Virgie Bell's View: Defining Moment for Oprah

Oprah lied, Virgie Mom. Oprah actually endorsed one other person before her endorsement of Barack Obama. I am adding the picture of that historic endorsement to your fine essay. Here is Oprah Winfrey with Michael Jackson.
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Sometimes it seems wonders will never cease and the Oprah push for Obama is just one of them. We should be thrilled this has turned out the way it has for just one reason. The reason is very good news for the American voter because the reading I would take from this is that the general population has more intelligence than we are given credit for. The celebrity must believe the hype that surrounds her—on-stage proclaiming, “This is the first endorsement I have ever made in my life!” Well, big wow! Do you know that as I set here at my ancient computer, far from cute, far from rich with absolutely no fame whatsoever and if the thought ever crossed my mind as to what Ms., Miss, whatever she calls herself, would endorse for president. It’s like this. She is what she is what she is. An en-ter-tainer, that’s it and nothing more. Rich, rich, rich, and not much else.

I wouldn’t trade my life, so notably dull and ordinary by any standard, for any portion of her life. Rich doesn't cut it for me. It would be nice I’m sure, but at some time one has to accept that ‘naked we came into this world and naked we will leave it.” To be able to rise from a life of poverty yet go out rich is failure for me. Let’s examine Ms. Winfrey's life and do so factually. She was a poor girl, a minority, had a teenaged pregnancy, gave the baby up, or aborted it—I don’t know on that.

Fact two: big problem with weight. It defines her above all things. The women of our country, in fact the men and children in our country face a similar problem. Oprah Winfrey has been like a yo-yo. She has done more to hurt the overweight people than any individual. The yo-yo syndrome is the worst hazard overweight people can have. If you lose five pounds in a couple of weeks and then gain six pounds in a couple of weeks, you gain back your normal weight, plus a bonus of a pound or fraction thereof, this bonus becomes a lifetime gift. On and on and on and so you have problems. So Oprah has taken a national problem that we can alll participate in. The latest most wonderful diet is a personal chef who knows how to cook low calorie. Right there is the break. Oprah knows how to promote Oprah. She is not ashamed to pull a little red wagon full of—fat—in front of a studio audience and report, “This disgusting pile of fat is what I have carried around with me and am now rid of.” As the load of fat increases so does the size of the wagon.

I can tell you, Oprah should not have a book club. The reason being that she can in no way claim to be an expert in reading. She simply does not have time. I should not have a book club and believe me I put in more time reading than anyone I know. But I read what I like to read and it is for whatever interest I have. I am a news junky. I am a political junky, a Dallas Cowboy junky and I love Texas. Does this strike a longing in you to be more like me? Duh? Of course not. Why should it? Simple truth is, it should not. I adore the talent of Tony Romo. I have not seen that since Staubach. But it all boils down to the team that goes along sharing success. Staubach wore the number twelve on his jersey. Romo wears number nine. Staubach’s small son wears the number nine. The greatest moment is just for the moment. The Oprah moment is just that. It is a bad thing career wise to believe all the hype about one’s self when the defining moment of your entire life is a wagon of fat. I used to take the magazine and I remember Oprah being in a full page ad in the same slick copy. She was posing as a cheesecake. Not nude, but as close to sexy as she will ever get, and when I saw this advertisement and my mind flashed to that moment: the Oprah moment...the one with the wagon..... Yep...she is rich.

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