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Somewhere tonight there is a Saturday Night Live cast member -- one Ms. Maya Rudolph -- making a frowny face.
She's :-( because the Hollywood writers' strike just robbed her of her skit of the year: five minutes of Oprah's My Favorite Things, with Ms. O proclaiming as only she can, "Here's my favorite person to change America: Barack Obamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! And there's one for you. And there's one for you. And there's one for you. There's one for everyone!"
And then 300 suburban ladies in sharp sweater sets lose their effing cool and someone literally dies of an aneurysm.
It is, apparently, a Big Deal that the world's most powerful woman has publicly endorsed a candidate for the first time.
Having seen celebrity stumpers in action before, I'm not so sure.
In 2004, I spent a day with a friend carting the actors who played Ted and Melanie from Queer as Folk around town for the HRC's election efforts. Of course, I would have to actually visit IMDB.com to look up their non-character names, so I suppose they don't really count.
A couple of weeks later, I found myself on a gay-bar stage with Chad Lowe, Hilary Swank and a whole mess of very petite people who are probably so pampered they don't know how to order pizza anymore. Julianna Margulies liked my anti-W T-shirt. She asked if she could have it, but she had left ER and was doing cable. So I turned her down.
They wanted us to vote Democrat. We did.
We lost.
Celebrity endorsements aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Of course, Oprah Winfrey is a whole other beast. She picks a book and the publisher needs advanced warning to get enough copies printed. She gets together groups of incomprehensibly wealthy women, gives them millions of dollars in jewelry as gifts, and her audience is fascinated rather than outraged.
Hell, she somehow made Dr. Phil acceptable.
The other candidates should probably be worried.
But since she's not supporting my gal, I believe the appropriate level of bitterness requires me to remind any Oprah fans who are swayed to support Obama because of her endorsement of these following facts:
1. She used to date Roger Ebert.
2. She believes in The Secret.
3. And while she is now worth far more than $1 billion, her original training is as a TV journalist.
And we all know the average intelligence of one of those:
posted by F-AF @ 02:23 AM on 12.10.07
Comments
That girl was pretty damn bad ... where would I apply to replace her. I love when she squinted to read the cue card. As for Oprah, I guess she is finally showing that she is human. What happens if Obama doesn't win and then Oprah is shown to be fallible? Will people be beating their chest in the streets?
OMG, like, I could've totally done that newschick's job when I was, like, twelve! And I would've tap-danced for the nice people, too! (Crap, she asked HH the same questions four times, and she still couldn't get the show's premiere date right.)
Ya know, I love Oprah. I love her skin care tips, her "how to look 10 Years Younger" episodes, ect ect. That said, darling Oprah is NOT, I repeat NOT going to tell me how to vote. My Mom watched Oprah for years and years, but she voted exactly the way my Dad told her to. Oprah has every soccer Moms ears, but darling, their husband have the soccer Mom's ballots. I have no husband, and this lesbian is voting for Hillary....
PS - Michelle Clunie played Melanie and Scott Lowell played Ted (yes, I googled it) :-)
PPS: Lovin the faggoty ass faggot
Is it just me, or does Oprah's "celebrity" endorsement of Barack Obama make me want to vote for him even less? Perhaps it is a bit of jealousy on my part but frankly I am sick and tired of Oprah's Messiah-like power/attitude; I swear, she could tell a mall full of women to set themselves on fire and they would... My issues with Ms. Winfrey aside, (and fearful that I might be accused of being racist), is Barack the BEST candidate, or is Barack the only African-American candidate -- is that really at the core of Oprah's fervent and passsionate endorsement of Mr. Obama? Don't get me wrong -- if an openly gay/lesbian candidate were running for President (and I agreed with his/her policies and political positions), I would undoubtedly channel my support and efforts into getting him/her elected. However, I believe the "elephant in the room" with Barack is blacks are rallying around him in part because he is "one of them." Dare I even mention how well that strategy worked with the election of Cleveland's current mayor? I'm just saying...
I love that line in the movie 'Adam & Steve' where the female character played by Parker Posey says "Watching Oprah has made it impossible for me to have a relationship with anyone else besides Oprah".
Personally, celebrity endorsements of anything have no effect on me. The fact that Lindsay Wagner likes the Sleep Number bed means shit to me.
Mark -- I hear you on the Sleep Number Bed. Plus, she looks so incredibly exhausted in those commercials that I can't possibly give any credibility to her statements that she's getting the best sleep she's ever gotten!
