NBC deleted a controversial tweet endorsing Oprah Winfrey for President on Monday morning, claiming a third party sent it and that it wasn’t ‘meant to be a political statement.’
‘Yesterday a tweet about the Golden Globes and Oprah Winfrey was sent by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the broadcast,’ NBC tweeted out early Monday morning.
‘It is in reference to a joke made during the monologue and not meant to be a political statement. We have since removed the tweet.’
The network tweeted a photo of Winfrey laughing along with ‘Nothing but respect for OUR future president. #GoldenGlobes’ during Sunday night’s award show.
NBC deleted a controversial tweet endorsing Oprah Winfrey for President on Monday morning, claiming a third party sent it and that it wasn’t ‘meant to be a political statement’
‘Yesterday a tweet about the Golden Globes and Oprah Winfrey was sent by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the broadcast,’ NBC tweeted out early Monday morning
The network tweeted a photo of Winfrey laughing along with ‘Nothing but respect for OUR future president. #GoldenGlobes’ during Sunday night’s award show
The tweet was deleted sometime the following morning, but not before it was met with a flurry of angry responses by right wing pundits.
Among them was the president’s social-media-savvy son Donald Trump Jr, who wrote that it showed the media’s bias against his father’s administration.
‘In case anyone had any doubts about where the media stands this should take care of it,’ he angrily wrote early Monday morning.
‘The bias against @realDonaldTrump is now so obvious they have simply given up hiding it. Can you trust anything they say at this point?’
NBC’s tweet that seemed to endorse an Oprah Winfrey run for president in 2020 came after she delivered a powerful speech urging women and men to work together to ensure no one ever has to utter the words ‘Me Too’ again.
The tweet was deleted sometime the following morning, but not before it was met with a flurry of angry responses by right wing pundits. Among those was the president’s social-media-savvy son Donald Trump Jr, who wrote that it showed the media’s bias against his father’s administration
‘In case anyone had any doubts about where the media stands this should take care of it,’ he angrily wrote early Monday morning
NBC’s tweet that seemed to endorse an Oprah Winfrey run for president in 2020 came after she delivered a powerful speech urging women and men to work together to ensure no one ever has to utter the words ‘Me Too’ again
The actress and businesswoman, who received a lengthy standing ovation as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the ceremony, said she was honored to be the first black woman to receive the accolade.
The 63-year-old, who left most of the audience in tears, began her speech speaking about the feelings she had as a young girl watching Sidney Poitier win the best actor Academy Award in 1964.
‘It is not lost on me that, at this moment, there is some little girl watching as I become the first black woman to be given the same award,’ Oprah said. ‘It is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them.’
‘I want all the girls watching here to know that a new day is on the horizon. When that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.’
Immediately following the speech, Winfrey was widely praised with many calling ‘it one of the greatest American speeches’ as others urged her to make a run for President in 2020.
Two friends, speaking anonymously to CNN, also implied Winfrey was considering entering politics although Winfrey has always denied this is the case.
Winfrey also addressed the sexual misconduct scandal roiling Hollywood and beyond, saying she was inspired by all the women who have bravely shared their personal stories of abuse.
‘It’s not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It’s one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace.
‘So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue.
‘They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they’re in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They’re part of the world of tech and politics and business. They’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military.’
OPRAH’S INSPIRATIONAL GOLDEN GLOBES SPEECH:
In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history:’ The winner is Sidney Poitier.’ Up to the stage came the most elegant man I ever remembered. His tie was white, his skin was black—and he was being celebrated. I’d never seen a black man being celebrated like that. I tried many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door bone tired from cleaning other people’s houses. But all I can do is quote and say that the explanation in Sidney’s performance in Lilies of the Field: ‘Amen, amen, amen, amen.’
In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille award right here at the Golden Globes and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award. It is an honor—it is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the incredible men and women who have inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible. Dennis Swanson who took a chance on me for A.M. Chicago. Saw me on the show and said to Steven Spielberg, she’s Sophia in ‘The Color Purple.’ Gayle who’s been a friend and Stedman who’s been my rock.
I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. We know the press is under siege these days. We also know it’s the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. To—to tyrants and victims, and secrets and lies. I want to say that I value the press more than ever before as we try to navigate these complicated times, which brings me to this: what I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I’m especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories. Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell, and this year we became the story.
But it’s not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It’s one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace. So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they’re in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They’re part of the world of tech and politics and business. They’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military.
And there’s someone else, Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and mother walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped, and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone, but her story was reported to the NAACP where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case and together they sought justice. But justice wasn’t an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died ten days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up.
Their time is up. And I just hope—I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth, like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years, and even now tormented, goes marching on. It was somewhere in Rosa Parks’ heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery, and it’s here with every woman who chooses to say, ‘Me too.’ And every man—every man who chooses to listen.
In my career, what I’ve always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave. To say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere, and how we overcome. I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights. So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.’
Oprah was sexually assaulted throughout her childhood, and has been very open about her experiences.
WILL OPRAH RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2020?
Oprah Winfrey’s fans praised her Golden Globes speech accepting the Cecil B DeMille award, calling ‘it one of the greatest American speeches’ and even dubbing her the future president.
Twitter users went wild over the barnstorming speech, joking that the former talk show host should make a run in 2020 – but her longtime partner appeared to open the door to a battle with Donald Trump.
‘It’s up to the people,’ Stedman Graham, told the Los Angeles Times. ‘She would absolutely do it.’
Gayle King, Winfrey’s best friend , echoed Graham’s sentiments, telling the newspaper: ‘I thought that speech was incredible. I got goosebumps,’ she also told The Times.
This is the first time that anyone close to the American icon has admitted that she has ambitions for the White House.
She was raped by a cousin when she was just nine and later molested by an uncle and a friend of the family.
At the age of 14, one of these rapes resulted in a pregnancy, but Oprah lost the baby when she suffered a miscarriage. She had been expecting a boy, and in 2015 named the baby Canaan.
Oprah went on to recall the abuse story related to a woman named Recy Taylor who was raped at gunpoint in 1944 by six white males as she walked home from church in Alabama. Recy’s assault galvanized black people across the country and helped sow the seeds for the birth of the Civil Rights movement. Rosa Parks was among those fighting to get justice for the traumatized mother-of-one.
‘The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died 10 days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday,’ Winfrey said.
‘She lived as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up.
‘I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth, like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years, and even now tormented, goes marching on.
‘It’s here with every woman who chooses to say ‘Me too’ and every man – every man who chooses to listen.’
75TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS WINNERS – FILM
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
The Disaster Artist
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
I, Tonya
Lady Bird – WINNER
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Meryl Streep, The Post
Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Tom Hanks, The Post
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour – WINNER
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird – WINNER
Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes
Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water – WINNER
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Ridley Scott, All The Money in the World
Steven Spielberg, The Post
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver
James Franco, The Disaster Artist – WINNER
Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Hong Chau, Downsizing
Allison Janney, I, Tonya – WINNER
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ – WINNER
Best Original Score in a Motion Picture
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Shape of Water – WINNER
Phantom Thread
The Post
Dunkirk
Best Original Song
Home from Ferdinand
Mighty River from Mudbound
Remember Me from Coco
The Star from The Star
‘This Is Me’ from The Greatest Showman – WINNER
Best Screenplay in a Motion Picture
The Shape of Water
Lady Bird
The Post
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Molly’s Game
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
A Fantastic Woman
First They Killed My Father
In the Fade – WINNER
Loveless
The Square
Best Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Ferdinand
Coco – WINNER
Loving Vincent
75TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS WINNERS – TELEVISION
Best TV series – Drama
The Crown
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid’s Tale – WINNER
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Best performance by Actress in a TV series – Drama
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Claire Foy, The Crown
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Deuce
Katherine Langford, 13 Reasons Why
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale – WINNER
Best performance by an Actor in a TV Series – Drama
Sterling K. Brown, This is Us – WINNER
Freddie Highmore, The Good Doctor
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Jason Bateman, Ozark
Best TV series – Musical or Comedy
Black-ish
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – WINNER
Master of None
SMILF
Will & Grace
Best performance by an Actor in a TV series – Musical or Comedy
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None – WINNER
Kevin Bacon, I Love Dick
William H. Macy, Shameless
Eric McCormack, Will and Grace
Best performance by an Actress in a TV series – Musical or Comedy
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Alison Brie, Glow
Issa Rae, Insecure
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – WINNER
Frankie Shaw, SMILF
Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Big Little Lies – WINNER
Fargo
Feud: Bette and Joan
The Sinner
Top of the Lake: China Girl
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies
Jude Law, The Young Pope
Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks
Ewan McGregor, Fargo – WINNER
Geoffrey Rush, Genius
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jessica Biel, The Sinner
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies – WINNER
Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan
Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan
Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alfred Molina, Feud
Alexander Skarsgard, Big Little Lies – WINNER
David Thewlis, Fargo
David Harbour, Stranger Things
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies – WINNER
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale
Chrissy Metz, This is Us
Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies
Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies