Oprahism

Liza Featherstone lfeather32 at erols.com
Mon Nov 25 14:48:42 PST 2002


Actually, more recently she has become an avid proponent of Dr. Phil, who is the stark opposite: whatever happened in your childhood, get over it, stop indulging in "negative thinking," etc.

Liza


> From: Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:30:40 -0800 (PST)
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Oprahism
>
>
> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>> IS Oprah Winfrey the next L. Ron Hubbard? The
>> touchy-feely talk show
>> titan is the leader of a new American religion, says
>> University of
>> North Carolina professor Kathryn Lofton.
>
> Definitely. She became Pope of that church after John
> Bradshaw's PBS series stopped being aired. The main
> message of this church: Redemption through incessant
> sobbing and incessant digging into minutiae of your
> childhood. Get with the program: Life is a vale of
> tears...if yours isn't, then you must be in denial!
>
> -Thomas
>
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