PLAYING THE RACE CARD
Race Hoax Backlash?: Golden Globes Snub Oprah
by John Nolte 12 Dec 2013, 8:09 AM
PDT
Oprah Winfrey did
everything expected of her. She co-starred in an "important" movie --
one about American racism, no less! "The
Butler"
was also a box office hit and her performance critically lauded. On top of that, Oprah's pro-Obama bona fides
are in proper order and during "The Butler's" promotional blitz,
Oprah even claimed she had been the victim of racism at a luxury Swiss
boutique. And yet, despite hitting every necessary sweet spot during awards
season, Oprah was snubbed by the Golden Globes Thursday.
The snub might be the result of a
backlash against the talk-titan billionaire, who was forced to walk back her
claim of being a victim of racism after the Swiss sales clerk in question
branded the mogul a liar.
Oprah's story was always fishy. It
was just a little too neat that while promoting a film with a heavy racial theme, Oprah was handed a perfect
anecdote about being a victim of racism herself -- while shopping for a $38,000
purse. Most fishy, though, was Oprah's refusal to name the store, which made
her claim all the more difficult to verify.
Despite Oprah's best efforts to
compartmentalize the alleged incident into nothing more than a perfect
publicity tour anecdote, the whole thing got away from her. The story exploded
into a worldwide scandal and the entire country of Switzerland ended up apologizing
for the incident. But it all began to unravel when the nameless, faceless sales
clerk in question refused to take the accusation sitting down.
And what was Oprah's response to
being called a liar by someone she claimed was racist? Rather than outrage,
Oprah issued a non-apology apology, and did so with egg all over her face.
Naturally, the same mainstream
media that breathlessly reported Oprah's spurious claim as though it were
written by God on a stone tablet, downplayed Oprah's back-peddling. But the
damage had been done. Even though no one wanted to say so out loud, Oprah
looked ridiculous.
While it is true that left-wing Hollywood loves a race
hoax every bit as much as the media, what they don't like is an amateurish one
that hurts the cause. Also, Hollywood likely feels that the whole fumbled mess
made Oprah look a little too needy in her grasp for an Oscar -- something that
has always been frowned upon during awards season, when you are expected to
keep your needy graspiness behind closed doors.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah
Winfrey is a friend of Rufus
Williams, a friend of Maya Angelou,
an actor in The Butler, and was a guest
at Mellody L. Hobson’s 2013 wedding.
Note: Rufus Williams is
a friend of Oprah Winfrey, was a producer for the Oprah
Winfrey Show, a VP & CFO for the Harpo
Entertainment Group, and the president of the Chicago (IL) Board of Education.
Norman R. Bobins
was a member of the Chicago (IL) Board
of Education, and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Penny S. Pritzker
was a member of the Chicago (IL) Board
of Education, is married to Bryan
Traubert, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
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against Obama (Past Research for Penny S. Pritzker & Bryan Traubert)
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Andrea
L. Zopp is a member of the Chicago
(IL) Board of Education, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
David
J. Vitale is the president of the Chicago
(IL) Board of Education, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Clare
M. Munana was a member of the Chicago
(IL) Board of Education, is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is a trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank), a Harvard
University professor, an Oak Bluffs
(MA) homeowner, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Sundance Institute,
the Brookings Institution (think tank),
the Children's Defense Fund, and the
Robin Hood Foundation.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Richard
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, was the Chicago
(IL) mayor, Michelle Obama was
his staffer, and Valerie B. Jarrett
was his deputy chief of staff.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory
Please note: This link for the
members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and Oprah Winfrey was a guest at her 2013
wedding.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a trustee at
Howard University, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Dianne
Atkinson Hudson was a trustee at Howard University,
a VP at Harpo Productions Inc., the
president of the Oprah Winfrey
Foundation, an executive producer for the Oprah Winfrey Show, and is Oprah
Winfrey’s special adviser.
Maya
Angelou is a friend of Oprah Winfrey,
and was a director at the Children's
Defense Fund.
Oprah
Winfrey is a friend of Maya Angelou,
an actor in The Butler, a friend of Rufus Williams, and was a guest at Mellody L. Hobson’s 2013 wedding.
Weinstein
Company is the distributor for The
Butler.
Harvey Weinstein
is the co-founder & co-chairman for the Weinstein Company, and a director at the Robin Hood Foundation.
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