Media analysts and politicians should pay attention to the Oprah card. If that card doesn't get trumped, Obama is next President.
Strategists who would influence American voters believe it takes only enough glitz and glamour, a candidate who offends the fewest interest groups and minorities, while promising them the most government handouts, the one with the sexiest look and slickest delivery.
They view American voters as shallow and manipulatable. Maybe, but America has chosen Oprah, a supremely soulful lady, as one of its most cherished icons.
America believes in her honesty and goodness. She makes sense in a way that media analysts and editorialists cannot: She is believable and trustworthy.
Oprah has nothing to gain from political parties, donations, PAC's, lobbyists, or profiteers. She a person who has no reason not to tell the truth, not unless I'm missing something.
Before voters will be influenced in how they vote they must trust those who would influence. America trusts Oprah.
That simple equation puts Obama in office, unless Obama gets out-Oprah'ed.
Friday, December 14, 2007
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Yes, the "America" that elected G.W. Bush twice loves Oprah. Such good news. But not surprising: she's shallow, materialistic, and RICH. Personally, I recall a program on which she viciously attacked an audience member who tried to say that a "numeroligist" who just "analyzed" him was wrong about everything. Whatever crap sells, she puts it on the air.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous is the formerly bas bleu comment leaver. Apparently you have changed the format so I have to go through some hoops?
ReplyDeleteI think most of blue-collar and a great big part of white-collar America would disagree with you.
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