It wasn't enough for NBC to tweet that Oprah Winfrey should be president based on one speech, then delete the tweet, then blame a "third party agency" for tweeting something they claim was "not meant to be a political statement."
NBC News then had to go and tweet this shit:
Analysis: At Golden Globes, Oprah delivered the kind of inspirational and aspirational message that Hillary Clinton had trouble hammering home in 2016 presidential election. https://t.co/PLOlv0VnSm
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 8, 2018
"Analysis." LOL shut the fuck up.
The always insightful Sarah of High Heart made an excellent observation about NBC's framing:
when a man does something well, we congratulate him. when a woman does something well, we drop her in thunderdome to battle other women for the title of Sole Woman Who Is Good At Things. https://t.co/IL3hxmrvev
— sarah of high heart (@oscarmiked) January 8, 2018
To which I added this thought:
👇🏼This dynamic is so sinister. "Oprah did something another woman couldn't" isn't saying something authentically complimentary about Oprah; it's weaponizing her accomplishment to hurt another woman. Which is particularly vile given the content of her speech. https://t.co/as8244jvyD
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) January 8, 2018
Setting aside the tired narrative about Hillary Clinton's supposed failure to be inspirational, and additionally setting aside the many problems with doing a one-to-one comparison between political stump speeches and an awards show acceptance speech, it doesn't honor Oprah Winfrey to use her to bash Hillary Clinton.
It doesn't honor any women at all, including the ones Oprah mentioned in her address.
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