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...generation passeth away. The son, George W. Bush, was on Oprah Winfrey's show to prove two things, 1) that he is not dumb, but, on the contrary, quick-witted, and 2) that he is compassionate and caring - the real litmus with the women who are not only Oprah's audience but also the decisive swing voters in this election...
...Bush said he was "thick-skinned." The real question, of course, is whether he is thick-skulled. He allowed, in response to a question, that he considers himself to be "smarter than most people." But, Bush cautioned, quite rightly, "there are many different ways of being smart." When Oprah asked Bush whether he cares about what people think, he shot back, "I care what 51 percent of the people think...
...Bush in any case would not have done it. He sends the same message (I love my wife) by his feeling talk about Laura and about the birth of his twin daughters. Presumably Oprah's huge female audience felt some sympathetic vibration on that score. The question is whether it does not demean the entire process to have all of this attention paid to the state of a candidate's marriage. We have Bill Clinton to thank for that - that, and a certain deepening fatuousness in the American political process...
...makes sense, of course, that the candidates would fall over themselves to appear onscreen with the most powerful woman in America. And in the past week, both Gore and Bush have appeared on the spectacularly popular daytime talk show; each sat down with Oprah herself for 60 minutes of free television time. I sat down to watch the shows, hoping against hope for some substance, a little bit of weight...
...coifs. Then the conversation started, and the anguish increased. There was Al, crinkling the corners of his eyes in his best "I feel your pain" imitation and managing only to look like he was in some sort of gastrointestinal distress. And here was George, leaning in so close to Oprah that he looked ready to fall right out of his chair. Both of them waxing saccharine over unnamed schoolchildren in danger of falling behind, but offering no clear solution to the problems of overcrowding and underteaching. Both rhapsodizing over their fairy-tale marriages, their flawless children, their beautiful interior decorating...