NBC on Monday deleted and explained away a tweet it had published during the Golden Globes Sunday night referring to Oprah Winfrey as “OUR future president.”
“Nothing but respect for OUR future president #GoldenGlobes” the tweet read, above a photo of Oprah at the awards show, where she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
A follow-up dispatch came the next morning:
Yesterday a tweet about the Golden Globes and Oprah Winfrey was sent by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the broadcast. It is in reference to a joke made during the monologue and not meant to be a political statement. We have since removed the tweet.
— NBC (@nbc) January 8, 2018
During his monologue Sunday night, Golden Globes host Seth Meyers recounted jokes he made at Donald Trump’s expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents dinner.
“In 2011, I told some jokes about our current President at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, jokes about how he was unqualified to be president. Some have said that night convinced him to run,” Meyers said. ”So if that’s true, I just want to say: Oprah, you will never be president! You do not have what it takes!”
Oprah’s speech, a hopeful rumination on the impact of the #MeToo movement and recent reporting on workplace sexual harassment, was seen by some political commentators as the opening move for a 2020 presidential bid.
Winfrey’s partner, Stedman Graham, told the Los Angeles Times that “[i]t’s up to the people” if she runs for president. “She would absolutely do it,” he said.
And CNN’s Brian Stelter reported that two unnamed close friends of Winfrey’s said she was “actively thinking” of running — a possibility she didn’t rule out in a March 2017 interview.
Jr’s bitching about media bias on Twitter as family can’t seem to understand the difference between entertainment and politics.
Oprah Winfrey is a highly respected cultural icon, who I agree with on many topics… and who has no business trying to run a country.
Fewer celebrities, more experienced experts and leaders, please.
OMG - the rate at which the media has jumped on the “Oprah for President” bandwagon has me convinced there’s no hope for us at all. They didn’t learn anything from 2016.
Based on what’s breaking in the media today, that difference continues to disappear (not to be interpreted as support for Don Jr. in any way)
What a dumb thing to tweet in the first damn place for a major media company. But then to take it down? Proof they have no idea what to do with this story except make something out of nothing and fill empty space…They’ll either fawn over her and get people on camera to attest to her goodness, or criticize the arrogance in thinking she’s the new hero-worship the country needs, even though they’re the ones building her up for the fall. As soon as some liberals express support for Oprah, the infotainment arm of NBC will quickly pull the old switcheroo and go after those same liberals. Its kinda what they’ve done since…forever. I’ve seen this dumbass movie before. It goes nowhere and for good reason but seems to take up unnecessary time and space when the news could be reporting on far more important stuff about how the GOP is about ready to let gov’t shut down if they don’t get their way on a stupid wall.