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Red Eye Panel On Dr. Keith Ablow’s Defense Of Gingrich’s Cheating: ‘Pandering Slop’

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Fox News’ medical correspondent Dr. Keith Ablow was last seen condemning respect for transgendered people, and this week came out with a piece that was vintage Ablow: Newt Gingrich, he argued, would make a great present precisely because he had been a philandering weasel. Needless to say, this logic did not go over so well on Red Eye, where the panel intermittently called it “asinine” and tried to determine if it was just masterful trolling on the doctor’s part.

RELATED: Jon Stewart Dissects Gingrich Open Marriage Scandal: Open Your Legs, America

Ablow, who has been a guest on the show, suggested that the fact that “three women have met Mr. Gingrich and been so moved by his emotional energy and intellect that they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with him” was an indication that Gingrich was awesome (Ablow tellingly did not comment on the moral quality of the second two women, who were mistresses before they were wives). Panelist Matthew McCall was the only one who attempted a defense of some sort of this thesis. “What he is trying to say… he was in a marriage, wasn’t happy, found something better,” which showed a “stern ability to make a decision,” he argued. “You left out that convenient overlapping of the relationships, Greg Gutfeld noted. He then turned to Joe DeRosa, and asked what he imagined having Ablow as a psychiatrist would be like, besides him telling you that everything you do wrong is good, because “it’s proof that you’re capable of getting away with it.”

DeRosa summed it up as “asinine” and “insane,” and Remy Spencer jumped in to add that “there’s absolutely nothing to this point,” as “woman are attracted to men who are in positions of power– they don’t even have to be good-looking or that wealthy.” DeRosa later returned to call the whole thing “right-wing desperation” and insist, “I don’t think this guy believes this.” Bill Schulz, the final one to weigh in, called the whole thing “pandering slop” that made sense in the context of Gingrich’s original excuse for his horrible moral history: that he had cheated on his wives because he loved America.

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  • Anonymous

    The only people who would agree with Mr. Ablow’s ‘theory’ are people who have cheated on their spouses and need to justify their actions to themselves.

    One wonders how this lunatic ever became a psychiatrist. Are there actual disturbed, troubled people who depend on him for psychiatri­c help? That’s a very scary thought. On the other hand, Fox News is the perfect venue for him to air his insane drivel…

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Newt Gingrich, he argued, would make a great present

    Could you fit him under the tree?

    What would you wrap him with?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Newt Gingrich, he argued, would make a great present

    Could you fit him under the tree?

    What would you wrap him with?

  • 12voltman1

    Dr Ablow probably sleeps around a lot himself.

  • 12voltman1

    Newt is appalled he was asked about his infidelitie.
     Let’s elect a playboy President!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513171169 Bart Miller

    Who is the chick? 

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    The magic show continues

  • Anonymous

    It’s kind of interesting how all of Fox News seems to have ganged up on Gingrich.  They’ve been bashing Gingrich almost as much as they usually bash Obama.

    And people say the network isn’t a propaganda outlet.  I think even conservatives can see here how the top brass at Fox gives marching orders, and all its personalities then fall into line behind them (in this case the orders being “Romney will be the republican nominee”).

  • Anonymous

    Apparently you don’t watch Fox much…..Gingrich is their presidential poster boy right now. 

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how Glenn Beck feels about Dr. Ablow now….

  • Anonymous

    “Pandering slop” Nice description of Faux News.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    The Slimy Newt

    A slimy neocon who calls himself Newt
    Always plays the globalist skin flute
    He gets on his knees
    And does what they please
    While lining his pockets with their loot.

    With women, Newt’s always a smooth dancer
    “Upgrade ‘em often!” is his standard answer
    Which caused him, of course
    To present his divorce
    To his first wife as she lay dying of cancer.

    Speaker Gingrich didn’t give a hoot
    For his family when he gave ‘em the boot
    He came up short,
    Never paying child support
    For the entire duration of the dispute.

    Next Newt married a girl named Marianne
    Whom he quickly decided to can
    When she got a diagnosis
    Of Multiple Sclerosis
    Which threw a wrench in his political plan.

    You see, Ol’ Newt was a hopin’
    His marriage could be sexually open
    But Marianne said “No way!
    It’ll be a cold day
    If you think i’ll OK your page gropin’”

    Before Marianne announced she was sick
    Newt was boning his aide, Callista Bisek
    While Callista played Newt’s harmonica
    He blasted Bill for gettin’ a Monica
    ‘Cause hypocrisy has always been Newt’s schtick
    .______________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Anonymous

    remi spencer

  • Anonymous

    Doubt it. No guy would find him attractive.

  • Anonymous

    Remi Spencer is so hot.

  • Anonymous

    Seems like you should be able to get your medical license removed for being stupid.

  • Anonymous

    Ablow has always been a crank. An embarassment to Fox and psychologists. 

  • Anonymous

    Damn, no teabaggers on this thread.  I love you guys, but it’s so much more fun when the baggers are on.

  • Anonymous

    Dang, Remi is looking fine here. Wish I didn’t accidentally remove last night’s Red Eye from my DVR schedule.

  • Dead_Air

    Here is an old proverb:  A man who marries his mistress creates a job opening.

    NEWT GINGRICH IS A PROVEN JOB CREATOR!

  • Anonymous

    I guess Bill Clinton was a beter president because he cheated on his wife.

  • Anonymous

    I think the shrink needs a shrink.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    2008: Nominated silver fox who replaced older wife with Barbie doll.

    2012: Nominate silver fox who replaced older wife with Barbie doll.

    Sounds like a winning formula

  • shonangreg

    If Lady Gaga can wrap herself with a meat dress, then the choice for the wrapping of Newt is obvious: pious bologna.

    And no, he wouldn’t fit under the tree. He is so unique that he needs to be mounted on top of the tree where the star is supposed to go.

  • shonangreg

    If he doesn’t, according to his logic, it is because he is incompetent.

    Weren’t the Republicans the ones who claimed to be the party of morality and family values?

  • Anonymous

    The same court filing in which Jackie Gingrich told the judge she did not want the divorce also accused Gingrich of failing to provide enough money for her and her two then-teena­ged daughters to live on during their separation­. Kathy was 17 at the time.

    “Despite repeated notice to plaintiff and requests by defendant, plaintiff has failed and refused to voluntaril­y provide reasonable support sufficient to include payment of usual and normal living expenses, including drugs, water, sewage, garbage, gas, electric and telephone service for defendant and the minor children,” she said in court documents. “As a result, many of such accounts are two or three months past due with notices of intent to cut off service and gas and electricit­y.”

  • Anonymous

    Whatever Darth Vader used on Hans Solo.  Carbonite?

  • Anonymous

    Well, now they’re the outraged (“It doesn’t matter what I do”) if you even ask about it party.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    i don’t want to swell your head to Newt like proportions

    but you’re kind of a lyrical genius, in my opinion

    keep up the good work

  • 12voltman1

    Why, Are you going to pull some more crazy shit out of your ass?

  • 12voltman1

    I thouhgt it was Romney? They switched?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Jaba’s work if I’m not mistaken.

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    Maybe out of yours

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    A new Fox News poll recently came out stating more people would rather have a hot needle shoved under their fingernail than watch ‘Red Eye’!!

  • 12voltman1

    I’d let you only if you really were that chick in your avatar. But your not. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIKH2YFVNOIFEHIABNQA2MUNY Zona

    Red Eye (fox) is missing the point.  this guy is a Fox contributor.  In otherer words, he represents FOX!!!! The same station Red eye is on. 

    They are totally missing it.

  • Anonymous

    Screw Ablow. I saw him on the other day analyzing the Italian cruise ship captain. Now admittedly the captain appears to be total piece of shit but I don’t think he deserves to be psychoanalyzed by some asshole on tv that has never met him.

  • Anonymous

    Fallowing that line of reasoning, “should Obimbo be wearing swaddling-cloth”?

  • Larry Linn

    It is ironic that conservative Republicans
    consider that to allow committed gay couples to marry, is a threat to marriage,
    but they will vote for New Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

    Larry, you beat me to it!

  • Anonymous

    Dr. Keith Ablow is a disgrace to everything, except to men who cheat on their wives and demand that  it be acceptable.

  • Anonymous

    TV doctors offering analysis of headline grabbers has become an ugly trend. How many times has Nancy Grace asked some trumped up “expert” doctor to profile someone accused of a crime even though they have never met the accused?That’s like asking a doctor what he thinks of your friend’s stomach ache and having him recommend surgery. Phooey.

  • Anonymous

    Newt “would make a great ‘present.’” 

    What is he, a late Christmas gift?  Put a bow on him and wrap him up!

    Does the writer of this mean “president?”

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  • Tan

    Absolutely correct. Any member of the profession that would do that without a long rambling statement at the start pretty much saying it’s all just for fun and 100% NOT a proper analysis (which in tv world means you would have to turn it down) is not worth their salt. Really it’s prostitution what he’s doing. Selling his own professionalism for the big bucks. Other therapists are undeniably furious over him and morons like him (Dr Phil; who IS NOT a registered member of the profession and has had his license revoked in shame).

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