Between Bezos and Musk can we just, yknow, start going all French Revolution? The bastards think money makes you invincible.

I agree. It’s wild.  There’s also a Maintenance Phase podcast episode of Oprah & John of God.

And even then she made it about her.

The added indignity that these human beings were(I am 99% sure) CLEANING the bathrooms that they were not allowed to use.

Nah, you're wrong. I think she needs to apologize for launching this dipshit. Along with Dr. Phil, as many others (who aren’t in the greys like me) have said. She’s very powerful, and she oughta vet these people better before promoting them up to these levels.

The thing is, he’s not a total quack. If he’d stuck to cardiology he’d have been just fine. He was a spectacular physician. He’s just a terrible person.

Dr. Oz was piece of human garbage long before he decided to run for office. The Behind the Bastards podcast episode dedicated to Oz is amazing, and complete.

I’ve been with you on this subject every time some Gawker site puts up another Oprah article! Absolutely correct in your assessment.

John of God, hell yes. Google it, people, or, if you like podcasts, listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on John of God. You won’t believe your fucking ears.

Agreed. I feel like this article has missed the point that Dr. Oz was a deeply harmful quack long before he decided to run for the Senate, and he never would have had the reach he’d had if not for Oprah. At the very least, she should express some remorse for giving him a megaphone and many millions of dollars’ worth…

As another commenter pointed out below, this is a pattern with her. Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, etc., etc. She gives quacks and nutjobs a platform and makes them rich because her audience believes in her.

Wanting to fuck a person from X ethnicity/race doesn’t mean you can’t be racist against said race. You’re just making an exception like all good racists do, or even worse, exoticising their background.

Can we blame her for platforming and legitimizing notorious sexual abuser John of God?  What about Dr Phil and all the kids he sent off to be abused at programs for ‘problem’ children?  She has a terrible record of platforming terrible people.

What about Dr. Phil? Can we still ask her to apologize for him? Or foisting “The Wish” (or whatever that bullshit sorcery she was promoting was called) on people as legit?

This piece is silly and misses the point.

In my opinion, this is a bad take. She’s not responsible for his choices, and his choice to run. She is responsible for platforming him and not doing her due-diligence first. She has a history of platforming extremely problematic and damaging individuals without ever coming forward to denounce the damaging things they…

Counterpoint: Dr. Oz would have not have come close to sniffing any political success whatsoever if she hadn’t plucked him from whatever fucking rathole he was in and made him famous.

She doesn’t love you anymore than Bezos does.

Just to be clear, Jezebel’s take is that people who give others a massive platform bear no responsibility if the person they gave a platform to is a nightmare?

I mean, he’s objectively a quack. I don’t know anyone who’s blaming Oprah directly for his decision to run, but she gave him a massive, legitimized platform and has never, not once, spoken publicly about how that was a mistake. I know it’s bad form to speak out, unprompted, against a friend or former friend, but he…

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