Oprah’s Campaign For Obama May Be Starting To Backlash On Him
It appears that the Rule Of Unintended Consequense may be rearing its head in the Barak Obama campaign.
No doubt that having Oprah Winfrey, whose very nod can send a novel to the top of the best seller list, campaign for you seemed like a darn good idea at the outset, but it seems that not everyone is ready to take Oprah’s word for it that Obama is the man for the job. In fact, some people are telling her to butt out:
Winfrey’s website has been buzzing for weeks with angry postings about her involvement in the Illinois senator’s campaign, something Hollywood, which always keeps its eye on the public mood, is bound to notice—this is a town, after all, that measures success by weekly grosses and daily TV ratings.
One posting on her site, Oprah.com, accused the talk diva of being a traitor. (By Thursday, that message string had attracted more than 12,000 views.) Another poster told Winfrey to “stop pushing Obama down our throats.” (There were 3,000 hits logged on that one.) Another said: “Do you really know Barack Hussein Obama? Scary & something we have to take into consideration!” (There were more than 4,000 views for that.)
“First of all I want to say that I am a HUGE Oprah fan,” one poster wrote. “I love what she stands for. She is a strong woman changing the world. However, I have been extremely disappointed with her recent touring with Barack Obama. It is a manipulation and an abuse of her power and influence on the American culture.
“Let the American people form their own opinion, Oprah.”
I, for one, am disdainful of the self important Hollywood nimrods who think, because they can memorize lines that someone else wrote for them and with enough make-up and support staff look good on a big screen, that somehow they actually know something more than we mere mortals. And whatever it is they know, we should all listen to because they’re, well, them.
Anyway, at the beginning of Oprah’s campaign for Obama everyone thought that her endorsement might seal the deal in his campaign. Especially Oprah and Obama. And it just might.
But not in the way they planned.
