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You know it was Oprah who got Dubya elected, don't you?

On one of my sick days, I did channel surf over to Oprah's show.
She was having Chris Rock back on for a return appearance.
IIRC correctly, they rolled some tape from his last appearance and he was
(kindly) ragging on Oprah because "you know you got Dubya elected, girl!".

And then they came back to Rock (on the present show) and he said "Dubya has done a
great job since 9-11"...and he said a few other positive things about Dubya.

I just about freaked out...thought I'd had a stroke.

Good thing I won't see this current show without this warning...I might have had a heart attack.

You know it was Oprah who got Dubya elected, don't you? She's a very reasonable and conservative person at heart, certainly no Donohue.

If that is true, then maybe we should put Oprah on the job here in Michigan to defeat Granholm.

You are kidding, right??

I saw her show when the President was on. She hosted both Gore and Bush. When Gore was through, she held her hand up beside her face and pointed to her hand with her finger, and mouthed the words, "vote for this one".

If that's supporting Bush - I'm shocked!!

Then, when Bush was on - she was very nice to him, but you could see a certain reservation in her actions. When the interview was over, she ended the show and they started running the credits - at that time, the camera panned to a wide-angle view and off to the right side of the stage (behind Oprah's view), the audience STOOD UP. As soon as they did, the rest of the audience stood up too. Oprah was genuinely taken by surprise as the standing audience (like a big wave) came into her line of vision. The look on her face was stunning - as the whole audience STOOD AND GAVE BUSH A STANDING OVATION. And ... the cameraman was wonderful and took an even wider angle shot and got the whole audience reaction - it was an awesome moment.

However, I think 9/11 has jarred a lot of people into thinking differently. They may not vote differently, but they are using a different thought process. I was very wary of this show because I expected Oprah to have all the liberal anti-war people on to Bash the admin. I'm glad to hear that was not the case.