"Oprah Goes To Auschwitz"
I think that Oprah has done a tremendous service when it comes to the Holocaust awareness of your average American television-watcher. First, she made her decision to highlight Elie Weisel's Holocaust memoir, Night, for her "book club", and then she followed up with this segment, where she and Weisel actually visit Auschwitz.
But the brains behind this billboard spotted in California, advertising the show, might consider the need for a bit of...rewording.
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posted by orthomom at 9:55 PM
11 Comments:
And maybe tone down that smile a bit too?
slightly inappropriate
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I'm fairly certain that this billboard is not real...no way for me to know that for sure but come on, that has to be fake. Oprah would never be that insensitive.
I saw this on the news. Its real. They change the tag lines every week to reflect upcoming shows. This was just a poor choice.
I'll take your word for it...in that case it's just really bizzare.
At least she's educating people about the Holocaust. A very educated woman from work (who grew up in the Deep South) once said to me "Oh come on. That never happened, right?". She was not at all anti-Semetic; she truly believed it was a folktale. At the hopital I work at, we occasionally have elderly patients with numbers on their forearms. The nurses make comments like "Oh, a tatoo!" or "is that your phone number?". Again, just out of ignorance. The witnesses of the Holocaust are dying out; I applaud Oprah for telling their stories to an audience who might not otherwise hear about it.
I watched both yesterday's and today's show (which was a follow up) Oprah really outdid herself. Awesome.
whether the show was good or not, the billboard is farout.
That billboard really made me laugh in an inappropriate way, hmmm.
Odd billboard, inappropriate smile, but the show itself was fantastic and should be required viewing for all (Jew and non-Jew alike)
this coming from another "orthodoc"
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