Posted on 06/10/2005 2:46:21 PM PDT by CHARLITE
It isn't support for the Palestinian cause. It's anti-Semitism cloaked in respectability.
Sounds like Oprah and Louis Farrakan should team up!
I'm not surprised. Oprah is a useful idiot who has helped make America a nation of victims and weaklings.
When you think about it, this pro-Palestinian bias in the entertainment industry goes back quite a long way; - decades. I distinctly recall Vanessa Redgrave receiving her Oscar at the Academy Award ceremonies, using her acceptance speech as a podium for a very long-winded anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian promotional speech. At the time, her sentiments weren't widely received as approvingly as they might be today.
What is even more astounding to me is to witness an industry which has so many Jewish people in it, endorsing anti-semitic and anti-Israel propaganda! But then, I've never understood how Jewish people could ever belong to the Democrat party, or be liberals anyway.
To be sure, Oprah isn't Jewish, so she's playing the liberal "victicrat" card all of the time. People on her show are nearly always whining victims, or they are celebrities endorsing the victim card.......not very different from Howard Dean telling us all how it is that "people of color" can't make it in the Republican Party!
For pete's sake! George W. Bush has been a powerhouse in elevating outstanding non-white, non-European Americans to positions of power, responsibility and influence throughout the top posts in his administration!
Char
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But that's the essence of a Liberal. I know many of them, and they all feel noble because they "care about the victims". Of course, they need to have victims to further their agenda. If one group escapes victimhood, they'll find another group to label.
Helping people get ahead, especially by their own efforts, does not suit a liberal agenda.
"Helping people get ahead, especially by their own efforts, does not suit a liberal agenda."
A liberal must first of all always retain a position of perceived superiority - how can he/she 'help people get ahead by their own efforts' - and not remove the edifice (victimhood)they stand upon?
If everyone was encouraged to be responsible for themselves the liberal animal would become extinct.
To be sure, Oprah isn't Jewish, so she's playing the liberal "victicrat" card all of the time. People on her show are nearly always whining victims, or they are celebrities endorsing the victim card.......not very different from Howard Dean telling us all how it is that "people of color" can't make it in the Republican Party!
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(chuckle) Oprah has found a niche within the ranks of the slobbering leftist camp, she makes her employees sign heavy-duty non-disclosure agreements about her deliberate design and methodologies, etc. -- she knows exactly what she is targeting and doing. Her brand of commercial-liberalism-for-gain is just another facet of the God-awful left. At least her contribution to furthering a weak American liberal sector, is less damaging than others.
The Hollywood Jews are an enigma. My take is that they don't care. They live in a bubble of money anyway, well protected and isolated from reality. In this regard, I don't consider them "bona-fide" Jews at all. Interesting!
Not quite. That is the definition of "limousine liberal", but there are others who need to keep their "victim" status. Race hustlers, Feminists, and gays all buy into the notion of victimized people as well.
Hey, Char! Oprah is so chic-contrarian, so enlightened "liberal", so "above the line" elite as proven by her outspoken perverse support of Palestine over Israel. Has Oprah joined the Black Muslims? I respected Oprah's rise to becoming an American icon...until lately.
Having a few days off, I had the misfortune of watching Oprah a while back (okay, I was ogling Aishwarya Rai if you must know!) and I have to say that Opray is a complete idiot. I was embarrassed for her during the interview. She seems to have somehow traded on her sex, race or whatever to become the "queen" of daytime television, but I bet no one could tell you why.
It was just sad. She is simply an entertainer, and a bad one at that.
Many of these big celebrities are only that - celebrities. Most of them have little or no formal education. Very few have college degrees. They get watermelon-sized heads because they were good at whatever they did to get to the top..........like.......Streisand had (has?) a fabulous voice. How does that give her a PhD in political science and foreign affairs? Martin Sheen? George Soros? Michael Moore? Dixie Chicks?.....etc.
Char :)
She is a feminist and I never watch her tripe, but my sister did until she was interviewing "swingers" and glorifying the degenerate lifestyle on her afternoon show. She tries to normalize the radical left ideals.
How succinct is that. Now I know what to say to leftist traitors when I meet them.
Thanks for the ping!
She did just that already several months back on a show featuring the lives of 30 year old women in countries acros the world. Among them, a Jordanian woman and a woman from another Arab country.
The gist of their stories made their lives and life in general in their countries sound close to paradise...
I was making choking and gagging noises during those portions of the program...
A.A.C.
Does anyone remember an Oprah show promoting "PEACE" and the Right To Sovereignty for Israel?
Char
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