If you didn’t know already, Mehmet Oz, known better as “Dr. Oz,” is running for Senate in Pennsylvania. He’s running against Daily Kos-endorsed progressive Democratic candidate John Fetterman. Now, Fetterman is a serious person with a platform and publicly stated policy ideas. Oz is a television quack who has been working to reengineer his integrity-tarnished profile as a dubious diet supplement salesman into a right-wing MAGA hack during the Trump administration.
Virtually everything about Oz is exactly like his namesake, “The Great and All Powerful”: It’s bogus. Looking behind the curtain, many have pointed out that 1) Oz’s real estate holdings are mostly all in New Jersey, not Pennsylvania; 2) Oz is about as out of touch with most Americans as one can be without actually having stepped off of a Borg cube yesterday.
Fetterman has had a lot of fun poking at Oz’s disastrous campaign. It would be easy to completely ignore Oz if it weren’t for the fact that he is just about as ridiculous as every GOP candidate running across the nation these days. On Monday, a video from a couple of months ago featuring Oz trying to blame President Joe Biden for the cost of his wife’s crudités made the rounds across Twitter once again. It reminded the internet just how out of touch Oz is these days.
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Did you say “crudités?” Yes I did.
In the video, Oz says he’s at “Wegners” looking for some vegetables for his wife’s crudités. You never heard of Wegners? That’s because it doesn’t exist, you silly billy! As many people online pointed out, Oz seems to have smashed up Redner’s Market and Wegmans in his attempt to be an everyman, running errands for his wife at the market. He probably got mixed up between his Hollywood star on the Walk of Fame ceremony in February and his work to walk back saying that kids going to school for a few months was worth killing upwards of 10 million Americans during the pandemic.
He also gets raw asparagus for “crudités,” which sounds like a miss. Dipping asparagus into guacamole also sounds super … gross? No worries—Oz points out that there will be “tequila” to wash it all down. He ends his video by saying the high cost of vegetables is Biden’s fault. I need eye drops for my slow blinking at everything Oz is saying.
The responses will make you smile. Comedian Tim Heidecker likes to work in very fine slices.
Some people wanted to understand exactly how many things went wrong with Oz’s social media campaign here.
I’ve added this response to class up this story.
More class.
Here’s the real winner today. The birthday boy himself!
Here’s something that’s easy to understand.
And a new addition—the newly minted Wegners!:
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