Pay the duck his money.
With arrests of young men conspiring to join ISIS in the news, Fox decided to get another angle on
why this was happening. To try to get in the minds of a young person in America, Fox turned to their "doctor of psychiatry" Keith Ablow. A rundown of Ablow's credentials
can be found here. Now, Ablow he's clearly a hired gun. He's clearly a terrible "doctor" and because he is such a terrible person, Keith Ablow has decided to focus his super-natural-psychiatric powers (think
Eye of Sauron) on the problem of Americans wanting to join ISIS.
He starts with classic fake jargon in order to re-establish why in the world you should listen to him in the first place—he does look like Lex Luthor.
We talk in psychiatry about these "in-betweeners". "In-between" a job, "In-between" teenage and adult years...
It's like watching a bad improv sketch. He connects teenage ennui with the need to join a cult. The reason? It's like a "drug."
Look, it's a drug, so think about crystal methamphetamine, the folks that use that are focused—they go buy it, some of them make it, it isn't easy, it's dangerous, but you know what? It fills them up. It answers really tough nagging questions that they have about whether like is even worth living.
Besides the fact that none of that is actually what addiction is, and specifically methamphetamine (it actually is easy to make—that's part of it's appeal, along with price point), doctor Ablow is already all over the map with his analogy. Bring it home, Keith.
And listen Elizabeth, when we de-brnded America, and don't forget this president took away the American brand, we took away the notion of what it meant to be American. [...]
We took away a part of them, a sense of patriotism, forward momentum, and they are going to find it somewhere.
I think we all know
exactly where those Americans have decided to search for their "forward momentum."
Video of quackery below the fold.