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| 2009-05-12 |
| Wall Street Journal During a speech to Duke University's graduating class, Oprah talked about the secrets and joys of success. Among them: owning a mansion and a jet. "It's great to have a nice home. It's great to have nice homes! It's great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara," she told the students. "It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you." She went on to explain that "you haven't completed the circle of success until you help someone else move to a higher ground and get to a better place." The golden nugget here is the jet part. In these times of hair-shirt capitalism and envy politics, the wealthy have been going to great lengths to pretend they don't enjoy luxury or want nice stuff. If Oprah were like most of the faux-populist rich today, she would have said something like, "I don't need private jets, in fact I'm happier flying commercial and living in a small house. I like the simple life." Of course, she would be lying. But she didn't. She told the truth, which is that flying in a private jet is one of the great material perks that money can buy. Talk to anyone who used to be rich and they will say one thing they really miss is the jet.... [AlGore] So, Oprah, how do you sleep at night? Do the dead polar bears and snail darters haunt your dreams? You'll be first agaist the wall when the revolution comes, you know that, don't you? [/AlGore] |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 Sound like a variant of the old TV show "Queen for a Day," Jumbo. Plus ça change.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-12 23:22 |
| #4 Does anyone have any idea how this woman got to be where she is? Because I don't have a fuckin clue... It's a simple formula really, it is called a pity party. Same principle as a circus freak show. They find some poor person with a tale of woe and they parade them out to the stage. Everyone feels sorry for the pity-freak but feels strangely better about their own pathetic lives. My life may suck, but not as bad as that! The audience then feels that they have performed some sort of service to the freak by listening and feeling bad for them. |
| Posted by: Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-05-12 22:01 |
| #3 Does anyone have any idea how this woman got to be where she is? Because I don't have a fuckin clue... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-05-12 12:28 |
| #2 I'm sure Bambi and his cronies will slip in a special exception for her somehow don't worry. After all, what are friends for? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-05-12 10:57 |
| #1 Wait, I'm confused. Isn't she a member of the "Evil Rich" that we're supposed to be taxing the crap out of? |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-05-12 10:20 |