Say what you want about Oprah...
 

My mother is an Oprah devotee and I was helping her in the kitchen and happened to catch today's show which was the first show of her new season.

She announced that she is personally donating 10 million dollars to help the Katrina victims. She will be building homes, buying food and clothing, etc. She also set up a registry on her website where people can donate by buying items for the homes. If one can only afford to buy a toaster, then that's what they buy. She's got everything to furinsh a house available for purchase and there are even homes if someone can afford to donate the money for that.

I think that's a pretty cool idea and a damn nice donation of money on her part.

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The woman has money and common sense ... and compassion!If our goverment had just two of those, it would be nirvana.

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say what you want about Oprah?


SWEET!!!!

She's a fat black bitch!

Thks :)

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good publicity. she makes 10x daily the amount to pay the taxes on the cars she gave away to her audience. did she? course not, that was an advertisement, not a gesture. she doesn't give a fuck, and why should she.

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Not everyone is a selfish greedy fuck.

Many, maybe even most, but way far from all.

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and it works , doesn't it...

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Uhhh ... Grogan.

You are criticizng her because she only gave away cars, and didn't include the sales tax?

Hmmm ... a suburban opinion of an uppity black bitch, methinks.

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"suburban" / "car"...very nice...:)

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lol, she didn't give away shit. she participated in an advertisement.

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So the fuck what? She's a pretty sharp businesswoman.

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a given

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certainly is! I'm just saying she is fake and completely self-serving. A great example in business.

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he makes me so proud............ :)

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It literally just came on here..

OMFG!!! dfid she make a play of it or what!!!!

"Here's what I'm PERSONALLY" (pointing with both fingers towards herself) going to do"

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She didn't give away the cars, Pontiac did - she merely gave them a stage to do it on ;)

She is an excellent businesswoman.

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She'd be brilliant in charge of a webmaster auction...












( oh shit!!! LOL..should have made that remark as "unregistered")

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how many times are you going to repeat what I already said today?

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Yes, but even fewer people pay attention to what you say than pay attention to what I say. If we both say it, maybe 1/2 the people might read it :)

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Of course it's great publicity, but the bottom line is she's helping people who need it so who cares if it's self serving as well.

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doubt it. brand0ns more likely to get rich off weed.com

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You're quite welcome Nick.

Anytime. :)

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The 10 MILLION, seemed to get forgotten about rather quick, any of you passed 10mil in that direction?

Thought not!

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Percentage of networth some of us may have given more...

and have done so quietly.

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You were in no way in question ;)

I was talking about the rabble :)

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It doesn't matter to me whether she's self-promoting with this or not. The simple fact that she made the gesture may induce others to do so.

And Nick ... the reference to suburban was more at Grogan. He is so fucking suburban as to make me look almost Canadian.

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She is going to make me lots of money in the near future.

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You got a home made porn video of her?

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LOL! Psychic Steve says your house is worth under 2 mill, and sprawls over 2 acres. :yowsa:

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HaHaHa, well, no but in about a week you'll see why she will make me rich. Announcement hopefully next week anyways. Stay tuned!

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You are really a dude called "Steadman" and you are gonna auction off a night of anything goes sex with Oprah on Ebay?


;-))

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Fuck, my town is worth less than 2 mill ... and we've only got half an acre. I survey it ever' evenin' from the couch on my front porch.

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I didn't know you lived in New Orleans.















;-)))))
( I hate myself for that joke)

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HAahhahahahaha!!

Stepped right into that one she did!! LOL

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hahaha! nothing inappropriate as far as i'm concerned!

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Understatement of the year!! :lol:

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haha Patience my friend. Although, thats not a bad idea. Ill keep you informed about that as well.

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Nah, I'm 'bout 900 miles up that big crick that runs down there.

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I grew up watching Oprah when she was still just a small-town reporter sporting the world's worst afro. Watched her take the co-anchor position, which she earned.
Watched her move up through the world and her career blossom into her own show, magazine, etc... all of which, she earned.

She is not fake, ingenuine, discompassionate, etc. She is as genuine as it comes, compassionate to a fault, and *still* a brilliant businesswoman. Just happens to be one with a big heart and the money to back it up.

Her first 5 million was donated before the levees even broke and the shit hit the fan. While Celine Dion sat in her air-conditioned suite and did a telecast interview with Larry King about her 1 million, Oprah was interviewing survivors and trying to get real footage of the situation inside the Domes on the air so people could know the truth instead of the spoon-fed bullshit they were getting from Brown.

Push you weren't even alive when she was slugging it out and earning her way up in the world sitting across from a fucking geek who tried to have a big gray afro as big as hers because he thought it looked cool (he was white), and when women weren't considered worthy to be anchors, much less BLACK women. Don't assume that you know anything about her motives or her character.

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ahh jesus carrie....stfu...

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Carrie,
not a burn.

A serious question.

Do you awctually work as a webmistress?
An adult webmistress?
Do you have any sites?

Or do you post on boards to kill time.

Seriously , not a piss , you are welcome either way , I was just genuinely interested.

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You and the tinman have so much in common.

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ohh please give me a fucking break. you know the tax break she gets for being top 1% income plus donating that amount of money she probably pays twice as much in taxes.

FYI she has an appartment or had in fisher island in Miami which has water pipes in bathroom kitchen gold plated.

the bitch has cash let her spend it :)

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She was good in the colour purple..

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I have nothing negative to say about Oprah.
Except maybe that she refuses to be a guest on Letterman.

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It does not really matter to me as long as others benefit. I could care less what her motives are.

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free willy!!!!!!!!



just don´t make her a hero for it.

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I know about being poor. Pawn your wedding ring to feed your kids kind of poor. (Yes, I actually did that.) I ran the food drive at the middle school one year, then left the boxes in the car of the "delivery parents." I saw them all an hour later. They'd put my family's name on the list. I cried in the kitchen, torn between total humiliation and gratitude. Those were bad years.

I mention all that in order to express an opinion with a little credibility. I don't "think I know how I'd feel," I DO know how I'd feel.

I wouldn't give a flying fuck what the rich bitch is getting out of giving food to my family. All I'd care about is whether or not my kids ate. Hell, point a camera at me and I'll do white trash gratitude and whore like crazy to make this rich woman look good.

Less taxes for her? Fine.
Big "ups" in the publicity department for her? Fine.
Whatever else she gets out of it? Don't give a shit.

My kids got fed. All I'd care about.

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Though not having gone through the same experiences, I couldn't have said that better Morgan. http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/ok.gif

Hungry people do not give a shit who gives them food, could be Ghandi, could be Ghengis Khan; they care that they and those they love got the damned food!

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Thank you, Dravyk. :)

Being that kind of poor gives you a perspective that truly helps later in life. It was also, oddly, a great way to raise kids. My kids valued everything they got and were never greedy like a lot of their peers. They also became absolute sharks when shopping at thrift stores, swap meets, yard sales and the like. :)

My daughter phoned me once about "the greatest pair of shoes she'd ever had in her entire life." She was truly triumphant over both acquiring them...and especially what she'd paid. 25 cents at a neighbor's yard sale.

Whatever else I do in my life, I can always say "I raised kids that can fucking *cope*!!" I like that. :)

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If she's smart, she has stakes in the toaster company, building companies, interior decorating shit, etc...

She'll end up making money on it...