Time magazine just released their list of the 100 most influential people on the planet and once again, Oprah has made the list. Being listed as one of the 100 most influential by the ultimate cultural authority is such a huge honor that if you make the list even once, it goes in the first paragraph of your wikipedia, but Oprah has made it an astonishing 11 times.
When Oprah first started in the 1970s, it was a huge disadvantage to be black but she’s managed to dominate the culture so long that being black is now almost an advantage in life as corporations like Time compete to show their wokeness. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to even hostile environments, and when you adapt long enough, you live to see those environments become friendly.
But far too brilliant to leave anything to chance, Oprah learned very quickly who has power and how to get on their good side. When Stephen Spielberg was on the cover of Time magazine circa 1985, Oprah was reading it.
“Put that stuff away,” he snapped at her.
“STUFF?” yelled Oprah, “STUFF? STUFF? STUFF?. This isn’t STUFF!!! This is TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!” she shrieked, “this isn’t STUFF?…This is Time’o’la! This is the print World’s Coca-cola!”
“I don’t read the good stuff,” said Spielberg, “so I don’t have to believe the bad”.
Time magazine may have heard about this famous exchange between the two show business heavyweights, and may help explain why she’s been honored by the magazine more frequently than any other woman, and rightfully so.
When Oprah first started in media, we were living under WASP rule so Oprah would cleverly suck-up to people like Johnny Carson.
However after doing a show on Satanic worship, Oprah found herself in BIG BIG trouble.
The show accidentally promoted the age-old antisemitic stereotype that Jews were Satanists to millions and millions of viewers. Despite the fact that she was the #1 talk show on TV, it looked like she was going to be taken off the air as Jewish groups were demanding she be cancelled.
Fortunately Oprah was able to adapt by figuring out which of the angry Jews had the most power and negotiating a compromise in which Oprah would release a statement admitting her show may have caused harm. Oprah was so grateful to this one powerful Jewish man who saved her show, that when he died, Oprah attended his funeral.
“What is she doing here?” the other Jews wondered.
“He did me a favour once” said Oprah, sensing their curiosity.
“What was the favour?”
“I’m not saying”
Another smart move. Why remind Jews that she once did a show that so unfairly harmed them.
Having won over Time magazine by badgering Stephen Spielberg, Oprah brilliantly sensed an opportunity to win over the Jewish community since by now they were more powerful than even WASPS.
A black lady on her show said The Piano should win the Oscar for best picture. Sensing her opportunity, Oprah moved in for the kill.
“The Piano over Schinlder’s List? THE PIANO OVER CHANGING LIVES!!!” Oprah yelled indignantly.
A Jewish old lady in the studio audience punched the air in solidarity with Oprah’s anger and God only knows how many more did the same from home.
Such cunning genius paid off. In 2006 Oprah was crowned the ONLY person worthy of visiting Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel. Not even U.S. presidents, royalty, Nobel Prize winners or the Holiest Jews were considered worthy of visiting those sacred grounds with Wiesel herself, and even though she knew little about the Holocaust, she adapted by repeating everything Wiesel said back to him in sacred whisper.
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Pumpkin Person 
“The show accidentally promoted the age-old antisemitic stereotype that Jews were Satanists”
How, just happened to be many Jews involved?
So basically you just wrote an article how Oprah was socially intelligent enough to bow down to the jews and get promoted in their magazine. I don’t think that proves anything. If Oprah was white the jews probably would have ended her career years ago.
Oprah was brilliant enough to get ahead by dominating the free market, but there’s only so high you can climb in the free market before gatekeepers start to notice you and decide whether they’ll let you keep the power that you have earned on your own. So having already adapted to the free market environment, Oprah learned very quickly how to adapt to the institutional power at a time when it was changing from WASP to Jewish.
The media isn’t a free market. Its a cabal.
It was much more of a free market when Oprah started her syndicated talk show in the 1980s. Back then 90% of U.S. media was owned by 50 companies. Today it’s owned by just 6.
The media has been a cabal since the start. You would know that if you read Devils Chessboard. The only big change now is that there is the internet which is a total revolution and allows for sites like this.
you misunderstood the book.
The media aren’t*
The media have been*
Oprah isn’t influential anymore. Shes basically been retired for 10 years now. They only put her in the list for diversity reasons. They were struggling to come up with an example of a black woman who could read so they dug deep and pulled out Oprah. Its actually very hard for our ruling class to find black women to put on tv who wont scare people.
I agree they put her on the list partly for diversity reasons but at the same time, she is still influential. Not anywhere near as influential as she used to be, but virtually nobody today is as influential as she used to be. The media is just so fragmented now that no single person can have as much as influence as Oprah had at her peak.
The list should be about influential people now…not ‘used to be influential’. No?
she’s influential now
On another note: PP, What do you like more?…oprah or her head?
Social intelligence question. Puppy who says the following line:
“Borders for me but not for thee”.
Duh!
Upper-middle-class and above liberals who live in gated communities and send their children to private schools which are whiter than whiteout, save for a few possible token minorities
Ganzir, for a brilliant guy, you’re very behind in some areas
Behind, why? Because I pointed out the obvious, or because I’m wrong?
Because you didn’t point out the obvious
What is obvious to you that I didn’t point out
peepee thinks atheists are better than oprah, a self-professed christian.
Not really a Christian
believer: 2 + 2 = 4
atheist: 2 + 2 = 5
agnostic: 2 + 2 = i don’t know.
christianity isn’t one thing peepee.
it’s many things.
all mugabe said, and which you lied about because low IQ, was…
of all the world’s religions the carthusian version of christianity is closer to ultimate reality than any except perhaps the kaihogyo of the tendai monks of japan.
oprah is ashamed of you.
you should be fired from your job with mossad.
why are you so pretentious Pumpkin?
Is this loaded?
I wanted to paste a screenshot of Oprah but I can’t. Any way to do it? Save it in my laptop and…something?
The cops stood outside because they were lazy and don’t believe in public service and thats because theyre latinos. Publish this.
Latinos lazy? They’re probably the hardest working people in the country. How do you know the cops were Latino?
Peeps, something i found on the net:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211621