Obamas to appear on Oprah
April 12th, 2011
04:54 PM ET
12 years ago

Obamas to appear on Oprah

Washington (CNN) – The President and Mrs. Obama will sit down with Oprah Winfrey for a taping of her talk show April 27th, a White House source confirmed to CNN.

This is the final season for Oprah's popular syndicated show, which she has hosted for 25 years. She famously endorsed then-Senator Obama in his bid for president in 2007 on CNN's "Larry King Live." That was the first time the talk show queen inserted herself into a presidential race. Winfrey went on to campaign for Obama and was very visible at his election night victory rally in Chicago's Grant Park.

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  1. ConservaFascists/FUBAR

    Oprah not support Obama? Get outta here. Here we go again with making up news as we go along. CNN, you guys are just like Wall St. speculators. Anyway, I'm anxious to hear the republican comdenation from the right.

    April 12, 2011 04:57 pm at 4:57 pm |
  2. Wire Palladin, S. F.

    I wonder if Oprah will endorse Boss Hogg, Michelle Bachmann, Mittens, Trump, or any of the other bigots, baggers and birthers.

    April 12, 2011 04:58 pm at 4:58 pm |
  3. KRS1

    Undoubtedly there will be comments saying he should be curing cancer instead of spending an hour going on Oprah's show. Much like the outrage over the 7 minutes he spent filling out a NCAA college tournament bracket. But come on, did we all forget how much vacation Bush took? seriously, he took like 5 weeks off at a time to go to his ranch in Texas. Pick your battles, being upset about this is petty.

    April 12, 2011 05:05 pm at 5:05 pm |
  4. Sniffit

    Kocheyed morons with their tinfoil hat "dope smoking Oprah watcher" talking opints in 3...2...1...

    April 12, 2011 05:15 pm at 5:15 pm |
  5. S. In California - Obama 2012

    Here come the racists remarks...

    April 12, 2011 05:20 pm at 5:20 pm |
  6. T'sah from Virginia

    OH Please!!! She does not have to endorse President Obama – but she will vote for him!!! And CNN is so tuned into "internet buzz" and reading Palin's Facebook and Twitter blogs and posting it here!!!

    April 12, 2011 05:20 pm at 5:20 pm |
  7. Howard

    Oprah did America a real disservice when she bent over backwards to endorse 'The One". She helped stick America with a corrupt, unqualified, radical, racist President, who is destroying America. I guess Oprah and the Obamas are still buddies, from their years and years in Jeremiah Wright's anti-America, racist church !!!

    April 12, 2011 05:22 pm at 5:22 pm |
  8. Howard

    Obama's to appear on Oprah ... again ... excuse me, while I throw up !!!

    April 12, 2011 05:24 pm at 5:24 pm |
  9. gt

    chicago...opra...obama.... capone....

    April 12, 2011 05:25 pm at 5:25 pm |
  10. diridi

    Enough of this big fat lady....o.k...she is an entertainer, not politician...o.k, they two are different spectrums...

    April 12, 2011 05:28 pm at 5:28 pm |
  11. Ancient Texan

    Oh good! This should solve the deficit problem, balance the budget and pay off the National debt. Good plan.

    April 12, 2011 06:02 pm at 6:02 pm |
  12. Al-NY,NY

    They'll get tougher questions on her show than any GOPer would get from the Right-wing propaganda network, Faux news

    April 12, 2011 06:03 pm at 6:03 pm |
  13. Spending our Way to the Scrap Heap of History

    Even Oprah can't escape the fact that Obama has been a miserable FAILURE. It was bad enough she endorsed this buffoon in 2008. But people will forgive her ONE MISTAKE. If she did it again, she can kiss her business empire good bye.

    April 12, 2011 06:29 pm at 6:29 pm |
  14. sonic10158

    I think being on talk shows should be for ex-presidents and presidential hopefuls, and not incumbent Presidents and I don't care who the president is

    April 12, 2011 06:32 pm at 6:32 pm |