Oprah is a hero to me, and I am triggered that someone wants to pass herself off as the Oprah of the Philippines. So I made a list of why that certain someone is not
1. If Oprah was the President's sister during Typhoon Yolanda, she would have immediately gone to Leyte and helped.
In fact, even if she was not the President's sister, Oprah went to New Orleans only days after Hurricane Katrina. Oprah committed 10 million dollars of her own money to help rebuild lives and homes.
She also launched the Oprah's Angel Network Katrina Homes Registry so viewers could help fill the homes with furniture, picture frames and other items that were lost in Katrina's wake.
In less than two months, viewers donated more than $5 million in gifts to the registry.
(Somebody was said to have visited Iloilo with other celebs and gave a P400,00 check. Sorry to have higher expectations, sa Leyte kasi daming patay na pakalat kalat so super nakakadiri to visit so dumi.)
Oprah uses her fame and her viewers to help people.
2. Oprah respects her body's changing weight and empowers women to love their bodies. She has never said that she would lose weight for a man or his approval, specifically, and say things like, "Mayor, this is what you are missing. Every time may dadaan sa billboard, may masasamid."
Oprah would never confess to trying to lose weight for a man's approval, and then after losing weight, only a couple of months after, will blame it on an illness. And blame that non infectious illness on a person.
Oprah isn't a narcissist who needs approval and be surrounded by clingy people.
3. Oprah would have helped the children of SAF 44. Oprah has three foundations. The Angel Network, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, and the Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation. Through the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, she has given away more than 40 million dollars for causes like education. When someone Googles your name + foundation, the thing that crops up? Makeup.
(somebody is said to partner with some foundations, but after crowing about how big a taxpayer she is and how many millions she earns, you know why dont have the size of Oprah's heart)
Oprah's "generosity" weren't confined to giving away LV bags or Care Bears. Oprah's help impact people, and change their lives. Her generosity is not for show NOR is it only for people that she can use or abuse. They were for the "least of our brethren." So unlike the surface level generosity of other self proclaimed nice people.
Sure, that someone has helped people, but Oprah's generosity was truly commensurate to her wealth.
4. Oprah never makes her co-presenters feel bad (See Ruffa walking out of The Buzz) or talk incessantly about herself. She was never the story, she brought the stories.
5. Oprah is a Democrat and supported Obama. In fact, Obama gave her the highest award you can give a civilian. But she has never said anything degrading against Trump, LET ALONE fund TROLLS and untalented hacks to destabilize his government.
6. Oprah has Gayle. You have NOBODY. Nobody lasts long as your friend. You have hangers on.
7. Oprah has Stedman. Stedman isn't a superstar like Oprah, and yet she has never used her power and her billions to make him feel less than he is. Oprah has a man she truly loves and supports. She doesn't threaten him with ending his career, turning the entire US against him, and other such drama.
9. Oprah has empathy because she had a poor childhood, a rough start. Oprah, because of this empathy, helped people. She wouldn't have allowed her family to mistreat their poor farmers.
10. Oprah gets talked about because of her sincerity and projects, not because of her scandals, and her talk shows. Her show was an intimate confessional. Your shows often almost always end up about you, even when you are talking to someone else about themselves.
Oprah is Oprah because she is a role model. I don't know if you will ever be able to call yourself one.
I, NOT YOU, WILL BE THE OPRAH OF THE PHILIPPINES. (*charot, trinitrigger ko lang. I'm more like the Beyonce.)
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