Oprah says her lawyers overreacted
(AP)
Updated: 2006-09-26 08:39
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Oprah Winfrey arrives for the celebratory
screening of her Legends Ball, in this file photo from May 11, 2006 at the
newly re-opened J.P. Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Patrick Crowe
says he is having a blast promoting talk-show icon Oprah Winfrey for
president. Winfrey's lawyers are not. ( AP Photo/Stephen Chernin,
file) | NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey says her lawyers shouldn't have gone after the man
who is trying to promote her as a candidate for president. Not because she's
running, mind you.
"I feel flattered by it," the 52-year-old talk-show host told The Associated
Press on Monday. "My lawyers overreacted, I think, by sending him a
cease-and-desist order because it really is a flattering thing."
It should have been handled in a phone call, said Winfrey, who said she's
thinking of calling Patrick Crowe of Kansas City, Mo., herself.
Crowe has been campaigning to urge Winfrey to run for president for years,
setting up a Web site that has its own campaign song. A month ago, Winfrey's
lawyers sent Crowe a letter demanding that he remove her picture from his Web
site.
Winfrey's smiling face remained on http://www.oprah08.net Monday.
Winfrey was in New York to promote Oprah and Friends, which launched Monday
on XM Satellite Radio.
In February, Winfrey signed a three-year, $55 million deal with XM Satellite
Radio Holdings Inc. to launch her new radio channel, which joins her nationally
syndicated television show and her O, The Oprah Magazine.
XM Satellite Radio boasts more than 7 million subscribers.
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