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What Does Oprah Want You To Believe?
By kirk noonan | April 17, 2008
Untold numbers of viewers can’t seem to get enough of their favorite talk show host Oprah Winfrey. That’s understandable.
Winfrey is everyone’s best friend. She’s easygoing, smart, wise, and imperfect, yet sure of herself. She’s also the kind of friend you could easily imagine yourself sitting down with and telling her all your secrets.
It’s easy to envision her empathizing with you and giving you sage advice. After all, she does that several times a week with famous people. If Angelina Jolie can open to Oprah, so can you.
Oprah is also rich beyond measure and does numerous good deeds throughout the world. But spend a few minutes watching her show and you begin to believe she lives in suburbia and shops at the SuperCenter with a fistful of coupons, just like you. Like I said, she’s very likable. So much so, you wouldn’t want to disagree with her for fear of losing a great friendship.
And then there’s her fame. Movie stars love her — so do politicians. She’s been in movies too. She promotes books and has her own magazine that she regularly appears on the cover. Who wouldn’t want to be associated with this woman?
It’s no wonder countless people would love to call Oprah their BFF (best friend forever).
But even better than all those admirable qualities is that she’ll share with you. Whether it be her friends, her feelings, her money or her ideas on religion and the way things should be. They’re there for the taking.
Currently, she is touting Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth. It’s not only one of her book club’s selections, it’s also the basis for a weekly Internet class on Oprah’s Website that she and Tolle are teaching. Required reading? You guessed it: A New Earth, which has been described by some as New Age thinking repackaged for the umpteenth time.
Recently, Roger Friedman, wrote Is Oprah Starting Her Own Cult?
Simple Plan wants your to answer Friedman’s question here.
Topics: Media, Culture, Entertainment |
April 24th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Great piece Kirk! You have captured the true Oprah.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Seductive is’nt it? If we could ALL just be as good as Oprah we sure would’nt need JESUS would we? It’s like rat poison, 99.5% of it is “food” but it’s that .5% that kills the rat! Our enemy does’nt care HOW much truth you know,as long as you don’t know the truth that can SAVE YOU! the rise of the false church? yup!