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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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.
Yawn...another high-profile racist joins the media circus.
LSM goes all in on driving a wedge between Trump and their low info readers/viewers.
Beginning her campaign for 2020?
This is going to be nothing more than the usual condescending, liberal swill to try to "understand" the rubes.
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?
I meant 60 Minutes was unwatchable!
Was Van Jones unavailable?
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
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???
No, she is not “seeking to understand”. She is looking for a microphone to push her preconceived notions as fact.
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.
I’m more interested in what brings us together.
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.
What separates us is CBS and people like Winfrey telling us we are separated! Bunch of morons!
winner winner chicken dinner!
Excuse me! I meant calling for the assignation of our President.
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.
I doubt Oprah will cover the Wookie claiming the problem with America is white people.
Her butt could separate the Grand Canyon.
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