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...talk show wasn’t enough, Oprah Winfrey’s latest project, O: The Oprah Magazine, made its debut on bathroom floors across the country this week. “O” is Oprah’s latest installment in her feeble attempt to assimilate millions of unsuspecting Americans into her progressive social philosophy: Oprahism...
...Oprahism is an especially dangerous because of its inherently insidious nature. Her mission statement for the first issue is “Become more of who you are.” How clever, Oprah, how clever. During this phase of self-realization, Oprah seeks to inculcate her ideas into your sense of self. From the beginning, she claims that “Regardless of how good you feel—and I’m feeling pretty good myself—you can live more intensely, more vibrantly, more meaningfully and more purposefully.” This seemingly positive statement...
...Oprah continues in her message to her readers, “This magazine is about spirit.” What spirit could Oprah be referring to? The spirit that gives your hard-earned money to Oprah through a subscription to her magazine and that inevitably sells your soul to its true leader, Oprah...
...tantalizingly fresh fragrances is to draw the reader in closer and closer into the page—deeper and deeper into the “Oprahganda.” With this, the reader is meant to ask him or herself, “I wonder if this is what Oprah smells like...
...Oprah's presence is felt in other, more subtle ways. The majority of the articles in the magazine's feature section were written by women of color, from pieces by freelance journalists to biracial novelist Danzy Senna's account of her troubled relationship with her Irish grandmother. Writes Oprah: "This is the defining question in my life. How do you use your life to best serve yourself and extend it to the world?" Once again, she has served herself by extending her self-service to the world, and what would probably come off as self-aggrandizement anywhere else in this...