With Oprah Winfrey, the intersection of politics and education is making for strange bedfellows. Federal tax returns and other reports confirm that she’s accepted at least $5 million for her self-named South African girls’ school from perhaps Barack Obama’s single greatest political enemy.
She threw him a lavish launch party, endorsed him on her show, stumped for him in the early primaries, and cried — as captured by photographers — in a Chicago park when he won the election. Her loyalty seemed fierce. But it turns out that Winfrey is very close friends with Dallas billionaire named Harold Simmons, a leading Republican donor and supporter of John McCain.
This past August it was revealed that Simmons was the single donor to a 527 committee called American Issues Project. Its only issue: to run ads linking Obama to William Ayers, the political activist who was once part of the Weather Underground.
Obama for America wanted to take Simmons to court over his donations to the AIP group. Simmons has been fined multiple times by the FEC going back to 1988- 89 and Oprah has been friends with Simmons and his wife since at least 2001. Simmons also spent a mint to help deflate Kerry's campaign.
Is this a two faced Oprah? I would think that such a die hard Obama supporter wouldn't keep such strange bedfellows. Just food for thought.
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