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Oprah Winfrey is being sued by the former headmistress of the Big O's Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, according to People magazine. The civil lawsuit filed by Nomvuyo Mzamane claims that Oprah made defamatory comments to the media implying that Mzamane is "untrustworthy, failed the students of the academy, did not care about the students at the academy, knew of alleged physical and sexual abuse at the academy and participated in a cover-up of the alleged abuse." A scandal broke out at the school in October 2007 when another female staff member was accused of physically and sexually...

Lee filed a counterclaim Friday contending that Valentina took advantage of her "lack of knowledge, ability, and-or capacity" when creating her credit account.

Oprah's mom countersues over wardrobe bill Oprah Winfrey's mother should not have to pay a high-end fashion store the more than $150,000 it says it is owed because the store extended credit despite knowing her troubles managing debt, according to a new court filing. Valentina Inc. sued Winfrey's mother, Vernita Lee of Milwaukee, in July, contending that she racked up a bill of $155,547.31 in purchases and interest as of July 1. She was required to make a minimum monthly payment of $2,000 to the store, the suit says. Mediation between the two sides failed last week, prompting Lee to...

Oprah Winfrey's mother should not have to pay a high-end fashion store the more than $150,000 it says it is owed because the store extended credit despite knowing her troubles managing debt, according to a new court filing. Valentina Inc. sued Winfrey's mother, Vernita Lee of Milwaukee, in July, contending that she racked up a bill of $155,547.31 in purchases and interest as of July 1. She was required to make a minimum monthly payment of $2,000 to the store, the suit says. Mediation between the two sides failed last week, prompting Lee to file a counterclaim contending she does...

Grandiosity, more than anything else, is what characterizes Obama's character and campaign. Grandiosity is also, more than anything else, what characterizes narcissism, and Obama's narcissism messiah -- the anointed one." David Limbaugh writes of the "unspeakably presumptuous extravaganzas as those [that] feted Mr. Obama at Berlin and Invesco Field." In reference to Obama's narcissism, Charles Krauthammer asks, "[H]as there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?" Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, writes that "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist,"...

With apostasy (falling away) running rampant in the church and PC’s impassioned call for diversity and tolerance in religion what are the implications for America? Let’s see. When Jesus asked a crowd of people who felt their religion justified them about what he would find at his second coming he said “Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8) No one in the crowd answered him because the answer is understood. The answer is of course; no! So what replaces faith, what could possibly pre-empt faith in the gospel. The answer is...

Has partisan politic hit an all-time low? On Monday, mega-star Oprah Winfrey uses her influence on her show to elicit support for Senate bill 1738 [S. 1738] - a bill designed to help tackle the horrors of child pornography and exploitation. Yet, the full story on S. 1738, known as The Combating Child Exploitation Act of 2007, was not provided to the public. Whether it was politically motivated or a case of being under-informed, Oprah is criticized, by at least one Republican, for not giving the full story on Senate bill 1738.

Internet users, as well as editors making edits on Wikinews and Wikipedia, have been the victims of a recent hoax that talk show host Oprah Winfrey has been found dead in her Chicago, Illinois home. The rumors are considered to be a hoax, connected with the online group known as Anonymous. Other reports say that the website 4chan.org is responsible for starting the rumor which began to spread quickly over the Internet. The rumors started after a statement Winfrey made on a recent show, defending a United States Senate bill against pedophiles and child rapists saying a pedophile group has...

BACKGROUND: Oprah Winfrey has publicly stated that she will not have GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin on her TV show until after the elections (in spite of having Democratic candidate Barrack Obama - the candidate Oprah is supporting - on her show several times). Consequently, several Republican Women's groups have recommended boycotting Oprah's show. However, a much greater impact is obtained by boycotting Oprah's advertisers. Suppliers of consumer goods and services tend to live on razor-thin margins - The loss of just a few percent of their customer base can be disastrous for them. Furthermore, if one of their advertising...

If there ever were a candidate destined to shine on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Sarah Palin would be that woman. She is the Oprah audience personified - an unlikely feminist icon who braved the storm while deftly protecting her children when the whole family survived a vicious press assault. Yet Oprah, the high priestess of the female empowerment movement, denies her massive audience's wishes because of her single-minded drive to put Obama in the White House. She said, "I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is...

Oprah Winfrey has been proclaimed the world's biggest giver -- again. For the seoncd year running, the day-time host topped a list of the 30 most generous celebrities for giving $50.2 million US last year through the Oprah Winfrey Foundation and Oprah's Angel Network, which fund education, health care and advocacy for women and children. The list, now in its second year, was compiled by The Giving Back Fund, a charity that aims to encourage philanthropy. Claiming the No. 2 spot was trumpeter Herb Alpert, who gave $13 million for education, including music lessons, through the Herb Alpert Foundation. Three...

  Catholic Answers LIVE Date September 15 2008 Time 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Title Does Oprah Have the Last Word? Guest Sharon Lee Giganti Description BIOGRAPHY: Former New Thought "insider", Sharon Lee Giganti is committed to exposing the hidden dangers of the New Thought Movement and its’ widely spreading philosophies.After suspecting that her New Age influence and teaching might have unwittingly played a part in such horrific tragedies as murder and suicide, Sharon finally realized how life threatening their occult methods could be, and returned to the Catholic Church. Now a certified Catholic Catechist and postulant of The Holy Family Institute,...

Join the boycott of the Oprah show, magazine and her advertisers--in the pocket. Also boycott hollywood pimps for example Anjolie--while in France--Disney World is not diverse enough?--hello? Most recently, Matt Damon while in Canada--selecting Sarah Palin was like a bad disney movie!!!! And the list of hollywood while in a foreign country badmouthing the USA!!!!! Stop them by boycotting, let me them pimp off the europeans instead of running back to the USA to make their millions off of Americans

1. Winfrey's viewers are sheep/robots who think and do whatever she tells them to . Aside from Robyn Okrant, keeper of the blog Living Oprah, who is spending a year doing every single thing that Winfrey commands, most viewers are more selective about how much influence they let the talk-show host have over their lives. Although her famous book club made unexpected hits of such little known titles as Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" -- which was published in 1992 but rocketed to the top of the bestseller lists after being featured on her show in January 1997 -- as...

First of all: fair warning. You have to be really, really shallow, or really, really patient to enjoy watching this interview between Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey. The "Pain Body," according to Eckhart--who has all the eyeless animation of a beige-colored tub of salt-free tofu--is the collective, atmospheric body of wrongs done to your demographic. If you're Native American, the victory of European settlers is your "pain body." If you're African-American, slavery is your "pain body." If you're a woman, the patriarchy is your "pain body." Keep in mind, you don't have to have been victimized by any particular evil,...

GOP Women’s Group Boycotts ‘Oprah’ For Refusing to Book Palin by FOXNews.com Wednesday, September 10, 2008 The Florida Federation of Republican Women has launched a boycott against Oprah Winfrey’s TV show and magazine because the talk queen has said she will not have Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on her show until after the election. Democrat Barack Obama — whom Winfrey is supporting for president — was on “Oprah” twice before he announced his run for president, in January 2005 and in October 2006. Winfrey has said she will have neither party’s candidates on her show while they are...

Oprah's disappointed her white feminist friends -- again. You know the ones who "helped build her into the icon she is today." When Oprah publicly supported Obama over Hillary Clinton, she almost had to ball up her fists like Sophia in "The Color Purple." That's because her high-ranking feminist friends who are also Democrats cornered her one day and called her a traitor to her face. Oprah told an audience of Obama supporters that she had to remind them that she was a "free black woman." Now, she's offended those french-manicured white Republican women, and they don't brawl in the...

A report that Oprah Winfrey vetoed the suggestion of some of her talk show staffers to invite Alaska Governor--and Republican Vice Presidential nominee--Sarah Palin onto her show has one Republican women's group calling for a boycott of all things Oprah.

BREITBART: 'Say It Ain't So, O!' Andrew Breitbart ANALYSIS/OPINION: If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Sarah Palin would be that woman. In less than a week, the Alaska governor, former PTA member and 44-year-old mother of five - including an infant with Down syndrome - survived a vicious press assault on her family only to win over the majority of Americans with her brave and unapologetic speech at the Republican National Convention last week. In a media instant, Sarah Palin went from an unknown moose hunter to a mass phenomenon on the...

Oprah Says No to Palin, and Gets an Earful By Katharine Q. Seelye Oprah Winfrey has said she will not interview Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the hottest political star in the firmament, and the decision is drawing negative reviews from many fans of the doyenne of daytime television. A group of Republican women in Florida has announced a boycott of Ms. Winfrey’s television show and called for cancellations of subscriptions to her magazine, “O: The Oprah Magazine.”

SPECIAL NOTE: although this is on an auction site, I have not included a URL. This is not a solicitation. It is being posted to have an effect on political opinion. I am hoping people will ask questions on the item so Barack Hussein Obama can be skewered even more. STICK PUPPETS OF OBAMA AND HIS PALS - American-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright, unrepentent terrorist bomber Bill Ayers, Michelle "never proud of her country" Obama, THE OPRAH, and a bonus surprise puppet. Oh, are you and your kids ever going to enjoy these. For generations, these items of political memorabilia will...

Winfrey then asked Obama to announce any future decision to run for president on her show. "I'm going to have this show for five more years, would you announce on this show?" Winfrey asked.

The storm is still brewing about OW's announcement. Her website has been bombarded with angry letters from fans of the show who say they now see her true colors. Welcome to my world, ladies. Nice of you to finally join me. But now give Oprah a break. It's not fair to say that O is showing favoritism because Barack and Michelle have appeared on her show. Technically they were on her show before he officially announced his candidacy. Once Oprah decided to publicly endorse him, it seems to make sense that she would therefore not have him or any other...

Oprah has the right to refuse to interview Sarah Palin on her show,but we have the right to not buy what she is selling. Here is a list of Oprah's sponsors I will not patronize and products I will not buy. I will also be making some phone calls to these sponsors as well. http://www.oprah.com/sweepstakes

The whole stack of OPrah magazines had been turned around, cover side in. Of course, no US magazines were anywhere to be seen.

The spark that started a firestorm! Posted on Sep 5, 2008 10:46 AM “The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”...

I was on Oprah in 2000 when she had Bush running against Gore. She allowed both to come on and let her viewers decide who they would vote for. At that time Gore was ahead by, I believe, 10 pts. After her show Bush went up 8 pts. SHE knows that by having Palin on everyone will love her and the election could very well turn the tide. Her man Obama on 2 times this year and none for McCain or Palin speaks volumes. Maye Oprah used to be fair and unbiased but she has forgotten or doesn't care about...

ENJOY THE YOUTUBE MOCKING OF THE OPRAH ON YOUTUBE THE OPRAH is trapped. She endorsed and appeared for Barack Obama. He was on her show twice. But what about Sarah Palin, who's acceptance speech was seen by 37 million people? We are to believe that THE OPRAH doesn't want to use her show for a political platform. We are to believe that she and her staff have not even had a discussion about having Sarah on the show. THE OPRAH is lying. She has painted herself into a corner and doesn't know how to get out without knocking a...

She may have let Tom Cruise jump all over her couch, but Oprah Winfrey says that Sarah Palin can't even sit on it. Fans of Oprah debate whether the talk show host is being bias but not invited Palin on her show before the election. At least not until after the presidential election, that is. Responding to media reports first publicized on Matt Drudge's "The Drudge Report" claiming there was turmoil at Winfrey's Harpo Studios about whether to book the GOP vice presidential nominee on the popular talk show, Winfrey's camp said today that while she has nothing against Palin,...

Oprah Winfrey would love to have Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on her hit daytime talk show - just not until after the election. Winfrey says she has sworn off having presidential candidates and their families on her show until after after Nov. 4, because she's already pledged her support to Democrat Sen. Barack Obama's efforts to become president. "I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over," Winfrey, said in a statement Friday after a report surfaced that she balked at hosting...

Barack Obama’s connections to Oprah Winfrey and her New Age guru, Eckhart Tolle, are the least examined, yet most revealing, and by far the most potentially ruinous of the senator’s controversial associations. Obama claims to be a “committed Christian,” yet appears to support Oprah in the worldwide dissemination of Tolle’s and her virulent anti-Christian doctrine. The closeness of the connection may now be paying off. Oprah has rejected the idea of having Republican Vice Presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin as a guest on her show before the election. Palin would seem a natural. Did Oprah put Palin aside because of...

Oprah taking sides? The queen of talk says it ain't so. Winfrey reacted strongly Friday to a report posted on the Drudge Report that claimed she and "a couple of her top people are adamantly" against booking newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on her show. "The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue," Winfrey said in a statement sent to news organizations in reaction to the DrudgeReport.com posting. "There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to...

"She may have let Tom Cruise jump all over her couch, but Oprah Winfrey says that Sarah Palin can't even sit on it." ABC news

OPRAH PART TWO: IS SHE BIASED? ABC News asks the question: “Is Oprah Biased? Host Won’t Interview Palin:” http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=5736716&page=1. I assume the question is rhetorical. “She’s being two-faced,” said Dr. Cindy Grossman-Green, a pediatrician and Oprah fan from outside Philadelphia. “She initially had Obama on her show, but now that she’s decided [to support him] she won’t have any other political candidates on.” Well said, Dr. G-G! In a related Newsday.com story, 5 reasons are offered for Oprah to invite Sarah Palin on her show: http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/2008/09/oprah_five_reasons_why_palin_s.html. http://genelalor.com/

Billionaire Oprah Winfrey (D-Chicago), has snubbed the most talked about woman in media Gov. Sarah Palin. Although Oprah has officially thrown her support behind Obamessiah and had him on her show to discuss (among other things) his book she now refuses to have Gov. Palin. She cites some BOGUS reasons in an official statement acquired by Matt Drudge of the Drudgereport: "At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any...

OPRAH GETS THE LAST LAUGH AT HER AUDIENCE America’s guru, Queen Oprah, who gained fame and fabulous wealth thanks largely to gullible, weepy white women, has refused admission to her studio and her stage to white woman and Republican VP nominee, Governor Sarah Palin. See http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/05/oprah-to-palin-i-can-pencil-you-in-later/ and http://drudgereport.com/flash3os.htm. Why this is a surprise to anyone is the biggest surprise. Winfrey endorsed Barack Hussein Obama long before he even won the Democratic nomination for president and has barred black, and conservative, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from her royal presence. In the TMZ article, she is quoted as saying, “At the...

Oprah has issued a statement to TMZ -- she won't put Sarah Palin on her show until after the election. Here's the statement: "The item in today's Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would...

Oprah Winfrey may have introduced Democrat Barack Obama to the women of America -- but the talkshow queen is not rushing to embrace the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket! Oprah's staff is sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. "Half of her staff really wants Sarah Palin on," an insider explains. "Oprah's website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama." One executive close to Winfrey is warning any Palin ban could ignite a...

Just so we're clear: Oprah's show is not "above" politics. Oprah's politics, and those of her senior staff, do influence the way the show is made. That is their right, of course. However, it is important that her audience be fully aware of that, not only when a show's theme is overtly political, but for every moment of every show.  For the left especially, politics suffuses everything. This understanding is especially important because I've heard that just the female component of Oprah's audience actually exceeds the population of planet earth, and many of them take what comes out of Oprah's...

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Just had a thought, and maybe I'm the first to have it: Who's Oprah going to support? She could support Hussein because he's black, or support Palin because she's EXACTLY like her - a self-made, highly successful, female. I'd say this shuts her up for the duration. Wonder if she'll have her on the show?

Rick Warren’s very own magazine By Brad A. Greenberg http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/rick_warren_following_oprahs_lead_20080828/ I wrote an article two years ago for Christianity Today about the demise of Purpose Driven ministries, an outgrowth of the ridiculous popularity of “The Purpose-Driven Life.� Murderers and madmen and everyone else know by now that the author of that book was Rick Warren, who recently reinvented himself as a political player. Purpose Driven ministries may be no more, but Warren is bigger than ever before. Continuing his metamorphosis into the male Oprah, Warren is in talks with Reader’s Digest to publish a magazine inspired by his book, which...

Daytime talk show diva and billionaire businesswoman Oprah Winfrey, who played a crucial early primary role in raising the prominence of her fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama, was so moved by her man's Democratic acceptance speech Thursday night that she cried off her false eyelashes.

"Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it's a case of 'poor boundaries' and for men it's hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?"Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having sex with their students, such as Debra Lafave (pictured). The article is "Why Did the Teacher Have Sex With Her Student?"Jay writes: My wife and I both had problems with the article, but it was interesting that we had two different problems. Here are some of...

I contemplate divorce every day. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of waking up together, he still hasn't quite pieced out that I'm not viable before 10 a.m. ..snip.. Maybe one day, marriage -- like the human appendix, male nipples, or your pinky toes -- will become a vestigial structure that will, in a millennium or two, be obsolete. Our great-great-great-grandchildren's grandchildren will ask each other in passing, "Remember marriage? What was its function again? Was it that maladaptive organ that intermittently produced...

Comic goes on another tear, vows to vote Cynthia McKinney for president. Roseanne Barr has followed up her Brangelina tirade with a verbal assault on Barack and Michelle Obama, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, and Democrats overall. The liberal comedian's latest blog rant also blames Oprah Winfrey's support of Obama for taking away primary votes that would've gone to Sen. Hillary Clinton. Below is Barr's posting in its entirety: democrats want to lose and therefore did not fully vet the candidate they shoved down everyone's throat. I am the first blogger to blog about...

and therefore did not fully vet the candidate they shoved down everyone's throat. I am the first blogger to blog about Obama's abortion vote and how it would become the october surprise...they have michelle obama on tape defending live birth abortion, and raising money for it too...(they called this "the whitey" tape, but its far better than just that kind of a boring thing...she is on tape defending sucking the brains out of babies who live through late term abortions). This is the greatest gift pelosi and dean can give to the republicans they work for. It took alot of...

The most emotionally resonant case for Barack Obama is that he will bring something fresh to American politics — that his relatively young age, relatively limited experience, and relatively short time in Washington constitute a plus rather than a minus because they mean he is untainted by the messes of the last decade or so. By contrast with John McCain, who has been in public office for a quarter-century and in Washington for several years before that, Obama is a new face. Fine. But by the time November rolls around, will Obama seem like a new face? He will have...

When local TV ratings were released for the month of July — rarely a newsmaking event in this or any other city — one set of numbers practically leaped off the page. “The Oprah Winfrey Show” finished fourth in its time slot. “Oprah” is in reruns every summer, but this July viewers had less interest than ever in watching them. “KCTV-5 News at 4” won the 4 p.m. time slot, followed by “Judge Judy” on Fox 4. Incredibly, KMBC even finished behind two game shows on KSHB, a station it once routinely trounced during the Oprah power hour. SNIP But...