In a 2014 interview, Mehmet Oz—now a Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania—stated that that intercourse with second cousins is nothing to fret about.
Oz: In case you’re greater than a primary cousin away, it isn’t a giant drawback.
Yee: Okay, so second cousin is ok to smash.
Charlamagne: It is so humorous, trigger I knew that.
DJ Envy: How do you know that?
Charlamagne: Trigger I am from the nation! Third cousins?
Oz: Yeah. It is wonderful.
Describing relationships with distant cousins as incestuous (“Dr. Oz defends INCEST”) strikes me as instance of one thing that liberal and mainstream media people thinks will spoil conservative candidates that does not spoil conservative candidates. If something, it alienates the commentator from voters they suppose they’re influencing, not all of them conservative. Nonetheless, like his nasty remarks about tobacco customers, this quote is one other amusing reminder of Oz’s lengthy journey from medical skilled to nostrum-peddler to one thing he’s, counterintuitively, clearly not lower out for: politics.