I miss the old Oprah, don't you?
The present-day Oprah just seems too hard-edged and, okay, I'll say it, mean for me. Yes, I think Oprah has joined the ranks of the Mean Girls. And I think she is way too impressed with her own presence, cleverness and moral superiority. Her latest drama queen performance at Coretta King's funeral was embarrassingly cringe-worthy because she seemed so acutely aware of the cameras. The disingenuousness of the whole thing made my skin crawl. For chrissake, get over yourself, girl, and go eat some smashed potatoes.
In my opinion, Oprah has sadly become the antithesis of who we all fell in love with 20-or so years ago--you know--a nice, unassumming, genuine and exuberant real woman. Oprah used to be warm and spontaneous. Now she seems pre-packaged, calculating, steely-eyed and haughty, her warmth frozen over by a fierce devotion to protecting her brand and her image at all costs.
And the $600 blouses and $75 bars of soap and $100 jars of face cream she heralds as her "favorite things" in "O" magazine are far from reach for most of her devoted viewers, I dare say. They are barely scraping by, clipping coupons and shopping at Wal-Mart for their "favorite things" like diapers and mac & cheese and deodorant while dreaming of living their best lives, ala Oprah. Well, hell yeah, I could "live my best life" too if I were paid billions of dollars to run my mouth.
Wow. WTFW (the old Oprah) D?
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Forgive me for the diatribe I just wrote (and deleted) about the oil companies and their record winter profits this year, and my friends who can't pay their heating bills. But to me, Oprah is a minor scourge on the planet. But scourge is starting to make a wider swath through my ethics lately.
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