I still recall when my mother’s favorite daytime TV show was Dr. Phil Primetime.
I’ve always liked the guy — just never enough to sit down for hours at a time to watch him sort through people’s messy lives.
However, I learned last week that Dr. Phil McGraw is based — very based. Honestly, I’m not sure who changed, whether McGraw or me. But get a load of this. (READ MORE: Joe Biden Is No Dwight D. Eisenhower)
On Feb. 20, McGraw played guest to the world’s most popular podcast host, Joe Rogan. In a wide-ranging conversation about the southern border, which he had recently visited to see for himself, he described the border crisis as “out of control.” He recounted his conversation with the president of the National Border Patrol Council and told Rogan he is now convinced that “we’re spending tax dollars to sell children into sex slavery.”
🚨 Dr. Phil Shares an Explosive Interview w/ Border Patrol Showing American Taxpayers Are Funding the Trafficking of Migrant Children Into S** Slavery
"This is the head guy on the border and I asked him,…'You just said we're spending tax dollars to sell children into s**… pic.twitter.com/6HgoYkR291
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 20, 2024
The two also spoke about so-called “gender-affirming care” — and he didn’t hold back.
“It’s interesting they choose words like ‘gender-affirming care’,” he mused. “Really what they’re talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery on children.” He went on to lament that “all of the major medical associations have signed off on this,” adding, “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.” (READ MORE: How Best To Fulfill King’s Aspirations)
“When I asked about that, when I bring that up, then they immediately label you as transphobic,” he said. “We cannot say in good conscience that this does no harm, because it does harm. If you look at the long-term consequences if someone changes their mind at 10, 11,12, 13 years old — they can’t decide which pajamas they want to wear at night.”
Based.
Dr. Phil’s next stop on Feb. 20 was the View, where he explained in some depth the harm inflicted on children through COVID-19 lockdowns. As the conversation wore on, it became increasingly evident he was speaking with a hostile panel who quite indulged the panic of the Covid years.
“Are you saying no schoolchildren died of COVID?” co-host Ana Navarro challenged.
Without skipping a beat, Dr. Phil replied, “I’m saying it was the safest group, they were the less vulnerable group, and they suffered and will suffer more from the ‘mismanagement’ of COVID than they will for the exposure of COVID, and that’s not an opinion, that’s a FACT.”
Dumbfounded, his hosts cut immediately to a commercial break.
Dr. Phil tells ‘The View’ co-hosts that COVID-19 lockdowns had a more significant impact on children than the virus itself
“Are you saying no schoolchildren died of COVID?” co-host Ana Navarro asked
"I'm saying it was the safest group, they were the less vulnerable group, and… pic.twitter.com/jME5xVk2CX
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) February 26, 2024
Later that day, Dr. Phil joined Jesse Watters Primetime, where the host took the conversation straight to his earlier appearance on the View. Watters questioned Dr. Phil about the ladies’ preoccupation with “the narrative of the COVID pandemic.” The guest shot back:
Here’s the thing. You can’t just make up facts. And that’s what’s happening right now. I call them the tyranny of the fringe. We’ve got these fringe factions that are trying to rewrite history, rewrite science, rewrite biology. They just pretend that facts aren’t facts, because they don’t want them to be. But you know what? They are. We’ve got facts that have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundred of years, and you can’t just change them because you don’t want them to be the truth.
Two days later, on Feb. 28, Dr. Phil sat down for an hour-long chat on the Breakfast Club. Speaking again on the border crisis, Dr. Phil revealed that the video of his trip, which he had posted to Facebook and Instagram, had been throttled by Big Tech. (READ MORE: Martin Luther King Jr.: More Relevant Than Ever)
“It was the part of me talking to him about trafficking these children,” he explained. “It was up about 50 minutes and going viral super fast … and then bang, it just stopped.”
“It got shut down.”
Further on in the conversation, Dr. Phil said of cancel culture, “It reminds me of George Orwell’s 1984, where they had language police and Newspeak, and you can only use these words. And I’ve done shows on words we can’t use anymore.”
Dr. Phil Says Cancel Culture Reminds Him of George Orwell's 1984
He's not wrong.
"It reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 where they had language police and newspeak, and you can only use these words. And I've done shows on words we can't use anymore." pic.twitter.com/qwEF0PcOXY
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 29, 2024
The next day, Dr. Phil appeared on the Rubin Report, and, covering a similar topic, explained to his host, “I would rather have questions that I can’t answer than answers that I can’t question. And right now that’s where we are. We have answers that we can’t question or we’re labeled ‘racist’ or ‘–phobic’ or ‘haters’.”
Impressive stuff.
McGraw’s interview tour follows the wrapping up last year of the Dr. Phil show and is part of the launch of his latest book, We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity.
I have found it to be generally true that people are either great at conducting interviews or great at being interviewed.
After interviewing people for most of his professional life, Dr. Phil McGraw, now in his 70s, appears to have found his sweet spot — on the other side of the microphone.
I’m looking forward to hearing more of it.
Stay based, Dr. Phil.
