I Heart Oprah
 

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How awesome is that?? I've always wanted to be in the audience the day she has her "Favorites" show. She's given away Ipod's, diamond rings, clothing, and all sorts of stuff. Now cars to an entire audience! Oprah is so awesome.

For all that people complain about her -- it's so cool some of the things that she does... I love that she got a scholarship to someone deserving, and that she took care of a family who helped others... The cars? Yah, that's nice - -but her other do-gooder stuff is so much cooler :)

276 G6's @ ~$25K = $6,900,000

God Damn...Oprah does indeed have all the money.
:crazy:

Well, I highly doubt that Oprah wrote checks for these cars and such. Remember, this will be GREAT "free" advertising for Pontiac :)

I'm not trying to downplay what she does, but a lot of the stuff she gives away, it's given directly from the companies for the advertising that Oprah brings. Remember that book club she had? She mentioned the book, and the sales skyrocket.

I'm sure that Pontiac didn't charge list price if they charged anything at all -- It's nice advertising for them... :)

I dont care how many cars she gives out, she still annoys the hell out of me. She is the biggest attention whore on TV.

Yes, good points about the free advertising...I hear a few people watch that show actually..
;)

I read in another article that all the cars were DONATED by Pontiac. I still applaud her for doing this. She does some very helpful things for people all over the world. I saw a special on her last year about a trip in Africa that she gave all the children in a country, that is overrun with aids, new clothes and toys for school. I can't remember what country. They showed how some of the children walked miles and miles just for this opportunity. She's not my favorite person, but she's pretty darn considerate.

She wants to seem this way on TV. She wants people to think she is mother teresa #2. She could do all of this stuff off camera, but she chooses for America to see "how wonderful she is."

Honestly, so what? Why does it matter what her motives are? She, thru her name, gets the opportunity to do some real good things for people who need it. If it gets her some press, so what, that doesn't negate the good being done.

While I will never forgive her for the show she had on the week of my birthday this year telling me that now that I was 36 I had to change the way I dress...I will admit that she does some neat stuff sometimes

Woah! The people who she gave the money for the house to live in my hometown! Well, home city. Schenectady, NY represent! :D

Good for her. :thumbsup:





/wonders why nobody put his name on the "needs car list" (stoopid family)

;)

Most people who worked on that show (crew-wise) didn't sleep all night before setting it up. That drape that dropped took 12 hours to construct and hang. Luckily for me, I was working at the other studio where the set for next year's show is being built and "tested".

Yes, I work on the Oprah show.

Is she as generous with y'all, Der?

Hey Derwood, I'm sure you can't say all that much, but what is Oprah like to work with/for? Do you have much contact with her?

I can't imagine many "horror" stories relating to her like there were with Rosie O"Donnell. I'm sure Oprah don't take no shit, but I figure she's a pretty easy going individual for the most part.

I don't interact with Oprah one on one, but I'm in the studio for tapings and I see her around all the time. She is pretty much exactly the opposite of what the tabloids make her out to be. She's completely down to earth, very funny, and very laid back. It's amazing, actually, considering how much she does in her life (she claims to sleep only 4 1/2 hours a night)....most of us would be raving lunatics if we had to maintain her kind of schedule.

We're treated very well at the show. I'm just on the lighting/scenery crew, and I make a very good wage doing so. The tradeoff is a ton of hours at work, which means you don't see the wife and kids as often as you'd like.

My secret shame.

I like Oprah. I watch her show at home when I'm taking a break (telecommuter).

I enjoy it immensely. 85% of it is good stuff. 15% just a little too fluffy (specifically the feminist "find your spirit stuff" which goes over my male head).

In Ireland, we call this kind of criticism "begrudery". Bitter people with bitter agendas. What have any of her critics (in this thread) done lately for the less fortunate?

In Australia, they call this kind of criticism "tall poppy syndrome" (as in, "let's cut any tall poppies, that rise above the rest of us, down to size").

I think she rocks.

Mr Mephisto

So, why doesn't she start a charity or somthing insted of giving cars to middle class women who have nothing better to do with their day than go to the taping of a t.v. show?

I guess I'm just a pessimist, and a synic.

You apparently don't read the article:

She does have a charity. It's called "The Angel Network".

There is going to be another give away show here in the next few weeks at an army base.....I don't think I can say more, but it's going to be good...

That's pretty cool :)

I was watching that After the Show thing on Oxygen last night, and she was saying how the staff had no sleep the night before since they were prepping. She seems like a workaholic. She's obviously very driven to have gotten where she is from what her childhood was like.

One thing that does annoy me though... Her need to repeat everything 14 times. It gets to be a bit much. But that's part of what makes Oprah Oprah I guess.

Even if that's the case, the fact remains that she's the one pulling all the strings to make the giveaways possible. I doubt Pontiac came up to her and suggested that they donate 276 cars for her audience in exchange for the advertisement. There's not many people have the power/influence to pull off something like this.

Anyways, its a great move for both Oprah and Pontiac. I'm sure the exposure they get from this, plus the extra advertisement expenses they save, more than makes up for the cost of all the G6s combined.

I completely agree boom :)

I don't really like the show, but I do like that she does try to be active in her charity work instead of just shelling out otherwise inactive money to a foundation and letting all the other people do the work.

Nope. Sure didn't. Still didn't. So, Oprah is Santa Clause. Makes me think of the calls someone gets after they've won the lottery.


I'm still feeling pessemistic and cynical.

You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! Woooooooo!

(I think I got the correct number of times she said it!)

Anyway - it struck me two ways... My first impression was, "wow, that's cool as shit! She's definately awesome for giving her audience cars for her opening episode." My second impression was, "Wow, I bet that was a huge huge draw, ratings-wise... she'd been promising a big surprise for a long time. That attention whore!"

Anyway, I think the second impression was more of my cynical side reaching out... and me thinking about what probably half of the people I know would say about it.

I really do think she does wonderful things with her money and time, and the world needs more people like her. She gets a little too foofy sometimes IMO, but the world is definately a better place because of people like her.

So very well said. :)


Mr Mephisto

I wonder; if Oprah ran for President, could she win? :p

Uh...she does it on camera because she's a talk show host. She stays on the air year after year because she brings in ratings. This was a publicity move, pure and simple, but her heart is in the right place. She does plenty of charitable work off-camera. I see nothing wrong with her doing this on television.

Sorry, I just find absolutely no room for cynicism in this story. Not one iota. She figured out a way to not only get a shitload of publicity for her and for Pontiac, but she made hundreds of people happy while doing it. I think she's fuckin' awesome.

I watched the clip from her show that summarized the whole thing. I was grinning from ear to ear. How could you not?

Clip can be seen here.

she's yet another example of someone living the American dream. She's learned that if you give out lots of bread, yours will come back buttered.

Only if you had a system whereby the American people could elect a president. ;)

Touche' :D

Exactly...well said

today was my day to get my nails done...which also means it was the oprah watching day ha ha

OMFG Barry Manilow was on!!! Go ahead and laugh...everybody does, but I adore that man, he was the 2nd concert I ever went to (when I was 11 and after Shaun Cassidy lol) It was so great how they fixed it so all those girls could meet him...wish it had been me :(

Sumbitch! I missed Barry???





/rockin' at the Copa

I like you so I honestly hope you're not being sarcastic :icare:

Not at all sarcastic. :) I love Barry, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, The Carpenters and a few other "softies" in the musical world.
It's the sentimentalist in me, I guess.

And thank you, ShaniFaye. I like you, as well. :thumbsup:





/September night, listenin' to 'September Morn'

oh good!! I like all the ones you listed too!!

/im on the top of the world, looking down on creation.....

Barry was awesome when he played @ VH1 studios for Valentine's day. I called all the girls I knew in my phone book to let them have a listen from the studio monitor... a nice perk.

back to Oprah.. she's awesome and inspiring to many.

Can I send you my phone number in case it ever happens again? hehehehe

I just saw on the news in Chicago, that those people who won the cars, have to pay close to a whopping 7,000 dollars in taxes on those cars... Wonder if they're still happy they won?

Yeah, I just read that as well - here. It's a tough situation. How much is Oprah expected to do?

I imagine that when the winners signed the legal forms, it was made clear to them that, in accepting the car, they would have to pay local taxes. I also imagine that if you didn't want to pay those taxes, you could have refused to take the car.

It comes down to: would you pay $7,000 within the year for a $28,000 new car? If the answer is yes, then....

I can see Oprah's residence from the balcony of my apartment. The lights are never on. Either she's never at her Chicago residence or she runs around in the dark, which can be dangerous for her toes. Either way, my boss keeps telling me I must make too much money if I can afford to live 4 blocks from her.

I tell my boss I'll be making enough when I can live in the same building as her.

I'm not a huge fan of hers (I don't get a lot of that girlie stuff as Mr. Mephisto puts it) but I think she does good. Hell, she doesn't have to do jack if she doesn't want to. She could go around saying, "I'm Oprah, Bitch!" and she'd still be stupid rich.

I wonder if she ever looks in the mirror and says, "Holy Shit! I'm Oprah!"

Looks like there is a bit of a downside to this story after all kids. There truely is no free lunch in this world.

Link to whole article: http://www.clickondetroit.com/entert...75/detail.html

I know it's not a big deal, but still kinda kills the buzz.

edit: Didn't realize this was a 2 page thread :(

yeah thats' the same kind of thought of "OMG I won 2 Million!!!" and some friend saying,"Yeah and think of the taxes you have to pay on it..."

We taped the most boring show in the history of the Oprah show today. It was Amy Fisher, who has a new book out about her and Joey Buttofuco. Lame!

The second show was celbri-riffic though. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Christina Aguiliera and P. Diddy all on getting people to vote.

I've read a few of the books on her booklist, good stuff, really.

Derwood, i'm glad to hear she seems as nice offscreen as she does onscreen, because she just has a teddy-bear quality to her, it would be a shame if it were fake.


...I'm such sissy, hehe.

Yeah she's pretty nice. Not a diva at all (unlike many of the women she has on as guests.....Christina Aguilera was constantly followed around by an entourage of about 8 people)