Why Oprah is a phony.

[Edwina's Secretary]

My sister works at a school in New Jersey. It is for boys and uses the discipline of music to help educate boys (happens to be all minority -- location -- but open to all.) They are always raising funds....that is what my sister does for them.

Do you know Oprah has a group that does School Makeovers -- all her money. My sister is working to get a makeover for her school. It would be a VERY BIG help for a school that does lots of good in a city that needs it.

No...it isn't written up in PEOPLE magazine. Just one of the many things she does for people right here in the United States.

Why bashing one philanthropist over another? Why not just say...here's is a guy who does a lot of good and doesn't always get recognition.

Isn't that rather.......phony????

Maybe you should learn as much about all that Oprah does....

[RICHARD]

Isn't that rather.......phony????

Maybe you should learn as much about all that Oprah does....

Wow,

Now that you mention it....


Nope- Kamen is about keeping people alive- Check out his work with medical tech- like dialysis machines- some of his technology kept my dad alive for a few years- Oprah didn't do squat for him.

You have to keep people alive before you can educate them.

Kamen looks at the welfare of people with little or no fanfare, Oprah's outlook is kinda skewed.cameras, T.V. specials and "hey Look at what I did!" just smacks of a little self-agrandizement!
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I saw a blurb for her road trip/TV special with her buddy...Funny how two chicks in a car make interesting TV? I was hoping for a Thelma and Louise ending!

The shot was of Oprah trying to put gas into a car....and she could not do it.

Her line was, "Ha ha ha ha, It's been years since I put gas in a car."

I guess philantrophy and common sense don't run in the same circles..

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If there is no coverage of her good deeds here in the US, why the fanfare for a foreign school?

[Edwina's Secretary]

So doing something that benefited your father is better than doing something that benefits someone else.

Got it.

Without education...who will figure out how to keep people alive?

Entertainment...that is what Oprah does. It is how she makes the money that enables her to do so much good.

You know when I was a teenager (before your time I know) you went to a gas station and there was a person who pumped the gas for you. (I lived in the country and we had to pump our own from the pump on the farm.) Most people...especially women...at that time did not know how to pump gas.

Based on what you posted...that made them stupid? Or lacking common sense?

Give it a rest RICHARD. She is a successful woman. Something you seem to find terribly offensive.

[RICHARD]

Give it a rest RICHARD. She is a successful woman. Something you seem to find terribly offensive.

One of my alltime favotite gals is Bernadine Healy.

She is a doctor and ran something called the Red Cross.

Carly Fiona, Hewlett Packard?

My mom?


I like to save my sexism for the truly irritating girls. Hey, Did I mention Rachael Ray?

[lizbud]

I like to save my sexism for the truly irritating girls. Hey, Did I mention Rachael Ray?

or Pariis Hilton. Now there's a piecs of work for ya. but Rachel
Ray ? without her we never would have had the memorable " Hi rocking chair
Lady" line.

[Catty1]

ummm...is it possible that the school Oprah built has CLEAN RUNNING WATER???

[RICHARD]

ummm...is it possible that the school Oprah built has CLEAN RUNNING WATER???

For about 150 people, same with the elek-tricity?

Let's review?


Putting up a school for 40 million dollars is fine and dandy.
Making a huge deal about it makes me laugh.

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Finding a way to get clean water and electricity to places that don't know either is kinda specail.


A few months ago we were looking at infected spinach killing people.
SO what! We find other spinach. Ii winder what the options are for a small tribal group in the bush?

The narrow focus on some Oprah-ette factory is laughable.

saving a few thousand people by cleaning up their feces infected water and giving them a a life without diarrhea, intestinal parasites and death really isn't that big a deal.


Mea culpa.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Making a huge deal about it makes me laugh.

The narrow focus on some Oprah-ette factory is laughable.

mea culpa

No need to apologize RICHARD. After all...your antipathy for success women makes me laugh!

[sabies]

I am more concerned with how my tax dollars are wasted then I am about how others spend their disposable income. Oprah, myself, and anyone else can spend their money on the charity of their choice.

Maybe the girls Oprah educates will run the government one day and then people like Kamen will be able to get their help to the people who need it. Clean water will only go so far if the government is that crooked.