Didn’t I tell you Oprah was the shit? Did I not just say that Oprah was serious upper-echelon status? I must have had a premonition. Beet and Soleil may have the stripper names around here, but I am totally the site psychic.
The Huffington Post just reported that disgraced Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was considering nominating Oprah for Obama’s vacated Senate seat. Really. This woman can’t pick a memoirist capable of passing a lie detector test; I’m thinking daily contact with politicians isn’t the best gig for her. Personally, I think Blagojevich targeted her based on ability to pay.
Here is where I commit virtual suicide. I don’t understand the power Oprah has over consumers, if not her own thyroid. She’s a self-made woman and I respect that. But what is up with this Oprah’s Favorite Things bullshit? The Kindle is on backorder for months because she said she liked it as much as potatoes ; it’s really not that impressive a device. I couldn’t order my favorite bra online for three weeks because their site crashed after people learned that it’s the brand that Oprah’s nips prefer too. I laugh when I think of her audience showing up for the Favorite Things 2008 show taping only to learn that all the gifts would cost “next to nothing” in recognition of our current economic state. Let’s get this straight O: There is never a better time for free $800 cashmere sweaters and stainless steel refrigerators than when one is homeless. Selfish bitch.
well said!!
*applauds*
Yeah – others may hate on you for this post but I am in ToTAL agreement. I like that Oprah has done well for herself.. great.. but as for the rest… I could care less what her opinions are or her favorite things. And I’m rather happy that I did not have to hear about what her favorite bra was.. I think that’s a little TMI.
Also, she is from Baltimore (where I am) or at least started her career here (I know people that knew her when) and I don’t see that she has done much for where she came from.. you would think that someone with that money could spend more helping a crappy city like this rather than giving away her favorite crap.
the end. :)
I had similar thoughts about her downsizing her “Favorite Things” as a nod to the sad state of the economy! It seems logical for her to be MORE generous during economic downturn.
I’m bitter about Oprah because one of my favorite books was apparently part of her book club, and it seems like every person who sees it in my house asks if I read it because Oprah told me to.
amen wendie, a-freakin-men. it’s crazy that people take everything this woman says, does, and endorses as gospel.
I knew I liked you, Wendie!
I used to like Oprah, then I tolerated her occasionally, now I can’t stand the sight of her. I think it’s her arrogance and how she flip-flops between “I’m just a regular person, just like you” to “my God, I’m so rich and I can afford this stuff, so why can’t you?”
I agree with you 100%. I feel exactly the same way about her. She has gotten “too big for her britches.”
Wendie is a good stripper name too!
Wendie, you are officially my new favorite gossip blogger.
This woman can’t pick a memoirist capable of passing a lie detector test
^^^
what a burn.
also. i met a stripper named Wendie once and she had 3 missing teeth… just sayin…
I’ve never understood her appeal- I’m with you.
Ha! I thought I was the only one… just a big ol’ fat black woman who shrills that she LOOOVES something as much as food.. That would be the ONLY way she’d get into the senate.
Oprah has a billion dollars and I don’t, yet we can wear the same fucken bra.
The Oprahites scare me.
Adult women who worship at the altar of Miss O,
they’ll buy crap they never knew they needed,
just because she likes it.
the only thing i hate, is that oprah hitched her wagon to obama winning, like look at meee, wheeeeee! i won, all of this is about me.
no it’s not orpah, you have nothing to do with it. people somehow voted for him despite you. your megalomaniacal ways could have brought the whole ship down. man i can’t stand her now more than ever by trying to attach herself to obama. and her book club selections suck couch-sitting ass
I totally agree. I really dislike Oprah. I was indifferent to her until I was home sick one day and she was the only thing on TV. I watched about 5 minutes before I turned the TV off. She started off episode talking about this ginormous display of white roses behind her and how she had acquired them. She had flown really late at night to go to Maya Angelou’s birthday party but got there too late. So she went to the local Hilton or Hyatt, I can’t even remember. The clerk at the check-in desk told her she could have a room, but that the hotel had a strict no-pets policy so she couldn’t bring in her two dogs.
Oprah said, on the episode, that she asked the clerk if she knew with whom she was speaking. The clerk said, yes, she knew she was talking to Oprah, but the policy was no pets.
Oprah ended up sleeping in her limo and complained to the corporate offices of the hotel about the lack of rule bending. Thus, they sent her the flowers.
I was pissed. What if I rented that room after Oprah and my niece with near-fatal asthma (that’s the actual diagnosis) ended up in the hospital because of the dog allergens she left behind? If the policy is no pets, it is no pets. If people bend the rules for you because you’re famous, don’t bitch about it on the rare case it doesn’t happen.
Anyway, that was the day I began to loathe all things Oprah.
i have added that to the other reason i dislike oprah.
my other reason is because she is responsible for cursing us all with ‘dr.’ phil
THIS! Dr. Phil needs to go back to where ever he’s from. And stay there. There’s probably lots of uncle-niece marriages he can counsel there.
word.
Well, that’s just disgusting. But even more so is that fact that she shared this story. I didn’t watch the episode (I don’t watch, period) but wow. What an asshole that she didn’t see anything wrong with what she was asking/expecting the hotel to do. What a douche.
She was PROUD that she tried to intimidate some poor clerk into breaking the rules that could very well get them fired? Even sadder is the fact that the poor lad/lass probably was fired anyway for not doing just that.
WOW…although I still love Beet’s tits more (even the one with the mole), you have officially elevated yourself to favorite blogger with this post. My girlfriend actually Tivo’s that stupid bitch and tries to subject me to the punishment at night when I get home.
So what is the make and model of that bra? I want one. Scratch that. I *need* one. I make Katie Holmes look perky. No seriously. The curse of big titties.
Oprah, well, used to love her when I was a teen. Now, as an adult (I can type that without you seeing me laughing), I just can’t accept her hypocritical and manipulative ways. She said America grew up when it elected Obama. I think American women will grow up when they turn their backs on the cult of Oprah.
Uh-oh, backroom secrets are leaking out and some of Obama’s Top ranking aides are going to be subp to be Mre Blagohevich’s witnesses.. The man’s a genuis. He was skate out of trouble and wiggle his fingers at the saddened accusers.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/blagojevich-subpoena-012309.html
Oprah annoys the fuck out of me (but then again, I’m European which might make me immune to Oprah-obsession, thank God).
okay so wendie i like you. i absolutely despise oprah. i love how she gives away free shit and does good things for charities and all that, but she is a HORRIBLE TALK SHOW HOST! she interrupts and is rude and tries to make everything about her. and her voice is kind of manly and monotone. the only reason ppl go to see her show is to get the chance to win free things! her and tyra should be friends
did anyone notice that 50 was not “the new 30” until Oprah turned 50?
i can’t stand oprah. i turned off her long years ago. it just bothers me how she thinks she is so much better than everyone else, but try’s to say she is just like us. and where was her BOYFRIEND this past tuesday. oh, i forgot, GAIL was there with her. she is the BOYFRIEND. i will be so happy when she is finally outed.
and i thought i was the only person who didnt like her.hehe
You have gone too far.
People who watch Oprah are dead to me.
Don’t care one way or the other about Oprah, she worked hard for her money and to get to where she is in life, so have at it. The people who should be ashamed are the fools who follow her and her “likes” so religiously. These are the truely scary people – the ones who can be so easily manipulated.
Meh. Oprah to me is kind of like the Jonas Brothers. I just don’t get it.
OH THANK GOD FOR THIS POST!
I am not an Oprah fan and never have been. I don’t understand the obsession. Didn’t her show used to be akin to Ricky Lake?? “You stole my boyfriend” “I love being a stripper” etc etc?? I swear that it did and everyone has just erased it from their memory banks.
I get rather amused at Oprah when she says how very hard she had to work to get where she is! She had one big break when she was only 18 years old and was given the job reading the news on one of the local radio stations – then she went on to say that she was “only” earning $25,000 a year in the 1970s! (and she in her 20s) Do you know what that would be equivalent to today. In the 1970s even $10,000 a year was a pretty hefty annual paycheck!
And what about the huge portrait of herself – and showing a bare back – in the entry of Harpo Studios where she has had photoshop create welt marks on her back from being whipped – just to prove the pride of her African heritage! Racial indeed and most definitely egomanical.