It is kind of shocking and shameful to read the American media trying to rationalise why Hillary won the New Hampshire round. Everyone is saying that it is because there was that moment when her voice broke and her eyes welled up and thus all women voters in a frenzy of sympathy went into th epolling stations with a vengeance and save their sister, as Oprah Winfrey would have said.
But Oprah-fying the situation is the most idiotic thing that the American media could be doing (which it IS doing!). It shows the media writers/commentators' utter lack of undertanding of their fellow Americans.
To a keen observer of world politics like me, the reason is plain and simple: it is the words that she uttered (her vision of what the U.S. should be and can be) during the so-called teary-eyed-moment that convinced voters that she should be sitting in the white house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the American media's foolish obsession with exit polls and also a propensity for conjecturing things out of thin air (like women like to see Hillary's softer side etc) -- this is all utter rubbish.
Like one of Larry King's guest put it SO accurately -- American's will choose a candidate who they think can best do the job in the White House and not choose a candidate because she is a woman or he is black. (Sorry Obama - you are inexperienced - so you're out! Along with the rest of the men. It is going to be Hillary's White House!)
Thursday, January 10, 2008
IT IS HILLARY CLINTON'S WHITE HOUSE
Friday, October 12, 2007
OPRAH WINFREY... SHORT STORY
SHORT STORY...
Oprah's private moments...
Oprah always loved her private moments. It was always a few hours before her TV show started when she would be in her dressing room, all alone. Her hair and make-up had already been done in the morning before she left the house and it will all be done all over again later before the show starts. Sigh, such is the trying life of a superstar diva, she tittered to herself girlishly.
Oprah loves these quiet moments because she sometimes came up with ideas that she would later discuss with the show's producers, comprising: "Me, me and me," she gigled like a giddy schoolgirl as she powertripped.
Such alone times were treasured by Oprah and all her staff knew that and they never bothered her during these moments. This is where she had the brainwave to give every audience member a car a while back, after all. And everyone in the industry knows that the ratings of her show went up all over the world because of that.
How spectacular can one of my entrances be for one of the future show, she wondered. Then, for some strange reason, she remembered the scene with Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge where Nicole was on a trapeze above the audience. "Perhaps I should be wearing a pair of beautiful fairy wings (I'll get Vera Wang to design it!), a little tutu and ballet shoes as I swing up above the audience, and when the spotlight hits me, I shall sprinkle fairy dust on the audience as they look up and gasp," she thought to herself.
She will save that idea for the week after Halloween. For Halloween, she wanted to surprise everyone.
"I will appear in a witch's hat, with ghastly rotten green teeth and unglamarous witch's wardrobe," she thought, with the left index finger fashionable poised at her cheek as she purposefully wrote it down.
"Then, I shall rip off the drabby clothes and the hologram that is precision-projected to make my teeth rotten shall be switched off and the hologram witch's hat will also be turned off as well and my usual glamourous big hair will be revealed as the audience applauds," the words ringed in her very big head and even bigger hair as she thought about them.
She would only settle for a hologram hat as she could NEVER EVER imagine messing up her fabulous big hair do.
Then, another brilliant brainwave hit her: perhaps she should get her dentist to embed teeny weeny little diamonds on her teeth so that when she smiled at the camera in the studio, they would sparkle and bedazzle. And...
*"Knock, knock!"*
Oprah was roused from her very, very private revelry and, having adjusted her plush robe, said, "Come in." Showtime was approaching.
Monday, October 01, 2007
OPRAH WINFREY
Oprah Winfrey bores me. What's that? Oh, I am not her target audience, you say. Thank goodness... hmmm, now this post is going to sound silly because of that. But am I going to let that stop me?
Miss Winfrey is on a list by Forbes which places her at at the top as the richest celebrity on television. (You have got to hand it to the Americans - if they are at the top of a certain list, in all probability they are also at the top of the same list on the global scale.)
Anyway, the amazingly already-rich woman is reported to have earned an estimated US$260 million between June 2006 and June 2007. That, by any measure, is a lot of money!
To help her along on the list-thing, I personally would vote het at the top of a list as the celebrity who has appeared in the most number of lists. Just to hellp her along, I would even create fictitious lists for things like Woman with Best Big Hair (Sorry Mizz Diana Ross -- WE KNOW IT IS A WIG!!!); Woman with the Best Website; Woman with Most Number of Celebrity Friends; (Only) Woman Celebrity Who Reads Books; Woman Who Has Said "You go girl!" The Most Number of Times; Woman Who has Made The Most Appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show; AND Woman Instantly Associated with a Big 'O' (you naughty girl, Oprah!).
