Sam Smith - The talk about running Oprah Winfrey for president is an indicator of how little we have learned from Donald Trump and how we are increasingly equating public prominence with political competence. This is not a criticism of Winfrey as a person- only that the fact that she thinks and talks the way many like does not mean she's qualified to hold the most complex and difficult government post in the world.
Further, it's not Winfrey's fault that we are having an increasingly difficult time differentiating between experience and exposure, with Trump being the big turning point.Prior to Trump the only entertainer elected president was Ronald Reagan and he had worked eight years as governor of California. The mass media, however, is training us to ignore the difference between politics and show business and we're already paying the price. At the very least, Winfrey should follow in Reagan's footsteps and run for governor of California.
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Oh no, Sam, this should be a personal criticism of Oprah. She shares with The Donald the same pattern of encouraging the public to separate from reality, in pursuit of whatever fraudulence du jour is on offer. Her charlatan fingerprints are on a variety of toxic excrescences in the media landscape. (Exhibit A: Dr. Phil)
When we add in her slavish adherence to the Democratic Party and inability, since the vegan rancher controversy and lawsuit, to take stands on critical issues, the notion of Oprah as presidential candidate is even more horrifying than Trump. (Though maybe not as bad as Tom Hanks running for office.)
'Oprah 2020' is now in the running for the worst news of 2018.
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