Comments on: The Oprahfication of Obama http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/01/19/the-oprahfication-of-obama/ Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Sailer http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/01/19/the-oprahfication-of-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-5473 Steve Sailer Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:53:27 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=1090#comment-5473 Good essay.

It would have been impossible for Obama not to have been influenced by Oprah’s success. In the 1990s, there were only two celebrities in Chicago, but they were the biggest celebrities in all of America: Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan.

Obama is also clearly influenced by Tiger Woods’ image, which, in turn, rests on some powerful advice Jordan gave Woods back in the 1990s on how to manage the media.

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