Thanks, but no Thanks.

Posted 16 Feb 2011 by Walaa Idris

Oprah & Obama

So Oprah wants us all to give her ‘Special One’ respect. According to her unless “people try it [the job of US president] for a week” they shouldn’t have an opinion or speak unfavourably of the president. She wants people to give Mr Obama unconditional respect and allow him any mistakes while he’s learning on the job. Thank God she’s in media and not politics.

It seems Ms Winfrey’s love of all things Obama has again clouded her judgment and bleared her vision. Where is the astute journalist with the sharp nose for a good story and her figure firmly on the plus of the street gone to!?

I used to love all things Oprah and for years whatever she endorsed, read, eat (not as much) wore, talked about and discussed plus any new fad she embarked on (and she had quite a few) I tried. How the O story began and where it is today and the in- between journey touched me as it did many the world over. I admired her and could not have enough of her, until the summer of 2008.

It’s a given that most entertainers and Hollywood types are die heart liberals so Oprah siding with Obama did not come as a surprise nor did her over the top endorsement and support of him – after all he is the first person of African heritage to reach that stage and that in itself is an achievement of historic proportions and a very big deal.

But Oprah, the philanthropist, the sensitive woman who cried regularly on TV over injustices and inhuman acts could not possibly be so deliberately blindingly unfair to John Mc Cain and his running partner Sarah Palin and so flippant about it. Especially, when at the time, Palin was the first woman (technically the second) to actually run on a possible winning ticket. But even if Mc Cain and Palin chances weren’t as good as Obama’s – Winfrey’s horrid behaviour that summer has erased over 20 years of adoration for all things Oprah.

How can she truly be the person she portrays to be, if she can treat Mc Cain and Palin in that way? It was then that I switched off and stopped watching, buying and listening. Do I think Oprah is a bad person, no, but do I think she is a fake, absolutely!

1 comment(s)

Edward Green

Edward Green
16 Feb, 18:00

I agree that unconditional respect and love for any politician whether Obama or anyone else is wrong. Oprah is a Democrat, but this is like Glenn Beck saying that there should be absolutely no criticism of Sarah Palin.

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