Oprah: Sounder on economics than Bernie Sanders, understands Middle America better than Elizabeth Warren, less touchy-feely than Joe Biden, more pleasant than Andrew Cuomo, more charismatic than John Hickenlooper.#ImWithHer
OK, I am not going to do the Diogenes thing and walk around in the daylight looking for the one celebrity who holds a shred of doubt about the transcendant nature of Barack Hussein Obama. We already found an unemployed John Voight, an unemployed Bo Derek and uh, uh...and the list goes on and on.
What I am proposing is that we update the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. Let's face it, the movie version ran its course. Let's do the Praise Obama on YouTube version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
We'll start with an easy one. Say you are challenged to link Spike Lee to Kevin Bacon. Spike Lee appears in the Associated Press's cheesy propaganda vid, "Obama Ushers in 'new Age'" with Kevin Bacon. Easy and fun.
But let's do one that's a bit more challenging. Keith Olbermann. Ahem. Ok. Keith Olbermann was with Spike Lee in MarzuqVision's "U.S. Government A Puppet Of Big Oil" and Spike Lee appears in the Associated Press's cheesy propaganda vid, "Obama Ushers in 'new Age'" with Kevin Bacon. Two degrees of separation.
OK, but that vid could be challenged on the "mandatory slurp" rule. In fairness, there wasn't a lot of slobbering and drooling for The Chosen One in the preceding vid. We'll try to link Olbermann in a series of slobbering, drooling vids but in the meantime, let's link Oprah to Kevin Bacon. Here the slurp factor is not an issue. You might want to turn the volume down a notch or two.
Oprah Winfrey was in 2tellthenews' "Oprah Lies to her audience,obama,Tricks or Treat,Spike Lee" with Spike Lee. And....
Spike Lee appears in the Associated Press's cheesy propaganda vid, "Obama Ushers in 'new Age'" with Kevin Bacon.
Praise Obama on YouTube version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Hours and hours of amusement! Fun for the whole family!
I am as quick as anyone to dismiss the old media. Just two weeks ago Katie Couric scored the lowest ratings EVER for "CBS Evening News" and other news channels not named Fox are not doing so well either. "The Boston Globe" is on life support and it's fending off other rags for use of the ventilator. But just because the industry as a whole is doing poorly does not mean that everyone's doing poorly.
Oprah Winfrey is perhaps the most powerful woman in America, if not the world. Her role in Obama's success has been trumpeted but her influence might have gotten lost in the crowd. When 99% of the media sing from the Obama song book, it is easy to overlook the influence of one mighty voice. Not all endorsements are created equal.
Winfrey was a factor in the 2008 election and she will continue to be an influence on matters of public concern. The report is scholarly and dry and it's 59 pages long. But it does its job of spelling out the titanic influence of Oprah Winfrey.
