The Humiliation of Dr. Oz Is Nearly Complete

[Demovictory9]

The Humiliation of Dr. Oz Is Nearly Complete
The TV doctor’s inexplicable Senate campaign has not gone according to plan.


But the biggest problem with Oz’s candidacy is that he is an utter phony with a comical inability to conceal this fact from the public view. And this is surprising since hiding his obvious insincerity has hitherto been an important part of his skill set. Yes, Oz is an actual medical doctor—a cardiothoracic surgeon, at that. But his TV persona has always had a loose relationship with actual medicine. He has pushed quack pills and salves for years and been called out for it repeatedly; pressed by NBC News about criticisms he’s received he pointed out that his namesake television show was “not a medical show” and observed that in its logo the word “Dr.” was much smaller than “Oz.”

Oz was undoubtedly good on TV, but outside the warm embrace of daytime teevee cameras, he becomes wooden and stiff off-the-cuff. Fabulously wealthy—he owns 10 houses, even if he claims to only own two—he has a distinct Lucille Bluth vibe; ordinary things seem to confuse him. Another problem Oz faced in the battle to seem like a normal human in the Pennsylvania Senate race was the small matter of him not being from Pennsylvania. Oz had been—and by many accounts still very much is—a resident of New Jersey, a state despised by many Pennsylvanians.


It’s possible that things would be going better if Oz had a different opponent—another greasy TV host, perhaps, or better yet a conventional corporate Democrat. Instead, he’s facing Fetterman, a burly York County native with a penchant for wearing shorts in the winter. Authenticity is a fraught quality to assess in political campaigns, where almost everything is artifice, but Fetterman makes it easier to divine than most candidates for the U.S. Senate. He certainly has the knack for out-muscling Oz in the authenticity fight, and he clearly loves rubbing his hapless opponent’s nose in it. The contrast could not be more striking. The last two months—during which Fetterman has largely been off the trail recovering from a stroke—have not played out like a traditional political campaign. Rather, they’ve been an escalating series of ritual humiliations.

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Over the weekend, Oz once again humiliated himself, posting a video of himself shopping at “Wegners,” a grocery store that doesn’t exist. ------------------

Oz’s sad-sack travails have been such an acute failure so far that it can’t help but raise another question: Why is he doing this to begin with? His life was perfectly fine before he pretended to live in a state to run for Senate and care about political issues. His job as a quack doctor on TV made him a rich celebrity because the gatekeepers in that industry never really cared about applying scrutiny. Running for the Senate doesn’t afford you that advantage; as a consequence more people have caught on to the fact that the treatments he offers are ridiculous and he’s never faced much in the way of consequences for his quackery—instead, he’s been a rich celebrity. It’s really inexplicable that Oz decided the time was right to remake himself into a MAGA-adjacent foot soldier for Donald Trump’s reelection, especially when he clearly cares so little for politics and has no interest in policy. Oz descended from carefree heights of wealth and celebrity to trawl around Pennsylvania and get mocked and abused at every turn. Hope it was worth it!


https://newrepublic.com/article/167457/humiliation-mehmet-oz-fetterman-pennsylvania

[W_HAMILTON]

1. "A conventional corporate Democrat."

Yeah, won't be giving this one any clicks.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

4. I was enjoying it right up until that moment.

Fuck that!

[W_HAMILTON]

5. Same.

While they are praising Fetterman's positives, they should realize that one of the reasons he enjoys such wide support is because he constantly attacks REPUBLICANS and not other good Democrats. If every other message from him was whining about "a conventional corporate Democrat" ( ), he wouldn't enjoy nearly the same level of support because there is a large portion of us -- even among progressives such as myself -- that do NOT like to see those on the left resorting to such pathetic levels by throwing around disingenuous insults like this.

[rsdsharp]

2. Sincerity is the key. Once you learn to fake that, the rest is easy.

Dr. Oz never learned how.

[Aristus]

3. TV celebrities have started to view high elected office as just another celebrity box to tick.

One more way of getting attention for their "brand". There really is no desire to perform public service, otherwise, we'd see them roll up their sleeves and dive in to elected offices that are a lot of work, but don't furnish "brand recognition"; school boards, city councils, boards of supervisors, etc. They just want their money-making mugs on TV.

Why Oz is still at it when reality-TV Trump turned out to be such an unholy disaster is beyond me.

[Kaleva]

6. Oz released that video back in April, not over the weekend as the OP claims

[Hekate]

7. Didn't TFG talk Oz into this? Because as Rick Wilson acutely observed: ETTD...

Everything Trump Touches Dies

[Aussie105]

8. Rich man who owns 10 houses walks into a store with a camera crew.

Just to point out to shoppers that prices of some things have gone up.

Who would have guessed that for most, that wasn't surprising news?

I hope Dr Oz recovers from that gunshot wound to his foot real fast. / sarcasm