz: ‘Left Versus Right’ Is Not What Is Destroying America

Dr. Phil To Ted Cruz: 'Left Versus Right' Is Not What Is Destroying America

Cancel Culture

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-phil-mcgraw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Phillip C. McGraw</a>, commonly known as Dr. Phil, told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) this week that social media companies are attacking the family unit in the U.S. by targeting children with &#8220;toxic information&#8221; that causes them to suffer from a wide range of mental health problems.
McGraw made the remarks during a special appearance on Cruz&#8217;s &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast this week in response to Cruz noting that the &#8220;pressures that are on our kids right now are qualitatively different from what we experienced.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, they&#8217;re just assaulted online with social media, they&#8217;re confronted with themes and messaging and influence that is deliberately poisoning them, and what about that worries you?&#8221; Cruz asked. &#8220;And what should parents be doing about that?&#8221;
McGraw said that &#8220;a lot about it worries me because it&#8217;s not just that there&#8217;s competing information out there.&#8221;
&#8220;One of the things I talk about is the fact that our children aren&#8217;t just being exposed, they&#8217;re being targeted,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And when I say targeted, I wrote a book in I think 2004 called &#8216;Family First.&#8217; And at that time, I said the family in America is under attack, that families in America are under attack, the family unit, the family values, everything that families stand for in America are under attack. This was 20 years ago. Let me tell you, it is so much worse now than it was then.&#8221;
&#8220;And when I say they&#8217;re under attack, one of the ways is what&#8217;s happening on the internet, what&#8217;s happening on the social media platforms,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;People don&#8217;t understand algorithms, including me, but I got myself in touch with experts that do understand this. And a good example of what I&#8217;m talking about, research was done where they put together some accounts, put a girl&#8217;s name on it, 14 years old, just her name, 14 years old, opened this account. And within a matter of a few hours, she started getting targeted with toxic information. By that, I mean information that led her to eating disorder sites, suicidality sites, different kinds of things that were really unhealthy.&#8221;
McGraw said that researchers pushed things further by opening another account and including on the account somewhere the words &#8220;weight loss.&#8221;
&#8220;The amount of toxic feed that went to her content, that went to her, went up multiplicatively within the first few hours,&#8221; he said &#8220;The algorithm picked up those words and what they do is they feed you what you will click on. So, it was like 10 times more toxic information.&#8221;
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McGraw said that children were being &#8220;targeted&#8221; despite social media companies knowing that what they will click on &#8220;creates anxiety, depression, loneliness, confusion, self-hatred.&#8221;
&#8220;And if you want to create chaos in a society, where do you start? You attack the children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you get them to hate themselves, be questioned about who they are, what they are, what&#8217;s that going to do to the next generation and the next generation? And right now, we have the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness among our young people.&#8221;
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Dr. Phil To Ted Cruz: If You Want To ‘Create Chaos In Society,’ You Start By ‘Attacking The Children’

Dr. Phil To Ted Cruz: If You Want To 'Create Chaos In Society,' You Start By 'Attacking The Children'

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I am often accused of being a pessimist, but I think this is an unfair charge. I’m not a pessimist. I’m simply a realist. I understand that human nature is what it is, and therefore people tend to act a certain way, and that results in many predictable conclusions. It’s not my fault that those conclusions are often depressing, enraging, perplexing, or disappointing. I wish it wasn’t this way, but I prefer to see things as they are rather than as I wish they would be. 
In other words, again, I’m a realist. 
But every once in a blue moon I will put my realist glasses down and try on a pair with a rosier tint. I will try to adopt the mentality of someone is more naively optimistic. And, every time I do this, I regret it. Case in point. This weekend, the pop star Ne-Yo got a lot of attention for some comments he made during an appearance on a show called VladTV. During the conversation with host Gloria Velez, the singer was asked about his views on gender ideology. He responded with a lengthy and rather well spoken monologue on the topic. You could tell that this is a subject he’d spent some time thinking about. And his thoughts were quite lucid on the topic:
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Now, fans of this show might have a pretty good idea who he was just quoting there. He was in fact directly referring to something I said during my Dr. Phil episode. Here it is: 
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Me and Ne-Yo on the same page. A classic collaboration. So far so good. But of course we know that the Left can not allow someone like Ne-Yo to say these kinds of things. They believe they own him. He belongs to them, both because he is a mainstream celebrity and because he’s a black man. By the Left’s thinking, Ne-Yo owes them his unthinking fealty. So the outrage mob set to work, screaming that he was a transphobic and a bigot and on and on. But he did not relent. In fact, he addressed the comments in an instagram post where he appeared to double down:
<blockquote>“1st and foremost, I CONDEMN NO ONE. Who am I to condemn anybody? Your life, your kids, your choice. I was asked a question and I answered it. My opinion is mine. I’m not asking anybody to agree with me nor am I telling you what you can and cannot do with your children. I stated my opinion on a matter and that’s that… Why should I care if my opinion upsets you when you don’t care if yours upsets anyone? Opinions aren’t special. We all have one. People voice them regularly whether they’re asked or not. I was actually asked mine. Agreeing to disagree is not a declaration of war. Y’all do whatever the hell y’all want to. But my feelings on the matter are mine. Same way yours are yours. Meanwhile, I love everybody. Don’t agree with some of y’all’s ideals … but love you no less.”</blockquote>
Now, if you inspect this statement closely, you will can see that this is not really a double down. In fact, you can detect the seeds of equivocation already. Which is why I almost posted a tweet predicting that he would fully cave to the mob within the next 24 hours. But I stopped myself, put on my little-worn rose colored glasses, and decided to be positive and optimistic instead. I sent out a tweet simply congratulating Ne-Yo for taking this stand, and I left it at that. 
And then, an hour later, as if to punish me for dabbling with optimism, Ne-Yo posted another statement. Here’s what it said: 
<blockquote>“After much reflection, I’d like to express my deepest apologies to anyone that I may have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity. I’ve always been an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBTQI+ community, so I understand how my comments could’ve been interpreted as insensitive and offensive. Gender identity is nuanced and I can honestly admit that I plan to better educate myself on the topic, so I can approach future conversations with more empathy. At the end of the day, I lead with love and support everyone’s freedom of expression and pursuit of happiness.”</blockquote>
Now, we have seen many people utterly debase themselves and shed whatever scraps of dignity they still had left, all in a vain attempt to appease the zombie hordes. We have seen many targets of the outrage mob, in this exact situation, decide to betray the very people who were defending them while bending the knee to a bunch of pitchfork-wielding troglodytes who will still hate them even after they apologize. We have seen all of this, more times than we can count or want to count. But what makes this one especially grotesque is that Ne-Yo’s original statement was spoken with such force and eloquence that you can tell this is an issue he really cares about and has long reflected on. In other words, this isn’t someone pathetically apologizing for some off the cuff remark. This is someone apologizing for saying something that, it’s clear, he truly and deeply believes.
If I took this final statement seriously I might ask what arguments did the other side make to convince him that “gender identity is nuanced”? What facts did they present to make him question his previous belief that it’s a bad idea to transition a five 5-year-old boy? What actual points did they make to persuade him that actually it’s a good idea to castrate and sterilize children? Before, he said little children are too young to consent to these things. What happened to make him suddenly feel otherwise? What did the other side say to lead him to the conclusion that he needs to “educate himself” more on the topic? I would ask him to tell us more about this &#8220;Road to Damascus&#8221; moment. What was said to him in that blinding light? What great truth was revealed? 
I would ask all of that, but I know the answer. We all do. The other side made no argument. They presented no facts. They did not give any reason to actually believe anything they say on this subject. Instead his handlers, and his PR team, and his record label executives told him to bend the knee or else. They threatened him with loss of revenue, and who knows what other kind of blackmail, and they wrote up a statement for him to post — and he posted it. 
This is, of course, by no means meant to let him off the hook. Far from it. He gave up his soul for fear and greed. He is a coward and a traitor to himself and his own belief system. Many such cases, and each case is just as shameful and disgusting as the last.
But it is worth reflecting on the fact that, out of all of the Ne-Yos of the world, who have prostrated themselves before the mob of trans activists and offered their own integrity up as sacrifice for their sins — out of all of these people, and their forced scripted apologies, not one of them has ever said “You know, the trans activists made such and such point and it really made me think differently about this situation.” That has never happened. The trans activists have persuaded many people, but have persuaded none. They have won millions of converts, and also not a single convert. That’s because their position is one so laughably incoherent, so ridiculous and irrational, so nakedly insane, that no sane person could ever truly be convinced by it. That’s why they don’t bother convincing. They can’t. Instead they use intimidation, threats, coercion, fear. That is how they have assembled an army marching under a flag that none of them believe in. They have built a house of cards and imprisoned millions of people inside of it. All that any of them have to do is push gently against one of the walls and it all comes tumbling down. The trans activists recognize this, which is why they must be so quick to squash dissent whenever it arises. And lucky for them, there are many cowards in the country who are quite easily squashed.
But the good news is that these kinds of tactics can only work for so long. A position so absurd and morally depraved can only be defended for so long. Eventually that house of cards will come tumbling down anyway, one way or another. We are watching it happen right now, as we speak, in fact. And Ne-Yo, along with the rest of the coward contingent, will be on the inside when it falls.
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Update: Ne-Yo released an additional statement late in the day.

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Daily Wire host Candace Owens blasted affirmative action policies as “harmful” and degrading during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmp1zNyJIA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on “Dr. Phil” Wednesday. 
Owens, appearing alongside two professors defending the controversial policies, turned the traditional narrative — that affirmative action helps minorities — on its head. Instead, she said such policies amounted to nothing more than a “burden of responsibility” for the Left, and often do more harm than good. 
“When you artificially place a black American into a school in which they do not belong based on their knowledge, it doesn’t mean that they go on to get A’s,” Owens said. “In fact, there was a black adjunct professor, you guys have definitely heard of him, Dr. Thomas Sowell, who was teaching at Cornell University and he found that the majority of the black American students that were there were on academic probation,” she added. 
Owens went on to explain that, while these students were some of the smartest in the nation, they found themselves on academic probation because they were artificially placed in positions they hadn&#8217;t been required to earn. The tangible results of affirmative action, she said, were often not successful minorities but politicians or administrators who claimed victory for policies that only made people &#8220;feel good.”  
In reality, Owens said affirmative action advocates often harm to the same people the policies allege to help. In the end “you either know the answers or you don’t,” she said. 
Panel member Dr. John Pascarella, professor and chief academic officer for the race and equity center at the University of Southern California, advocated for affirmative action specifically for “institutions that have historically excluded people of color.” 
Owens asked Pascarella how he could hold that viewpoint when she and others point to affirmative action being “factually, in effect, a bad thing for the black community,” to which the professor asks if the factors that create success are solely due to race. 
“No, it’s due to their intellectual capabilities, which is how students should be judged,” Owens said, adding that judging on merit is the real “equal policy,” for students, not affirmative action. 
Owens asserted that even the premise behind affirmative action was degrading, saying that the people who supported it were, in effect, claiming that minorities were incapable of achieving certain objectives without help from mostly white benefactors.
“I don’t think Sasha and Malia Obama are people that have struggled, and therefore should be allowed to get into the college, universities on a higher basis than white kids that have worked harder than them,” Owens continued. 
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Dr. J. Luke Wood, a professor at San Diego State University, pushed back on Owens&#8217;s comments, arguing that poor performance by affirmative action beneficiaries could be the result of their experiences at the institutions. 
“You’re saying ‘could be,’ I’m giving you actual facts,” Owens shot back. “We can fantasize and say ‘maybe they just don’t feel good,’ but that’s not the case.&#8221;
“We’re talking about a cultural problem, what’s going on back at home, as was in my circumstance,” Owens said. “None of that is because of institutionalized policy.”
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Dr. Phil’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">talk show</a> is officially ending following the 2022-2023 season after 21 years on the air.
The daytime talk show host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-phil-mcgraw">Phil McGraw</a> signed a five-year contract with CBS Media Ventures in 2018 and won&#8217;t be re-signing, as People <a href="https://people.com/tv/dr-phil-talk-show-to-end-after-21-seasons/">reported</a>. 
&#8220;I have been blessed with over 25 wonderful years in daytime television,&#8221; McGraw said in a statement. 
&#8220;With this show, we have helped thousands of guests and millions of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">viewers</a> through everything from addiction and marriage to mental wellness and raising children. This has been an incredible chapter of my life and career, but while I&#8217;m moving on from daytime, there is so much more I wish to do.&#8221;
&#8220;I am compelled to engage with a broader audience because I have grave concerns for the American family, and I am determined to help restore a clarity of purpose as well as our core values,&#8221; he continued.
Stepping back doesn’t mean leaving television for the 72-year-old host, however. CBS confirmed that McGraw would be part of a &#8220;strategic primetime partnership&#8221; that aims to help him &#8220;increase his impact on television and viewers.&#8221;
More details of that project, which is expected to be released in 2024, are forthcoming.
McGraw rose to popularity in the 90s after multiple appearances on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as a featured expert. He went on to launch his own talk show in 2002, which became a daytime staple. The publication noted that Dr. Phil has hosted almost 4,000 episodes featuring 20,000 guests after more than two decades on the air.
President of CBS Media Ventures Steve LoCascio reacted to the show ending by saying, &#8220;Phil is a valued partner and member of the CBS/King World family, and while his show may be ending after 21 years, I&#8217;m happy to say our relationship is not.&#8221;
&#8220;Phil changed the daytime landscape as the force behind one of the most popular talk shows ever on daytime TV,” he continued. “We plan to be in the Dr. Phil business with the library for years to come and welcome opportunities to work together in the future.&#8221;
Several other daytime television mainstays have also announced cancellations recently, including “The Wendy Williams Show,” “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “Dr. Oz,” and “The Real.”

‘Dr. Phil’ Show Will End After 21 Seasons

'Dr. Phil' Show Will End After 21 Seasons

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Celebrity psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw told Joe Rogan, host of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; during a recent episode that it was clear that there was something wrong with Pennsylvania Democrat U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman.
The remarks by McGraw come after Fetterman debated last week against Republican challenger Dr. Mehmet Oz, and the overwhelming reaction to the debate was that it was a disaster for Fetterman, who is a recovering from a stroke.
&#8220;It might just be f***ing propaganda, it&#8217;s so dangerous some of the gaslighting that you&#8217;re seeing,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure you saw that debate between Dr. Oz and that guy Fetterman for the Pennsylvania Senate. And the gentleman Fetterman had a stroke five months ago. And he&#8217;s clearly compromised, to the point where while he&#8217;s communicating, he&#8217;s not just stumbling. He kind of lost in thought and can&#8217;t form a coherent sentence and bounces around from it. He looks, he looks troubled. And I was watching MSNBC and they were trying to say, &#8216;well, I mess up sometimes when I talk and you know, I misspeak and I stumble on my words.'&#8221;
&#8220;Of course you do, everybody does, we&#8217;re human. I do it all the time,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;But there&#8217;s a big difference between the overall one hour debate. You&#8217;re looking at a guy who seems to have something really wrong with his brain. And for you to gaslight and pretend that&#8217;s not the case just because it doesn&#8217;t fit with your narrative, that&#8217;s not news. That&#8217;s propaganda and it&#8217;s f***ing dangerous.&#8221;
Before weighing in, McGraw noted that he has not tested Fetterman or President Joe Biden, but he said that it seemed to him that &#8220;President Biden is not at his best and that Fetterman is not at his best.&#8221;
&#8220;And I&#8217;m not trying to be unkind. He had a stroke,&#8221; McGraw said. &#8220;I mean, the poor guy, he had a stroke.&#8221;
&#8220;Just ask yourself,&#8221; McGraw added, &#8220;Let&#8217;s say you were getting on an airplane and the airline pilot had had a similar cognitive impairment. Would you get on? Well, hell no.&#8221;
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<blockquote>JOE ROGAN: It might just be f***ing propaganda, it&#8217;s so dangerous some of the gaslighting that you&#8217;re seeing. I saw people gaslighting about, I&#8217;m sure you saw that debate between Dr. Oz and that guy Fetterman for the Pennsylvania Senate. And the gentleman Fetterman had a stroke five months ago. And he&#8217;s clearly compromised, to the point where while he&#8217;s communicating, he&#8217;s not just stumbling. He kind of lost in thought and can&#8217;t form a coherent sentence and bounces around from it. He looks, he looks troubled. And I was watching MSNBC and they were trying to say, &#8216;well, I mess up sometimes when I talk and you know, I misspeak and I stumble on my words.&#8217; Of course you do, everybody does, we&#8217;re human. I do it all the time. But there&#8217;s a big difference between the overall one hour debate. You&#8217;re looking at a guy who seems to have something really wrong with his brain. And for you to gaslight and pretend that&#8217;s not the case just because it doesn&#8217;t fit with your narrative, that&#8217;s not news. That&#8217;s propaganda and it&#8217;s f***ing dangerous.
DR. PHIL MCGRAW: Yeah. I hate to see him do that and look I, I haven&#8217;t done any testing on Fetterman or President Biden. But it seems to me that President Biden is not at his best and that Fetterman is not at his best.
ROGAN: And that&#8217;s been very charitable.
MCGRAW: And I don&#8217;t hold that against Fetterman. He had a stroke.
ROGAN: Exactly. It seems unfair to put him in that position.
MCGRAW: It really does. And I&#8217;m not trying to be unkind. He had a stroke. I mean, the poor guy, he had a stroke. And he&#8217;s gonna have to rehabilitate. And I hope he&#8217;s able to do that.
ROGAN: But why did they think that they could put him out there on a huge stage like that, and not have those, like, there&#8217;s interviews before that showed this where he used a teleprompter during interviews, where when he was asked questions, he was allowed to look at a screen and read his responses off. And even then he struggled, he struggled to form coherent sentences, while having the responses to each individual question laid out for him in a way that he could read. And this is not against the guy. I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t know anything about this guy. I really don&#8217;t. I just know he&#8217;s the Democrat candidate. But what you&#8217;re seeing is a guy who&#8217;s got a problem with his brain, that guy should be rehabilitating. He shouldn&#8217;t be getting forced into an incredibly high stress job in a public display, where you know, it&#8217;s humiliating.
MCGRAW: Well, I think he shows great courage to get up there and do it. Most certainly, but I mean, just ask yourself. Let&#8217;s say you were getting on an airplane and the airline pilot had had a similar cognitive impairment. Would you get on? Well, hell no.</blockquote>
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Dr. Phil On John Fetterman’s Fitness For Office: ‘Hell No’ You Wouldn’t Get On A Plane If He Was Pilot

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