Today, with no syndicated show to call her own and a flailing cable network mired in red ink, the Queen no longer sits atop her throne.The National Post's Rex Murphy says Winfrey's endorsement of then-Sen. Barack Obama may have started her downward trajectory, but her fall is just another sign of the fleeting nature of modern celebrity.
"Was Oprah’s benediction a “tipping point”? Was it the moment when Obama jumped from being just another candidate to being a star in a class of his own?
Perhaps, but that was then. What of now? Well, something strange has happened. Oprah has lost her chi. She ended her long-time relationship with mainstream television and decided that she should have her own network. It is one of the very few examples of a person ordering her own self-exile. And the result is that she has simply ceased — in television terms — to be. I cannot recall a more precipitous drop in status, and in the influence status bestows, than Oprah’s almost complete fall from entertainment eminence."
You know what they say -- If you've lost Oprah, you've lost . . . about 250 pounds, give or take.
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Until Oprah's own personal 'tingle moment' on her show, her bff Gayle's giddy 15 year old bimbo-ism's to say nothing of her cult following type behaviour on election night, none of her viewers knew for sure her political stripe.
The day that she endorsed Obama on her show was the day I quit watching her and on the day he won, I sent her network a "do not e-mail me ever again" letter.
There are 38% of us in Canada and probably close to 50% of them in the USA that quit watching her, THAT DAY.
We quit buying her endorsed products, quit following her endorsed celebrities, quit renting movies or reading books that she liked and quit trusting anything she said or anyone she held close to her heart. It turns out, her judge of character isn't looking all that great now is it? Between Obama, Travolta and Cruise.......her judgement is a fail and that implies that it always was!
Posted by Bec | July 10, 2012 9:40 PM
Posted on July 10, 2012 21:40