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Fox News’ Keith Ablow Proclaims He’s ‘Not A Pedophile’ In Debate Over Breastfeeding Doll

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Professional talking heads try to follow a number of simple rules when appearing on television — basics guidelines like sitting up straight, looking to camera and not wearing clothing with small patterns of stripes or checks. And though it’s not a generally accepted standard because it hasn’t probably come up that often, let’s add the following axiom: never assure to a fellow debate opponent that you are “not a pedophile,” as Dr. Keith Ablow did this morning in an appearance on Fox and Friends.

The odd proclamation came during a surprisingly spirited discussion in which he and fellow panelist Jessica Gottlieb discussed the merits and drawbacks of a new “breastfeeding baby doll” that is soon to be coming out in America stores.

After introducing the controversial new toy called “Breast Milk Baby” that approximates breastfeeding to young girls, Ablow opined that he thought the toy was “beyond ridiculous” and “destructive,” before adding that it “contributes to the sexualization of children and it makes them targets of assailants.”

Gottlieb, a self-described “mommy blogger” respectfully disagreed, saying that she wasn’t sure that “if you see a little girl as her breasts being sexual that that doesn’t reflect more on you.” Ablow quickly interjected “I assure you I’m not a pedophile at all.” We believe Ablow when he proclaims that he is not a pedophile, but to be honest, we hadn’t considered that idea until he raised the subject himself.

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  • Anonymous

    He’s opinion for hire. Just pay him , and give him the talking points you’d like him to repeat. What a great job.

  • Anonymous

    He’s opinion for hire. Just pay him , and give him the talking points you’d like him to repeat. What a great job.

  • Anonymous

    Gottlieb, a self-described “mommy blogger” respectfully disagreed,
    saying that she wasn’t sure that “if you see a little girl as her
    breasts being sexual that that doesn’t reflect more on you.”

    You’d think a “mommy blogger” would know that little girls really don’t have breasts. Maybe one day she’ll blog puberty, and we can all discover this wonder together.

  • Anonymous

    I’m going to fall back on an ol’ Glenn Beck nugget of wisdom…

    I’m not saying Keith Ablow is a pedophile but I am not NOT saying he is a pedophile.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think there’s even a question to ask about him not being a pedophile…….is there?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Liberals find sex exploits in 90 year old milfs down to 4 year old children is a sick way to look at females as a whole. Pathetic! This man did nothing to get this kind of coverage other than to inject some morality into the proper use of dolls that are for children. Don’t need video to tell you that.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, yes. He’s a paid shill for the diabolical little girl breasts lobby.

    Genius.

  • Anonymous

    This liberal thinks the Dr. is absolutely correct, and the woman is nutz!

    I confess that I was curious to see what that doll looked like and how the child would use it. I do hope that doesn’t make me a pedophile! (Note to conservatives. No cheap shot statements that all liberals are pedophiles.)

    What I saw is that little girls put on something that does not even resemble breasts  and pretend to breast feed. How is that not sick?

  • Anonymous

    I saw the Glenn Beck book cover.  He’s not a pedophile.

    He’s just gay.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  • Anonymous

    Why bring in the peodo defense when it wasn’t necessary? 

  • ExPat ExLawyer

    This story is way overblown.  The mommy blogger said “it says more about YOU.”   The use of the second person, instead of say, “those individuals” made it sound as if it were directed at Ablow.  And he was given no time for follow up statements.  I have no idea why little girls 12 years from adulthood need to practice breast feeding.  And I think it would appeal to perverts who already attribute adult sexual characteristics to children.  I see no point in this toy whatsoever.  All bloggie mommy said was that kids like to imitate their parents.  STF what?  Since when does what a kid might like to do dictate that parents must aid and abet same.

  • Anonymous

    Ablow is not a pedophile. He is a dangerous idiot who gladly opines on patients he has never seen, but not a pedophile. He is just too full of himself and too arrogant to ever deign to dirty himself with touching lesser beings.

    As to the doll, that is the parents’ call, not mine.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s some news:  BREASTFEEDING IS NOT A SEXUAL ACTIVITY!

    90 year old MILFs?  I’m hoping you just don’t know what MILF means.

    There is nothing more moral than teaching little girls that natural is the best way to nourish babies.

  • http://jessicagottlieb.com JessicaGottlieb

    Thanks for sharing the story. I knew someone thought the doll was a bad idea, but I was stunned to hear anyone (particularly an MD) call five year breasts secondary sexual characteristics. 

  • soozer

    I think it’s dumb. I have four girls and breast fed all. When I saw that 5-6 year old strap on her “breasts”…ay-yi yi. I have had my toddlers emulate me feeding the baby by holding the baby doll close to the chest. The child emulating the parent? Okay “mommyblogger” next time you sit down with your Cosmo, pour one for the kid. 

  • soozer

    What next? Mommy wears make up, perfume, stilettos, a bra, a thong, a string bikini, she dyes her hair, etc…..so the kid should do all that too if she wants to? Why can’t we let kids be kids. Small girls can be plenty nurturing without strappin’ on the “breasts”.

    BTW- Attributing adult characteristics to small children is a pedophile’s dream. 

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Obviously the “mommie blogger” attacked the Dr by using the format of the sexualization to infer it was him that was sexualizing the activity.

    The good Dr proceeded to put foot quite aptly into his mouth.

    I guess the toy came about after some idiot watched the Fokker movie with the fake breast.

  • Mary Peret

    Ablow is an idiot.  Little girls imitate their mothers in play constantly, parenting their dolls, pretend cooking, pretend diapering.  If a little girl sees her mother breastfeeding a sibling, she knows EXACTLY what her breasts are for.   My daughter would nurse her baby doll on my spare boppy while I was nursing her little brother. 

  • Vafamilyfirst

    The idea of a doll that breastfeeds is great!  My daughter loved breastfeeding and she would love to re-enact this great pleasure that she already says she plans to continue when she is a mom. It is amazing to me how many people are breast feeding phobic…you must have missed out on some momma love!

  • Anonymous

    Why is this doll necessary again? I seem to have missed why the manufactures created this little breast feeding baby anyway? So kids emulate their parents, imagination spurs creativity, we get it, so why the need for babydolly-aide… to help little girls feel more grown up, in a more realistic way? 

  • Anonymous

    Why is this doll necessary again? I seem to have missed why the manufactures created this little breast feeding baby anyway? So kids emulate their parents, imagination spurs creativity, we get it, so why the need for babydolly-aide… to help little girls feel more grown up, in a more realistic way? 

  • Anonymous

    He should not be allowed around children.  I always knew there was something wrong with him.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Children that are to young to be having sex don’t need dolls teaching them to teach them how to breast feed. If you think they do pervert tell me?

  • Anonymous

    I think it is up to the parent, dumbass.

    As a nation, we would be well advised not to let pathetic, twisted individuals like yourself define “perversion.”

  • RR

    ablow is the one who said little girls’ breasts are sexual
    she didnt do anything but remind him that only HE saw them that way and that normal people don’t consider little girls as having boobs

  • RR

    you’re right what happened to playing outside and video games

  • Anonymous

    Ablow is another joke, like Bolling.  He has been desperately trying to get the fame of Dr. Phil or Dr. Drew and has been whoring himself out to all different kinds of shows, like Howard Stern’s show.  He found a niche because some Fox hosts let him on and now he is pretending to be a conservative. 

  • michele

    Breastfeeding is natural & healthy best for baby & for mom but because society looks at females breasts as a sexual thing & not what they are actually there for (breastfeeding!) this doll is an issue to ignorant people. I dont think there’s anything wrong with it. If your kids watch you bottle feed their younger siblings than they will want a bottle to feed their baby dolls. If a mother breastfeeds a baby the older siblings might want to imitate that & they dont need a special doll to do it. All they need to do is hold the baby doll to their chest. The perv/pedophile thinking little girls chests are sexual is sick & he needs a psychiatrist. I think this doll could help teach young girls that breastfeeding is normal/natural & eventually when they become adults & parents maybe they wont be so willing to formula feed their babies because “it’s easier” or “they dont want to ruin their breasts” or feel “uncomfortable”. 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: you spend every fking day, every fking hour, every fking minute on this blog just waiting for the next blog post so you can jump in and hoist your seething rage on every post ever made by some one on the left.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: you spend every fking day, every fking hour, every fking minute on this blog just waiting for the next blog post so you can jump in and hoist your seething rage on every post ever made by some one on the left.

  • Anonymous

    It’s an alternative for parents that would like to teach their children in a natural way of feeding their baby instead of conditioning them to use a bottle in an unnatural way.

  • Anonymous

    complete nonsense

  • Anonymous

    complete nonsense

  • Anonymous

    hard to see the video screen out in the sunlight :)

  • Anonymous

    He’s not gay he’s mentally unstable bordering on mentally ill.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree, i find the idea of such a doll disgusting but leave it to faux to promote this entire nonsense, not like there’s anything else in the news(corp) to cover….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    This creepster “doctor”, thinks children’s breasts are sexual??? Watch this guy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I can’t wait to see this clip on Bill Maher on Friday.

  • Anonymous

    disgusting and TMI

  • Anonymous

    looneytune^

  • Anonymous

    whatever he is has nothing to do with this nutjob woman and her sicko nonsense doll and her claims of pedophilia.. it’s like throwing around the word “nazi” 

  • Anonymous

    Is this the same toy that came out of Spain a few years ago?
    If so than my questiuon is; When will we learn, America? Nothing good has ever came out of Europe. (in the last one hundred years at least)

  • Anonymous

    Yeah I get that, but an alternative to what exactly- make-believe? Do little girls need the reality of a “sucking” noise?
    As far as “conditioning” them to use a bottle, doesn’t that fall in the same category as emulating an adult as well? I breastfed for 3 years, I know the benefits very very well and I am a big proponent – I just don’t see the necessity of creating a doll to help along the imagination of a toddler. 

  • Ajolily

    The idea of a doll that breastfeeds is stupid. My girls didn’t need a doll made just to breast feed. They held the baby doll up to the momma dolls breast. Big deal. They gave it as much attention as they should have. What are you teaching your children when you over emphasize so many things. Breast feeding phobic? I feed mine in church. Did I make others around me uncomfortable? No! A strategically placed scarf and careful planning and few even knew I was doing it. You don’t need to make others uncomfortable when it is so easy to be discrete. I think this rude generation doesn’t know how to be discrete anymore. They want to shove every little thing in everyone else’s faces. Momma love? Grow up, just because someone doesn’t share your views doesn’t mean they weren’t loved.

  • Enoughisenough

    Well. As I watched that discussion AS IT OCCURRED, I can say without reservation that Mediaite is misrepresenting what Ablow said. This is a disingenuous attempt to smear him on the basis of false and misleading reporting. Really, Mediaite should be ashamed. 

    Ablow was defending himself from a comment from the woman “blogger” defending the breast-feeding doll. Ablow had rightly pointed out that this doll sexualizes little girls; the woman–whose name I don’t remember–responded by saying that the sexualization was only in his mind. 

    In other words, *if you think a breast feeding doll sexualizes little girls too early, you’re sick.*

    This woman was truly one of the most ignorant and biased people I’ve ever seen. She is ignorant of decades of research about the sexualization of little girls by our culture of television, social milieu, and societal pressures. All of that was what Ablow was referencing; she turned it into a personal attack. 

    So, don’t be stupid, Mediaite; stop lying. This was an indefensible personal attack. I watched it happen. I’ve got no dog in the fight; I just happen to be a mental health professional who has decades of working with children. Ablow was right on the research about children, particularly little girls. I pity this woman’s children; but she’ll discover soon enough that she made a huge mistake with her own children. The sad part is, if venues like Mediaite DEFEND HER IGNORANCE.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not a nazi.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    You think breastfeeding is sexual?

  • Spauly

    I’m sorry but this is going to far for young girls to learn how to breast feed a baby they should be out side playing , not learning how to breast feed. I think who ever came up with this idea is alittle on the warped side. This is why we have so many young girls having babies when they are just babies them selves. This is going to far 

  • Michael T.

    Ablow may have the better argument, but I have a difficult time admitting it. :)

    I can’t put my finger on it exactly, but this Dr. Ablow almost always finds a way to come across as very annoying.

    Perhaps it is his way of twisting science (or using his distorted form of pseudo science) to advance the Fox News conservative agenda.

    This never seemed more evident than when he asserted that there was no evidence linking  the burning of fossil fuels (e.g., coal-fired power plants) to the exacerbation of asthma symptoms.

    Does he have no shame?

    He almost makes fellow hairless Republican Dr. Phil look respectable … notice I said ALMOST.

  • Kasalinda

    Dr. Ablow … You are a good and descent man and right on this issue. This woman blogger is a moron… And so is this Fox & Friends host! Fox Nation … I’m disappointed that you would besmirch Dr. Ablow’s name and reputation with your “He’ s Not a Pedofile” tag line. Dr. A should sue you for this agreeus stunt! I for one am starting to question some things I’m seeing on Fox of late … Just know that your viewers won’t watch crap like this for very long. Thank God… GBTV is coming soon … Where truth and common sense can be found.

  • Hugo Daun

    “He is a dangerous idiot who gladly opines on patients he has never seen…”

    EXACTLY!

    Reputable health care professionals just don’t do that.

  • john

    First off, this man isn’t supposed to act as a moral barometer. He’s a “doctor”, albeit a mercenary one as CosmosDan pointed out. This is the very same man that accused Bill Maher of being sexist… hypocrite much?

  • Zippy1

    wow – anyone who has a problem with this doll is very VERY creepy indeed.
    How can you look at a little girl playing mommy and think sex?!  ew- just EWWWWWW!

    If you don’t realize that your warped views on what is sexuality are being taught to your kids – well you’re ignorant – but you’re also doing a lot more damage that any doll could ever do.

    EWWW!  You people are GROSS!
    I’d be embarrassed if I had opinions like you creepy freaks.

    We should maybe consider getting rid of this creepy book too – it has all these quotes about the wonders and spirituality of breastfeeding and I think you folks may find them just a bit too “sexual” for your tastes – you may feel this kind of filth has no place in the life of a child.

    “saiah 66: 10-13 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her;
    rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse
    and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply
    with delight from her glorious abundance.” For thus says the Lord:
    “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the
    nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be
    carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees. As one whom his mother
    comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”

    Peter 2:2 “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation”

  • guestWhitby

    I love the company’s standpoint on this. Such a good match of chess, there.
    That guy’s @#$%ed up though, agree w/ mother.

  • http://www.newyorkcitysinglemom.com/ NYCSingleMom

    ABlow is a moron. Not sure how I feel about the doll but Jessica Gottlieb is right that she is sexualizing the act of breastfeeding which is a normal part of motherhood. He is probably one of those nuts who thinks its sexual when moms breasteeds their child in public. I cant stand the guy. 

  • http://www.newyorkcitysinglemom.com/ NYCSingleMom

    Hit reply too quickly, I have to admit that the I am not a pedophile comment is so odd, like were we thinking that now that’s all we can think about. And now that’s all that I am thinking about forever. I expect that kind of comment from a less than media saavy person. 

    Deservedly, everytime he makes an idiotic comment thats what they will run i.e. the Daily Show 

  • Winberly

    Question: Do you begin every post you make with the preface “Fact:?” You shouldn’t. Nothing that you’ve stated so far is anywhere near a fact…or even terribly coherent.
    So what IS the “proper use” of dolls? Should little cuddle it, rock, it, change it, FEED it? That IS what they do, already. They pretend to be the dolls MOTHER. And when they breastfeed a doll, they are pretending to FEED it, nothing more. What’s “improper” about that? YOU are the one injecting “sex” into it, there is nothing “sexual” ABOUT breastfeeding.
    As for the part about “sex exploits” in 4 year olds and grandmas—that’s truly just a lot of incoherent nonsense. Liberals see nothing of the sort. Again, YOU are the one who obviously sees something “sexual” in breastfeeding. There is nothing “sexual ” about feeding a baby. Period. And there is nothing wrong with a child emulating that.

  • Creilly22334

    a female’s breasts are a sexual “thing.” This is what he is referring to when he mentions secondary sexual characteristics. A child does not have breasts because they have not entered puberty and begun to develop secondary sexual characteristics (breasts, hips for girls, muscles, facial hair, depth of voice for boys). Secondary sexual characteristics are genetic cues between the sexes which facilitate reproductive activities (SEX). He is saying that this toy attributes reproductive sexual characteristics to a girl before she actually has gone through puberty.. His argument is not about breast feeding, it is about giving children toys that simulate sexual characteristics prior to natural sexual development — and yes, a woman breast feeding is part of the  sexual reproductive process. It is still natural and healthy (so is sex), but it could potentially be unhealthy for a young girl because she is literally straping on faux nipples and being suckled! This is something a woman does, not something a child does.

  • Kathy Warriorpooflinger

    Guess what!  Little kids, boys and girls, will take any doll or even stuffed animal and pretend to breastfeed if if he or she sees Mommy breastfeeding the new baby.  Although I find this doll to be just a gimmick, I don’t see it as instigating any new behavior in children.  Children play house, they play with dolls.  They mimic behavior. Teach them to nurture and feed their baby dolls or teach them to be inhibited and uncomfortable about their bodies… this is the difference between Ms Gottlieb and Dr Ablow who btw is no longer a member of the American Psychiatric Association.

  • Michael

    Blame the right, for having horrible grammar, punctuation, and talking points. 

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