stuff you may not know about Opera's lies and her books

[donsu]

http://www.blackcommentator.com/169/169_bruces_beat.html


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Brand Oprah and Corporate Accountability

In the January 19, 2006 installment of Freedom Rider, "Oprah's Best Self" BC's Margaret Kimberly expertly skewered Oprah Inc. for promoting the bogus work of a white ex-junkie she had every reason to believe was based on lies. More than a few BC readers wrote commending Ms. Kimberly's work. This is what one subscriber had to say:

Oprah failed to mention that she had been informed months before she anointed the book that it was a LIE. Nonetheless, for reasons that only she knows, she ignored this information, and declared the book a "must read." Only after being severely attacked by the country's press did Oprah withdraw her endorsement of the book and acknowledge that she had been wrong to imply that it was OK to tell a little lie as long as it was embedded in a larger truth. She then decided to publicly attack the author in what I consider a vicious manner, striking a "Don't mess with Oprah" posture. I find her behavior extremely duplicitous and far from honorable and am totally unable to understand why she has been deified.
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Regular BC readers will know this is neither the first nor the worst instance of Brand Oprah's cynical abuse of the public trust to turn the dubious book of a self-serving liar into a best seller. Back in April of 2004, corporate Oprah boosted the book and launched the career of HIV-AIDS huckster J.L. King, who has made a nice living ever since spreading the racist, homophobic myth that the rise in HIV-AIDS among black women is due to secretive and predatory bisexual black men on the so-called "down low".

Unlike the Oprah show, BC actually consulted the Centers for Disease Control. We interviewed real HIV-AIDS researchers, public health professionals, and advocates of testing and treatment. In our September 8, 2005 cover article, "The Low Down on the Down Low," they unanimously agreed that J.L. King's and Oprah Inc.'s lurid myth of bisexual black men on the DL as the principal transmission vector of HIV-AIDS in the African American community was unfounded and a dangerous misdirection away from real efforts to educate the public, combat the epidemic and save lives.

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just how real is Opera?

does Opera ever say anything about the environmnt?

is Opera in the same flock as Powell, Rice and Brazil?

who knew

[Ron Green]

1. Some Opera says quite a bit about political and environmental

issues. Puccini, I think, has some pithy stories, but Verdi's music is far better.

:P :hi:

[etherealtruth]

5. I guess I'm drawn to more salacious content ...

Carmen works for me.:headbang:

[adarling]

9. I agree

Verdi is the best, but both are fun to sing :)

[tocqueville]

2. the worst lies come from Internet Explorer nt

[seabeyond]

3. she lost me with arnie. in the show arnie said stupid sexist

stuff, and they tried to "silly girl like" stop him and then looked away. they allowed it. oprah and shriver. she sold out women for her arnie friend. between that and what she did for phil and what he is doing i am done with her. the few things over last year, how she represents 9/11 be afraid, terrorist and fear and some other stuff i have asked about her agenda,. not feeling real

[cybildisobedience]

4. what bothers me most about Oprah, or Opera...

is that she is in a position to do so much good, but chooses instead to focus on materialism and mindless celebrity worship.
The women in her audience treat her like she is some kind of god -- can you imagine the movement Oprah could jumpstart if she devoted ONE PROGRAM to electronic voting?
Diebold would be out of business within a week.
She has the power, literally, to save democracy almost singlehandedly, but she squanders it by toadying up to the likes of "good friend" Maria Shriver to help get Ah-nuld elected governor, or by having shows where she lavishes thousands and thousands of dollars in giveaways on a handful of fortunate audience members.

One caveat: On this year's holiday giveaway program, she at least gave to unsuspecting Katrina volunteers.

[bostonbabs]

6. the right wing is afraid of Oprah

...she does have incredible power.She has been very philanthropic....Africa, Katrina etc etc etc. Her reading club is about Public Education for God sake.Give a man a fish or teach him to fish ....How can anyone say oprah is bad???....oh ya the "right"

[donheld]

7. I didn't know opera had a book

:evilgrin::hi:

[KurtNYC]

8. and when will she set the record "straight" about couch-moshing

Tom Cruise? have him back on, call him a liar, say he mis-led her and used her show to mis-lead the public? I'm holding my breath until this happens...starting......now....

[Katherine Brengle]

10. I like opera... and Oprah...

but maybe she shouldn't have gotten involved in this--it does hurt her credibility.

She's still doing a lot of good in the world, however. Not a free pass, but credit where it is due.

[Beaverhausen]

11. Oh goodie, another Oprah bashing thread

She did the right thing and apologized. What more do you want?