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Oprah fans sputtering over cable fees for OWN (Oprah hates poor people)
NY Post ^ | 1/3/11 | Post staff writer

Posted on 01/03/2011 4:30:43 AM PST by jimbo123

A day after the launch of her ambitious new TV network, the message board on Oprah Winfrey's Web site was flooded with posts from fans upset that they now have to pay to see the talk-show queen.

"Cannot believe Oprah would launch a new show on a cable channel that is not part of the basic service," wrote a fan tagged johnjanesmith.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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You would think Oprah would be a good socialist and give all of her fans free cable. What's going on here?
1 posted on 01/03/2011 4:30:44 AM PST by jimbo123
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Oprah makes about $90,000,000 annually from these pathetic women. They are the easily-led, so they’ll cough up the cash to follow their chubby guru. What a fraud she has always been!


2 posted on 01/03/2011 4:34:38 AM PST by kittymyrib
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She’s got the stupid fat cow demo sowed up. They’ll find the money, even if their husbands have to get another job.


3 posted on 01/03/2011 4:37:24 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: kittymyrib

Her Royal Highness Being Of The Universe has a cult like following.

And some of her worshipers are upset. LOL!


4 posted on 01/03/2011 4:37:35 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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When news of this came out I mentioned to my wife how only people that subscribe to extended cable plans would be able to see the network. I think the thing is going to fail.


5 posted on 01/03/2011 4:39:18 AM PST by Peter from Rutland
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I’m thinking that getting your new cable channel on basic cable is difficult. You may have to start off as a paying channel with at least some cable providers. I hope Oprah’s fans get more and more pissed. This could be a “get out the popcorn” occasional


6 posted on 01/03/2011 4:39:40 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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Being a Billionaire is not enough for Oprah, her materialism demands more money from the masses of stupid women who view her as a God.


7 posted on 01/03/2011 4:40:06 AM PST by WaterBoard
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To: jimbo123

Oprah is a business woman. She is making money by going to pay tv. Oprah fans, she is not your girlfriend. She is finding ways to make money from you. Wise up!


8 posted on 01/03/2011 4:40:48 AM PST by freemama
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Welcome to the real world OKRA People.
How do you think the fat one pays for the freebees she gives away.
What? You thought she used her own money.
Read the first paragraph again. . . . . .
9 posted on 01/03/2011 4:42:01 AM PST by DeaconRed (Everything IS Broken. . . . MSM won't report it. . . . The community organizer can't fix it.)
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I never understood the Oprah following. I know people who read what Oprah reads, tries the products that Oprah wants them to try... Oprah this and Oprah that. Funny to me in a way that all her “fans” are now expected to pay for their goddess.


10 posted on 01/03/2011 4:42:20 AM PST by momtothree
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She's a cult leader doing what cult leaders do.

It's all about the money, money, money.

11 posted on 01/03/2011 4:44:28 AM PST by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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A Bridge too Far?? LMAO


12 posted on 01/03/2011 4:45:31 AM PST by Venturer
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To: freemama
Oprah is a business woman.

She got rich off her bovine base.
She is an idiot preaching idiotic ideas to idiots. She is not a business woman. 
Oprah is smart enough to hire great businessmen and TV gurus. I will give her that.

13 posted on 01/03/2011 4:47:53 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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I never understood the Oprah following. I know people who read what Oprah reads, tries the products that Oprah wants them to try... Oprah this and Oprah that. Funny to me in a way that all her “fans” are now expected to pay for their goddess.

Way back in 1987 she had her hard core followers. I had  a friend who was half American Indian and she must have identified with Oprah's "struggle" as a black woman,  because she got pissed when I ridiculed Oprah

14 posted on 01/03/2011 4:52:03 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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Oprah makes about $90,000,000 annually from these pathetic women. They are the easily-led, so they’ll cough up the cash to follow their chubby guru...

Exactly. Losers having to pay to listen to idiocy seems fair to me. They should just think of it as a stupid-people tax. Like they used to say: "A fool and his money are soon parted."

Somebody would have to pay me a lot to listen to that show.

15 posted on 01/03/2011 4:52:28 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: Voter#537
How do you think the fat one pays for the freebees she gives away.


That is a popular misconception. Oprah does not fork over the money for gifts for the audience.

Like in the car give away, the sponsor provided the cars, not Oprah. Just like the air-fare.
16 posted on 01/03/2011 4:53:11 AM PST by WaterBoard
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You couldn’t pay ME enough to watch her b. S.


17 posted on 01/03/2011 4:55:21 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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What a bunch of tools. She doesn’t need them, she’s still got the stupid white suburban woman who actually have the money.


18 posted on 01/03/2011 4:55:43 AM PST by ladyvet
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She is sad. Obozo needs some money.


19 posted on 01/03/2011 4:55:45 AM PST by Lumper20
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Wouldn’t a webcam stream of Oprah admiring herself in the mirror be cheaper and more effective?


20 posted on 01/03/2011 4:55:57 AM PST by relictele
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