Difference being that when I say stupid things in public (that would be... here on BlueDot), I'm shamed only by four friends and in my Permanent Record on Google. It's not Oprah's fault that her errors in judgement show effect on a much grander scale. Surely if she was capable of avoiding them, she wouldn't be making them. Perhaps fortunately for her, she has enough money that she'll never be forced into painful self-realization: ironic for someone who trades on transforming introspection into external manifestations.