Looks like Dr. Phil has a wacky gold digger to contend with.

Shirley Dieu, is alleging that Dr. Phil AND his crew, held her captive, brainwashed her, touched her naughty bits, and also paraded a nude man in front of her when she partook in a Dr. Phil’s House show.

Wow! Where can I sign up? Sounds like one hell of a weekend! *snicker*

I only mentioned some of the more juicier claims by Shirley. There are a hell of a lot more. AND she waited two years to file the case after the supposed “incidents” occurred.
She claimed that she was too afraid. Now I can understand her being afraid of Oprah…. But Dr. Phil?

Oh wait… Oprah owns Dr. Phil’s butt. I guess her claim of being afraid does sound like a reasonable explanation now. I kid.

Shirley filed her lawsuit in LA yesterday, and she will be representing herself. *laughs holding sides*
I wonder how they kept a straight face when they saw her lawsuit?

Wow, representing yourself, huh Shirley?
No surprise there. What lawyer in their right mind would even touch this case with a ten foot pole?
After all Johnnie Cochran is gone. *snicker*

Apparently, Shirley is not a stranger to filing cases. She has a history of being slightly litigious to say the least AND to make this case more snarkier, she filed for bankruptcy last year. Sounds like Shirley is in need of some cash.

A snippette from People:

“It’s unclear how much she is seeking in damages but Dieu – who filed a malpractice suit against an Orange County hospital in 2002 and sued a car dealership in 2007 – is acting as her own attorney, and her filing is filled with misspellings and grammatical errors.”

“Misspellings and Grammatical errors?” Sounds like I filed it! *HA!*

Eonline had the whole story:

Dr. Phil’s Bedside Manner: Brainwashing, Groping, Falsely Imprisoning?

We don’t know what the disease was, but this is one instance where the treatment was definitely worse. Much, much, creepily worse, if the allegations are true.

Dr. Phil McGraw was on the receiving end of a bizarre and damning, to say the least, lawsuit yesterday, with a former female patient of his alleging that the TV doctor and select members of his production staff held her captive, brainwashed her and subjected her to constant exposure by a naked man, among other accusations.

As if that weren’t enough, she also claims that McGraw even once groped her during a therapy session.

All told, the 56-year-old Shirley Dieu is suing McGraw, Paramount Pictures, which produces his show and on whose lot the alleged captivity took place, two show producers and another doctor, for brainwashing, indecent exposure, illegal touching assault and battery, public ridicule and humiliation, mental and physical abuse, fraud, negligence and intentional harm, practicing without a license, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and preventing a witness from reporting a crime.

That’s it—one more batch of scandalous talk show host allegations and we’re looking at a trend.

Dieu is representing herself in the case and filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday over the incidents, which she claims went down almost exactly two years ago to the day. There’s no word on why she waited so long to file the suit, but more pressing legal matters could be to blame. Dieu filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and seems to have a rather sue-happy past.

As for the current list of alleged wrongdoings, Dieu claims they took place between Oct. 9 and Oct. 11, 2007.

While she does not specify why or for what ailment she sought Dr. Phil’s assistance, she claims she was held captive in his Hollywood studio, itself bordered by 12-foot walls and fences, where despite repeated attempts to escape she was told to stay and even physically prevented from leaving.

She claims she was unethically and illegally being treated by McGraw, who she claims is not licensed to practice in California. And while her diagnosis is unclear, she makes no bones about the prescription.

Dieu claims she was “forced to be in the same room with a completely naked live man while he exposed his entire naked body, genitals and all.”

During her involuntary stay, she says staff not only prevented her from leaving but cut the phone lines when she attempted to call 911. She says she was denied access to her cell phone and was routinely promised food, books and other items which never materialized.

At one point, she claims she “was told to sit in one spot for an unrealistic amount of time and told to not leave her seat.” When she attempted to get up, she was “touched inappropriately in order to prevent her from escaping.”

Dieu also says she was “brainwashed to trust her captures” and “programmed” to believe she was in a safe environment and receiving “real therapy from a licensed doctor.”

According to the court documents, she says she suffered public ridicule and humiliation when she was subjected to edited tapings that “mislead the public” and warped her depicted personality.

As for the TV doctor, she claims that during an Oct. 9 therapy session with Dr. Phil, she “was touched on her left breast.” She went on to say that she was afraid to say anything about it at the time, but that she was “touched improperly” by some of the other defendants (other than McGraw, she doesn’t name names).

 She claims the experience resulted in severe trauma and caused her to seek therapy—well, more therapy—and led to her hospitalization.

She is seeking unlimited general damages, punitive damages, exemplary damages, fees and court costs.

Now I am not a fan of Dr. Phil in ANY capacity.
First off, he is NOT a doctor. I find his voice very annoying, and I can not stand his ”Dr. Phil-isms”.
Like…”You are prettier than a speckled pup in a red wagon“. (someone actually said that to me in Tennesee once… I almost married him)

Sorry Shirley…
I just can’t picture Dr. Phil, ”the chrome dome” sexually or mentally abusing anyone. And it makes me queasy just to think about it. *shudder*
I wonder if his wife Robin calls him “Quick Draw McGraw”?
*double shudder*

I digress…
So I think it is safe to say that Dr. Phil won’t be spending any time in the pokey. I can be wrong though. 
You never know. I was a bit shocked over the whole David Letterman scandal.
But if I am wrong… I will eat my hat. (note to self… buy a hat)

After Dr. Phil was made aware of Shirley’s lovely lawsuit and he stopped laughing, (I can only assume) he had this comment:

“All of Shirley Rae Dieu’s claims are without merit. As with all of the occupants of the DR. PHIL House, Ms. Dieu participated voluntarily, having submitted her personal story with the hope that she could confront, and overcome, her individual issues.”

I think that is a nice way of Dr. Phil telling Shirley to stick it wear the sun don’t shine.

Perhaps Dr. Phil can offer Shirely some much needed counseling?
Oh snap!

Well, well looks like Bobby Brown has packed on the pounds. Bobby
and his double chin will be sweating it out on “Celebrity Fit Club” scheduled to air in 2010.

According to TMZ, he will be joined by cast members from “High School Musical”, “Baywatch” and “The Practice,” which will include Shar Jackson, Nicole Eggert, Tanisha Thomas, Casey Stroh, and Michael Badalucco. Is this the best Celebrity Fit Club can come up with?

I wonder if Bobby, who has always been tough to handle (to say the least) will succumb to the grueling boot camp and all the rules of “Celebrity Fit Club.” Many “stars” *cough* before him, like for instance Dustin (a-hole) Diamond aka “Screech” of “Saved By The Bell” fame, did not fair too well and had too much of an attitude to be on the show and ended up leaving.

Bobby’s track record of being an abusive crack smoking husband 
married to Whitney Houston (although she is not innocent by any means) certainly has crushed his popularity over the years.

Bobby better decide if he still wants to use his “My Prerogative” attitude or man up and stay on the show.

I happen to catch Bobby on D.L. Hughley’s show one night, and he sang My Prerogative, (it WAS a kick ass dance song) or I should say, he attempted to sing it. It was SO bad, it was painful to hear. His years of drug abuse, alcoholism and cigarettes really reeked havoc on his voice. It was totally shot. Don’t get me wrong, I do not have one smidgen of sympathy for this man.

His years or partying, abuse and just being an all around IDIOT have really caught up to him.

A Young Bobby Brown Back In  The Day

It's anyone's bet whether or not Brown will show up on "Celebrity Fit Club." The man can not seem to stay out of trouble. After all... he has been juggling living at two different homes over the years. *snicker*

But then again, ”reality” tv shows have to film their shows way in advance, so maybe this show has already wrapped?  Who knows. I just may have to tune into Celebrity Fit Club this time around, just to see Bobby sweating his butt off and being told what to do.

Will Whitney be at home watching with a big tub of popcorn? I only hope she will be tickled silly over getting to see a little pay back 
served up to Brown, rather than her cheering him on, because I never want to see Whitney, or anyone for that matter, looking like this again.

Crack is Definitely Whack!

To be fair, Bobby wasn’t all to blame for their insane relationship. It takes two to tango don’t forget. (geez! I sound like my Dad)
They were total partners in crime. And she should have left long ago. And of course Brown has always said that he never did cocaine before Whitney came along. HIS WORDS. Yeah ok.

I just know that I saw Whitney go from a vibrant and beautiful singer to an abused and skinny drug abuser after the two of them hooked up.

Their reality show they did together, “Being Bobby Brown” was short lived and a disaster, and Whitney ended up paying a huge price for standing by her man.

Now I was never a Whitney Houston fan, “I Will Always Love You,” has always pierced my brain, but she does have a beautiful voice. Even though her music is not my style, I do hope her recovery continues and that “The Voice” is able to get more of it back.

Her recent appearance singing on “Good Morning America” in Central Park and her talk with Oprah had her fans out in droves. Houston’s interview with Oprah was a far cry from her raspy voiced  interview with Diane Sawyer on Prime Time  (part 1) back in 2002, which is where her infamous “crack Is whack” quote came from. It was beyond obvious that she was in much denial, and very defensive. And Here is Part 2 of the interview, where she talks about her past missed appearances, drugs and actual footage of their marriage to Brown along with their 800 guests in her $40,000 wedding gown. 

In that interview, Whitney and Bobby were already married for 10 years and at that time she said she didn’t want to let go of Brown. I am just glad, as well as her fans, she finally did let go of him.
Bobby ends up joining the interview later on and denied he ever hit her and he said he was diagnosed as being bi-polar and denied all other drug use except smoking pot. *snicker* (Here are parts 3, 4, and 5 of that  2002 interview  if you are interested.)

Whitney’s recent interview with Oprah was like night and day in comparison to the interview with Diane Sawyer back in 2002. She looked like Whitney again. Finally Whitney came clean about the drug abuse, Bobby’s physical abuse and his infidelity and how her mother saved her life with an intervention and valiantly had Whitney removed from her house and forced her into rehab. Thank you Mom!

Her recent performance on GMA in Central Park definitely showed how much her voice has suffered from years of ”partying” and it was quite obvious that she wasn’t able to sing all the parts of the song and she seemed quite winded.

Rumors have it that ABC “digitally sweetened” her songs as reported by Gawker. But  it didn’t matter to her fans one iota, who seemed very elated to see her and were there to support her. Whitney is very fortunate that so many of her fans have never left her side.

Now back to Bobby…

Bobby’s fans? He has never had anywhere near as many as Whitney to begin with, and the ones he had, I think have totally given up on him for the most part. Partly because he has dropped out of the music scene long ago and because people blamed Bobby for ruining Whitney’s life. 

The man has always been his own demise. So your guess is as good as mine as to what the future will hold for him. My gut feeling is that he isn’t done abusing himself or others and he may stay clean for a while, but I don’t know how long that will last.

He is destined for a meeting with karma somewhere down the line, and he’s the only one who can change that.

Yesterday I almost bestowed upon Madonna the title of Mistress Of All She Surveys, but then I remembered I had already christened Oprah with that title.  And, like Madonna, Oprah has had some problems lately concerning children and African countries.  In Oprah’s case, however, it isn’t children that she wants to adopt but children at the school she runs in South Africa:

Seven pupils have been suspended from the all-girls school, after being accused of touching girls’ private parts and having sexual relationships with other students.

One of the suspended girls, who is 15, also allegedly tried to force other girls to have relationships with one another.

A letter sent to the pupil, and obtained by an African newspaper, said: ‘You are accused of having physical contact of a sexual nature with another pupil on the campus, intimidation, and that you bullied other pupils on the campus and were dishonest by not telling the whole truth to investigators.’

She claims the accusations are false and has blamed jealous girls for spreading rumours about her.

Miss Winfrey, 55, has invested around £30 million establishing the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, which opened in January 2007.

This is not the first time her school has been rocked by a scandal:

Dormitory matron Tiny Makopo was suspended after being accused of sexually assaulting six pupils, and denies charges of indecent assault, common assault, verbal abuse and soliciting a minor to perform an indecent act. [...]

Miss Makopo is accused of indecently assaulting 13- and 14-year-old girls by kissing them, touching their breasts and getting into bed with them.

Her trial was adjourned in February and is due to resume in June.

Oprah herself was a victim of sexual assault as a girl, so these charges must be particularly galling to her.  And to have two sexual abuse scandals in an eighteen-month period of time…well, I imagine she is wondering just what went wrong.  As is the rest of the world.

Remember the name of the school…the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy.  Her name is on that school, and everybody knows she is the reason it is there, so it falls to her to make sure that things like this do not happen.  Of course she can’t be there personally supervising every moment of every day, but she should have people there whom she can trust to keep things running smoothly.

And now, not once but twice there has been someone at her school at the center of a sexual abuse scandal.  Yes, these things happen in the best of schools and academies, but that is still no excuse.  It would seem that perhaps, in her exuberance to create a place where young women in an incredibly disadvantaged part of the world could possibly excel and thrive, she skipped over a few details.

Disclaimer: If you are a parent of multiple children and just can’t seem to stop giving birth, hoarding kids and breeding like a damn rabbit, you better hit the back button, this post is GUARANTEED to offend you. And not inadvertently either, seriously, you’ve been warned to leave NOW.

By now, we’ve all heard the story about the 33-year old woman in California who just gave birth to octuplets, Nadya Suleman. You also probably know that this woman has six other children, lives with her less-than-thrilled parents and DOESN’T HAVE A JOB, a husband or ever a “baby-daddy” – in fact, she has “spermy-donor” she used for all 14 of her children.

According to various reports, Suleman is a certifiable crazy person who is obsessed with kids (Angelina, is that you?). Those who know her, describe her as “off”, including her own mother who said her daughter has been obsessed with having kids since she was one herself. So, I am NOT going out on a limb here to say that by giving this person 15 minutes of fame is more than a waste, it’s a cruel injustice to her 14 children.

Predictably, she has obtained a PR flack who will handling her various book deals, endorsements and business opportunities. Yeah, you read that right, this crazy vessel of dumbassitry could stand to profit to the tune of $2million simply because her uterus managed to withstand the inexplicable ability to contain 8 babies.

Hey if Paris Hilton can make a fortune accommodating an endless supply of penises, why shouldn’t crazy mom-baby-hoarder stand to make a quick buck whoring out her kids too? This is America, the land of opportunity and baby-pimping.

Hell, look at that baby-pimper Kate Gosselins from TLC’s John and Kate Plus Eight. She went from clipping coupons for her brood of eight to moving into a $1.5million dollar house and having an army of advertisers pay her to smack her wussy husband around and yell at her kids all day. Sounds like a sweet gig. Hell, I do that each day for free.

Here’s the bottom line, unless you are a friggin’ Amish family whose culture and tradition stem from having a large family to help out with the farm, there is NO damn reason for ANYONE to have 14 kids by age of 33. The science is wrong, it’s not natural and children deserve to be brought up in a home where they can expect to receive a certain amount of undivided attention. I am sorry, but there is NO WAY these octuplets will have a normal life. They have no father and a totally whacked out mother. Not to mention the six OTHER kids she already has, one of whom is said to be autistic. I don’t care if this woman is the patron saint of motherhood (Angelina is that you?), she can’t take care of those kids properly and why should consumers be expected to foot the bill? Endorsement deals for irresponsible breeders? WTF?

The CPS should be called, not Oprah. This woman needs to be in a mental hospital. Andrea Yates anyone? Hey, she had a bunch of kids too and we all know how that turned out.

My issue isn’t so much with excessively large families (although I have to say, personally, I find it really irresponsible), my issue is with the audacity of it all. If humans were meant to have multiple-births, then they wouldn’t need all these fertility treatments.

This whole scenario is not right regardless of how this woman, the medical community and the media try and spin in.

Okay, this whole Oprahmania thing has just officially Gone Too Far.  Over-reached itself.  Jumped the shark.  Word from the horse’s mouth is that soon-to-be-former Governor Rod Blagojevich (and yes, I had to copy/paste that) actually considered Queen Of All She Surveys Oprah Winfrey to fill President Obama’s Senate seat:

Blagojevich made the revelation to Diane Sawyer on “Good Morning America” on the day his impeachment trial is set to begin. That trial is expected to toss him out of office.

The governor said that Winfrey’s name came up as a potential successor to Obama in the Senate. “She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way to become president,” Blagojevich said. Blagojevich added that “she had a much broader bully pulpit than a lot of senators.”

His consideration of Winfrey was tempered, he suggested, by the fact that “she probably wouldn’t take it, and then if you offered it to her, how would you do it in a way it wasn’t a gimmick to embarrass her.”

Is he kidding me?   Embarrass her?  She would have wet herself in a fit of rapturous joy and probably burst a blood vessel screaming it from the rooftops while she danced so hard her weave would come unwoved.  She would think she finally found her Life’s Purpose.

I’ll admit that I haven’t been following this whole Blagojevich (yeah, I typed it that time, but I got carpal tunnel doing so) thing as closely as I should be, mainly because I’m not that interested in following politics (and the reason for that is, as everyone knows, I’m pretty stoopid).  But when I saw this, I almost fell out of my chair.  I don’t live in Illinois so I’m not sure exactly who would be a more suitable candidate, but I’d have to think Joe Schmoe The Ragpicker from up the road would be a better choice than Oprah.  Doesn’t this guy have a trial or something to attend?

I mean, correct me if I’m wrong (and I’m sure someone will), but don’t you have to actually have some sort of experience to be a Senator?  I mean, I realize that actors and entertainers do sometimes break into politics, but from what I’ve seen they normally have first expressed an interest in it, and then actually did some sort of political campaigning or held some sort of office or did SOMETHING political to show their interest and their seriousness for the job.  I’m just not sure that interviewing people about politics counts.

Sure, she has strong opinions on issues.  So do I, but I know I’m not cut out for public office.  Having a big mouth, strong opinions, a world map, and a television show does not a good politician make.  I hope That Guy With The Name (I ain’t typing it out again) was just kidding.  Sad thing is, he probably wasn’t.

Besides, if she took off for Washington, who would run the Cult of Oprah?

And what is up with this guy’s hair?  Dude.  The 80’s called, and Alex P. Keaton told me to tell you that he wants his look back.

In what is probably the biggest non-news of the new year so far, it has come out that Oprah Winfrey (otherwise known as Queen Of All She Surveys) is upset with herself that she’s regained some of the weight she worked so hard to lose:

Oprah Winfrey blames the mild depression she suffered after gaining so much weight last year on working too much at the expense of taking the time to relax.

Winfrey yesterday confessed on her U.S. television show that she was miserable – although she never came out and admitted she had depression – and vowed to change her attitude towards food.

The 54-year-old, who at one point tipped the scales at 14.3 stone, said she was determined to change in 2009.

She said: ‘It’s not about the food. It’s about using food – abusing food.

‘Too much work and not enough play. Not enough time to come down. Not enough time to really relax.

‘I am hungry for balance. I’m hungry to do something other than work.

Winfrey, who has been diagnosed with a hormonal imbalance known as hypothyroidism, says she is now devoting more time from her 14-hour workday schedule to her own well-being, which includes regular exercise.[...]

Winfrey said she began suffering sleep issues and heart palpitations over a year ago.

‘None of the doctors recognised it was a thyroid problem, but our viewers did,’ she said. ‘The moment I heard I had a thyroid problem, I thought I don’t even know how to fight this. It’s about balance. When I ask myself what I am hungry for, I am hungry for balance.’

Her fitness guru also appeared on yesterday’s broadcast and said Winfrey had lost her ‘zest for life’

Bob Greene said he was alarmed at the change in the behaviour of the chat show queen, who has struggled with her weight throughout her life.

He said things got particularly bad in 2008 when she couldn’t shift the extra pounds.

‘I looked in her eyes, and she wasn’t there,’ he said. ‘She was very vacant and distracted. It was alarming to me.

‘I think I felt she was losing her zest for life, and that was one of the saddest moments.’

Okay.  Where do I start?

First of all, if you have a thyroid problem (and I’m not blowing smoke here, I’ve been diagnosed with a very malfunctioning thyroid as well) then you’ve got to get that issue taken care of before weight comes off.  It’s just that simple.  All the rest and “taking time for yourself” and “discovering ‘me’ time” and “getting in touch with the inner me” isn’t going  to do you a spit’s worth of good if your thyroid is going wonky.  You’ve got to get that taken care of, and that should ideally be done through one’s physician.  And quite frankly, I NEVER watch Oprah’s show and I figured out on my own that she had a thyroid problem, so if her doctors couldn’t see it then I respectfully submit that she find new doctors.

Second…the woman is fifty-four years old.  I don’t care what anyone says, most (and I’m using generalities here) women in their fifties usually do carry around a few extra pounds.  Oh, I know Madonna doesn’t, but she exercises four hours and eats one organic poached fish fillet a day.  But most normal women do have a few extra pounds here and there, and they do find it harder to lose those pounds as they get older.  It’s a normal part of aging.  I’m not even forty yet and I find that it is harder for me to lose weight now than it was when I was in my late teens…that’s because my body is different now than it was then.  That isn’t failure, it’s a part of life.  Now, you can’t fall back on that as an excuse to gain weight, but you do have to work at finding different ways of losing it.

And last, but certainly not least…this is why I have issues with Oprah, and generally any celeb who starts touting their personal way of life as The Way To Eternal Happiness and if you’d only listen to every little thing that comes out of their mouths and do every little thing they say to do, you’d find The Way To Eternal Happiness too.  How many diets, eating plans, life plans, and the like has Oprah touted through the years?  How many books has she authored or endorsed which tell us what to eat, how to eat, what exercises to do, what thoughts to think to help us be happy?  Yet, here she is, at the end of it all, still fighting a weight issue, still not happy?  Yet, she’s had the gall all these years to try and tell US what to do to be happy?  What happened to all those diets, food programs, self-help books?  Did she fail at them…or, much more likely, were they all a bunch of hooey to start with?

I’m not picking on Oprah because she gained back a little weight.  It happens to the best of us.  And she’s right about one thing…many of us do use food for something other than its intended purpose.  I’m just saying that she doesn’t have all the answers and all the Oprahloonies who hang on her every word, buy every book she authors or endorses, and participates in all the New Age crap she touts, need to step back and realize their idol is just like everybody else.  Most of us do have the problem of too much work versus not enough relaxing time, and we do get depressed that we gain a bit of weight and we don’t have enough time to rest and devote to something other than work…that’s called LIFE, and in that respect she needs to stop acting like hers is somehow different from ours.  Welcome to the real world, Oprah.  Congratulations, you’re just like the rest of us…and quite frankly, we’re sick of hearing about it.

Oprah doesn’t have all the answers, people, and this should make it obvious.  She’s so busy trying to change the world that she is losing herself.

Okay, come on.  First of all, I looked at that title, and almost spit out my tea when I realized what I’d written.  Oprah Winfrey, otherwise known as Goddess Of All She Surveys, really and truly believes that she has the powah to influence an American Presidential election.  It’s her world, we just exist in it.

If you recall, before the election she said that she didn’t want Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on her show because she didn’t want her show to be a platform for any of the candidates.  You see, that might show partisanship on her part.  Because she has all this powah to influence the course of a nation, and any favoring of one candidate over another might unduly sway voters.  Never mind that that she had President-Elect Obama on her little show twice before she decided that nobody else running for office could come out and play with her.  What, the last time he was on was in October of 2006?  Oh, well, I guess he just decided on the spur of the moment to do that whole running-for-President thing.  None of this planning in advance for him, like every other successful Presidential candidate ever.

Of course, the fact that she “begged” President-Elect Obama to let her produce his half-hour infomercial isn’t any sort of display of favoritism.  Oh no.  She was just trying to perform a public service.  I’m absolutely positive that if John McCain had come to her asking for help producing an infomercial for his campaign, she would have been more than happy to do so.  Because she’s so middle-of-the-road and all.  No favorites for her!  It does make me wonder if the gown that she had already purchased before the election in anticipation of Obama’s win would have been worn to a McCain inauguration.  What am I saying…of course she would have, because she’s so fair and unbiased.

But what’s this?  She has the cojones to complain that Sarah Palin hasn’t done her show yet?

“I said I would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin when the election was over,” Oprah reveals to “Extra.” “I went and tried to talk to Sarah Palin and instead she talked to Greta Van Susteren. She talked to Matt Lauer. She talked to Larry King, but she didn’t talk to me. But maybe she’ll talk to me now that she has a book deal.”

You betcha…I’m sure Sarah Palin is just chomping at the bit to do Oprah’s show now.  I mean, say what you want about the woman, and she’s made her share of mistakes, and I’m sure a great portion of the public doesn’t even like her, but she’s a strong-willed woman (just like Oprah) and she doesn’t strike me as the type to be pushed around by a former Chicago anchorwoman or to beg to be on her little overhyped chatfest.  Simon Scowl over at Deceiver put it best:

Can somebody explain what’s in it for Palin? Was she supposed to hit up Oprah’s cell as she was weaving back and forth and weeping in Grant Park? “Hi, Oprah! We both know you’re a total hypocrite who did everything within your power to elect Obama, but now that it only does one of us any good, could you please have me on your show at your earliest convenience? Pretty please?” Oh, you betcha.

I think perhaps Michelle Obama should remind Oprah of just who the real First Lady is.  Hey, I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’.

(of course, k’s opinions only)

big hattip to Deceiver, who does this better than I can

Tom Cruise rarely does anything spontaneous. Even his ’seemingly-spontaneous’ couch calisthenics on Oprah’s show in 2005 was deemed to be premeditated. All this over-the-top exuberance for finding his “true love” (third time’s the charm, right?) in actress Katie Holmes after only a few weeks of knowing each other, was surely to help make the transition that much more believable. Sadly, contrived spontaneity rarely goes over well.

In the years following this epic interview, Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise’s names have become inextricably linked to one another, and created as they say, an elephant in the room. Oprah for her part, was seen as complicit in giving Cruise a forum to really behave in a disingenuous way. She sat back and while he let the crazy out, all the while secretly wondering “WTF?” is going on. Oprah received zero credibility for her Tom Cruise interview, and while she’s still insanely popular, she knows the whole TC interview hangs over her like a dark cloud.

But what about Tom Cruise? What does he have to gain by going back to Oprah’s couch? He too is dogged with the knowledge he let his inner Scientology-induced weirdo out for all the world to gape upon. Surely he’d be better off letting this connection die a excruciatingly slow death. Or perhaps not.

With all the speculation as to what Oprah will be asking Tom, and what Tom will be shilling this time, why not go to the authority on Tom Cruise, the man who spent two years studying, dissecting and analyzing the world’s most famous, and now infamous actor, NYTimes bestselling biographer Andrew Morton.

I asked Mr. Morton for his thoughts on this upcoming interview and he seemed pretty interested in the process that went into bringing these two forces together once more, considering how poorly it went last time. From Morton:

But wait, there’s more…

MSBNC’s Scoop is reporting some very interesting news on the Tom “I molest couches” Cruise front:

But wait, there’s more…

Uh Oh. I always knew there was a cult in Oprah waiting to come out. In all fairness, there is likely really wonderful spiritual awakening which can be found through this “openness.” So long as people enter in it with an open mind and do their own thinking.

Oprah is just a woman, not a Divine being. As long as she doesn’t start charging, then following Oprah is ok, but she should be watched like any iconic personality. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t advocate any religion, Christian or otherwise. I advocate free will and the right to choose. I would prefer the ending of this video to be omitted.

Thanks to Ash for the link