AMERICA'S favourite television presenter is paying a painful price for her
intervention in the US presidential campaign last month. Oprah Winfrey has
been dubbed a "traitor" by some of her female fans for supporting Barack
Obama instead of Hillary Clinton.

Winfrey's website, Oprah.com, has been flooded with a barrage of abuse

the queen of daytime chat shows joined Obama on a tour of Iowa, New
Hampshire and South Carolina in mid-December.

Her intervention was widely credited with broadening Obama's national
appeal - especially among women - and with helping him to an upset victory
over Clinton in the first vote of the election year in Iowa.

Yet a backlash by Clinton supporters appears to have prompted a rethink by
Winfrey, the African-American media titan who is routinely described as

most influential woman on television.

She did not reappear in the final days before the New Hampshire primary -
which Obama lost to Clinton - and has been absent from the most recent
campaigning in South Carolina, which votes next weekend.

Obama aides believe that Winfrey will return to the campaign. Her own

noted last week that in addition to her daily broadcasts on television and
satellite radio, she has also been busy negotiating a multi-million-dollar
deal with the Discovery cable network to create her own television

the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Yet Obama's rivals suspect that Winfrey has been startled by the virulent
reaction to her previous campaign appearance.

It started with a message on her website entitled "Oprah is a traitor" and
rapidly expanded to include several discussions that attracted hundreds of
comments.

In the original post, a reader called austaz68 said she "cannot believe

women all over this country are not up in arms over Oprah's backing of
Obama. For the first time in history we actually have a shot at putting a
woman in the White House and Oprah backs the black MAN. She's choosing her
race over her gender."
In a subsequent comment, 2nurselady wrote: "I don't think Oprah is a
'traitor', but I do think she may be alienating a lot of her fans."

Others have accused Winfrey of racism for siding with Obama when such a

qualified woman as Clinton was running.

Winfrey has built her career on empathising with women's issues and

a daily diet of redemption and hope. Her show typically focuses on women

have suffered but survived.

So hostile has the response been that some suspect dirty tricks. "All the
rude and hateful messages on here can't be from Oprah fans," another

noted. "Someone's campaign (wonder who?) is sabotaging the message

Winfrey received a rapturous reception when she campaigned with Obama last
month. Yet several analysts warned that she might adversely affect his
chances.
Steve Ross, a history professor at the University of Southern California,
said: "The moment a star opens their mouth and endorses one candidate,

alienate half their viewership."


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You gotta know that hitlery and bill are fuming mad at the way this
primary campaign is panning out.

Clintonisk? You're even dumber than I thought.

Evidently, you haven't the ability to process the article to any
measurable degree

Hey. If Obama can't stand the heat............

So you agree with clinton's typical campaigning modus operandi in that

all fair including lying, smearing and generally employing the politics of
character assassination when it comes to winning the party nomination. I'm
not surprised since you too both deleted the article which you could not
refute and you also avoided any in depth commentary with regard to it's
content which leads me to believe your sound-bite remarks also translate
into sound-bite cognitive skills!

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Nope. No matter what the Clintons or anyone else does, at least 90% of the
black people who vote will vote straight ticket Democrat. Hillary's only
concern regarding black voters is making sure they vote in the general election.

rw

I'm delighted you have this assuming attitude. I an only hope the main dem party leaders too will-continue taking for granted
blocking blocks while dissing them behind their backs.

I'm delighted you have this assuming attitude. I an only hope the main dem
party leaders too will-continue taking for granted blocking blocks while
dissing them behind their backs.

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You gotta know that hitlery and bill are fuming mad at the way
this
primary campaign is panning out. They obviously assumed that
Obama
would
be, at best, a reminder that the democratic's party adherence to
diversity although it was to be accepted that she is the anointed
candidate. Well, it appears that the Clinton's are being forced
to
employ
their war-room tactics including opposition research (smearing of
the
nuts and/or sluts) MO.

I doubt the Clinton's are too put out. Hillary is on track for an
easy
victory. Obama is getting the black vote, but white women are
coming
out for Hillary in force. The only fly in the ointment is that
Hillary
will need
the black vote in the general election. She will have to find a
way
to
crush
Obama gently enough so the black voters don't stay home on
election
day.

rw

I predict that no matter how nasty or nicely, should hitlery win, a
Clinton
win will disenfranchise a significant block of the African American
voting
block from the democrat party permanently. That will be so because
many
will
be disillusioned to the point that they really scrutinize what the
Republicans have been saying with regards to that republicans and
party
values are really their values hen it comes to main stream issues.
They
will
also realize that democrats have taken them for granted while
fooling
them
like another useful tool in the democrat dirty trick tool-box, plus
they
realize that just because their party leaders call republicans
racist,
those
claims are just another of the demagogue dems disingenuous dirty
trick
tools
used to get their unappreciated vote.

Not in your lifetime, fuckwit. Romney, Huckabee, McCain HAHAHAHA Pugs
got nothing to offer.

Well they have nothing to offer a liberal fascist such as where the
left
wing of your party is going!

STILL having trouble with the definition and meaning of "fascist", eh,
Einstein?

Not at all.
Ah, so you just are a parrot that spews slogans and rhetoric

eventhough you apparently ,know you misspeak.

That, then, makes you a liar.