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Jan 2025
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Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

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Oh god, we are finally done. Unfortunately Oprah's greatest harms, like her role in birthing the anti vaccine movement, live on.

Series Sources:

  1. https://archive.org/details/oprahwinfrey0000unse_a9o7/page/40/mode/2up
  2. https://www.today.com/popculture/oprah-opens-hoda-kotb-about-how-her-childhood-trauma-informed-t219209
  3. https://www.amazon.com/Oprah-Media-Power-Janice-Peck/dp/1594514690 
  4. Winfrey, Oprah; Perry, Bruce D.. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (pp. 21-22). Flatiron Books. Kindle Edition.
  5. https://variety.com/2018/music/news/seal-accuses-oprah-knowing-about-weinstein-misconduct-1202661226/
  6. https://quchronicle.com/87691/opinion/oprah-winfrey-always-at-the-scene-of-the-crime/
  7. https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/entertainment/oprah-winfrey-harvey-weinstein-gwyneth-paltrow-interview/index.html
  8. https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2021/09/rose-mcgowan-states-oprah-is-as-fake-as-they-come-for-friendship-with-harvey-weinstein.html
  9. https://pagesix.com/2021/08/31/rose-mcgowan-calls-oprah-winfrey-as-fake-as-they-come/
  10. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/17wiij/i_worked_backstage_on_the_oprah_winfrey_show_ama/
  11. Why Everyone is Hating on Oprah Lately
  12. An Open Letter to Oprah, Whose ‘The Life You Want’ Tour Asked Me to Work for Free
  13. Fact Check: Legal documents do not say that Oprah Winfrey was a client of Epstein | Reuters
  14. These Are The Black Celebs Who Were Named On Jeffrey Epstein's List
  15. Oprah's Bad Book Club Pick | HuffPost Latest News
  16. Ted Rall: Oprah Winfrey elevates lowbrow literary tastes, hurts reading
  17. Oprah Says Author 'Betrayed Millions' - CBS News
  18. (2003) The Oprah Winfrey Show - Rainbow parties are first introduced to the world. Oprah and her guest teach us other dangerous sex terminology such as Tossed Salad. : r/ObscureMedia
  19. Forget about rainbow parties, sex bracelets and sexting: Today's kids have not gone wild | Salon.com
  20. Over the rainbow / Oral sex among teens is new spin the bottle
  21. Oprah’s long history with junk science | Vox
  22. A fun fact about Oprah Winfrey and Interview with the Vampire that made me laugh : r/movies
  23. Did Oprah Make Us Terrified for Our Kids? - Free-Range Kids
  24. Despair disguised as entertainment: Does Oprah Winfrey sensationalize human suffering in order to fuel her media empire and encourage other media to follow?
  25. Oprah Winfrey helped create our irrational pseudoscientific American fantasyland.
  26. Oprah’s School Rocked by 2nd Sex Scandal – NBC4 Washington
  27. 'A Culture of Distrust and Fear': Oprah Winfrey Turns Off Her Comments After Celebrating the Graduation of One of Her Former Students Following Years of Accusations About Her Leadership Academy for Girls
  28. Oprah "cleans house" in South Africa school abuse case | Reuters
  29. The Education Of Oprah Winfrey: How She Saved Her South African School
  30. Oprah ‘shamed’ live on-air: ‘Why are you so fat?’ | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
  31. Oprah Winfrey 'Shamed' for 25 Years Over Her Weight
  32. Oprah Winfrey's wagon of fat: The real story.
  33. Oprah Winfrey Recalls ‘In Living Color’ Making Fun Of Her Weight: ‘One Of The Most Hurtful Things’
  34. Mothers Battle Autism
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  45. https://circleofa.org/library/creation-by-god/
  46. Celebrity Charities: Good For Image, But What About Good Works?
  47. This Woman Used Oprah's Pontiac To Finance Her Dreams
  48. How Oprah Helped Spread Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience – Mother Jones
  49. South African parents unhappy with Oprah school | Reuters
  50. The Education Of Oprah Winfrey - Forbes Africa
  51. The Doctor Carl Sagan Warned Us About | Office for Science and Society - McGill University
  52. Many children taken by Americans not orphans
  53. Laura Silsby, Haiti 'Orphans' ' Would-Be Rescuer, Serial Rule Breaker : The Two-Way : NPR
  54. Missionary Stumbles on Road to Haiti - WSJ
  55. Many children taken by Americans not orphans
  56. American Missionary Jim Allen Speaks Out
  57. Traffickers exploit children in Haiti’s orphanages | CNN
  58. Funding_Haiti_Orphanages_Report.pdf
  59. Despair disguised as entertainment: Does Oprah Winfrey sensationalize human suffering in order to fuel her media empire and encourage other media to follow?
  60. Generation Z, values, and media: from influencers to BeReal, between visibility and authenticity - PMC

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