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While Oprah Winfrey is all smiles as she stumps for presidential hopeful Barack Obama, the National Enquirer reports she isn’t smiling at home. And Obama is part of the problem. The magazine claims the media mogul and her partner of over 21 years, Stedman Graham, have sought counseling to cope with Stedman’s jealousy and Oprah’s less than loving feelings. Complete Story...
Even before Oprah Winfrey had left the building during the weekend's big campaign rallies for Barack Obama, the candidate's team had begun an intensive follow-up effort — trying to turn tens of thousands of Oprah fans into Obama voters.
The Oprah and Obama tour hit South Carolina Sunday, with the talk show host and medial mogul exhorting nearly 30,000 to ignore Barack Obama's detractors and help him capture the Democratic nomination and the presidency.
Talk-show diva Oprah Winfrey said worry about the direction of her country and a personal belief in Barack Obama pushed her to make her first endorsement in a presidential campaign, invaluable support in a tight race for the Democratic nomination.
Even before Oprah Winfrey adopts her familiar pose — microphone in hand — in the unfamiliar venue of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama is already reaping the benefits of her high-wattage celebrity backing.
Oprah Winfrey will join Democrat Barack Obama again on the campaign trail, this time visiting the early contest states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, the candidate's campaign said Monday.
Frustrated with just donating money to charities, Oprah Winfrey says she built a school for poor girls in South Africa because she wanted to feel closer to the people she was trying to help.
The Oprah book club has been quiet for months, but the Winfrey touch remains golden.
Oprah Winfrey has famously given members of her audience new cars, paid off their debts and fulfilled their wildest dreams. Now she's given them what she calls the "gift of giving back."
Oprah Winfrey and her friend Gayle King want to be clear: they're not gay. In the August issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, the talk-show host explains that some people misunderstand her close friendship with King.
Harper Lee, author of the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird," has written a rare published item — a letter for Oprah Winfrey's magazine on how she became a reader as a child in a rural, Depression-era Alabama town.
In a turn perhaps inspired by Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson, Oprah Winfrey crashed several Tulsa wedding receptions over the weekend, collecting footage that will be seen on her show.
Oprah Winfrey has signed a three-year, $55 million deal with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. to launch a new radio channel beginning in September, Winfrey and XM announced Thursday.
Great public relations business story at Wall Street Journal online about pay-per-placement PR -- its successes and shortcomings.
As Oprah Winfrey leapt into the political arena last week, TNR takes a look back at Lee Siegel's 2006 examination of the talk-show queen.
THIS campaign season has been in desperate need of its own reincarnation of Howard Beale from "Network": a TV talking head who would get mad as hell and not take it anymore.
ON December 8th Hillary Clinton received what should have been a boost from Andrew Young, one of the giants of the civil-rights movement. Mr Young pronounced that he wants her chief rival, Barack Obama, to be president—but in 2016, not 2008.
How we celebrate festivals may differ in many ways, but what remains true and constant is that festivals are the celebration of life, its enjoyment and goodness.
What is it that has cheapened our political system so that no candidate is complete without a celebrity endorsement.
Today marks the anniversary of my best friend's death. My favorite saying "There's no one like dad, except granddad." As the oldest and first born in a family of all girls, I was truly blessed with two incredible heroes in my life.
"I'm not Oprah." So said actor Tim Robbins this afternoon in an acknowledgement that he may not have the drawing power of Oprah Winfrey, who drew 18,000 for Sen. Barack Obama in Iowa last week, reports Rob Christensen.
For years, persons of color and women have contemplated having one of their own in the White House. Hillary Clinton was the person who was considered the likely person to break through in 2008.
* COLUMBIA, South Carolina, December 9, 2007 (IMNS & Politisite.com) --
Seattle's own Pulitizer prize winning political cartoonist comments on Oprah-Obama
It's Monday and today on The Lunch Rob and Will look back at the weekend on the campaign trail. Republicans were in Miami to talk immigration, Hillary woke up to some unpleasant mail and Fred Thompson keeps phoning it in.
Call it the "Oprah effect," a phenomenon the political world is watching warily. Not because celebrity endorsements are new, but because Ms.
Parody of Oprah's campaign for Obama ("Anyone who lets Tom Cruise put his shoes on your furniture ain't got no business telling America who to vote for.")
They call it "the O Factor." Oprah Winfrey is, at least in marketing and sales terms, a force of nature.
oprah sick of politics and more on the news
Saint Barack Obama has finally figured out a way to not sound like a lightweight when he speaks: let Oprah do the talking.
excerpted quote: "We can't spend all our time triangulating and poll-testing our positions because we're worried about what Mitt or Rudy or Fred or the other Republican nominees are going to say about us."-OBAMA
Syndication titan Roger M. King, most recently CEO of CBS Television Distribution, died Saturday from complications of a stroke he suffered Friday at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 63.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Sunday told thousands of people in a football stadium in this early voting state to shrug off Barack Obama's detractors and help him "seize the opportunity" in his bid for the White House.
Oprah pushed all the right buttons. She lit up my screen. She said all the right things. She moved me. She moved the audience. I hope she moves a nation. She did what I have asked so many others with great influence and power to do. Speak up for America.
The appearances come a few weeks before the crucial January 3 Iowa caucus.
....The actor who kicked copious butt on "Walker, Texas Ranger" is now attempting to bench press a presidential candidate from obscurity to front-runner with his endorsement of Mike Huckabee.
November 28, 2007, 10:55 AM ET Katie Hasty, N.Y. After seven weeks on the chart, Josh Groban's holiday set "Noel" finally overtakes The Billboard 200 at No. 1. The 143/Reprise album ascends 2-1, selling 405,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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