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Oprah Winfrey kicks off her new season today in New York City!!! She spoke to Good Morning America about it this morning. Here’s the scoop:
After 22 seasons on the air, Oprah Winfrey said Monday on “Good Morning America” that she wasn’t nervous, unlike the last time she was in New York. That was in 1997, and she was preparing to interview Paul McCartney.
Letterman and Oprah
Winfrey’s first guest will be late-night talk show host David Letterman, a man with whom Winfrey said she has “an interesting history.” In 1995, while hosting the Oscars, Letterman infamously compared Oprah’s name with Uma Thurman’s.
For years, fans believed the talk titans were feuding, but Winfrey put the rumors to rest last year when she appeared as a guest on Letterman’s show.
“I was a little nervous because I wasn’t sure,” she said. “I thought, ‘OK. I sit down. When is the trapdoor going to open?’ I spent the whole hour waiting for the trapdoor and it never came.”
Now, as Letterman prepares to appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” the tables are turned.
“My goal is to make him as comfortable as possible,” Winfrey said. “I hear he’s a little nervous. That’s why he doesn’t like to see these interviews. It’s often true that people who are in control of the mic don’t like being on the other side of it.”
Another guest on the season opener will be Oprah’s very distant cousin — Lisa Marie Presley.
“I call her that because she really is any cousin, like 18th, 19th cousin,” Winfrey said. The women are related on Winfrey’s mother’s side.
Looking ahead, Winfrey’s second show will include interviews with some of the children who lost parents on Sept. 11 and have since rebuilt their lives. “I think about them,” Winfrey said. “Hardly a day goes by that I don’t think of those who sacrificed in 9/11.”
Winfrey said she was looking for the strongest way to honors those victims who have gone on after the terrorist attacks.
“I always think about [them] doing the simplest things,” Winfrey said. “Sometimes I’m pouring a glass of juice and I think of them. They did that, [on] an ordinary day and they never came back home.”
Winfrey said she believes those who died in the attacks gave their lives in order to alert America to the greater dangers facing the country.
“I often think of [the victims] as sort of angels who sacrificed for us that day, part of the wake-up call for America,” Winfrey said. “We woke up for a little bit and then we went back to sleep again.”
Oprah and Obama
The talk show queen has been in the press lately for more than her New York City show debut — on Saturday she hosted a star-studded political fundraiser for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. Winfrey said 1,657 attended the fundraiser, though she only knew 105 of the guests.
“I committed to it and then it was all over, like everybody’s coming to Oprah’s house,” she said. “I went, ‘Whoa, What have I done?’ So I was glad to do it and also glad that we got through it safely.”
Winfrey regularly propels authors to the bestseller list by featuring them in her book club and makes celebrities out of people like Dr. Phil. But endorsing a candidate is a departure for Winfrey, who helped raise $3 million at the fundraiser, and the move has political pundits wondering just how much influence her decision will have.
Winfrey said the decision was personal. “I really did it for myself,” she said. “I have never felt more compelled to become engaged in the political process in a way that I thought I could make a difference. I do believe that everybody makes a difference, certainly by your vote, and we’re in a world where we know that elections are won by thousands of votes, a few hundred votes.”
Winfrey said she believes everyone has the chance to take a stand in any way they can, and showing her support for Obama was her way of doing so. “I have a larger platform, a bigger voice,” she said. “But everybody has a voice.
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Dear Miss Oprah
YOU did a lot for this GREAT COUNTRY ,but what you are doing now is not right .
Obama is a great POLITICIAN ,but not jet a PRESIDENT Candidate .
This is the most critical Time and Election ever ,to vote for same one who is not qualified and put all this money in for his Election is in my Opinion careless .
We must vote for a for a Person who has what it takes and not becouse we like him .
You have a lot of money to spend and posseble to get Obama elected .
Is your Country not more importend then brain wasshing others who might go by what you say and think .
We can not gamble ,the pocket book is empty ,we lost Respeckt from all over the World ,we are near Bankrapsy and in a turmoil AMERICA HAS NEVER SEEN
FOR OUR GREAT NATIONS SAKE ,DO NOT USE YOUR MONEY POWER TO INFLUACE THE PEPLE WHO O WHAT YOU LIKE THEM TO DO .
It is my hope and wish that Senator Clinton will become Presedent of our great Nation ,she is the only one who has the experiance to bring America back to America for what it stands for
One Nation under God ,where every body counts .
I am honest with you ,I think what you do is a danger to this Country ,I hope it is not a powerply for you ,and that Amerca comes first and not your Ego .
You have Money but lack experiance in politics .
Thank you for all you have done to help us all in finding out what is in us and how to use it best .
Please stay to that ,Amareica needs Leadership and like Bush ,Obama is no leader at this Point.
Kindest regards
Thea Schlosser
Author of BEYOND THE DARK CLOUD ,REGARDING FIBROMIALGIO AND MISDIOGNOSES TO MILLIANS OF VERY Ill survivors .Iam one of them .
How wonderfull it would be if you could give us a helping Hand ,for what you known for so much .
Dear, thea schlosser
I totally disagree with you. That has been the problem here in American for years..Thses so call people with experience is part of the problem. If they had so much experienec how did we get into this war??Where was all this expereinec??Why didn’t they read all the information before signing on for war. What so sad is all the young people who lost their lives and limbs. I am fed up with all these experinced liars. I will give a chance to someone who perhaps will think before they do things..My heart is broken that on my watch as an American people are dying because of a LIE.
Oh! Stop hating because she’s beautiful!!!
THE ELECTION IS AROUND THE CORNER .
THE WORLD IS IN A TURMOIL AND WE BETTER THINK TIWICE BEFORE WE VOTE .
IT IS NOT WHO CAN WINN
IT IS WHO CAN SAVE THIS COUNTRY .
OPRAH ,YOU HAVE A HEART MADE OF GOLD ,BUT YOUR FRIEND MR OOBAMA IS NO TO READY TO BE PRESIDENT .
I LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WITH THIS COUNTRY AND YOU HAVE MADE US ALL BETTER PEOPLE ,I WISHED YOU WOULD STAY OUT OF POLITICS ,YOU ARE TO POERFULL TO SUPORT ANY ONE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT .
YES THERE ARE VERY RICH PELPLE WHO SUPORT OTHERS ,BUT NOBODY HAS THE INFLUENCE WITH AMAERICA ,LIKE YOU DO .
I WISH YOU WOULD HAVE ME ON YOUR SHOW ,I WTOTE A BOOK ,BEYOND THE DARK CLOUD
CFIDS-FIBROMYALGIA
AMERICAS
UNKNOWN EPEDEMIC .
WISHING YOU AND YOURS HAPPY NEW YEAR .
THEA SCHLOSSER
AUTHOR
with out money your not powerfull human being so in my openion let the people choice from thier own choices!in that way,no one where going to blame after all.let us raise the vice with no dictate.
oprah hope you’ll be success in every move you do coz i beleived in you!!iam your huge fan a filipina whos leaving in lebanon.
I am so happy ,that OPRRAH ,suported Obama ,and that he won the election .
I think Obama is doing a great job ,the best is yet to come ..
Thea S schlosser