
(Due to a technical error, this post is only now seeing the light of day - apologies the K.G. and you, our readers.)
Hello all, welcome to the first installment of your weekly update of the good, the bad and the ugly in the world of the Queen of all media, Ms. Oprah Winfrey.
Last week Opes (yeah “Opes,” we’re cool like that) was a huge Debbie Downer. Every day I looked forward to either a show with some sort of insane give-a-ways that would cause the audience to go rabid, or maybe one of her newly patented, “come on my show so I can tear you a new asshole in front of millions of viewers,” type of show, best exampled by Mr. James Frey. Alas, last week was serious Oprah with the Holocaust and suicide being big themes of the week. (Fun!)
Opes featured two days with Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor and author of the book Night. She traveled with Weisel to Auschwitz where the horrors of the holocaust were recounted. To summarize; Oprah was moved, Oprah cried, Oprah called Wiesel her hero.
The next day Oprah continues to depress America with a follow up episode featuring Elie Wiesel and a bunch of students from around the country who were winners in an essay contest describing how Wiesel’s Night is relevant to their lives. To summarize; Oprah was moved, Oprah cried, Oprah called the kids brave.
The following day Oprah featured CNN’s silver fox Mr. Anderson Cooper. Again the show was depressing as shit. Cooper discussed his childhood as the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, the loss of his father at age 10, the suicide of his brother and all the horrors he has witnessed as a journalist. To summarize; Oprah was moved, Oprah cried…you get the point.
More on the Anderson Cooper interview, after the jump.