Oprah Slaps Bush With 30 states poised to smack down women's rights

[Clinton Crusader]

http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

So there she was, the nation's most powerful and popular public female, kicking butt on a recent installment of her insanely beloved TV show with the help of celeb guests (Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, P. Diddy, Christina Aguilera) and galvanizing stunned women across the nation to participate in this election, or else.

There was Oprah, doing what she does so freakishly well, cheerleading and extolling and impressing upon, getting women up and getting them angry and demanding that they exercise their hard-won right to vote and demanding that they quit dissing their feminist ancestors, the ones who worked so damn hard for suffrage and for freedom of choice and for the right to tell powerful sexist Republican men where they can shove their repressive sexist antichoice bigotry.

This was her fabulous, much-needed message: Take your rights for granted at your peril, ladies. Move, or else. Choose how you want the laws to treat and respect you and your body -- or someone else, someone who hasn't touched a vagina for 30 years and who thinks sex is only tolerable in the dark, fully clothed and with a respectable prostitute, will choose for you.

Sound like a cliché? Same ol' quasi-feminist rally message? Not exactly. Not this time. Just imagine this:

Imagine Bush filches another election in November. Nations mourn, black clouds gather, children cry, colons spasm, the remaining shreds of the American experiment wither and die.
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[Cha]

1. Saw most of the show.."Oprah's Voting Party"..and it

was Killer! She stuck it to bush a couple of times at least..not by name but by strong insinuation.

Check out the picture.."Vote Or Die"
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200409/tows_past_20040929.jhtml

[BUSHOUT]

2. When did this show air? n/t

[spooky3]

3. She is a powerful force and absolutely right on this.

[seabeyond]

4. about damn time

i was an oprah watcher and participated on her chat board for years, before it was shut down. when she had bush and gore, i looked at her a little harshly what she gave to the woman, the charmin texan instead of the snake.........then when she had arnold on i said, you walked over the line. arnold said things on her show, in outrage, and the women laughed like you naughty boy instead of bullshit, i big you pardon. i stopped watching. she betrayed all she had been saying

[ochazuke]

5. Presidential candidates appeared on Oprah in 2000

But not this time?

[KittyWampus]

6. Still Doesn't Amend Her Having Arnold On. He Is Just The Same

as Bush but with packaging that some find more palatable.

[LTR]

8. That had nothing to do with politics

It had everything to do with Arnold's celebrity. I can't blame her for having him on. Gropenegger used his celebrity to win office.

[KittyWampus]

16. You're Not Suggesting Oprah Was Too Dumb To Realise That

are you?

On the other hand, Oprah thinks it's appropriate to allow a GOP candidate to use her office to win an election? A candidate who met with Ken Lay? Who has delusions of grandeur?

A GOP candidate who was in an election that was DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR HIM and which essentially a mockery of democracy?

[Raster]

7. The courts are the ultimate issue. And Numero Uno is a woman's...

...right to choose. And before the pro-life set swoops in, NO ONE IS PRO ABORTION! Got it! We are all about the basic right of a woman to choose. We believe that women are 100% citizens and equal to men in every way. Women are not some type of relationship chattel or human broodmares. The issue, no matter how complicated so many try to make it, is choice. Do you support it or not? You know where $hrubco stands.

[Scairp]

12. It isn't just about abortion

We have pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control, and mostly getting away with it. What's next, refusing to sell condoms unless they see a wedding ring on your finger? Or not at all? No, this is not even completely about abortion at all. It's about maintaining the right and easy access to birth control as well. This abstinence shite is for the birds. And you know what they call people who use "natural" family planning.....parents.

[Raster]

19. The thing that $hrub said last night, something about homes for....

...unwed mothers??? What's next, state mandated reproduction? Genetic pairing or culling? No fucking way.

[Rose Siding]

9. Morford writes like a woman!

:loveya:

(honorary title- he doesn't get to keep it)

[TexasSissy]

10. But Oprah's a Repub. ????? I thought she was voting for *.

[GOPBasher]

11. Oprah is openly partisan?

I know she's liberal, but I didn't know she used her show to advance any agenda. Someone help me here.

[Cha]

13. See post# 1..

She used her show to advanced Mega Agenda!

[wickywom]

14. She had a giant baby shower for pregnant military women

Monday.. too painful to watch.
.. but i noticed she had Ben Affleck on right at the beginning thanking them for their
service.. yada yada..

Anyone who knows who he is knows he actively supports Kerry.

The crowd gave him hardy cheers.

[Chili]

15. don't forget Maria

Oprah is very close to Maria Shriver, they've been friends for over 20 years, at least, if not more. They go back to when Oprah was an anchor on Chicago local news (not a Chicagoan, can someone confirm?) Having Arnold on proabably was an endorsement, but of the husband of one of her closest friends, not so much that of a Republican governor. I don't think it had anything to do with her personal politics.

[mzmolly]

17. Damn, I missed that one.

:hi: Course I don't watch much TV these days.

[ismnotwasm]

18. Wow, just wow

That man just put into words what I have been trying to express to every young women who doesn't roll her eyes and walk away. TAKE BACK the word feminist! Empowering the feminine spirit/body is not a "style" nor is it "politics" althought we've had to fight the good fight on both levels. Rock on Oprah. Maybe I will actually watch her show now--truly not my cup of tea, but then, most of TV isn't. All three of my daughters and my son are voting, from the oldest one in the army to the youngest who just turned 18. Me to all when they became of age--did you register, are your friends registered? Now I ask them-- bit of a nag, I admit,(not too bad) Are you voting, are you sure you're registered "yes, Mom, I registered, and I'm voting for Kerry! Such Sweet music to a mothers ears.