Is Oprah Bad for African-Americans and Bad for America?
August 30, 2009 by Stephenson Billings
Filed under Faith Links, Featured, Moral Alerts, Movie and TV Review, Values & Lifestyle
Oprah. That one word conjures up: Power, Superstardom, Wealth, Wisdom, Elegance and… Terror! Her position as the most powerful woman in the world is undeniable: 40 million weekly watchers, iron-fisted control of television, internet, radio and print outlets and a personal fortune in the billions.
But now Oprah has abandoned the jolly image of a woman who hands out free cars to become a self-made spiritual genius. Daily on her show, she claims to hold the secrets to happiness, health and salvation. Experts say her actions border on the irrational and unethical. And most frightening of all, she is embracing the lowest charlatans and false prophets America has seen since the 19th century. These are women and men who offload the worst kinds of bunk medicine and fake religion at every turn, trashing sound advice to profit from their potions, books, lectures and DVDs. It’s putting the safety and soul of America, and specifically African-Americans, at grave risk.
Well, now it’s time to ask ourselves as a nation, Why should we support this menace that is Oprah any longer?
BAD MEDICINE
Oprah has abused her legendary influence to help peddle alternative treatments that are ineffective, expensive and dangerous. [...] Investigators have dissected the credentials of Winfrey’s favourite talking heads, opinionated imposters who simply “gush nonsense.” The guests have offered questionable endorsements of ineffective new plastic surgery techniques, unproven hormone therapies and dangerous cancer “cures.” — Guy Adams, The Independent, 06/07/09
Oh Oprah! You can’t even keep your weight down and you’re a billionaire, what makes you think you know anything about health? Is sitting on a couch all day jabbering with your friends really setting the best example for America’s women? At least Martha Stewart cooks and cleans on her show. But no, instead of exercise and a healthy diet, Oprah has opted for the quick fixes of a bunch of holistic unlicensed “healers.” This has been explored deeply in the amazing article, “Why Oprah’s Health Advice Will Make You Sick” by the reputable magazine, Newsweek. Here’s a peek:
- Suzanne Somers, Former “Three’s Company” Star: Has been on the show extensively to talk about her regimen that includes taking 60 vitamin pills a day, using “a syringe to inject estrogen directly into her vagina.” Plus, “If she’s exposed to cigarette smoke, she has her blood chemically cleaned with chelation therapy.” Oprah has started the treatments herself!
- Jenna McCarthy, Pornstar: This lusty lass is a very loud opponent of child vaccinations. Let’s bring back measles and polio, Jenna!
- Dr. Christy Northrup: “A lifetime of swallowing words one is aching to say,” is the cause of thyroid disease in women, so says this bright light. Then why does Oprah have a thyroid problem, Doc? She’s one of the biggest talkers on the planet!
- Phil McGraw, aka “Dr Phil”: This spouse-cheating cowboy-wannabe with the good looks and intelligence of a dead bullfrog was already neck-deep in controversy when his first wife revealed that he used to lock her in the basement and tell her to lift weights to improve her bustline! Sounds like you’ve had a lot of experience telling women what to do, Dr. P!
- Suze Orman: If the phrase, “the banality of evil” wasn’t already taken, it would apply perfectly to this freakishly googly-eyed, self-proclaimed financial “guru” whose stew of inept and dull advice can be boiled down to cabbages like, “Use self-service gas pumps rather than full-serve.” Why is this lizard on PBS?
FALSE PROPHET, REAL PROFITS
“Oprah’s new age teachings are sucking in millions of people to false philosophies, and they’re literally leading people to Satan. Oprah, whether she knows it or not, is really being a conduit to lead people to Hell.” — Christian Leader Bill Keller on The Cavuto Report
Lately the unmarried and childless Ms. Winfrey has been stirring the pot against her Baptist upbringing with quotes like, “I don’t believe that Jesus came to start Christianity,” and “There couldn’t possibly be one way to Jesus.” These outrages are an indefensible denial of Christianity and are completely, utterly against everything Jesus teaches. (See the nasty catbrawl video here!)
But it gets far worse! To fill that emptiness in her soul, the big O has gathered a carnival of New Age crystal-loving astrologers on her set to sell their hollow promises. Who’s buying? Oprah, for one, who submits to every new fad, pulling a huge share of her fan base down with her. Here are just a few of the regular guests that Oprah follows and expects her audience to do the same:
- Helen Schucman: Authored the bestseller, “A Course in Miracles,” which she states was dictated to her by none other than Jesus Christ in His spare time! Did they stop for bathroom breaks?
- Eckhart Tolle: A dangerously ridiculous little man who declares, “Thinking has become a disease” and shows that he has nothing to worry about himself with his New Age hodge podge of clichés. Oprah shills his 10-month course from Larry King to the web. It contains such worthless gems as:
The pain-body consists of trapped life-energy that has split off from your total energy field and has temporarily become autonomous through the unnatural process of mind identification. – Eckhart Tolle
- Rhonda Byrne, author of “The Secret”: Believes she discovered an old book that showed her that by thinking very, very hard she could get whatever she wanted in life! From curing breast cancer to a date with Brad Pitt or a new Honda Civic, all you have to do is sit down and concentrate. A real lot!
- LeVar Burton, aka Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: This German-born poker player promotes “peace science” and is secretly funded by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which believes in special healing powers and psychic abilities.
- Marianne Williamson: Who tells people, “You’ve committed no sins, just mistakes” so don’t worry about the embezzling or raping. Also pushing for a “Department of Peace,” to “treat gang psychology,” and create a “Peace Day” holiday that would replace Veteran\’s Day. (Oprah ravenously bought 1,000 copies of her book all for herself!)
- Barbara DeAngelis: Penned the hedonistic rant, “How to Make Love All the Time” Coined absurd self-help terms like “rescue-holic” and who humbly calls herself, “one of the most influential teachers of our time.”
- Ted Haggard: The homosexual, prostitute-loving, lying evangelist and crystal-meth addict had his spiritual love-in moment with the big O. He fit right in up on that stage!
- Betty Eadie: Another deranged astrologer who had some kind of female hemorrhage, during which she died for a moment and met Jesus at the end of a bright tunnel, where uploaded to her brain the answers to life’s important questions, for sale now on Amazon!
You have to wonder if this harem of on-high hoodlums are simply evil con artists or actually mentally-damaged enough to believe their outrageous and downright silly claims. But we shouldn’t laugh too hard at their absurdity for they prey on the most fragile of Americans– the weak, the elderly, the spiritually lost souls who will grasp at anything as long as it costs less than $30 and promises complete redemption.
RACIST OPRAH?
In the aftermath of the recent Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Affair, when the grisly underside of American racism was revealed, Oprah still pushes her own view of racial priorities and segregation. She denied entry to her show to both Governor Sarah Palin and Bill Clinton’s wife Hillary, causing an uproar which she refused to answer.
Oprah also founded a “blacks only” school for girls in South Africa a few years back. When asked about her anti-white admission policy, she proclaimed, “Oh,…..I don’t care about no white girls.” If this school were in America, it would be clearly illegal (and we’d expect better grammar).
Another shocking event happened when Oprah was interviewed about future job prospects on XM radio in September 2006 by Gayle King. Here’s a snippet of the offensive transcript (or listen here):
Gayle King: You could work for some good White folks.
Oprah: They give you clothes and you get food to take home. And they give you good clothes, too, not all worn out. That’s what my grandmother used to say to me. And I now say that I wish she had lived to see that I did grow up to get some good White folks–[yelling:] WORKING FOR ME!
Gayle [also yelling]: WORKING FOR YOU!
Oprah [still yelling]: WORKING FOR ME!
Gayle: Hehehehe! [laughs at "White folks"]
What does it say about the African-American community to have its second most powerful representative say such things? And what does it say when that same woman then wanders off into the woods of religious relativism with a mostly white gang of frauds? And then to foist this pyramid scheme on her own community, putting their health and their souls at risk? Has Oprah’s ego become so big that she is blind to the very real consequences here? Yes, yes, yes and yes!
Conclusion
Oprah started off benignly enough as a gabby talk show host covering relationship issues and new products for the home, but somewhere along the line veered off into more frightening territory, recasting herself as a celebrity kingmaker, moral authority, political activist and ultimately as a spiritualist leader. But because she does so many public good deeds, ordinary people give her a free pass on the more dangerous aspects of her personality. The educated and powerful on the other hand are too afraid to speak out. From the pundits at Fox News and black leaders like Al Sharpton, to the recently washed ashore Cuban mambo player, everyone fears Oprah’s wrath. Even the most ego-centric of Americans: Presidents and Hollywood A-listers will prostrate themselves just to spend a half hour with her on a Wednesday afternoon. Can we continue to let this kind of power go unchecked? She asks her followers, and ultimately all of America, for a dangerous mix of physical, financial and religious devotions. She will both bankrupt, sicken and damn us if we don’t wake up! America, please stop tuning in to Oprah’s crime spree of reckless insanity! Now (S) People!
The pause symbol (S) after certain passages is a suggestion that you may want to stop reading for a moment, become still, and feel and experience the truth of what has just been said. — Eckhart Tolle, Preface to The Power of Now
This post was submitted by Stephenson Billings.
Oprah is a biased womean who needs to be taken off the air. I remember when she tried to make everyone think that beef was bad and our American cattle farmers. I’m not sure how much more anti-America you can get than making people riot against the God-loving people who feed their fellow countrymen every single day.
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that’s true, she nearly bankrupted the American cattle industry because she decided she didn’t like hamburgers. they sued her for libel but lost. but many jobs and profits were lost because of her loose words. cattle farming is one of the backbones of this country and oprah has no business involving herself in there affairs.
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Because hormones in beef is delicious! I love cancer and global warming! God would be proud!
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080910/FRONTIERS/327619736/1036
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/hormoncancer.cfm
You do know that the grain that goes to feeding your precious, fat filled beef could be used to help cure hunger in poorer countries?
FAIL MORE PLEASE!
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“Lately the unmarried and childless Ms. Winfrey has been stirring the pot against her Baptist upbringing”
Exactly what does that have to do with what you’re talking about?
“You have to wonder if this harem of on-high hoodlums are simply evil con artists or actually mentally-damaged enough to believe their outrageous and downright silly claims.”
Yes, I agree that many of the “products” people are selling on her show are bogus, but are they any more bogus than believing that an invisible man in the sky created the world in seven days? I think not.
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But why isnt she married she’s been living with that man for ever and now they say she’s broken up but how can they be broken up when there married? i dont even know if they live together. its so weird shes on tv all day and noboy knows her love life? she just keeps all these secrets andon the other hand they talk about her faith and tries to be honest with it? it just seems like she picks and choses her battles and what she wants people to buy. i think its important claire!!!! she sells so so much! what do christians sell? they dont have little products all over the internet and amazon and bookstores with the oprah sticker. i think there is a big diffrence claire!!!!
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What the hell did you just say? They’re living together. But you don’t even know if they’re living together. She’s secretive but honest. Christians also apparently don’t sell anything. What, you mean, if we ignore all the Christian help books, the sermon tapes (admittedly some are only postage+packing but usually said P+P is rather higher than the actual cost of P+P could ever be anyway), and many other things? Sure.
She’s on TV, but “noboy” knows her love life. I assume you mean “nobody” and not some dude called Nobby or just some random “boy.” Uh. And? Why would anyone want to?
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Oh don’t be silly dragon breath. What I was saying is that Oprah lkeeps her personal life so secret. Is Steadman living in her house? They’re not even married! And now they broke up, or so people are sayin, does that mean he moved out of the house? But how can they really be broken up if they’re weren’t married and if he wasn;t living in the same house it doesn’t make any sense.
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“What I was saying is that Oprah lkeeps her personal life so secret.”
Hence the word “personal”…
“But how can they really be broken up if they’re weren’t married and if he wasn;t living in the same house it doesn’t make any sense.”
No, YOU don’t make any sense. It’s very possible to not be married but still be considered a “couple”, therefore it’s very possible to not be married and be broken up.
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“its so weird shes on tv all day and noboy knows her love life?”
Why is her love life anybody’s business, and why do YOU seem so obsessed with it, Janice?
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Claire, its OPRAH! She talks about herself all the time but she doesn’t talk about Steadman. When people ask if she lesbian she does not answer! I just think its not fair to show off her life and big plantion estate and then pretend to hide and not tell anyone where the man is living. Its ridiculous and people do not treat Barack Obama the same way.
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“She talks about herself all the time but she doesn’t talk about Steadman.”
Who is this “Steadman”, and why are you so obsessed with him?
Her love life is none of our business.
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I do think it’s telling that Oprah is not married and has no children. Sometimes adults who grow old without those other people in their lives lose their footing. They are not grounded in practical ways and project their paternal instincts on a pet dog they groom and dress up, a house they too strenuously clean or outside fantasies such as New Age healers and psychics. I think it’s sad but clearly evident that Oprah has fallen prey to this temptation and wish she had a whole flock of children to look after instead.
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I heard that Oprah and that Gail lady are nasty lesbians with one another.
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Stephenson Billings is an Investigative Journalist, Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer and Antique Soda Bottle Collector all in one special, blessed package! wow well i think you need to reconsider “investigative journalist” in that blurb. Because the definition of “investigate” states : to observe or study by close examination and systematic inquiry and the definition of journalism states: writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation also: writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest.. no where does it talk about preaching crazy antics for personal gain and satisfaction… religion has always been about how much god loves all people. but i suppose african americans are always in the “wrong” when it comes to you there christian fairing god folk eh. sounds like a real contradiction to me.
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I can’t believe you’d even stand up for Oprah considering all the scandals she’s having selling bogus diet pills with Dr Oz, supporting the pedophile Indian Guru Sai Baba, the sex scandal at her school. Isn’t about time we evaluate how much good and how much harm this woman has done to our society?
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your crazy talk! many black people are very good christians! its theis weird group of white people who are selling there new age spirituality and its all nonsense! but then oprah jumps on board and tries to get black people to buy these dvds. I HAVE SEEN HER TV SHOW. and i know how it works so don’t tell me i’m racist. and whats with the bad health advice? injecting estrogen into your personal places? thats just expensive and crazy. don’t tell me you follow all that nonsene. its wrong. and if you know anything about the BIBLE you know there is only one way to GOD. not some weird indian spirituality. go ask a pastor or google.
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Plus she said No to Sarah Palin even after thousands of her fans posted on Oprah’s message board that they wanted to see her on the show and Oprah herself said it would make for a great and interesting interview but instead she showed her political bias by rejecting Palin! It just seemed like Oprah has started getting too big for herself, she’s had many people she’s disagreed with on the show but now she’s trying to create her own reality with people who won’t challenge her to her face like Gov. Palin would have. I think Oprah was afraid to have a real conversation about politics.
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She couldn’t have Palin on. You can’t have -two- airheaded idiots on one show. If you did, people would start comparing them and her flock of airheaded idiots would start wondering if they, too, were in fact airheaded idiots. Who knows where that would lead?
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People like you are just afriad of Palin because she talks the truth! I think Oprah should of had her on the show it would have been great! Everyone and everyone, liberals and republicans wanted Sarah on and Sarah herself! But Oprah I dont know why she backed down.
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No, we’re “afraid” of Palin because she couldn’t find her own asshole with a map and a flashlight. She should stick to what she knows: having babies and attending PTA meetings.
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That was a real low point for Oprah. I think rejecting Governor Palin made many of her fans leave her. They understood Oprah was in it for her own personal goals and for Barack Obama’s election, and not for the good of the country.
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YOU DON’T HAVE A CLUE DO YOU??? OPRAH HAS BEEN A HERO OF MINE AND MANY OTHER AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS AND SHE HAS HELPED SO MANY PEOPLE WITH AS A ROLE MODEL AND HER ACTIONS. YOUR ARTICLE IS FULL OF DECEPTIONS AND LIES. OPRAH DOES NOT HATE CHRISTIANITY!!!!!!!!!!
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There has been a lots of debate about Oprah. I like her show and all and it’s interesting to watch on the afternoon but I turn it to another channel when she has Deepack Chopra on or people like that, she tries to hard to sell there books and stuff and it doesnt feel right. I think she does go overboard with the spiritual stuff, there all into metapyhsics and the believing you can change the world all by yourself without some real and constant commitment to Jesus Christ. I think she wants to have it both ways and all this money going to her makes me suspivous. I just wish she would just focus on other issues and keep her religon to the side.
Also I hear she finally broke up with Steadman!!!!
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Thank you for the wonderful comments everyone. Oprah is all powerful right now, but hopefully the tide is turning! I believe good Christians are starting to perk up to her infamy. They are seeing there are Christian television alternatives! They are witnessing those Oprah Book Club Stickers as Scarlet Letters that shout, DO NOT BUY ME! We will overcome Oprah! We will!
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Billings, get your head out of your ass and stop tickling your balls.
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You know this isn’t real, right? It’s a comedy site making fun of Christian people. XD
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OH MY GOD, I LOVE YOU! XD
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Oprah is a nigger who cares what she thinks
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Your hate is childish and ignorant. Hopefully you will grow up some day and understand the stupidity and evil of your words.
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LOLWUT, I find your comment very disrespectful. I do not agree with Oprah, but speaking about her in such a way is very demeaning and nasty.
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true, she is a dirty nigger.
you think she is KIND and GOOD cause she is giving all those things to her audience ? she is doing that cause to make the foolish (all of you) belive she is a kind and caring.
sorry for my poor writting, i am still a child. nonetheless, you should take my comment seriously or else you’ll just be a fat, dirty nigger like oprah.
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I feel sorry for you. The words you use are offensive to all Americans, black and white. You should be ashamed of yourself. I hope you grow up someday.
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XD Dude. You all know that this is all FAKE, right?
Look at the article with the “Bearsharktopus”. Are you all fucking serious?
If you think this is real, I think you are fucking retarded.
HA! A 12 year old girl can distinguish real from fake better than most people.
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Xoe: you are a silly child. I feel sorry for your misguided youth. You could learn a lot from the intelligence and faith of us Christians.
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Isn’t “intelligent Christians” an oxymoron? Heck, it’s practically a paradox in my book!
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As much as I’m enjoying the ultra-conservative Christian traffic to my Suze Orman post on Kinderism.net, I really don’t like being used as a citation in your battle to prove that Oprah is evil.
Just saying
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Oh shit, did I just fall for Poe’s law? I really should know better
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So after reading 4 of these articles, I have to say they are all hysterical. To top that the discussions following the article are just comedy gold! What I’ve been wondering though, is how many of the “key debators” are the same person trolling it up. Janicefun, Claire, TheShockingTruth, and of course Billings are all closely grouped together in the timing of thier posts and in the direct corrolation of the argument against the previous post. So my hat is off to you, oh trollers of the internet!
PS:
The Internet: 500 Jillion
Common Sense: 0
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Oprah Winfrey may be extremely wealthy, but she is highly intelligent, generous and outgoing. She has given (no investment) large sums of money to establish schools in developing countries and to aid the poor. God cares for all human beings, in a way. So, wouldn’t he care for Oprah Winfrey, who is one probably the most generous person in the world. Entering a business with a high annual salary does not display any evidence of corruption.
Dear AUTHOR, please use your cerebral cortex while formulating these articles. If you did, your computer would contain a couple extra megabytes of memory!
Sincerely,
Science+christianity (a viable option)
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Oprah is a very powerful public figure. She uses liberal propaganda in her programming to poison the minds of women and children. She was also a big supporter of Barry Hussein Osama. She has also been known to turn children gay. She does this through hidden advertising. She needs to be barred from TV. Sarah Palin will be taking back the White House in 2012. I will be working hard on Sarah’s campaign and at the same time going door to door educating people on the power of Jesus Christ.
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This is proof once again that women should not be allowed to speak out about politics, education, and especially anything spiritual. This is what happens when women are allowed too speak up in public. They become all powerful and lead the nation astray. The women follow her because they feel she understands their plea, and the men follow her because now women have their balls and they have no other choice. A few men out there follow her on their own because they have been hypnotized by her extremely large breasts, which I may add are completely fake. A friend of my cousin’s mom did the implantation.
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