IS OPRAH DONE WITH OBAMA?: Oprah ‘refused to help the President promote Obamacare because she feels burned by the White House’
Oprah Winfrey has been notably distancing herself from President Obama and First Lady Michelle and apparently her latest slight came against Obamacare.
The media icon was asked to attend a meeting at the White House along with other celebrities to see how they could help create some positive publicity for the Affordable Care Act.
Rather than jumping on board like Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson, Oprah reportedly quickly said that she would not be attending the meeting.
‘All of Oprah’s top people thought she would go, because when the president invites you to the White House, most people automatically say yes, but Oprah said she didn’t have the time or inclination to go. It wasn’t like she had to think it over. It was an immediate, flat-out, unequivocal no,’ an Oprah advisor told journalist Ed Klein.
Klein wrote a book, The Amateur, about President Obama’s first term in office and is currently working on a second.
He wrote an article for The New York Post where he tells how Oprah sent a lower-level representative to attend the meeting in her absence.
According to Klein, the slight is just the talk show host’s latest way of getting back at the Obama administration for failing to live up to the alleged promises that they agreed to when Winfrey campaigned for Obama in 2008.
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