The Obama campaign's announcement yesterday that Oprah Winfrey will barnstorm the early-primary states with the candidate she has called "my favorite guy" was big news in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Theoretically, the active support of a popular talk-show host shouldn't have much impact on Obama's prospects one way or the other. But we're talking Oprah here.
"Because I felt it was the right thing to do. And you know, I weighed that: What is the cost to me for doing it? Am I going to lose viewers? I made the decision that I have the right to do it as an American citizen. . . . I know him well enough to believe in his moral authority. And that is the number one reason why I am supporting him."
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Comentários
Acabo de saber que afinal a autoridade moral tem cor!
Temos que ser uns prós outros, não é?
Na na na.
Um é ausência de côr. O outro, a mistura de todas as cores.
Politicamente correcto é querer ver Obama na cadeira do poder.
Televisivamente correcto é ver Ophra com um sorriso de orelha a orelha quando fala com o seu amigo.