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Fox News’ resident psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow told a group of tea partiers over the weekend that they had been "enslaved" by taxes and "slaves always revolt."

At a Saturday "Tax Day Tea Party Rally" in Boston, Ablow explained that the government wanted to take away guns because "having firearms means you have the ability to defend yourself." Video of the event was uploaded on Sunday.

"The thing with slaves is you can't keep 'em, they always revolt," the Fox News contributor opined. "Enslaved by the notion of ever-increasing taxes, told that we can't spend our money -- even the money that we do take home -- the way we want to. Told that adulthood starts at 25, if ever. Told that nobody should really be able to hold a firearm and know that he or she can defend his family or her family if push comes to shove. That can't stand because slaves always revolt."

"No one can shackle the American spirit because inside each of us and the reason we love America is because we love the capacity of people to outperform, we rely on it... So, don't let anybody tell you that we won't win because the truth, my friends, always wins."

(h/t: Media Matters)

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Bill O'Reilly brought on pseudo-psychiatrist Keith Ablow last night to explain the whole 'Gangnam Style' phenomenon to him. Or at least that was the purported reason. The result was the usual idiocy, mixed with a fair bit of xenophobia. In other words, regular fare for the old white farts who watch O'Reilly who are just as befuddled by modernity as O'Reilly seems to be. Why would Americans be listening to a song “without intelligible words", where they have no idea what the meaning is, sung mostly in a foreign language by a fat little Korean bouncing around like he was riding a horse?

O'Reilly asked "What's going on?"

Ablow responded, as only Fox News contributors can: "I think what this fellow is tapping into... is the fact that people don't want any meaning right now. It is just is sort of like a drug and that seems to be what most people seem to want right now. Not reality, not feeling, not meaning."

O'Reilly: "So it means nothing but it's got a nice upbeat to it but you can do the pony and ride around."

Ablow: "The meaning is that it means nothing."

So there you have it. A song has no meaning because a couple of middle-aged white guys says it doesn't.

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After first asking "Who are you and what have you done with Crazy Joe Biden?" after showing Biden fact checking Paul Ryan's lies during the vice presidential debate "in real time," Jon Stewart did a fantastic job of going after Fox and the right wing pundits who attacked Biden for his debate performance.

After showing some of "doctor" Keith Ablow on Fox, saying that Biden should be examined for dementia, Stewart wrapped things up with this:

STEWART: Yes, yes... that rare form of dementia, where you remember too much. By the way, this knuckle head, Keith Ablow, is on Fox's medical A-Team. A little known fact -- medical B-Team, is a chimp with a screwdriver.

So to sum up Fox's post-debate coverage: Joe Biden was an angry, demented, abusive, drunk old crazy person -- who mopped the floor with our guy.

Amen to that brother. When the best they can come up with is that Biden was mean to Paul Ryan or the moderator, or resorting to calling him crazy, they know they lost.

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A member of the Fox News Medical A-Team on Wednesday insisted it was "way normal" to stockpile personal weapons because Iran had a nuclear program -- and, in fact, the people who were not hoarding survival gear might be the "crazy ones."

During a segment titled "Normal or Nuts?," a viewer asked Dr. Keith Ablow if they were "nuts" to have "amassed years of food, fuel, generators, outdoor survival gear & an enormous cache of defensive ordinance."

"Way normal!" Ablow insisted. "Because how can this guy be crazy when the Iranians are close to getting a nuclear weapon? It may be that the rest of us who aren't amassing survival gear are the crazy ones."

"I say, check the ammunition, make sure it's live because these are dark days potentially," he added. "So, not delusional, simply seeing reality."

Fox & Friends First co-host Ashley Earnhardt wondered where New Yorkers with small apartments were supposed to store their survival gear.

"The cache is in my apartment," he explained. "You're welcome anytime."

(h/t: Media Matters)

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A member of the Fox News Medical A-Team on Thursday warned that legalizing polygamy was inevitable if "narcissistic" LGBT couples were allowed to adopt children.

During a discussion about President Barack Obama's recent "evolution" on marriage equality, psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow wandered off topic to tell Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that there was "some psychology in the background of this issue" that had to do with children being adopted by same sex couples.

"Children in same sex households, unless the donor of sperm or ova -- eggs -- is known, which is unusual, unless that's the case, these kids don't know their biological parents," the Fox News "expert" pointed out. "Now, we don't know the psychological impact of that at all and we need the data, we really do."

"We are making public policy, as you suggest here, on the adoption of children without an understanding of the psychological impact that effect will have on their conduct and behavior," Dobbs agreed. "And we seem to be doing so as though we've been inspired on high to do so. It's really been remarkable the manifestation of our disregard for successive generations."

"And it's the opposite of inspiration on high, which suggests that you would empathize and care for others," Ablow replied. "This is narcissistic. I feel like it so I'm going to do it -- no matter what the science might show. And we need the data."

He added: "But the bottom line is, how did we decide that kids are just fine to grow up absent their biological parents? Because why? Because we love each other. Well, three people can love each other so polygamy has to be close behind. How can you have same sex marriage and not believe that three people can fall in love, which they absolutely can?"

While Ablow obviously has a low opinion of LGBT people (he compared a transgender reality star to an anorexic and heroin addict last year), his problem with adoption is not limited to same sex couples.

In February, the psychiatrist suggested that Media Matters founder David Brock was "dangerous" because he "is an adopted boy."

"He’s a dangerous man, because having followers and waging war," Ablow explained to Fox News host Steve Doocy. "This is an adopted boy who needs to plumb the depths of his psyche. He was adopted. Many adopted children are tremendously well-adjusted, but for some reason, this man feels he’s unloved and unloveable, shunted to the side, and that’s the antidote he feels: unlimited power."

According to the American Psychological Association, "there is no evidence to suggest that lesbian women or gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of lesbian women or gay men is compromised."

But Ablow has also accused American Psychological Association of being "infected" by "manipulations of the truth on a scale never before known."

(h/t: Media Matters)

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From Thursday evening's The Colbert Report:

Keith Ablow finds Newt Gingrich irresistible even if the Republican establishment doesn't.

More on Keith Ablow's hackery from last week here.

And TPM has more on the segment above -- Colbert: Gingrich Clearly A ‘Seductive’ Man:

“Gingrich is so seductive that three women, two of whom knew he was an adulterer, were willing to pick Newt,” Colbert said Thursday. So Ablow is saying we should look past his weaknesses to his strengths, which are his weaknesses.”

Ablow goes on to write that Gingrich showed real strength when he explained to his wives that he had fallen in love with another woman and “needed to follow his heart, despite the great price he would pay financially and the risk he would be taking with his reputation.”

“Yes, he had to follow his heart,” Colbert said. “Or whatever was throbbing so loudly.”

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Keith Olbermann slammed Fox's Dr. Keith Ablow for this op-ed claiming that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's three marriages might actually make him a great president in this Friday's Worst Persons segment.

From Media Matters -- Fox's Dr. Keith Ablow: "Gingrich's Three Marriages Mean He Might Make A Strong President":

An opinion piece by Dr. Keith Ablow, a member of Fox News' "Medical A-Team," appeared on FoxNews.com today. In it, Ablow argues that the fact that Republican candidate Newt Gingrich has been married three times means that he could be an effective president. Read on...

Runners up were Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear -- Kentucky Gov. Cuts Education Funding While Preserving Tax Breaks For Biblically-Themed Amusement Park.

And Newt Gingrich -- Gingrich Bashes Obama for Holding Elitist Town Hall in Disney World.

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As a general media rule, if you have to assure viewers that you're not a pedophile then you've already lost the debate.

But this is exactly what happened when Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday to object to a baby doll that helps children learn about breastfeeding.

"It's beyond ridiculous," Ablow told Fox News' Alisyn Camerota. "It's destructive. Little girls aren't even aware how their secondary sexual characteristics will develop, let alone imitating how they'll be used after childbirth. This is another way of turning little girls into adults. It blurs the boundary between children and adults in society. It contributes to the sexualization of children and it makes them targets of assailants, frankly, because it blurs that boundary. It's a terrible, terrible idea."

"I'm going to have to respectfully disagree," parenting expert Jessica Gottlieb told Ablow. "I'm not sure that if you see a little girl as her breasts being sexual that that doesn't reflect more on you than on what breasts are."

"I assure you I'm not a pedophile at all," Ablow objected.

"Dr. Ablow, I think she raises a great point," Camerota noted. "Why is it sexual? Why isn't it just natural?"

"She doesn't raise a good point at all. How about this? How about we have little girls three and four have an OB/GYN suite where they deliver their babies? That's a good idea. That way we can further blur the boundaries so that everybody out there no longer thinks there's any particular difference between a little child and an adult woman. The fact is that little girls don't have breasts that can breastfeed," Ablow explained.

This month alone, Ablow has proclaimed that President Barack Obama pursues a "communist manifesto" and offered and psychological profile of Media Matters' David Brock.