Take responsibility!!

One of the biggest problems in the US these days are people who are unwilling to take responsibility for their actions. Dr. Phil McGraw has been on TV with his talk show trying to get people to do exactly that.

Now it seems that Dr. Phil, or at least the staff of his show, refuse to practice what they preach.

We have all heard the story out of Polk County Florida where those 8 teenagers abducted and severely beat a 16 year old girl. The 6 girls and 2 boys were arrested and will be taken to court as adults for their actions. All 8 were given bail between $30,000 and $38,000.

Enter staffers from the Dr. Phil show hoping to get the leg up and get this on the show paid the bail for one of the young ladies. The bail was $33,000 which means that Dr. Phil and his show had to put up 10%, or $3,300 to get the girl released.

Rather than taking responsibility for this major screw up, a representative for Dr. Phil's syndicated show stated that staffers "went beyond" the shows guidelines in posting the bail.

Oh please!!! I find it very hard to believe that a staffer for the show had the authority, on their own, to put up the $3,300 plus whatever collateral was required for the remainder of the bail on their own. A staffer would not have the authority to put up $33,000 of company assets without the consent of the shows main producers.

While Dr. Phil bills his show as an above board show where people are shown the true nature of their screw-ups and take responsibility, the show over the past several months has been shown to be anything but that.

First was Dr. Phil going to see a certain famous female with the hopes of making a show out of her case (I don't even want to mention her name here). Then he proceeds to go on the air and run his flapper about it. The man is a doctor (or so it says in the show title) for heavens sake. What ever happened to patient-doctor privilege? Guess there ain't any when it comes to Dr. Phil.

Now we have this little episode where they try to secure a segment on the show by putting up bail for this girl and we are to believe that the producers knew nothing about it. Now Dr. Phil himself might not have anything to do with this. But some how I doubt it. I can just see good ole Phil going to some staff flunkie telling him (or her) to get their butt to Florida and secure a deal with at least one of these kids to appear. Yep...I think Dr. Phil is up to his folically challenged head in this mess.

Of course all of this has nothing to do with helping any of these kids that are in deep shit at the moment. It is all about TV ratings and ad revenue.

Personally, I think it's high time for Dr. Phil to leave the air and take up his new position as a client for the Hair Club for men. Hell...maybe he can even be the president of the company!!!

So that is my opinion. What do you think?