A touching moment<\/u> at a recent campaign event for Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, in Philadelphia \u2014 in which a Black woman broke down in tears as she described the fatal shootings of her brother and nephew, and was comforted by the Republican Senate candidate \u2014 made for riveting television, and brought to mind the former daytime TV host’s old namesake show.<\/p>\n
Three weeks later, after the encounter was featured in local and national news reports, journalists who covered the event discovered that they had been duped by the Oz campaign into reporting as news a scene that had more in common with reality TV.<\/p>\n
The woman, Sheila Armstrong, sat next to Oz at a September 19 event<\/a> his campaign described as a “community discussion” in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood. Armstrong held a handmade sign which said that her lost relatives were “gone but not forgotten,” and her anguished tears were broadcast to the city that day by the local NBC News affiliate<\/a>, and described in reports on the event by the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> and KYW Newsradio<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sheila Armstrong tells Oz about her nephew and brother who were shot and killed in Philly. She says she\u2019s \u201cfed up with the system that\u2019s playing politics with the lives of people in this community.\u201d That\u2019s Democratic state Rep. Chris Rabb seated next to her. pic.twitter.com\/WWFf4nGfXj<\/a><\/p>\n — Julia Terruso (@JuliaTerruso) September 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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