PRESIDENT OPRAH?  MY PILLS!  MY PILLS! – AT 9:35 A.M. ET: There was some kind of an awards show in Hollywood last night.  I never watch these things.  I've been in two industries – show business and journalism – where people spend considerable time giving awards to each other. 

But Oprah Winfrey made a speech at last night's awards bash, and, according to press reports, the audience of show biz types – think junior high school – went into hysterics, begging her to run for president.  From The Hill: 

Oprah Winfrey is sparking rumors of a potential 2020 run for president after delivering a moving speech at the Golden Globes as she accepted a lifetime achievement award.

Donning black like many other celebrities in a statement about sexual harassment, Winfrey paid homage to the press and to victims of sexual abuse as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. 

“So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon.” Winfrey said.

“And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, ‘me too’ again.”

Winfrey in an interview after the show denied that she is preparing to run for president, but the momentum of her speech had already begun, and the talk-show host’s first name was trending in the nation’s capital Monday morning.

But Stedman Graham, Winfrey’s partner for the last several decades, expressed to The Los Angeles Times that a run for the Oval Office could happen.

“It's up to the people,” Graham told the newspaper. “She would absolutely do it."  

COMMENT:  Must we be put through this?  Her speech reads fine, and I've heard sound excerpts as well, but it's right out of the 1960s.  She sounds like Hillary with a better voice.

I recall a Hollywood personality who ran for president.  His name was Ronald Reagan.  But along the way he was a six-time union president and a two-term governor of our largest state.  And he wrote and lectured.

Get some experience, Oprah.  Learn what the 21st century is about.  Then we'll talk.

January 8, 2018