Thursday, October 19, 2006

A Touch of Power, a Dash of Insanity



Oprah Winfrey
, known to millions as the woman whose net worth is a billion dollars. She has the Midas touch.

Growing up, all I knew about her is she has massive army of women who was willing to do her bidding. If she says buy product X, women dash out to their car leaving only tire skid marks and a billowing cloud of smoke like in the cartoons in search for X.

Oprah build an empire from her national television talk despite growing up dirt poor. Who knew this woman, who came from humble beginnings would grow to being one of the most powerful woman today. She has the power to control millions of people through the power of her talk show.

This woman can build you up, or tear you down. In one instance, the writer of “A Million Little Pieces” was granted instant stardom by Oprah having him on her show. Oprah found out the man lied in his memoirs so she tore him a new one, practically ripped him to shreds on national TV. If you want to talk about power, you talk about Oprah. Even “South Park” did a parody on this incident.

There were even rumors circulating that Hilary asked her to be her Vice President but she laughed and said that she would rather be President. Why do I get this eerie feeling that that is possible? This woman, I’m afraid, may have millions wrapped around her fingers and there’s nothing we can do about it.

I fear that one day she’ll convince Americans that she should be queen and it’ll be a good change for us. After all, we are sheep ready to be herded to our slaughter.

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