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Sucks to be Oprah
By Josh Witten | June 16th 2009 11:15 AM | 7 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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Not only is Oprah getting called out by megalomaniacal graduate students and low-rent news magazines, now Reader's Digest has piled on. 
Celebrities may be perfectly qualified to evaluate sneakers, but that doesn't mean you want to learn biochemistry from them.
-Reader's Digest

Thems fighting words.  Unlike some of us, Reader's Digest actually targets some of Oprah's audience.  We'll have to wait and see if Oprah responds to Reader's Digest as irresponsibly and incoherently as she did to Newsweek. 

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Hank's picture
Wouldn't it only be megalomania if it were delusions of grandeur?   You're actually pretty grand, though your obsession with Oprah is of concern ... you may be like one of those macho guys who makes gay jokes because he wants to be gay.    So you can tell us, it's only the entire Interwebs reading; do you secretly yearn to schtupf Oprah?

Hank Campbell | 06/16/09 | 11:21 AM
jtwitten's picture
If it is a secret, it is a secret to me too.  The number of things I might secretly be a fan of, because I criticize them, is virtually unlimited.

Oprah is a center of mass in the media spotlight for the alternative med woonackery.  The ball is finally rolling on calling her on it and I'd like to keep it rolling.  I take no responsibility for the fact that the rest of the world can't get its act together and yell at Oprah all at once.

Hank, I may be pretty grand, but I may have delusions of being even grander.

Josh Witten | 06/16/09 | 12:24 PM
logicman's picture
Celebrities may be perfectly qualified to evaluate sneakers, but that doesn't mean you want to learn biochemistry from them.
-Reader's Digest


Wouldn't it only be megalomania if it were delusions of grandeur?   You're actually pretty grand, though your obsession with Oprah is of concern ... you may be like one of those macho guys who makes gay jokes because he wants to be gay.    So you can tell us, it's only the entire Interwebs reading; do you secretly yearn to schtupf Oprah?


This has been my best laugh-out-loud moment of the week.

Patrick Lockerby | 06/16/09 | 11:47 AM
adaptivecomplexity's picture
We'll have to wait and see if Oprah responds to Reader's Digest as irresponsibly and incoherentlyas she did to Newsweek. 

I can't wait to hear Oprah explain the Krebs cycle.  She could use some help from Becky.

Michael White | 06/16/09 | 15:55 PM
logicman's picture
I can't wait to hear Oprah explain the Krebs cycle.

What's to explain?
http://www.krebscycleproducts.com/

Patrick Lockerby | 06/16/09 | 16:09 PM
jtwitten's picture
This is what happens when inside jokes are posted on public comment threads.

Josh Witten | 06/16/09 | 16:35 PM
adaptivecomplexity's picture
Yeah, I couldn't quite bring myself to make this inside joke completely public... we do try to keep this place family-friendly, not always with success.

Michael White | 06/16/09 | 16:48 PM

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