At least Spears’ walking out on Phil shows that she has some level of common sense.

It was reported that Jamie Spears (Britney’s father) thinks Dr. Phil is a “genius.”

I guess he couldn’t get Springer’s phone number.

Please go back to the old format. All the fun is gone. I miss the old page. I miss being able to see the pictures. Now you have to click before you know if a post is 1 line or 100.

It sucks. I hope you are making a fortune because I’m not sure I’ll be back often, even though I had to go through the stupid registration process to be able to say this.

Wow…Britney should have run him over with her car.

Who dare you impugn the motives of the saintly Dr. Phil?

McGraw is filming a special tomorrow about Spears’ spiral into a personal hell. If he can get her to appear on the show, tentatively scheduled to air two days later, he could score big in the ratings.

Dr. Phil is truly a miracle worker. I now have a modicum of sympathy for Britney Spears, something heretofore considered impossible.

At the very least, Bogg, could you have one of the technical geniuses make the link to the next post ACTUALLY BE THE NEXT FUCKING POST, NOT THE ONE AT THE VERY TOP? Would that be too much to ask? If there were anywhere near the volume of comments when you were a mere Blogger™, I wouldn’t bother “visiting” here anymore. When I see the “Word Press especially made for FDL” or whatever it says, I just think: “Suckers!!”

How nice of the sanctimonious , self serving Dr. FeelGood,
he is going to try and help poor widdew Bitt’ny.
She’s a fucking basket case and he is a goddamn ambulance chaser with a degree from CrackerJack U.
There’s money to be made,and by God, that fucking freakshow ringmaster is gonna get some. And since anyone that gives a shit has already seen the gnarly axe wound she calls a her privates knows whatever else thats Fucked Up Beyond Recognition with her private life is about to become a 24/7 screaming billboard of a reality show.

I need a bigger OFF button.

Heretofore, I cannot imagine sympathizing with Britney Spears. But to see her whored by her mother to this fat fraud for money and ratings is obscene. I hope Britney gets the help she needs, which, incidentally, won’t be from “Dr” Phil McGraw.

The Good News about the new site:
• It’s not completely awful.
• There’s an RSS feed.
• It hasn’t been taken over by FDL-style irrelevance commentary, which would have made the threads an utter waste of time.
• Presumably it is good for TBogg himself…and what’s good for TBogg is good for America.

The Bad News about the new site:
• It’s extraordinarily ugly.
• You have to click on every post to read it.
• These and other factors have led to a general deterioration of the quality of the comment threads (though they’re ending with a wimper, not an explosion of “Hi, Janes!” as some had predicted).
• In short, at least for us humble users, it is in every way worse than the old site.

I corrected the news article:

When he entered Spears’ room, she reportedly walked out laughing and returned later still laughing.

I’m voting w/ IB.

Also: Dr. Phil has been promo’d as appearing on the CBS Early Show tomorrow w/ “the full story” on Ms. Full Beaver. I’d like to know what that is, if he barely spoke to her & had to chase her to her car.

And we should note that any alleged medical professional who refers to him- or herself as “Dr. (Insert a First Name Here)” is a quack of the first water. Pretty well demonstrates the contempt in which they hold their audience, as if the viewers/listeners (semi-retarded housewives indeed) are four-yr.-olds unable to grasp the concept of a last name. And may just indicate how, say , “Dr. Laura” feels about herself as well. Of course her degree is in Phys. Ed., so she should be embarrassed to be giving psychological advice in the first place.

I have requested some changes from management that should make you loyal readers, if not happy, at least only slightly disgruntled.

I’m all about lowering the gruntling…

What, Dr. Kevorkian wasn’t available for a consult?

Snark aside, that poor stupid girl is probably going to smoke herself sooner rather than later, and its like watching someone being literally hounded to death by the media.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m as likely as most of us to slow down to get a better look at the car wreck, but fer chrissakes, I don’t usually get out of the car and sniff the bodies or poke around in the entrails. Its a sad commentary on our media, and our country, that the Crocker kid is almost starting to sound reasonable.

Oh yeah, the setup over here does suck.

He gave a press conference about what a terrific mother she is after the other one got pregnant. I guess she figures he’ll help her save her book contract.

i think it may have been dick cheney, with a sneer in his voice, during a guest appearance at one of noam chomsky’s semiotics seminars, who said: “The French have public intellectuals. The US has Dr. Phil.”

and for once dick was right…

in the “me first and the gimme gimmes” dept. and in response to #13 (i always thought you were #9, bogg, you know in john lennon’s voice… hmmm, musta been the brown acid): since i usta read you ceaselessly and over and over all day long, you know back at the site… in san diego… before you moved to this place (and where are we now? smells like santa barbara… and basset… santa barbara and basset) could you please put your entire blogroll on the site ’cause i always used you as my personal conveyance all over the place where i like to read — and you never really kept up with shakespeare’s sister, if you could fix that, too, thx — i’d really appreciate it, thanks so much. oh, and could you lend me like maybe about $5 until friday? or if you could maybe $20?

Why are the same people who are so eager to scold Britney, Jamie Lynn and their mom, so oblivious to the snake-oilish characteristics of the Judge Phils and Doctor Judys and Officer Krupkes (or is it Officer Phils, Judge Krupkes, and Doctor Judys)?

I guess it’s because a lot of us — even those of us who think that We’re So Much Better Than That — just don’t feel good, much less good about ourselves, unless we or a designated surrogate for us can be tearing something or someone else down, even for the flimsiest of reasons.

“My meeting with Britney and some family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention,”

No shit, Dr. Phil, do you know any good psychologists? Maybe this Britney’s parents way of showing her that she has hit rock-bottom.

I think Britney needs a good man who will put her over his knee and spank her! Or a woman. (And the latter would probably be a very profitable pay-for-view.)

I doubt she has ever known real love, boundaries or discipline. Life is beginning to smack her in the face, and she does not seem to understand it. I feel bad for her, but am basically unconcerned. There are other people with more serious problems who could certainly use people’s help, worry and vibes.

You know, no one ever mentions how fucked up Britney’s parents are. Who called Dr. Phil??? Her parents. Why??? TO KEEP BRITNEY’S $$$$ ROLLING IN. They probably signed a syndication deal with McGraw getting a cool %15 percent of all his Britney-related ratings. Those people have NO shame.

According to TMZ, as soon as she got out of the hospital, she ran off to Palm Springs with the paparazzi guy she was sleeping with.

Poor twit really doesn’t have many options. On the one side, she’s got sleazeball photogs who want to get close enough to her to take photos of her snatch, on the other side she’s got her hellish family – how low can you get, using your daughter’s mental breakdown to broker at TV appearance on Dr. Phil?

Those who ragged on Federline as being a user – and I put myself in this group – had no idea. He was a lightweight amateur compared to her family.

I think she ought to assume a secret identity and disappear, to reappear some 10 years later as a mysterious and cryptic figure.

I think she ought to assume a secret identity and disappear, to reappear some 10 years later as a mysterious and cryptic figure.

Edyth and The Cruisers!

I’m beginning to see where the soppy “LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!!!!” guy may have had a point.

All the characters involved in this saga are truly vile human beings, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t disgusting, the way America keeps tuning in to watch the Spears family get pilloried day after day. I follow it too, i know I’m part of the problem, but I’m sure not proud of it.

“Dr.” Phil is no psychologist. I believe his degree is in education.

Yeah, I’ve always wondered. If dis-gruntled employees are the one running around shooting people does that make the rest of us (more or less) gruntled?

Oh, and as long as we’re complaining about the site, what happened to the best blogroll on all the internutz? The new one does change and all but….
AND although you still have the best pictures around, now I have to click on the post to see them. Get them back on the front page where they belong!!

I still use the blogroll at the old site. Shh, don’t tell Tbogg, tho.