Why Oprah is a phony.

[mugsy]

Oprah is a holier than thou, sticky sweet, blowhard. She speaks one way and does exactly the opposite. She proclaims to be such an animal activist, yet she goes to expensive breeders to get her dogs and looks down on shelter dogs. She has been contacted thousands of times about the plight of puppy mill dogs, but, it's not a big enough money maker for her show to waste her time with the suffering of these poor animals.

As far as the school goes, $40 million school in Africa is ridiculous. How many more schools could she have built that are more than suitable in how many different areas, servicing how many more children....

Kudos to her for at least attempting to help, but, the lack of common sense is amazing. And unfortunately, she definitely comes across as, "HEY! Come look and me and see how much money I have and how many kids have a new school because of ME!"

Oh and Richard....You have become the Roger M of Pet Talk...I just told Mike that you and my friend Roger are probably a lot alike (other than the fact that he is an ultra liberal! lol). You know who you are and what you stand for and aren't afraid to say it (especially if it is important to you) and you make people mad because you are so straightforward!

[Edwina's Secretary]

And another thing..... what about Bill Gates...naming a foundation after him and his wife. I mean...come on! How much attention and publicity does that man need? And what does his wife have to do with it anyway???

And spending all that money in third world countries promoting learning and global health. With their faces plastered all over their website.

What's next for these egotist blowhards? Curing cancer or something?

Where is their common sense? Why are they fighting malaria?

And I saw Bill interviewed on the Jon Stewart show and ....the family doesn't have a pet!!!!!

[lizbud]

And another thing..... what about Bill Gates...naming a foundation after him and his wife. I mean...come on! How much attention and publicity does that man need? And what does his wife have to do with it anyway???

And spending all that money in third world countries promoting learning and global health. With their faces plastered all over their website.

What's next for these egotist blowhards? Curing cancer or something?

Where is their common sense? Why are they fighting malaria?

And I saw Bill interviewed on the Jon Stewart show and ....the family doesn't have a pet!!!!!

Oh no, always thought that guy was a loser.

[Edwina's Secretary]

You know...Oprah should look for a better role model...perhaps...

Donald Trump! A man who started out the old-fashioned way...he inherited the business...

always the first to point out his own shortcomings....always gracious in victory and defeat...

would NEVER splash his name or face on anything!

No African stuff for this man! Why he singlehandedly saved the Miss USA pagent! What a guy! What a patriot!

Learn something Oprah!

[wombat2u2004]

And another thing..... what about Bill Gates...naming a foundation after him and his wife. I mean...come on! How much attention and publicity does that man need? And what does his wife have to do with it anyway???

And spending all that money in third world countries promoting learning and global health. With their faces plastered all over their website.

What's next for these egotist blowhards? Curing cancer or something?

Where is their common sense? Why are they fighting malaria?

And I saw Bill interviewed on the Jon Stewart show and ....the family doesn't have a pet!!!!!

Malaria kills a lot of people !!!!! Need there be any other answer to that question ???

[jackie]

Malaria kills a lot of people !!!!! Need there be any other answer to that question ???

AHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH x10000!!!!

I just choked on my juice.

I think what Oprah has done is nothing short of amazing. You may not like the woman, but how can you fault her generosity?

[sasvermont]

For all these years I found your ideas and opinions interesting. Not today.

I don't know too many people as generous as Oprah. I just don't understand what infuriates some folks when it comes to someone else's generosity. You should be so lucky to have that kind of money and be able to give so much of it away, to profoundly poor people.

Go back to bed Richard.

[columbine]

When people have money to burn, they burn it - do what they personally think will help the most, without getting relevant advice. Oprah's heart is in the right place. It's her information deficit that led to an inefficient use of her wealth.

It's a perpetual problem of philanthropy. The people who are in a position to make a real difference don't have a whole lot of clues about what differences need to be made.

Who here doesn't have an "if I win the lottery" idea about what you'd do to make things better? And where did that idea come from? Your own heart, right? Since you haven't won the lottery yet, of course you haven't done any research about whether or how well it would actually work. Well, people who have boatloads of money think that if they're smart enough to get all that money, they're smart enough to figure out how to put it to work. But it's a different flavor of smart, and a fairly rare one, and most rich people don't know much at all about the world outside of their own experience. So huge amounts of money end up going down inefficient holes because the rich people don't know that they don't know everything.

There's nothing wrong with bragging, in my book. If you do something, and present it honestly and in its entirety, there's nothing wrong with putting your name on it. And I like the recent trend for the rich to show off by trying to help the poor. But it's the ones who start with good solid research who actually succeed.

Love, Columbine

[Cataholic]

Columbine, very interesting post! Thanks for expanding my brain.

[lizbud]

When people have money to burn, they burn it - do what they personally think will help the most, without getting relevant advice. Oprah's heart is in the right place. It's her information deficit that led to an inefficient use of her wealth.

Love, Columbine

I think it's very presumptuous of you to make a comment inferring Oprah
"has to much money and not enough sense". As a very successful business
woman who has very good council to help her make the most of the funds
she chooses to distribute. You certainly have an opinion, but so do the
people who see what a blessing she is to many people.