Oprah Says Her Lawyers Overreacted

**louiswinthorpe111** · September 25th, 2006, 11:33 PM

Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 4:40pm

AP

Oprah Winfrey says her lawyers shouldn't have gone after the man who is trying to promote her as a candidate for president.

Not because she's running, mind you.

"I feel flattered by it," the 52-year-old talk-show host told The Associated Press on Monday. "My lawyers overreacted, I think, by sending him a cease-and-desist order because it really is a flattering thing."

It should have been handled in a phone call, said Winfrey, who said she's thinking of calling Patrick Crowe of Kansas City, Mo., herself.

Crowe has been campaigning to urge Winfrey to run for president for years, setting up a Web site that has its own campaign song. A month ago, Winfrey's lawyers sent Crowe a letter demanding that he remove her picture from his Web site.

Winfrey's smiling face remained on http://www.oprah08.net Monday.

Winfrey was in New York to promote Oprah and Friends, which launched Monday on XM Satellite Radio.

In February, Winfrey signed a three-year, $55 million deal with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. to launch her new radio channel, which joins her nationally syndicated television show and her O, The Oprah Magazine.

XM Satellite Radio boasts more than 7 million subscribers.

**buttmunch** · September 26th, 2006, 03:47 AM

Oh please, she set them on that guy like a pack of rabid dogs. Typical Oprah backpedalling...she sees her actions aren't going down well with the public so she either pretends it didn't happen or it wasn't her fault. Kind of like with ThetinTom on her couch. At the time she was loving it but when she realized the public thought he was a nutjob, she cut him loose.

**LynnieD** · September 26th, 2006, 12:29 PM

Anything to talk about herself some more. God she's a bore.

**buttmunch** · September 26th, 2006, 01:25 PM

I predict a show on this very subject in the not-too-distant future.

**leapinglilies** · September 26th, 2006, 04:12 PM

seriously, she is sooo boring. she actually made did a 'segment' on her show that was 'what's in oprah's purse?' and she had an assistant come out and bring her bag to her and she went through all the contents one by one and the audience was applauding her! i was flabbergasted...

**Zee** · September 26th, 2006, 04:25 PM

Was Gayle in Oprah's purse?

**WickedHo** · September 26th, 2006, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by leapinglilies

seriously, she is sooo boring. she actually made did a 'segment' on her show that was 'what's in oprah's purse?' and she had an assistant come out and bring her bag to her and she went through all the contents one by one and the audience was applauding her! i was flabbergasted...

That's because there's raging Oprah fans out there that actually want to know what's in her purse. They're INSANE, I tell you!! I love me some Oprah, but DAMN! What the hell is wrong with some of these women? Oh, right, they're all victims or struggling or in some sort of quagmire out of which Oprah can help them with her constant parading of Experts In All Things Touchy-Feely.

^^ Did you appreciate that, buttmunch?

Originally Posted by zorbeet

Was Gayle in Oprah's purse?

**ChangingEventually** · September 26th, 2006, 11:12 PM

I don't like Oprah. Something seems....fake....about her.

**buttmunch** · September 27th, 2006, 02:02 AM

That's because there's raging Oprah fans out there that actually want to know what's in her purse. They're INSANE, I tell you!! I love me some Oprah, but DAMN! What the hell is wrong with some of these women? Oh, right, they're all victims or struggling or in some sort of quagmire out of which Oprah can help them with her constant parading of Experts In All Things Touchy-Feely.

^^ Did you appreciate that, buttmunch?

You're really coming around, wicked. *sniff* You've done me proud.