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Harris paid Oprah $1 million in failed bid to help campaign: report
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Oprah wasn't paid a performer's compensation for the appearance, but it's unreasonable to think (without more specific information) that she doesn't get a corporate dividend from Harpo.
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the weird thing is, she tried to claim that she received no compensation whatsoever, and Harpo also suggested that no money exchanged hands
they then started changing their story, with Harpo saying they received payment for staging the event. They then said it was for more general "production costs"
It doesn't cost 1 million bucks to put on a show with a live audience for 2 hours on a set that has already been built, equipment already purchased, etc. The cost was to pay Oprah and other celebrities to show up. The show also collects hefty advertising fees
this gets into the reasons why Harris lost the election: this condescending attitude towards the electorate, the inability to be straightforward or truthful, and the constant gaslighting
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As I said earlier, the production shouldn't have been more than $50,000, even if they had to build the set (which was an exceedingly simple set...there are YouTubers with more elaborate sets).
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Hello FireDragon. Yes, that's true. But I think Oprah's views are so far outside the Baptist mainstream as to be questionable to many. Celebrity endorsements might be a two edged sword that can cut the wielder, if not used carefully. God Bless
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Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me.Oprah's faith is basically new-age, heretical nonsense, and has very little to do with any Baptist denomnination
Christian Apologists: Be Careful of Oprah's Spiritual Teachings
She is persuasive, influential and does a lot of good, but Christians should be careful when Oprah speaks about spirituality, warned two apologists who recently co-authored a book on the subjectwww.christianpost.com
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Hello FireDragon. Yes, that's true. But I think Oprah's views are so far outside the Baptist mainstream as to be questionable to many. Celebrity endorsements might be a two edged sword that can cut the wielder, if not used carefully. God Bless
Oprah is a laywoman, not a minister. I wouldn't expect all her beliefs to be rigidly orthodox, as material heresy is fairly common in any denomination among laity.
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If that's your criteria for declaring somebody a non-Christian, you'ld have to discount a great many Pentecostals as well. Or is it just because Oprah's politics don't line up with most white Evangelical Christians?
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I will be happy to dig that up after you show me evidence Oprah was not compensated either directly, or through her company, for the campaign event
because I already produced the official report above, consisting of 2 500k payments.
you are the guy trying to say Oprah didn't get anything out of this, despite that material evidence, and reports to the contrary.
don't go put the burden of proof on me lol --it is squarely on you
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I only entered this thread about a non-event when you started accusing the media of lying in post #5.
You have made some specific claims, the first of which was before I arrived:
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I don't know. From her own mouth, she sounds like a very mainline Protestant to me...although she is very wealthy. She is no theologian, so I'm not going to criticize her on that....
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This is still news, I guess?
Unsurprisingly, Oprah is very liberal (not that there is anything wrong with that) and supported the Democratic Party.
She's definitely entitled to her own views, just like anyone else.
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Eh? Growing up in the 2000s, I thought a lot of people had respect for Oprah, since she was everywhere and so huge. It was a big deal when a lady from my hometown appeared on her show for being a pack rat. Oprah was literally EVERYWHERE.
Now, I'm going off topic, and I'm just rambling...
You're probably right though
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Snopes claimed the story that Oprah received any compensation was a "lie" promoted by social media
and this:
"In a video published on TMZ.com on Nov. 11, an unidentified videographer for the Backgrid celebrity news agency asked Winfrey, "Is it true that they paid you $1 million for the endorsement for Kamala?" Winfrey answered, "Not true." She added, "I was paid nothing, ever."
She WAS paid 1 million through her company, and unless we see an itemized list on how help with a live streaming event (cameras, etc) amounts to 1 million bucks, we have to assume that the money involved was compensation for Oprah herself, through her private, closely-held company
Aljezeera, hardly a right-wing outfit, called Oprah's claim she wasn't paid "semantics" and concluded she had been paid
again, this is an example of distortion and disinformation by the MSM
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@FreeinChrist I think this thread has run it’s course. You can close it now, please.
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