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CBS Hires Oprah Winfrey to Cover ‘What Separates Us’ in Age of Donald Trump
Breitbart ^ | 2.2.17 ast | Ben Kew

Posted on 02/02/2017 2:26:10 PM PST by drewh

Veteran broadcaster Oprah Winfrey is set to join CBS’s 60 minutes this fall as a special contributor, where she seeks to understand “what separates us” at a time in which the country is divided, the network has announced. When the news was announced on Tuesday, 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager said:

There is only one Oprah Winfrey. She has achieved excellence in everything she has touched. Her body of work is extraordinary, including thousands of interviews with people from all walks of life. She is a remarkable and talented woman with a level of integrity that sets her apart and makes her a perfect fit for 60 Minutes. I am thrilled that she will be bringing her unique and powerful voice to our broadcast”:

Winfrey, who has a decorated career in broadcasting and philanthropy with The Oprah Winfrey Show and a net worth of more than $3 billion, said that she was “excited and proud to join forces with this historic news program,” a program, she added, that “represents the bastion of journalistic storytelling.”

“At a time when people are so divided, my intention is to bring relevant insight and perspective, to look at what separates us, and help facilitate real conversations between people from different backgrounds.”

Although remaining apolitical for the majority of her career, Winfrey first endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in the 2007 Democratic primaries and endorsed Hillary Clinton’s candidacy last year, saying that you “don’t have to like her,” as the choice was between “democracy or a demagogue.”

Winfrey’s joining the 60 Minutes comes after two of the show’s key correspondents, Bob Simon and Morley Safer, passed away last year.

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To: drewh

Hoping white middle class women don’t jump ship...more than they have. Gotta keep those eyeballs in place and make sure skulls full of mush don’t firm up.


21 posted on 02/02/2017 2:35:37 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: drewh

Yawn...another high-profile racist joins the media circus.


22 posted on 02/02/2017 2:35:38 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: drewh

LSM goes all in on driving a wedge between Trump and their low info readers/viewers.


23 posted on 02/02/2017 2:35:53 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: drewh

Beginning her campaign for 2020?


24 posted on 02/02/2017 2:36:37 PM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: drewh
Who says we're divided? There's simply a large swath of people who are not going to submit to global and domestic Marxism. We just want the government to do its necessary Constitutional functions and leave us alone. Why is this so hard to understand?

This is going to be nothing more than the usual condescending, liberal swill to try to "understand" the rubes.

25 posted on 02/02/2017 2:37:36 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!)
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To: drewh
“what separates us”

CBS, for starters.

Seriously, do you expect they'll focus a critical eye on the mainstream media, which probably "separates us" more than anything else?

26 posted on 02/02/2017 2:37:40 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: Reily

I meant 60 Minutes was unwatchable!


27 posted on 02/02/2017 2:37:41 PM PST by Reily
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To: drewh

Was Van Jones unavailable?


28 posted on 02/02/2017 2:37:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: drewh

Why dont they come out the closet to the lowest levels?

A show with her doing Kim Kadarshian with a goat humper , Obama and his goat, would summerize it clearly
to us instead
of this poofias chick round about way of doing it


29 posted on 02/02/2017 2:38:53 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: drewh

So with a divided nation, she is going to feed us liberal pap as she explores what divides us???

What good is it to explore our divisions from a liberal point of view?? Oprah is liberal. Fair and balanced she will not be. Why go there???


30 posted on 02/02/2017 2:39:36 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: drewh

No, she is not “seeking to understand”. She is looking for a microphone to push her preconceived notions as fact.


31 posted on 02/02/2017 2:41:40 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: drewh

I could have told CBS for a lot less money!

The leftist political view their brand of cultural marxism without the violence that they have peddled for 30 plus years, well you are dooo disappointed that we have not converted long before now.

Enter Trump, Milo, Diamond & Silk and “We the People” (waging a new cultural battle)!

So now Democrats realize they HAVE to do what socialists & communists have always done in the 20th Century. Kill people.

Welcome to the Democrat Party! You can see them in all their glory with their calls for obstructionist strategy, violence, riots and murder of our newly elected President.


32 posted on 02/02/2017 2:44:17 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: drewh

I’m more interested in what brings us together.


33 posted on 02/02/2017 2:46:04 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: drewh

Political correctness. The concept of democrats calling everyone and everything racist for the past 10 years. The idea that white privilege causes poverty. The idea that putting more money into all kinds of public welfare programs ends up solving anything over the long term. I could go on. I expect 0prah will consult with 0bama for her viewpoints, and there will be no honesty in her examination of what divides us.


34 posted on 02/02/2017 2:46:10 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: drewh

What separates us is CBS and people like Winfrey telling us we are separated! Bunch of morons!


35 posted on 02/02/2017 2:47:00 PM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: TBP

winner winner chicken dinner!


36 posted on 02/02/2017 2:47:26 PM PST by drewh
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To: Lopeover

Excuse me! I meant calling for the assignation of our President.


37 posted on 02/02/2017 2:47:31 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: drewh

She can do her first segment on the rampant pedophilia, Satanism, child-sacrifice, and other perversions among the super-wealthy people she hangs out with. And how these people (Soros, Gates, etc.) now have a sock puppet running the Vatican.

Those are certainly things that divide us.


38 posted on 02/02/2017 2:54:44 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: drewh

I doubt Oprah will cover the Wookie claiming the problem with America is white people.


39 posted on 02/02/2017 2:55:09 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: drewh

Her butt could separate the Grand Canyon.


40 posted on 02/02/2017 2:58:22 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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