gah. i loathe oprah!

So is Suzanne Somers even made up of living cells anymore? It sounds like she is just a mass of hormones, vitamins and supplements shaped into a likeness of Suzanne.

Going to read the rest...
 
bold but very true statement, susan. i just can't see how you would take a word that woman says to heart. people really like look up to her for their answers in life. she makes me barf.
 
Ok I just scanned through the rest of the article, and I stand by my whackjob statement LOL

I have never really liked her, and haven't watched in years.
 
I haven't liked her for years but not because of this (well this is currently part of it)... I believe very strongly that people should do good things because it's right... not to toot your own horn on national television. Yeah, lots of actors and actresses do it... but not to the extent that Oprah does... and yeah, she does a lot of stuff that she DOESNT carry on about but the fact remains... she's no longer humble and arrogance is a stinky perfume.

/rant
 
http://www.newsweek.com/id/200025?GT1=43002 There is a corrected link.

Well now I know WHY I don't watch her. Mom talked me into watching the meopause show and I taped it and bought the book she recommended. It's sitting on a shelf somewhere...I started reading it and it was just too out there to believe it at the time. I figured I would pick it up this summer when things calmed down...but now I am thinking I should talk to my doctor when the time comes.

That's scary what Suzanne is doing to her body....gives me the shivers. What do you think will happen to her? Toxic shock from all that stuff she is putting in her body? a "new cancer" from the combination? Ewww
 
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Being one of the ones who does a little 'alternative' therapy, one of the things that Somers is doing is okay in my book (progesterone cream for peri-&menopausal women) :) But the rest? Eegads. Can you imagine injecting your va-jayjay to do that?! I love my husband and our sex life, but that certainly wouldn't be happening.

But this is why I quit watching Oprah years ago. She does more harm than good...and her Oprah life is just out there.
 
I can NOT stand her and haven't been able to stomach her for years. I think she's a idiot. I'd rather watch Springer than her, at least I'll be entertained.
 
Have you guys ever heard of this living Oprah blog? This lady did a year long experiment in 2008 where she followed ALL of Oprah's recommendations to see if they really made a difference. You can see her blog here, it's kind of funny: http://www.livingoprah.com/

Personally I don't care about Oprah one way or the other, but I think that like anything in life, you shouldn't follow blindly just because someone said so. That's coming from Oprah or anyone else.
 
Oh my grandma despises her. She says that Oprah uses her show as a soapbox and for her own agenda. LOL
 
Well, I guess you can all put me down as a whackjob, idiot, nutjob, et. al. I certainly don't think that everything Oprah says or does is gospel, however, I do think she has done good and helped a lot of women self actualize. She also has a lot of interesting shows that aren't preachy at all (how to organize, decorate, budget, etc.) The Suzanne Somers thing is totally lame, but that is just something I take with a grain of salt. Any host (talk show, news, or otherwise) deserves to be viewed with a skeptical eye but I don't think it is fair to write Oprah off as a complete waste of space....and I certainly think she is hell of a lot better than freakin Springer.

Flame on....

S
 
I haven't watched her for months and months, and I haven't missed it yet. ;)

ETA: Actually that's not true. I did watch the episode where she had Matt and Madeline. That was it. lol
 
Well, Lizzy, you know how I feel about Oprah. I personally think she likens herself to a diety. She has been drunk with power for many, many years and I think she truly believes that her thoughts, opinions, beliefs, and values are more important than the "everyday" person.

The worst part, is that she wouldn't *have* all of this power if her crazy followers would just wake up and realize she's nothing more than a regular ol' human with tons of money.
 
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Well, I guess you can all put me down as a whackjob, idiot, nutjob, et. al. I certainly don't think that everything Oprah says or does is gospel, however, I do think she has done good and helped a lot of women self actualize. She also has a lot of interesting shows that aren't preachy at all (how to organize, decorate, budget, etc.) The Suzanne Somers thing is totally lame, but that is just something I take with a grain of salt. Any host (talk show, news, or otherwise) deserves to be viewed with a skeptical eye but I don't think it is fair to write Oprah off as a complete waste of space....and I certainly think she is hell of a lot better than freakin Springer.
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I confess that I agree....so I guess maybe the flames will come my way too. :unsure: Because I am younger, a lot of what she says when it comes to the health shows I don't even pay attention to, but I do enjoy watching some of her other things. Nate does the best decorating shows and she has really made me think and investigate on some current events and things too. In general I am a much more conservative person than she is so I just take everything with a grain of salt, but I do find some of her stuff interesting and thought provoking.

People do give her way too much power though and I think that when it comes to getting medical advice especially you should make sure you do some serious investigating and don't just do whatever someone on TV says.

The Suzanne Somers stuff is totally whack though IMO. :D :D :D :D
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I don't watch her show. I don't like talk shows. I do check out her site though. I like her decorating stuff & every now then she does something interesting on relationships. I distrust everything medical I see on tv or the web & Suzanne Summers is totally overboard. Oprah would have done a better service to confront her about that rather than portraying her as she did. But at least she has people talking about it. There are meds for erectile disfunction but nothing for hot flashes. I'm not that far from menopause myself & it does give a reason to open a conversation with others about it.

"hey did you see that nut on Oprah with her injections? I am so not doing that when I hit menopause." :)
 
I stopped watching Oprah (was never religious, but got really annoyed) when Lisa Bearnson first appeared on the show many moons ago. I remember reading how Lisa was on family vacation when the invitation came through and how she and her family had to jump through hoops to be able to get the gig. I lost respect for Lisa that day, too, that she let herself be manipulated because she was so blinded by the opportunity, but I was fully annoyed that Oprah couldn't manage to pencil her in for a non-spur-of-the-moment visit when she wasn't in the middle of a camping trip or whatever it was.

I know a lot of people have been "educated" for the better because of things Oprah has done, but she lacks a degree of humility that I would appreciate from someone with that much influence.
 
I like Oprah. I think The Secret was silly, and I may not agree with the hormone stuff (or I might, I've not done my own research) but she's done a lot of good in this world. I don't think that just because someone believes differently on some subjects than I do that they're whack jobs or whatever. Just different. The fact is that no one's the be-all-end-all source on anything and if you're kooky enough to believe what Oprah (or your doctor for that matter) has to say is gospel then I say it's modern day survival of the fittest. LOL!
 
Oprah HAS done good things, and she's had some interesting shows, but I haven't watched her in years...probably since she started having Dr Phil on all the time, and when she got all crazy spiritual. Now it seems she's gone crazy about health, lol. Some of the stuff she promotes is scary, though...and it's sad that so many people just blindly follow what she says.

As an avid reader, one thing that bugs me is her book club! SO many of the books she "chooses" are such CRAP! But people pretend to like them...I can't possibly understand why! Some of her choices (which I know she doesn't really choose, her staff does) have been good, but I *never* buy or read a book just because it has the Oprah sticker on it...and a lot of times I will avoid it if it does, lol.
 
Honestly, though...it can happen in any community! I know in the digital world itself, there are people deemed as "experts". I remember one in particular who kept just a regular old blog - others in the community would go out and buy the same things she bought her kids, whoever she said was good quality products would be insta-popular (even if their stuff was crap), she'd rant about another designer and ruin their reputation. It's not just Oprah...people in general want someone to look up to, and they manage to find someone to fit the bill.
 
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