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steve2470

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Thu Aug 8, 2013, 09:11 PM Aug 2013

Oprah, Ben Bradlee Getting Presidential Medal Of Freedom

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/oprah-presidential-medal-of-freedom-ben-bradlee_n_3727670.html?ref=topbar

President Obama will give two media legends—Oprah Winfrey and former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee—America's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.

Bradlee led the Post to its highest heights during the Watergate years. Oprah is, of course, Oprah.

“Good God, how fabulous,” Bradlee told the Post. “What more can a man get? I feel terribly honored. What does a person do to deserve this kind of prize?”

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Oprah. The queen of woo woo. longship Aug 2013 #1

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Oprah. The queen of woo woo.
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 09:21 PM
Aug 2013

The enemy of critical thinking. Promotes Jenny "Anti-Vaccine" McCarthy, Doctor "I support a fraud who sells psychic surgery" Oz, Dr. "I am the worst marriage therapist on the planet but I can do it when Oprah pays me" Phil.

Oprah is a nightmare of feel good, anti-science populism, none of which makes any kind of sense.

She is evil because she's made billions marketing outright quackery.

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