Doomed relationships

January 12, 2006 by Jeff Jarvis

Dr. Phil, that hack quack, is giving relationship advice on Match.com to fools stupid enough to pay for such wisdom as, “If you want to be a winner in love, you want to be a winner in relationships, then do what it takes.”

  • http://livejournal.com/users/eh_notsomuch Eh… not so much

    Gads! I met my husband via Match.com (oddly enough, we had our first date 3 years ago today!), but had they affiliated themselves with Dr. Phil, I probably would have never used the site.

  • http://halleyscomment.blogspot.com/ Halley Suitt

    Now Jeff = All men can’t all be happily married babe magnet alpha males such as yourself! Some guys need advice, even from Dr. Phil. Don’t be so tough on Match.com.

    Cheers — Halley

  • Right of Center

    Halley,

    How can you possibly impeach Jarvis’ Phil-bashing credentials? Besides his numerous psychological credentials, I have heard that Jeff has read the jackets of many of Dr. Phil’s books.

    (I’d hold up Jeff’s PhD against Dr. Phil’s any day in the quackery dept.)

  • Sloan

    Jeff,

    I completely agree. Why pay for something that can be attained via pure common sense? Not to mention Dr. Phil is merely a rip-off of various self-help books. Any well-educated person could read a self-help book weekly and give the same or better advice that Dr. Phil gives on a daily basis.

    Sloan

  • Trent

    What a sad choice. Someone like Dan Savage (of Savage Love) or Cary Tennis (at Salon) would have been better choice.

  • John

    Dr. Phil is a loser. He was paid zillions to promote a dietary pill that, as it was later discovered, he never even tried. And he has yet to distribute one morsel of even remotely useful advice… how the hell is he a millionaire? Ticks me off.

  • http://helzerman.com Catherine Helzerman

    Aren’t match.com the ones who paid employees to go out on fake dates?