Brainless, soccermom, minivanned, domineering feminists make me nuts, but one time in 1999, just as election 2000 talk was heating up, we were at a family gathering and something about Oprah came up. I'd known my older sister was an Oprah fan, but suddenly she got very quiet, lowered her eyes, looked up meekly, and in the most lowly, reverant, worshipful tone of voice said:
"I think she should run for president...."
It wasn't so much what she said, as how she said it, and the expression on her face. Genuine prostration, like for that moment she was on holy ground or something. Scary. I was stunned. All I could think of then, was that I doubted she would be that reverant toward God Himself. Not to mention this feminist pied piper really could rise to world power.
So then a few weeks later I was flipping the channels about 9:30ish, and came across the show, and it surprised me how different it was, as I hadn't watched her since the eighties. Ever sit down and watch just an average Oprah show lately? Her "spin" is very subtle, all cocooned in sugary caring-about-people-do-good-for-others feelings, but it's very strong and very leftist. You don't have to fear and love God, as long as you're "spiritual."
"SPIRITUAL?" What does that mean? Really big on angels, but not on God Himself.
What truly frightens me is the people in the audience, and again, the expressions on their faces. Complete adulation. Worshipers. It occurred to me that most of these chicks would be pressed to give the Lord himself the time of day.
So I wanted to run out and have my own bumper sticker printed that, in very small, beautiful, feminine letters would read:
But my back window already says, in collegiate lettering
and didn't want Rush to get blamed. Not to mention I might as well have painted a target on the car.
So anyway, a year or so later one of the local columnists wrote a piece in the Sun-Times in which he opined that Oprah has a messiah complex. As far as I know, he still has a job.
This is the scariest post that I've encountered in quite a while.
<p.I'm sorry, I know that she is your sister. Remember what happened when Ol Yeller started foaming at the mouth and becoming aggresive? There is a correlation. If something is not done, other people will be infeceted.<p.You know what must be done. I'm sorry.