Must See: This Twitter Exchange By Dr. Oz Is Trump Worthy

By Gil Cohen | Friday, 26 August 2022 09:30 AM
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Must See: This Twitter Exchange By Dr. Oz Is Trump Worthy
The campaign for Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee and television prominent Dr. Mehmet Oz claimed his Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, would not have had a stroke if he had “ever eaten a vegetable in his life.”

The remarks follow a video by Oz went viral in which he mispronounced the name of a regional grocery chain while discussing rising consumer costs and the price of "crudité."

Fetterman suffered a stroke just days before the May primary and has gradually returned to the campaign trail in a race in which he leads Oz by a wide margin, according to recent polls.

In remarks to Insider amid its reporting on Oz, Rachel Tripp, his senior communications adviser, said, “If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn't have had a major stroke and wouldn't be in the position of having to lie about it constantly.”

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In a press release, the Fetterman campaign called the remark "unhinged and irresponsible" and praised a letter signed by more than 100 Pennsylvania doctors that said Oz practices poor medicine “by promoting unproven, ill-advised, and at times potentially dangerous treatments.”

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Fetterman later shamed the Oz campaign for the attack. "I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could *never* imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges," he tweeted Tuesday night.

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In a resurfaced, widely slammed video that recently went viral, Oz stood in the produce section of what he called a "Wegners," an evident combination of regional grocery chains Redner's and Wegmans, in an attempt to illustrate rising consumer costs and the price of crudité. Fetterman's social media response was ruthless, writing, "In PA, we call this a veggie tray." The campaign said it raised $500,000 in the immediate aftermath of the video. Oz later blamed his mispronunciation on exhaustion.

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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report recently changed its Pennsylvania Senate race rating from "toss-up" to "lean Democrat."

Oz narrowly won the Republican primary after securing an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.

While these blunders may be evidence of Oz's political novice, people who have long known the 62-year-old told Insider he's always thought of himself as fated for greatness. Throughout his career, he has engineered a series of parlays: from conducting a revolutionary medical center to gaining press attention, from press to best-selling book and appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and from Oprah to his own media empire, several business and board positions, and a place in virtually every American heart and mind.

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"I think part of the reason he came on TV was to ramp up his profile so at some point he could go into politics," one person involved in the inception of "The Dr. Oz Show" said as part of Insider's recent investigation into the doctor. "He's definitely the kind of person who will do what he has to do to get what he wants."

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