Obama Asks a Favour and Oprah Winfrey Says a Flat NO. Ouch!!!

Oprah Winfrey was asked to attend a meeting at the White House along with other celebrities to see how they could help create some positive publicity for Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Rather than jumping on board like Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson, Oprah reportedly quickly said that she would not be attending the meeting.

'All of Oprah’s top people thought she would go, because when the president invites you to the White House, most people automatically say yes, but Oprah said she didn’t have the time or inclination to go. It wasn’t like she had to think it over. It was an immediate, flat-out, unequivocal no,' an Oprah advisor told journalist Ed Klein.

Back in the Day, Oprah was a key Obama supporter that helped him get elected

According to Klein, the slight is just the talk show host's latest way of getting back at the Obama administration for failing to live up to the alleged promises that they agreed to when Winfrey campaigned for Obama in 2008.

The talk show host used her sizable clout to help get the then-one-term Senator elected, and she thought that in return, she would be able to have special access to the administration.

In her view, Klein reports that she was expecting to be given early information about initiatives that they were planning to roll out, which she could translate into a boost for her new cable network OWN.

'Oprah intended to make her unique White House access a part of her new network,' an unidentified source told Klein.

'But none of that ever happened. Oprah sent notes and a rep to talk to Valerie Jarrett, but nothing came of it. It slowly dawned on Oprah that the Obamas had absolutely no intention of keeping their word and bringing her into their confidence.'