Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Community > MacNN Lounge > Who Hates Oprah?

View Poll Results: How do you feel about Oprah?
Poll Options:
I HATE Oprah! 18 votes (26.87%)
I LOVE Oprah! 4 votes (5.97%)
Oprah is only mildly unbearable 7 votes (10.45%)
Oprah is okay 7 votes (10.45%)
Who? 3 votes (4.48%)
I really, really don't care. 28 votes (41.79%)
Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll
Who Hates Oprah?
Thread Tools
Jawbone54
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:20 PM
 


I keep finding myself incredibly annoyed by Oprah. There's just something about her...

Is it the smarminess?
The "I am SUCH a great giver" attitude?
The way she acts like she cares about everyone?
The closeted lesbianism (If Stedmund isn't a "skirt," I don't know who is)? C'mon, Oprah! Come on out.

Is it just me? Who else can't stand Oprah?
     
MacosNerd
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2007
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:21 PM
 
Just you.



Like any TV celebrity, if I don't like them, I avoid watching their shows. In Oprah's case I have little desire or interest in watching her show so I generally don't get worked up about it.
     
misc
Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:21 PM
 
I don't mind her really. Not that I watch her.

Wish she would give me a car or something, however.

"And after we are through, ten years in making it to be the most of glorious debuts."
     
Dakar the Fourth
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: In the hearts and minds of MacNNers
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:22 PM
 
I'd have to be dumb enough to watch her show or pay attention to her to have an actual opinion.

Kudos on the public poll, though.
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
I'd have to be dumb enough to watch her show or pay attention to her to have an actual opinion.
I try desperately to avoid it, but every female I know seems to love it.

"She's just so REAL!"

Kudos on the public poll, though.
I just did it to see how long it would take you to applaud the fact.
     
Dakar the Fourth
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: In the hearts and minds of MacNNers
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
I try desperately to avoid it, but every female I know seems to love it.
They actually bring her up in conversation?

Admittedly, it's Dr. Phil I despise. And no, the drawl does not help.
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:27 PM
 
Hmmm, you're right. Maybe a Dr. Phil poll would've inspired a greater furor.
     
ort888
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Your Anus
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:31 PM
 
She's fine. I don't find her that annoying, and at least she attempts to use her public stage to do some good in the world.

She's not hurting anything. If you don't like her don't watch. My wife watched Oprah, and while I do find her show midly unbearable, she sometimes has interesting topics or guests. I do think she is talented and her heart is in the right place.

Dr. Phil on the other hand... Ugh.

Or actually, Tyra Banks. She is the worst thing to happen to humanity ever. She needs to be euthanized for the greater good. Just put her down.

My sig is 1 pixel too big.
     
Dakar the Fourth
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: In the hearts and minds of MacNNers
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:35 PM
 
Tyra is smokin' but her level of self-absorption is so laughable it's practically become its own segment on The Soup.
     
lavar78
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Yorktown, VA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:37 PM
 
Originally Posted by ort888 View Post
She's fine. I don't find her that annoying, and at least she attempts to use her public stage to do some good in the world.

She's not hurting anything. If you don't like her don't watch. My wife watched Oprah, and while I do find her show midly unbearable, she sometimes has interesting topics or guests. I do think she is talented and her heart is in the right place.

"I'm virtually bursting with adequatulence!" - Bill McNeal, NewsRadio
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:44 PM
 
Buncha Oprah-lovers.
     
Dakar the Fourth
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: In the hearts and minds of MacNNers
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:48 PM
 
They're probably all libruls anyway.
     
analogue SPRINKLES
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: T •
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 03:48 PM
 
She was ok until shortly after 9/11 she did a whole "They hate us because of our freedom" thing which made her look like any Fox news channel.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 04:01 PM
 
Oprah is sadly and quite literally one of the only sources of broadcast international journalism. I don't watch her show, but support this cause.
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 04:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Oprah is sadly and quite literally one of the only sources of broadcast international journalism. I don't watch her show, but support this cause.
That's journalism?
     
Dakar the Fourth
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: In the hearts and minds of MacNNers
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 04:19 PM
 
It should be noted only a woman has voted yes.
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 04:22 PM
 
I didn't say it. I figured I'd be labeled a sexist. Again.

Monique, I know you're out there.
     
Eug
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 04:23 PM
 
I flipped to her show once and she was bragging about how her (yo-yo) dieting had inspired a 12 year old girl to go on a diet. Totally obnoxious.

Promoting that Dr. Phil guy certainly hasn't helped her reputation IMO either.

Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Oprah is sadly and quite literally one of the only sources of broadcast international journalism. I don't watch her show, but support this cause.
WTF do you watch? Even reading a page from BBC.co.uk once a week would be more effective. I hope you're being sarcastic.
     
lavar78
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Yorktown, VA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 05:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
It should be noted only a woman has voted yes.
I'll have to change that. I love Oprah (but not enough to watch her show unless I want to see the guest).

"I'm virtually bursting with adequatulence!" - Bill McNeal, NewsRadio
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 05:30 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
That's journalism?
I don't watch the show enough to know what a typical piece is like, but I do know that Lisa Ling works for Oprah as a special correspondent, and she has an impressive resume and is a respected journalist. I heard her speak in a public setting, and she made hte pont that really, aside from National Geograpic, PBS, and The View (all where she used to work), there isn't much out there in the broadcast world.

So, the situation is sad, but until it gets better you have to at least commend Oprah for trying to shed light on these sorts of stories and making people aware of what goes on outside of this country.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 05:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by Eug View Post
WTF do you watch? Even reading a page from BBC.co.uk once a week would be more effective. I hope you're being sarcastic.

Very true, but that isn't broadcast journalism.
     
Chuckit
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 05:35 PM
 
Broadcast journalism is like Congressional ethics — it's something people like to talk about, but I don't think it really exists.
Chuck
___
"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 05:38 PM
 
Broadcast journalism is for people who don't really care about news anyways.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 05:45 PM
 
Chuckit, Jawbone, I agree, that's why I don't get my news from TV (unless you count the Daily Show and Colbert Report, but I'm usually aware of the stories they report by the time they do so).

However, a lot of people still do get their news that way, so all I'm saying is that Oprah's international news coverage is at least a positive in her favor... If I had to give her another positive, I would say that her charity work is commendable, although that could be said even if she didn't have her own show.
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 05:58 PM
 
Yeah, I see what you're saying. It just depresses me though.
     
lefty mclefty
Baninated
Join Date: Feb 2008
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 08:05 PM
 
uh, why would a "student pastor" hate anyone? what type of religion are you preaching! good grief! dude, check your faith...
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 08:12 PM
 
Oh, c'mon. Like I really "hate" her.

Get driven crazy by her? Yep.
Want her to lose her billions and live her remaining years behind a dumpster? Of course not.

But of course, I'm guessing this was a joke.
     
lefty mclefty
Baninated
Join Date: Feb 2008
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 08:19 PM
 
the thread or my response? i have little tolerance for those who preach "the lords words" and then start a thread titled "who hates oprah?"....can't you see that? again, what kind of religion are you "preaching"????
     
Visnaut
Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 11:21 PM
 
What's that show she has now? Oprah's Big Tax Write-off?
     
turtle777
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 9, 2008, 11:31 PM
 
Oprah is a witch.

There. Someone had to say it.

-t
     
puppetswhokill
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: In your closet.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 12:15 AM
 
First Oprah then Dr. Phil then the lawyers.

Everything she does has to have her name in it by law.

War is peace. Wrong is right. Up is down.
Death is life. Lies are truth.
     
C.A.T.S. CEO
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: eating kernel
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 12:25 AM
 
Who is this "Oprah" you speak of?
Signature depreciated.
     
turtle777
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 12:30 AM
 
Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO View Post
Who is this "Oprah" you speak of?
Its a big house where they sing.

-t
     
JMan09
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Beaumont Texas
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 12:32 AM
 
I don't dislike Oprah at all, I don't watch anything she is on. I work at a bookstore, which she sells a lot of books for us. But anything that shows up on her show brings all the housemoms to our store and they buy whatever she recommends.
32GB iPad 2 | 32GB iPhone 4 | 11' MacBook Air 1.6 i5, 4GB, 128GB SSD
     
- - e r i k - -
Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 01:03 AM
 
It seems the Christians now have a beef with Oprah extolling her new-found New Age woo woo to her hordes of lemmings:

Oprah, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth � Proleptic Life
What's Bothering Oprah, Eckhart Tolle and Today’s New Age Thinkers

[ fb ] [ flickr ] [♬] [scl] [ last ] [ plaxo ]
     
CollinG3G4
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 01:13 AM
 
Women love Oprah because they are materialistic and she gives away expensive stuff. Pretty simply.
     
- - e r i k - -
Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 01:18 AM
 

[ fb ] [ flickr ] [♬] [scl] [ last ] [ plaxo ]
     
Captain Obvious
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Chicago
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 01:58 AM
 
I don't hate Oprah. I actually respect her for being able to assemble such a juggernaut of a media empire out of one crappy talk show. I know of no other force on the planet that can suggest an obscure book and overnight send it to the NYTimes bestseller list. That's some kind of power and influence no one else enjoys.

She is however very much out of touch with the rest of the planet. Maybe not in the same way Tom Cruise is but Oprah doesn't really have any idea what the world is like anymore. So I wouldn't ever take anything she has to say seriously (including Obama) and I am puzzled so many women do take her words as gospel.

As for Dr Phil, he needs to be executed. I would have no problem pulling the lever to send him to his death and I'd actually sleep better as a result of it.

On a related tangent, I would really like to screw Rachel Ray.
She is no great beauty but her overhyper personality brings up sexual curiosities over what getting her to go all night would be like. Imagine 12 hours of sexual activity punctuated by 5 star level cuisine and all you'd have to do is lie there.
That brings her from a hard 6 to an easy 9.

Barack Obama: Four more years of the Carter Presidency
     
Peter
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 02:13 PM
 
whoa.
we don't have time to stop for gas
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 03:28 PM
 
And this thread has now taken a dramatic turn.
     
Powerbook
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: München, Deutschland
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 03:29 PM
 
I'm glad to report that this part of American trash TV has not found its way into the German TV market. Yet... Maybe because we already have a bunch of such shyts?

PB.
Aut Caesar aut nihil.
     
OldManMac
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: I don't know anymore!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 03:38 PM
 
I don't waste energy hating anyone. I have self control and the ability to tune them out.
Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
     
osiris
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 03:41 PM
 
I can't watch Oprah for more than a few minutes at a time.

Maybe it's because I keep closing my eyes every few minutes, but I don't hold it against her.


We need a thread on the Opry (the grand ole), so people can hate that too.
"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 04:37 PM
 
Is there anyone who's actually serious about thinking I'm just sitting around hating people?

Just a question. I never know with you guys. Well...some of you.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 05:16 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
Is there anyone who's actually serious about thinking I'm just sitting around hating people?

Just a question. I never know with you guys. Well...some of you.

Well, what about that one time when you said that you hated me? Were you wrong to say this, or do you still hate me?
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 05:24 PM
 
That was OBVIOUSLY me trying to cover up my love.

Duh.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 06:00 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
That was OBVIOUSLY me trying to cover up my love.

Duh.

Damn, you're good Jawboner...

Can I call you that?
     
Jawbone54  (op)
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 06:29 PM
 
Call me what you will, Bessie.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 06:38 PM
 
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
Call me what you will, Bessie.
Very well, your official name from here on in is Gertrude...

You shouldn't have given me that blanket authorization Jawbone, that was your first mistake. Dealing with me requires special care, as you soon will learn. I'm what you might call a professional idiot.
     
turtle777
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2008, 06:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Damn, you're good Jawboner...

Can I call you that?
Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
Call me what you will, Bessie.
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Very well, your official name from here on in is Gertrude...
Can't we just all shut the f***ck up get along ?

-t
     
 
Thread Tools
 
Forum Links
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:56 PM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2017 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.8 © 2000-2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.,