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Tragic Maui fire has Oprah's brand up in flames
Hot Air ^ | 6 Sep 2023 | Beege Welborne

Posted on 09/07/2023 4:28:36 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Only Oprah Winfrey’s problem seems to be one of self immolation by association vice actual flames tickling her toes.

For such a carefully cultivated image after all these decades, old girl’s been coming apart at the seams these past few weeks, with jarring, insensitive gazillionaire misstep after misstep.

The things that might have passed unnoticed otherwise have been magnified by the enormous loss of life and property, the scope of the overall devastation, parcity of the emergency and relief response, and miserable performance of elected officials.

Let’s face it – Maui residents are pissed off.

They might have been a little torqued that the billionaire on the island escaped unscathed while they were wiped out. That festered some – even to the point of accusations of hiring firefighters for her estate making USA Today.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: arson; fire; maui; mauifire; nicolaeceausescu; oprah; oprahwinfrey; winfrey
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To: NWFree

“Let me know know when Hawaii no longer stupidly and overwhelmingly votes libtard.”
There are a few of us normals here. We keep to ourselves.
We are normal. However most all Hawaii citizens are stark raving idiots. No great loss.


21 posted on 09/07/2023 5:25:34 PM PDT by rellic
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To: frank ballenger

“Disco Inferno (Burn, Baby, Burn) ...
Was called ‘the greatest disco song in the history of disco.’”

It’s one of my favorites for sure.


22 posted on 09/07/2023 5:32:20 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: dfwgator

Seriously? Or are you kidding? A musical?


23 posted on 09/07/2023 5:33:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: frank ballenger

Heh, Montague is STILL alive. Go figure.


24 posted on 09/07/2023 5:37:47 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Rummyfan

Seriously, this is bull crap. Weird ass conspiracy theories. I can’t believe I’m defending the opra🙃.


25 posted on 09/07/2023 5:40:00 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
problem seems to be one of self immolation by association vice actual flames tickling her toes.
I barely graduated high school and I'm having trouble deciphering that statement....

I'll give it a try:
self immolation by association; by inserting herself in the catastrophe she brought down a lot of criticism on herself
vice actual flames tickling her toes., verses flames literally burning her toes.

The author was being pretentious and trying to be humorous, I guess.
It can be characterized as sesquipedalian loquacious use of language. And yes, I did look that last part up. (Couldn't remember how to spell it. Just kidding) ;O)

26 posted on 09/07/2023 5:50:36 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Rummyfan

She is a fraud.


27 posted on 09/07/2023 5:53:19 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: NWFree

allows libtards like Okra, Gates and Suckerburg to buy up the burnt over land.


28 posted on 09/07/2023 5:54:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Georgia just crystallized Trump’s campaign with a copyright-free image winning him nomination!))
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To: Rummyfan

A friend of mine worked construction near Telluride, Colorado when lots of fancy folks started buying property there in the late 80s. Ralph Lauren bought the entire top of a mountain and had literally miles of split rail fencing built around it.

Oprah bought or built a very big house out there. One of my friends’ pals worked on the exterior construction. He said that she furnished the whole house, but became dissatisfied with the decor, and just had her household staff pile it all out at the entrance—sofas, cabinets, tables, chairs, one thing on top of another—having already ordered a truck to come and haul it away. Gone in a couple of hours.

The stucco and brick men sweating on the outside of her mansion would have gladly used their pickups to take a piece or two home to the family, had she given them a chance, but she didn’t, or wouldn’t. Oblivious to the little people—working class white Coloradans, grandsons of pioneers.


29 posted on 09/07/2023 5:56:09 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Spacetrucker

Ha.

Tom Selleck as Orrin in The Sacketts movie when asked if the loyal friend played by Ben Johnson (badly wounded facing off in a gunfight side by side defending him and his brothers) was going to die.
“Naw. He ain’t gonna die. He’s too damn mean.”


30 posted on 09/07/2023 6:01:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I think it means she has amazing powers to experience the tragedy without being there. She was just as devastated as the ones that lost their mothers and daughters but didn’t have to be there to experience it. Y’all need to be more sensitive and caring for poor OPRA.....


31 posted on 09/07/2023 6:02:41 PM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Yes, the piece is poorly written.


32 posted on 09/07/2023 6:04:13 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yeah, I had to endure the trailer during “Sound of Freedom”


33 posted on 09/07/2023 6:08:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NWFree

May that day come soon!


34 posted on 09/07/2023 6:08:42 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: beethovenfan

Amen!


35 posted on 09/07/2023 6:09:08 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dfwgator

I can’t even imagine. 🥴


36 posted on 09/07/2023 6:12:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Albion Wilde

My neighbor worked the plumbing of her barrier island house a few miles from where I am. He said she treated her help well with nice cars, etc.

She was able to buy Maui land at what I think was a modest price. Oprah is a smart woman. Like her fellow Chicagoan Obama, she saw her opportunities and took them.

Near where I live in Florida, FPL has had a lot of trees marked red for removal.


37 posted on 09/07/2023 6:36:21 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Rummyfan

“Opra Winfrey, who owns a home on Maui, allowed County officials access to her private road.

“Hi there Jack, Access to the road was given to county officials immediately. This was many hours ago. Hoping for the safety of all. ?? https://t.co/BxsPNUkkJC

“— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) July 12, 2019”

https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/07/12/wildfire-on-maui-causes-evacuations-burns-10000-acres/

I don’t care for her politics, but she is definitely a decent human being.


38 posted on 09/07/2023 6:48:41 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

I don’t care for her politics, but she is definitely a decent human being.


🙄

YOU get a car, Brian!


39 posted on 09/07/2023 6:51:16 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Brian Griffin

“she is definitely a decent human being.”

Except for that pimping for Jeffrey Epstein thing. Other than that, she’s a gem.


40 posted on 09/07/2023 6:52:43 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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