Oprah giving away cars!

[epicrisis]

Oprah Winfrey just gave away 100 or so cars (2005 Pontiac G6, http://www.pontiac.com/g6/index.jsp?brand=home&pagename=home) to her whole audience.  She had 11 keys and one lady on stage (this is 2nd hand info), gave her a car, called out 9 names from the audience and gave them a car, said that there was one car left to be given away, gave everyone in the audience a box, told them NOT to open it until she said so, and when they opened the boxes at the same time the ALL had a key for a new car.  She took them to the parking lot and there they were!

Yikes!!



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[sageronin]

Dayum !!!!!!!!!! Now that's being so rich until you just can't spend all of the money you've got stashed away ... what a way to open a new season !!!!!

 

[winger40]

Saw that show with the wife today, but, Oprah did not pay for those vehicles. GM "donated" the cars, via Oprah, as a promotion to launch the new G6 model.

 

[epicrisis]

Saw that show with the wife today, but, Oprah did not pay for those vehicles.  GM "donated" the cars, via Oprah, as a promotion to launch the new G6 model.

Yes, exactly. When I meant Oprah, I meant the show. From what I heard the network and Pontiac went in on it together. The network also bought a house for someone and yada yada yada. Still, wish I was there.

 

[winger40]

Still a very impressive display of generosity. The wife kept saying,
"see, I told you I wanted to go to the Oprah Show. Maybe next time you'll listen".....yak, yak, yak,,,,LOL

 

[Mikey D]

I don't know...

free car = forced to watch cow-pra?

still not sure.

Kinda like my brain cells as is.

 

[phatjoe]

oprah is hot and she's a billionaire
she needs some young meat i'd hit it

mikey it coulda been worse it coulda been dr. phil

 

[Mikey D]

oprah is hot and she's a billionaire
she needs some young meat i'd hit it

mikey it coulda been worse it coulda been dr. phil

Yeah I guess teh billionair stuff is attractive.

But that gal has lost & gained weight

so many times...

She prolly has more strech marks on her bod than

Dolly Parton's kids have

around their mouths!

 

[phatjoe]

that was funny sh!t dolly parton does got some tig ole bitties

 

[VaBusa]

Oh, come on guys...don't down Oprah...she's a good person, and in Hollywood, that's kind of rare!

GM gave away over $7 million in cars yesterday...wish I'd had tickets...not that I want THAT car, but hey, could always sell it on Ebay!

 

[WWJD]

with all the selfish celebrity crapheads, it's nice to see she IS doing something to make the world a better place.

I THEENK I read the whole audience consisted of people who had written in about car problems. do you suppose she'll buy Mexico and rename it Florida II for the hurricane victims to relocate??

 

[justintime2]

Don't think you could just get tickets to the show like you normally would, had to be special "in desperate need" invite. Although this is an awesome gesture I have a couple of concerns. First the news photo shows women and only women getting new cars. Are women the only ones in need? Also who will pay the taxes on these new cars. If these people are that broke how are they going to step up and pay 1000's in taxes and licensing? Cool gesture but it just seems for the most part when Oprah does these things it is for blacks only, or women only, and so on. I am not saying she hasn't done it for others, but that in general this is the pattern. Can you imagine a white talk show host giving away cars or whatever to white men only?

Still aplaude them for the effort but sometimes the nicest gestures don't need to be put on the air. Always do the right thing, even when no one will notice!

 

[VaBusa]

Don't think you could just get tickets to the show like you normally would, had to be special "in desperate need" invite. Although this is an awesome gesture I have a couple of concerns. First the news photo shows women and only women getting new cars. Are women the only ones in need? Also who will pay the taxes on these new cars. If these people are that broke how are they going to step up and pay 1000's in taxes and licensing? Cool gesture but it just seems for the most part when Oprah does these things it is for blacks only, or women only, and so on. I am not saying she hasn't done it for others, but that in general this is the pattern. Can you imagine a white talk show host giving away cars or whatever to white men only?

Still aplaude them for the effort but sometimes the nicest gestures don't need to be put on the air. Always do the right thing, even when no one will notice!

Men don't generally go to the Oprah show, unless they need to talk things over with Dr. Phil 'cause they keep screwing up!

So, it's not a race thing, but a woman thing, and I don't see a problem with that!

 

[Mikey D]

This is me keeping my mouth shut.

See Michelle, I can be trained.

 

[bacharles]

oprah is hot and she's a billionaire
she needs some young meat i'd hit it

mikey it coulda been worse it coulda been dr. phil

Yeah I guess teh billionair stuff is attractive.

                But that gal has lost & gained weight

         so many times...

She prolly has more strech marks on her bod than

                 Dolly Parton's kids have

          around their mouths!

Damn that was funny as hell Mikey D...

Of course you can be slightly amusing at times...

 

[Rex1300]

Oprah is the WOMAN. No inheritence, no rich DADDY, just hard work and now she is PAID...DON'T HATE!!!