Word: oprahization
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...Canvass" day; in Florida it was organizing one of Obama's trademark megarallies specifically for women, offering tickets to sororities, breast-cancer organizations, Planned Parenthood, teachers organizations and nurses groups. Meanwhile, both campaigns are spending heavily on reaching these women over the airwaves. According to the New York Times, Oprah is getting more political advertising than any other non-news show, with McCain buying more spots in the past month than Obama - despite the fact that it was Obama who got the endorsement of the show's star. Both candidates know there are women out there just like Deb Anderson...
...White America has shown an abundant willingness to support no-demands blacks like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell and Will Smith, but a race man like Malcolm X would be another story. It was no accident that Bill Clinton tried to pigeonhole Obama in the primaries as another Jesse Jackson, or that Michelle Obama introduced her family at the convention as a new version of the Cosbys (or the Bradys). Obama's opponents want him to look niche, like BET or Chris Rock or the NBA; his challenge is to prove that he's also attractive...
Take the manufactured Oprah-Palin controversy. Oprah Winfrey endorsed Obama in 2007 and said she would not have him or any other candidates on her show again until after the election. The Drudge Report ran a story that Oprah had "banned" Palin, although 1) Oprah had also de facto "banned" McCain, Joe Biden and Obama, and 2) it's uncertain that Palin even wanted to be interviewed by Obama's most famous backer. Nonetheless, it became a big story. Tom Brokaw asked whether Oprah's decision was "élitist," probably the first and last time the term will ever...
...have invested a lifetime in the politics of black identity. Obama's success, whether it culminates in the White House or not, signals the passing of their era. So it is no wonder that younger voters have been key to his candidacy. Having grown up in the era of Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Tiger Woods and, yes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., they are better able to credit Obama's thesis that "there's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America...
...Sapp knows that the phrasing and images could just be dismissed as a peculiar coincidence. After all, it was Oprah Winfrey who told an Iowa crowd that Obama was "the one!" But, he insists, "the frequency of these images and references don't make any sense unless you're trying to send the message that Obama could be the Antichrist." Mara Vanderslice, another Democratic consultant, who handled religious outreach for the 2004 Kerry campaign, agrees. "If they wanted to be funny, if they really wanted to play up the idea that Obama thinks he's the Second Coming, there were...