Posted on 10/29/2007 1:25:13 PM PDT by Soliton
Oprah Winfrey begged for forgiveness with tears in her eyes as she spoke to parents of students at her all-girls school in South Africa on Sunday.
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There have been reports of various ‘personnel’ problems at Oprah’s school since it opened.
Didn’t Charles Dickens write about do-gooders like Oprah?
Their are personnel problems at US schools and those problems are still working at teaching.
There are personnel problems at US schools and those problems are still working at teaching.
She’s getting every bit of press out of this bit of chunp-change (to her, anyways) she paid for this. As if some stunt in afrikky is going to legitimize her and whoever she blesses........Leadership Academy indeed
(from the article).....“It’s not your fault. We don’t blame you,” the father reportedly told her. “You trusted them. You have more passion for the school and its existence than anyone else in this country, including us parents.”
Oprah opened the doors to The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in January to provide a high level of education to underprivileged girls.
There are bigger problems in other countries than just lack of money. Flooding these places with money won’t fix it.
So that’s what has gone wrong in my life for the last 16 years. Man, if Hillary wins there will be only 8 more years of soul crushing oppression of me and my family. Then the Clintons will stop destroying me for my relentless criticism of them and we can all retire.
Limousine liberal...she probably threw money at the schools, paid other to "handle it", got the good press she wanted and walked away from any other involvement. She is criminally culpable at worst, and a fluff-headed well intentioned naive Liberal at best.
Nothing a flaming tire over the neck wouldn’t cure...and I mean on Oprah.
My point in posting this is that she could have opened a slaughterhouse for African girls and the MSM would have never said a word. Cross Hillary and you get screwed.
Oprah, just go away.
Gather up Mrs. Clinton and both of you two turds just slither off back to hell and leave us alone.
Shouldn’t this drive home to the hard core libs that no manner of feel-goodism and money can protect kids from EVIL?
Evil can break through any barrier!
Oh, it won’t convince even one lib. They are immune from truth.
Who's parent talks like that? As your kid's parent, do you?
Not a major Oprah fan, but she didn't "handle it" that way. It seemed very hands-on when I watched the show about the girls' school. Oprah is not to blame for a sleazy headmistress, the sleazy headmistress is to blame.
We seldom hold our public schools here culpable for such crimes, heck we give them raises for being sleazes.
She should integrate the school. Isn’t there a greater learning opportunity?
Hey, Asshole, have you ever seen anyone die this way. I doubt it. Yes, you are an asshole, a perfect asshole for even suggesting such a thing. I'll bet you are a frigging coward too.
Hey, Asshole, have you ever seen anyone die this way. I doubt it. Yes, you are an asshole, a perfect asshole for even suggesting such a thing. I'll bet you are a frigging coward too.
Look
Mrs. Clinton has murdered, stolen, intimidated, her way to prominance.
Oprah like so many liberal doofuses thinks that by simply trying to do good in pathetic places it will take.
Both are nuts.
Both have been around WAY too long and should just go away.
And if it were by nefarious means I’d applaude.
Sorry you may not like the facts.
I agree TOTALLY! Last time I checked this was a conservative based forum with higher values. It’s a comment like this one that gives DU and Bill O. something to talk about.
Some of us may not like Oprah, but wishing a gasoline soaked tire was flaming around her neck is far from what we should believe.
My guess is that that quote is well-planned fodder for all-but-OFRAH to disregard what happened......meanwhile she can put on an ellen-degenerate-sobbing-act to convince us all how wunnaful and caring she is.....she ain’t squat except the pied-piper to the stepford/liberal wives that nod at everything she sez. Obama’s in the wings on this ons, just watch!
If every bad thing that happens in America is “Bush’s fault”, then this should be Oprah’s fault...
Shades of Nicholas Nickleby!
I asked myself the same question.Surely not every white child in SA is from a wealthy family.
Why not mix a few of those girls with the kids from the townships?This is what the”new” South Africa is supposed to be all about,right?
That’s no excuse for some of the venomous talk on this thread.
No one could possibly despise Hillary Clinton any more than I do and I've already said I am no fan of Oprah's, but, to sound like a wanta be DU site is a disservice FreeRepublic. IMHO
“but wishing a gasoline soaked tire was flaming around her neck is far from what we should believe.”
Listen, if Oprah can pull it off, it will be all the rage, probably even make the cover of “O.” Every shallow young lady will want a flaming tire as a fashion accessory.
Dude! I hope that you are joking. I laugh at comedy. I chuckle at sarcasm. Sometimes people say crazy things after a few drinks that they wish they had not said.
Hopefully you’re not in your right mind this evening, because it wasn’t funny before and it’s not funny now.
If you are serious, then you have some issues that you should seek professional help with.
Wishing for Oprah or “every shallow young lady” to have a flaming tire as a fashion accessory is not funny.
All black school.
Isn’t that racist?
When will Chelsea be of age to run for office? ;)
And does anyone know if she still has secret service coverage?
You oughta take a chill pill and save the lectures for your children.
Chill on this, Todd.
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Instead of weeping and wailing why doesn’t Oprah get off her duff and fix the problems? She is paying the money so she can fire the incompetents running the place. However in South Africa it is probably corrupt government officials that are calling the shots at her school.
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