On yesterday's Meet the Press, Tim Russert wondered why Dr. Phil's questions of Bush and Kerry were more personal than political, and Dr. Phil maybe told him more than he wanted to know:

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DR. McGRAW:  What I wanted to do was provide the viewer a different look at these men, because I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.  I think those two are just inextricably intertwined.  And I wanted to just have a conversation as parents about what do you do behind closed doors?  Are you--you know, do you spank? 

We hope they also close the curtains.

Transcript for Dec. 26 [MSNBC]