‘Stay Out’: Dr. Oz Reportedly Shuns Oprah From His Senate Campaign After She Made Him Famous

Dr. Mehmet Oz, Oprah Winfrey and Patrick Robinson attend THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART’S Spring 2010 COSTUME INSTITUTE Benefit Gala at THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART on May 3rd, 2010, in New York City. | Source: Patrick McMullan / Getty
Oprah Winfrey launched the mainstream career of Dr. Mehmet Oz (Dr. Oz), helping to propel him to a coveted status of universal name recognition across virtually all U.S. households. But after a nearly 15-year affiliation between the two that has blessed the good doctor with an estimated net worth of $100 million, he has effectively told Oprah to kick rocks, according to a new report.
At least, the seems to be the sentiment being offered from the Republican U.S. Senate candidate running for office in Pennsylvania who is apparently looking to ramp up the conservatism and fend off any perceived guilt of Democratic allegiance by distancing himself from the all-world media maven.
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Oz said as much during a fundraiser in New York City last week that included the likes of renowned conspiracy theorist and disgraced former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It was there that Oz told the intimate gathering of Republicans that he told Oprah to fall back, the New York Post reported.
“I asked her to stay out,” Oz reportedly told attendees. “Don’t support me because if you get involved in any way, you’ll get hurt and I don’t want my friends hurt.”
Oprah, of course, has long supported Democratic candidates and even — according to reports — flirted with the idea of running for president herself to face off against Republican overlord Donald Trump. She counts people like former President Barack Obama and current Vice President Kamala Harris as her friends.

Those facts likely don’t ingratiate Oz to the Republicans he so desperately wants to be down with, so he made it a conscious point to not only ask Oprah “to stay out” of his campaign but also to tell those members of the Grand Old Party that the powerful Black woman has no place in his race (see what we did there?). It’s also unclear how Republicans feel about Oz’s Muslim faith, considering what
Critics will likely accuse Oz of being the latest in a long list of white men to use Black people to attain a certain level of power and prestige before trying to disassociate themselves from said Black people.
To be sure, Oz has been described as “Oprah’s protégé” who somehow became “Trump’s cheerleader.”
Oz and Oprah go back to 2004 when he first appeared on her hit talk show as a trusted medical expert. Oprah’s co-sign of “America’s doctor” endeared Oz to her viewers and well beyond and five years later spawned his own eponymous show that features him in a role that goes far beyond offering medical advice.
As it turns out, this is how he thanks her.
However, a closer look may reveal that keeping Oprah out of the Senate campaign could actually be mutually beneficial, what with Oz’s reputation for being a “peddler of medical misinformation.”
The final show of “Dr. Oz” is scheduled to air on Jan. 14, nearly two months after he announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate.
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Oprah Winfrey says being White “gives you an advantage no matter what.”

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Oprah Winfrey says being White “gives you an advantage no matter what.”

Oprah was born DIRT poor, raped as a child, worked HARD, and became an American ICON worth BILLIONS.

Why is a victimhood and inferiority complex her message to Black Americans?
JUST to make it CLEAR #Oprah is the biggest racist there is. She Always with her criminal pedo white rich friends and backstab the black community EVERY chance she gets. She tried to cancel Michael Jackson NOT wanting to know the truth. She is a despicable piece of trash. ‼️
Source: Tom Cooper / Getty Once again, Oprah Winfrey has people upset for unsubstantiated reasons and this time the criticism is coming from right-wing trolls. The outrage stemmed from Oprah’s new interview show on Apple TV+ called “The Oprah Conversation.” In an episode, Oprah spoke with former NFL linebacker and host of the web series “Uncomfortable Conversation with a Black Man,” Emmanuel Acho. According to The Hill, when discussing racism in America and white privilege, Winfrey said that white folks have a “leg up.” “There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people — the caste system that’s been put in place — but they still, no matter where they are on the rung, or the ladder of success, they still have their whiteness,” Oprah explained. “You still have your whiteness. That’s what the term ‘white privilege’ is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter,” she added. Many conservative and far-right commentators missed the racial analysis of her comments and just saw Oprah’s money. As one of the few Black billionaires in the world, Oprah is very rich to say the least. However, as she suggested, her money doesn’t separate her from her race or her womanhood. She can very well still move through spaces and experience racism and sexism. People like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz weren’t trying to hear this. The Texas senator went as far as to call Winfrey’s comments on her show “racist.” “Billionaire Oprah lectures the rest of us: ‘You still have your whiteness. That’s what the term ‘white privilege’ is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter,’” the senator wrote on Twitter in response to an article from the conservative outlet The Blaze. “What utter, racist BS,” Cruz added. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1290871380779597824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1290871380779597824%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fsenate%2F510615-ted-cruz-bashes-oprah-for-lecture-on-race-what-utter-racist-bs Other conservatives echoed Cruz’s comments with Texas Congressional nominee Irene Armendariz-Jackson writing, “And now why is Oprah, maybe the richest black woman in the world, trying to shame white people as privileged? Miss Winfrey, you are the personification of WHITE PRIVILEGE!” https://twitter.com/ArmendarizDis16/status/1290744579642318849 Again, many people in this congregation missed Oprah’s point. The 66-year-old media mogul made her comments amid recent attention to police killings, including the death of Breonna Taylor. Oprah featured Taylor, a Black EMT killed by the Louisville, Kentucky, police, on the recent cover of O magazine. It was the first time anyone other than Oprah was featured on the cover, according to The Hill. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRCq0LADSR/ In Oprah’s talk with Acho, he brought attention to how white people should be anti-racist. “Here’s what I told my friends with their white children,” he started. “I said, ‘Y’all live in a white cul-de-sac, in a white neighborhood, in a white city, in a white state. If you were not careful, your children will live their whole white life, and at 26, 27, they’ll end up being a part of the problem, because you just let them and allowed them to live a completely white, sheltered and cultureless life.” He went on to say that white people “run American.” “CEOs, Fortune 500 companies, execs, ownership, they run America. Not an individual white person, but collective white people,” he said. “I firmly believe that if the white person is your problem, only the white person can be your solution.” You can check out more criticism from far-right commentators who missed the point of the discussion below.
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