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I don't think we have many Oprah followers on this board. But, I wonder what you think about her leaving the show.

She is just leaving her show so she can make a new show on her own channel she is creating, OWN. While it definitely is the end of an era I don't expect her to vanish.

Not really much of an end to an era when it's more like transcending. Instead of being a small god on a big network, she'll be a big god of her own domain.

Which will crash and burn. I have nothing against Oprah being rich and famous. I don't follow her and don't wish her or her audience any ills.

That is, until she started spouting her pseudo-science crap that is not only dangerous but irrationally disastrous. So I hope she crashes and burns, never to recover to again gain the bully pulpit to push her lame-brained ideas.

Dave said:

Which will crash and burn. I have nothing against Oprah being rich and famous. I don't follow her and don't wish her or her audience any ills.

That is, until she started spouting her pseudo-science crap that is not only dangerous but irrationally disastrous. So I hope she crashes and burns, never to recover to again gain the bully pulpit to push her lame-brained ideas.

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Totally this. She's a nutjob, but she'll probably succeed b/c there seems to be an infinite supply of numbskulls for her to 'convert'.

What would her channel even be? Lifetime, but with Oprah?

Tonight on the Man Bad, Woman Good Channel...

Didn't she just do the same thing 8 years ago? Oxygen Network... She got bored pretty fast with that one.

She is like an uber-successful Kurt.

*looks at penis*

yea I couldn't care less.

Covar said:

*looks at penis*

yea I couldn't care less.

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Don't need a penis to "not get Oprah".

Covar said:

*looks at penis*

yea I couldn't care less.

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... Why are you looking at Oprah's penis?

to determine if it's the kind of penis he could care about. the kind he'd want to get to know in a casual, non-threatening atmosphere

I think it was on the Colbert Report a while back, when he said "Oh look! Oprah made the cover of O Magazine again!"

I don't care about that woman. When my grandkids ask me about her in a few decades, I will still be facepalming.

Wouldn't a cable network diminish her viewing audience?

klew said:

Wouldn't a cable network diminish her viewing audience?

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It is possible, but since she DOES have a huge audience, she is hoping she could bring those audience with her (well, more likely they will follow her)

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Wouldn't a cable network diminish her viewing audience?

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It is possible, but since she DOES have a huge audience, she is hoping she could bring those audience with her (well, more likely they will follow her)[/QUOTE]

Whether they do or not, chances are she'll make a killing off advertisers for at least the first few months.

I really hope that it crashes and burns. If not, then like MSNBC and Fox, she will be confined to her own little corner.

Cuyval Dar said:

I really hope that it crashes and burns. If not, then like MSNBC and Fox, she will be confined to her own little corner.

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Assuming it doesn't crash and burn.. I'm not sure how she's not confined to her corner already. Right now, she has 1 hour out of 5 days (5 hours total let's say) of TV time that she has control over in a big network. Soon, she will have 24 hours a day 7 days a week available at her disposal.

Sure, it'll have to be picked up by the major cable outlets, but with the hordes of Oprah fans, I don't see how it won't happen (she's got the 'super pres' on her side yo!). It'd be as if there was a Stephanie Meyer channel in the works, and all the Twilight fans wrote in to demand their cable company pick it up. It just wouldn't not happen.

And now, I've scared myself at the thought of an All Twilight, All the Time type channel.

It won't be successful... there are already too many women's networks out there. It WILL give her an excuse to get into politics when it fails though. Get ready for Senator/Representative/Governor/President Oprah, folks.

They showed Oprah in here for like a year.

It tanked worse than a German Panzer filled with oxygen tanks, aquariums and miniature Shermans sinking into a tanker full of crude oil.

I never watched it, but I'm actually curious... why is Oprah so goddamn popular? I mean, it's just a talk show...?

She appeals to uneducated (mostly) white women, both the ones who like Palin, and the ones who like Obama.

Amorous Vyxen said:

Because she went through a lot of pain and suffering when she was raped by an uncle of hers when she was like 15 and started talking about that on public television for the next 4+ decades.

"mmmhmmm" - "Yes, so true" - "I was just saying that to Gaile the other day" - "Really? I did not know that *turns to audience* did you guys know that? - I did not know that"

I think she used to be real in the beginning, but now she just oozes gallons of faux-interest. She's not interested in her guests' problems or issues (when she still has a real person rather than a celebrity), it all just comes across as fake.

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She started out doing Jerry Springer-esque types of shows and then one day decided she was to high brow for that, so then she just did the same types of shows, but with a "kinder, gentler" feel to them. She's still exploiting freaks and abuse survivors, but just in a way that probably makes her feel less guilty about it.

I do have to say though, all the more power to her. For a black woman to get where she is says a lot about how far we've come on the race and gender equality front.

I think that she does believe that she's helping people, and she gives back 10 times more than most celebrities.

Yeah, but she's like 20 times richer than most celebrities.

I hear she has her private moon base...

So she's a moon person?

That explains so much