Strange Bedfellows- Trump and Oz
(Media attacks Oz on evolving pro-life stance, hydroxychloriquine as Covid-19 treatment, and giving Trump a clean bill of health when Trump "suddenly" produced his medical records on live TV during Dr. Oz appearance. Plus, Dr. Oz's TV mentor, Oprah, "distances" herself from him and an Obama protege disses Dr. Oz. Sounds like he must be doing some things right.)
Details below:
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Oprah launched Dr. Oz's television career. Now Oz asks his "friend" to stay away from the PA U.S. Senate race.
"Dr. Oz asked his pal and fellow TV star Oprah Winfrey to stay out of the Pennsylvania Senate race where he is seeking the Republican nomination."
“I asked her to stay out. Don’t support me because if you get involved in any way, you’ll get hurt and I don’t want my friends hurt,” Oz said.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/25/dr-oz-tells-oprah-to-stay-away-from-his-pennsyl
A few days later, Oprah states anyone can run for office and says it's up to the people of PA who they choose to elect - i.e., not offering an endorsement of Dr. Oz - which is what he said he asked her to do yet media interpreted it as her "distancing" herself from him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10352751/Talk-icon-Oprah-Winfrey-distances-Dr-Ozs-Rep
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The left calls on Oprah to disavow Oz because he agreed with Trump on Hydroxychloroquine (HcQ) for Covid-19:
"Dr. Oz was all too happy to appear on Fox & Friends to overstate the power of the study that got the hydroxychloroquine conversation started in the first place."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-time-for-oprah-to-renounce-dr-phil-and-dr-oz-over-their-dangerous-cor
"… Oz has repeatedly touted hydroxychloroquine."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/07/media/dr-oz-trump-coro
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Dr. Oz gives Trump good report on health
"Donald Trump’s appearance on The Dr. Oz Show Thursday merged the worst of Trump’s reality television showmanship with the worst of Dr. Oz’s made-for-TV medical schtick.
"The key moment came when "America’s doctor" asked Trump: "If your health is as strong as it seems … why not share your medical records?"
"The 70-year-old Republican presidential candidate looked at the audience and said, "Well, I have really no problem doing it. I have it right here. Should I do it? I don’t care. Should I do it?"
"Trump then pulled two papers out of his breast pocket and handed them to Oz. At this point, we, the audience, are meant to believe that these are real medical documents, and that Oz is shocked the presidential frontrunner is revealing the state of his personal health."
Dr. Oz proceeded to give Trump an excellent health review of his medical records - including a testosterone result of 441.
Moar here - including video of Trump’s appearance on Dr. Oz to discuss his health:
https://www.vox.com/2016/9/15/129029
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NYT OpEd: "The Unholy Alliance of Trump and Dr. Oz"
"They’re pandemic partners, and that’s double trouble."
April 8, 2020
"Of course President Trump is getting advice about the pandemic from Mehmet Oz, and of course Dr. Oz is eager to provide it. They’re a match made in ratings-obsessed heaven."
"Oz, mind you, is not a virologist. Not an epidemiologist. His actual specialty — cardiothoracic surgery — isn’t the most immediately relevant to the coronavirus." [Anon insert - except, as Anons know, when it comes to the vaxx since, as Q said, heart attacks can be deadly.]
Frank Bruni Opinion
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/opinion/coronavirus-trump-dr-oz.html
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Media attacks Oz on evolving pro-life stance and hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatment:
"When the Supreme Court heard arguments last week for a case that could upend abortion rights nationwide, Mehmet Oz—the TV doctor and accused “quack” turned Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania—suggested he was at peace that the Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade."
"As the coronavirus pandemic descended last spring, Oz—a regular on Fox News—caught the attention of then-President Donald Trump, who wanted to connect with Oz after watching him speak positively about the unproven COVID treatment hydroxychloroquine."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-dr-ozs-shameles
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If an Obama protege attacks Dr. Oz, there must be something good about him!
How Dr. Oz went from being Oprah's protégé to Trump's cheerleader
Opinion by Nicole Hemmer
Updated 1605 GMT, December 10, 2021
The author, Nicole Hemmer, is an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of "Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics." She co-hosts the history podcasts "Past Present" and "This Day in Esoteric Political History" and is co-producer of the podcast "Welcome To Your Fantasy."
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/10/opinions/dr-oz-went-run-for-the-senate-oprah-trump-hemmer/index.html