Oprah’s right
When Rush Limbaugh supports a candidate or party, that seems to be OK; when Oprah does it, there is a big to-do about “Oh, she’s overstepping her bounds.”
Why is it OK for a white man to be an advocate and not a black woman?
Did I miss something?
I will not be basing my decision of whom to support on Oprah’s commentary, but I absolutely support her right to come out for or against whomever she chooses.
I see this debate as the same sort of nonsense as the discussion of whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is either “too black” or “not black enough.” It is passive-aggressive racism (and in Oprah’s case, sexism), and we know better.
Elliot Liebson, East Moline, Ill.
Oprah’s reasons
Oprah Winfrey’s backing of Barack Obama might ring truer and be more understandable if she would simply admit that it’s based on race.
Wayne Capinegro, Chicago
Oprah’s viewers
In her letter “Overstep by Oprah,” Karen Johns suggests to readers that Oprah’s viewership is solely women.
Oprah’s viewership represents less than 10 percent of the U.S. population to begin with, and in that 10 percent can be found male viewers as well. Hundreds of thousands of them.
Ladd L. Lee, Chicago
Unique Pavarotti
The musical world mourns the loss of Luciano Pavarotti.
While popularizing operatic music, Pavarotti did nothing to dilute the loftiest heights at which he performed.
He always upheld the highest artistic standards.
He, more than any other singer of recent memory, advanced the causes of classical music and opera.
He will be remembered far longer than will any of those detractors who complained about his idiosyncrasies.
He proved that not all people are designed for, and meant to sing in, the chorus.
The world needs and benefits as well from prima donnas.
Pavarotti was an operatic titan.
Leon J. Hoffman, Chicago
