There are very few US politicians who know how to properly utilize social media,
unfortunately Donald Trump was one of them.
However John Fetterman is quickly proving that he knows how to use social media
to not only push his political messaging but
to essentially destroy his political opponent.
Now, on twitter he's been going after doctor Oz and he has been ruthless.
They're both running for Senate in the great State of Pennsylvania.
And so, recently doctor Oz tweeted this.
This is from last week, he said, I had an informative discussion about
the worst supply chain issues the company has experienced in 39 years.
We need to stop Biden's war on American energy and allow our communities and
businesses to thrive again, I'll be a voice for you in the Senate.
And so, John Fetterman quote tweeted that and
decided to use this hilarious image.
My dream construction truck really operate and
dig experience the fun with the digger, right?
Just kind of like mocking him.
[LAUGH] And doctor Oz deleted the tweet, which I think is hilarious.
Just so funny, and the list goes on and on in response again he deleted the tweet.
John Fetterman also called doctor Oz out for
misspelling his own hometown when he announced that he'd be running.
[LAUGH] So, he did that and let's actually fast forward to graphic for here.
How do you do fellow?
Or how do you do fellow Pennsylvania residents?
And it's like an image of Steve Bushemi [CROSSTALK]
>> For 30 rock, from 30 rocks,
people got to know that's where that means from greatest comedy I've ever seen.
I love it.
>> And he keeps rationing doctor Oz well doing it.
Here's another example.
So, it's a salon tweet that says doctor Oz invest up to $715,000 in companies.
He blames for skyrocketing insulin costs which isn't surprising.
In fact I think there are probably plenty of politicians both on the Democrats side
and Republican side who have done this.
And in response, John Fetterman tweets an image of the hot dog saying,
we're all trying to find the guy who did this.
>> [LAUGH] >> Which I love.
>> But I wanted to highlight this because I think it's really
important to understand what tends to resonate with people
because I think in the early aughts earnest passion to speak
out against the opposing party was effective messaging.
But I feel like that earnest passionate argument doesn't really resonate anymore.
In fact if anything it seems to empower the right wing more because all
they seem to want to do is own the Libs.
So, if you're enraged, you should be enraged.
A lot of the stuff that they do is awful, right?
But you have to put that aside and think about okay,
what is the most effective way to message?
And right now I think mocking these people works a lot better than
being offended by them if you know what I mean.
>> It's a good point because I mean doctor Oz is a joke.
So, treat him like a joke, right?
He's a joke, he is running on a platform.
Well, one as Fetterman has been pointing out.
Where does he even live to?
Two, he is running on a medical freedom platform as
there are no vaccine mandates in this country.
There are none, the binding administration implemented and now whatever.
But at the time the bind administration implemented a vaccine mandate for
companies with over 100 employees or you had to be tested.
That wasn't even a vaccine mandate.
You just had to be tested even if you were unvaccinated.
And so, now we're moving into a time period in
this pandemic where literally everything is open.
I'm here in Socialist Brooklyn or whatever.
Everything is open concerts, sporting events,
whatever you want to see broadways shows, they're all open.
There's nothing that is closed.
And so, the salience of his campaign.
What even is it?
Medical freedom?
There's no there.
And he's a reality TV show host who doesn't have the ability to communicate
that well.
In my opinion he's not, no Donald Trump.
And he's also just not convincing as a Republican in the way that they want.
There also was a video of him trying to shoot a gun,
that he had in the primary and I saw people responded to me on twitter or
some someone else saying I'm a gun expert and he is like terrible at this.
And I've never shot a gun in my life, I'm not into guns.
But I saw him shooting and I was like no,
there's no way he's ever shot a gun before in his entire life.
>> No >> He's just not that good at this.
And so, you can exploit that by treating him like a joke.
>> Yeah I mean, I think that his pandering is so obvious,
the right wing was not supportive of Donald Trump's endorsement of Dr. Oz.
And they're like, what are you doing bro?
He was on television for a long time promoting things that we don't like
including a woman's right to choose, being supportive of the transgender community.
And then of course he immediately flipped specifically to win.
The Republican primary for this Senate race in Pennsylvania.
And so, look, it's already reflected in the polling
which I love to see because to your point I mean, Dr.
Oz really has nothing to offer.
His platform is a joke.
So, what I love is that Fetterman not only is taking the right messaging
approach in mocking him and doing so effectively, he also has a great platform.
So, let's skip ahead to graphic seven here.
Would I know to be true?
Price Gouging is immoral.
The union way of life is sacred, it built this nation.
Health care is a basic human right.
All work has dignity.
All paychecks must to LGBTQIA plus folks deserve equal protection under law.
Immigration makes America super strong,
well thought out platform that of course touches on social issues
that the mainstream Democratic Party pretends to care about.
But more importantly also talks about the bread and
butter issues that impacts all Americans.
And so, he's such an incredibly strong candidate.
I'm excited to see what the outcome of this race is and one thing I know for
sure Dr. Oz not very excited.
His campaign emails are hilarious because he's struggling.
So, let's skip ahead to the next graphic.
This is one of his emails.
>> [LAUGH] >> I'm losing [LAUGH] [CROSSTALK]
>> This is [CROSSTALK]
>> Scary dark lighting and Oz is lit,
well.
>> A new media poll just came out and doctor Oz is losing by a lot.
If the election were today we'd lose.
And socialist John Fetterman would be in the Senate, we can't let that happen.
Yeah so, fear monger about him being a socialist.
Look, socialist was a dirty word.
I don't know how many decades ago, but it's not enough to convince
a party of voters who already were skeptical of you to support you.
Especially when you're offering them nothing [LAUGH] at all.
>> I couldn't agree with you more about Fetterman being a strong candidate and
I really think the Democratic party needs to learn from this race.
He's he's local in that he was the mayor of Braddock.
I remember back when I was with you guys TYT, that was an interview.
I helped coordinate because he was just a mayor then and
then he was lieutenant governor.
And then now he's running for Senate and he is not someone who got a $20
million parachute from Chuck Schumer Amy McGrath in Kentucky.
He's somebody who's been in the community,
who has been elected office at multiple different levels.
And he has a really good strong union platform and he speaks to that.
And if the Democrats really want a chance, they can't just do this short term thing
where they appeal to suburbanites because that's gonna dry up.
And then we're descending into fascist territory in this country.
You have to build a campaign that appeals to the working class in this country and
promote unionization.
Biden has actually done a decent job with his rhetoric on that.
And his NLRB has been good in supporting unions and has been the best NLRB in terms
of their support of unionization efforts and going after terrible practices
from bosses and from corporations, and trying to crush unions.
That's a good thing but there needs to be more.
More messaging, more emphasis on the pro-act, and
more broader pro-union politics embraced by Democratic party candidates.
And Fetterman I hope he has success.
It's looking good right now, knock on wood and
I hope that people actually learn lessons from his campaign.
Absolutely.