Dr. Phil McGraw: ‘We’ve Got Too Many People Pushing for Equality of Outcome Independent of Input’

McGRAW: “And so — but I had a plan when I stopped, ’cause I was sitting at the — we have a breakfast bar in our kitchen. I was sitting there, I’m flipping back and forth between the news. And, you know, you go from this one and they’re all far-left, you go this one is far-right. Spin, spin, spin so much that your head’s spinning. I said, ‘God, the media drives me crazy. Why don’t just they tell us what’s going on?’ Robin’s sitting next to me — she doesn’t even look up from her plate — she’s just saying, ‘Well, you are the media. Why don’t you do something about it?’ ‘Oh, damn it.’”
(Laughter)
FALLON: “Yeah, ‘Why’d I say that out loud?’”
McGRAW: “Yeah. So I got to thinking about it, and, you know, that’s really true. She said, ‘Oh, by the way, those last four places you saw? Your ratings are higher than all of those four combined. So seriously, why don’t you do something about it?’ So fast-forward, like 18 months, and we have our own network called Merit Street Media. We got five acres under roof.”
FALLON: “Five acres?”
McGRAW: “Yeah. And we got Steve Harvey and Nancy Grace and Bear Grylls and Mike Rowe, and all these people coming in.”
FALLON: “I mean, you have your own — “
(Cheering and Applause)
McGRAW: “Yeah, and — “
FALLON: “ — your own network.”
McGRAW: “Yeah, we got ‘Cops’ and ‘Jail,’ I mean — “
FALLON: “Oh, you’ve gotta have ‘Cops.’”
McGRAW: “Oh, yeah, you gotta have ‘Cops.’”
FALLON: “Yeah.”
McGRAW: “It’s Merit Street Media. And I’ll tell you, that was not chosen at random. This country was built on hard work, talent, added value — merit. That you do something that merits.
(Applause)
And it’s — and we’ve got — we’ve got too many people pushing for equality of outcome, independent of input. I mean, come on, if you got some guy sitting home in a bean bag eating cheetos, and he gets the same outcome as somebody out busting their ass all day long, that’s not a good deal.”
FALLON: “Wow. Yeah.”
(Applause)
McGRAW: “Equality of opportunity, I’m all over that. We need to work towards that. But equality of outcome, I don’t get it. I don’t get it.”