Keith Ablow

[[File:Keith_Ablow.jpg|thumb|165px|Pictured: Keith Ablow; books. What an elitist!]]{{pundits}}
'''Keith Russell Ablow''' {{lived|1961}} is an [[United States|American]] [[psychiatrist]], [[author]], and prominent [[media]] personality, appearing on such programs as ''The Tyra Banks Show'' and ''[[Glenn Beck]]''<ref>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/right-mind</ref> as an expert in [[psychoanalysis]]. He wrote for [[Fox News]]' blog devoted to health matters,<ref>http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/</ref> and runs his own self-empowerment community based around his book ''Living the Truth.''<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20031222221027/http://livingthetruth.com/</ref>

One way he's allegedly empowered himself is through having [[Sexual intercourse|sex]] with his patients.<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/former-fox-news-medical-contributor-keith-ablow-accused-of-sexually-exploiting-3-patients/</ref> As a result, Ablow has had his medical license suspended by two states<ref>[https://www.salemnews.com/news/keith-ablow-settles-sexual-misconduct-lawsuits/article_80d3bbea-9831-11e9-a0d4-a72d2fa45d6c.html Keith Ablow settles sexual misconduct lawsuits]</ref><ref>[https://www.thewrap.com/former-fox-news-medical-contributor-keith-ablows-license-suspended-after-sexual-misconduct-accusations/ Former Fox News Medical Contributor Keith Ablow’s License Suspended After Sexual Misconduct Accusations]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/nyregion/fox-news-keith-ablow-psychiatrist.html What It Took for a Fox News Psychiatrist to Finally Lose His License]</ref> and his home raided by the DEA.<ref>https://www.boston25news.com/news/dea-raids-newburyport-home-former-psychiatrist-accused-sex-assault-cases/47RU7LOTHBFFVHCUXBRTHJ3GQI/</ref>

==Education and career==
Coming from amazing institutional roots, with degrees from Brown and Johns Hopkins, Ablow has since sunk to the depths of [[Credentialism|prostituting those little "M.D." letters on television]]. He happily provides [[Bullshit|deeply complex psychiatric analyses]] of famous individuals or talk-show guests on the basis of thirty-second interviews or news headlines.

==Considered opinions==
===On mass murder===
Appearing on the ''[[Glenn Beck]] Show'' in order to analyze Jiverly Voong, who went on a mass shooting spree in Binghamton, New York,<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/03/jiverly-voong-binghamton_n_182962.html</ref> he felt assured enough of the man's name and the fact of the spree to declare:

{{quotebox|Believe me, [we are] not born to this world for this kind of heinous act or this kind of end. Some series of calamities befell him that he then symbolically reproduces. What does he do? He barricades the exit. There is no exit. And I promise when we learn more about his life, we'll learn that he saw no exit for himself, that his life as he saw it had come to an end.<ref>[https://archive.ph/84JPy Dr. Keith Ablow on Binghamton Massacre]. Archived from Fox News, 6 April 2009.</ref>}}

Ablow has also defended the [[Unabomber]], Ted Kaczynski. While he took great pains to state that he thought Kaczynski's actions were wrong, he went on to state that his ideas "are increasingly important" and "cannot be dismissed", saying that Kaczynski's manifesto, ''Industrial Society and Its Future'', deserved a place alongside ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' and ''Brave New World''. According to Ablow's logic, since the [[NSA]] is spying on us and [[Barack Obama]] heavily employed the internet as a key campaign and outreach tool, that means that the internet is totally rotten to the core and that Kaczynski was right about technology.<ref>Bishop, Thomas. [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/26/fox-news-keith-ablow-unabomber-was-right-that-l/194638 "Fox News' Keith Ablow: Unabomber Was Right That Liberals Are 'Psychologically Disordered'."] ''[[Media Matters for America]]'', 26 June 2013.</ref><ref>[http://respecttheblankie.com/2013/06/28/does-dr-keith-ablow-suffer-from-a-reading-comprehension-disorder/ "Dr. Keith Ablow's Political Hero, the Unabomber."] ''Respect the Blankie'', 28 June 2013.</ref>

===On [[African American|black]] folks in the White House===
Another time on the same program, Ablow offered advice for President [[Obama]], saying:

{{quotebox|The president needs to look at himself and say, "Do I have prejudice that I wasn’t even aware of, perhaps, [[reverse racism|towards white people]]?"<ref>David Roth, [http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/right-mind?page=0,1 Right Mind: Keith Ablow, Glenn Beck's Shrink]. The New Republic, 17 March 2010.</ref>}}

===On [[gender]]===
Ablow is also very concerned about pink nail polish on boys' toenails.<ref>[http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-tackles-j-crew-gender-bending-pink-nailpolish-ad/ Fox News Tackles J. Crew Gender-Bending Pink Nail Polish Ad], Mediaite</ref> Perhaps he's forgotten about the [[good old days]] when boys regularly cross-dressed.<ref>[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/ When did girls start wearing pink?] Smithsonian Magazine</ref> He also criticised ABC for featuring Chaz Bono on ''Dancing with the Stars''--not because he is [[transphobia|transphobic]], but because of his never-ending concern for [[Emotional appeal#Children|the children]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110903095340/http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/02/dont-let-your-kids-watch-chaz-bono-on-dancing-with-stars/ Don't Let Your Kids Watch Chaz Bono on 'Dancing With the Stars'], Fox News</ref>

===On Newt Gingrich's open marriage and infidelity===
On [[Fox News]], Keith Ablow claimed [[Newt Gingrich]]'s infidelity and [[open marriage]] policy<ref name="cnn">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120121114903/http://articles.cnn.com/2012-01-19/politics/politics_gingrich-wife_1_marianne-gingrich-callista-bisek-newt-gingrich?_s=PM:POLITICS Ex-wife: Newt Gingrich wanted 'open marriage']</ref> could make him a superior president.<ref name="huff">Fox News: [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/keith-ablow-fox-news-newt-gingrich-marriages_n_1220761.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl12%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D129396 Infidelity might make Newt better president]</ref>

===On Millennials===
Ablow diagnosed the entire Millennial generation as "deluded narcissists" and predicted an "epidemic of depression and suicidality, not to mention homicidality" from them.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/we-are-raising-a-generation-of-deluded-narcissists We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists]</ref> According to Ablow, there is just too much Facebook, too much computer gaming, too much MTV and, of course, too much drinkin' and druggin' and sexin'. These gosh darn kids today, I tell you, in my day...

==Astounding fiction career==
Not content to limit himself at self-help literature, Ablow has tried his hand at fiction, having so far written six books featuring Frank Clevenger, a forensic psychiatrist from Massachusetts (and totally not an author stand-in). His novels, published between 1998 through 2005, are titled ''Denial, Projection, Compulsion, Psychopath, Murder Suicide,'' and ''The Architect''. Though commonly described as crime fiction, one could be forgiven for mistaking the first five titles for the stages of grief most right-wingers (Tea Partiers especially) have gone through due to the Obama presidency.

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