Word: oprahism
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Analysts estimate that about 500,000 of the $359 devices have sold so far. It's been frequently out of stock since its launch, especially after Oprah Winfrey gave it her golden endorsement. That's great news for Amazon, which is rumored to be unveiling Kindle 2.0 on Feb. 9, and it's heartening to those of us bobbing around in leaky life rafts among the ice floes near the sinking Titanic...
...think his bag was that back-breaking, and he says the airport scale registered 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) even with nothing on it. When he arrived at his destination, he weighed his bag on another scale and found that it was under the 10-kg limit. Good thing Oprah doesn't have Ryanair's scales, or she'd be more depressed than usual...
...with an Idol auditioner, it is impossible to know. But the man who did more than a dozen TV interviews--saying he was doing it for his kids, for our kids, for the needy, for justice--seemed to mean it. On Good Morning America, he admitted having considered Oprah Winfrey for the Illinois Senate seat. On Today, he likened himself to a Frank Capra hero and said his arrest was like those of Mandela, M.L.K. and Gandhi. On The View, he said the Mandela-M.L.K.-Gandhi comparison had been taken "out of context," as had his recorded...
BLAGO says he considered OPRAH for Obama slot. You get a Senate seat, and you get a Senate seat...
...Blagojevich followed the same kamikaze strategy on Monday, appearing on Good Morning America (where he said he had briefly considered appointing Oprah Winfrey to Obama's Senate seat) and The View. In a pretaped interview for NBC's Today Show, he tossed out names like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., saying they gave him "perspective" in the storm that has erupted around...