Here is why Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey will be campaigning with Stacey Abrams this week.
Oprah Winfrey
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Bless Their Hearts, Conservative White Men Are Feeling Traumatized
It’s a reminder of the old saying that ‘when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.’
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Celebrity Heft Match: Do Democrats Really Need Their Own Trump?
The Democratic Party, as an institution, generally doesn’t support the idea that the presidency should be an entry-level position.
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A Sean Hannity Presidential Run? Don’t Rule It Out
There’s no reason to think that Hannity won’t run for the presidency.
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Above the Rim: Charles Barkley Dunks on Fox News
About 25 years ago, Charles Barkley starred in an iconic commercial in which he declared that he should not be regarded as a role model. With his on-point recent remarks about Fox News hack Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault on LeBron James, perhaps we should in fact regard Barkley as a role model: In today’s charged […]
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Hard to Blame Oprah for Not Wanting to Run for President
To paraphrase a famous Colin Powell line, it’s a calling she does not yet hear: Oprah Winfrey says she doesn’t have “the DNA” for a presidential bid, dismissing the possibility of a 2020 run as “not something that interests me,” according to a new magazine profile. Winfrey spoke to InStyle magazine before her rousing Golden […]
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Rocky Road: Enough Already of the Dwayne Johnson Presidential Talk
I felt a little embarrassed for Jonathan Allen of NBC News last week when, in a piece about potential challengers to Donald Trump in 2020, he wrote the following: Former Vice President Joe Biden is going to look a lot like a presidential candidate this year. He plans to raise money for Senate Democratic incumbents, […]
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Why is Bill Kristol Promoting an Oprah Winfrey Presidential Campaign?
Why the hell is he with her? William Kristol’s cheerleading for an Oprah Winfrey presidential run is arguably the most disturbing non-Trump development of the new year. Notwithstanding my skepticism about celebrity involvement in politics, if Winfrey is actually serious about running, she should disavow the Kristol vision in the strongest terms possible. It’s fairly […]
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Why Oprah Winfrey’s Speech Mattered
Last night she brought us together in hope.
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Jimmy Fallon’s Surrender to Donald Trump
His words couldn’t be any more pathetic. You could see the beads of flop sweat on Jimmy Fallon’s face on Sunday Today, as he tried to defend his reluctance to subject Donald Trump to intense ridicule on The Tonight Show: He doesn’t like talking about politics? He prefers to talk about pop culture? Dude, Trump […]
