Is Oprah proof of God or like religion has she had her day?

Here at Faults we don’t like to appear closed minded. So occasionally we have to give a token gesture to the other side. We decided to discuss whether the case of a woman who rose from rags to riches simply by being a good person is proof of God or that we should just quit while we are ahead.

Sharon: Oprah has achieved many things some may even say she is an inspiration but that doesn’t change the fact that she should have stopped the Oprah Winfrey chat show back in 1998 when she received her lifetime achievement award.

Dom: Sharon, the people still need her.

But after that it was mainly DIY and makeover shows; do the viewers really need to know how to put up a shelf?

What about her book club she got people reading and some of those books were pretty good?

That’s a good point what books did she recommend that you enjoyed?

I don’t have one that springs to mind. ‘The Reader’ has some major flaws but it’s not all together a bad book.

Ok as much as I would love to spend my life talking about Oprah and her library of books, what about the point that she is now a bigger celebrity than most, if not all of her guests. When she started she was the peoples’ champ, we all could relate to her in some way. Now she is too busy worrying about offending her guests and then not being invited to the latest charity event. It’s a love in. Her show is about as ’real’ as the Oscars, with as penetrating an interview technique as Johnathan Ross’ interviews with his best mate in show-business Ricky Gervais.

Some of her recent interviews are the most infamous like the Tom Cruise. She asked him If he loved his fiancee and he jumped around on the furniture with his shoes still on, shouting “yes I’m in love” now if that doesn’t encapsulate the modern celebrity I don’t know what does. Plus her celebrities are being stalked, hunted, starved and exposed, more often than not the warm honey of Oprah’s voice is the only sugar they got that day.

Firstly what did Oprah actually do in that interview: she asked one simple question and that’s the response she got, proving something we already knew about Tom cruise, that he is crazy . Secondly sorry if I don’t feel sorry for all those celebrities with all their money going on Oprah to sell their many products. It’s no longer about interviewing there is so much product placement it’s more like watching a shopping channel. She also sold out politically because she always said that she would remain impartial that was until Obama came along and she had a chance to be involved in politics. What’s next for Oprah, starting her own religion?

I’m glad she stepped out and stepped up for Obama but if she invents her own religion she really will prove there is no god

The Three Blind Mice

Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are lost side-kicks in search of missing leaders.
British politics has become a battle between three blind leaders and their short sighted parties.

Tony Blair was to New Labour what Captain Kirk was to Star Trek, which makes Gordon Brown rather like Scotty. Kirk, like Blair, had a dashing yet casual style of government, and a perfect haircut. Either by charming the pants off foreigners or bravely leading boarding parties in reckless planetary invasions Blair and Kirk were brothers from another mother. Scotty meanwhile would answer every request from his Captain with an obstructing negative; ‘she won’t hold.’ You can picture him, or Brown, skulking around the dark engine room muttering to himself in the third person about how ‘it should have been Scotty.’ Without Blair New labour appears to have no bold plans to go anywhere. Not so much a sinking ship as a kind of reverse Marie Celeste; the mystery being why they’re all still on board. Their last claim to cult status left the big tent he created saying he was going for a walk and might be some time. Of course back then the political weather was only slightly overcast. Blair wasn’t doing a Captain Oates but Labour is now left freezing in what looks to be a long winter of discontent.
So enter the Tories right on cue. Like the sympathetic face of a sinister repo firm David Cameron intends to re-claim on a government that over-borrowed. In fact he’s already wearing Blair’s clothes, copying his shallow style while retaining none of his depth. Every time you see Cameron you half expect the writing underneath to simply detail the price of every item he’s wearing. When under any pressure Cameron cracks, reverting to the old political hacks trick of telling you not to trust the other side. Every time Cameron attempts to address the problems in his own party he seems to annoy everyone, just take a look at the old grammar school row or their relationships on Europe. Half the party want into Europe and half will sleep with semi-fascists to get out. His job is to be more bandage than man. A walking haircut sent in to hold the wounds of the Tory body politic together and in shot, long enough for their moment in history to be taken. His best comparison is with Poirot’s side-kick Captain Hastings. In looks and manner Cameron is reminiscent of that good-natured buffoon in the ITV series. The best you can say of Captain Hastings is that you don’t actually suspect him of committing the murder. This modest but no doubt important quality in a leader is an improvement on previous Tory offerings. But where is the moderniser with the iron and passion of Thatcher. Of course there isn’t one because for that you need to hold the project closer to your heart than your career prospects. It will be awhile before a young Tory cares as much about libertarianism and liberalism as Thatcher did about breaking the unions. For all the mistakes she made, they were her mistakes, not the result of incanting a shibboleth to get into power.
Then we have Nick Clegg trailing behind in every poll that remembered to put him in. He is really a side-kick to the other two. Clegg is a geography teacher that would under-whelm a class of year nines. As a national leader he seems faintly delusional. At his party conference he said he wanted to be Prime Minister. His party were so shocked he had to say it again. Like Robin in Batman films, he’s never missed when absent.