To be fair, your dislike of Oprah could be due to her use of fame to praise pseudo-science, pseudo-psychology, and pseudo-medicine over the real things.

And there's the point where she says to the camera, "If you don't believe in real angels, who are you?" with obvious disdain for anybody who doesn't believe in angels. (I'm an atheist, BTW. It kind of puts me out in the cold whenever anybody says that a belief in supernatural entity X is one of the prerequisits for being an acceptable human being.)

Of course, that's not the entirety of her. Her gift-giving can be seen both as highly generous and as narcisistic simultaniously. And, she has done some remarkably good things beyond, such as massive donations to schools both domestically and in thirdworld countries.

Personally, I believe worship of anybody/thing does a grave disservice to both worshipper and worshipped. But, I also used to hold the belief that I don't truly know someone until I know two good reasons to wish them dead and four to wish them alive anyway.

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time'
TA this is exactly what I told the ex!!! I would have thought more of him if he tried, failed learned where he went wrong try again, instead of trying, failing then running to mummy dearest to rescue him (and they thought I was tough on him sheesh, lil me tough never :)

Great post, Tracy. I do see your points and you made me look at Oprah differently. I don't watch Oprah. I watched it a few times through the years but stopped when she started catering to celebrities. I liked it when she first came on and was the "house wives' talk show host". Remember she used to do regular things for regular people and topics that helped them. Then she started having celebrities and to me it went downhill. I will always admire Oprah for what she has accomplished but the way some people worship this woman is just ridiculous. Oprah is just a person and if she wasn't famous and on television no one would care what she thought, LOL. She does have power over others which sometimes is not a good thing but I see sometimes she is judgmental when it comes to other celebrities. I remember seeing Whitney on there (saw a little of that one) when she spoke of her drug use, and the show from years ago when Toni Braxton admitted she'd lost all her money to her manager or someone. Oprah tore into Toni and was rather flippant with Whitney in my opinion. Oprah has a habit of tearing into people sometimes but dressing it up. She does sometimes act like folks aren't allowed to make mistakes and gets this holier-than-though thing sometimes.

I still think she's a good person but she has many issues herself and she should remember that she's not perfect either and to be more understanding. She wants folks to be sympathetic about weight struggles well she should be the same to others all the time. It's funny too, because she acts like she can't believe it when folks turn down interviews for her shows. LOL! Maybe that's one of the reason some celebrities do. I heard Michael Vick did and I am NO Mike Vick supporter or fan but the man has the right to say no to Oprah. LOL!

“In pursuit of happiness, it's wise to travel the road towards your goal, not the road to perfection.”
Failure is truly an entity that lives and breathes. It’s like a candle that you just can’t blow out. It’s that perfect passenger that rides with you waiting for your life to break down so it can reveal all the ways that you could have avoided the situation if only you’d traveled a different road. In the pursuit of happiness I find that I often I want the perfection. I want the perfect ending to the story. I want a perfect, house, car and kids. I want my dreams or at least the dream that I had as a young woman to be that perfection of life. I want all my roads to be perfect and filled with happiness.
Happiness for me is a road, a highway of lives indelible prescription for what makes you happy with many stops along the way. The stops or house on the road are all perfect.
I’ve often thought the road to perfection is paved with the pursuit of happiness. Perfection has to lead to happiness doesn’t it. If I am perfect then there is no way I can’t be happy.
I’ve had to admit it over and over again that perfection is not happiness. The road to perfection is truly littered with broken down hearts, dreams, tears, goal, and sadness. I do believe that when we pursue perfection we pick up failure as a passenger that want get out the car.

Great post! I remeber my grandfather telling me that your only ever a failure if you let fear of the unknown keep you from trying something. I've tried to remeber that and not be afraid to try things. If I screw up so what! atleast I know I tried. I just need get up dust yourself off learn from it and keep it moving.