The NY Times makes the case that her show’s audience, along with her magazine and product sales, have plummeted since she endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. Her producers don’t see a correlation. But angry former fans on her Web site do.

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By now you’ve heard about Barbara Walters‘ affair with Sen. Edward Brooke. Brooke, married and in his early 50s during the couple’s dalliances, hooked up with Walters multiple times in the 1970s. Walters is 10 years younger, and photos taken from the time period make the news a little less bizarre.

Oprah, we hear, is licking her chops over the exclusive tell-all Walters interview that will air Tuesday. Will it help revive the talk show’s struggling ratings or will it be another issue that upsets Oprah fans, who are increasingly seeing the diva in black and white?

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The talk show host hasn’t made too many missteps on her way to the top (besides, possibly, her self-indulgent magazine) but insiders say she is increasingly regretting her highly visible endorsement of Barack Obama. Many of her viewers have tuned Oprah out in favor of Ellen DeGeneres.

Here’s what some former fans had to say about Oprah, courtesy The Root:

“She spent her entire career promoting women, yet for the first time in history, a woman is running for prez, and she rejects Hillary for a man,” said another reader. “…Oprah is a fraud. I lost all respect for her.”

“Oprah is a backstabber in more ways than one. So are the rest of the black people who turned their backs on Hillary……”

“The support of white women made Oprah her billions. While she has every right to vote and campaign for whomever she wants, she stabbed all women in the back. She used her clout against the first viable white woman. Hope she sinks into oblivion. I will never forget.”

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This new unflattering sculpture by American artist Daniel Edwards has not yet endorsed Barack Obama:

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