Obama pays off Massive campaign contributor with special favor.

[onehandle]

Below she pretends this favor was not agreed to before the election:


Those are among the feel-good revelations contained in ABC's "Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special," set to air Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern time. Talk show host and Obama endorser Oprah Winfrey was in town last week to film the special, following a protracted negotiation for the president's time.

"From the very first day they moved into the White House, I started calling Robert Gibbs and asking not for the first interview because number one, I didn't think I was going to get the first interview for the first 100 days -- but I wanted an opportunity to sit down with them in a comfortable setting that all of America would be familiar and relate to," Winfrey said in a statement released by her production company along with some advance excerpts from the show.

"So I started asking when they first moved in to do a Christmas Special, because I wanted to be at the White House during Christmas time and to experience their first Christmas in the White House," she continued. "So this has been in the making for a very, very long time."

Winfrey walks the president and first lady down memory lane.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/oprahs-white-house-special-a-p.html

[jefferson_dem]

1. A joke, right?

You're not really suggesting quid pro quo... That Oprah exchanged her support for candidate Obama for the interview if he were to get elected. Are you?

[onehandle]

2. I'm kidding on the sly.

I suspect that there was an unspoken agreement. But it wasn't for her support, so no quid pro quo.

[HopeOverFear]

3. who the hell would unrec this?

[babylonsister]

5. The title sounds like another O slam; maybe that's why someone did. nt

[HopeOverFear]

6. good point n/m

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. I've added four people to my ignore list

So I can't see thread that they start. You'd be amazed at how much different this board looks.

I know some people don't like the Ignore function and I respect that. But over the past two months the Obama-bashing threads have gotten out of hand.

[Cha]

11. Oh, the ignore feature is a blessing.

I used it during primaries and then didn't but this last week has finally made me realize that they're only a monotonous distraction.. not worth anymore of my time.

[firedupdem]

4. someone should investigate this n/t

[onehandle]

7. This sounds like a job for Republicans!

If only they mattered.

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Yep they can hold hearings in the basement with no subpoena power like Conyers did

Of course Conyers was actually investigating something that mattered.

[Lord Helmet]

8. LOL.