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I know there has been discussion about Oprah before but I have to say today's show has pushed me over. And it's only 30 minutes in. I think the whole idea behind this week's shows are good but does everything have to be about her? She puts on people who are really struggling in their lives today. Yeah, I know she had her struggles but that was years ago. It should not be forgotten but who made her the expert? The real experts are addressing these people's questions and she interrupts them. Why have them on the show. I am so sick of hearing about her magazine and all her accomplishments. If she has to bring these things up all time maybe she is dealing with huge self esteem issues.
Couldn't agree more. Oprah is a shameless self promoter who has a way over inflated opinion of herself. I'm sure in private conversations she probably tells people she got Barak elected. At Obama's acceptance speech, when we constantly had to be shown Oprah's reaction, I wanted to vomit.
"Everyone thinks their opinion matters. Don't argue with a nobody. A farmer doesn't bother telling a pig his breath smells like s***."
Oprah's theme song on her show used to be "I'm Every Woman." Well, I guess that means every woman, UNLESS you are the first Republican female candidate for Vice-President, Sarah Palin. I lost respect for Oprah when she chose to ignore Palin's candidacy. Seems like every time I turn on her show, it's all about Oprah and her movie-star friends. The self-promotion has gotten tired and boring.
Just keep it up, you guys...and you'll end up like I did. A social pariah. That bitch ruined my and countless other lives. Heed my warning...or you will be next.
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Yeah, but - back when she really had that Oprah Book Club going, featuring fiction writers, things were really good in the industry. She got people into bookstores, reading fiction.
Then stupid a** Jonathan Franzen ruined it, she dropped it, and only brought it back for non-fiction and books by dead authors who don't really need her, and memoirs, and then she got burned by James Frey and now this fake-Holocaust memoir, and - fiction has never recovered. It's not all because of that, of course, but there really is an Oprah effect, and as a lover and writer of books, I will never underestimate or criticize the woman because, for a while there, she really did make a difference. For anything in the arts to succeed there needs to be a national conversation about it on some level, and she is capable of doing that.
