[Biblebelter]

Oprah cannot be denied. In a humanistic world call her Queen Oprah. She knows where all the buttons are and she makes her living pushing them.

[jeremiah]

I cannot stomach the woman. Her biggest flaw is self absorption, and her promotion of the same. Also, she makes a huge deal of giving to charity, to guests and the needy. It rubs me the wrong way. Giving in public does that.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Oprah cannot be denied. In a humanistic world call her Queen Oprah. She knows where all the buttons are and she makes her living pushing them."

That about sums it up. She's the Queen of Middle-Brow, i.e., women who read the women's magazines and maybe Newsweek and watched "Sex and the City" think they're smart and modern and liberated and thinking just the right thoughts. Oprah has a good feel for knowing just how far ahead of this group she can go without going too far. She has to be a LITTLE ahead of the group to be perceived as the Guru, but not so far ahead that she loses them.