Gayle King-Winfrey: A new kind of nepo baby

No, you're not bitter, OP. Not. At. Allllllllll.

* head long into Oprah’s love box”

Over the last 10 to 15 years, a lot of super rich people have invited Gayle along on their summer yachting vacations. Strangely a lot of these people also invite Harry Styles too.

I think she's pretty talented and has many of the right qualities for her job.

Nepo-friend is more accurate

[quote]A new kind of nepo baby

Hardly a baby, she's almost 70.

Nepo-friend as R5 said if even that.

However, she was a reporter when she and Oprah met. She's technically still one now.

So if anything she helped her career grow more quickly than it would have otherwise.

Jesus Fucking Christ. She works five days a week. She isn’t the first person to have friends in high places. Give this Nepo shit a rest. Gayle has a job and if she was untalented, she’d be fired. CBS doesn’t have the ratings to bother with a friend of a friend unless they are good.

Why don’t you go after Tracee Ellis Ross? Until she changed her real last name from Ellis to her mom’s (Ross, as in Diana) her career was fucking going nowhere.

Stay in your Brooklyn walk up. And shut up.

^ This is true, there isn't a person around that doesn't lien on a friend or relative to help them along if given the opportunity. Is networking now the new nepo?

I love Gayle King on CBS Mornings. And Nate ain't bad either. Plus she supports our community.

Not sure about the rest, but the part of being marginally talented is correct. The number of faux pas and sticking her foot in her mouth was so astounding that I had to stop watching. Everyone makes mistakes, but she’s stealing them from others.

I think most of you are missing the point, which is to have a DL thread that hates on black women each and every morning.

I don't care about nepo-babies or nepo-friends. Life is hard, use whatever assistance you can to get ahead. BUT and it's a big but, don't be the nepo-baby or nepo-friend who pretends that they worked oh so hard to get in the door or be Ben Platt.

“Listen, Gayle, without me you’d be nothing.”

I think connections can get you through the door but they don't keep you there...for YEARS.

She's for sale, so "reporter" doesn't always apply, and a horrible unimaginative interviewer.

Lady O has pulled strings for Gayle. G strings.

G spot?

I would love to respond to these accusations being leveled against me, but I’m extremely busy working on the mysterious cause of death of Prince Philip.

I think Gayle got a second wind on her career after the R. Kelly interview. She sort of blew up. "Robert... Robert..."

With the current discussions around college admissions and so-called legacies, anyone should notice that it's all over...including the entertainment and news industry.

Gayle King would not e where she is without her connections to Oprah.

Others who got where they did via family connections:

Jenna Bush Hager

Maria Shriver and now, in turn, her daughter.

Anderson Cooper was helped by family connections...

I am sure there are others.

Gayle has always been personable, talented, and more likable than Oprah. She was very popular on WFSB in Hartford for years, she’s worked hard, and she deserves her success. No doubt her Oprah connection opened some doors, but that’s how it works, as R21 pointed out, it’s all over the entertainment industry.

Would that evil Christina Crawford have booked The Secret Storm if it were not for her fabulous mother, Joan?

What's unlikable about Oprah, R22? I watched her talk show for years and thought she was amazing.

Can't stand watching her show, its for dumb fraus.

Gayle King has been a working journalist for over 40 years. She is far from the least talented personality on morning television. The constant, consistent, nakedly-racist contempt for accomplished Black women at Datalounge is exhausting.

^ LOL. Always with that.

I am here to educate you and make sure you hear about black folks every minute of every hour of my program.

Enjoy and be enlightened.

Doesn't Leo De Caprio have a friend like Gayle?

Every day is white folks day and every hour is white folks hour, so you can fuck right off R28 (and those of you silently nodding with them).

She's very personable and likable - I honestly think Oprah copied a lot of her personality or fakes Gayle's personality when she doesn't know what else to do.

Compare her against the beady-eyed Jenna Bush who has 0 charisma and does not belong on television. Meghan McCain - I don't need to say a word.

I like Gayle more than Oprah to be honest.

Gayle King needs to stop openly supporting the Montecito lying grifting Markles. It's blatantly wrong and she needs to knock it off.

I'd like to watch Oprah and Gayle play pickleball.

I don't mind Jenna Bush and it's obvious she's the network darling, but Meghan McCain????Sweet Jesus WHY???????????????????

R9

“This is true, there isn't a person around that doesn't lien on a friend or relative to help them along if given the opportunity.”

Oh, dear!

(Although the typo is comical, and I am in total agreement with your sentiment.)

I loved Gayle’s interview with R. Kelly. I thought he might absolutely lose his mind and hit everyone, including Gayle.

When Oprah first became famous we in CT knew of her as Gayle King's friend. Gayle was the most popular anchorwoman in CT, she was on the CBS affiliate WFSB. She was hugely popular.

And what about John Quincy Adams? That's a bunch of bullshit right there. Era of Good Feelings, my ass.

[quote]The constant, consistent, nakedly-racist contempt for accomplished Black women at Datalounge is exhausting.

I think OP is being dumb about Gayle King, but what other Black women has DL shown contempt for? The only one I can think of offhand is Beyoncé, and maybe the woman at MSNBC whose name escapes me at the moment. Kamala Harris? Considering the contempt DL shows for Pete Buttigieg, I think it's more accurate to say that no one is immune.

R37's post - at last someone who actually knew her on her own merit.

Just because Gayle didn't make it as big as Oprah doesn't mean she got in on Oprah's back - so blow that one out of the water.

[quote]Considering the contempt DL shows for Pete Buttigieg

I didn't know they'd turned on him.

(those gurls is funny!)

Oh she's talented alright... you know the ones, baby😉

And never forget one of mah earliest mantras: "NEVER help a family member or friend!"

unless they have the same talents my girl Gayle has Ha HA!

She's still had to work her ass off, OP, I'm sure. Oprah, too. They probably took a lot of shit from a lot of assholes, and they're still successful.

[quote] I think OP is being dumb about Gayle King, but what other Black women has DL shown contempt for?

Bitch, are you for real?!

[quote] I think OP is being dumb about Gayle King, but what other Black women has DL shown contempt for?

What about me, Bitch?

[quote] I think OP is being dumb about Gayle King, but what other Black women has DL shown contempt for?

Bitch, I should shove Jamie Lee Curtis' Oscar right up your....

[quote] I think OP is being dumb about Gayle King, but what other Black women has DL shown contempt for?

I'm saving a spot in Guantanamo just for you!

sorry still hate her.

What is this a thread started by gayle and her bot team

Viola Davis, ok. But Angela Bassett? I don't think so. (And we hate Jamie Lee Curtis.) And incidentally, what about the raves about Tina Turner here? Or Lizzo? (She gets complaints about being fat, but not nearly as bad as Chrissy Metz.) You need more examples than that to prove DL doesn't like Black women.

DL generally hates most women, but they save a little extra special hate for black women. It's kind of a running theme here and not exactly a big secret.

I’d add to R51’s response that DL has a little extra special hate for any and all marginalized groups.

I think she's tremendous

She's a real journalist, unlike "features reporter" Winfrey.

Gayle King could guest-host Face the Nation. She could work a press briefing at the White House. Oprah gave up on that shit decades ago, and is only useful if you want to see fat women crying or hear John Travolta's latest diet tips.

Op you are a fucking idiot. Gayle King was a working professional when she met Oprah. It’s called networking. They are just famous.

[quote] Gayle King-Winfrey

This actually sounds good. It sounds right. I love it.

[quote] And incidentally, what about the raves about Tina Turner here?

Fortunately, Tina always existed beyond the albatross of race (that doesnt mean some of the gurls here didnt try it). She justified those raves100x over. Her contemporaries Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin have never fared as well. There was a whole discussion about Aretha "screaming" and being overrated as a singer. Dionne has been parodied and maligned in a uniquely degrading way at DL. And we dont need to get started with DL's commentary on Tina's closest living successor, Beyonce,

Not Gayle threatening "receipts", in public on television, about how all the problems of magnificent extremely talented Sparkles Markles is someone else's doing! And then never bothering to report those important receipts. Whatever excellence King allegedly showed in 1990 dissolved long ago.

[quote] I’d add to [R51]’s response that DL has a little extra special hate for any and all marginalized groups.

It is especially savage to (unattractive) homosexuals.

The ridiculous crowing about "receipts" is when Gayle showed her true colors. She would much rather flaunt her celebrity connections than be a credible journalist. Also, she looks like a total idiot because no such receipts exist.

Gayle King is a Harry and Markle sycophant enabler.

RACI$ST LE$BIAN TROLL ALERT!

When Oprah did a hard news report, like the one on Hurricane Katrina, and that came fairly late in her show's run, she proved she can still do news as well as anyone on TV.

One of the best DL topics ever was one years back when someone asked "Have you ever been in a friendship where your friend is always Oprah and you're always Gayle?"

It's new for a person to benefit from proximity to powerful, wealthy people? And the best term for that is an idiotic one coined by social media a year ago?

R59 you said it!

Gayle is Oprah's emotional partner but I don't think anyone has physically touched the Oprah in a long time.

She is a bit touched.

How much did Oprah have to do with breaking up Gayle's marriage? I think she pretty much tried buying off Gayle's kids, to hate their father.

No matter all she accomplishes, with help or not, she still has to go home and tongue bath Oprah’s pussy while Oprah eats a bucket of KFC and quivers rank pussy juice down Gayle’s face and neck. Gayle then has to fake a Big O from the Biggest O or else Gayle will be beat within an inch of her life.

Esteemed journalist Gayle King deigned to share some very important footage of her at a Beyonce concert she attended with, among others, Oprah. She also reported that Beyonce is the greatest artist in the history if mankind. Journalistic integrity is clearly at the forefront of all she does!