Oprah is officially the shit.

Ok, I admit I don't always like her. In fact sometimes I despise her. But after today, Oprah just landed square at the top of my "Goddamn you are cool" list. I just witnessed her give every member of her studio audience a brand new car. So. Seriously. If its on now, or comes on later in your area watch the show today. The richest woman in the world, and what does she do? Buy cars for 200+ total strangers. She. Is. Fucking. COOL.

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[Edited on Sep 13, 2004 by Akira]

Bet they were Corollas.

*sour grapes*


She regularly gives away gifts to her guests, but cars... holy hell. That's the most unexpected turn of events in Oprahistory since that other time.

[Edited on Sep 13, 2004 by Jeff_Fries]

nope. Pontiac G6's

Oprah makes me hate myself....and everything i own.......I love seeing guests give her a reality check though...she is rendered speachless....It's great

Exactly. Best part is they actually had people who needed the cars get them. People sent in videos of themselves or friends and famly members showing why they needed cars for work, school, etc.

Yeah...SHE bought them...it wasn't an advertising gimmick at all.

Yeah GM had nothing to do with it.

Did anyone send up the "Troll Signal"? Jesus Christ man, why are you always so fucking miserable? I know cynicism is the new black, but why does it matter if she paid out of her pocket or not? Can't you just admire that someone did something this fucking cool for complete and total strangers? And she's the richest woman in the world with one of the highest rated shows for over a decade. She's not exactly hurting for ad revenues

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[Edited on Sep 13, 2004 by Akira]

hmm...buying her audience is pretty desperate.

God. Who knew so many people had thier cats run over by cars when they were kids. Cheer the fuck up you cynical bastards. By the way, how many of you would refuse the cars if you were in the audiance?

I watched a Headliners and Ledgends on her and she is inspirational. I don't know why anyone would not like her unless they were a complete douche.

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That was a really great thing for her to do. To hell with all you people that are shitting on it. You just wish you got a free car from Oprah...

Dude, you're just the kinda gullible person who makes up Oprah's target audience. Get it straight, one giant corporation (GM) who is introducing a new model went to another giant corpration (Oprah) and together they came up with a way for both of them to get tons of free publicity. I'd obviously be happy if I got a new car for free (although, those people will all be stuck with huge tax bills of many thousands of dollars for these "free gifts"), but as a viewer and consumer I completely recognize what's going on here. Neither Oprah, nor GM would have done this unless they were gonna make money from it. Period.

Just not very impressive. she can affod them (even though they came as free advertising for the company). I actually think it's quite patronising to the rednecks that makes up her audience. "here poor people, have a car".

Fuckin hell id take the car i wouldnt even care that is the coolest thing a rich person can do is share there wealth with others in need or not in need knowin this about oprah now gives me a new found respect that i never had for her oprah is the shit

Who does Oprah have to blow to get approval from the peanut gallery?

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Really? I don't watch the show. The only reason I even knew about it was because my brother told me and I turned it on

No shit, Sherlock. The business of any corporation is to make money. My point is, who cares if Harpo and GM made money on it? They could've made money any number of ways that didn't include helping out people. In this particular situation they did. Get over yourself and watch a fucking Disney movie once in a while.

I will say this...The Color Purple is one of my all time Fav. movies.....so I suppose she is good for something......

Akira, I am totally with you on this one. I just read a story about it and it made my day. Pontiac is even picking up the tax payments so it doesn't burden the people that got the cars.

Who cares if it's advertising? I'd much rather support companies that do things like this than those that shove mindless commercials down my throat.

if she was really cool she would have helped out 200+ families that are REALLY in need.

um... did you read the whole thread? The people who got the cars got them because they needed them. She also got a girl a full scholarship (tuition, books, room & board) to the university of her choice. And she just gave a family a check to buy and fix up the house they were about to get evicted from.

Not everyone is a selfish asshole. Just be happy for these people.

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To this and other negative comments... I seriously don't get it. For one Oprah has like a zillion dollars. She by no means has to "buy her audience" Oprah could retire right now and pay for fulfilling lives for like the next 10 generations of her family.

Fact of the matter, she is a celebrity with an ass load of money, that did something amazingly nice for her audience. Good for her.

I don't see it as a publicity stunt or anything like that. She has more then enough fans and money.

She was nice guys. Way to turn it into a bad thing