Posted on 03/20/2012 4:52:38 PM PDT by tobyhill
Oprah Winfrey may want to consider giving away a few more free cars to help her struggling cable network.
The car giveaway episode aired in 2004, when she was at the height of her TV career hosting “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” seemed to be what everyone was talking about back then. Even Oprah said the event was “one of my all-time favorite happiest moments ever” as she put it recently on the Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN.
Alas, it's unhappy times for Winfrey's OWN right now. In recent days the network announced it was pulling the plug on “The Rosie Show” and embarking on a major restructuring, including laying off 30 employees of its 150-person staff.
“It is difficult to make tough business decisions that affect people’s lives,” said Winfrey, CEO and chief creative officer of the network, in a statement, “but the economics of a start-up cable network just don’t work with the cost structure that was in place.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bottomline.msnbc.msn.com ...
Well, on the brightside, imagine how many liberals she could take down with her if her lard ass decides to literally "eat the rich."
Does it involve firearms?
Heh heh - good one. I’d like to know how many of the fired people were doing any work anyway.
What, not bail out?
The ancient Greeks had a word for it: Hubris.
I heard she canceled Rosies show....Hilarious.
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