A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about hypocrites and all of the crazy things they do. It hasn’t been long since then, but after a week full of insane and horribly depressing news stories, I can’t help but go back to the same topic and take another swing at it.

Television talk shows have always been filled with hypocrites. I remember years ago when a girl in high school attended a make over show on “Maury,” or “Montel” or something like that. Seeing her on television, she looked like she had just stepped out of a crypt. It definitely was not what she looked like every day when she walked through the halls at school. But of course, to keep the interest of the television audience, the producers on these shows have to make the story, before they can present it.

That is what seems to be happening, yet again, with everyone’s favorite fake psychologist Dr. Phil. It’s only been a few months since the TV doc, famous for his tough love, visited a mentally ill Britney Spears in the hospital so he could discuss her mental state on his show the next day. If I had thought about this a week ago, I probably would have said there is nothing he can do that could possibly be more despicable than that.