{"id":7448,"date":"2020-04-30T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2020-06-03T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:10:57","slug":"the-derp-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7448","title":{"rendered":"The Derp Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, trotted out two famous television doctors, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, to spew forth reasons why America should open up the economy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/some-places-have-flattened-coronavirus-curve-nationally-we-re-not-n1189431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"despite nationally, being nowhere close to flattening the curve of the coronavirus pandemic (opens in a new tab)\">despite nationally, being nowhere close to flattening the curve of the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>. Both doctors, surprisingly enough, got their big break from the queen of all media Oprah Winfrey. Staff member Chester Einstein has always been a huge fan of Ms. Winfrey, but when it comes to Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, he&#8217;s reduced to twiddling his lips. Quoting Chester, &#8220;These guys are clowns!&#8221; And from what these TV physicians said last week, we&#8217;re inclined to agree. As a matter of fact, we think they&#8217;re Oprah&#8217;s two biggest mistakes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, Dr. Phil.  We&#8217;ve always thought his folksy prescriptions for living a better life were a bit reminiscent of a snake oil salesman. We even created a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"BilgeBucket list of Dr. Phils folksiest pieces of advice bullshit for improving your life (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=508\" target=\"_blank\">BilgeBucket list of Dr. Phils folksiest pieces of <\/a><strike><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"BilgeBucket list of Dr. Phils folksiest pieces of advice bullshit for improving your life (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=508\" target=\"_blank\">advice<\/a><\/strike><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"BilgeBucket list of Dr. Phils folksiest pieces of advice bullshit for improving your life (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=508\" target=\"_blank\"> bullshit for improving your life<\/a>. We&#8217;re particularly fond of &#8221; If you can con Oprah into thinking you know something, start pricing solid gold houses .&#8221; Remember, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"she was hoodwinked by author James Frey. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/Business\/story?id=1543929\" target=\"_blank\">she was hoodwinked by author James Frey.<\/a>  Anyway, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Dr. Phil started making ill-advised and completely inappropriate comparisons of COVID-19 deaths and swimming pool, auto accident of smoking deaths (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/04\/17\/dr-phil-slammed-for-comments-on-coronavirus-deaths-bad-examples\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Phil started making ill-advised and completely inappropriate comparisons of COVID-19 deaths to swimming pool, auto accident and smoking deaths<\/a>. He stated basically that people die all the time, why not just open up the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Oz made a similar tone deaf argument stating that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"we need to open up schools as soon as possible, saying that a 2-3% death rate for children might be considered acceptable (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/17\/business\/media\/dr-oz-apology-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\">we need to open up schools as soon as possible, saying that a 2-3% death rate for children might be considered acceptable<\/a>. Really!!!??? This quack has already been <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"backpedaling on his comments about hydroxychloroquine (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/dr-oz-backpedals-on-coronavirus-miracle-drug-hydroxychloroquine-now-says-we-dont-know-if-it-works\" target=\"_blank\">backpedaling on his comments about hydroxychloroquine<\/a>. Now this blubbering bonehead, along with Dr. Phil are moonwalking more than Michael Jackson. One thing&#8217;s for  sure: Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz are now America&#8217;s Derp Doctors. Trust them at your own risk, America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/derpdoctorsozphil.jpg\" alt=\"Oprah discoveries Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil have officially become America's Derp Doctors with their tone deaf prescriptions for opening up the economy despite the coronavirus curve not even being close to flattening.\" class=\"wp-image-7454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/derpdoctorsozphil.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/derpdoctorsozphil-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Oprah discoveries Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil have officially become America&#8217;s Derp Doctors with their tone deaf prescriptions for opening up the economy despite the coronavirus curve not even being close to  flattening.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, trotted out two famous television doctors, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, to spew forth reasons why America should open up the economy despite nationally, being nowhere close to flattening the curve of the coronavirus pandemic. Both doctors, surprisingly enough, got their big break from the queen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Derp Doctors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,963,3,198],"tags":[74,73,22,2086,20,27,1552,664,2142,958,2147,165,46,4,851,663,199,1191,1770,169,98,852,296,798,788,47,48,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7504,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}