Today’s rant about everyone else’s favourite TV person.
I just read this:
This summer, while she’s on a break from filming her talk show, Winfrey will be “going from village to village to choose the girls” for the girls’ school she’s building in Africa, she tells PEOPLE.
I know I beat this to death, but why does everything she does seem like it comes from a list of “Things To Do So Lots Of People Admire Me Although Tons Of Other People Do These Things And No One Cares or Gives Them Money Or Buys Their Overpriced Magazine.”
There is something to be said, OF COURSE, for the good publicity can do for a cause, and I know when she puts her name on something, it sells. But it leaves so many other deserving people in this giant, O-shaped shadow.
Also, for the love of Pete… why did she have to release a statement indicating that she’s not gay? If anyone but St. Oprah did that, they’d be called a homophobe or a closet case. And I think I’ll start writing blog entries about things I’m not.
- I am not married.
- I am not a mother, dammit!
- I am not an American!
- I am not a member of the NRA!
- I am totally NOT Donny Osmond’s ex-lover!
- I am not the inventor of Velveeta!
- I am NOT dating Nick Lachey!
Oh yeah — I’m not gay! And neither is Oprah. And even if I were? And she were?
She wouldn’t have a SHOT IN HELL.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Ya big meanie.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
I can live with myself:).
July 25th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
I’m totally in your camp. I loathe Oprah.
She’s self-serving in all things, and my belief is that she only brought up the whole gay thing because people stopped paying so much attention to her.
And plus…ew. Is all I’m saying.
July 25th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Oprah is bugging lately; she acts like she is Jesus. And even if she was Jesus, I still wouldn’t sleep with her. She would probably make me donate some money first.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
What, Graham is a girl now? Weird. Poor woman — did you hear Hillary Clinton wants her to run for Veep on her bid for the presidency? I’m thinking about Costa Rica or Colombia (if violence weren’t so widespred) or Venezuela (w/o Chavez) as possible place to live.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:00 am
excuse me while I clean up the coffee from my keyboard and change my shirt, having spewed it all over due to the loud guffaw at the final punch line. Ah, Oprah…there is SO much there to trash, it all jumbles up in my head. I’d say she was the anti-christ if the spot hadn’t already been taken by Dubbya.
July 26th, 2006 at 9:48 am
It has got to be weird to be Oprah. Everywhere you go, people tell you how great you are and how they love you and how you have changed their lives…after 20 years, you probably start believing the BS.
All the charity stuff is okay by me, even though traveling to Africa to pick little girls out to go to school like selecting puppies from the pound seems awfulish in its own way. Especially when the single trip on her private jet would probably finance 500 more girls, maybe more, for a year of school.
July 26th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
You are mean. I like Oprah.
July 27th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Funny stuff.
Re: O, agree.
I choose ‘indifference’ over ‘loathe’, as commented above. Her 20 years is 19.5 to many.
Off topic: you might consider reducing the size of that (awesome)’FourBucks’ image a tad. If one is reading all this great stuff on a laptop(raises hand here), it scrunches up all the GOOD stuff to the left. I’m just sayin’.
Re: Dubbya, he is just flat out the anti-all.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:00 am
Ah,
Re: previous post.
Her 20 years is 19.5 TOO many.
Re: Dreams. I hope I can type, spell, and be ‘grammatical’ when I grow up.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Hmm,
On second thought, maybe …
Her 20 years IS 19.5 to MANY.