Honestly, Oprah…what gives? I set my TiVo to record Monday’s episode dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings and, instead, I watch some prison bitch board an Amtrak train?
Evidently, the show focused too much on “killing,” so people didn’t want to see it. What? Killing? We aren’t talking about Columbine: the Musical? No shit?
I realize that Oprah stopped being a journalist a long time ago when she started walking on water, but I didn’t think that airing a television show about Columbine on it’s tenth anniversary was considered controversial. In fact, since I have children in the public school system, I like to keep myself apprised of anything that might help me should I ever find myself needing to stage a bully intervention, and I am not even saying that in jest…I take school shootings very seriously and it’s a totally avoidable circumstance. That’s why I was surprised to see that Oprah has decided NOT to talk about the issue on such a relevant anniversary based exclusively on the idea that it “focused too much on murder” and she simply bowed her head in acknowledgment of the Columbine victim’s families.
Why didn’t you just reach out your diamond encrusted hand and slap each one of them on the face?
Instead of devoting the hour to Columbine, we watched two segments…the first one was some useless bitch who was getting out of prison for the SECOND time for attempted robbery and how difficult her transition into society will be and how will her kids react to her when she gets home???
I don’t GIVE a frog’s fat, wrinkled ass, OPRAH!!! Those would have all been relevant questions that she might have asked herself BEFORE she robbed someone for drug money. She wasn’t even in prison for three years. Seriously, it was less interesting than televised golf. The SECOND segment involved Lisa Ling reporting on a child pornography ring that was discovered in Florida, and we heard a graphic retelling of events that involved a young girl of about 5 or 6, ankles bound to wrists, repeatedly raped by a grown man for 40 minutes.
Why are you telling me this? How is my knowing THESE details helpful to anyone, especially that little girl? What you have done, Oprah, is raped your entire audience at the EXPENSE of that little girl. I am disgusted that you used that story to make yourself look like such a conscientious reporter, when all you really did was ignore the big elephant in the room. Do you know what happens to abused children that fall through the cracks of society, Oprah?
Or is this too violent for you?
*****Don’t forget Columbine…the victims AND the killers were somebody’s kids. *****
the mind of a woman…
seems like a scary, scary place.
wow. i hope oprah sees this! good one.