Oprah: Choking the Monkey

"Hurry! Hurry! Step this way! See the woman who had sex with her father, the little girl with one body and two heads and the woman whose face was bitten off by a raging chimpanzee!"  NYP TV critic Linda Stasi slams the Untouchable Queen of Daytime TV - Oprah: "It's time to call these segments exactly what they are: exploitative, bad-taste, ratings grabbers. They are not -- repeat -- not important learning experiences."

Tell me what we actually learned by watching the saint of TV take the veil off the face of a blind, massively deformed victim of a feral animal mauling? Nothing, that's what.

Were we supposed to learn that it is bad to keep wild jungle beasts in our homes?...  I didn't need to see this poor, poor woman, who now has a thigh transplanted onto her face, to know that keeping massive, wild African apes in the suburbs is never a good thing.

Or maybe the segment was to teach us to have compassion for accident victims?.... But anything-for-ratings tricks have been increasingly prevalent on "Oprah" lately....  As the audience-appointed arbiter of good sense in this country, Oprah needs to find yet another doc -- one who's certified to perform taste transplants, because hers seems to have tragically been chewed off by too much fame.