The real Oprah that Podhoretz ignores

John Podhoretz is prominent among the doddering dinosaurs of the Never Trump elite. He is favored by the producers of such cable news dreckish conventionality as MSNBC's Morning Joe, a seedy platform from which he's wheezed innumerable slurs about the President of the United States.

In his 9/27 New York Post column, "Democrats' best hope for 2020: Oprah," Podhoretz exalts that host's superficial qualities as if they alone mattered. 
(http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/democrats-best-hope-for-2020-oprah/) 

He floods the page with effusiveness ("dazzling," "grand," "fearless,") and jovially lauds Winfrey's afternoon talk show as a "parade of the positive, with happy celebrity interactions and relentless guidance toward self-actualization ('be your best self.')"

Image and public perception are certainly important. President Trump's success was, in part, attributable to them. But his supporters received much more, and responded enthusiastically to his thunderous enunciation of bedrock Constitutional principles, traditional values, common sense, and vow to Make America Great Again.

(Along his miserable way, Podhoretz demonstrates elitist contempt for the common man when he derides our victorious electoral choice as "America's crazy uncle." That sort of sniffing helped Trump to Pennsylvania Avenue and Hillary to Costco.)

Podhoretz does not cite any specific Winfrey issue postures. None. He does spend a bit of time on her lavish, celebrity fundraising for Obama -- though none on her more recent and crashingly unsuccessful Hillary boosting.

But Oprah did once give public voice to a particularly ugly personal belief, one at whose core lie racial animus and flabbergasting stupidity:

During a 2014 BBC interview, Winfrey leaned forward, her features deathly serious: "There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it -- in that prejudice and racism -- and they just have to die." 

Try selling that in Peoria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD7QfC0Xjwk

Oprah offered those terrible and hateful words with the ice-blooded purposefulness of a serenely horrible cultist. And the video preserving them ensures that she'll never know national electoral victory.

Winfrey opened up and expressed broad-brush hate of the type frequently and without evidence imputed to the president. 
Adversarial campaign commercials broadcast nationwide would expose to average Americans a foul side of the host she never revealed to applauding, studio audiences composed of various ages and skin tones. 

And that's a popularity-killing revelation no praise-penning Podhoretz could hope to veil.