Oprah Winfrey to end her talk show in 2011

dr.bollocko

Yeah but it's not all good news.
Apparently this is going to result in her having her own TV channel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8369689.stm

From there I presume it's world domination time.

amacachi

Oh no(!)

Wait, I just read the whole post. Oh no!

Mossy Monk

Chances of her tv channel coming here are pretty slim so good news for all.

Aidric

I caught one of her shows recently. She appears to be reaching the weight of a young sperm whale.

keefg

Oprah for President You heard it hear first folks.

dr.bollocko

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Chances of her tv channel coming here are pretty slim so good news for all.

I dunno about that. The Oprah Love has come across oceans. If she is allowed to start that TV channel we'll never get rid of her.
Mark my ominous words.

Laois_Man

Anyone watch her interview with Michael Jackson's kids and parents on TV3 last night?

MJ would turn in his grave to have ANYONE interviewing his kids- but especially THAT wagon! He HATED her!

ang

I am so angry about that interview, I refused to watch it!

I blame Joe Jackson, Katherine would not have done it or allowed Michael's children to be interviewed, Joe obviously arranged the whole thing.

Oprah believed Michael was guilty, she would be the last person Michael would want to interview his kids. He wouldn't even want them interviewed.

His family should respect the fact that he wanted them kept out of the limelight.

Laois_Man

ang wrote: »

I am so angry about that interview, I refused to watch it!

I blame Joe Jackson, Katherine would not have done it or allowed Michael's children to be interviewed, Joe obviously arranged the whole thing.

Oprah believed Michael was guilty, she would be the last person Michael would want to interview his kids. He wouldn't even want them interviewed.

His family should respect the fact that he wanted them kept out of the limelight.

Oprah not only thought he was guilty, but she mocked him and turned the knife every chance she got - From doing a special on peadophilia on the day the jury went out to consider the MJ verdict in '05, to doing another on the day before her Lisa Marie Presley interview was shown, and another only a couple of weeks later on the day before this interview with his family was shown.....right down to the joke of a "tribute" statement she made upon his death ("We'll never know") - Alot of which I think had to do with nothing but sour grapes over MJ refusing to do another interview with her ever again after her intrusive line of questioning in the early '90's when he did give her that interview....the interview that first made the bitch as big as she is ("Are you a virgin Michael?").

In fairness to Katherine and doing the interview, I'm not sure she has any money - and the nework probably paid them a fortune for this! On the other hand, I'm sure someone other than The Oprah Show would have payed a lot too!

But Oprah's popularity is just another in a long list of examples as to how gullible Americans are!

P.S. I watched the interview.....and after years of holding up Joe Jackson as this horric figure for the way he raised his children.....in this interview, just because he was standing in front of her, she excused him saying it's OK because that's the way every black man in America raised his kids in the 50's and 60's. What an absolute hypocritical, fake, bitch!!

ang

Oh I know she did, trust me. To broadcast that special on peadophilia on the day the jury went out to consider the MJ verdict in '05 was unforgivable.

Janet was interviewed by her in April 2010, she was promoting Why did I get married too. I wish she had gone on a different show. She knew how Oprah felt about her brother.

My heart goes out to Katherine, she is heartbroken. Joe is a cruel, heartless man. The man will do anything to make money, even if it means putting his grandchildren, who Michael fiercely protected, on national tv.

Laois_Man

A quick Google on Oprah Winfrey and her attitude to Michael Jackson reveals this from http://www.mj-777.com/?p=5915 .

Here we go . .

The day after “Living With Michael Jackson” aired, Oprahs original plan was to discuss something else, but she couldnt resist talking about Michael. She started the show by saying something like “This show is not going to be about Michael Jackson but OMG, did you all see the documentary yesterday?” Of course, then she and her audience talked about Michael the entire show. She turned straight to the camera and directed a personal message to MJ and said “Michael, if you were my brother I would say to you that it's not appropriate to have kids sleep in your bed. She then invited guests on her show to get them to malign Michael and laugh heartily at their disrespect during the trial. She asked several people about their opinions about the trial and MJ, when Michael was not even the topic of the show.

1) As Randy Jackson has stated, during jury deliberations, she had a show about pedophilia. This is kinda interesting because the old woman, the one juror who said she was huge Oprah fan was the one who slowed down the “jury deliberation process”.

2) She had a show about unrelated men who share intimate relationships with one another (a deep closeness, no sex) yet continued to insist they were heterosexual. Something like that anyway. One of the men said that he often shared a bed with his friends (again, no sex) and Winfrey laughed and said “You’re sounding like Michael Jackson.”

3) When she had Jay Leno on her show, she asked him “What kind of jokes do you tell on your show.” He said, “of course, Michael Jackson jokes”. She went on to ask about his trial experience. When he talked about “wanting to crack a few jokes” during his testimony, she ended the conversation.

4) Larry King once asked her if she felt sorry for Jackson. She smiled slightly before saying no.

5) She had Chris Rock on her show for his movie “I think I love my wife” where she pointed out and played a particular scene where the main characters (all Black) discuss (and insult) Jackson, his father, and his case. After that, she asked her audience if “White people do this?”.

Later she kinda cheered on Chris Rock and let him crack some jokes about Michael and wanted more and more but Chris Rock eventuelly stopped and said something like “This trial is bigger than we think, there are so much more behind it”.

5) During her interview with Lisa Marie Presley, she pondered if Jackson used Presley and joined her in her belief that Jackson took advantage of her tendency to feel sorry for the misunderstood. Winfrey claimed she was the same way and that Jackson “sucks you in” with his “I’m so misunderstood” thing.

6) On an episode about Body Dysmorphic Disorder (an emotional disorder that makes “normal” looking people feel they are grotesquely ugly) Winfrey stated –after quickly pointing out that she interviewed Jackson before his “sexual abuse problems”—that before the interview, Jackson was insistent upon controlling the editing. Of course, Winfrey was also insistent upon controlling the editing and wasn’t going to give way to Jackson. While going through childhood photos, she said Jackson kept hiding his face and saying “Oh, oh I’m so ugly.” Winfrey says she didn’t know if he was serious about that or if it was a tactic to try and get her to relinquish control of the editing. She showed a picture of Jackson at fourteen stating that she thought he looked “fine this way” then went on to compare a professionally taken picture of fourteen year old Jackson to a news photo of Jackson during the trial (amid “eews” from her audience) she proceeded to say that she thought he must have BDD.

About the Body Dysmorphic Disorder episode, she had another show about a woman who had been diagnosed with this very disorder. She was obsessed with cosmetic surgery and must have had over a dozen procedures done to her entire body. In her video segment, she said she liked Jackson's small nose and various other body parts of other celebrities. Then she went on to talk about everything she had tucked and raised and cinched and so on to achieve these looks she so admired. Not to mention the regular visits for botox injections. After her video segment, Winfrey zeroed right in on her admiration of Jackson's nose. You like Michael Jackson's nose? Winfrey asked incredulous. She didn't mention anyone else.

7) Another episode of her show dealt with show business parents. One father said he admired the Jacksons and wished for his entertainer children to be just like them. Oprah looked very applled and kinda turned to her her sidekick therapist “Dr. Robin” to talk sense to this man. Dr Robin then told how wrong he was because one of the Jacksons is obviously “struggling” and he shouldn’t want his children to end up like them.

8) She had a slumber party with a bunch of little girls at her house once and promoted it all over her show as though it were the best thing in the world. This was after she had said “she would never put herself in a vulnerable situation like Michael Jackson had done with kids”. So, it is okay for Oprah to be in a room with little girls in their bed and playing and talking, but not for Michael?

9) She also chastised Jackson in a way when Jon Stewart was on her show talking about him on top of the SUV. Stewart called him an idiot while she said that she heard not confirmed that Jackson compared himself to Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and that she thought that was wrong. She didn't state where she heard that yet we all know she was talking about the Jesse Jackson interview that she made obvious that she didn't bother to listen to otherwise she would have known that wasn't what Jackson was doing.

I want to add a big item here, we'll call it #10. Back in September 2009 Oprah re-aired her 1993 interview with Michael (all for ratings of course). Oprah, during this re-airing of the 1993 interview, mentioned at least three times that this was before the allegations!, as if to remind her viewers that she'd never have interviewed him after such allegations (nevermind if they were actually true or not; she is content to let her viewers believe they are, facts and evidence be damned)is content to let her viewers believe they are, facts and evidence be damned).