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Vice President Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions $1 million, just one example of millions the campaign spent on various entertainers during the vice president’s failed bid for president. The Harris campaign paid $1 million to Winfrey’s company on October 15, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, coming after a star-studded town hall that Winfrey hosted for the vice president in September. Winfrey also appeared at Harris’ final rally in Philadelphia on the eve of Election Day, with the talk show star offering a rare endorsement of a presidential candidate. “We’re voting for values and integrity,” Winfrey...

Well, this is awkward. After Federal Election Commission filings showed that the Harris-Walz campaign paid a cool million to Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions company for the town hall where Oprah endorsed Harris, Oprah denied it. Caught on a backstreet by one of those TMZ video crews and asked if it was true that "they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala," Oprah replied, "Not true. I was paid nothing, ever." “The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event that took place Sept. 19 outside Detroit, Mich.,” a spokesperson for Harpo said,...

If Groucho was the witty Marx Brother, Harpo was without a doubt the wild one. His persona of the silent lunatic who runs around wreaking havoc is one of the most instantly recognizable characters in movie history. But just who was the man behind the character? The answer to that is much different than people realize. Transcript of 15 minute video available.

After 25 years of success with The Oprah Winfrey Show, she put her hard-earned reputation on the line with the launch of her own dedicated TV channel. And it may not have been such a good idea, if new figures are anything to go by. The Oprah Winfrey Channel, OWN,  is apparently struggling to pull in the viewers. 

Daytime Diva Giving Up Syndicated Talk Show & Moving To Her Cable Network In 2011 (exerpt) The industry has been betting that the daytime diva would extend The Oprah Winfrey Show for at least another year or two because of the huge cash license fees which stations have long paid her. But people around Oprah are telling me that won't happen. They say that Discovery Communications chief David Zaslav has demanded that Oprah "move it or lose it" -- move her talk show to OWN, or risk losing the Oprah Winfrey Network altogether. I've learned that in coming days Winfrey...

On a train ride out of the Northeast corridor between Philly and D.C., I had one of those Jerry McGuire moments. ... You know, the kind of moment where some of the big picture ideas in life really crystallize. Unlike the character in the movie, I was thinking about the future of the conservative movement (not about the life of the uber sports marketing agent). The timing of my “mission statement” was tied to the tough week conservatives had just experienced in the U.S. Senate. We had a double setback of failing to produce a majority in support of a...

I'm told that 90 million people tuned in to Oprah Winfrey's interview with Michael Jackson not too long ago. That piece of depressing news made me think of what would happen if one of the apostles appeared on a major daytime TV talk show. As a matter of fact, the Apostle Paul did get a spot on the ancient world's equivalent: the Areopagus, where, as Acts records (Ch. 17), the Athenians did nothing but debate the latest idea. As one stupid thought leads to another, my imagination moved to an ad for the program: "Next, on The Oprah Winfrey Show:...

Dialers thought they were voting in her show's 'Pop Star Challenge.' Oprah Winfrey's "Pop Star Challenge" flooded a Corpus Christi business that sells valves and controls with toll-free voter calls that forced the business to shut off its own phone line. On Monday the "Oprah Winfrey Show," taped in Chicago, posted a toll-free number for viewers to vote on one of three vocalist finalists in the program's "Pop Star Challenge." Instead of casting their vote, thousands of callers reached the toll-free line for South Texas Valve & Controls. The owner was forced to call AT&T to disconnect the line. "The...

Oprah Winfrey is the most powerful woman in America. She decides what makes the New York Times best-seller lists. Her touchy-feely style sucks in audiences at the rate of 14 million viewers per day. But Oprah is far more than a cultural force -- she's a dangerous political force as well, a woman with unpredictable and mercurial attitudes toward the major issues of the day. Her ignorant views and wacky reasoning shape the views of millions. Oprah's latest target: the war in Iraq. In what previews described as an eye-opening hour, Oprah used her bully pulpit on March 18 to...

Alright, while Oprah did a good job last year on Iraq, today she decided to "blame America first," giving liberals...including wacked out Michael Moore...a forum to give their opinions. Staying true to liberalism, the show was all about how America caused 9-11 and we are responsible, not the terrorists. Sick! Let's let our opinion be known! Here's how to contact Oprah: Phone: 312-633-1000 E-mail page links: http://www.oprah.com/email/tows/email_tows_main.jhtml http://www.oprah.com/email/reach/email_reach_fromu.jhtml