Obama & Oprah

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cornnifer wrote:

Punished?! How the fuck does Oprah using her extreme wealth to help underpriveleged individuals Black or otherwise, equal a punishment for you? Furthermore, how does it equal affirmative action or a hate crime? Besides, affirmative action and hate crime legislation in absolutely no way "push blacks ahead of better qualified" white folks. For God's sake, Limbaugh, pop an oxycontin and turn it down a little bit. i'm afraid i have to call you out for running out of the baseline. Grab your glove and head back into the field.


Ya gotta love this board. Its the perfect forum for dipshits with a racially prejudiced upbringing to start a thread about Oprah Winfrey endorsing a presidential candidate and morph it into a rant about the reverse discrimination of affirmative action and hate crime legislation. Ya gotta love it.
P.S

so yr calling me a dipshit, right?

i can get kicked off here for days at a time for that crap, while others just seem to slide on by


oh yeah, your are wrong as hell and a stupid goofball

Thecure

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

The economy topic isnt' enough...hmmm intersting. Tell me that when you can't buy a glass of milk for under $5, and gas prices are double what they are now. I can't understand people that are clueless to this, and actually question what I'm saying. It blows my mind. Point of reference I suppose.

You mean politicians and political analysts that actually talk about real issues...rather than than throwing around the old cliches "let's work together to make things better" "let's make good things happen" "let's work hard to improve the system" You see there are no specifics to their generalized sweeping statements. Just open ended bullshit to make you think they are your best choice. No specifics. It's all mindless lip service.

I'll like to hear the mainstream candidates talk about the hard facts of the matter just once. Ain't gonna see it, because they're just serving up more of the same old stuff.

same old... same old...mmm ...how's it taste?

where are you buying $5 glass of milk? secondly, even Ron Paul throws around cliches about working together for making things better. would you want a president who would say something liek the world if fucked and i can't do anything to fix it.
i agree with you about how candidates (mainstream or not) don't talk about the hard facts. we live in a society that is fucked up that we need everything in 30 second segments. what we need is for the people to come in and say fuck this. now, i have to say that looking at the debates on both sides and from another country i think it is a joke. you have important issues such as the war, economy, immigration, health care, education all talked about in what 2 hours. these are major issues that need not 5 minutes but hours each to discuss.

now you ask how does it taste? not good but what can we as society do to fix it. this is not just an issue of voting for so-and-so this is an issue with how we live

Hawkshore

http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/TVNews/Articles/080807_oprah_delivered_voters_MH


As if you needed further evidence that Oprah Winfrey is a force to be reckoned with, a new study indicates that the talk show queen may have helped Barack Obama score more than a million votes.

According to the New York Post, two University of Maryland economists developed complex numerical formulas to calculate the influence of Winfrey’s star power.

Craig Garthwaite and Tim Moore based their findings on book sales, TV ratings, voter turnout and other factors. After analyzing these calibrations, they claim that Winfrey garnered 1,015,559 votes for Obama in the primaries.

"Winfrey is a celebrity of nearly unparalleled popularity," they state. "Her endorsement had a positive effect on the votes Obama received, increased the overall voter participation rate, and increased the number of contributions received by Obama.”

Winfrey formally endorsed the presidential candidate in May 2007, and analysts at the time wondered if O’s official stamp would boost Obama’s sway with voters. Now we know.

Of course, we’ve had inklings of the exact heft of her power before. The books she plugs in her book club become instant bestsellers and “Oprah’s Favorites” see huge boosts in sales (web hits for Ciao Bella blood orange sorbet went from 175,000 to 3 million in 2007).

After she devoted an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to Mad Cow Disease in April 1996, claiming a guest's comments "just stopped me cold from eating another burger," cattle futures fell 10 per cent the next day.

A group of cattle ranchers unsuccessfully sued her for defamation, seeking $11 million in losses.

I wonder if former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will follow suit ...


Thoughts?