I guess they have a point, can’t really have a hoss like Oprah pushing Mooch’s food police program.
(Newsmax) — Edward Klein, the bestselling author of “Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House” told Mike Huckabee in a Fox News interview Saturday that high-level departures in the president’s Cabinet can be tied to the first lady’s close friend and confidante, Valerie Jarrett, who Klein says also advised the White House to freeze out Oprah Winfrey.
Klein told Huckabee that White House senior advisor Jarrett is the “gatekeeper of the White House,” and was responsible for the departures of former Chiefs of Staff Bill Daley and Rahm Emanuel.
“They ran into the buzzsaw named Valerie Jarrett,” Klein said, adding that Jarrett is close to both President Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama and wields “enormous power” in the White House.
Klein told Huckabee that Jarrett and the first lady decided to freeze out Oprah, whose endorsement of Obama was pivotal against Hillary Clinton in the primary, because Oprah wanted to become involved in White House guest lists and the handling of communications, among other things.
This seemed like an attempt to encroach upon the first lady’s agenda so Michelle Obama and Jarrett decided to freeze out the former talk show host, Klein explained.
“She’s the only person in the White House who goes upstairs and dines with the first family and goes on vacation with them,” Klein told Huckabee.
Klein’s book is buttressed by nearly 200 interviews with people close to Obama, and features explosive disclosures about one of the most secretive White Houses. Klein is the former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine, former foreign editor of Newsweek, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair.
This was the thanks Oprah got for sacrificing her career to endorse Chicago Jesus. Serves her right if you ask me.