He's not a real dr, but he sure is a real jerk.

What was the moment you realized mr phil was a quack? For me it was when he had a man on the show who hit back after his wife assaulted him, and phil threatened to have the man arrested on stage if he got up and left while he was being humiliated and berated with things like: "there's no reason to ever hit a woman, not even if she has a knife" and "you're a coward" and "you're scum".

That man was a victim of long term domestic violence and snapped, but instead of helping him phil exploited him in his moment of weakness.

I always find it weird when people repost this acting as if Dr. Phil wouldn't have been in on the whole situation. It's not like the show was aired live, or that the guy wouldn't have had to been approved to go out on stage dressed like that by likely at least a dozen people, and Phil would definitely have been told in advance. So the guy was allowed to do it by Phil and the staff, and then the episode was edited and allowed to air, all for ratings.

I've gotta admit, that guy coming on the show with a Dr. Phil haircut is pretty hilarious. Take that, Thick Drawl McGraw!

I'm glad both Dr. Fool and that other guy who pushes super fruits and looks like Sinestro both lost their shows. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving couple of tools.

They're both cunts who exploit people during their worst times.

I've always heard he was a real doctor, but had to give up his license in order to do the show.

But if you do that, even if you see few or no patients, you have to get malpractice insurance

It has something called a tail clause, so once you retire from medicine you're covered from any former patients - if you keep your license, you have to keep paying

When we come in ya gonna hear diss.

The likelihood that he didn't know he was going to do this, even if perhaps it was a surprise on the day, seems pretty low. He allowed him to do it. I really don't believe the guy showed up dressed ina Dr Phil costume, presumably hours before taping, and was able to sit around in the green room and go past all the producers and make it on set if this was going to be a real problem for them. Doubtless if they didn't contrive the entire thing themselves then they likely saw it as a gift.

If I recall Dr Phil refused to interview him, and made a big show of kicking him off the set. On the face of it this makes him look bad and seems to prove the guy's point. I guess he either thought he'd still appear high and mighty by refusing to indulge him, (yet suspiciously waiting until he's literally on stage to do it) despite the apparent statement it made. Or maybe they figured it would just make such good ratings that it really didn't matter if you allowed him to make a negative commentary about Dr Phil that probably goes over most of the audience's head because the visuals alone would draw people in and could be milked for the program trailers.

Here's the video of it if anybody hasn't seen it yet.

While I agree with you he is scum of the earth, he does hold a doctorate, meaning he can call himself doctor.

Exposing people for what they are is most effective if there is nothing in your story that people can use as “See? You’re wrong about this one thing so you must be wrong about everything”.

He is scum and exploits people, and I wish he would just go away.

Dr Phil is unfortunately a real doctor.

But a badly cropped screenshot of a tweet isn't a meme.

It's not exactly "the same thing" though. One encourages direct violence. Dr. Phil presumably does not. One component of exploitation being comparable is not the same as totally equal.