Now that John Fetterman claims to be recovering, let's pull back his hoodie and
examine what's in his head.
Looks like he has some screws loose.
What's this?
[COUGH] >> What is Mehmet Oz
gonna do a disgrace to Turks everywhere.
A disastrous senatorial candidate and someone who is so
out of touch with the ordinary American
voter that he thinks attacking John Fetterman over pot is
somehow a persuasive campaign ad to vote against him.
But Fetterman is doing really well and it turns out Americans like pot and
wanna keep it legal.
And so I think it's worth taking a look at more of this fail of
a campaign ad by Dr. Oz.
Let's watch that and I'll give you more >> Wants to release 1/3 of all prisoners.
That's crazy, spend more tax dollars.
Everything will cost more.
That's nuts.
Energy production, gas prices will skyrocket, that's ridiculous.
Socialized medicine.
More crazy ideas.
Now, it makes sense, better close it up,
John Fetterman is crazier than you think.
>> Whoa, he's crazy.
He wants to legalize pot.
He wants to make sure that everyone has healthcare, super unpopular ideas.
In fact, I really hope that Dr.
Oz continues with these devastating ads against Fetterman.
I'm sure they're working >> Okay,
I love that one because it was like the most boomer out of all time.
Fetterman is destroying Oz with memes, right?
He's getting smoky to say, hey, we miss you in, New Jersey.
Looking forward to having your back, okay.
And he's like doing all these creative,
awesome things that are sick of Burns, as the kids might say on us.
So Oz then hires a bunch of republican dorks to make this hat,
what are the kids like?
They like Zadie stuff, have things bouncing out of his head.
Well, he's nuts.
What is this thing called, pot?
Who [LAUGH] You goddamn boomers.
That was your idea of a city and that would have killed the young people.
You're incredibly embarrassing.
>> I was on the fence over like who to support in the Senate race.
But the googly eyes that they used on Fetterman really did it for me.
And so I mean, how could you vote for Fetterman after seeing him googly eyes?
>> Yeah.
>> Just think about it.
>> Every part of the ads that fail, right?
Fetterman, he's crazier than you think.
So you're admitting that we don't think he's crazy at all because you wouldn't say
about Trump he's crazier than you think.
We all think he's really crazy.
Okay [LAUGH] Apparently we don't think Fetterman is crazy at all.
That's why you said then you think, so.
And then they're like, he wants health care and so
does Bernie, wait, he wants healthcare for everyone.
That sounds pretty good, actually.
Thanks for doing that.
>> Sounds pretty good >> Yeah, free health care for everyone.
It's in their ad, they've become just as dumb as the Democrats.
Democrats used to do ads.
I remember this famous Joe Donnelly ad in Indiana.
He's like, I think George President Bush, he's right about everything,
my own party sucks and then he like swings and acts.
I mean it's ridiculous right, now the republicans are accidentally doing
the same thing, the democrats want you to have free health care and higher wages.
>> [LAUGH] No, but I have a theory, okay, and
my theory is because I've been wondering what is it about Dr.
Oz that makes him so devastatingly out of touch, right.
Where he decides to attack Fetterman on pot and health care.
And it's because he's existed in this corporate media ecosystem for
the entirety of his career, really.
And when you're in this daytime tv atmosphere, you're not in touch
with ordinary Americans and what they're actually concerned about.
So he's just like, what do right wingers say voters don't like, and he
immediately goes for like bread and butter issues that voters actually do like.
And in the case of pot, that might not be a bread, bread and butter issue,
but let's just keep it real Americans either use pot themselves and
they enjoy it recreational e medicinal li whatever.
But also if they don't consume it for themselves,
they don't want to criminalize individuals who do because it's abundantly
clear that marijuana is not some dangerous drug that should be scheduled,
schedule one drug making it the most dangerous.
People are smarter at this point, but it seems like the country has kind of moved
on on these issues to like greener pastures, but Dr. Oz is like, no,
I've been on daytime news trying to sell people oregano for their cancer diagnosis.
I don't know what's going on.
Just completely clueless and I love to see it.
Now let's talk a little bit about what Fetterman is up to.
He just had a rally in Pennsylvania, Erie Pennsylvania to be specific.
And he took some shots at Dr. Oz while he was at this event.
So let's take a look at that.
He says, do you think Dr. Oz can fill a room like this?
He doesn't live here.
He's not about us, he doesn't care about us,
Fetterman said during this Senate this campaign event.
Also, Oz is severely trailing Fetterman in the polls despite the lack of visibility.
Fetterman suffered as he was recovering from a stroke.
The Democratic candidate is still leading in polls ahead of Oz with 49% of
the vote against the celebrity doctors, 38.3% as of august 14th and
that's according to opinion poll website FiveThirtyEight.
Which look other polls indicate that Fetterman is doing really well,
which gives me a sense of calm makes me happy.
If it was just a FiveThirtyEight poll,
I would be a little concerned but don't be concerned because every other
poll that we've seen has shown Fetterman with a sizable lead.
>> Okay, this gets a big fat, I told you, okay, so
when Fetterman and Oz started, they were tied.
I said on the show, no, Fetterman is gonna beat him with a stick.
He's gonna beat him by at least 10.
And that was considered very bold at the time.
Well here he is.
Combination of poll on polls on real clear politics has Fetterman up by 9.
So and you saw that poll had him up by about 11.
So it's right exactly where we thought it would be.
And why did I say that?
It was based on the campaigns they were running, both stylistically and
substantively.
Fetterman stylistically is ripping Oz up and Oz doesn't know how to respond.
I mean, look at this ad, even if you were trying to just get out the vote for
republicans, Anna's right, A lot of republicans don't mind pot at all.
You picked all the wrong topics.
Economic populism, you're going to Fetterman strength, not his weakness.
If you wanted to appeal to the right wing, you should have done an ad that said,
Fetterman, you might be more black than you think.
Okay, that was scared the bejesus out of him or more Muslim than you think, wait,
that's me.
Okay, so a lot of awkwardness and Dr. Oz campaign, but
substantively Fetterman is trying to get the voters, things like higher wages,
better healthcare and all substantively has nothing.
So when you have those two things combined and Fetterman raising a lot of money.
That's why I thought Fetterman would kick ass here and
he's definitely delivering on that and King.
Yes, to that point, now, a great development in this story.
At the end, the GOP is so
panicked they are pulling money out of the Pennsylvania race.
In other words, that don't ask Dr.
Oz if he's all right, he's gonna need some oregano on that, okay.
That's basically the Republican Party giving up on him.
I'll give you the quote.
The Senate National Republican Senatorial Committee quote has cut more than
5 million in Pennsylvania, including its reservations in the Philadelphia
media market, according two media tracking sources.
So that means they were planning to run the ads and decided no, Dr.
Oz is hopeless and they pulled $5 million worth of ads they had already planned.
That is devastating news for Dr. Oz.