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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 12:56 PM Jan 2013

Fox "News" psychiatrist: Obama pushing gun control because he was ‘abandoned’ as a boy

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Source: Raw Story

Fox News’ resident psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow believes that President Barack Obama advocates “disempowering” people through gun safety legislation because he was “abandoned” as a child.

Ablow on Tuesday told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that the president had “hijacked” the slaughter of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut “in order to advance his desire for gun control.”

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Dobbs wondered if Obama was “truly that Machiavellian, that driven by his own ideological purpose” that he would advocate for gun control instead of embracing the values of freedom and fixing the mental health system.

“I’m certain that’s true,” Ablow opined. “Number one, the autonomy of others did him no favors as a kid, when he was abandoned again and again by people who were — quote — unquote — responsible and supposed to do the right thing, like parents. So his belief, ‘You know what? What good is individual autonomy in decision making? What good did it do me? The collective is what needs to be empowered, and all the better if I’m the center of that collective and the most powerful person in it.’”



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/23/fox-news-psychiatrist-obama-pushing-gun-control-because-he-was-abandoned-as-a-boy/

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Fox "News" psychiatrist: Obama pushing gun control because he was ‘abandoned’ as a boy (Original Post) kpete Jan 2013 OP
Ablow is the biggest quack. Doesn't he have other cockamamie Obama "theories" too? catbyte Jan 2013 #1
Pop psych at its worst, coming from an educated idiot who should know better. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2013 #2
O.M.G. Helen Reddy Jan 2013 #3
Oh fa chrissakes!! Harry Monroe Jan 2013 #4
Quack quack quack ... bemildred Jan 2013 #5
QUACK Angry Dragon Jan 2013 #6
Why does a TV network have a "resident psychiatrist"? Redfairen Jan 2013 #7
Meh, we keep calling gun nuts the itty-bitty-peni club siligut Jan 2013 #8
Of course this is bat crap crazy but ..... Botany Jan 2013 #9
If Kerry is confirmed as Secretary, this guy is considering running for his seat ... meegbear Jan 2013 #10
This is not news of national importance. It's rawstory watching a tv show OKNancy Jan 2013 #11

catbyte

(34,376 posts)
1. Ablow is the biggest quack. Doesn't he have other cockamamie Obama "theories" too?
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 12:58 PM
Jan 2013

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,000 posts)
2. Pop psych at its worst, coming from an educated idiot who should know better. nt
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 12:58 PM
Jan 2013
 

Helen Reddy

(998 posts)
3. O.M.G.
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 12:58 PM
Jan 2013

Just when I thought they could not get any more stupiderest.

Harry Monroe

(2,935 posts)
4. Oh fa chrissakes!!
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 12:59 PM
Jan 2013

What other nutty theories will they think up next. Faux News has long lost any shred of credibility they ever had as a news organization (if they ever had any to begin with). Only the completely delusional still hang on to their every word as "news" and gospel.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
5. Quack quack quack ...
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:00 PM
Jan 2013

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
6. QUACK
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:01 PM
Jan 2013

Redfairen

(1,276 posts)
7. Why does a TV network have a "resident psychiatrist"?
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:03 PM
Jan 2013

siligut

(12,272 posts)
8. Meh, we keep calling gun nuts the itty-bitty-peni club
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jan 2013

Doesn't make Dr. aBLOWS any less of a sell-out idiot, but it is along similar lines. Certainly not what one would expect from a professional.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
9. Of course this is bat crap crazy but .....
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jan 2013

.... if you listen to Fox the this makes sense to you. I had one customer tell me that
the reason why we are running out of oil is because the Chinese are drilling at a sharp
angle off of Cub so they can "steal our oil."

The truth doesn't matter to Fox but what is important is to get "the story" that Ailes and
Murdoch want spread out there.

meegbear

(25,438 posts)
10. If Kerry is confirmed as Secretary, this guy is considering running for his seat ...
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:06 PM
Jan 2013

that'll be a hoot to watch him crash in burn in MA.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
11. This is not news of national importance. It's rawstory watching a tv show
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:07 PM
Jan 2013

then telling us about what they saw. In the future don't post these types of posts in LBN... Thanks.
This would be good for General Discussion.

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