I Hate Steve Wilkos

I have only seen a few episodes of The Steve Wilkos Show, but what I've seen just makes me angry to watch. I wonder... what qualifications does he even have? How is it that he has a talk show that is meant to help people by yelling through their problems? What kind of education does he have? Any? His "Meet Steve Wilkos" page [Update: this information is finally back up on his site here] offers these qualifications:

• He is 6'3''


• He was once the head of security on the Jerry Springer show


• He is an ex-marine


• He was in the chicago police department


• He filled in for Springer for about two years


• He watches cartoons with his two children


• He was in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"


• He is a regular at the Chicago Cubs baseball games [removed from his updated bio, presumably because, who wants to admit being a Cubs fan?]

And, consistent to these qualifications, these are some of the services he offers:

• Steve will set an unfit parent straight


• Steve will confront someone who is destroying your life


• Steve will listen to a story that would make him explode


• Steve will talk some sense into a deadbeat parent


• Steve will help someone get out of or even want to get out of an abusive relationship


• Steve will give a someone who is in the middle of a family crisis a wakeup call


• Steve will step in the middle of a feud


• Steve will stand up to someone who has wronged you


• Steve will rescue you if you are on the run and tired of hiding

That's pretty impressive. Let me tell you what Steve will actually do. Steve will make judgments before the guests even appear on the show. Steve will get in the guests' faces and scream his opinion. Steve will never consider the fact that the "victim" could be lying. Steve will unconditionally trust fallible tests, like the lie detector test. Steve will verbally assault his guests. Steve will force out false apologies. Steve will not solve anybody's problems. Steve will only publicize them and boost up his ratings.

Steve is a moron.

And needs to be cancelled.