About Dr. Oz ...

[NanceGreggs]

So Dr. Oz, who is running for a Pennsylvania senate seat, has ducked the state's residential requirements by 'renting' a family member's house in Pennsylvania. Dr. Oz is also known for his questionable medical advice.

So in other words, "If it ducks like a quack ..."

[Freddie]

1. We don't like carpetbaggers here

One reason Rick Santorum lost his re-election bid in 2006 was that it was revealed he actually lived in Virginia but had a PA address for his kids’ school. I truly hope Oz gets the nomination. Welcome Sen. Fetterman.

[Butterflylady]

17. Remember that well.

Got rid of skanktorum and oz will be history also.

[MurrayDelph]

38. I'm tired of folks hoping the Republicans nominate a "joke" candidate

Way too often the joke ends up in office (See Reagan, Schwarzenegger, etc)

[doc03]

2. How does Oprah manage to get taken in by all these shysters? nt

[TNNurse]

6. I like lots of things she has done, but certainly not all.

However, she owes a huge apology for "Drs" Oz and Phil. They are both frauds and pretty disgusting.

[Sympthsical]

7. Who took in who?

I will never understand the reverence with which Oprah is held. I have loathed her almost my entire adult life.

Half her show was just a celebration of how wealthy and famous she was and all her famous friends. The other half was just New Age spiritual nonsense, advice, quackery, and frauds with dodgy life advice.

I remember there was some point in the 00's when I was in college, I happened to see her on in a common room. She was doing some Remembering Your Spirit nonsense. And it was this montage of her with her voice over, about how she goes to chill at this little pond on her multi-million dollar farm somewhere. You know, like the average person in America does.

I kept thinking, "Who is watching this?" Who is taking life advice from this disconnected rich person who hasn't had to cope with a normal day in decades?

She who unleashed Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, anti-vaxx nuttery, and a thousand other things in pursuit of yet another buck.

And yet she's regarded as some kind of high priestess in society. Get in trouble? Go to Oprah! Receive her beneficent absolution of your sins. It's all prepackaged and prearranged to make sure everyone involved feathers their beds with more millions.

Her much vaunted school in Africa is a total shitshow, and she only bothered about it once the press found out.

I will never understand how she is a thing.

[Sherman A1]

10. +1 zillion

Well said!

[doc03]

13. I have the same opinion about Oprah but figured I would be

under attack for saying anything negative about her. Some here have even wanted to make her president.

[gab13by13]

14. I watched Oprah 1 time,

I believe it may have been her first show, or one of her first. She had on a young girl who had been raped repeatedly by her father and the girl killed him. Oprah asked the girl a question and the girl replied she would rather not comment. Oprah then jumped all over the girl for not answering her question. I remember Oprah saying to the girl, that we bring you on to talk about this and you refuse to talk.

Last time I watched her. She may have seen the light since that episode but I never bothered to find out.

[Butterflylady]

19. Stopped watching her after she had pappy bush's son on.

Gave him free publicity.

[bullwinkle428]

23. I'm so old, I can recall when a few at DU were enthusiastically trying to

start a "Draft Oprah for the Democratic Presidential nomination" movement.

[jrthin]

24. +Zillion!!!

[Celerity]

29. this is OP worthy

[LoisB]

35. AMEN!!! Someone once gave a subscription to her magazine to me as a Christmas present.

Surprise, surprise! When I received the first magazine, I threw it in the trash (unread) then called to cancel the subscription (which was not easy). Hopefully, the giver got her money back.

[olegramps]

8. She knows a gold mine when she sees it. He is the perfect bilker.

He has endorsed numerous products that are pure scams.

[canuckledragger]

11. Because Oprah is just a talk show host.

Oprah is an expert in nothing, paid to take up an hour of your time in what amounts to hour long commercials to push things that wouldn't have much of an audience otherwise.

Talk show hosts were the first 'influencers', and I have NO faith in any of those attention-seeking frauds.

I've never had any faith in anyone or anything that has to be introduced into a paid platform like that.

[Dorian Gray]

27. There are a few she made famous

Marianne Williamson, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Dr. Christiane Northrup (an antivax proponent).... she's given platforms to Jenny McCartney to spew her nonsense.

Oprah may have been more problematic for society than we realized.

(And Marianne and Dr. Phil are two of the more innocuous people on that list.)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/how-oprah-helped-spread-anti-vaccine-pseudoscience/

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16868216/oprah-winfrey-pseudoscience

[Celerity]

32. +1, and here is another, newer article: 4 Times Oprah Made The World Worse With Junk Science

https://www.cracked.com/article_30860_4-times-oprah-made-the-world-worse-with-junk-science.html

[Dorian Gray]

40. Ooh good find

I forgot about the Suzanne Somers stuff, but reading that brought it all back.

Ophah had the capacity to build people to be larger than they deserved to be, and I wish she had taken time and given more thought to what she was unleashing on us.

But, honestly, I'm more thoughtful and deliberate now than I was twenty years ago myself. So....

Oh who am I kidding. Oprah got rich and famous off of this shit.

[niyad]

3. You nearly owed me a keyboard.

I have never been able to stand that smarmy, unctuous little bastard. And that was before people started catching on to him.

[tecelote]

4. It it true that voting for him will help you lose weight?

[Beartracks]

39. Not entirely. You have to make a donation first, and THEN vote for him.

The pounds will melt away!

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[ashredux]

5. Quack, quack, quack...

Grifter…perfect GOP candidate

[dalton99a]

9. Carpetbagging at its finest

[gab13by13]

15. I really hope that Trump endorses Oz,

I would love to see him as the nominee, would love to see the debate between him and Fetterman.

[Celerity]

28. +1

[twodogsbarking]

16. He is pulling a Rick Santorum.

[karynnj]

18. Actually worse

Santorum did live in PA when he ran and when he was elected. However at dome point as a Senator, he bought a large home in VA where he and his family with I think 5 or so kids lived. He rented out a small house in PA which he owned and used Asa voting address. To add insult to injury, he had the school district there pay for the online home schooling for his kids.

In Oz's case, he clearly cast a vote in PA while living in NJ. Can you say voter fraud? Just renting a place where you do not live should not change your residency.

[twodogsbarking]

20. All true.

[TheRickles]

21. I actually used to admire him, and met him a couple of times before his TV days.

But "If it ducks like a quack..." is one of the best put-downs I have ever seen. Well done!

[Probatim]

22. If you played a drinking game while watching his show...

and drank every time he says "may", "might", or "could possibly", you would be in a coma before the first commercial break.

[keithbvadu2]

25. How long until Boebert slams him and he gets death threats from RWs for being Muslim?

[FakeNoose]

33. I think she'll lay off of Dr. Oz, because Chump loves him

It's possible that Chump asked Oz to run in PA. They had lunch together back when Chump still thought he was king, er ... president. I'm guessing once Oz gets his campaign going he'll have Chump coming to his "rallies" etc. That's probably the only reason Oz is interested in running. He clearly doesn't give a rats-azz about Pennsylvania.

[llmart]

26. So true.

I've actually watched his show a few times just to see what all the hype was about and was thoroughly disgusted with how condescending he is to his almost-always, all female audience.

And don't get me started on how the women in the audience demean themselves by their fawning over him like he's the second coming.

Ugh.

[FakeNoose]

30. Admittedly the PA Repukes are dumb ...

... but I don't believe they're dumb enough to nominate THIS guy. He might get a run in the primary, but he'll be shut down quickly. Look for glowing praise from Chump, because that's why Oz is doing this. It's probably the only reason.

[justgamma]

31. Hey, Leave Oz alone!

I've taken all his advice how to lose 10% of your weight without doing anything. I now weight 12#.

[left-of-center2012]

34. 'renting' a family member's house

I don't think he's even doing that.
From what I have read online it's more of a 'mail drop'.
He gets some mail there. He lives in N.J.

[NanceGreggs]

36. Keep in mind ...

... that given it's a family member, he could be 'renting' the place for a dollar a month. Legally, that constitutes 'payment of rent'.

Ethically, it would mean - oh, sorry. He's a Republican. So ethics don't count for shit.

[lees1975]

37. Republican ethics don't even count for that much.