{"id":343866,"date":"2018-01-15T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/oprah-for-president-really\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T02:29:12","slug":"oprah-for-president-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/oprah-for-president-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah for President, Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98966\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98966\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-11-at-5.07.49-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"381\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by nayrb7 | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Being president isn\u2019t like hosting a talk show or running a media brand. Oprah\u2019s success in her field is no more indicative of her potential to be a good president than Trump\u2019s success in real estate was. You can\u2019t criticize Trump for having no relevant experience or evident understanding of public policy, then say that the solution for Democrats is just to throw up their hands and find their own celebrity to promote.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Waldman, \u201cGet a Grip, People. Oprah should not run for President\u201d, Washington Post<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Will she or won\u2019t she?<\/p>\n<p>No one knows for sure.\u00a0 Best friend, Gayle King, says Oprah Winfrey has no plans to run for president, but longtime Oprah partner, Stedman Graham, disagrees. Graham says bluntly, \u201cShe would absolutely do it. It\u2019s up to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So who\u2019s right and who\u2019s wrong? And what\u2019s up with the Golden Globes? Was the reaction to Winfrey\u2019s emotionally-charged speech really as spontaneous as we\u2019ve been led to believe or was the deluge of adulatory coverage in the media already in the works? I don\u2019t know about you, but the ridiculous outpouring of praise \u2013including more than 700 gushing articles in the MSM accompanied by a saturation campaign on social media\u2014 smells fishy to me. Was this supposed to be an inspirational speech to fans and well-wishers or a \u2018product launch\u2019 by Democratic party leaders who needed a glitzy venue to showcase their future presidential candidate, Ms. Talk TV&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/12\/oprah-for-president-really\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by nayrb7 | CC BY 2.0 Being president isn\u2019t like hosting a talk show or running a media brand. Oprah\u2019s success in her field is no more indicative of her potential to be a good president than Trump\u2019s success in real estate was. You can\u2019t criticize Trump for having no relevant experience or evident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}