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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 01:11 PM Feb 2012

Fox News ‘Expert’ Keith Ablow: Media Matters Founder Is ‘Dangerous’ Because He Was Adopted



http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/02/15/426079/ablow-david-brock-adoption/

Fox News’ infamous psychiatrist Keith Ablow has today joined the network’s personal attacks on Media Matters’ David Brock, suggesting Brock is “dangerous” because he “is an adopted boy”:

ABLOW: He’s a dangerous man, because having followers and waging war… this isn’t accidental language. It’s about violence, destruction, and he feels destroyed in himself. [...] This is an adopted boy who needs to plumb the depths of his psyche. He was adopted. Many adopted children are tremendously well-adjusted, but for some reason, this man feels he’s unloved and unloveable, shunted to the side, and that’s the antidote he feels: unlimited power. Guess what? It never ever works.

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Fox News ‘Expert’ Keith Ablow: Media Matters Founder Is ‘Dangerous’ Because He Was Adopted (Original Post) xchrom Feb 2012 OP
Damn that Media Matters Botany Feb 2012 #1
they must have failed math and Politics when they put that up MACARD Feb 2012 #5
What, you mean forcing childbirth and putting kids up for adoption Warpy Feb 2012 #2
yes he must be pro choice dembotoz Feb 2012 #3
Fox News must look far and wide AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #4
This quack should be brought up in front Surya Gayatri Feb 2012 #6
Others in his profession should speak out against what this man spews forth as dmr Feb 2012 #7
What a douche NICO9000 Feb 2012 #8
Hum. RobertBlue Feb 2012 #9
What's Doc Ablow's dx of Rupert Murdoch? Octafish Feb 2012 #10
This is the nut who said Newt's infidelity would make him a good president. ScottLand Feb 2012 #11
Nuf Said, Its Fox News... Grassy Knoll Feb 2012 #12
Ablow looks like a hitman Tsiyu Feb 2012 #13
Ablow will say anything for $ MarkCharles Feb 2012 #15
Who is that bald-headed quack? catbyte Feb 2012 #14

Botany

(70,615 posts)
1. Damn that Media Matters
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 01:17 PM
Feb 2012

Direct quotes w/ footnotes, sources, and unedited audio and video tapes that
show exactly what Fox News is all about which is to lie to the Fox News viewers.



Now how did David Brock's adoption make Fox News post this happy horse shit?

MACARD

(105 posts)
5. they must have failed math and Politics when they put that up
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 03:18 PM
Feb 2012

first of all 70+60+63 does not equal 100% as a Pie chart would indicate. furthermore Huckabee and Palin are not running for office in the 2012 Election

Warpy

(111,383 posts)
2. What, you mean forcing childbirth and putting kids up for adoption
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 01:23 PM
Feb 2012

doesn't work to save them from growing up with slutty mothers and put them on the right track in life?

Oh my sweet Betsy! Perhaps abortion is the answer, after all.

(for the humor impaired, )

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
4. Fox News must look far and wide
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 03:08 PM
Feb 2012

To find blow hard idiots like this, to be used as experts. I wouldn't ask his advice on what car to buy.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
6. This quack should be brought up in front
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 03:22 PM
Feb 2012

of a peer-review board and lose his medical license.

A clear case of malpractice--diagnosing a subject sight unseen.
SG

dmr

(28,349 posts)
7. Others in his profession should speak out against what this man spews forth as
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 03:30 PM
Feb 2012

legitimate psych assessment. His views on how Chaz Bono dancing in a TV dance contest would hurt American children was nothing but hateful bigotry.

This is the same - he is part of a right wing conspiracy to discredit David Brock and Media Matters. It's about taking his credibility as a psychiatrist to make Media Matters so toxic that other news sources will be afraid to use them - which ends up giving right-wing hack politicians & pundits a freebie on their lies and their overall nastiness.

Goal: A full blown attack against an honest and very creditable source & turning them so toxic that they are now impotent.

It will only work if we, the people, let them - Fox, Ablow & Right-Wing hacks, and other major news sources get away with it. It will work if his professional field lets him get away with it.

NICO9000

(970 posts)
8. What a douche
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 03:48 PM
Feb 2012

As an adopted kid who loves his parents, this is totally offensive to me (and it takes a lot to offend me!). Just another POS pub.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
10. What's Doc Ablow's dx of Rupert Murdoch?
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 06:31 PM
Feb 2012


Normal as the bloomin' March hare one carrot short of a six-pack, right?

ScottLand

(2,485 posts)
11. This is the nut who said Newt's infidelity would make him a good president.
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 09:48 PM
Feb 2012

I'm guessing Newt must not be adopted then.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
13. Ablow looks like a hitman
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 04:00 AM
Feb 2012


and talks like he's justifying one.

I believe Media Matters was rumored to be doing some investigative journalism concerning some FOX personalities.

Who knows, but this is pure acting on Ablow's part. And he doesn't even care if the performance is convincing.



 

MarkCharles

(2,261 posts)
15. Ablow will say anything for $
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 03:34 PM
Feb 2012

He's well trained in saying whatever people ask him to say for the money he's paid.

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