Oprah Won't Publicly Support Obama in 2012 Election


When talk show queen
Oprah Winfrey announced she was publicly supporting Barack Obama for president back in 2008, she shocked many TV insiders who had always thought it best for talk show hosts to keep their political views to themselves.
Now as the 2012 election process has officially begun, sources tell me this time around Oprah's support will be much more private.
"For 2012, much has changed for Oprah. She now has own cable channel called OWN that has been struggling to find an audience -- she isn't going to do anything to alienate them," a TV insider tells me. "Unlike in 2008, when a drop in ratings didn't matter as much for the queen of TV, Oprah is now fighting every day to get people to tune into OWN."
Oprah Winfrey's daily talk show ratings dropped in 2008 after her highly publicized political rally for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. An October 2008 Gallup poll before the rallies but after Oprah's public endorsement of Obama found that Oprah's favorable ratings had fallen from 74 to 66 percent while her unfavorable ratings jumped from 17 to 26 percent. Then came news that Oprah's TV ratings showed that her daytime audience, which was nearly 9 million at its height in 2004-05, had fallen to 7.3 million.
As much as Oprah may still love President Obama and may support him behind the scenes, do not expect to see the same public support you saw in 2008. As my source puts it, "Helping a friend keep the most important job in the world is great, but making sure her OWN network thrives is now her priority."
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If true, WEAK on Oprah's part.
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Not weak, even she knows Obama was a BIG MISTAKE.
...I like it that Oprah succeeded in a life with a lot of strikes against her. I like the way she interviews her guests but I do not follow her religious and political views. She has her right to do so as well as I. My beef is that there are a lot of ignorant people who don't follow political news and admire Oprah so I think her influence over the presidential election was enormous even though he was the most inexperienced candidate to ever run for office. Hope next time she just sends the check.
Even Oprah realizes that you can polish a turd all day long but at the end of the day it's still a turd.
First of all, Oprah's choices really don't matter any longer. That was in the heyday of popularity. And she always made choices based on her decisions and now she is allowing viewership control her decisions. I am very disappointed in her.
It was weak on her part to support him in the first place, had he been white she never would have done it. So now she is suffereing the consequences. Typical of people like her to only support her own color.
AND WHO SAYS! JUST WAIT UNTILL THEY START CAMPAGNING. I THINK SHE WILL PUBLICLY ENDOSE OBAMA AND HER RATING WILL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. THAT SOURCE THING IS JUST HEARSAY.
OPRAH DON'T SCARE THAT EASY.
She is a businesswoman. What's wrong with that? She may well also be Republican. She and Trump are friends.
not weak, but like everything else, self-centered and attention-starved!!
If you people DON'T think Obama will get re-elected, you better think again. Some of you are counting down the days.
Rememeber this. Being a Black man, judging by, what many of you said in 2008, he never should have been elected. As Gomer Plye said: SURPRISE, SURPRISE,SURPRISE LOL. If you don't think Oprah will not publicly endose Obama! SHE WILL.
IN JAN 2013, OBAMA WILL BEGIN HIS SECOND TERM. So, don't whine when it happens.
IF IT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER, HE WILL LEAVE JAN 2017 AND HAND IT OVER TO SARAH PALIN.
This article is just hearsay.
So, Oprah the capitalist only will openly support the socialist Obama when his policies hurt the American taxpayer but prefers to quietly support him when her own profits may be at stake. I stopped watching Oprah when she showed her partisanship and gushed over Obama in 2008 and wouldn't watch OWN if you paid me.
We all knew Obama was a mancurian ,George Soros puppet when he was a candidate and Oprah's heavy endorsement of him has severely hurt her credibility and her program. Her TV ratings were being stomped by Judge Judy reruns BEFORE she announced her big retirement to "pursue other things".Oprah was all about the Clinton's until a 1/2 black man ran for the office then BAM she dumped her long time friends for "the one". Its not the first racist thing she has done ("My grandmother told me to work for white people cause they give the best gifts. So,I hired a bunch of white folks to work for me") but this plague she helped bring upon us is something even she, "the Queen of Tv", cannot escape. She poisoned her own well with contempt and bigotry. She helped drive the black and female vote to this Anti-American president.Oprah is a business woman after all and Obama is anti- business.One more dumb endorsement on her part is suicidal. Why shouldn't her network suffer as we all are? GOOD!!!her network is in trouble and I say Karma is a b***h isn't it.
PLEASE see "Fall of the Republic" on youtube or "The Obama Deception" ... we are being deceived.
I certainly agree with you. However, I find this hard to believe. Oprah as a very successful African American has the right to put her support behind any candidate of her choice and not worry about her viewers who may support others.
Also I am very sure she still supports Obama, and if she is giving in to the public and keeping her support " silent" so as not to receive a negative backlash from viewers then she is not the strong person that I believe her to be and will certainly lose the support and respect of many Americans.
The sad thing is that everybody talks about obama but nobody has the b--ls to get rid of him.
No, she finally came to her senses and figured out it that she was like the rest of America were had by a con artist because he is not our "first" black president that he was shim shaming everone with but that he was born not only a white man but a Jewish too.
@Peggy You say, "The sad thing is that everybody talks about obama but nobody has the b--ls to get rid of him."
No, the sad thing is that everybody talks about Obama but nobody, including yourself, has said anything relevant. You got the b--ls to talk about him... but you don't have a legitimate reason to get rid of him, and that's pathetic. You need therapy, cause you aren't right in the head!
So she is privately supporting him and it's a big secret? She just doesn't want to ruin her new cable channel like she did her show by selling her viewers out by supporting a man who was and is not fit to be president.
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And bush was??????????????
Pssst.... Hey KS.... George Bush isn't the President any longer!
And if there is 2 out in the 9th inning and Obama is struggling to get re-elected next fall, Oprah will pull out all the stops to help no matter what it might do to her ratings.