Oprah Winfrey received the 2018 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s ceremony, an honorary award bestowed by the mysterious Hollywood Foreign Press Association for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.
Oprah gave a speech that media collectively demands that you think was brilliant. If you merely thought it was good, as Mary Katherine Ham did, you will be publicly castigated.
CNN has now found "sources" that say that Oprah is thinking of running for President.
NBC's verfied Twitter account has endorsed the idea, though NBC has now walked that tweet back.
Here's the bind for the national television media. President Trump's campaign was ratings gold. The liberal coastal media hoped to reap that gold, but thought they'd end up with Hillary as President.
Instead, to their horror, President Trump is in the White House. So...the next move would be to promote a candidate who is ratings gold AND acceptible to liberals on the coasts.
The danger, of course, is that our national elections simply become about entertainment, not policy. Even the liberal Guardian sees that.
Liberal contributor to the Guardian Christian Christensen tweeted out, “Because what the US really needs is Oprah vs. Trump in 2020? No. That's what CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Facebook and Twitter need in 2020. To hell with ordinary citizens. They need circuses, not bread.”