The diminishing power of the other O

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 2, 2009 02:35 PM

The Obamas weren’t the only big losers today. No happy dance for FLOTUS “chit-chat buddy” Oprah.

Better luck next time:

(Twitpic of the day via @iamsosmart)

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  1. #1
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm, vickisoup said:

    “Happy Dance”….heh.

  2. #2
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm, TigerLady said:

    Those poor fat Chicago kids. Poor O.
    Cry me a river.

  3. #3
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:42 pm, jjmurphy said:

    The word “schadenfreude” comes to mind right about now.

    Hehe.

  4. #4
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm, Rob said:

    mmmm mmmm mmm

  5. #5
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 pm, letget said:

    This has not been a good day for the gals, mo and oprah. I imagine a shopping trip in Paris would make things all better. Just take the jet on a small side trip for a week or so.
    L

  6. #6
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 pm, Misscheryl said:

    I just can’t stop laughing. Karma sucks.

  7. #7
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm, NeoFan said:

    Boo Hoo! somebodies call da wambulance

  8. #8
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm, vinny said:

    Heh, there is a picture of a trained Olympian…..Oprah.

  9. #9
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Now ain’t that a shame
    tears fell like rain
    Oprah felt the pain
    Valerie will not get the gain
    Oprah will
    Get to light the light
    A night light
    Now ain’t that a shame
    tears fell like rain

  10. #10
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm, vinny said:

    Introducing, the newest Olympic sport:
    Dieting.

  11. #11
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm, Regulus said:

    Don’t worry, Doprah! I’ll do the Happy Dance for you! The more you blubber, the happier I become…

  12. #12
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm, Truesoldier said:

    Is it just me or do the 2016 Chicago T-shirts make the crowd look like they are at a Home Depot rally?

  13. #13
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm, zoyclem said:

    Oprah got her start doing Springer-style talk shows, and I don’t she’s really moved that far away from her roots, despite her efforts to appear respectable.

  14. #14
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    How many years was Okrah a parishoner at the Reverend Wright’s TUCC?

    IIRC, she left the congregation just before Obama started running for President. No doubt fearing scrutiny of TUCC and what it might suggest about how she really felt about those white women buying the books she was pitching.

  15. #15
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm, spaceycakes said:

    I think I might make that pic my desktop wallpaper on my pc…whenever I need to feel very good about myself, I’ll just look at those mugs…

  16. #16
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm, Hangfire said:

    Stop crying, Chicago. Your vuh-jay-jay is showing.

  17. #17
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm, vinny said:

    The main light she’ll be lighting is the litle light bulb in the back of the fridge, when ever she opens the door. I’m guessing that she is in training, and is light bulb gets a lot of use.

  18. #18
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm, bansharia said:

    I am weeping for all the po fat chillin and okra.
    well I spose they can change name of airport to O’bama to save them.
    all kidding aside:
    obambi does not handle rejection well
    be on alert he is going to come back and pretend to be all “presidential” which is bad for Americans…..

  19. #19
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm, right_on said:

    But…the “sacrifice!”

    Michelle Obama: “For the first time in my adult life, I am not proud of my husband. We sacrificed, prepped the crowd, and he comes in and blows the deal. Do you realize how long we have planned this? This was our future. Our children’s future. Now, we’ll have to devise another way to make money from our position as First Family. Valerie? Get that bitch, I mean, Hillary on the phone. We need some advice.”

  20. #20
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm, vickisoup said:

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm, Truesoldier said:
    Is it just me or do the 2016 Chicago T-shirts make the crowd look like they are at a Home Depot rally?

    I thought they were prison uniforms.
    :shock:

  21. #21
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm, tomg51 said:

    But was it fail-fail?

  22. #22
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Am I the only one who thinks the ‘Stedman’ thing was kind of a beard, and that Okrah wears comfortable shoes, attends WNBA games, is Ellen DeGeneres’ hero. You know, a vagitarian?

    Just wondering.

  23. #23
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm, TheCorruptedLamb said:

    Suprised the coulor was not purple… After all, the SEIU just lost all those Dues from the people selling Chicago dogs at the O dome!

  24. #24
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:11 pm, happyscrapper said:

    I am the last one to talk about weight problems…but I will anyway. Rush Limbaugh this a.m. said that Oprah was so disappointed that she ate Norway. I couldn’t stop laughing!!!

  25. #25
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm, Silhouette said:

    They look shocked, dumbfounded. Their gob is smacked.

    It is almost like they’ve never heard of “voting” where the outcome wasn’t prearranged. “Can they DO that???”

  26. #26
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    I hope all those responsible Democrats don’t throw those orange shirts in the garbage. I hope they recycle them by giving them to Goodwill, so we can see homeless bums wearing those orange shirts all over Chicago for awhile.

    haha!

  27. #27
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm, scituate_tgr said:

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm, spaceycakes said: I think I might make that pic my desktop wallpaper on my pc…whenever I need to feel very good about myself, I’ll just look at those mugs…

    Look at those mugs indeed. Is it possible that this is the FIRST time in nine months they see this as a failure of Duh One?

  28. #28
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm, Surveyor said:

    Go Rio!!!!

    Good luck with paying the tab though.

    I’m sure Obama will find a way to send some of our stimulus money to help you out with paying the bill via the IMF.

  29. #29
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:21 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    What makes this even more sweet is that Brazil is a VERY catholic country! I’m sure NBC or whatever member of the Ministry of Propaganda that shows the games, will do their best to hide and minmize that religious belief.

    I’m also waiting for some liberal PC Chicago moron to offer congratulations while “speaking to the people of Brazil in their own language” and then start speaking spanish! That would be so rich!

  30. #30
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:21 pm, tre said:

    Maybe Oprah should have given each of the Olympic Comittee a car.

    I keep thinking of that old Michael Caine movie Blame it on Rio.

  31. #31
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    “Hope and change” seems to involve much more grieving than any of these people could have imagined. When they said “we can do more than one thing at once”, they were confusing “doing” for “succeeding”. Maybe they don’t have enough on their plates.

  32. #32
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm, sims said:

    Looking at all of the mouths hanging open it is easy to read their shock that hopeychangey doesn’t conquer all and that their hero is not the world’s hero.
    It will be interesting to see how Pres. Obama takes this defeat and if he will learn from it.
    Does he realize that this is an extention of the defeat he took at the G-20 and at the recent meeting with Iran?
    Charles Krauthammer’s column was a devastating analysis and right on.

  33. #33
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:35 pm, sims said:

    extension…oops

  34. #34
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:37 pm, thetoysurgeon said:

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm, vinny said:
    Introducing, the newest Olympic sport:
    Dieting.

    And I thought it was Ties

  35. #35
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:45 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Apparently the IOC wasn’t too enamored with the crappy Pontiacs that Oprah proferred.

  36. #36
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    Oprah should get to light the torch in 2016…

    Why not? She’s been carrying it long enough!

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  37. #37
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I guess Obo, Micky & the other O are all wee-wee’d up over this Olympic thing….love it, love it, love it!

  38. #38
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    “Oprah should get to light the torch in 2016.”

    Actually, I’d pay to see that! She’d have to run at least one lap around the stadium without puffing and wheezing and falling down and catching her running clothes on fire from the torch!

    There’s a comedy skit in that poster somewhere.

  39. #39
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm, Truesoldier said:

    Is it just me or do the 2016 Chicago T-shirts make the crowd look like they are at a Home Depot rally?

    what was on the back of the shirts? seiu or acorn maybe?….probably “yes we can”…lol

  40. #40
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm, Kingfish said:

    Welcome to the Oprah Olympic sport of the month club!*

    *Official Orange “O” sports warm up gear extra

    Sweating out big tubs of Butter Baby!

  41. #41
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm, emjem24 said:

    I’m tired of Oprah. Go away already. The mindless in this country let this chick determine what book they’ll purchase, how to celebrate holidays, mourn, and be a fashionista. I am so over it already.

    This woman lives in a luxurious bubble that many of us will never taste. She has no idea what many Americans, including women, are going through right now. She has access to the powerful that many of us will never have. Why? Because she has a freaking, empty-headed talk show?

    Her ego is as enormous as Obummer’s. While many of us are either valiantly trying to hold on to our jobs or are picking up the pieces after being let go from them, this chick seems to have permanantly attached her personality to our culture.

    Why? Why do so many people let this woman have power over them? Because she knows all the latest trends and emotes perfectly? Gimme a break. :roll:

  42. #42
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm, bansharia said:

    alas have closed my chicago 2 bah 4 olympic ebay site but the Rio speedo ( dental floss in itty bitty print ) sales are going very well ;)

  43. #43
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm, bansharia said:

    okra nor obambi has any power over me, but I didn’t sit in the spews of their hate filled antiwhitie afrocentric antiAmerican “church”..
    the CHICKENNNNS have come home to roooost

  44. #44
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm, judybeth said:

    Since Rio uses the majestic aerial photos with views of the awesome internationally recognized Statue of Jesus Christ with His outstretched arms above the city on postcards,etc., I wonder if they IOC and Atheists Int’l will URGE(or demand)that RIO hire artists to create a humongous DRAPE for it?? That would certainly not offend anyone except for the hundreds of millions of Christians around the World! jk

  45. #45
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm, spaceycakes said:

    judybeth–perhaps Christo?

    Or maybe Yoko Ono would be up for it–didn’t she wrap up Trafalgar Square once?

  46. #46
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Oprah: “Whoppers quick! And keep ‘em coming!” (binging at Burger King)

  47. #47
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Orange T-Shirts give way to Orange Bikinis. I’m set.

  48. #48
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm, purealchemy said:

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:45 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    Apparently the IOC wasn’t too enamored with the crappy Pontiacs that Oprah proferred

    Do they get to keep the cars even if Chicago lost?

  49. #49
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm, Kingfish said:

    twitpic oftheday:

    If I only had enough fish hooks…

  50. #50
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm, bruins90210 said:

    That pic is hilarious!!! They all look they just found out the bamster isn’t the messiah.

  51. #51
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Not even the FIRST round! Ha.

    Will be blamed on the negatives vibes from the right and will be used to show just how badly George Bush harmed America’s image abroad. Bush did so much damage that even Obama could not repair it so quickly.

  52. #52
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 5:35 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “Statue of Jesus Christ”

    Given what Rio has become I’m thinking that statue of Jesus might not mind a blind fold.

  53. #53
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm, MarcoPolo said:

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm, ThunderHawkk said: I hope they recycle (those shirts) by giving them to Goodwill, so we can see homeless bums wearing those orange shirts all over Chicago for awhile.

    My friend used to distribute used clothing to the homeless. They won’t wear things that aren’t tagged with designer labels.

  54. #54
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 5:42 pm, judybeth said:

    spaceycakes

    Christo? Si! Si!

    Gracias!

  55. #55
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm, James Otis said:

    Is it just me or do the 2016 Chicago T-shirts make the crowd look like they are at a Home Depot rally?

    Once again you can see in all the videos and pix of a liberal crowd that they have not made their own signs but have almost exclusively mass-produced ones.

  56. #56
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm, guspapa said:

    Looks like she just sat in on a Father Pflaegger Homily,

    “She was Cryyyinnn’ and Cryyyinnn’” like Hylary, cause it was her right! She Was Entitled…. It s’posed to be Miiiiinnnnne!

  57. #57
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 pm, vickisoup said:

    She’d have to run at least one lap around the stadium

    Well, to be fair, Muhammed Ali did not have to do that. ;-)

  58. #58
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 7:33 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    I find it incredibly funny that the top three spokespeople for the chicago bid were all three completely devoid of any previous connection with the olympics.

    The image of big ear barry going to bat and whiffing cannot be overstated.

    He fumbled and everyone was watching.

  59. #59
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    what was on the back of the shirts? seiu or acorn maybe?

    On October 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm, James Otis said:

    Once again you can see in all the videos and pix of a liberal crowd that they have not made their own signs but have almost exclusively mass-produced ones.

    This certainly looks astroturfed, and I want to know
    who paid for those shirts?

    I sincerely doubt those shirts were bought by the people wearing them.

    Were they purchased by ACORN? SEIU? Your Tax Dollars?

  60. #60
    On October 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    The faces of the entitled…shocked that they didn’t get what they felt was coming to them. The thing is, they’ll get what’s coming to them, but it’s not going to be happy for them. Deep, prolonged misery and despair is their lot in life…for those who are constantly expecting something when they haven’t put any effort for it.

    BTW, the waif with the “Oprah should get to light the torch in 2016″ is just utterly SAD. The vacant thoughts that must roll around in her skull brings tears to my eyes.

  61. #61
    On October 3rd, 2009 at 12:34 am, jangar said:

    “Oprah should get to light the torch in 2016″

    CAUTION: GREASE MAY IGNITE NEAR AN OPEN FLAME

  62. #62
    On October 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 am, palladin said:

    Oprah’s Powers do not extend very far beyond the US (and maybe Canadian) borders.

  63. #63
    On October 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 am, infidel4life said:

    mmmm mmmm mmmm, whiny Oprah Winfrey, mmmm mmmm mmmm

  64. #64
    On October 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 am, love2rumba said:

    IIRC, she left the congregation just before Obama started running for President. No doubt fearing scrutiny of TUCC and what it might suggest about how she really felt about those white women buying the books she was pitching.

    It does indeed tell what she really thinks of whites. That she is indeed a black bigot.

    What is sad is that there are dumb white libs who believe Wright’s/Oprah’s/Obama’s views on race…. hook,line and sinker, …and it is pathetic to watch.

    Vagitarian

    Ed, that is so d@mn funny!…Wasn’t the older term “rug-muncher”, praytell?

  65. #65
    On October 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm, rightisright said:

    I’m still asking myself after all these years, who the hell is Oprah, just where the hell did she come from and I don’t MS…and what are her talents? I obviously have missed something that is very astounding about the woman. What exactly are/is her talent/talents?
    Is she a product of all that terrible white guilt from the ’80′s as our American society became more tolerant and diversified? I don’t see the attraction, it sure as hell isn’t like she’s some kind of intellectual after all she is a lefty kool aid drinker.
    I just don’t get it.

  66. #66
    On October 3rd, 2009 at 7:05 pm, jangar said:

    What exactly are/is her talent/talents?

    That is an excellent question. Just who is Oprah? And why all the hubbub…

    On the same theme, just who is Obama, what are his credentials, and why did the unknown Oprah make great fanfare over the non-credentialed nomination?

    Is there a pattern here? Other than both are black, from Chicago, and fool a bunch of unsuspecting people, what gives?

  67. #67
    On October 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    She’d have to run at least one lap around the stadium

    The only way she’ll ever lap the stadium is if someone pours gravy and biscuits in it!

  68. #68
    On October 4th, 2009 at 1:33 am, Right By-The-Sea said:

    On October 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    She’d have to run at least one lap around the stadium

    The only way she’ll ever lap the stadium is if someone pours gravy and biscuits in it!

    Hilarious! :lol:

  69. #69
    On October 4th, 2009 at 1:09 pm, Wade said:

    Why do entertainers get egos so big they get into politics. Don’t they know there are already enough turds with big egos in politics.

  70. #70
    On October 4th, 2009 at 9:08 pm, KVal57 said:

    Did Okra pay the biz class rate for her flyover and back trip? More to the point, did she pay the fat-ass penalty for taking up at LEAST two seats?
    Inquiring minds would like to know!

  71. #71
    On October 6th, 2009 at 12:44 am, docjohn52 said:

    I actually surprised they didn’t buzz the Statue of Liberty, because Oprah missed the first one.

    Uhhhh maybe she didn’t…

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