Why Oprah is a phony.

[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!

[RICHARD]

After all...your antipathy for success women makes me laugh!

I do like you.

Did I mention that I loathed Cindy Margolis--Until she posed for playboy!

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It's the Success-fool women that bug me!

[moosmom]

I just finished reading this entire thread. Quite interesting.

I just don't understand what infuriates some folks when it comes to someone else's generosity.

I think what infuriates folks about Oprah's generosity is they aren't on the receiving end of that generosity.

RICHARD and Edwina's Secretary, I am laughing my butt off at your contempt for one another. You two really know how to push each other's buttons.

As far as Oprah is concerned, I never cared for her. What she does with her money IS her business. However, I also believe that charity begins at home.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Donna...I am sorry if you percieve contempt on my part. I do not have contempt for Richard.

I think a woman who was born poor and black in the Jim Crow South, succeeds beyond dream due to hardwork, smarts, and some good luck should be admired. She is a role model for all of us...especially young black women...that in America, if you work hard and study and are diligent, you can succeed...regardless of the circumstances of your birth.

I do not believe she should be called a phony because someone does not agree with how she decides to give millions of the dollars she earned -- through her hard work -- to help others.

She preaches hard work, education, sobriety, empathy and generosity. And she lives what she preaches.

Does that make her a phony? A fool?

I don't know her so I do not know if I "like" her or not...but I certainly respect her.