When it comes to the 2008 election, Oprah has gone to great lengths to show her impartiality. She had Obama on her show last year and then publicly endorsed him, a first for her. She loaned out her estate to Obama for a big fundraiser. She then refused to have Sarah Palin on the show because she didn’t want it to be “a platform for any of the candidates.” She followed up by offering to produce Obama’s half-hour primetime informercial the week before the election. (Which, technically speaking, wasn’t using her show as a platform for him.) She went to Grant Park on election night to swoon. And most recently, she complained that Palin hasn’t yet appeared on her show to pay obeisance, even though the election is over and Palin now has Oprah’s permission.
As you can see, O has tried very hard to avoid the appearance that she’s been abusing her hypnotic hold on the housewives of America to help out the man of her dreams. And now, to reward herself for her self-control:
Oprah Winfrey wants to be as close to Barack Obama as possible. Insiders say Winfrey has started a preliminary search for a home in Washington, DC. A nine-bedroom Georgetown mansion she’s said to have asked about is listed at $50 million, but another source said, “She has never personally been to see it.”
(Page Six) Well, what’s she supposed to do? The White House is really well-guarded, so she can’t sneak up and look in his windows. He doesn’t get to keep his Blackberry, so she can’t text him 50 times a day. She’s gotta do something to stay in his life.
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She’s gotta do something to stay in his life huh? I was gonna make a joke about how she could eat him so they’d be together forever. You know cuz she’s like 200 pounds, and he’s a skinny Erkel type, and she could totally wail on his ass, and chow down but that’s cheap, and easy so I won’t even though I’m cheap, and easy.
She’s such a tool! Get her out of Cal. Better yet, get her out of the US. She should go to Africa and manage that school she spent a gazillion dollars on even though the US schools (read teachers) need the money more. If she hates the US so much, she should just leave and never come back.
Pasta, I never realized, Obama does look like Erkel. Too funny.
Well she could always become a White House Intern, after all it worked for Monika……lol.
Aleric, You are getting your Presidents confused. Clinton is the one who like the meaty interns. Then again, Michelle is not the smallest woman, maybe O does have a chance.
Water bottle caption made me laugh.
Oh just what he needs…a stalker with millions (billions?) at her disposal.
Oprah sucks. I never watch her show or buy her ego-stroking, I must be on EVERY COVER magazine. I always suspected she was a lesbian, however hypocritical and closeted, but apparently not, since she clearly wants her some Obama-bone.
What would their media pet nickname be? Opama? Obrah? Barop? Opbar? Rah-bar?
I vote for Obrah, Chicklet.
LOL! I like it. Obrah.
She’s plotting to get rid of Michelle and be First Lady.
So, if a person with less is constantly in the presense of someone with more, constantly trying to get closer, and even moves to be near them, it’s stalking. If someone with more does this to someone with less, it’s just admiration?
New Picture Caption:
Oprah Loompah
Look, we still do this thing in our society where everyone of the same skin color must by default all get along and appear together in the media.
I would hazard to say Obama doesn’t even enjoy Oprah’s show or books. But saying as much in public would cost him votes and respect in the black community.
Of course, Oprah is clammoring to be next to the President-elect.
What else would she do? Call him a big jerk?
Did someone here honestly say that teachers here need money more than teachers in Africa do? Wow, they must have an unimaginable level of wealth in Africa that is the world’s best-kept secret or something.
Don’t mistake me, I’m not an Oprah groupie, but I wasn’t aware a *talk show host* had to be unbiased in everything she did. It’s a personality show and Oprah’s the (lack of?) personality being presented… basically an extension of her private life, and you can be sure *that* ain’t biased.
And really, can we find reasons to insult people besides how much they weigh? As many quacks as she’s had on her show, you can’t really blame her for acting on bad advice. Poor thing.
Oprah doesn’t have to be unbiased! In fact, talk show hosts *need* to be biased in order to sell their show. The problem is that she has tried to pretend to be unbiased–go read the first paragraph again. That’s the heart of it. We wouldn’t care if she had been all, “Hey! Yo! I like Obama. I hate Palin. Got it? Good.” In fact, we wouldn’t have even been *surprised*! But her whole, “Well, I don’t want to endorse one candidate over the other” while practically stalking Obama is what’s got us in a tizzy, as it were.
And one more thing–Oprah wants us to be going on about what she weighs! Why else would she be taking every opporunity possible to go, “Hey! I’m 200 lbs. again!”? See the earlier post on Oprah for the full effect of that one.
she is obviously expecting to be given some sort of responsibilty by the new president. she probably thinks that he got elected because of her.
it’s always all about oprah, ain’t it.
Maybe he can make her U.S. Ambassador to Antarctica.
Maybe he can take out a restraining order.
she probably thinks that he got elected because of her.
Hrm…they both appeal to the same low-information, low-IQ, white people who like to show off their how hip and “tolerant” they are by having an imaginary black friend who’ll solve all their problems and make them feel GOOD! about themselves…
I can’t see Michelle as someone who would tolerate this lunacy!! And I remember Obama gotta kinda freaked out when Scarlett Johanson started acting like a stalker, and She’s the type you’d think a politician would screw around with, but then again look at Bill Clinton with
Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones!!