OWN it big or go home.

Invisi-gal would like to know, is there another poet on this planet besides Maya Angelou?

How often must we witness the trainwreck called The Judds?

If you wanted to brainwash a culture would you put the same thing on radio as you do on television and magazines?

That is the feeling I get from the new Oprah Winfrey Network...every guest, host, friend from her TV show and radio channel are now the very SAME people on her new network on Discovery.

I watched the soft launch yesterday and it felt like a 24 hour episode of the Oprah show/radio/magazine...Dr.Oz was there, Suzie Orman, Dr.Phil...the whole fam damily!

Regurgitation after regurgitation of the same ol' thing...yawn, blink blink.

"This is the way to think , my people"...because it's the same message by the same people with the same opinions about the same everything...nothing new, no variety, same same same...your olive drab uniform will be issued to you at the gate my people...step this way just like me...

I was thrown by the low budget programming, just like anything else you can see on Discovery channel or other channels for that matter...I held on tight to the remote in fear the "I was Pregnant and Didn't Know it" show would be the 6pm show....just in time for dinner....yum...

I cringe at the thought of the new reality shows that will be created for OWN like "You are The Most Important Person Ever", or "Abortion Clinic Escorts: Warriors of Suction", or the most coveted "My Pain is Greater Than Yours, Let's Put it all on the Air".

Did I actually hear that this was "smart " programming... I searched for the IQ criteria in that statement...really...shoving the same people, places and things down my throat is smart?

Well maybe to a propagandist.

Oprah needs to own OWN big time, take some risks out of the comfort food zone and go big ... show me something I don't know and most importantly something she doesn't know...

She knows her power...what other media force was able to get a partime Senator/Oprah Bookclub author elected president?

So the question is, will she continue to play along that party line ( I guarantee her Liberal like minded auto-trons are ga-ga over her new channel) pushing agendas in the form of entertainment, or will she really open it up to the challenge of all things possible....and not only possible if Gayle, or Dr.Oz, or Marianne WIlliamson say so?

The best part of the programming was a glimpse of her walking into her studios and I got a tear thinking about the dreams of a young overweight black girl from Tennessee with a background of hurt, who came so far to this point...I appreciate that, I appreciate that becoming the force she is came at a great personal price...but her message is becoming too uniform and I'm feeling a little manipulated by the same voices.

Still waiting for the wow, aha moment.

Nothing new under the sun...

OWNership sure can be a byotch.

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It's all in the Non Answer.

I've interviewed quite a few people in my career on TV and radio...and the one thing I came away with was how to spot an insane/pathological liar/addict.

They are all the same and their modus operandi is identical...they NEVER answer your question directly, they veer off into their pre determined agenda, which is one of manipulation...and depending on how crazy or addicted or pathological they are, you can bet it's a trip up interview hill you don't want to climb.

I witnessed Oprah, as the master she is, interview Sarah Ferguson and never once get a straight answer from her...Sarah, the former Duchess of York, is in royal hot water for selling access to her former husband Prince Andrew to an undercover reporter for half a million pounds.

She appeared doped up and never directly answered even one question...I watched Oprah patiently probe and circle and cross examine with the patience of an air traffic controller...fielding in rationalizations, dive bombing half truths, and meandering replies.

I think Oprah's patience was rooted in the fact that she was facing a woman in crisis.

Fergie admitted as much, but there was an odor of insincerity as in, "I know all the repentant press crap jargon,.. how's my hair?"

Oprah knew she was watching a women about to hit bottom, and felt no need to kick her as she was down.

Oprah is a better person than I am or at least more of a pro...the crew would have been tasked with prying my hands from around Fergie's neck and drag me away as I scream at her "You tremendous neurotic waste of time!!!"

I would have realized I could've have handled that one better and where, oh where, is my nine iron...

That is why Oprah gets the big bucks and I play golf instead.

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Super Power Award of the Week

Okay, Oprah you win hands down. You manage to have an entire show talking about your Va-Jay-Jay that doesn't make me gag, you educate young poor girls in Africa, you have Marianne Williamson on your XM Radio show teaching a Course in Miracles everyday... and THEN ,Bam! You start your OWN television network.

http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml

May I remind everyone that you are indeed over 50...using your Super Powers for good. This is why God whispered in the ears of Cole Haan shoes to invent the really comfortable high heel shoe, so you suffer no more. You have been rewarded!

And now what can only be described as " the icing on the cake of your life" , you win the Invisa-Gal Super Power Award of the Week.

Shall we see no end to your ecstasy?