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Megyn Kelly Blasts Dr. Keith Ablow Over Chaz Bono DWTS Dis

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Chaz Bono was already considered to be one of most public transgendered individuals in pop culture history, but now that he is going to be participating in the ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, he has become somewhat of a political lightening rod fortransgendered persons. Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow has been quite vocal in his dismay at Bono’s inclusion on DWTS, calling it “toxic” to our children, and appeared on America Live to defend his denunciation to host Megyn Kelly.

Ablow, who is a licensed psychiatrist, reacted to the news of Bono competing with an editorial piece denouncing ABC’s decision and, indeed, denying that transgendered individuals even exist. Here’s an excerpt:

Chaz Bono, the “transsexual” woman who underwent plastic surgery and takes male hormones in an effort to appear to be a man, and who asserts she is a man, will appear on the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars”, according to ABC, the network which airs the show. He will be partnered with a woman.

Casting Chaz Bono on “Dancing with the Stars” is part of Chaz’s victory tour, which has included appearances on talk shows and the release of a book called “Transition.”

I advise parents to not allow their children to watch the episodes in which Chaz appears.

Note Dr. Ablow’s use of both the pronouns “she” and “he” after referring to Bono as a woman. He continues:

The last thing vulnerable children and adolescents need, as they wrestle with the normal process of establishing their identities, is to watch a captive crowd in a studio audience applaud on cue for someone whose search for an identity culminated with the removal of her breasts, the injection of steroids and, perhaps one day soon, the fashioning of a make-shift phallus to replace her vagina.

It is a toxic and unnecessary byproduct of the tragic celebration of transgender surgery that millions of young people who do watch “Dancing with the Stars” will have to ponder this question: Maybe my problems really stem from the fact that I’m a girl inside a boy’s body (or a boy inside a girls body).

Kelly typically does a very good job of playing devil’s advocate in these sorts of on-air political debates, but in this instance she seemed to be genuinely disgusted by Ablow’s take, specifically asking “isn’t there enough hate?” and basically calling Ablow intolerant for his…well, lack of tolerance of Bono’s inclusion.

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  • ChrisG

    Good for you Megyn!

    Was Jon Stewart right?  Has motherhood brought out her decent side?

  • Cain

    Is the media going to cover the new Sarah Palin rumor? It’s all over twitter. 

  • Inclined

    I just saw it on my twitter feed. I’m no fan of Palin but I feel sorry for her.

  • Anonymous

    I doubt any child would even know that Chaz was transgender. This whole so called “controversy” is stupid. One guy says something stupid and the media talks it up for weeks? (Yawn)

  • Matthew Robins

    Just like just about everything, Megan has no clue as to what she says

  • Anonymous

    She has always been decent. Why can’t you just give credit when it is due instead of adding in a nasty dig in addition?

  • Ajolily
  • Nature Freak

    Kudos to Megyn Kelly!

  • Anonymous

    Chaz Bono? Nasty Grace is the DWTS contestant who is “toxic” to kids & adults alike. This dork Ablow is just another quack like Dr. Phil.

  • TruDat

    May want to reread your own post before criticizing other’s “clue” as to what they say.

  • Anonymous

    Feel sorry for her? She had epic black man sex, she was probably smitten.

  • Richie

    What is Dr. Ablow doing covered transgendered adults when one of his best friends, Glenn Beck, believes he has the power to restore honor in America or more recently courage to the country of Israel. I think delusional psychopathic behavior is more important to address than people confronting sexual gender issues.

  • Richie

    What is Dr. Ablow doing covered transgendered adults when one of his best friends, Glenn Beck, believes he has the power to restore honor in America or more recently courage to the country of Israel. I think delusional psychopathic behavior is more important to address than people confronting sexual gender issues.

  • Anonymous

    I am so very tired of people obsessing over one person or anothers sexuality. These things are pointless distractions in my opinion and don’t deserve the inordinate amount of space and attention they take up in the news.

  • ostracario

    Wow.  Just wow.  Megyn Kelly.  

  • Inclined

    LOL

  • Inclined

    LOL

  • ostracario

    Really?  I just about never agree with anything Megyn Kelly has to say but in this case I think she’s spot on.  Ablow didn’t know what hit him.  He thought he was gonna sail right through this interview, even saying at 4:20 that he’s glad that he likes “being with the home team on this one” – but just look at Kelly’s face when he says that.  LOL!  She’s not buying it.  Not one bit.  After this I might just start watching her show!

  • StephenRichieKaren lol

    As someone who often posts under a female persona , I believe that we/I  are /am uniquely qualified to post on this subject .

  • Anonymous

    I couldn’t agree more.

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

    Way to go Megyn!

  • Anonymous

    Every once in a while Megyn surprises me, this is one of those……Good for her!!

  • SammyC

    Where did this guy get his PHD? Phoenix University?

  • USAdood

    If you would actually watch FOX News instead of parroting the “FOX NEWS LIES” MediaMatters crowd you would’ve realized long ago that Megyn Kelly has always been rational and fair.

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

    Dr. Keith Ablow is a bigot. But in more important news, Sarah Palin snorted cocaine off of an oil drum?

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

    Brown University and Johns Hopkins.

  • DietCokeHead

    What the hell does Palin have to do with anything?

    You people are deranged. lol

  • Anonymous

    In Dr.Keith Ablow’s world that means if you watch  ER you are going to want to be  a doctor  Go Job Megyn you standing up for people!!!

  • Jerry Lowery

    We all come into this world with
    baggage to overcome. Sodomy is sodomy, whether it is committed by
    homosexuals or pedophiles. Operations doesn’t make it right,
    atonement by praying to the Holy Spirit does. Atonement cleans the
    mind and makes the soul acceptable to God’s Kingdom. I am not judging
    Chaz Bono, judgment also delays the journey back to the Father.

  • Anonymous

    First we have Ablow silly enough to mention it. Then we have Megyn Kelly being silly enough to challenge Ablow on it. If that wasn’t bad enough, now we have Colby Hall reporting on something that didn’t deserve the attention in the first place. That’s a lot of wasted time and energy. There are plenty of relevant things that these folks aren’t even talking about that could fill that wasted space.
    Now, I have wasted my time complaining about it. However, I think I’m not alone on this and it needed to be said.

  • DietCokeHead

    Ablow is 100% correct. 

  • Anonymous

    MEGYN KELLY IS A RINO!

  • Darladoon

    yes, it has

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5NQZRTMPHX5UQRTGK3ULD7XEKA Joe M

    Funny. you boneheaded Death Cultists.

    Chastity Bono is a pathetic and very mutilated female with severe mental and soul problems.

    As to the bleating losers that think it is a wonderful thing to be homosexual (or worse), I have bad news for you: 

    Your parents didn’t sacrifice decades of their lives, investing their hopes, dreams and countless hundreds of thousands of dollars, so that YOU COULD BE THEIR EVOLUTIONARY DEAD END.

    But there is a bright side to the present celebration of Death:  THE GENE POOL IS CLEANSED.  THE DISEASE DIES WITH YOU CONTEMPTIBLE FOOLS.  GOOD RIDDANCE – IT’S NOT LIKE YOU WERE WARNED.  AND WARNED.  AND WARNED.  AND WARNED.

    Piss off; burn in hell.  Get out of my face in any case you Darwinian jetsam.

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

    Some advice for Republicans and the right wing would be to leave these issues alone, it’s an issue you won’t win on. The country is changing and the more you talk about “sodomites” and “sin” the more crazy you appear to the average American and the more votes you lose.

    Just a bit of friendly advice.

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

    Case in point.

  • Valkyrie101

    Megyn does a great job. But that dress…

  • Anonymous

    Poor Megyn Kelly has finally succumbed to Fox News Channel Syndrome.  It was only a matter of time after her beat down of Kirsten Powers.  FNC hosts cannot, in any way, be anything other than fair and balanced.  And that, of course, means they must let the liberal narrative be the basis for all truths and all conservative opinions must be challenged and argued against. 

    I saw a documentary several years ago about the condition Kelly mentioned.  In it’s extreme form it does not just relate to sexuality and sex organs.  There are people in this world who have a revulsion to their own limbs.  Their own arms and legs.  The show I saw detailed the controversy in medical circles between doctors who felt these patients needed psychiatric care only, and others who were willing to do surgery to alleviate their condition.  One woman wanted both of her legs amputated.  She found a doctor who agreed to amputate one, but not both of her legs.  She was disconsolate. She described how she planned to lay down on railroad tracks to get the job done, but lost her nerve at the last minute.  One man took a shot gun and shot off his own legs.

    These people have a sickness.  Ablow should at least be allowed to explain why it’s not a good idea to expose young kids to that kind of sickness.

  • Anonymous

    Tucson Community College,Thank You!

  • ceeza

    non elite Im not surprised you have no problem with a bigot like Ablow going unchallenged and deem it a “waste of time”.. Fox gives him a free platform to spew hatred and bigotry under the guise of being a medical “professional” daily..There’s absolutely nothing professional or ethical about this man.. It was actually extremely important that he finally be challenged because up to this point he never is..The anchors blindly nod there heads in agreement with whatever he says..Then the “most watched” news channels viewers eat up and believe the misinformation mixed with hate he spews…It’s the Fox news way.. kudos Megyn kudos for shutting this joker down.. 

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5NQZRTMPHX5UQRTGK3ULD7XEKA Joe M

    Jerkoff.  You freaks of nature wil lall be dead in a few years and this will be a distant, nightmarish memory for those of us who understood that the selfish narcissism that is homosexual love (“making love to myself”) is death.

    Dead end.  End of the line.  All over but the shouting.  We shall have fewer Americans but better Americans.

    “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die” might as well be your slogan because you assholes … HAVE NOTHING TO AWAIT BUT DEATH ITSELF.

    Good riddance.  Au revoir.  Don’t let the door bang you on your ass on the way to the circle jerk!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5NQZRTMPHX5UQRTGK3ULD7XEKA Joe M

    Jerkoff.  You freaks of nature wil lall be dead in a few years and this will be a distant, nightmarish memory for those of us who understood that the selfish narcissism that is homosexual love (“making love to myself”) is death.

    Dead end.  End of the line.  All over but the shouting.  We shall have fewer Americans but better Americans.

    “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die” might as well be your slogan because you assholes … HAVE NOTHING TO AWAIT BUT DEATH ITSELF.

    Good riddance.  Au revoir.  Don’t let the door bang you on your ass on the way to the circle jerk!

  • Valkyrie101

    Obviously Megyn does not agree. So, you got your young kids watching dancing with the stars? I suspect they will not mind if you block that.

  • Valkyrie101

    Obviously Megyn does not agree. So, you got your young kids watching dancing with the stars? I suspect they will not mind if you block that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    The entire show is toxic. It’s mostly a bunch of has beens or want to be stars. Since when is Bono a star or the brother of the Kardashian sluts. The reason they choose these people is to make it controversial and draw higher viewership. Never watched it and never will. I guess to each is own, but I have to believe that there is something mentally wrong with someone who makes changes to their body and mindset that God has blest them with.

  • Valkyrie101

    My initial impression, Joe, is that perhaps your issues are worse than those you imagine.

  • Valkyrie101

    Gosh I hope so. I would love Megyn on our side.

  • Redleaf

    I could not agree more. Gays are an abomination. If I had my way, we’d put them in jail.  They try and make everyone gay by pushing their gay agenda on television and in movies. They want to adopt our children so they can soften up the next generation to accept homosexuality as normal. It’s insidious. If I ever met a gay person, I think I’d barf on him from being so disgusted. Then again, they may like that.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5NQZRTMPHX5UQRTGK3ULD7XEKA Joe M

    Oh stop the hate!  Shout it down!  Kill the haters! 

    You sick Bolsheviks … are soon going to provoke a response the likes of which you cannot possibly imagine in your infantilized wetdreams. 

    You are parasites.  An infestation.  An infection or cancer eating and subsisting off the sacrifices and deferred gratification of a thousand years of your ancestors’ hard and unrelenting work.

    And the only thing that matters to you is the sterile, selfish, Death Cult of Self-Love and masturbation with the closest thing to a “partner” your perverted sensibilities can handle:  The mirror image of yourself.

    Hater.  Fuck you.

    You hate yourself.  You hate your parents.  You hate all that is good and decent and those that sacrificed everything for your ungrateful, sorry ass to sit here and shove your dick up some pervert’s ass.

    You have a lot of balls to speak in terms of hate.  You destroy all that you touch and your impregnable narcissism prevents any datum to the contrary from entering your diseased brains.

    So go ahead – enjoy yourselves!  If it feels good, do it!  DIE FASTER.  KILL YOURSELVES OFF SOONER.  PURGE THE GENE POOL OF YOUR DEFECTIVE DNA ALL THE SOONER AND WE SHALL BE RID OF YOU AND YOUR DISGUSTING, UGLY SELVES FOR ALL TIME.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5NQZRTMPHX5UQRTGK3ULD7XEKA Joe M

    Oh stop the hate!  Shout it down!  Kill the haters! 

    You sick Bolsheviks … are soon going to provoke a response the likes of which you cannot possibly imagine in your infantilized wetdreams. 

    You are parasites.  An infestation.  An infection or cancer eating and subsisting off the sacrifices and deferred gratification of a thousand years of your ancestors’ hard and unrelenting work.

    And the only thing that matters to you is the sterile, selfish, Death Cult of Self-Love and masturbation with the closest thing to a “partner” your perverted sensibilities can handle:  The mirror image of yourself.

    Hater.  Fuck you.

    You hate yourself.  You hate your parents.  You hate all that is good and decent and those that sacrificed everything for your ungrateful, sorry ass to sit here and shove your dick up some pervert’s ass.

    You have a lot of balls to speak in terms of hate.  You destroy all that you touch and your impregnable narcissism prevents any datum to the contrary from entering your diseased brains.

    So go ahead – enjoy yourselves!  If it feels good, do it!  DIE FASTER.  KILL YOURSELVES OFF SOONER.  PURGE THE GENE POOL OF YOUR DEFECTIVE DNA ALL THE SOONER AND WE SHALL BE RID OF YOU AND YOUR DISGUSTING, UGLY SELVES FOR ALL TIME.

  • Valkyrie101

    If sodomy is sodomy and it is wrong, then I assume you would also consider heterosexual sodomy to be just as wrong?

  • joanie

    where is megyn and what have you done with her?

    come back to us megyn.  you were one of my favorites now you seem to have jumped ship.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    Megan surprised me today about Chaz Bono and the Dr. What he was saying makes sense for those who may question during the very early years once it’s introduced. His point was spot on she didn’t get it. Had to go for the PC Hate thing. CAN’T WE ALL GET  ALONG SOUNDED SO STUPID.!Perhaps if she didn’t keep interrupting she may have learned something, instead of taking the higher ground..What credits  behind her name? For me to have HIM>HER on Dancing is a money maker for the producers having that nothing more than spectical… sad!

  • Anonymous

    Bravo, Ms. Kelly.  

    I spent about six months volunteering at the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative in San Francisco, and it was one of the best experiences of my life.  Transgender people are just that – people.  They deserve our love and respect just as anyone else does.

  • http://twitter.com/andresdavid Andres A.

    “And I’d say to Chaz Bono if he asked me, ‘Am I a man?’ I’d say, ‘No, brotha, you’re not!’”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    You first!

  • Anonymous

    I’m not normally a Megyn fan but she earned my respect over this one.  Well done.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    To be used like a freak show for MONEY is actually what this is all about. Money, name of  the game you’re ODD You’re in! Hollywood and television so caled personalities that means when you have no  talent but at the moment you’re hot. The clueless Americans who know them better than their own government or history for that matter actually vote I think,how sad for this country.with so many empty headed fools..

  • Mimi

    Megyn Kelly should not even make her views known on such a controversial issue.  Her views are conservatives and she may loose a lot of viewers if she continues being so dogmatic on her opionions, and this subject should never have been brought up on

  • Anonymous

    Tell me what office SP is running for.

  • Anonymous

    Keith is way off on this one and should STFU.

  • Anonymous

    Keith is way off on this one and should STFU.

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t say that in general about Ablow. I’ve seen him provide some very good commentary. I don’t think he deserves that kind of thrashing at all. I just think he was wrong on this one.

  • Anonymous

    You mean having sex with a black person while single  and doing cocaine? That sounds like Obama.

  • Anonymous

    So would you prefer that gay folks come out…so they’re more easily identifiable?

  • Anonymous

    Sooooo……probably not going to catch the Glee premiere, I take it?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    you mean like gretchen carlson?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    here, here

  • DietCokeHead

    Very well said.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    this piece of shit ablow also likens pedophilia to sexual orientation.  i don’t think all right-wingers are of this mindset, but ablow seems to have found a home with them on fox news and fox website.

    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/11/dr-keith-environment-not-just-genetics-determines-sexual-orientation/

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    this piece of shit ablow also likens pedophilia to sexual orientation.  i don’t think all right-wingers are of this mindset, but ablow seems to have found a home with them on fox news and fox website.

    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/11/dr-keith-environment-not-just-genetics-determines-sexual-orientation/

  • DietCokeHead

    Why? Because it offends the simplistic pc notions the media and pop culture have infected your brain with? Common sense tells you this shit isn’t normal. Liberals have been brainwashed into ignoring their gag reflex when it comes to sexual perversion.  

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    no, this is not someone who provides some good commentary.  like i said above this is a sick and hateful mindset because as a psychiatrist, he should know that people who believe this have a disturbed mind and he is just providing ammunition for their bigoted guns.

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes…..conservative medicine and science…dontcha just love it!

    Ablow is obviously a scumbag and hater and that’s what attracted Glenn Beck to him.

    Kinda funny watching him get his nuts cut off in a discussion about gender change.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    i’ll pray for you.

  • Glutton

    She really tore him apart.  Kind of sad that someone with a degree in psychiatry ended up looking like Michele Bachmann when talking about Gardasil.

  • Glutton

    True,  I don’t think anyone would even know that he’s transgender is people like Dr. Ablow didn’t talk about it all the time.  

  • Glutton

    This is the sort of stuff that makes corporate news so unreliable.  Why should someone hold back just because their audience might disagree with them?  Seems like news is more about ratings than actual reporting.  If people stop watching her just because she called out her guest for being ignorant, then it really shows how narrow minded Fox viewers are.

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

    Sarah Palin does cocaine and has sex with black men.

  • Anonymous

     No brother You’re not???   Good one Keith.

    You know if someone asked me if you were a Dr whose opinion is worth serious consideration, I’d say “No brother he isn’t”. I expect it’s for sale to the highest media bidder.
    Is this a little like pro wrestling where people who work together on a regular basis pretend to have a fight for the sake of entertaining the audience? Could be.

  • Anonymous

    That would be a good thing.

  • Anonymous

    How is anyone going to know this isn’t a man unless they are told. I don’t watch the show but did see the documentary on Chaz and would recommend it if it comes on again. Until you walk in that person shoes don’t belittle him/her. It’s not just conservatives who disagree,the socialist left loons do too, So get off your high horse lefty loons!!!!

  • Anonymous

    I agree. Please write to Fox and tell them to stop. They do that kind of thing all the time.

  • Anonymous

    What the hell? Who told you Chaz participates in sodomy?

    I’ll let you in on a BIG secret. Hetero men and women engage in sodomy all the time and like it.

  • Anonymous

    She’s the cutest RINO I ever saw.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sensing some repression in your posts. Poor baby!

  • Anonymous

    You mean to tell me you don’t know any???  You are in denial.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t waste them.  There are people that really need them.

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t get me started.

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t get me started.

  • Anonymous

    He had a TV show in my area that lasted maybe 6 months.  People did not like him.

  • Anonymous

    WOW this really has you all worked up.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Im lovin it!

  • Anonymous

    You don’t sound like you are to much fun!

  • Anonymous

    Is this a new side of Megyn?  Who care if someone wants to go through a sex change.  

  • Rob

    Let’s not get carried away here. This made headlines because she was more liberal and open-minded about it. Still, a true journalist hasn’t a side to fight for.

  • Sharpo

    no. she hasn’t always been decent. i will give her credit here.

  • Sharpo

    no she hasn’t been. like her opposition to changing wallstreet executive contracts by companies who get major bailout money.. but hey, changing government employee contracts. totally fair. HMM?

  • Sharpo

    why are you a poosey?

  • Sharpo

    Sarah Palin is Barack Obama????????? *mind blown*

  • Anonymous

    What a sheltered sad little excuse for a human you are.

  • Anonymous

    She made her bones as the lead attack dog on the early Acorn and Black Panther scares.  I’d guess that Ailes calculated the imagery of the pretty blonde expressing horror over the evil powerful black scourge was one he could take to the bank, but she eagerly went along with the faux outrage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F4SPJYSKCY2VVU65IJ2EKYGW44 Bless You

    I’m offended by Dancing With The Stars, Survivor, Real Housewives, etc.  They’re all rather sickening and
    annoying, and a bad influence on children.  Can we eliminate all of them? 

    Can we please remove the offensive and stupid shows:    Family Guy,  Cleveland, Gossip Girl, anything with
    Keith Olbermann, Charlie Sheen, etc.?  That would be a great thing for humankind.

    Can we please get rid of things where spray on tans, spandex, and sparkles, and bad hair pieces are on no name stars, and kids of famous people who are transgender, dance to bad music in prime time, as we wait
    for them to slip, trip, fall, or mess up the routine?

    The doctor is uttering an opinion.  He has that right.  The show was once geared to a ‘family’ only audience.
    That’s long gone.   He may be right or wrong.  Who knows.    But, isn’t this what ABC wanted:  more news
    coverage on Fox, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NY Times, etc., and it got it:  plenty of free advertisement for
    the opening night.  

    Great PR move ABC. 

  • Anonymous

    Whats the big deal? Chaz Bono physically looks male and is genetically a female. He/she is its own couple. So he/she can dance with itself. Problem solved.

  • Glutton

    Kind of sad that a Dr. was put in his place by someone with no medical credentials.  It sort of makes you wonder the credibility of his profession.  

  • Tim Tebow

    Yikes! “Death Cult of Self-love and masturbation?”

    Do you mind if I name my band that? DCSLM will tour Ohio soon; come see us!

  • Tim Tebow

    Actually it was Devry–and they threw in a small-motor repair degree because he was one of the first 100 to sign up.

  • Tim Tebow

    You’re a virgin. aren’t you Joe?

  • Anonymous

    I congratulate the Doctor for not giving in to political correctness where our health is concerned. Did you see how fast the Megyn Kelly changed the subject when the doctor said the American Psychiatric Association condoned Lobotomies when they were all the rage. God let me stand for good things and condemn those things obviously vile twisted and perverted.

     Do humans only believe supposed experts on common sense issues remember the experts take your money.
    Lastly I would like to congratulate FOX news for giving me a place to voice my opinion with out being censored like Reuters and MSNBC it has gotten to the point the leftist wont even let differing opinions express themsleves but who was I kidding the left has there roots in Communism. I am now a Fox news reader only and the censoring of my post by the leftist have only made me move further to the right.

  • Anonymous

    Wow the 1st Leftist sets up the out down , the 2nd Leftist picks up the cue and adds to the insult. How about debating the merits and stop with the put downs.

  • http://onemorecup.wordpress.com Jon-Paul Schilling, Esq.

    Rob, sorry Sir but I must disagree with you. Not in the part about the headlines, or being more liberal; however, as a journalist she found her side she wanted to fight for and did so at the inclusion of embarrassing herself.

    jps

  • http://onemorecup.wordpress.com Jon-Paul Schilling, Esq.

    Jersey Shore Conservative and Glutton:

    It is not Dr. Keith Ablow who is running around with th hype on Chaz Bono being a transgendered person. Apparently Chaz has written a new book “Something” and is currently on a press junket pushing the book and his awareness of transsexualism.

    Quite openly I was dismayed at the handling of the discussion by Megyn Kelly. I love the lady.    However, with my true journalistic self on I must admit that I feel she blew it completely out of context. Moreover, it got personal insofar as Ms. Kelly ceased listening to facts and continually attempted to talk over Dr. Ablow. From the onset (refer to the tape if necessary) Ms. Kelly is confrontational as this clearly shows up as her face turns red after her first response to him.

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

    Megyn Kelly is so hot she will make me forget Sarah Palin doing lines off of Glen Rice’s ass.

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

    The way these people talk and behave I am willing to bet if they look in the mirror they are seeing one.

  • http://onemorecup.wordpress.com Jon-Paul Schilling, Esq.

    ChrisG: If I may I’d like to make a point to all of those people on this board who are giving kudos, congratulations, and other forms of hoopla to Ms. Kelly who in my humble opinion made a complete ass out of herself during what was supposed to be an interview that was really handled as a rookie journalist and an axe to grind. I’ve never been more disappointed in Megyn Kelly for losing her dignity and integrity.

    But first, let’s forget about Chaz Bono the quasi-celebrity and look at current legislation at the national level. It is one thing to espouse one’s beliefs; it is quite another to use a situation that was elective for one’s advantage for special interest or advocacy purposes. Think about this issue: If we were both exec’s with ABC and decided not to allow a transgendered person on and compete in “dancing.” Now if we used one’s gender we are guilty of discrimination pursuant to the 14th Amendment; however, couldn’t this be construed as reverse discrimination insofar as she’s using her situation as a means to get on the show and to pimp her book?

    Quite openly the Equal rights clause within the 14th Amendment needs to be looked into and as a simple fact of nature — total equality simply does not exist in everyday life with so many people using so many reasons to gain a leg up on their positions in society. Thanks again ChrisG.

    jps

  • Guest

    She doesn’t deserve a medal for defending a circus freak

  • Guest

    She’s only defending Chaz Bono because it’s poiitcialy correct or Megyn Kelly is a tranny..her jaw is kind of chiseled..

  • Guest

    Who cares? Maybe the unlucky guy(or gal) who thought they were with a woman(or man) and they “conveniently”  failed to disclose that information

  • Anonymous

    I don’t see why you would care. 

  • Zermatt2

    I actually have watched Megyn Kelly.  She has not always been rational and fair.  When she had her morning show with Bill Hemmer, both she and Hemmer would routinely report the news, but they would do so with an obvious bias.  They would clearly make known their views on a certain story, even though they were supposed to be simply reporting the news.

    I have seen her say that Fox News had not used the Nazi reference.  Anyone who knows anything about Fox News knows that people like Glenn Beck routinely used the Hitler/Nazi reference when talking about Obama and his administration.  It has been documented that he’s used these comparisons hundreds of times.  And for someone who actually works at Fox to not acknowledge this is really unbelieveable.

    I could cite other instances where I have seen her not being “fair and balanced.”  Yes, at times like this particular instance, she is rational and fair.  But many other times, she has not been.  I do applaud her for going after this faux psychiatrist, one Keith Ablow, who is more of an attention seeker and publicity hound than he is a true shrink.

    And, by the way, I rarely, rarely look at MediaMatters.  I have indeed seen Ms. Kelly on the Fox cable network itself.

  • Zermatt2

    You’re absolutely right about that, ChiliPeppers.  Carlson is so incredibly biased, as are the other two clowns on that morning show, “Fox and Idiots.”

  • Zermatt2

    They’re both quacks, but Ablow is far worse.  He once said on Faux News that all teachers are lazy (not just some, but “all”), and he cited the fact that his mother was a teacher and every day took him shopping at 03:30 when she got home.    Surely, there must be some psychiatric term for those who call their mothers lazy and then use them to try to prove some idiotic point. 

  • Zermatt2

    Your post reminds me of something I read this morning.  See what Clint Eastwood just said about gay marriage….he doesn’t give a “f*#k@#” about who marries whom!

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/13/idUS306102206020110913

  • ceeza

    you’ve seen him give good commentary non elite? HA!!   He was just called out for the lying piece of shit he is by someone who is not even a medical professional… All megyn did was  a little research and called bullshit and he starts stuttering…  Do you fact check everything this man says non elite?  No you’re a sheep that believes his “medical opinion”, which is really just a vehicle for his hate, and then you call it good commentary.. HA!!!  

  • Valkyrie101

    Megyn qualifies as beautiful. Sarah is pretty.

  • ceeza

    Thats bigger the issue.. He goes unchallenged daily… Then was left stuttering by someone who did 5 minutes of research.. He actually looked shocked and unprepared for it and said he thought he was “on the home team”… 

  • Anonymous

    Ouch!

  • Anonymous

    “Transgender surgery” or “sexual re-assignation,” bothers me.  Are these people mentally ill, physically ill, both?  To put it mildly, such is obviously a serious decision for a person to make…

    I have difficulty accepting that major invasive surgery, coupled with hormonal therapy, is a reasonable solution to this “illness?”  I am an agnostic, a libertarian, soo, I am philosophically disposed to let others do as they will, as long as they don’t hurt anyone? (other than themselves)

    I guess I have to conclude that an individual must be suffering such discomfort, both physical and or mental as to rearrange their genitalia?  Ergo, I guess I accept “trans-genderism”, philosophically.  However, emotionally I cringe, hence I guess I am being consistent with my philosophy of “neutral principle” as I am relying on my intellect to judge and guide my reaction(s).  Perhaps future generation’s will be less concerned?

    But, it still bothers me?  (The media doesn’t help, either)

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    “Transgender surgery” or “sexual re-assignation,” bothers me.  Are these people mentally ill, physically ill, both?  To put it mildly, such is obviously a serious decision for a person to make…

    I have difficulty accepting that major invasive surgery, coupled with hormonal therapy, is a reasonable solution to this “illness?”  I am an agnostic, a libertarian, soo, I am philosophically disposed to let others do as they will, as long as they don’t hurt anyone? (other than themselves)

    I guess I have to conclude that an individual must be suffering such discomfort, both physical and or mental as to rearrange their genitalia?  Ergo, I guess I accept “trans-genderism”, philosophically.  However, emotionally I cringe, hence I guess I am being consistent with my philosophy of “neutral principle” as I am relying on my intellect to judge and guide my reaction(s).  Perhaps future generation’s will be less concerned?

    But, it still bothers me?  (The media doesn’t help, either)

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    She’s an awful purdy one.

  • Anonymous

    I could make a vulgar joke about doing that off the top of the back of a toilet tank but, indoor plumbling is hard to come by in Alaska–so I won’t.

  • Anonymous

    I think your speaking of Body Dysmorphic Disorder.  It’s not the same thing as Gender Identity Disorder.

  • Anonymous

    There are other psychiatrist’s who come across with far more credibility.  Dr. Ablow would’nt do well with them either.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve actually looked through the surgical booklet (for patients) describing the surgery in detail, Purveyor.  Yes, it’s cringe worthy.  I knew a man who took this leap.  It took years of therapy and preparation.  When I met this person I just assumed they were female–that’s how they appeared.  Part of the prep is to dress the part for at least a year. Personally, I can’t imagine being willing to allow this surgery.  However, for those that wish it it’s what they desire most.  From their point of view a terrible mistake is being righted.  Oh, and no surgeon will touch a patient that has’nt been monitored by a psychologist and who feels the patient would benefit from gender reassignment surgery.  It’s their life to live.

  • Anonymous

    Uhm….look up, you’re on mediaite. This is not Fix.  But I can see how you might be confused.

  • Anonymous

    To be fair he spends most of his time in a dank basement.

  • Loridoll14

    You don’t get it. The execs at ABC don’t care that Chaz is transgender. It’s about ratings. This kerfuffle was an anticipated ratings driver. Many will tune in. You don’t grasp that we liberals don’t care if folks are gay or transgender. We wouldn’t expend much thought on the subject save the wingers crying about it like the world will end. Ya’ll are so frightened of any plausible reality other than one you personally experience. Big world. Lots of grey and black and white glasses limits vision. People are complex and all have a cross or two to bear in this life. Who cares who is loving who? Why you take time to apply constitutional law to a transgender reality show casting is baffling to me.

  • Limpbaals

    Maybe he has a predilection for women who have masculine features, and he’s been burned before because of it. He wants to find a lady with a natural adam’s apple…. like all those bodybuilding chicks on his computer who “don’t” use steroids.

    :D

  • Michael T.

    Every time I think I am close to turning against Megyn because our politics differ she rises to the occasion.

    Whether it’s decimating Kristen Powers or challenging Dr. Ablow or giving a fair interview to Ron Paul or schooling O’Reilly on the law, this wonderfully smart but feisty FNC host deserves our applause for a job well done.

    The anti-Gretchen Carlson if you will.

  • Glutton

     True, he seemed very unprepared to defend his position.  I think Michele Bachmann could’ve made a better argument for his position than he did.

  • Anonymous

    You know, they won’t be announcing Chaz, the guy who used to be a girl, and his partner Lacy Schwimer, dancing the Tango.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VEZRI4F47BBX7BWJSF4N2IAJ2U Jaac

    Personally for this very reason I refuse to watch the Jersey Shore. I don’t know what would happen to me, but I do know I would regret it later.

  • Anonymous

    To who? 

  • David

    fuax outrage, you must be delusional

  • David

    the idiot is here

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Keith Ablow is right. The only thing he’s “intolerant” of is a fake world where humans can chop off their tits and magically become men. In the real world, you can’t do that. He’s right, being “transgendered” is a complete and utter fallacy. Exposing you children to an environment that endorses transgendered people is as toxic as exposing them to an environment where white people are superior to black people. Look how many people have been fucked up by that, and imagine how crazy the kids are gonna be who get fucked up by this.

  • Anonymous

    You better be careful, you might have a gay child someday. Then what are you going to do, put him in jail or barf on him?

  • Anonymous

    Only an idiot would think that.

  • Anonymous

    That was totally unnecessary, but I guess that’s the kind of thing we can expect from you.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, you’re about as funny as he is.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Glad that Megyn Kelly took know it all DR. Keith Ablow to task I think Keith is wrong and parents don’t even have to say that Chaz was a women I wouldn’t tell my kids that if they want to know later on in life then they can look it up online.

  • Anonymous

    Well, if delusional has been redefined to mean “thoroughly backed up by facts in the real world, facts that rarely penetrate the Breitbart/O’Keefe world” then yeah, I’m pretty delusional.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Moseley/777774389 Chuck Moseley

    Megan Kelly was way off base with this circus freak

  • Anonymous

    How can he be your Brother when it is not a Man? Doc

  • Klawnet

    They would clearly make known their views on a certain story, even though they were supposed to be simply reporting the news.<<
    You mean…like Couric?  Jennings?  The Wallaces?  Rather?  Brokaw?  Every other talking head on your liberally biased newsfeeds?  You swim in it daily, you only kick when the opinions infused in your news challenge your own.

  • Trixta

    I think BO doing cocaine and doing Larry Singlair and the choir boys at his old church is far juicier.  So what about Palin.  Good for her if this is true.   

  • Jo

    Megyn should have kept her mouth shut.  After all she is no Psychiatrist or Psychologist.  As adults we are able to decide if we agree with Dr. Ablow or not and we do not need her opinion, instead we need to sit and think about what he said.  Who is she to blow about hate? 

  • http://onemorecup.wordpress.com Jon-Paul Schilling, Esq.

    Loridoll14: I am not altogether certain I understand your reply. I think you didn’t read mine very well or there would not be any hoopla regarding what’s the issue is about. We all know that it’s about ratings.

    My personal beef here in this instance is that Megyn Kelly who really is not that experienced as an interviewer and threw her hat, ass, and gloves into this by siding with Bono’s manipulation of the law. I believe I have a right to be offended, and I was. Through this site who respects the US Constitution esp. the 1st Amendment right of freedom to speak I was freely espousing my beliefs.

    And yes the US Constitution is important and needs to be brought into attention. If you ever took the time to actually read the 14th Amendment, it is really a botched kerfuffle. It is causing more and more difficulty than it’s worth. People say they want change. Well my beef is the 14th. Bono is no more a transsexual than you are, or I am. The tats, the phoney machissmo, her entire life is predicated upon one lie after another precisely like her mother’s. So I really don’t care about this bs!

  • http://onemorecup.wordpress.com Jon-Paul Schilling, Esq.

    Loridoll14: I am not altogether certain I understand your reply. I think you didn’t read mine very well or there would not be any hoopla regarding what’s the issue is about. We all know that it’s about ratings.

    My personal beef here in this instance is that Megyn Kelly who really is not that experienced as an interviewer and threw her hat, ass, and gloves into this by siding with Bono’s manipulation of the law. I believe I have a right to be offended, and I was. Through this site who respects the US Constitution esp. the 1st Amendment right of freedom to speak I was freely espousing my beliefs.

    And yes the US Constitution is important and needs to be brought into attention. If you ever took the time to actually read the 14th Amendment, it is really a botched kerfuffle. It is causing more and more difficulty than it’s worth. People say they want change. Well my beef is the 14th. Bono is no more a transsexual than you are, or I am. The tats, the phoney machissmo, her entire life is predicated upon one lie after another precisely like her mother’s. So I really don’t care about this bs!

  • http://www.facebook.com/stevemanusa Stephen Black

    Dr. Keith Albow has more common sense and understanding about human sexuality and identity in his pinky than the “Dr.” Megyn Kelly was referring too. THIS IS SO SAD!  The APA is nothing more than a political machine, it has lost all creditability, and they are not unlike the ACLU.  Of course children are influenced by what they see and hear! Mere common sense Ms Kelly! Dr. Albow comments about unstable children going through identity conflict is absolutely right on! Megyn Kelly is becoming more and more disappointing as another FOXNEWS liberal. Dr. Keith Albow was courageous in this piece.  I sure hope he doesn’t succumb to the FOXNEWS LIBERAL LEANINGS, it is getting worse by the day.

  • Jbear

    How many times did she mention that she’s a lawyer?

  • Kherman925

    The only outrage is idiots like you that have your head up your MSNBC.

  • Keith Jenkins

    This isn’t a reply to Joe M. I wouldn’t lower myself to that level. Instead, it is a question to whomever moderates the comments on this site.
    How can a comment like this not be removed? It is nothing but hatred, and its presence here demeans your site.

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