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17 Jan, 2007 8:59 am
... in part in response to Winfrey's statement that she has become "frustrated" with inner city schools. Last week Oprah appeared on Anderson Cooper where she discusses what motivated her to pursue the project. I attach the transcript and redact portions of it below.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening, everyone. . . . Oprah Winfrey . . . is speaking out, after
spending tens of millions of dollars to build a school for underprivileged girls in South Africa, ...
16 Jun, 2008 6:00 pm
Tracy v. Winfrey, et al., No. 07-1630 (1st Cir. June 11, 2008). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has affirmed ... conceived of
the idea for a show entitled "The Philanthropist," and submitted a proposal to an executive producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show. She claims that a second producer told her the proposal was under ... requests to return her proposal. The complaint asserts that more than a
year later, Winfrey announced at the end of her daily talk show that she was giving $1,000 to ...
7 Dec, 2007 5:14 pm
... race card is already in play. African American supporters of John Edwards are calling the Oprah-Obama tour a publicity stunt. More...
Prominent African-American supporters of John Edwards accused Barack Obama on Friday of performing a "publicity stunt" by bringing Oprah
Winfrey to South Carolina and other early presidential primary states, saying ... lines in exchange for Obama saying something pro-union at the
event. Here's Oprah. Also check out this hilarious SNL skit of her working her over- ...
24 Nov, 2008 2:11 pm
The ex-head mistress of Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls sued Winfrey last month in Philadelphia for defamation, based on certain alleged comments made by Winfrey. For example,
the complaint alleges that Winfrey said ... writing this post is not to focus on the alleged defamatory comments, but rather to zero in on the
jurisdictional argument made by Winfrey's attorneys because it is a common scenario in the defamation context. For more detail about the facts
of the case read the Complaint ...
24 Dec, 2008 12:10 pm
... Winfrey's Harpo Productions Inc. for patent infringement for using software related to the Oprah
Book Club. The case is before Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in ND Ill, and is ... creative do you want your patent lawyer to be? Ask Google, or maybe ask Oprah. See Should creative patent attorneys be fired? Fish & Richardson did get ... threw apples to him over the barbed wire fence of the concentration
camp where he was held. Oprah Winfrey, who twice invited Mr Rosenblat on to her talk show, hailed the
book ...
9 Dec, 2007 10:00 am
... "Double-O" tag team? As the entire universe knows, the Queen of Talk TV, Oprah Winfrey has openly
endorsed Barack Obama and is traipsing around Iowa, ... States. While she is certainly entitled to her personal opinion, I was wondering what makes Oprah so uniquely qualified to anoint our country's next leader. According to ... products for her viewers to acquire, that doesn't qualify her to pick a
President. Oprah knows full well that that her adoring fans are susceptible to her powers of persuasion, ...
30 Oct, 2007 8:19 pm
... Messiah, but I think you need to slow down. Earlier this year, you opened The Oprah Winfrey
Leadership Academy for Girls in Africa. I admit it was a good thing, but if your motives ... of the United States because, of course, it wouldn't garner publicity and ratings.
Oprah, you may think I'm being particularly hard on you when we have other fake ... and diverse audience that you have. That's why your
transparency hurts more. Oprah, I think you need to take a break. I know that's hard for you since you ...
9 Jan, 2007 12:42 am
Source: New Jersey Law Journal, January 8, 2007. Covert Taper in Pru Case Accused of Extortion Plot Against Oprah Winfrey " An Atlanta man at the heart of criminal contempt charges against two New Jersey lawyers has been arrested on federal charges he tried to blackmail a
celebrity, reported to be Oprah Winfrey."
9 Sep, 2008 2:45 pm
Yesterday morning, it was into the Lion's Den for me, to talk about whether it's a big deal that Oprah Winfrey has said she won't have GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin on her show until after the election. Needless to say, I wasn't sure I had made the right
decision ... to report, I came out relatively unscathed, with just one little tiny faux pas: What do you think? Is Oprah turning her back on
giving her audience the story of Sarah Palin? Or should she hold off? I'd write ...
23 Oct, 2008 8:15 pm
Keifer Bonvillain is suing talk show host Oprah Winfrey, the FBI, and Ms. Winfrey's attorney charging that they caused him to be arrested over statements he made in a taped phone conversation with one of her company's employees in
2006...
23 Mar, 2008 11:35 pm
Orit Greenberg, an audience member at a taping of the "Oprah Winfrey Show" on December 5, 2006, is
suing Harpo Studios for personal injury. Greenberg says that she suffered serious and permanent injuries when she fell down a flight of stairs during a mad ... if necessary, our trial
lawyers will fight for your slip and fall compensation in court. Audience member sues Oprah's company after fall down stair, Suntimes.com,
March 19, 2008 Slip and Fall/Premises Liability, CBS. ...
8 May, 2008 3:58 pm
Sorry, but I just felt compelled to post this. This lady claims to be a Christian. Well, seems to me she is a hypocrite and has not studied the bible very much, but like everyone else,
is being brainwashed by the New Age "gurus!" The bible is of and from God, everything else is man made, IMO. And people worship the ground this lady walks on.. Oh how so many are being
led astray!!! Wonder when the last time she actually read the bible was? Read more here. You might also want to check out this ...
17 Apr 7:38 am
BOB KRUMM: What the Tea Parties and Susan Boyle have in common. And why Oprah Winfrey is like the
Republican Party.
6 May 7:13 pm
ARTHUR ALLEN: Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy? Plus, a man whose
daughter got sick because of anti-vaccine hysteria. (Via Aetiology.) Note this: "The sorry MMR saga began in 1998 with a tiny study (since partially retracted) in the Lancet." Seems
like there's a lot of bad science in The Lancet. Some vaccine-related thoughts of mine here.
8 May, 2007 6:04 am
... Indiana and was a fugitive for more than a year until October 2005 when he was apprehended in North Dakota, two days after an "Oprah"
segment about him aired. Two tipsters in Fargo, N.D., split the $100,000 reward money the talk-show host offered for ... , Davis' appeal contended the trial court wrongly allowed
testimony about Davis' statements to FBI agents in Fargo. The Court of Appeals rejected Davis' appeal. Here is a list of earlier ILB entries about Oprah's involvement in Davis' apprehension.
28 Oct, 2006 5:47 am
12 Sep, 2007 9:41 pm
Reportedly, the wife (Mary Winkler) who killed her minister husband (Rev. Matthew Winkler) is seeking custody of her 3 girls - ages 2, 8 and 10. On March 22, 2006, Mary Winkler, 33,
shot her husband Rev. Matthew Winkler in their parsonage of Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer. Reportedly, Mary Winkler [...]
8 Nov, 2007 7:00 pm
For those uninitiated, Jonathan Lee Riches© (he asserts his names is copyrighted) he is an inmate at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Williamsburg, SC with a penchant for
litigation. His many lawsuits include: Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, Don Imus, Wal-Mart, President Bush, The World Wide Web, Williams Sisters, 50 Cent, Iron Mike Tyson, Jeff Gordon, Carrie
[...]
9 Dec, 2007 2:04 am
Thinking about Barack Obama and the Clintons today, here are my thoughts. First, Hillary Clinton, as well as the former President look old, very old. I think about Communist China, and
an election in the future, after democracy takes hold. A former official, a leader, runs for office, maybe several, but there are also some new people on the scene, much younger,
inspirational, lighter. Who would get elected? Who would electrify the crowd, the masses? No one in the scenario questions that the new ...
26 Jan 10:45 am
... s Senate seat he considered appointing talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, a suggestion that
Winfrey says left her "amused." (Listen) Blagojevich made the revelation ... watching from the treadmill where I'm usually watching, I would
have fallen off the treadmill," Winfrey told her friend Gayle King during the Sirius XM radio show ... Blagojevich's revelation. "I think I
could be a senator, but I'm not interested," Winfrey said. - Thank God for that! Blagojevich's appearance on "GMA" was part of the governor's
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